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Celsius Ent. has acquired world sales rights, excluding Switzerland, to “Butterfly Stroke,” directed by Denis Rabaglia and starring two-time Oscar nominee Judy Davis, “Bridgerton” breakout star Florence Hunt, Caroline Peters and Malaya Stern Takeda. The film goes into production July 28.

“Butterfly Stroke” centers on Ruth (Davis), a British swimming champion, and a woman who wants control over every aspect of her life – including its end. Diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, she sets out on a final journey to Switzerland, where assisted dying is legal.

She calls her estranged granddaughter, Lori (Hunt), to inform her of the plan and the inheritance she’ll soon receive. Lori, impulsive and headstrong in her own way, won’t let Ruth slip away so easily. She races to Switzerland to stop – or at least understand – Ruth’s decision.

In Zurich, Ruth’s unusual attitude conflicts with the organization’s routine and becomes a nightmare for her case manager.

Dirigida por Justin Kurzel, autor de ‘Macbeth’ y ‘Nitram’. © Getty Images

De acuerdo con Deadline, Sebastian Stan y Leo Woodall protagonizarán Burning Rainbow Farm, la nueva película de Justin Kurzel (The Order).

Burning Rainbow Farm, que se presentará en el Marché du Film de Cannes para su conseguir distribución, adapta el libro de no ficción de Dean Kuipers y revive la trágica historia real de Tom Crosslin y Rollie Rohm, una pareja gay que, a finales de los 90, construyó una utopía pacífica y cannábica, que llegó a ser considerada por la revista High Times como uno de los 25 destinos imprescindibles para fumetas del mundo. Cuando se enfrentan a las autoridades locales y les quitan a su hijo, se produce un enfrentamiento que desemboca en uno de los asedios más violentos y olvidados de la historia reciente de Ee. Uu., apenas unos días antes del 11-s.

Curiosamente, fue el propio Stan quien,...

The television adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s prize-winning book The Narrow Road to the Deep North brings with it a number of firsts. It is acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s first work for television and also the first time Euphoria and Saltburn star Jacob Elordi has returned home to lead a major Australian production.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television’s Curio Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios Australia, Narrow Road debuted on Amazon Prime Video on April 18, but the limited series, speaking to its feature-like qualities, premiered its first two episodes at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. In his review, The Hollywood Reporter‘s film critic David Rooney was gushing in his praise of those first two episodes, describing Narrow Road as “big, bold and strikingly cinematic.” “Based on the first 90 minutes, The Narrow Road to the Deep North has potential to stand alongside films like Peter Weir...

Plot: The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a savagely beautiful five-part series charting the life of Dorrigo Evans, through his passionate love affair with Amy Mulvaney, his time held captive in a Pow camp, and his later years spent as a revered surgeon and reluctant war hero. An intimate character study of a complex man, a compelling portrayal of the courage and cruelty of war, and an unforgettable love story that sustains one through the darkest of times.

Review: War is hell, and I do not think a film or television series has ever deviated from that sentiment. While the horrors of battle and conflict have been central to screen productions for a century, some filmmakers still manage to find new ways to give us a glimpse of what it is like for the enlisted who have served throughout history. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan,...

“The Order” (2024) is a brooding investigative thriller that puts another feather in director Justin Kurzel’s cap. After the chilling character portraits in “Nitram” and “The Snowtown Murders,” Kurzel returns with an equally harrowing depiction of evil in human beings. This time, he shifts his focus toward a White Supremacist terrorist group that was active in the 1980s. He paints the picture of a small American town mainly through the eyes of an FBI agent, who ends up in a cat-and-mouse chase with the terrorist group’s members. Although the plot essentially leads us toward its leader’s capture, it is more interested in interrogating the human tendencies that affect the usual order of any place, and how people react in such situations of change.

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“The Order” starring Jude Law offers a grim portrait of an FBI investigation in the 1980s to investigate a white supremacist group,...

The criminally underrated The Order did not gain as much attention as other titles released on the big screen in 2024. Last year provided moviegoers a number of critically acclaimed features across various genres, leaving the Justin Kurzel-directed crime thriller somewhat overshadowed. However, that doesn’t mean the film wasn’t a critical success, with a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score as of this writing. Now, the movie is bound to be introduced to a much wider audience this month. The Order — starringJude Lawand Nicholas Hoult — will be added to Hulu's extensive library starting April 18, 2025.

The crime thriller boasts an ensemble cast led by Law and Hoult, both of whom have impressive acting portfolios under their belts. Law, best known for his performance in 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, has continued to prove his range as an actor time and again with a range of genres, including comedy, thriller, drama, and action.

