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Exclusive: Harriet Walter, Avi Nash and Chinaza Uche will round out the cast of Wool, Apple’s world-building drama series based on the New York Times bestselling trilogy of dystopian novels by Hugh Howey.

They’ll appear alongside previously announced cast members Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Common, Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo.

Written by Graham Yost and directed by Academy Award nominee Morten Tyldum, Wool is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.

Walter will play Martha Walker, a veteran engineer who works in Mechanical, with Nash as Lukas Kyle, an It worker who rises to prominence after meeting independent...

Actress turned filmmaker Augustine Frizzell makes her splashy Netflix feature debut with the upcoming romantic drama, “The Last Letter from Your Lover,” which is scheduled to drop on the streaming platform July 23. The film stars Shailene Woodley in her first major leading role since Drake Doremus’ 2019 “Endings, Beginnings” (also a romance), and she’s joined by Callum Turner, Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, and Nabhaan Rizwan. Along with a big international ensemble, the film also spans time periods (the 1960s and the present day) and locations (London and the French Riviera). Watch the first trailer below.

Here’s the official synopsis from Netfix: “A pair of interwoven stories set in the present and past, ‘The Last Letter from Your Lover’ follows Ellie Haworth (Felicity Jones), an ambitious journalist who discovers a trove of secret love letters from 1965 and becomes determined to solve the mystery of the forbidden affair at their center.

After his two attempts at the international glory with English-language movies “The Sense of an Ending” (2014) and “Our Souls at Night” (2017), Ritesh Batra is back to the territory he is most familiar with, the heart-warming Indian romance he created with his feature debut “The Lunchbox” (2013) which became a huge festival hit. His newest film, “Photograph” (2019) walks pretty much the same ground, content-, execution-, and festival distribution-wise. After its world premiere at Sundance last year and European premiere at Berlinale, it went on an extended, seemingly never-ending festival tour, parallel with the wide cinema release. Better late than never, could be said for its screening at this year’s online edition of Zagreb Film Festival and the review here.

Our man Rafi (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) is a forty-something street photographer whose pitch to the tourists at The Gateway of India is that the photograph is an all-senses memory experience: once they see the photograph,...

Arriving in select theaters, digital and VOD on November 6th, here's a look at the official trailer for Kindred from IFC Midnight:

"When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas. They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by and her visions intensify, she begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby."

"Kindred is led by exquisite performances from break-out star Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), BAFTA Award nominee Jack Lowden, BAFTA...

IFC has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Kindred, with plans to release the film this November:

From the Press Release: IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to Kindred, directed by Joe Marcantonio and produced by Dominic Norris & Jack Lowden of Reiver Pictures. Kindred explores themes of control and a young woman’s struggle with the slow breakdown of her own sense of reality in this twisted psychological drama, with a screenplay by Marcantonio and Jason McColgan. The film stars a breakout performance by Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), and Edward Holcroft. John Keville & Morgan Bushe of Fastnet Films serve as Executive Producers alongside Norman Merry & Peter Hampden of Lipsync Productions, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films, Serotonin Films and Gareth Wiley. IFC Midnight will release the film on November 6th, 2020. When her...

Exclusive: IFC Midnight we have learned has acquired North American rights to the Joe Marcantonio psychological drama Kindred which they’re planning to open on Nov. 6.

Kindred follows mother-to-be Charlotte. She collapses upon receiving the news that her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas. They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her...

Exclusive: Wme has signed Brit acting talent Billy Howle for representation in all areas.

Howle recently wrapped shooting a lead role in BBC and Netflix serial-killer drama The Serpent, alongside Jenna Coleman and Tahar Rahim. The show is expected to air this year. His TV credits also include BBC series MotherFatherSon with Richard Gere and Helen McCrory.

On the film side, Howle’s early roles include parts in The Sense Of An Ending, Dunkirk and On Chesil Beach. He more recently starred in David Mackenzie’s Outlaw King opposite Chris Pine, playing Edward, Prince of Wales, and in Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker as Rey’s father.

