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27 Oct Gemma Arterton To Star As Jackie Kennedy In ‘37 Heavens’ About The Former First Lady’s Relationship With Brit Lord David Harlech, Guy Pearce Co-Stars — Cannes Market

Posted at 16:52h in Films, News, Press

The King’s Man and Quantum Of Solace star Gemma Arterton is set to play Jackie Kennedy in new feature 37 Heavens, we can reveal. The movie will chart the much-speculated-about relationship between Kennedy and British diplomat Lord David Harlech, who will be played by Mare Of Easttown and The Hurt Locker star Guy Pearce. Metro International is launching international...

27 Oct ‘Creation Stories’ Tells Raucous Real-Life Tale Of “Slightly Psychotic” Record Producer Who Launched Oasis & Other Bands — Tribeca Studio

Posted at 16:48h in Films, News, Press

The feature film Creation Stories, a fictionalized account of real-life Scottish musician and Creation Records founder Alan McGee, contains a slew of memorable lines of dialogue. Examples: “L.A.: The land of the backstabbers, the vacuous and the soulless.” “I’m a nihilist, man. There’s nothing to it.” “I ordered a...

27 Oct Adelaide Clemens, Patrick J. Adams, Douglas Smith, Kathleen Turner Starring in ‘The Swearing Jar’

Posted at 16:44h in Films, News, Press, Variety

Adelaide Clemens, Patrick J. Adams, Douglas Smith and Kathleen Turner will star in “The Swearing Jar.” The musical romance will be directed by Lindsay MacKay (“Wet Bum”) from a script by Kate Hewlett (“Malory Towers”), who adapts her play of the same name. David Hewlett (“The Shape of...

27 Oct Ella Blumenthal, 100, embodiment of humanity and resiliency, Holocaust survivor, subject of “I Am Here”

Posted at 16:33h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

Ella Blumenthal was a young woman when the Nazis invaded her native Poland. Over the next few years she was bounced around Europe by Hitler’s forces, experiencing firs-thand the horrors of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen. She even participated in the failed Warsaw Uprising in 1943,...

27 Oct Evolution Mallorca Film Festival Reveals Lineup for In-Person 10th Edition

Posted at 16:32h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

After a pandemic induced 2020 hybrid edition, the 10th edition of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival will take place as a wholly in-person event. The festival will open with Benito Zambrano’s Mallorca-set literary adaptation “Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake” (Spain). Zambrano will be present with principal cast. It...

08 Sep Jeff Goldblum Joins Asa Butterfield In Stephen Fry’s ‘The Liar’ Adaptation

Posted at 07:56h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

Jeff Goldblum has signed up to star opposite Asa Butterfield in The Liar, a film adaptation of Stephen Fry’s semi-autobiographical novel that will shoot in the UK next month. Goldblum will play Cambridge don Donald Trefusis in the pic, which will be directed by Tony Hagger,...

28 Jun ‘Late In Summer’: Emily Watson & Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje To Star In Metro International’s Romance-Drama

Posted at 19:43h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

Ahead of the virtual Cannes market, Metro International is launching sales on WWII drama Late In Summer, which will star BAFTA winner Emily Watson (Chernobyl) and Farming and Suicide Squad actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Set in rural Cornwall, the romantic drama will chart a brief encounter between...

21 Mar Metro International boards Holocaust survivor doc ‘I Am Here’

Posted at 20:47h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

UK-based sales firm Metro International Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Jordy Sank’s documentary I Am Here, about the life of Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal. Metro will launch sales on the title at next week’s online European Film Market (EFM, March 1-5). The South African film is...

21 Mar Metro International adds sales on Nick Moran’s ‘Creation Stories’

Posted at 20:45h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

Metro International Entertainment has secured additional deals on Nick Moran’s rock ‘n’ roll biopic Creation Stories. The film has sold to Australia-New Zealand (Kismet Movies), Japan (Pony Canyon), Canada (levelFILM), CIS (Planeta), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Middle East (Front Row), Eastern Europe (HBO), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and...

04 Mar Glasgow Film Festival unveils online 2021 line-up

Posted at 20:10h in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

The Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has revealed the programme for its 2021 edition (Feb 24-March 7), which includes several award-winning festival favourites and a focus on South Korea. The 17th edition of GFF, which recently announced it would shift online-only due to the ongoing virus crisis,...