Niall Johnson’s Humanoid is the first feature project to receive production financing from Dneg 360, the partnership between UK visual effects house Dneg and virtual production expert Dimension Studio. It is being introduced to Cannes buyers by sales agent Fortitude International.
Humanoid is produced by Ivan Mactaggart’s UK outfit Cambridge Picture Company. Shooting is due to begin by the end of the year at Dimension’s 360’s LED volume stage in London.
It is one of a number of features from UK producers that were going to be shot outside the UK but are now being made in the...
Humanoid is produced by Ivan Mactaggart’s UK outfit Cambridge Picture Company. Shooting is due to begin by the end of the year at Dimension’s 360’s LED volume stage in London.
It is one of a number of features from UK producers that were going to be shot outside the UK but are now being made in the...
- 5/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
The box office for January-May 2023 shows a very mixed pattern of recovery across Europe.
Premium ticket pricing is saving the day for cinema exhibition in many European markets, where admissions have yet to catch up with pre-pandemic averages — that was the key message of the latest European box office and admissions data presented on Monday at CineEurope by Lucy Jones, Comscore Movies executive director for UK & Ireland, Italy, Middle East and Africa.
The box office for January-May 2023 shows a very mixed pattern of recovery across Europe, with Austria up 8% on the 2017-2019 pre-pandemic average for the same period, Netherlands up...
Premium ticket pricing is saving the day for cinema exhibition in many European markets, where admissions have yet to catch up with pre-pandemic averages — that was the key message of the latest European box office and admissions data presented on Monday at CineEurope by Lucy Jones, Comscore Movies executive director for UK & Ireland, Italy, Middle East and Africa.
The box office for January-May 2023 shows a very mixed pattern of recovery across Europe, with Austria up 8% on the 2017-2019 pre-pandemic average for the same period, Netherlands up...
- 6/20/2023
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Comscore’s Lucy Jones was presenting at CineEurope.
Premium ticket pricing is saving the day for cinema exhibition in many European markets, where admissions have yet to catch up with pre-pandemic averages — that was the key message of the latest European box office and admissions data presented on Monday at CineEurope by Lucy Jones, Comscore Movies executive director for UK & Ireland, Italy, Middle East and Africa.
The box office for January-May 2023 shows a very mixed pattern of recovery across Europe, with Austria up 8% on the 2017-2019 pre-pandemic average for the same period, Netherlands up 4% and Germany down a slim 3%. France...
Premium ticket pricing is saving the day for cinema exhibition in many European markets, where admissions have yet to catch up with pre-pandemic averages — that was the key message of the latest European box office and admissions data presented on Monday at CineEurope by Lucy Jones, Comscore Movies executive director for UK & Ireland, Italy, Middle East and Africa.
The box office for January-May 2023 shows a very mixed pattern of recovery across Europe, with Austria up 8% on the 2017-2019 pre-pandemic average for the same period, Netherlands up 4% and Germany down a slim 3%. France...
- 6/20/2023
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Viaplay Content Distribution has closed the first raft of deals for its ambitious action drama film “Stockholm Bloodbath” directed by Mikael Håfström.
Ahead of Viaplay’s official streaming premiere in 2024, “Stockholm Bloodbath” will be distributed in the Nordics by Scanbox Entertainment. It will roll out in Denmark on Jan. 18th and in Sweden and Norway on Jan. 19. Splendid Film, meanwhile, has acquired all rights for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.
“Stockholm Bloodbath” is part of Viaplay Content Distribution’s roster which will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival to international buyers. The company will present new and exclusive material from the film.
Set in 1520, “Stockholm Bloodbath” explores a dark chapter in Sweden’s history, which saw the infamous massacre of nearly 100 nobles and civilians in the Swedish capital. The film follows Anne (Sophie Cookson) and her foster sister Freja (Alba August) as they seek revenge on the men who...
Ahead of Viaplay’s official streaming premiere in 2024, “Stockholm Bloodbath” will be distributed in the Nordics by Scanbox Entertainment. It will roll out in Denmark on Jan. 18th and in Sweden and Norway on Jan. 19. Splendid Film, meanwhile, has acquired all rights for Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.
“Stockholm Bloodbath” is part of Viaplay Content Distribution’s roster which will be unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival to international buyers. The company will present new and exclusive material from the film.
Set in 1520, “Stockholm Bloodbath” explores a dark chapter in Sweden’s history, which saw the infamous massacre of nearly 100 nobles and civilians in the Swedish capital. The film follows Anne (Sophie Cookson) and her foster sister Freja (Alba August) as they seek revenge on the men who...
- 5/11/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Former IFC Films Distribution Boss Justin Dipietro is heading to Cohen Media Group as their new Head of Marketing and Distribution.
Dipietro arrives to Cohen Media Group from Netflix where he served as their Director of Sales and Distribution. Dipietro managed theatrical sales for half of the U.S., including the Los Angeles market, and helped develop theatrical release plans and strategies for award-nominated titles, including two 2020 Best Picture Oscar nominees, Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
As the Cohen Media Group gears up for an active 4th quarter and 2022 release schedule, Dipietro will oversee the motion picture releases of critically acclaimed films such as Emmanuel Carrère’s Between Two Worlds starring Juliette Binoche; Memories of My Father directed by Academy Award winning Fernando Trueba; Uberto Pasolini’s Nowhere Special starring James Norton and Daniel Lamont; and the Greek Oscar submission, Apples, among many more.
