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Lukas Rinker, writer-director of the Screambox Original Holy Shit!, will next helm the survival thriller Frostbite, Variety has learned.

In the film, a controlled avalanche blast goes terribly wrong, and environmental officer Martia and her family find themselves trapped under the ice in a crashed cable car. Battling their wounds, the cold and inner demons, they soon learn that, just as bad as they want out, something wants in.

Zoe Boyle (“Sons of Anarchy”), Kris Hitchen (Speak No Evil), and Andrew Scarborough (“Downton Abbey”) are set to star.

Neopol Film and REinvent Studios are behind the project with Tonio Kellner, Andrea Simml, and Jakob Zapf producing.

“Frostbite takes the best from the disaster film genre and combines it with survival-thriller elements. Get ready to be taken on a high-tension cable car ride bound to go wrong in more than one way,” REinvent said. “Frostbite is sure to deliver an on-the-edge-of-your-seat experience.

REinvent Intl. Sales has closed the first distribution deals and has revealed the cast for Lukas Rinker’s English-language survival thriller film “Frostbite.”

Daro Film Distribution has bought the rights for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and the rights for Middle East and North Africa have sold to Falcon Films.

Zoe Boyle, Kris Hitchen and Andrew Scarborough have joined the cast.

In the film, a “controlled” avalanche blast goes terribly wrong, and environmental officer Martia and her family find themselves trapped under the ice in a crashed cable car. Battling their wounds, the cold and inner demons, they soon learn that, just as bad as they want out, something wants in.

The film will start shooting start in June with delivery set for December.

” ‘Frostbite’ takes the best from the disaster film genre and combines it with survival-thriller elements. Get ready to be taken on a high-tension cable car ride bound...

December is usually the month where horror takes a break, making way for more feel-good, romantic comedies to dominate the entertainment scene. Well, not this December. One of this year's best horror films will be released on Peacock that month. Can you guess which movie it is?

Drum roll, please! If you didn't get the chance to see Golden Globe-nominated actor James McAvoy give one of his greatest performances ever when Speak No Evil hit theaters back in September, you'll soon be able to watch this film from the comfort of your home. No, you didn't read that wrong. Speak No Evil is slated to come to Peacock this December. The exact streaming release date is Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, so make sure to mark your calendar!

Speak No Evil is a psychological horror film that was written and helmed by James Watkins, who is best known for directing the gothic supernatural...

James McAvoy has earned widespread praise for his dynamic performance as Paddy, the psychopathic lead in the recent hit psychological horror thriller, Speak No Evil. In this remake of the 2022 Danish movie of the same name, an American family is invited to spend the weekend at a country estate by a charming British family they meet on vacation. However, their dream holiday quickly becomes a nightmare when they realize things are very wrong. First debuting in theaters on September 13, the movie is currently playing in theaters and has recently been made available digitally on Prime Video and Apple TV.

In an exclusive interview, Cbr sat down with James McAvoy to discuss his prominent role in Speak No Evil and the approach he wanted to take with his character. He also describes working alongside his cast mates, how the remake compares to the Danish original, and some of his favorite memories while filming.

After a successful run in theaters, having garnered over $57 million since its Sept. 13 premiere, Speak No Evil will reportedly be coming to digital this October. As of Sept. 30, the film is still showing in some theaters, but in just a day, people will be able to watch it at home.

On Oct. 1, 2024, Speak No Evil will land on digital platforms where people will have the option to rent or purchase it at different prices. Currently, you can preorder the film through AppleTV+ at $24.99 before taxes. The movie is also expected to come to other digital platforms, such as Amazon Prime Video and Vudu, on Oct. 1.

According to Bloody Disgusting, the digital release will also include never-before-seen extras featuring the cast and crew discussing what went into making the film.

Speak No Evil is a psychological horror film written and directed by James Watkins. It's an English-language remake of the critically...

The new trailer has been released for Speak No Evil. Based on a 2022 Danish movie, Speak No Evil is an upcoming horror film about two families vacationing together in the countryside, when an increasing darkness begins to afflict them, turning their utopia into a nightmare. Speak No Evil is directed by James Watkins and features a leading cast including James McAvoy, Mackenzie David, Scott McNairy, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler, and Kris Hitchen.