The 30-year-old performer has also worked on the stage with names including Joe Wright and Richard Eyre.

Howle continues to be represented by Curtis Brown Group in the UK.

Other openers include ‘Animals’ and ‘Holiday’.

Franchise titles Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw and The Angry Birds Movie 2 are aiming for different audiences in their opening weekends at the UK box office, with The Lion King looking to hold its top spot for a third week.

Universal’s Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is a spin-off from the Fast & Furious franchise, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham as a special agent and mercenary who team up to stop a genetically-enhanced villain played by Idris Elba.

As the below chart shows, the franchise has steadily grown since...

"Life is so unpredictable, my child." Amazon Studios has debuted the official trailer for the charming indie drama Photograph, the latest movie from one of my favorite directors - Ritesh Batra. This first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and it also showed at the Berlin Film Festival. Batra takes us back to India to tell a story of two strangers in Mumbai, Rafi and Miloni, who meet one day when Rafi decides to take her photo near the Gateway of India. At first he convinces her to pose as his fiancee to satisfy his grandmother's wishes, but the two develop a different relationship. I wrote a very nice review of this film at Sundance which is quoted in this trailer. It's a very light, but undeniably uplifting, soul-stirring film, showing how important connections can be. The film stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra, and ...

12 Years A Slave and Bohemian Rhapsody outfit New Regency today formally launched international TV outpost New Regency Television International, with former Scott Free UK managing director Ed Rubin at the helm.

Based out of London, the division will be charged with producing TV content for the international marketplace. Rubin, as head of the new unit, will focus on developing high-end scripted content, and the office will fund and develop projects from the ground up as well as seek production partnerships.

Former Ink Factory Head of Content Emma Broughton is joining the company as Head of Scripted. As we reported back in October, New Regency set up its London office with the hire of former Lionsgate exec Charlotte Thorp to sell New Regency’s film titles.

“As we continue to explore various formats and distribution platforms for our deep library along with newly produced product, our direct expansion into international television...

Former Ink Factory exec Emma Broughton also joins new venture.

Former Scott Free executive Ed Rubin is heading up the new London-based TV arm of Us production company New Regency.

New Regency Television International will focus on high-end global scripted content. Former Ink Factory employee Emma Broughton is joining the team as head of scripted. Rubin started his role as head of new regency television international this month.

The move follows news last October that New Regency was establishing an international sales team in London, which is focused on films and headed up by former Lionsgate executive Charlotte Thorp. She...

Munich-based sales agency Beta Cinema has closed sales in further major territories for “The Keeper,” which stars David Kross (“The Reader”) and Freya Mavor (“The Sense of an Ending”).

The film is based on the true story of Bert Trautmann, a German who went from being a prisoner-of-war to become the legendary goalkeeper of England’s Manchester City soccer club. The movie was previously acquired by Parkland Entertainment for the U.K. and Ireland.

Further all-rights deals have now been closed with Huanxi Media Group for China, Rai Cinema for Italy, Sochiku for Japan, Icon Film Distribution for Australia and New Zealand, Lev Cinemas for Israel, and Discovery Film and Video for the former Yugoslavia. Further deals are in negotiation.

The film, previously known as “Trautmann,” recounts the love affair between Trautmann and Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of a soccer team, who met Trautmann when she visited his Pow camp near Manchester.

Not everything is about falling in love, and being physical. Sometimes just spending time with someone can mean more than anything, and remind us we're not always alone. I adore Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra's films about the random connections that mean the most to us. His sweet, touching storytelling lets emotions build through the moments and interactions - not just dialogue or story beats. Photograph is Batra's latest film after making two English-language features which were his follow-up films to his breakout hit The Lunchbox (which I fell in love with at Telluride 2013). Batra goes back to his roots for this film, telling a story about a friendship between two quiet people in Mumbai, India. Batra's Photograph is a film that will warm your heart. Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays Rafi, a humble street photographer snapping tourist photos at the Gateway of India in Mumbai, living in a tiny shack with friends.