Dipietro said, “Cohen...
Dipietro arrives to Cohen Media Group from Netflix where he served as their Director of Sales and Distribution. Dipietro managed theatrical sales for half of the U.S., including the Los Angeles market, and helped develop theatrical release plans and strategies for award-nominated titles, including two 2020 Best Picture Oscar nominees, Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
As the Cohen Media Group gears up for an active 4th quarter and 2022 release schedule, Dipietro will oversee the motion picture releases of critically acclaimed films such as Emmanuel Carrère’s Between Two Worlds starring Juliette Binoche; Memories of My Father directed by Academy Award winning Fernando Trueba; Uberto Pasolini’s Nowhere Special starring James Norton and Daniel Lamont; and the Greek Oscar submission, Apples, among many more.
Dipietro said, “Cohen...
- 10/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
London-based film sales and financing house Embankment Films has closed a major international deal for “Joyride,” starring Olivia Colman, who is Oscar nominated for Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” another of Embankment’s titles. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has bought “Joyride” for the world, excluding North America and U.K.
The deal comes as Embankment – led by Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar – amps up its pre-sales slate, with the recent addition of Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to the cast of Zeller’s “The Son,” which sees Zeller reuniting with “The Father” co-writer Christopher Hampton, and news that Helen Mirren will play Israel’s legendary Prime Minister Golda Meir in “Golda,” directed by Oscar winner Guy Nattiv, and produced by BAFTA winner Michael Kuhn (“Florence Foster Jenkins”).
“Joyride” is a feel-good, foul-mouthed fairy-tale centering on two lovable rogues. Joy, played by Colman, is pissed off. She’s got a baby...
The deal comes as Embankment – led by Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar – amps up its pre-sales slate, with the recent addition of Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to the cast of Zeller’s “The Son,” which sees Zeller reuniting with “The Father” co-writer Christopher Hampton, and news that Helen Mirren will play Israel’s legendary Prime Minister Golda Meir in “Golda,” directed by Oscar winner Guy Nattiv, and produced by BAFTA winner Michael Kuhn (“Florence Foster Jenkins”).
“Joyride” is a feel-good, foul-mouthed fairy-tale centering on two lovable rogues. Joy, played by Colman, is pissed off. She’s got a baby...
- 4/19/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Judi Dench opened up in a conversation benefiting the Vision Foundation about continuing her acting career while coping with deteriorating eyesight (via The Guardian). The Vision Foundation is a London sight loss charity. Joined by Stephen Fry and Hayley Mills, Dench told the audience she remains a working actress by relying on close friends to help her memorize new scripts through the repetition of reading them aloud to her.
“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” Dench said. “I’ve had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again. So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won’t notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!”
Acting through eye sight loss has given...
“You find a way of just getting about and getting over the things that you find very difficult,” Dench said. “I’ve had to find another way of learning lines and things, which is having great friends of mine repeat them to me over and over and over again. So I have to learn through repetition, and I just hope that people won’t notice too much if all the lines are completely hopeless!”
Acting through eye sight loss has given...
- 2/25/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Tilda Cobham-Hervey and Unjoo Moon at the Tiff premiere of ‘I Am Woman.’
In a sign of the times for independent distributors, Transmission Films expects to release approximately nine films in cinemas this year, down from 13 in 2019.
The more selective, cautious approach to acquisitions is Transmission’s response to the tightening market across-the-board for indie films, which co-founder Andrew Mackie estimates has dropped by 10-20 per cent.
That said, Mackie and co-founder Richard Payten are very confident about the 2020 slate, not least Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman and Dean Murphy’s Paul Hogan comeback comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee.
Transmission has dated Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey as the pioneering Australian feminist singer, which premiered at Toronto, on May 21.
Mackie says the release date for the film produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen avoids the “post-Oscar season crush and allows...
In a sign of the times for independent distributors, Transmission Films expects to release approximately nine films in cinemas this year, down from 13 in 2019.
The more selective, cautious approach to acquisitions is Transmission’s response to the tightening market across-the-board for indie films, which co-founder Andrew Mackie estimates has dropped by 10-20 per cent.
That said, Mackie and co-founder Richard Payten are very confident about the 2020 slate, not least Unjoo Moon’s I Am Woman and Dean Murphy’s Paul Hogan comeback comedy The Very Excellent Mr Dundee.
Transmission has dated Moon’s Helen Reddy biopic starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey as the pioneering Australian feminist singer, which premiered at Toronto, on May 21.
Mackie says the release date for the film produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and scripted by Emma Jensen avoids the “post-Oscar season crush and allows...
- 2/2/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘The Favourite’ lead boost.
Independent UK films secured their highest market share at the local box office for five years, according to the BFI’s official statistics for 2019 which have been published today.
Films including Downton Abbey, The Favourite and Yesterday helped boost the market share of independent UK films to 13% in 2019, up from 11.7% the previous year.
Downton Abbey, the big-screen adaptation of the period TV drama, led the chart having grossed £28.2m following its release by Universal in September. It was produced by Carnival Films with Focus Features and released by Universal.
The Favourite, which won...
Independent UK films secured their highest market share at the local box office for five years, according to the BFI’s official statistics for 2019 which have been published today.