Now, Blumhouse has released a second trailer for Speak No Evil. Check it out below:

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Kris Hitchen (Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You”) and George Osborne (“The Pendragon Cycle”) are set to lead the cast of “Contact Hours,” a short film addressing the issue of student suicide.

The psychological drama follows a university caretaker whose life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers one of his students has been missing for days. As he investigates, he finds himself confronting a tragedy that prompts him to reevaluate his relationship with his own son.

Harry Richards, known for his short “Santi,” which screened at the BFI Future Film Festival 2022, will direct and produce. Liam Wallace-Cook (“Big Deal”) joins as co-producer.

The screenplay, penned by Offie-nominated playwright Rufus Love, was inspired by a real-life encounter with a university caretaker who resigned after discovering a student who had died by suicide. Love and Richards, who collectively knew six students at their university who died by suicide, were moved...

Caroline Ingvarsson’s feature debut will play in the Thrill strand.

Finland-based firm The Yellow Affair has boarded world sales on psychological thriller Unmoored, ahead of its world premiere next month at the BFI London Film Festival (Lff October 4-15).

The film is the feature debut of Swedish filmmaker Caroline Ingvarsson, and follows a successful TV presenter whose life unravels when she confronts her domineering husband about an accusation against him.

The film will debut in the Lff Thrill strand. It is written by fellow debut filmmaker Michele Marshall, adapted from Hakan Nesser’s 2013 novel The Living and the Dead In Winsford.

“The Long Shadow,” a true crime drama by “Hijack” and “Lupin” creator George Kay, has revealed a stellar cast.

Directed by BAFTA-winner director Lewis Arnold the 7 x 60′ series for U.K. broadcaster ITV and streamer Itvx, drama is a depiction of the five-year hunt for serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, focusing on the lives of the victims who crossed his path and those of the officers at the heart of the police investigation.

Toby Jones (“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”) plays Dennis Hoban, who initially led the enquiry, with David Morrissey (“Sherwood”) as George Oldfield, who took on the investigation. The cast also includes Lee Ingleby, Katherine Kelly, Daniel Mays, Sydney Jackson, Shaun Thomas, Jill Halfpenny, Daisy Waterstone, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Molly Wright, Liz White, Shaun Dooley, Alexa Davies, Chloe Harris, Stephen Tompkinson, Jack Deam, Michael McElhatton, Adam Long, Ruth Madeley, Dorothy Atkinson, Rob James-Collier, Charley Webb, Steven Waddington and Kris Hitchen.

Exclusive: Adult Material star Siena Kelly has boarded BBC Three witch drama Domino Day, as the show’s EP Laurence Bowen spotlights his indie Dancing Ledge’s work with new writers.

Domino Day, which comes from first-time writer and Dancing Ledge Writer in Residence (Wir) Lauren Sequeira, is an irreverent comedy-drama about modern dating in which the protagonist uses dating apps to hunt, rather than find love.

Kelly, who was BAFTA nominated for her role in Channel 4’s Adult Material, will play Domino, a powerful young witch who is haunted by her need to feed on the energy of others, a hunger that only grows, despite her attempt to start her life over in Manchester. She is desperately seeking a community who can help her understand her feelings but, unbeknownst to her, she is being tracked by a coven of witches.

Kelly is joined by up-and-comers Babirye Bukilwa (We Hunt Together...

Stars: Beatriz Batarda, Nuno Lopes, Kris Hitchen | Written by Marco Martins, Ricardo Adolfo | Directed by Marco Martins

Three months before Brexit, hundreds of migrant workers arrive at the UK seaside town of Great Yarmouth looking for work. Many of them end up in local turkey processing plants, with Tânia (Beatriz Batarda) now overseeing many of their daily work routines. Married to callous hotel owner Richard (Kris Hitchen) while having a love affair with fellow migrant Carlos (Nuno Lopes), Tânia dreams of turning her husband’s abandoned hotel lots into a luxury retirement home for the elderly.

When we think of the British seaside, we think of staple motif imagery — slurping a 99 Mr Whippy on a pebble-ridden coast, giving yourself whiplash on the pier’s inevitable wooden rollercoaster, and spending so much time in the amusement arcade that you end up losing your parents. In Marco Martins’ latest feature Great Yarmouth,...