Six years after the international crossover success of “The Lunchbox,” along comes “Photograph” to prove, whatever Thomas Wolfe may think, that you can go home again. Writer-director Ritesh Batra’s first Indian film since his debut feature has the same quiet streak of wistful sentimentality that made “The Lunchbox” so globally beloved — and, for that matter, the same softly-softly humanity found in his two subsequent English-language efforts, “The Sense of an Ending” and “Our Souls at Night.” Whether roaming the streets of Mumbai or the plains of Colorado, Batra’s filmmaking has remained markedly consistent in tone and texture: You’d be hard pressed to find anyone making nicer films in world cinema right now.

That’s an easy quality to underrate, as is the modest but careful craftsmanship and muted but honest performance style that makes “Photograph” — a film itself about the rewards of patiently building on first impressions — a winsome diversion.

Sundance romance-drama Photograph, from The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra, has pre-sold to key markets for The Match Factory, we can reveal.

Deals have closed in UK (Curzon), Australia/New Zealand (Madman), France (Le Pacte), Germany (Nfp), Greece (Seven), Hungary (Cirko), Italy (Bim), Spain (Vertigo), Switzerland (Filmcoopi) and Turkey (Filmarti).

The anticipated Hindi-language film, which debuts at the Utah fest this weekend before moving on to Berlin, follows a struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, who convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them both in unexpected ways.

The Mumbai-set pic stars Sanya Malhotra (Dangal) and Lunchbox alumni Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Producers include Batra, Viola Fügen, Neil Kopp, Michel Merkt, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani, and The Match Factory’s Michael Weber. Batra also scripts.

Amazon boarded U.S. rights at an early stage and will also release in Japan and India.

Sales agent The Match Factory has sealed a raft of deals in major territories for romantic drama “Photograph,” the new film from “Our Souls at Night” and “The Lunchbox” director Ritesh Batra, ahead of the movie’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Set in Mumbai, “Photograph” centers on a struggling street photographer who, under pressure from his grandmother to get married, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develop a connection that transforms them in ways they did not expect.

Among the international distributors who have picked up the film are Curzon in the U.K., Le Pacte in France, Nfp in Germany, Bim in Italy and Vertigo in Spain. Other buyers include Madman in Australia/New Zealand, Seven in Greece, Cirko in Hungary, Filmcoopi in Switzerland and Filmarti in Turkey. Amazon Studios has the rights for the U.S. and India, where it...

Films by Zhang Yimou and André Téchiné will have world premieres in Berlin.

The final titles for the Berlin International Film Festival Competition and Berlianle Special sections have been announced.

The new competition additions are world premieres of Zhang Yimou’s One Second, André Téchiné’s Farewell To The Night, Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms, the German premiere of Vice, and the European premiere of Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace.

Of the new titles, Farewell To The Night, Alan Elliott’s Amazing Grace and Vice will play out of competition. 17 of the 23 films in the Competition section will be in contention...

BBC has released the first trailer for their upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders. The three-part limited series stars John Malkovich in the role of Hercule Poirot and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) as Inspector Crome.

The series looks really good. Malkovich adds his own interesting flavor to the character Hercule Poirot, and I like it.

The story is set in the 1930's, which is "a time when the nation is dangerously divided, with suspicion and hatred on the rise. In the midst of this tension, Poirot faces a serial killer known only as ‘A.B.C.’ First the killer strikes in Andover, then Bexhill. As the murder count rises, the only clue is the copy of the ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot’s investigations are thwarted at every turn by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If the detective is to match his nemesis, then everything...

We’ve got a new promo photo to share with you from BBC’s upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders.

The photo features the full main cast of the film that includes John Malkovich in the role of Hercule Poirot and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) as Inspector Crome.

The story is set in the 1930's which is "a time when the nation is dangerously divided, with suspicion and hatred on the rise. In the midst of this tension, Poirot faces a serial killer known only as "A.B.C." First the killer strikes in Andover, then Bexhill. As the murder count rises, the only clue is the copy of the ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot’s investigations are thwarted at every turn by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If the detective is to match his nemesis, then everything about him will be called into question: his authority,...