Jacob Elordi and director Justin Kurzel spoke about making their new series, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” at a preview screening in Melbourne, Australia.

Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize–winning novel, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” draws on his father’s experience as a prisoner of war in Burma during World War II. Director Justin Kurzel and screenwriter Shaun Grant adapted the novel into an emotionally charged five-part series for Amazon Prime Video in Australia. (Read IndieWire’s review here as we await distribution in North America.)

Spanning three decades, the story follows army surgeon Dorrigo Evans through a lovestruck youth, brutal captivity in a Japanese Pow camp, and the long shadow of memory in old age. Evans is played by Elordi in the 1940s and by Ciarán Hinds in the 1980s, as the older man reckons with the defining experiences of his youth.

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South Korean animated romance “The Square” will close the 27th Far East Film Festival (Feff) in Udine, Italy. The film will make its world premiere at the festival, which runs April 24-May 2, sharing the closing night spotlight with “Ya Boy Kongming! The Movie,” a live-action feature film adaptation of the popular comedy manga, screening out of competition.

Two additional world premieres have been added to the lineup: a restored version of hard-to-find 1979 Hong Kong cult film “The System” and the world premiere of Indonesian horror title “Mad of Madness,” which explores the intersection of fear, politics and society.

These additions bring Feff’s total to 77 films from 12 countries, with 49 titles in competition. The festival now boasts 8 world premieres, 16 international premieres, 20 European premieres and 19 Italian premieres.

The festival will open with Chinese comedy “Green Wave,” followed by South Korean supernatural horror “Dark Nuns.” Other additions include two Hong Kong short films,...

Jacob Elordi has come a long way since The Kissing Booth. Over the last three years, the Aussie actor has pushed himself time and again with starring roles in the likes of Saltburn, Priscilla, and Oh, Canada, working with such filmmakers as Emerald Fennell, Sofia Coppola, and Paul Schrader while honing his craft. And his latest role, as lovestruck Pow Dorrigo Evans in The Order director Justin Kurzel's five-part WWII miniseries The Narrow Road To The Deep North, looks to be the rising star's most challenging assignment yet. Check out the trailer for the show, adapted from Richard Flanagan's eponymous Booker Prize winning novel, below;

You could probably count on one hand the number of films and TV shows that offer a meaningful insight into Australia's contribution to the war effort during World War Two — and most of us would probably struggle to name more than two (Gallipoli...

When medical officer Dorrigo (Jacob Elordi) licks blood from a wound off the inner thigh belonging to Amy (Odessa Young), who is also his uncle’s wife, it’s a bracing, viscerally erotic moment that captures the overall vibes of Justin Kurzel’s miniseries “The Narrow Road to the Deep North.”

The extraordinary first two episodes of the Australian filmmaker’s adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 novel screened at the Berlin Film Festival, introducing us to Dorrigo (played by Elordi during World War II and Ciarán Hinds in 1989) and the haunted memories of his affair with Amy back in rural Adelaide before being shipped off to battle. Director Kurzel has made the male criminal psyche his signature inquiry, from last year’s “The Order” to 2021 Cannes winner “Nitram,” all based on true crime events. In “The Narrow Road,” he locks into his most sensuous, atmospheric, and brutally violent study yet,...

Following Nitram and The Order, Justin Kurzel goes from strength to strength with his riveting first detour into episodic television, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. While a current of unflinching violence runs through the director’s work, seldom if ever has the blunt shock of bloodletting played in such haunting counterpart to the pathos of brutalized humanity as it does in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel. There’s a lingering soulfulness here that feels new to Kurzel’s work, distilled in an intensely moving lead performance from Jacob Elordi.

Big, bold and strikingly cinematic, the limited series’ first two of five 45-minute episodes were presented as a special gala at the Berlin Film Festival ahead of its Australian premiere on Prime Video in April. Most other major markets will follow, though Sony has not yet closed a deal for U.S. rights. With Elordi’s star on the rise,...

To this day, Kanchanaburi remains a hot destination — in every sense — for Australian and British tourists who come to pay tribute to prisoners of war who died under the Japanese lash, building the Burma Railway. Kanchanaburi is where the bridge crosses the River Kwai, subject of one of the most beloved war stories in cinema. The real sufferings of those prisoners has also been well chronicled, but, even so, Richard Flanagan’s novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which drew on his own father’s experience, found a new kind of narrative behind that history: a story of trauma that bleeds from war into a difficult peace and, while largely unspoken, lasts a lifetime, His novel went on to win the Booker Prize, the top international prize for literature in English.