An authentic insight into migrant workers in Britain, the feature drama Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures is an engrossing work that premiered in the San Sebastian Film Festival competition. Directed by Marco Martins (Alice), who co-writes with Ricardo Adolfo, it follows the tough life of Tânia (a superb Beatriz Batarda), who supervises her fellow Portuguese workers in the dilapidated seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Based on interviews with many migrants, it’s a hard-hitting look at working conditions and the moral compromises made by desperate people.

Set over several months in late 2019, before Brexit, it sees Tânia woken up by a bird that’s flown into her modest home. Woozily opening a window to set it free, she prepares for her day in a turkey factory, where the captive poultry have no such luck. It’s shocking to see the way the birds are treated in this cramped abattoir, and it...

Danish international sales and aggregation outfit LevelK has boarded the thought-provoking drama “Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures” by award-winning Portuguese director Marco Martins, which world premieres in main competition at next month’s San Sebastian Film Festival.

Hailed by Variety as “a powerful study of intense grief,” Martin’s debut feature, “Alice,” won the Prix Regards Jeune at Cannes in 2005.

The story unravels three months before Brexit, as hundreds of migrants descend on the UK village of Great Yarmouth seeking work in the region’s turkey processing plants. Once there, Tânia greets them with matronly authority, taking charge as innkeeper, accountant, and fixer. As she’s forced to deceive them, her conscience grows heavy and she dreams of a brighter, seemingly unattainable, future transforming derelict hotels into modern retreats for elderly tourists.

Tânia’s struggle unfolds with dim and hazy shots that add a raw and unnerving aesthetic to the film,...

This Trigger Point review contains spoilers.

If you were a Met officer who was secretly (and – credit where it’s due – successfully) orchestrating a cross-London terror campaign right under the nose of your employers, would you leave your work locker stuffed with evidence pointing your way? Unlikely. If that A to Z doesn’t just turn out to be John Hudson doing his homework like a good little bomb disposal expert, it’s likely been planted. But by whom?

The top suspect has to be Thom Youngblood, a man who’ll ruin a takeaway by asking you to move in with him halfway through the Peshwari naan. There’s currently zero evidence against Thom. He’s only a suspect according to the rules of the TV thriller, which state that the character least likely to have done it but in the most scenes with the lead by the end of...

Stars: Sam Hazeldine, Tom Goodman-Hill, Kris Hitchen, Elliot James Langridge, Sam Clemmett | Written by J.P. Watts, Thomas Woods | Directed by J.P. Watts

I find it somewhat incredible that after all these years we are still finding new and exciting stories to tell about the First and Second World War. There seemingly is no end to the acts of heroism exhibited in those trying times. In terms of movies it just seems like we are obsessed with the genre, proven by the fact that wether it be a Sam Mendes epic or a slightly lower budget J.P. Watts flick we are going to be given more than 1 or 2 war movies a year.

Its with this in mind that when it comes to a new war movie, I find myself less and less interested in the spectacle of your 1917‘s and I am more invested in the low key personal...

The War Below, based on the story of the First World War tunnellers who dug underneath no-man’s land, will be released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 10th September. To celebrate, we are giving away a limited edition poster.

The Dig meets Saving Private Ryan in writer/director J.P. Watts’ debut feature, about a maverick plan to defeat the German army during the Battle of Messines in 1917. The film stars Sam Hazeldine (Peaky Blinders) as William Hackett, the miner desperate to join the army who, after being turned down at the recruitment office, gets the chance to serve his country in an unexpected way.

The supporting cast includes Tom Goodman-Hill (The Imitation Game) as “Hellfire Jack,” the colonel who proposes the dramatic plan to turn the tables on the enemy, and Kris Hitchen (Sorry We Missed You), Elliot James Langridge (Northern Soul) and Sam Clemmett (Endeavour...

Sorry We Missed You Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ken Loach Writer: Paul Laverty Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Ross Brewster Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/23/20 Opens: March 6, 2020. Streaming June 12, 2020 The rich get money while the […]

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Vital Pictures, an upstart independent production company from Chris Lemos and Luis Guerrero, will produce and distribute the World War I drama “The War Below” from director J.P. Watts, TheWrap can share exclusively.