Post The Lunchbox fame (his well traveled Film Fest favorite which was also shown at Sundance in 2014), Ritesh Batra hit a creative cluster mark with Our Souls at Night (starring Robert Redford), The Sense of an Ending (read review) and the soon to be released Photograph. The Hindi language film (with a smidgen of English) in several Mumbai locales romantic drama stars nouveau actress Sanya Malhotra and Lunchbox alumni Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It went into production in October of 2017, and with his pending Little Bee (Julia Roberts) currently in pre-production, we’ll perhaps see 2019 play out like 2017, with not one, but two Batra films in release.…...

Freya Mavor, Tamsin Egerton, Kate Dickie also in cast.

Laura Harrier (BlacKkKlansman), Bria Vinaite (The Florida Project), and Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion) have all joined the cast of Jamie Adams’ Balance Not Symmetry, which the director is making with Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro.

As Screen revealed in Cannes, director Adams is working with Biffy Clyro frontman Simon Neil on the project, with the singer collaborating on the screenplay and writing original songs for the film. The soundtrack of original material, also titled Balance, Not Symmetry, will be released as a standalone Biffy Clyro ablum.

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To mark the release of On Chesil Beach on 17th September, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray, along with a bespoke Becky Bettesworth poster for each winner.

Summer, 1962: England is still a year away from the social and sexual revolution that characterised the Swinging Sixties; a revolution that determined the future of modern Britain. Florence and Edward (Billy Howle; The Sense of an Ending) are newlyweds honeymooning on the dramatic coastline of Chesil Beach, Dorset. However, their idyllic romance is tempered by an old fashioned hotel, societal pressures and underlying tensions between the young couple. As they face a long anticipated wedding night, repressed fears boil over and cast an unexpected shadow over an evening that will define the lovers’ marriage.

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UK film industry has received €74m from Creative Eruope since 2014.

With the UK government wrestling with the Brexit crisis, two new reports have been published drawing attention to the positive effect of Creative Europe, the EU’s training and support programme on the UK’s film industry.

Both highlight the way Creative Europe has “deepened appetites” for the distribution of UK film and television in European markets and of European film and television in the UK.

The annual ‘Creative Europe In The UK’ report, published by Creative Europe, has revealed €74m ($87m) has been awarded to 334 UK-based organisations and companies...

Academy Award® winner Dame Judi Dench and Emmy Award® winner Eddie Izzard are to reunite on Andy Goodard’s Six Minutes to Midnight.

Dench and Izzard have previously acted together as mother and son in Victoria and Abdul. This new production, which has just commenced principal photograph with filming taking place over 6 weeks in various locations across Wales, is based on true events.

The film is set in the Summer of 1939. Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) has taken a last minute and controversial role teaching English to the daughters of high-ranking Nazis at the Augusta-Victoria College, Bexhill-on-Sea – a finishing school on the south coast of England. Despite the storm clouds forming across Europe, the girls continue to learn deportment, Shakespeare, fitness and how to be a faithful member of Hitler’s League of German Girls.

Under the watchful eye of their headmistress Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench), and her devout assistant Ilse...

Here's our first look at John Malkovich in the role of Hercule Poirot in BBC's upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders. As you can see, he's dialed back on the look of the character and isn't going for the over-exaggerated version that we've seen in recent depictions like Kenneth Branagh in Murder on the Orient Express.

The story is set in the 1930's which is "a time when the nation is dangerously divided, with suspicion and hatred on the rise. In the midst of this tension, Poirot faces a serial killer known only as "A.B.C." First the killer strikes in Andover, then Bexhill. As the murder count rises, the only clue is the copy of the ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot’s investigations are thwarted at every turn by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If the detective is to match his nemesis,...

Kenneth Branagh made a big splash with his 2017 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. He wonderfully played detective Hercule Poirot in the film and will reprise the role in his adaptation of Death on the Nile.