Films including Downton Abbey, The Favourite and Yesterday helped boost the market share of independent UK films to 13% in 2019, up from 11.7% the previous year.
Downton Abbey, the big-screen adaptation of the period TV drama, led the chart having grossed £28.2m following its release by Universal in September. It was produced by Carnival Films with Focus Features and released by Universal.
The Favourite, which won...
- 1/30/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Chaplin’ screenwriter William Boyd has adapted the true story.
Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, has joined period drama The Galapagos Affair, written by William Boyd.
Mactaggart will produce through Cambridge Picture Company alongside Michael Kelk of Wire Films. Kelk previously developed the project with Working Title Films.
Based on a true story and set in the late 1920s, it centres on German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as their leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
But their solitude is disrupted...
Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include the Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent, has joined period drama The Galapagos Affair, written by William Boyd.
Mactaggart will produce through Cambridge Picture Company alongside Michael Kelk of Wire Films. Kelk previously developed the project with Working Title Films.
Based on a true story and set in the late 1920s, it centres on German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as their leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
But their solitude is disrupted...
- 12/19/2019
- by ¬0¦James Ashworth¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ivan Mactaggart, the UK producer whose credits include Oscar-nominated animation Loving Vincent and Judi Dench starrer Red Joan, is teaming with scribe William Boyd (Chaplin) on period feature The Galapagos Affair.
Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the pic will follow German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
The pic is based on the historical book by John Treherne and was also previously told in 2013 documentary Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, which was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller...
Set in the late 1920s and based on a true story, the pic will follow German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, as they leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana.
Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous ‘Baroness’ Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore’s island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.
The pic is based on the historical book by John Treherne and was also previously told in 2013 documentary Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden, which was directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller...
- 12/17/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
To mark the Christmas season, we’ve been given a Lionsgate Christmas Film bundle to give away.
The bundle includes: A Simple Favour on DVD, Long Shot on DVD, Anna on 4K + Blu-ray, Hellboy on 4K + Blu-ray, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum on 4K + Blu-ray, Angel Has Fallen on 4K, Fighting with my Family on DVD, Red Joan on DVD, and The Queen’s Corgi on DVD.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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The bundle includes: A Simple Favour on DVD, Long Shot on DVD, Anna on 4K + Blu-ray, Hellboy on 4K + Blu-ray, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum on 4K + Blu-ray, Angel Has Fallen on 4K, Fighting with my Family on DVD, Red Joan on DVD, and The Queen’s Corgi on DVD.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
a Rafflecopter giveaway
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Open to UK residents only The competition will close 19th December 2019 at 23.59 GMT The winner will be picked at random from entries received No cash alternative is available To coincide with Gdpr regulations, competition entry information will not be stored once the competition has ended and the winners have been chosen and prizes sent out.
The usual T&Cs can be found here. Good Luck!
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- 12/8/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sophie Cookson is in negotiations to star opposite Mark Wahlberg in Antoine Fuqua’s action thriller “Infinite,” sources tell Variety.
Wahlberg took over the role from Chris Evans, who left the project due to scheduling conflicts.
“Infinite” is based on D. Eric Maikranz’s novel “The Reincarnationist Papers,” which centers on the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives. A troubled young man haunted by memories of two past lives stumbles upon the centuries-old society and decides to join their ranks. Ian Shorr are adapting the story for the screen.
The Paramount film will be produced by John Zaozirny alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian at Di Bonaventura Pictures. Rafi Crohn is the executive producer.
“Infinite” is set to bow Aug. 7, 2020, with production scheduled to begin this fall.
Cookson’s feature film debut came as the female lead in the Fox hit “Kingsman: The Secret Service,...
Wahlberg took over the role from Chris Evans, who left the project due to scheduling conflicts.
“Infinite” is based on D. Eric Maikranz’s novel “The Reincarnationist Papers,” which centers on the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives. A troubled young man haunted by memories of two past lives stumbles upon the centuries-old society and decides to join their ranks. Ian Shorr are adapting the story for the screen.
The Paramount film will be produced by John Zaozirny alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian at Di Bonaventura Pictures. Rafi Crohn is the executive producer.
“Infinite” is set to bow Aug. 7, 2020, with production scheduled to begin this fall.
Cookson’s feature film debut came as the female lead in the Fox hit “Kingsman: The Secret Service,...
- 8/14/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Lionsgate U.K. has taken theatrical rights to “The Father,” Florian Zeller’s movie adaptation of his hit stage play of the same name, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. Embankment Films, which executive produces the film, is handling worldwide sales (ex-France) and did the U.K. deal.
Principal photography started in the U.K. earlier this month on the film, which also stars Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell and Olivia Williams.
Lionsgate U.K. has the British theatrical rights. Broadcaster Channel 4 has the free-tv rights after Film4 invested in the movie.
Hopkins stars in the title role as a mischievous, independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Colman). Yet such help has become essential, following Anne’s decision to move to Paris with her partner. As Anne’s father tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones,...
Principal photography started in the U.K. earlier this month on the film, which also stars Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell and Olivia Williams.
Lionsgate U.K. has the British theatrical rights. Broadcaster Channel 4 has the free-tv rights after Film4 invested in the movie.
Hopkins stars in the title role as a mischievous, independent man who, as he ages, refuses all assistance from his daughter Anne (Colman). Yet such help has become essential, following Anne’s decision to move to Paris with her partner. As Anne’s father tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones,...