“The War Below” stars “Peaky Blinders” and “The Innocents” actor Sam Hazeldine alongside Tom Goodman-Hill, Kris Hitchen, Douglas Reith and Sam Clemmett.

The film will be produced and distributed by Vital Pictures in the U.S., a source told TheWrap, making it the company’s third project after the horror-thrillers “Beneath Us” and “You’re Not Alone.”

“The War Below” is based on true events and centers on a group of British miners recruited during WWI to tunnel underneath no man’s land and set bombs from below the German front, all in the hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

Watts, known for the short film “The Lost Emperor,” is making his feature-length directorial debut on the film.

A new drama about Tudor queen Anne Boleyn, starring Jodie Turner-Smith, has found its Henry VIII.

British actor Mark Stanley has been cast as the iconic monarch. Best known for playing Grenn in the HBO series “Game of Thrones,” Stanley has also had starring roles in “Kajaki,” “Our Kind of Traitor” and “Dickensian.”

Boleyn was the Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. Their tempestuous marriage, and her execution for treason, made her one of the most colorful figures in English history. The Fable Pictures drama for U.K. broadcaster Channel 5 will explore the final months of Boleyn’s life from her perspective, and will follow her as she struggles to survive, to secure a future for her daughter, and to challenge the powerful patriarchy closing in around her.

The hotly anticipated series — which is shaping up to be one of the most...

“I Am Slave” director Gabriel Range’s “Stardust,” that chronicles the young David Bowie’s first visit to the U.S. in 1971, a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust, will open the 28th Raindance Film Festival.

Like several other festivals this year, Raindance will be a hybrid version comprised of a strong online presence with some physical events and screenings. The festival’s 50-strong film program will be available online across the U.K. while live events will be confined to London. The films will be free, though financial contributions will be encouraged, 28% of which will be donated to charitable causes.

Range will participate in a physical red carpet event for “Stardust” in London, and in-person activity will also include an out-of-competition gala screening of Akabane Hiroshi’s Japanese film “Twiceborn,” with both events taking place at London’s The May Fair hotel.

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Pamplona — No presentation at Conecta Fiction is as important as its CoPro Pitching Sessions, packed this year with 12 scripted series projects from Latin America and Europe. 2020’s hybrid edition – with Spanish producers and creators pitching in Pamplona, Latin Americans mostly online – is proving no exception. Following, a drill down on the 12 projects, half of which were presented on stage Wednesday morning at Conecta Fiction, whose budgetary level and historical setting reveal a heightened ambition in drama series from the Spanish-speaking world:

“Chained”

June 1940: Dunkirk ends with British defeat, France falls to Hitler’s troops. Two spies – English party girl – or so it seems – June Robinson and Spanish bon vivant Alejandro Salvatierra are recruited in a desperate attempt by Winston Churchill’s government to stop Spain entering WWII and the Dukes of Windsor negotiating Britain’s capitulation. A two programe type genre blender, mixing period drama and espionage thriller, an...

For Kahleen Crawford, casting director for BBC and HBO series “His Dark Materials,” being successful at her job requires a gut instinct mixed with a bit of magic. “A lot of it is psychology,” she says. “You have to apply different parts of your skill set to different people in different projects.”

Crawford has often applied that skill set in the service of director Ken Loach, who gave the now 41-year-old her first job heading a department 17 years ago in 2004’s “Ae Fond Kiss,” and whose latest film, “Sorry We Missed You,” bowed in the U.S. on March 6. It’s her ninth feature with the director — and first since 2016’s Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake.”

Loach is renowned for finding and casting unknown or non-actors, and Crawford’s goal was to find people the audience could relate to.

“Paul [Laverty, Loach’s writer for the bulk of his films] and Ken will know where they’re thinking of...

More than Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake, the film’s Prize of the Ecumenical Jury–Special Mention indicates the nature of Loach and Paul Laverty’s oeuvre in the last twenty-five years. The prize honors works that “reveal the mysterious depths of human beings through what concerns them, their hurts and failings as well as their hopes.” In their newest film, Sorry We Missed You, instead of focusing on one character, as in I, Daniel Blake, “Loach widens his lens to a family of four, a heightening of emotional stakes in a move that richly pays off through Paul Laverty’s script,” Ed Frankl said in our rave Cannes review.