Well, the BBC is now developing their own new Agatha Christie project, which will be an adaptation of the 1936 novel The ABC Murders. The series will be told in three parts and they've cast John Malkovich to take on the role of Hercule, and I have no doubt he's going to be awesome! I actually like that casting a bit more than Branagh. It's also been announced that Harry Potter's Rupert Grint has signed onto the film as well. He will play Inspector Crome. Here's the story description from the book:

There’s a serial killer on the loose, working his way through the alphabet and the whole...

Agatha Christie’s novels are still popular fodder for TV adaptations; this time around the BBC is to adapt her famous 1936 novel, The ABC Murders. The cast will include Harry Potter and Snatch’s Rupert Grint and John Malkovich.

Malkovich becomes the latest in a line of seasoned actors to play the Belgian detective with the impressive ‘tache, Poirot. Grint will take on the role of Inspector Crome. Also joining the cast are Andrew Buchan as Franklin Clarke, Eamon Farren playing Cust, Tara Fitzgerald as Lady Hermione Clarke, Bronwyn James (Harlots) in the role of Megan and Freya Mavor as Thora Grey. Further casting to be announced.

Also on the news – Idris Elba teams up with Netflix for The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Executive producer and Agatha Christie Limited CEO, James Prichard said “‘The ABC Murders’ is one of my great-grandmother’s most unsettling and intense stories and Hercule Poirot...

John Malkovich and “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint have signed on for “The ABC Murders,” an Agatha Christie adaptation for the BBC in Britain and Amazon in the U.S. Shooting gets underway in June and will see Malkovich become the latest actor to take on the role of the famously mustachioed Belgian detective.

Kenneth Branagh played the sleuth in the 2017 film adaptation of “Murder on the Orient Express” and is reprising the role in a remake of “Death on the Nile.” David Suchet and Alfred Molina are among those to have played the part on the small screen.

Grint has signed on to play Inspector Crome. The cast also includes Andrew Buchan (“Broadchurch”), Eamon Farren (“Twin Peaks”), Tara Fitzgerald (“Game of Thrones”), Bronwyn James (“Harlots”), and Freya Mavor (“The Sense of an Ending”).

Based on the classic 1936 Christie novel, the series will run to three parts. British pubcaster the...

The next installment in BBC One’s collection of Agatha Christie stories will be The ABC Murders. Sarah Phelps is adapting the classic 1936 title with John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot and Rupert Grint as Inspector Crome. Filming is due to begin in June on the three-part drama that marks the return of Poirot to television and continues BBC One and Agatha Christie Limited’s production deal that will see the latter and Mammoth Screen deliver six more Christie adaptations. Amazon has U.S. rights.

Set in the 1930s, a time when Britain is dangerously divided and suspicion and hatred are on the rise, the story sees Poirot face a serial killer known only as A.B.C. As the body count rises, the only clue is a copy of The ABC Railway Guide at each crime scene. Poirot’s investigations are continuously thwarted by an enemy determined to outsmart him. If Poirot is to match his nemesis,...

Another ensemble cast is assembling for the next major Agatha Christie adaptation for the BBC and Amazon.

The ABC Murders, a three-part retelling of Christie's 1936 classic and adapted by Sarah Phelps, will see John Malkovich in the lead as Hercule Poirot, with Rupert Grint (Harry Potter, Sick Note), Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch, The Honourable Woman), Eamon Farren (Twin Peaks, Chained), Tara Fitzgerald (Game of Thrones), Bronwyn James (Harlots) and Freya Mavor (The Sense of an Ending) also set to star. Further casting will soon be announced.

"The ABC Murders is one of my great grandmother’s most unsettling and ...

Joe Alwyn has a “Gorgeous” new announcement amid the buzz surrounding girlfriend Taylor Swift‘s highly-anticipated album, Reputation, and the many songs he inspired.

The 26-year-old British actor has landed his first major fashion campaign, teaming up with Prada for the brand’s new “Ascension” collection for spring 2018.

Photographed by Willy Vanderperre on the roof of the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio, Alwyn gives a brooding stare as he models a chic version of a garage mechanic suit with a fanny pack strapped around his waist.