- 5/29/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Once again, a new documentary tops the specialized top 10 with “The Biggest Little Farm.” And, once again, a high-profile narrative film from a major director and well-known cast — “All Is True” — struggled in its opening weekend.
It’s a pattern we’ve seen repeatedly, most recently with Aretha Franklin documentary “Amazing Grace” and Judi Dench drama “Red Joan.” And where “Tolkien” might have been a platform release in the past, it opened in over 1,400 theaters. The emphasis on wider play shifts from the conventional paradigm, as well as a lack of faith given its mediocre reviews.
Opening
The Biggest Little Farm (Neon) – Metacritic: 72; Festivals include: Telluride, Toronto, Hamptons 2018
$101,012 in 5 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $20,002
It’s an impressive initial response in five major New York/Los Angeles venues for this documentary about a Southern California farm that uses biodiversity and ecologically friendly methods. This is a topic that receives significant interest in social media,...
It’s a pattern we’ve seen repeatedly, most recently with Aretha Franklin documentary “Amazing Grace” and Judi Dench drama “Red Joan.” And where “Tolkien” might have been a platform release in the past, it opened in over 1,400 theaters. The emphasis on wider play shifts from the conventional paradigm, as well as a lack of faith given its mediocre reviews.
Opening
The Biggest Little Farm (Neon) – Metacritic: 72; Festivals include: Telluride, Toronto, Hamptons 2018
$101,012 in 5 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $20,002
It’s an impressive initial response in five major New York/Los Angeles venues for this documentary about a Southern California farm that uses biodiversity and ecologically friendly methods. This is a topic that receives significant interest in social media,...
- 5/12/2019
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
The Marvel blockbuster has now grossed £73.5m, achieving the second-highest second weekend ever and breaking into the all-time top 10.
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31.
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (May 3-5)Total gross to date Week 1 Avengers: Endgame (Disney) £14.3m £73.5m 2 2 Long Shot (Lionsgate) £814,897 £1.1m 1 3 The Curse Of La Llorona (Warner Bros) £591,139 £769,626 1 4 Tolkien (20th Century Fox) £550,348 £742,771 1 5 A Dog’s Journey (eOne) £499,207 £813,320 1 Disney
Disney’s Avengers: Endgame dominated the UK box office, achieving the second-highest second weekend ever and breaking into the all-time top 10 for the territory.
The film grossed £14.3m from Friday to Sunday, with only Sam Mendes’ James Bond...
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31.
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (May 3-5)Total gross to date Week 1 Avengers: Endgame (Disney) £14.3m £73.5m 2 2 Long Shot (Lionsgate) £814,897 £1.1m 1 3 The Curse Of La Llorona (Warner Bros) £591,139 £769,626 1 4 Tolkien (20th Century Fox) £550,348 £742,771 1 5 A Dog’s Journey (eOne) £499,207 £813,320 1 Disney
Disney’s Avengers: Endgame dominated the UK box office, achieving the second-highest second weekend ever and breaking into the all-time top 10 for the territory.
The film grossed £14.3m from Friday to Sunday, with only Sam Mendes’ James Bond...
- 5/7/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Film posts Fri-Sun £31.5m, topping Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ previous watermark.
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Apr 26-28) Total gross to date Week 1 Avengers: Endgame (Disney £31.4m £43.4m 1 2 Dumbo (Disney) £1m £23.4m 5 3 Wonder Park (Paramount) £452,000 £3.8m 8 4 Red Joan (Lionsgate) £420,629 £1.5m 2 5 ‘Shazam!’ (Warner Bros) £398,000 £12.9m 4 Disney
Avengers: Endgame, the final entry in the current cycle of Marvel comic book films, lived up to its hype this weekend, tumbling box office records around the globe.
As part of its remarkable £930m ($1.2bn) global debut, the film posted a four-day £43.4m ($56.1m) opening in the UK.
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Apr 26-28) Total gross to date Week 1 Avengers: Endgame (Disney £31.4m £43.4m 1 2 Dumbo (Disney) £1m £23.4m 5 3 Wonder Park (Paramount) £452,000 £3.8m 8 4 Red Joan (Lionsgate) £420,629 £1.5m 2 5 ‘Shazam!’ (Warner Bros) £398,000 £12.9m 4 Disney
Avengers: Endgame, the final entry in the current cycle of Marvel comic book films, lived up to its hype this weekend, tumbling box office records around the globe.
As part of its remarkable £930m ($1.2bn) global debut, the film posted a four-day £43.4m ($56.1m) opening in the UK.
- 4/29/2019
- ScreenDaily
Faith-based drama Breakthrough does well in third place.
April 22 Update: New Line horror The Curse Of La Llorona opened top of North American box office via Warner Bros on a confirmed $26.3m as all the releases combined for the worst Easter box office performance in 14 years.
Even though the latest film to emerge from The Conjuring Universe surpassed expectations and Captain Marvel became the seventh Marvel Cinematic Universe film to cross $400m, there was no getting away from the limp overall display.
Box office grossed $108.5m, down 2.3% on last weekend and down 21% on the Easter session in 2018, when Ready Player One...
April 22 Update: New Line horror The Curse Of La Llorona opened top of North American box office via Warner Bros on a confirmed $26.3m as all the releases combined for the worst Easter box office performance in 14 years.
