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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...