Alwyn’s new campaign evokes comic book illustrations and features him as a “postmodern Prada hero” and “new,...

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The first Godless trailer showcases Michelle Dockery and Jack O’Connell in a Western series produced by Steven Soderbergh...

Netflix's new offering Godless looks to put an intriguing twist on the conventional concept of the Western.

With Steven Soderbergh, indie darling and esteemed big screen blockbuster director of the Ocean’s Eleven film franchise, attached as an executive producer to the 7-episode limited series created by Scott Frank, look for some twists and turns not traditionally found in the arid, dusty, tumbleweed-strewn genre.

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The trailer focuses on the trials and tribulations of an outlaw, named Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell). With the events of the series taking place in the 1880s American West, we see intermittent Kung-Fu-esque flashbacks to Roy’s upbringing, where he was raised by anti-hero outlaw Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels) - and with whom he eventually becomes partners in crime.

On the TNT series Good Behavior, which returns with season two on Oct. 15, Michelle Dockery -- best known for playing the coolly aristocratic Lady Mary Crawley on Downton Abbey -- returns as Letty Raines, an American con artist sprung from prison with the intent of applying her relatively limited resources, chief among them her wits, to a fresh start.

It’s a 180-degree turn from her Downton character, says Dockery, who in fact was offered the part just as Downton was coming to an end in 2015. “But what I love about Letty and Mary is that they’re both complex, deeply flawed women,” she says.

And like Lady Mary, who thawed substantially over six seasons, Letty is evolving. In this new season, having regained custody of her young son, Jacob (played by Nyles Steele), Letty aims to establish at least a semblance of domestic stability with her hired-assassin lover, Javier (Juan Diego Botto).

But shunning crime and settling...

Our Souls At Night

Starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda

Directed by Ritesh Batra

It starts quietly, and ends without drama, melo- or otherwise. After The Lunchbox and its tad disappointing followup The Sense Of An Ending, you know how it is with Ritesh Batra. This is a filmmaker who loves silence and embraces it with all its inbuilt hazards and uncertainties.

We’ve seen him work wonders with wordless emotions in his earlier works. So no surprise if here he once again weaves a luminous lucidity into the looming stillness of a landscape that won’t judge mankind. Kindly or otherwise.

With Our Souls At Night, a deeply stirring gentle humane drama about two autumnal souls drifting together in ways that The Bridges Of Madison County could never fathom, Batra joins the ranks of the greatest living filmmakers. And we are not speaking of India alone. Batra is a...

After The Lunchbox and The Sense of an Ending, this Netflix movie starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda feels like a perfect addition to director Ritesh Batra's anti-grief trilogy of sorts...

Michael Stuhlbarg, Freya Mavor and Nikolai Kinski have joined the cast of Gore, Netflix’s upcoming bio of author Gore Vidal starring Kevin Spacey in the title role. The newcomers follow the previously announced Griffin Dunne and Douglas Booth to the project. Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire) will play Howard, Gore's longtime companion; Booth and Mavor (The Sense of an Ending) will be a young couple whose Amalfi Coast vacation is derailed by Gore's attentions; and Dunne and…...

Michael Stuhlbarg, Freya Mavor and Nikolai Kinski have joined the cast of Gore, Netflix’s upcoming bio of author Gore Vidal starring Kevin Spacey in the title role. The newcomers follow the previously announced Griffin Dunne and Douglas Booth to the project. Stuhlbarg (Boardwalk Empire) will play Howard, Gore's longtime companion; Booth and Mavor (The Sense of an Ending) will be a young couple whose Amalfi Coast vacation is derailed by Gore's attentions; and Dunne and…...

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford first teamed up on the big screen 50 years ago in in Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in the Park,” and now Netflix has brought them back together for the tender and soulful drama “Our Souls at Night.” The movie marks their fourth movie together and it recently earned favorable reviews at its world premiere in Venice.

