UK outfit Metro International is handling sales at the EFM on The Laureate, which finished shooting last week. Set in the mid-1920s, the period drama directed by William Nunez is the story of the complex love triangle between wartime poet Robert Graves, his wife Nancy and...
Together Films has acquired UK rights to Damon Gameau’s climate change documentary 2040. The Australian film premiered out of competition in the family-friendly Generation Kplus section at the 2019 Berlinale. Together is planning a UK-wide theatrical release on November 15. It will open the Into Film Festival...
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Colin McIvor’s family adventure Zoo. Art Parkinson, Penelope Wilton, and Toby Jones star in the story of friends during the Second World War who fight to save a baby elephant during the Belfast Blitz bombings in 1941. Katy...
"John Cusack has joined the cast of western Never Grow Old alongside Emile Hirsch, Deborah Francois and Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Being John Malkovich actor Cusack co-stars as malevolent villain Dutch Albert with Hirsch (Lone Survivor) in the lead role as the reluctant hero Patrick Tate. Shoot has...
"Discover all the nominations for this year's Evening Standard British Film Awards Jodie Whittaker is among the stars in the running for this year’s Evening Standard British Film Awards. The new star of Doctor Who is up for best actress for her performance as the wife of...
The October issue of Screen features Sam Claflin as its front cover, in character as Captain Stanhope from Journey's End. This follows on from previous Screen articles praising the film, with Fionnuala Halligan including Journey's End as one of her "10 films that stood out at...
Screen can reveal the first production still of Sam Claflin in Saul Dibb’s adaptation. Screen can reveal the first production still of Sam Claflin in World War One drama Journey’s End, of which Metro International will show first footage at next week’s EFM in Berlin. Director Saul...
11 January, 2017 | By Screen staff From Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here to Asif Kapadia’s Maradona doc, Screen profiles a selection of hot UK projects in 2017. Beast Dir Michael Pearce Former Screen International Star of Tomorrow Pearce makes his feature debut with Beast (working title),...
EXCLUSIVE: Shoot underway on adaptation of WWI classic; Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Toby Jones co-star. The BFI has boarded production finance on director Saul Dibb’s (Suite Française) adaptation of the classic British stage play Journey’s End. Principal photography is underway in Cardiff and Ipswich on the feature...
EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit boards 3D family fantasy with Willow Shields. Metro International has boarded sales on completed UK-China-New Zealand family adventure movie Into The Rainbow (formerly The Wonder). The Hunger Games’ Willow Shields, Chinese star Leo Wu, Taiwanese actress Joe Chen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Archie...