Even though the latest film to emerge from The Conjuring Universe surpassed expectations and Captain Marvel became the seventh Marvel Cinematic Universe film to cross $400m, there was no getting away from the limp overall display.
Box office grossed $108.5m, down 2.3% on last weekend and down 21% on the Easter session in 2018, when Ready Player One...
- 4/22/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Faith-based drama Breakthrough does well in third place.
New Line horror The Curse Of La Llorona opened top of North American box office via Warner Bros on an estimated $26.5m as all the releases combined for the worst Easter box office performance in 14 years.
Even though the latest film to emerge from The Conjuring Universe surpassed expectations and Captain Marvel became the seventh Marvel Cinematic Universe film to cross $400m, there was no getting away from the limp overall display.
Box office grossed $108.4m, down 2.4% on last weekend and down 21% on the Easter session in 2018, when Ready Player One dominated the North American box office.
New Line horror The Curse Of La Llorona opened top of North American box office via Warner Bros on an estimated $26.5m as all the releases combined for the worst Easter box office performance in 14 years.
Even though the latest film to emerge from The Conjuring Universe surpassed expectations and Captain Marvel became the seventh Marvel Cinematic Universe film to cross $400m, there was no getting away from the limp overall display.
Box office grossed $108.4m, down 2.4% on last weekend and down 21% on the Easter session in 2018, when Ready Player One dominated the North American box office.
- 4/22/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
In a rickety specialty market, A24’s Cannes 2018 film noir “Under the Silver Lake,” starring Andrew Garfield, delivered the best opener, beating out “Red Joan” (IFC), the latest from reliable Judi Dench, which opened far below her usual results. Several other indie titles (five from women directors) debuted to varying initial interest. And on its second weekend, moviegoers ignored “Teen Spirit” (Bleecker Street), starring Elle Fanning, as it moved into several hundred nearly empty venues.
On the other hand, many arthouse patrons checked out high-end Chinese drama “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (Kino Lorber), which includes a lengthy 3D sequence that impressed critics and audiences alike. The film is now playing Los Angeles as well as New York.
Opening
Under the Silver Lake (A24) – Metacritic: 59; Festivals include: Cannes 2018
$40,157 in 2 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $20,079
David Robert Mitchell’s long-delayed Los Angeles neo-noir opened in two top theaters in...
On the other hand, many arthouse patrons checked out high-end Chinese drama “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (Kino Lorber), which includes a lengthy 3D sequence that impressed critics and audiences alike. The film is now playing Los Angeles as well as New York.
Opening
Under the Silver Lake (A24) – Metacritic: 59; Festivals include: Cannes 2018
$40,157 in 2 theaters; PTA (per theater average): $20,079
David Robert Mitchell’s long-delayed Los Angeles neo-noir opened in two top theaters in...
- 4/21/2019
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Sundance darling documentary “Hail Satan?” was released just in time for Easter weekend, and it was able to avoid box-office damnation.
Magnolia released Penny Lane’s documentary at the IFC Center in New York this past Wednesday, with Los Angeles receiving the film at the ArcLight Hollywood and The Landmark on Friday. From those three screens, “Hail Satan?” earned a solid $25,700, for a per-screen average of $8,567. The film has earned critical acclaim for its surprising examination of The Satanic Temple, challenging preconceived notions about the organization and documenting the media stunts it performs in the name of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. It has a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Also Read: 'Captain Marvel' Gets 'Avengers'-Fueled Box Office Bump, Hits $400 Million Domestic
The top per-screen average of the weekend went to A24’s “Under the Silver Lake,” which earned $40,157 from two screens for an average...
Magnolia released Penny Lane’s documentary at the IFC Center in New York this past Wednesday, with Los Angeles receiving the film at the ArcLight Hollywood and The Landmark on Friday. From those three screens, “Hail Satan?” earned a solid $25,700, for a per-screen average of $8,567. The film has earned critical acclaim for its surprising examination of The Satanic Temple, challenging preconceived notions about the organization and documenting the media stunts it performs in the name of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. It has a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Also Read: 'Captain Marvel' Gets 'Avengers'-Fueled Box Office Bump, Hits $400 Million Domestic
The top per-screen average of the weekend went to A24’s “Under the Silver Lake,” which earned $40,157 from two screens for an average...
- 4/21/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
by Nathaniel R
Judi Dench in her newest Red Joan (2019) and in her very first Four in the Morning (1965)
With Red Joan just opened in limited release wherein Judi Dench is accused of being the Kgb's longest serving British spy and flashes back to the drama of her college years, let us all flash back to Judi's early years... well, all of her years rather. We gave Dame Judi Dench an unsatisfying episode of Posterized six years ago but it's time for the real deal...
Judi Dench in her newest Red Joan (2019) and in her very first Four in the Morning (1965)
With Red Joan just opened in limited release wherein Judi Dench is accused of being the Kgb's longest serving British spy and flashes back to the drama of her college years, let us all flash back to Judi's early years... well, all of her years rather. We gave Dame Judi Dench an unsatisfying episode of Posterized six years ago but it's time for the real deal...
- 4/20/2019
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
In certain circles (and in scads of UK tabloids), Melita Norwood was known as the “granny spy.” In 1994, the aging former British civil servant was outed as a former Kgb spy who passed nuclear secrets to the Ussr. That came as quite a shock to her family and friends, who were likely only somewhat soothed by the government’s decision not to prosecute her because of her age.