Adapted as a five-part series by Australian director Justin Kurzel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North...

Jacob Elordi had to lose weight to play a prisoner of war in the new Justin Kurzel-directed series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” — but to him it “wasn’t complete torture.”

When Variety asked how the weight loss affected him at a Berlin Film Festival press conference, the “Euphoria” and “Saltburn” actor said it was actually “a very calming experience” to go through the process with his fellow cast members, whom he affectionally called “the lads.”

“I think there was something quite profound that happened, in that it wasn’t complete torture,” he said. “There was a peace that sort of came over all of us. And you kind of reach a level of love that goes beyond what you’re used to, because everything gets stripped away and you come down to the bare bones of, ‘Is my mate Ok? Am I Ok? How can I help?...

"The goal of the place is to give them their freedom back." Madman Films in Australia has revealed the trailer for a documentary film titled Ellis Park, telling the story of musician Warren Ellis. This is actually directed by the acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, of Macbeth, Assassin's Creed, Nitram, The Order. It first premiered at the 2024 London & Melbourne Film Festivals last year. A key member of iconic bands The Dirty Three and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds, multi-instrumentalist Warren Ellis has cut a brilliant and unorthodox figure in music for over three decades. Far from the international concert halls in which he has plied his craft lies a very different passion project: a wildlife sanctuary in the forests of Sumatra. This place is co-founded by Ellis and spearheaded by the indomitable Femke den Haas, whose dedicated team of conservationists rescues trafficked and mistreated animals and then devotes years to nursing them back to health.

It’s officially Jacob Elordi’s year.

The rising star has a slew of projects being released in 2025, including Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant’s buzzy limited series “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” which will be premiering at Berlinale 2025 as a Special Gala.

The sales title series was in development for years at Fremantle before Elordi’s casting was announced in 2022; the project was a Sony Pictures Television production. The official logline reads: “A celebrated World War II hero is haunted by his experiences in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and memories of an affair that took place just before the war in this adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2013 Booker Prize-winning novel.”

Elordi plays lead character Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon imprisoned at a Pow camp. The original novel jumps across multiple periods of Evans’ life, from his affair as a young man with his uncle...

The Order and Nitram director could be about to team up with Sebastian Stan on the true-life thriller, Burning Rainbow Farm.

Even if the ongoing awards season seems determined to ignore it, Sebastian Stan enjoyed a wonderful 2024, not only appearing in two excellent films but putting in career-best work in both of them. In A24’s A Different Man, Stan showcased his excellent taste for choosing roles which challenge him as an actor whilst also pointing to his inclinations for seeking out and developing roles that some of his contemporaries would fear to take.

That approach was certainly true when it came to his other role last year, taking on the part of a younger Donald Trump in The Apprentice. As with A Different Man, Stan took a role in an election year that – given the febrile state of America’s political landscape – was sure to be divisive and gave...

Nicholas Hoult plays a wannabe far-right martyr, and Law and Tye Sheridan the feds on his tail, in a well-cast if anticlimactic true-crime tale

Justin Kurzel directs a workmanlike true-crime thriller about a real-life American white supremacist movement called the Order, which, in the 1980s, murdered Jewish radio journalist Alan Berg and pulled off bank robberies to fund a planned national insurrection. Its leader, Bob Mathews, sought a creepy martyrdom involving an Alamo-style standoff with federal agents at the group’s remote farmhouse in Washington state. Screenwriter Zach Baylin (Oscar-nominated for King Richard) adapts the book about the case, The Silent Brotherhood, by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt; Nicholas Hoult plays the baby-faced Mathews, with Jude Law and Tye Sheridan as the (fictional-composite) officers battling to take him down.

Kurzel contrives a solid, vehement film, with Law and Hoult proving to be interestingly cast; there are well-turned action sequences and...

Director Justin Kurzel knows how to get under your skin. His 2011 debut, Snowtown, almost immediately started making it on lists of the most disturbing movies ever made; 2019’s True History of the Kelly Gang took an almost hallucinatory look at the legendary Ned Kelly gang; and 2021’s Nitram created a sense of slow, unnerving anticipated that couldn’t be shaken. But underneath Kurzel’s best work, there’s this underlying understanding that haunts the entire film: this really happened, and even though these are clearly fictionalized accounts of what happened, it’s still terrifying that such horrors can actually exist in this world.

