The historical satire Elvis & Nixon, the street art documentary The Banksy Job, and the drama A Hologram For The King starring Tom Hanks are among the titles announced today that round out the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2016 slate. The organization unveiled 58 films total...
EXCLUSIVE: Art heist documentary to be sold by Metro International. Metro International will give a premiere screening in Berlin to long-in-the-works art heist documentary The Banksy Job, which is due to be shown at one of the city’s art galleries. The film charts the story behind an...
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) to direct feature heading to EFM with Metro International. Metro International has boarded sales ahead of the EFM on crime-comedy Mr. Cranky, which has Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) on board to star as a crime boss debt collector with a...
EXCLUSIVE: Metro International takes over from Elle Driver on Juliette Binoche drama. UK sales outfit Metro International has taken over sales rights from Elle Driver to a refashioned version of Isabel Coixet’s Berlinale opener Nobody Wants The Night. The film is understood to have been “significantly” cut...
EXCLUSIVE: Claflin, Freddie Highmore, Paul Bettany attached to feature adaptation. The Hunger Games’ Sam Claflin is attached to star as Captain Stanhope in the screen adaptation of R.C. Sheriff’s WWI classic play Journey’s End. Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel) is due to co-star as Raleigh while Paul Bettany...
British films hoping to succeed in the international market must overcome production and distribution roadblocks in an increasingly competitive industry. That was the message from the ‘Selling UK Films Abroad’ panel discussion co-hosted by Screen International and the UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) agency, held at...
18 August, 2015 | By Jeremy Kay EXCLUSIVE: The London-based sales agent has struck a US and Canadian sale on the BAFTA-nominated war story ahead of next month’s North American premiere in Toronto. Metro International head of sales Natalie Brenner has licensed US and Canadian...
Rhys Ifans returns to his South Wales roots with this lusty cinematic remake of the celebrated radio play by legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Rounding off a year of celebrations to mark the centenary of his birth, the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas gets the full cinematic...
Dylan Thomas’ celebrated radio play has been energetically adapted to the big screen with Charlotte Church among the gallery of fun performances The spirit of Richard Burton looms large over any rendering of Under Milk Wood: the actor’s sonorous vowels, on display in what has hitherto...
War thriller Kajaki will be screened at Cineworld in Aldershot and Odeon in Guildford as part of the many activities taking place for Armed Forces Day and Armed Forces Week. Directed by Paul Katis and written by Tom Williams, the BAFTA-nominated film is based on a...