While Trevor Nunn’s “Red Joan” isn’t an exact biographical treatment of Norwood’s story (her Russian code name was Hola), the spy drama pulls generously from both her life and the Jennie Rooney novel inspired by it. The result is a strange, bifurcated tale of love and espionage, with Judi Dench stuck in a thankless role that does nothing to capitalize on her talents. The film is worse for it.
At least Sophie Cookson, who plays the younger version of Joan throughout the film,...
While Trevor Nunn’s “Red Joan” isn’t an exact biographical treatment of Norwood’s story (her Russian code name was Hola), the spy drama pulls generously from both her life and the Jennie Rooney novel inspired by it. The result is a strange, bifurcated tale of love and espionage, with Judi Dench stuck in a thankless role that does nothing to capitalize on her talents. The film is worse for it.
At least Sophie Cookson, who plays the younger version of Joan throughout the film,...
- 4/19/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
‘Greta’, ’Dragged Across Concrete’ among new titles.
Holdovers look set to dominate the UK box office this weekend, with Trevor Nunn’s spy drama Red Joan amongst the new openers.
Produced by David Parfitt’s Trademark Films, the Lionsgate-distributed feature is led by Judi Dench and 2014 Screen Star of Tomorrow Sophie Cookson, and based on the novel of the same name by Jennie Rooney. Cookson plays Joan Stanley, a Cambridge physics student in 1938 who falls for a young communist; while Dench takes up the character in 2000 when MI5 come to arrest her.
The film will be aiming to top...
Holdovers look set to dominate the UK box office this weekend, with Trevor Nunn’s spy drama Red Joan amongst the new openers.
Produced by David Parfitt’s Trademark Films, the Lionsgate-distributed feature is led by Judi Dench and 2014 Screen Star of Tomorrow Sophie Cookson, and based on the novel of the same name by Jennie Rooney. Cookson plays Joan Stanley, a Cambridge physics student in 1938 who falls for a young communist; while Dench takes up the character in 2000 when MI5 come to arrest her.
The film will be aiming to top...
- 4/19/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Our first shot of Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) in “Red Joan” is inauspicious enough. A librarian in a cozy cardigan, she’s pruning roses outside her small, neatly kept row house in a London suburb. But then there’s a knock at the door. And a charge of treason.
Unfortunately, director Trevor Nunn can’t match the rest of the film to this intriguing open, in part because he loses Dench for so much it.
Nunn — who usually focuses on the stage, alternating between Shakespearean adaptations and splashy productions like “Cats” and “Les Misérables” — does know how to craft a good-looking movie. He just doesn’t seem motivated to make a particularly challenging one. There’s a sense of missed opportunity hovering around the edges of this curious story, which ought to be tense and complex but rarely is.
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Unfortunately, director Trevor Nunn can’t match the rest of the film to this intriguing open, in part because he loses Dench for so much it.
Nunn — who usually focuses on the stage, alternating between Shakespearean adaptations and splashy productions like “Cats” and “Les Misérables” — does know how to craft a good-looking movie. He just doesn’t seem motivated to make a particularly challenging one. There’s a sense of missed opportunity hovering around the edges of this curious story, which ought to be tense and complex but rarely is.
Also Read: Kenneth Branagh's William Shakespeare Movie 'All Is True...
- 4/18/2019
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
After leaving the James Bond franchise in Skyfall, Judi Dench returns to the spy genre in her new movie Red Joan.
In a People exclusive clip of the thriller, the Oscar winner, 84, portrays the elderly Joan Standley, a widow living in retirement when she is arrested by the British Secret Service.
Suspected of providing classified information — including details on the building of an atomic bomb — to the Soviet government for decades, Joan is interrogated and relives the moments in her life that led her to commit treason.
Facing a group of reporters following her arrest, Joan defends herself by saying,...
In a People exclusive clip of the thriller, the Oscar winner, 84, portrays the elderly Joan Standley, a widow living in retirement when she is arrested by the British Secret Service.
Suspected of providing classified information — including details on the building of an atomic bomb — to the Soviet government for decades, Joan is interrogated and relives the moments in her life that led her to commit treason.
Facing a group of reporters following her arrest, Joan defends herself by saying,...
- 4/15/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Here’s your first look at Oscar-winner Judi Dench in Red Joan. The film is inspired by the True Story of the Granny Spy Melita Norwood.
Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace.
Based on a sensational true story, Red Joan vividly brings to life the conflicts—between patriotism and idealism, love and duty,...
Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace.
Based on a sensational true story, Red Joan vividly brings to life the conflicts—between patriotism and idealism, love and duty,...
- 3/7/2019
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
CBS Films has launched a trailer for the teen romance drama ‘Five Feet Apart’ starring ‘Split’s’ Hayley Lu Richardson.
Directed by Justin Baldoni from a script by ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ scribes Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the film stars Richardson and ‘Riverdale’s’ Cole Sprouse.
Also in trailers – Judi Dench revealed as former Spy in trailer for ‘Red Joan’
The film is released on March 22nd.
Five Feet Apart Synopsis
Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old: she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow Cf patient named Will Newman (Cole Sprouse).
There’s an instant flirtation, though...
Directed by Justin Baldoni from a script by ‘The Curse of La Llorona’ scribes Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis, the film stars Richardson and ‘Riverdale’s’ Cole Sprouse.