Read More:‘Our Souls at Night’ First Look: Robert Redford and Jane Fonda Canoodle in Netflix Romance

Adapted from the novel of same name by Kent Haruf, “Our Souls at Night” begins with Fonda’s Addie Moore knocking on the door of Redford’s Louis Waters. Both of them have lost their significant other and Addie proposes the two begin spending their nights together in bed. Her offer doesn’t involve sex, just the hope for connection late in life. Louis agrees despite some reservations and the two spark a...

Filming has begun on location in England and Scotland on the Working Title Films production of Mary Queen of Scots, starring Saoirse Ronan in the title role opposite Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I. Josie Rourke, artistic director of The Donmar Warehouse, makes her feature directorial debut on the movie. Focus Features holds worldwide rights and will release Mary, Queen of Scots in the Us and Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute the film internationally.

The producers of Mary, Queen of Scots are Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Debra Hayward, all Academy Award nominees as producers of Best Picture Oscar nominee Les Mis&#233rables.

Beau Willimon, an Academy Award nominee for The Ides of March and Emmy Award nominee for House of Cards, has written the screenplay adaptation. Mary, Queen of Scots is based on John Guy's acclaimed biography My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots.

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As filming begins on Josie Rourke’s Mary, Queen of Scots, a first look image of Saoirse Ronan as the fated Queen of Scotland has been released.

The adaptation of John Guy’s acclaimed biography My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots. Will see Ronan joined by Suicide Squad’s Margot Robbie as Mary’s cousin and murderer, Elizabeth I. Joining the ladies on the cast are Jack Lowden (Dunkirk, England is Mine), Joe Alwyn (The Sense of an Ending, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk), Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, “Line of Duty”) and Brendan Coyle (“Downton Abbey”, Me Before You). Also featuring in the cast are David Tennant (“Doctor Who”, “Broadchurch”) and Guy Pearce (Memento, La Confidential, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert).

Mary, Queen of Scots explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France...

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Filming has begun on location in England and Scotland on the Working Title Films production of Mary, Queen of Scots, starring Saoirse Ronan in the title role opposite Margot Robbie as Elizabeth I.

Josie Rourke, artistic director of The Donmar Warehouse, makes her feature directorial debut on the movie. Focus Features holds worldwide rights and will release Mary, Queen of Scots in the Us and Universal Pictures International (Upi) will distribute the film internationally.

The producers of Mary, Queen of Scots are Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and Debra Hayward, all Academy Award nominees as producers of Best Picture Oscar nominee Les Misérables.

Beau Willimon, an Academy Award nominee for The Ides of March and Emmy Award nominee for “House of Cards”, has written the screenplay adaptation. Mary, Queen of Scots is based on John Guy’s acclaimed biography My Heart is My...

A vegetarian student craves human flesh in Julia Ducournau’s prize-winning Raw, The Sense of an Ending is a bloodless affair, and Huppert sings

Last year I was on a film festival jury that wound up, after several hours of finicky deliberation, giving our top prize to Julia Ducournau’s coming-of-cannibalistic-age nightmare Raw (Universal, 18). It was, to all of us, an unexpected vote of consensus for a film that seduces through repulsion. “What have we approved?” a fellow juror asked me with a grin as we delivered our verdict. Ducournau’s debut lands on screen like a live, throbbing heart plucked from its housing chest, wrapped in rose-coloured satin instead of butcher’s paper.

It doesn’t take long for a grisly grindhouse soul to emerge from its gleaming exterior. As the rituals of campus hazing take their dizzying toll on her, vegetarian veterinary student Justine (Garance Marillier) finds within...

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Studiocanal is pleased to announce that The Sense Of An Ending – a deeply moving and uplifting story about the paths chosen in life, and the power of memory, love and forgiveness – arrives on Blu-ray and DVD 14 August 2017 and will be available on Digital Download from 7 August 2017. To celebrate, we’re giving away a copy on DVD as well as a copy of the book! There is also a DVD copy available for 1 runner up.

Tony Webster (Academy Award®-winner Jim Broadbent, Bridget Jones’ Baby, The Lady in the Van) is divorced, retired and leads a reclusive and relatively quiet life.