Starring Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult, and directed by Justin Kurzel, tense thriller The Order is one of 2024’s last must-see films. Our review:

Director Justin Kurzel has a certain way of depicting death. Where most filmmakers might serve up an aesthetised, cinematic version of what dying looks and feels like, Kurzel captures it in what feels unsettlingly real: the shock, the gasping for air, the sensation of drowning in blood. It’s something he brought to his startling debut Snowtown, and continued into his later work, whether it’s his Technicolor adaptation of Macbeth (2015) or his disturbing 2021 drama, Nitram.

Like much of Kurzel’s earlier work, The Order, written by Zach Baylin, is based on real events: the FBI’s hunt for a white supremacist militia group in the early 1980s. Between 1983 and 1984, the group – which called itself The Order – waged a terror campaign across Colorado and Washington, bombing buildings,...

Taking its cues from the gritty 1970s crime thrillers of Sydney Lumet and perhaps drawing some influence from recent dramas about little-known historical events ala “BlackKklansman” or even “Judas And The Messiah,” the crime drama, “The Order,” is the latest film from Aussie director Justin Kurzel (“Macbeth,” “Nitram”).

Starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan, the film centers on a lone FBI agent (Law) who begins to believe that a series of bank robberies and car heists frightening communities in the Pacific Northwest are the work of a dangerous domestic terrorist and white supremacist group.

Continue reading Tye Sheridan On ‘The Order,’ Working With Jude Law, Terrence Malick & ‘Ready Player Two’ [Interview] at The Playlist.

Director Justin Kurzel was not at all familiar with the story of Bob Mathews until he started reading the script for “The Order” written by Zach Baylin. “I’d sort of read the first 15 pages and I was like, oh wow, this reminds me of these great seventies films that Friedkin and Lumet used to kind of do,” he reveals to Gold Derby during our recent webchat (watch the video interview above).

As he read the script he found himself more and more captivated by the subject of American extremism. “I wasn’t aware of ‘The Turner Diaries.’ I wasn’t aware of this sort of organization such as The Order. I was curious. I’ve been interested in the past with films that I’ve done here about how communities can be influenced by figures that can manipulate them to believe in their own kind of ideology.”

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Taking its cues from the gritty 1970s crime thrillers of Sydney Lumet and perhaps drawing some influence from recent dramas about little-known historical events ala “BlackKklansman” or even “Judas and the Messiah,” the crime drama, “The Order,” is the latest film from Aussie director Justin Kurzel.

Starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan, the film centers on a lone FBI agent (Law) who begins to believe that a series of bank robberies and car heists frightening communities in the Pacific Northwest are the work of a dangerous domestic terrorist and white supremacist group.

Continue reading Jude Law Talks ‘The Order,’ Working With Justin Kurzel, Trying On ‘Star Wars’ & More [Interview] at The Playlist.

On June 18th, 1984, Alan Berg was assassinated outside of his home in Denver, Colorado. The confrontational talk-radio host had made a name for himself by arguing on-air with, among others, anti-Semites and white supremacists. A group known as “The Order,” who had taken their name from the fictional hate-mongers in the novel The Turner Diaries, had been responsible for Berg’s murder. They were also behind a series of bank robberies throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as stealing $3.6 million from a brinks truck in Ukiah, California. The goal was...

The box office failure of the Mad Max: Fury Road prequel Furiosa would seem to prove that movie-goers aren’t particularly interested in seeing entries in the “Mad Max Saga” that don’t give Max Rockatansky himself a prominent role – but that isn’t stopping Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel from daydreaming about making his own, potentially Max-lite contribution to the franchise. During an interview with Collider, Kurzel even said that’s considering pitching the idea to Mad Max franchise creator George Miller!

Kurzel is currently doing the press rounds for his thriller The Order, and his directing credits also include The True History of the Kelly Gang and Nitram. While speaking with Collider, he said, “I’ve always been curious about what happened before the first Mad Max – what was that world with the Nightrider, pre-Mad Max? I’ve always been very curious about that and very tempted to...

Known for his haunting dramas, such as “Macbeth” and “Nitram”—artistic endeavors routinely invited to premiere in Cannes or at the Venice Film Festival—Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel’s latest film is “The Order.”

Starring the superb cast of Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Alison Oliver, Odessa Young, and Marc Maron, “The Order” is Kurzel’s version of a 1970s Sydney Lumet-directed crime drama.

Continue reading Justin Kurzel Talks ‘The Order,’ Working With Jude Law, Future Projects With Jacob Elordi & More at The Playlist.