Also in trailers – Judi Dench revealed as former Spy in trailer for ‘Red Joan’
The film is released on March 22nd.
Five Feet Apart Synopsis
Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) is every bit a seventeen-year-old: she’s attached to her laptop and loves her best friends. But unlike most teenagers, she spends much of her time living in a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which is put to the test when she meets an impossibly charming fellow Cf patient named Will Newman (Cole Sprouse).
There’s an instant flirtation, though...
- 1/18/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"I was fighting for the living! I loved my country!" Lionsgate UK has debuted the first official trailer for a modern spy drama titled Red Joan, telling the true story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the Kgb's longest-serving British spy. This premiered at the Toronto and Zurich Film Festivals last year and is opening in the UK this spring, but still doesn't have a Us release yet. Judi Dench stars as "Red Joan", who first became a spy as a Cambridge physics student after falling for a young communist. Working at a top-secret nuclear facility during WWII, she realizes it's perhaps better for her to work as a mole in order to hopefully reach peace. That's a very intriguing premise, and I'm curious to see how the film portrays the challenging decisions she had to make. In addition to Dench, the cast stars Sophie Cookson as the younger version of Joan,...
- 1/16/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
A24 has debuted the U.S. trailer for High Life from filmmaker Claire Denis has launched featuring Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson.
Juliette Binoche plays the role of a mad scientist Robert Pattinson, André Benjamin, and Mia Goth also star as death-row inmates hurtling toward oblivion in Claire Denis’ astonishing English-language debut. Also in trailers – Judi Dench revealed as former Spy in trailer for ‘Red Joan’ The film is released in U.S. cinemas April 12th
High Life Synopsis
High Life is a staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, from visionary director Claire Denis.
The post Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson star in U.S. trailer for ‘High Life’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Juliette Binoche plays the role of a mad scientist Robert Pattinson, André Benjamin, and Mia Goth also star as death-row inmates hurtling toward oblivion in Claire Denis’ astonishing English-language debut. Also in trailers – Judi Dench revealed as former Spy in trailer for ‘Red Joan’ The film is released in U.S. cinemas April 12th
High Life Synopsis
High Life is a staggering and primal film about love and intimacy, suffused with anguished memories of a lost Earth, from visionary director Claire Denis.
The post Juliette Binoche and Robert Pattinson star in U.S. trailer for ‘High Life’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 1/16/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
By all accounts, Dame Judi Dench seems to be an upstanding member of society. Of course, she’s also an acting legend and one of the most recognizable names in Hollywood. But in the new film “Red Joan,” she plays a woman that is being accused of being a communist spy, and it’s a role that you probably wouldn’t expect the lovely Dench to play.
Read More: Judi Dench Briefly Enlivens The Dreary Spy-Jinks Of ‘Red Joan’ [San Sebastian Review]
In the first trailer for the film, we meet Joan Stanley, an older lady with a family and a humble life in the UK.
Continue reading ‘Red Joan’ Trailer: Dame Judi Dench/Sophie Cookson May Or May Not Be A Spy For Communist Russia at The Playlist.
Read More: Judi Dench Briefly Enlivens The Dreary Spy-Jinks Of ‘Red Joan’ [San Sebastian Review]
In the first trailer for the film, we meet Joan Stanley, an older lady with a family and a humble life in the UK.
Continue reading ‘Red Joan’ Trailer: Dame Judi Dench/Sophie Cookson May Or May Not Be A Spy For Communist Russia at The Playlist.
- 1/16/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Lionsgate has debuted the trailer for the adaptation of Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel ‘Red Joan’ starring Judi Dench.
Directed by Trevor Nunn, the cast is led by multi-award winning actress Judi Dench (Skyfall, Shakespeare in Love) and Sophie Cookson (Gypsy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) who star as the eponymous central character, Stephen Campbell Moore (The Child in Time, Goodbye Christopher Robin) as Max, a physics professor and Young Joan’s mentor, Tom Hughes (Victoria, London Town) as Leo, a young communist and Young Joan’s first love, Ben Miles (The Crown, Woman in Gold) as Joan’s son and lawyer Nick and Tereza Srbova as a fellow Cambridge University student and Young Joan’s confident.
Also in trailers – Tessa Thompson and Lily James star in trailer for ‘Little Woods’
The film is out in cinemas April 19th
Red Joan Synopsis
The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley (Dench) is living...
Directed by Trevor Nunn, the cast is led by multi-award winning actress Judi Dench (Skyfall, Shakespeare in Love) and Sophie Cookson (Gypsy, Kingsman: The Secret Service) who star as the eponymous central character, Stephen Campbell Moore (The Child in Time, Goodbye Christopher Robin) as Max, a physics professor and Young Joan’s mentor, Tom Hughes (Victoria, London Town) as Leo, a young communist and Young Joan’s first love, Ben Miles (The Crown, Woman in Gold) as Joan’s son and lawyer Nick and Tereza Srbova as a fellow Cambridge University student and Young Joan’s confident.
Also in trailers – Tessa Thompson and Lily James star in trailer for ‘Little Woods’
The film is out in cinemas April 19th
Red Joan Synopsis
The year is 2000 and Joan Stanley (Dench) is living...