The story follows Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and his wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), along with their kids Seb (Rhys Stone) and Liza Jae (Katie Proctor). Abbie is strapped for family time as she relies on public...

For 50-plus years, British filmmaker Ken Loach has been a crusading white knight for the working class. His heroes are laborers, carpenters, union organizers, social workers, immigrant house cleaners, pub-dwelling punters, football-fanatic postmen. Kids, whether it’s the falconry-obsessed lad of Kes (1969) or the drug-dealing teen of Sweet Sixteen (2002), are usually fighting the effects or suffering the after-effects of economic inequity. Even his historical dramas set during the Irish War for Independence (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Jimmy’s Hall) and the Spanish Civil War (Land and Freedom) tend to...

As a raucous howl of protest at a welfare state disemboweled by decades of unhinged privatization, Ken Loach’s 2016 I, Daniel Blake ended with no exclamation marks, but a wall daubed in white paint. “I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve,” read the graffiti penned by Dave Johns’s eponymous Daniel, a 59-year-old carpenter and widower wrestling with a catch-22 state-enforced conundrum: avoid work or risk another heart attack, look for jobs or lose welfare benefits. It was an intricate, Kafkaesque nightmare of desk people, computers, and unanswered calls, a bureaucratic apparatus that gradually morphed into a dehumanizing Leviathan. But it also echoed as a hymn to the resilience of the downtrodden, and a call for empathy over and against a system designed to strip individuals of their basic rights. Daniel Blake’s paint-splayed offense was the ultimate, hopeless paean of an ever-growing section of society faced...

’The Personal History Of David Copperfield’ finished with five awards, the highest of the night, from 11 nominations.

For Sama and The Personal History Of David Copperfield were the big winners at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).

The ceremony was hosted by actress and comedian Aisling Bea and held at London’s Old Billingsgate tonight (Dec 1).

Syrian civil war documentary For Sama scooped the night’s top prize, best British independent film, as well as best director for Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, best documentary, and best editing at the previously announced craft awards last month.

The Personal History Of David Copperfield...

Amjad Abu Alala’s film previously won the Lion of the Future prize at Venice.

Sudanese-set drama You Will Die At Twenty continued its award-winning run at the 7th Ajyal Film Festival in Doha (Nov 18-23), picking up the audience award. It also scored a Qatari theatrical release via the Doha Film Institute (Dfi).

The debut feature of Dubai-born Sudanese filmmaker Amjad Abu Alala world premiered at Venice, where it won the Lion of the Future prize, before playing in the Contemporary World Cinema section in Toronto.

Following the fastest sell-out screenings in Ajyal’s history, Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, festival...

Our group of UK-based Ampas and Bafta voters reveal their favourite awards season contenders so far. This week’s discussion: the acting categories.

Our group of anonymous UK-based Ampas and Bafta voters reveal their favourite awards season contenders so far. This week’s discussion: the acting categories.

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Marketing and communications specialist with more than 20 years of experience

If I voted now it would be for Joaquin Phoenix for the sheer force of nature that [Joker] performance was. I also loved Adam Driver in Marriage Story for the relatability he brought to the performance; I loved Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon A Time In…...

Our group of anonymous UK-based Ampas and Bafta voters reveal their favourite awards season contenders so far.

Our group of anonymous UK-based Ampas and Bafta voters reveal their favourite awards season contenders so far. This week’s discussion: the acting categories.

Executive

Marketing and communications specialist with more than 20 years of experience

If I voted now it would be for Joaquin Phoenix for the sheer force of nature that [Joker] performance was. I also loved Adam Driver in Marriage Story for the relatability he brought to the performance; I loved Leonardo DiCaprio in Once Upon A Time In… Hollywood along with...

The youth-focused festival has recruited 400 young jurors from 41 countries.

Palestinian director Elia Suleiman’s It Must Be Heaven opens an expanded seventh edition of Doha Film Institute (Dfi)’s youth-focused Ajyal Film Festival, which runs November 18-23.