Justin Kurzel is a filmmaker who always tackles interesting topics. It’s always intriguing to find out what he is working on in the future. And in an upcoming The Playlist interview about his new film, “The Order,” filmmaker Justin Kurzel gives us an update about what film projects he has coming up, including a new horror film called “Mice.”

“I’m developing a horror film with Nicole and made up stories that Sean Grant, a collaborator that did ‘The Snowtown Murders,’ ‘Nitram‘ and ‘True History of the Kelly Gang‘ is writing,” said Kurzel.

Continue reading Justin Kurzel Says ‘Mice’ Movie Starring Nicole Kidman Will Be “Straight Horror” & Is Developing FBI/Marijuana Thriller ‘Burning Rainbow Farm’ at The Playlist.

Athina Rachel Tsangari, the Greek director with roots in New York and Austin, Texas, does not need any convincing when an actor or crew member proposes an offbeat idea.

Her new film “Harvest” is based on Jim Crace’s interior monologue of a novel and set in the unspecified past. It feels like the middle ages, apart from the occasional anachronism. On the ramshackle set in Scotland, most of the characters were wearing wooden clogs, but Tsangari’s lead actor Caleb Landry Jones (best known to audiences as the brother in “Get Out;” he also won a Cannes prize in 2021 for the drama “Nitram”) strolled up in contemporary hiking boots.

“I loved it,” the director tells TheWrap of Jones’ footwear. “I’m open to stuff like that. It has nothing to do with what people were wearing in medieval times, but it works. Especially in a film like this one,...

Justin Kurzel has become known for his bold and visual storytelling, with films including Macbeth, Nitram, and the blockbuster Assassin’s Creed adaptation under his belt. However, for his latest project, the director has turned to documentaries. Ellis Park follows the musician and composer Warren Ellis, a friend of Kurzel’s who is known for bands the “Dirty Three” and “Bad Seed,” as he visits an animal sanctuary in Sumatra named after him, which he helped to fund.

The sanctuary, run by Dutch-born paramedic Femke Den Hans, is simultaneously uplifting and chilling as it offers a glimpse into the fight against the illegal animal trade and the perseverant people fighting it. However, the documentary is an equally revealing look into the eclectic life and mind of Warren Ellis himself.

I sat down with Kurzel in advance of Ellis Park’s World Premiere at the London Film Festival to discuss it. We...

From Macbeth to True History Of The Kelly Gang to Nitram, across eras and genres Australian director Justin Kurzel has proven himself to be a firebrand filmmaker, capable of grabbing an audience by the throat and never letting them go through jaw-slackening imagery, tension-filled storytelling, and — to pinch a popular phrase — a seriously locked-in directorial sensibility. And his latest, true story inspired thriller The Order — in which Jude Law plays an FBI agent caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a Neo-Nazi (Nicholas Hoult) in 1980s Washington State — looks every bit as thrillingly tense as the Aussie helmsman's past works. Check out the official trailer below:

At a moment in time where the political temperature is rising once again across the pond, it looks like Kurzel's new movie — which begins with Nicholas Hoult's Aryan Nation leader Bob Mathews declaring that "in every revolution, someone has to fire the first...

"It's happening. The war has begun." Vertical has revealed an official trailer for The Order, the latest film from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, making his first film set in America this time around. The Order premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival recently, the same place his last film Nitram premiered. A series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest. A lone FBI agent believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, rather a group of domestic terrorists. Based on a true story, an alarming surge in violent bombings & robberies leads a weathered FBI agent into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a charismatic domestic terrorist plotting to overthrow the US government. All of this really happened, bad Americans like this do exist. Jude Law stars as the FBI agent, along with Nicholas Hoult as white supremacist Bob Mathews, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett,...

Justin Kurzel is an acclaimed Australian director known for his gritty and atmospheric films such as Snowtown, The True History of the Kelly Gang, and Nitram. In his first documentary, Kurzel shifts his focus to the musical talents and charitable efforts of Warren Ellis.

Ellis has had a long and storied career as a composer and multi-instrumentalist, notably collaborating with Nick Cave and founding the acclaimed group The Dirty Three. The film provides an intimate look into Ellis’s life and music while also chronicling his involvement with the Sumatran wildlife sanctuary that bears his name.

Through footage of Ellis both onstage and off, we learn about the experiences that shaped him as an artist. We also witness his journey to visit the amazing animal refuge of Ellis Park for the very first time. There, a dedicated team works tirelessly to rehabilitate trafficked creatures and provide them with love and care.