One day, he learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica, left in her will a diary kept by his best friend. Tony’s quest to recover the diary forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his youth and, digging deeper, uncovers deceit, regrets and guilt buried long ago.

After directing one of the best films of 2015 with the sweet, and lovely “Brooklyn,” director John Crowley has been pretty quiet. Granted, bringing an adaptation of Donna Tartt‘s literary sensation “The Goldfinch“ to life is probably a whole job itself, and it looks like the filmmaker is going to turn to TV as that movie keeps developing.

Screen Daily reports that Crowley is set to direct “Dreams Of Leaving.” Based on the novel by Rupert Thomson, with Nick Payne (“The Sense Of An Ending,” “The Crown“) writing the script, the series will follow a young man from the city, who returns to his childhood town of more “traditional” values, where secrets will be revealed:

New Egypt is a village somewhere in the South of England.

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Exclusive: High-end drama from See-Saw Films is based on Rupert Thomson’s cult novel.

John Crowley, director of the Bafta-winning Brooklyn, is set to direct new TV series Dreams Of Leaving, based on the novel by Rupert Thomson.

The high-end drama is expected to run for six to eight episodes and is being produced by See-Saw Films.

Award-winning playwright Nick Payne has written the script and the project will shoot next year. A broadcaster is not yet attached.

It is expected that Crowley will direct all the episodes in the first series. He is currently working on feature The Goldfinch, based on Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel.

Dreams Of Leaving is set in the fictional English village of New Egypt; an idyllic haven of traditional values and attitudes. However, by resisting change with an iron fist it has secretly made prisoners of its inhabitants. Moses is one villager who escaped the village as a boy and...

Exclusive: High-end drama from See-Saw Films is based on Rupert Thomson’s cult novel.

John Crowley, director of the Bafta-winning Brooklyn, is set to direct new TV series Dreams Of Leaving, based on the novel by Rupert Thomson.

The high-end drama is expected to run for six to eight episodes and is being produced by See-Saw Films.

Award-winning playwright Nick Payne has written the script and the project will shoot next year. A broadcaster is not yet attached.

It is expected that Crowley will direct all the episodes in the first series. He is currently working on feature The Goldfinch, based on Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel.

Dreams Of Leaving is set in the fictional English village of New Egypt; an idyllic haven of traditional values and attitudes. However, by resisting change with an iron fist it has secretly made prisoners of its inhabitants. Moses is one villager who escaped the village as a boy and...

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Getting lost in one’s past is quite easy to do, and may seem to do it. The best that we often can hope for is that our regrets and past failures don’t haunt us late into our lives. For a prime example of what that haunting may look like, look no further than The Sense of […]

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales..

The fifth edition of the Disney, Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean franchise easily topped the Aussie box office last weekend although the debut was well below the previous installment.

Directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg and shot in Queensland after an injection of $21.6 million in funding from the federal government plus state government incentives, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales captured $5.9 million on 292 locations, according to ComScore.

That.s 41 per cent below the $9.9 million debut of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in 2011. The latter finished up earning $27.2 million, which may be out of reach of the new film.

Pirates 5 scored an estimated $US77 million over the four-day Memorial Day holiday in the Us and $208 million internationally for a global total of $285 million, so the studio may be hard-pressed to recoup the reported $230 million budget.

Exclusive: Film about German goalkeeper picked up by Beta Cinema.

Beta Cinema has come on board to handle world sales on Trautmann, the long-gestating biopic of Nazi soldier turned English football hero Bert Trautmann.

Trautmann was one of the larger-than-life personalities of post-war European sport: a former Nazi paratrooper who became a hero as the world’s most famous goalkeeper of his time – not in his home country, but on the playing fields of his former enemy. He famously broke his neck in the 1956 Fa Cup Final but kept on playing.

The film, the first English-language feature for German director Marcus H Rosenmueller (Grave Decisions), is now fully financed and will shoot later this summer.

German actor David Kross (The Reader) is still on board to play Trautmann while UK actress Freya Mavor (The Sense Of An Ending) has been cast as the love of his life, Margaret, who was the daughter of his English coach.

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