For the first time, the event will also unfold in the new commercial venues of the Novo Cinemas on the Pearl island district and Vox Cinemas in the Doha Festival City Hall mall as well as its traditional home of the Katara cultural quarter.

“We’re excited to be holding screenings in multiple locations outside our traditional base of Katara,” festival chief and...

A delivery driver is ground down by the system in Ken Loach’s moving yet increasingly melodramatic tale

“You don’t get hired here,” states Maloney (Ross Brewster), the hard-nosed delivery-depot boss in Ken Loach’s searing examination of zero-hours Britain. “You come on board. We call it on-boarding. You don’t work for us – you work with us.” It’s a prime example of the doublespeak that underwrites today’s gig-economy culture, brilliantly captured by Paul Laverty’s justifiably embittered script. As sold to hard-grafting Ricky Turner (Kris Hitchen), it’s an opportunity to become “the master of your own destiny” – a self-employed franchise-owner, freed from wage slavery (there are only “fees”) in a brave new world in which everything “is your choice”.

Yet despite Ricky’s determination to grab this opportunity and make it work for him and his family, he’s been sold a lie – all he...

Other new openers include Ken Loach’s ‘Sorry We Missed You’.

Stephen King adaptation Doctor Sleep becomes the latest title to try and end Joker’s run at the top of the UK box office this weekend (both are Warner Bros titles).

Directed by Mike Flanagan, Doctor Sleep is an adaptation of King’s 2013 novel, a sequel to 1977’s The Shining.

The narrative is set several decades after the events of The Shining, as an adult Dan Torrance meets a young girl with similar powers and tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knot.

There have...

Ken Loach, the English filmmaker with two Palme D’Or awards to his name, returns next year with Sorry We Missed You, an ode to the working class that doubles as an elegy of sorts. Kris Hitchen stars as an underemployed family man who pursues a career in the package delivery business in an effort to be his own boss.…...

"I never thought it would be this difficult." Zeitgeist Films has revealed another new official Us trailer for Ken Loach's latest film Sorry We Missed You, which will be in Us theaters starting in March of next year. This initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in competition earlier this summer, and it played at the Toronto, Zurich, Hamburg, and Busan Film Festivals. The indie drama is a follow-up to Loach's acclaimed Palme d'Or winning film I, Daniel Blake, with the same screenwriter. This time they tell a story of a British family struggling to get by - the father takes a job as a "zero-hour", "self-employed" delivery driver and feels the stress increase as he tries to make ends meet. The film stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, and Ross Brewster. This is a solid new trailer, capturing the essence of the film and how...

The nominations for the 2019 British Independent Film Awards have been revealed, and it was a huge morning for Armando Iannucci’s Charles Dickens adaptation “The Personal History of David Copperfield” and Tom Harper’s musical drama “Wild Rose.” “Copperfield” led all movies with 11 nominations, including Best British Indie Film, Best Actor for Dev Patel, and Best Screenplay for Iannucci and co-writer Simon Blackwell. Fox Searchlight has U.S. distribution rights to the movie and has announced a 2020 theatrical release.

“Wild Rose,” which earned a second-best 10 nominations, will also compete for Best British Indie Film against “Bait,” “For Sama,” and “The Souvenir.” “Wild Rose” breakout Jessie Buckley landed a Best Actress nomination opposite Renee Zellweger for “Judy,” which Buckley just so happens to have a supporting role in.

While Zellweger landed in the Best Actress field (which she is widely expected to do all awards season thanks to her acclaimed leading...

Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History Of David Copperfield and Tom Harper’s Wild Rose lead the nominees pool for the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which were unveiled in London this morning. Scroll down for the full list.

Copperfield has 11 nods including best film and director as well as actor for star Dev Patel. Wild Rose has 10 including best film and director, and actress for Jessie Buckley.

Peter Strickland’s In Fabric has nine and Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, which is up for best film, has eight.

Judy missed out on best film but did take a nom for star Renee Zellweger and has five in total.

The best film category is completed by Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Syria doc For Sama, and Mark Jenkin’s micro-budget Bait, which has been a surprise box office hit in the UK, grossing $520k.

Other notable nominees include Chiwetel Ejiofor,...