The upcoming Dracula film, Dracula: A Love Tale, sees French filmmaker and The Fifth Element and Lon: The Professional director Luc Besson reuniting with DogMan star Caleb Landry Jones in a reimagining of the iconic vampire. This adaptation will present a somewhat different version of Dracula to the audience, exploring how Dracula came to be after love was ripped away from him, leading him to renounce God and live for eternity as punishment.

Jones plays the titular vampire lord Dracula, previously known as Prince Vlad of Wallachia. In an interview with Collider, Jones discussed how he got the role and revealed how he approached his portrayal of this age-old character. He revealed he was approached by Besson for the role of Dracula before they even began filming their first film together, DogMan. In terms of preparation, Jones focused on what Besson wanted to see from this new take on Bram Stoker's beloved creation.

It’s fall 1983 in the Pacific Northwest, a historical hotbed for white poverty and white-power mobilization. Flannels flow like wine, backcountry bowl cut-adjacent male fringes mark burgeoning leadership, and there isn’t a shiny new car for 100 miles in any direction. On both sides of the law we find ourselves in the company of brawny mustachios and brazenly retreating widows’ peaks that form trenches of balding. The tremoring strings, blue-gray haze in the coloring, and heavy fog set the stage for something awful: the brief dawn of The Order.

Terry Husk (Jude Law)––an FBI agent with ample experience infiltrating and taking down white-supremacy hate groups within the Aryan Nations from Colorado to Washington state––comes to the tiny Idaho town of Coeur d’Alene to quiet down, the sole federal agent stationed in his region. But after serious counterfeiting reports and a string of horrifyingly captured bank robberies and armored-car heists,...

Jude Law will follow his earlier 2024 film, Firebrand, with a dark and potentially controversial thriller which just screened at the Venice Film Festival. The Order follows the FBI's investigation into a Neo-Nazi crime group in the '80s and is based on the true story of the titular white supremacist terrorist organization, also known as The Silent Brotherhood. The American group were responsible for a variety of heists in order to fund their movement and a war against the government, and were ultimately involved in murder. As reported by Variety, in a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, Law discussed the importance of The Order and the parallels the film has with current events and extreme right-wing groups across the world. He stated:

Sadly, the relevance speaks for itself. It felt like a piece of work that needed to be made now. Its always interesting finding a piece from...

If anyone had a particularly surreal Venice in 2023, it was Caleb Landry Jones.

Not only was the actor on the Lido for barely 24 hours — for the world premiere of Luc Besson’s “DogMan” in which he played a cross-dressing vigilante-thief with a pack of canines at his command — but the 34-year-old had effectively been yanked from a muddy film set on the top of a mountain in Scotland early one morning, flown to Italy, put in a shirt, ferried from press conference to red carpet, flown back to Scotland the next day and driven to the top of a mountain to shoot a crucial scene.

“I was in Venice, but all I was thinking about was this really important scene I had to do,” he says. “And I kept falling asleep in the screening and trying to wake up and Luc would be like, ‘Man, it’s ok, go to sleep,...

Justin Kurzel dives into dark true stories about violence with films like Snowtown Murders and Nitram. In The Order, he shares another disturbing slice of reality—this time from America in the 1980s. The movie follows an FBI agent tasked with hunting a dangerous new white supremacist group that’s emerged in the Pacific Northwest.

Lead by a charismatic young man named Bob Mathews, this militant fringe breaks off from a larger far-right church organization. Now going by the name “The Order,” they aim to accelerate the extremist agenda through armed terrorism instead of just words. Robbing banks and setting off bombs, their attacks escalate—soon placing them in the crosshairs of a veteran FBI investigator named Terry Husk.

Played by Jude Law, Terry has faced the KKK and mob before. But this Neo-Nazi cell will be one of his toughest targets yet to track down in the dense forests and mountains of Idaho.

Crime thriller The Order — starring Jude Law, Jurnee Smollett and Nicholas Hoult — had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival Aug. 31.

In attendance at the red carpet were the main cast, including Law, Smollett, Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Philip Lewitski and Matias Garrido, as well as director Justin Kurzel (Nitram), screenwriter Zach Baylin (King Richard) and executive producer Katherine Susman. Other cast members, like Marc Maron, Odessa Young and Alison Oliver, were not pictured on the red carpet.

Based on Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt’s book The Silent Brotherhood, The Order chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremacist domestic terror group of the 1980s. Depicted as a police procedural, it follows lone FBI agent Terry Husk (Law), who uncovers increasingly violent plots orchestrated by radical, charismatic leader Bob Matthews (Hoult) to lead the United States into war. Working alongside Husk in the Pacific Northwest is local detective...