Since the sixties, the no-nonsense director Ken Loach has been the face of British social-realist cinema. He captures the grit of working-class life and opposes fake, romantic sentimentality. Sorry We Missed You — Loach’s latest and maybe last film about the troubling realities of the gig economy — encapsulates the blunt, slice-of-life structure that makes the director so appealing. He ignores artifice where many would pile it on; he rarely raises the music during emotional scenes; he doesn’t force close-ups of teary-eyed actors. The feelings felt in Sorry We Missed You rise in reaction to the bare bones of a horrific situation.

Like Loach’s previous Cannes-winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which captured the realities of the British benefits system, Sorry We Missed You gradually sinks into a cesspool of real-life despair. Ricky (Kris Hitchen) opens the film, interviewing for a driving job at a van depot in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, rattling...

Ken Loach’s new film Sorry We Missed You came to the capital this evening for its UK Premiere and we were there to meet them. The film is directed by Loach from a script by Paul Laverty and stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Joneywood, Nikki Marshall, Katie Proctor, Rhys Stone, Alfie Dobson, Julian Ions and Ross Brewster.

The premiere is in partnership with a number of Trade Unions; Unite The Union, The Communication Union, General Federation of Trade Unions and the Social Workers Union. Also in attendance will be John McDonnell, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Colin Hart and Scott Davis were at the premiere in Leicester Square in London, here are the interviews from the red carpet.

Sorry We Missed You UK Premiere Interviews

Synopsis:

A hard-up delivery driver and his wife struggle to get by in modern-day England.

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle...

Veteran director talks latest film ‘Sorry We Missed You’.

The UK release date for Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You falls portentously on November 1 - that’s to say the day after Brexit (if it happens).

The 83-year-old UK director, who is a guest of honour at Filmfest Hamburg this week, is phlegmatic about the film coming out on such a day.

“I hope it doesn’t make any difference, I don’t think it means we are all going to be on the streets on November the first,” says Loach. “I guess people will have time to go to the cinema as well.

The post-war romance picked up two awards.

Marcus H. Rosenmuller’s The Keeper, about acclaimed German prisoner of war-turned-footballer Bert Trautmann and his romance with an English woman, won the Golden Hitchcock for best film at the Dinard Film Festival on Saturday, September 28.

The film also picked up the audience award at the festival, which showcases UK films to French audiences.

The Keeper is produced by Chris Curling for Zephyr Films, Steve Milne for British Film Company (both UK operations), and Robert Marciniak for Germany’s Lieblingsfilm.

It tells the story of Bert Trautmann, a German prisoner of war in...

Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber on Tuesday said they have co-acquired U.S. rights to Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, which had its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The news comes as the pic readies for a screening at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The plan is for Zeitgeist to release the film beginning March 6, 2020 in New York with a national rollout following; Kino Lorber will handle the digital release. Penned by Paul Laverty, Sorry We Missed You examines the implications of the service economy are seen through the eyes of a British delivery worker (Kris Hitchen), his caregiver wife (Debbie Honeywood) and their two children. Sixteen Films’ Rebecca O’Brien is producer. The deal was negotiated by Kino Lorber’s Wendy Lidell, Wild Bunch International’s Eva Diederix and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.

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After rave reception at Cannes, Loach’s follow-up to I, Daniel Blake is set for UK release on 1 November

The first trailer for Ken Loach’s latest film, Sorry We Missed You, has been released. The film is a tonal and topical follow-up to his previous feature, I, Daniel Blake, and tackles the impact of working in the gig economy on families. It premiered at the Cannes film festival in May.

Sorry We Missed You stars Kris Hitchen as a builder whose employment prospects plummeted after the 2008 financial crisis and who is persuaded to work on a freelance – yet perilously indebted – basis for a major delivery company. His wife (Debbie Honeywood) is a contract nurse and in-home carer to elderly and disabled people. Both are under enormous pressure during the day at work, and again at night, dealing with their troubled son and his sister.

"This decides who lives, and who dies." Entertainment One UK has debuted the first official UK trailer for Ken Loach's latest film Sorry We Missed You, not to be confused with Sorry To Bother You. This initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in competition just a few months ago, and it's also playing at the Sydney Film Festival next. The indie drama is a follow-up to Loach's acclaimed Palme d'Or winning film I, Daniel Blake, with the same screenwriter. This time the focus is on a modern British family struggling to get by - the father takes a job as a delivery driver and feels the stress increase as he tries to make ends meet. The film stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, and Ross Brewster. It's a strong film, about how terrible capitalism is and how much stress comes from trying to keep our lives stable.

Entertainment One has debuted the first trailer for Ken Loach’s hard-hitting drama ‘Sorry I Missed You’. We reviewed the film out in Cannes this year – read our review here.

From director Ken Loach, writer Paul Laverty and the award-winning team behind I, Daniel Blake, comes Sorry We Missed You – a powerful exploration of the contemporary world of work, the gig economy and the challenges faced by one family trying to hold it all together.

The film stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone and Katie Proctor.

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The film is released in UK cinemas November 1st.

Sorry We Missed You Synopsis

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with...

Ken Loach’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake is a masterful indictment of the strain of out-of-control capitalism that has dug its heels into post-crash industrialized nations. Sorry We Missed You is, simply, one of his best films that links the personal and the political.

This is Loach’s 14th film in competition at Cannes, where his brand of social realism has found sustained success–he had previously won the Palme for his 2006 Irish civil war drama The Wind that Shakes the Barley. But even at 82 he’s producing some of the richest and most vital work of his career. I, Daniel Blake has an emotional richness, but this is an altogether more focused, more riveting work that lacks its predecessor’s occasional tendency to lurch into holier-than-thou didacticism.

Rather than focusing on the plight of a single individual, as was the case in his recent...

Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Or winner “Parasite” revolves around a family that overtakes a wealthy residence, bit by bit, but the best sequence finds them trapped. When an unexpected development (no spoilers here) puts their scheme at risk, they’re forced to hide in various corridors of the expansive house, under floorboards and in the walls. It’s a startling visual embodiment of the class warfare at the heart of the movie — and in much of Bong’s work, from “Barking Dogs Never Bite” to “Snowpiercer” — wherein less fortunate people attempt to take control of the conditions holding them down, and wind up stuck somewhere in the middle.

Bong’s directorial talents were long overdue for this prize: His slick ability to compose rich visuals in every frame, with complex characters almost too driven for their own good, has made him one of the greatest working filmmakers for years now.

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Ken Loach has returned to Cannes after winning the Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake back in 2016. Loach has been consistently churning out social realist films dealing with the plight of men and women who are either neglected or exploited by the state. At the age of 82, it would appear that he shows no sign of stopping and his new film Sorry We Missed You sees him on excellent form.

The film is set in Newcastle and tells the story of Ricky Turner (Kris Hitchen) and his wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood). Long gone are the hedonistic and carefree times when they met at a rave in Manchester (Ricky’s home town). Now, they are struggling to pay the rent and bring up their two children. When Ricky decides to become a parcel delivery guy and his boss tells him all the things he should avoid – losing his scanner, getting behind with deliveries,...

Ken Loach was in typically fiery form when he appeared at UK Film Centre event in Cannes.

Ken Loach was in typically fiery form when he appeared this week at the Talent Talk for his latest Cannes contender, Sorry We Missed You, alongside his regular collaborators screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien in the UK Film Centre.

Watch the full talent talk below.

The film, appearing in Competition, explores the challenges of balancing the gig economy with family life and stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone and Katie Proctor.

Asked about the “gig economy,” Loach expressed his...

Actor Kris Hitchen and director Ken Loach at the Cannes Film Festival for the world premiere of Sorry We Missed You Photo: Richard Mowe When Ken Loach decided to tackle the inequalities of the gig economy, in which temporary, flexible jobs are commonplace and companies tend toward hiring independent contractors and freelancers instead of full-time employees, he found Newcastle provided the perfect setting for Sorry We Missed You.

He had worked there previously on his Palme d'Or winning I, Daniel Blake and empathised with the city’s strong character. He told today’s media gathering after the screening of his latest Cannes Competition entry that the city is “a little separate from the rest of the country”.

He added: “It has had a very strong tradition of struggle. The area has the old industries of coal mining and shipbuilding which have gone and it has been neglected with few new industries coming in.