"It felt like a piece of work that needed to be made now," Jude Law explained during the press conference for this film. "It's interesting looking back, but it’s always interesting finding a piece from the past that has some relationship to the present day." Indeed it is. Especially a film like this. The Order is the latest action thriller film made by acclaimed Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, director of The Snowtown Murders, Macbeth, Assassin's Creed, True History of the Kelly Gang, and Nitram previously. After making tons of a bunch of films about criminals in Australia, he's telling a story about a notorious American criminal - a man named Bob Mathews. The Order follows one grizzled, determined FBI agent, played by Jude Law, who is on the hunt for Bob after he realizes what's really going while investigating a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. It's...

There’s a scene in “The Order,” a riveting and explosive docudrama about the dawn of the modern American white-supremacist movement in the 1980s, that creeps you out in a very eye-opening way. Two leaders of the movement are meeting on an isolated country road in Idaho. One of them, Richard Butler (Victor Slezak), is the white nationalist who founded the Aryan Nations, the neo-Nazi cult that has its compound nearby. He’s a racist extremist, but he has the demeanor of a courtly preacher, and he’s consciously political about the growth of his movement.

The other man, Bob Matthews (Nicholas Hoult), is a former follower of Butler’s who has split off from him, all because he thinks the Aryan Nations movement isn’t extreme enough. Matthews wants an armed uprising now, and the insurrectionary band of ruffians he leads, called the Order (he named them after the...

If you think heavily armed white supremacists are some kind of new threat to America, you should take a look at The Order, a gripping, superbly made historical thriller about a neo-Nazi gang that terrorized the Pacific Northwest nearly four decades ago, robbing banks and armored cars to fund their plans for a full-scale insurrection.

A nail-biter from start to finish, Australian director Justin Kurzel’s bleak and brawny true story stars Jude Law as an FBI agent trying to take down the film’s titular faction, which he tracks over several years, from one hold-up and killing to the next. Backed by a cast that includes Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan and Jurnee Smollett, The Order is the kind of tense reflection on American violence that Hollywood rarely puts on the big screen anymore. After launching in Venice’s main competition, it will hopefully find supporters stateside, with Law’s...

If three makes a trend, then take “The Order” as a proof of fact: Nobody delivers true crime quite like Justin Kurzel. Following 2011’s “Snowtown” and 2021’s “Nitram,” the filmmaker’s latest factual thriller confirms the Australian auteur as an expert of the form, a skilled technician at ease and at the peak of his abilities when conveying ambient unease. Premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival, “The Order” might be the filmmaker’s most accomplished work to date, offsetting a kind of broody fatalism against natural splendor, and punctuating the bloody affair with an action beat.

While both “Snowtown” and “Nitram” played as slow builds towards specific tragedies – tallying the institutional and personal failings that led to the Snowtown murders and the Port Arthur massacre – this latest film hews a more rolling timeline, tracking a white-supremacist splinter group responsible for a handful of murders and a string of heists,...

Justin Kurzel directs with a scalpel that cuts everywhere except the heart. The Australian filmmaker, who memorialized two mass killing events in his own country with his coldly compelling debut “The Snowtown Murders” and 2021 Cannes winner “Nitram,” peeks this time into the American psyche behind similar happenings with his latest, “The Order.” But he needs fresher material, as this based-on-a-true-story portrait of a radicalized white supremacy faction being hunted by the FBI in the Pacific Northwest in the 1980s feels too close to Kurzel’s previous outings, which also include the Aussie bushranger historical biopic “True History of the Kelly Gang.” He already depicted a white, manifesto-wielding killer the last time. And that other time. And the time before that. While it’s one thing for a director to present variations on a theme throughout their career, it’s another when they stop surprising us or finding a new way into the same story.

Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and director Justin Kurzel, were among the team at The Order‘s Venice press conference this afternoon where they discussed the crime-drama’s resonance with extremism today.

The Order charts how a series of bank robberies and car heists frightened communities in the Pacific Northwest during the 1980s. It alights on a lone FBI agent (Law) who believes that the crimes were not the work of financially motivated criminals, but rather a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, namely the white supremacist gang known as The Order (led in the film by Hoult). The film explores the ensuing battle between law enforcement and the far-right group.

Hoult told the press how he and Law – adversaries in the film – didn’t speak or interact with each other for the first four weeks of filming in a bid to build distance between them. He was...

The world still has “a lot of work to do” to combat far-right ideologies of the kind shown in Venice title The Order, according to its lead actor Jude Law.

“You could’ve said 10 years ago that perhaps the world was in a slightly different state,” said Law. “In fact we’ve still got a lot of work to do.”

In Justin Kurzel’s Venice Competition entry, Law stars as Terry Husk, an FBI agent in Idaho in 1983 who investigates a series of bombings and robberies, which he learns may be linked to a far-right uprising.

The film is written by Zach Baylin,...

Straight off the plane from New York, where he is mid-production on the Netflix series “Black Rabbit,” director Justin Kurzel debuted his new documentary “Ellis Park” at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

“Ellis Park” follows the eventful life of composer Warren Ellis and the wildlife sanctuary he co-founded on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Combining Ellis’ irreverent humor and unbounded creativity with the moving story of the sanctuary’s role as a home for animals rescued from the black market, “Ellis Park” is set to be one of the most impactful Australian documentaries of recent years.

Following the film’s premiere at Melbourne’s Astor Theatre, Kurzel said making the documentary has profoundly influenced his forthcoming productions. Alongside “Black Rabbit” these include “The Order” — a wintry thriller starring Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, and Marc Maron set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival — and the series...

Online physical media retailer Waxwork Records is releasing the original soundtrack to “Monkey Man.”

Composed by Jed Kurzel, the music from Dev Patel’s directorial debut will be available Aug. 16 in a double-lp set featuring red, black and metallic gold a-side and b-side colored vinyl. Gatefold packaging features new artwork from illustrator Sajan Rai, and includes liner notes written by both Patel and Kurzel.

Kurzel’s previous credits include “Alien: Covenant,” “Overlord,” “Assasin’s Creed,” “The Pope’s Exorcist,” “The Babadook’ and his brother Justin’s 2021 film “Nitram,” the latter of which scored Caleb Landry Jones a best actor award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

The vinyl will be available for purchase starting at 9:00am Pt Aug. 16 on the Waxwork Records website.

Waxwork Records is one of the physical media industry’s premier manufacturers of vinyl soundtracks. Starting with Richard Band’s music for “Re-Animator” and John Harrison’s score for “Day of the Dead,...

Venice Film Festival competition title “Harvest,” directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari, is one of three films at the festival to be represented for sales by the Match Factory as well as being produced or co-produced by the company.

The other two are “Edge of Night,” the debut feature by German-Turkish director Türker Süer, screening in Horizons Extra, and “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass,” an animated film by the Quay Brothers, playing in Venice Days.

Tsangari, the director of “Attenberg” (winner of Venice’s best actress award in 2010) and “Chevalier” (2015), returns to Venice competition with “Harvest.” Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.

In Tsangari’s tragicomic take on a Western, townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.

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Exclusive: Caleb Landry Jones extends a gnarly bejewelled hand as he arrives on the set of Luc Besson’s gothic drama Dracula: A Love Tale.

The Three Boards and Nitram actor is unrecognizable after four hours in make-up. His already tall frame augmented by platform shoes, he towers over Besson, the cast and the crew.

“How are you?” asks Jones, staying in character with a thick Transylvanian accent and syntax, adding in response to a comment on his appearance: “They done incredible… this man back here, he make everything.”

Jones has appeared at the end of a tour of the extensive Dracula: A Love Tale set in the vast Darkmatters studio southwest of Paris, conducted by Besson. Above is a first behind-the-scenes look at the actor as the blood-smeared Count.

Deadline is not invited to sit in on filming. Besson likes intimate shoots without distractions, sitting beside his cinematographer and close to his actors,...

After “Nitram” wowed critics at the Cannes Film Festival three years ago, with Caleb Landry Jones winning Best Actor for his role, many expected Justin Kurzel‘s would return to the Croisette with his next film, “The Order.” But Deadline reports that Kurzel’s upcoming true crime movie won’t hit the festival circuit yet, if it even is at all.

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From the beginning of his career, Caleb Landry Jones has been a dependable source of colorful characters who light up a scene. Since first appearing as one of the kids in the final scene of No Country For Old Men, he has moved on to be an important player in films ranging from X-Men: First Class to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and Get Out. He specialized in playing either guys who just gave you the willies for a reason you can't explain or ones who come off as a goofy manchild which makes him endearing. While he hasn't often had the chance to be the lead in a major film, whenever he does get to star, he absolutely nails it. See Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral or Luc Besson's latest film, Dogman, to see Jones effortlessly step into the spotlight. One of his very best leading performances came in 2021 with the Australian drama,...