- 1/16/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
What we have with “Red Joan,” British theater director Trevor Nunn‘s adaptation of the inspired-by-a-true-story novel by Jennie Rooney, is a rare case of the old-lady, modern-day framing device being more fun and compelling than the actual story, or as I like to call it, a reverse-“Titanic.” The events that loosely inspired the novel were most extraordinary for the way they ended: with an 87-year-old Norwood confessing to decades of treason to the assembled media on the front lawn of her suburban English home.
Continue reading Judi Dench Briefly Enlivens The Dreary Spy-Jinks Of ‘Red Joan’ [San Sebastian Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Judi Dench Briefly Enlivens The Dreary Spy-Jinks Of ‘Red Joan’ [San Sebastian Review] at The Playlist.
- 9/30/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Judi Dench receiving her Donostia from Alexander Payne Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival/Pablo Gomez Judi Dench defended caused a stir at the San Sebastian Film Festival yesterday, saying she believed it was wrong that her "good friend" Kevin Spacey had been cut out of a film.
The actress was in the Spanish resort to accept a lifetime achievement Donostia Award and attend a screening of her latest film Red Joan.
The star recalled working with Spacey - who has faced a number of sexual conduct allegations, which he denies - on The Shipping News in the wake of the death of her actor husband Michael Williams.
She said: "I remember, just after my husband died and I was in a very bad way indeed. I went to Nova Scotia to do shipping News with Kevin Spacey and Kevin was an inestimable comfort and never mentioned that he...
The actress was in the Spanish resort to accept a lifetime achievement Donostia Award and attend a screening of her latest film Red Joan.
The star recalled working with Spacey - who has faced a number of sexual conduct allegations, which he denies - on The Shipping News in the wake of the death of her actor husband Michael Williams.
She said: "I remember, just after my husband died and I was in a very bad way indeed. I went to Nova Scotia to do shipping News with Kevin Spacey and Kevin was an inestimable comfort and never mentioned that he...
- 9/26/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Judi Dench with her Donostia Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival/Pablo Gomez Actress Judi Dench was honoured at San Sebastian Film Festival last night with a Donostia Award for lifetime achievement.
The 83-year-old star - whose latest film Red Joan is screening at the festival - looked thrilled as she received a lengthy standing ovation at the city's Kursaal theatre from Alexander Payne. The director, who spoke in Spanish, said it was a "great honour" to be able to present the award.
Dench told the auditorium: "I must apologise to you that don't speak your language - we're very, very lazy in Britain. I came first to San Sebastian, I think, when I was 15. My parents brought me and we went to Biarritz and came to San Sebastian.
"Never for a scond did I realise at that time that I would, A. Be and actress, and B. That...
The 83-year-old star - whose latest film Red Joan is screening at the festival - looked thrilled as she received a lengthy standing ovation at the city's Kursaal theatre from Alexander Payne. The director, who spoke in Spanish, said it was a "great honour" to be able to present the award.
Dench told the auditorium: "I must apologise to you that don't speak your language - we're very, very lazy in Britain. I came first to San Sebastian, I think, when I was 15. My parents brought me and we went to Biarritz and came to San Sebastian.
"Never for a scond did I realise at that time that I would, A. Be and actress, and B. That...
- 9/26/2018
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Judi Dench spoke fondly of Kevin Spacey during a press conference at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (via Variety). The actress remembered performing with Spacey in Lasse Hallström’s 2001 drama “The Shipping News.” Dench had just lost her husband prior to production and she remembered Spacey being an “inestimable comfort” on set. Dench then spoke out against some of the fallout that Spacey faced after being accused by several men of sexual harassment and abuse.
“I can’t approve, in any way, of the fact that — whatever he has done — that you then start to cut him out of the films,” Dench said. “Are we to do what happened when he was replaced with Christopher Plummer? Are we to do that throughout history? Are we to go back throughout history and anyone who has misbehaved in any way, or who has broken the law, or who has committed some kind of offense,...
“I can’t approve, in any way, of the fact that — whatever he has done — that you then start to cut him out of the films,” Dench said. “Are we to do what happened when he was replaced with Christopher Plummer? Are we to do that throughout history? Are we to go back throughout history and anyone who has misbehaved in any way, or who has broken the law, or who has committed some kind of offense,...
- 9/25/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
While Judi Dench was in Spain to receive the San Sebastian Intl. Film Festival’s highest award for an individual and to promote her latest feature, “Red Joan,” the Dame didn’t shy away from bringing up a name that many now prefer to avoid.
Asked at a packed press conference on Tuesday if there were any particularly memorable moments in her career that she looked back on fondly, she recalled an experience just after her husband had died. “I went to do ‘The Shipping News’ with Kevin Spacey, and Kevin was an inestimable comfort and never mentioned he knew I was in a bad way,” Dench told reporters ahead of the evening ceremony at which she was to receive the prestigious Donostia Award. “He cheered me up and kept me going.”
In the current industry climate, it was obvious such a name drop wouldn’t go unnoticed, and it...
Asked at a packed press conference on Tuesday if there were any particularly memorable moments in her career that she looked back on fondly, she recalled an experience just after her husband had died. “I went to do ‘The Shipping News’ with Kevin Spacey, and Kevin was an inestimable comfort and never mentioned he knew I was in a bad way,” Dench told reporters ahead of the evening ceremony at which she was to receive the prestigious Donostia Award. “He cheered me up and kept me going.”
In the current industry climate, it was obvious such a name drop wouldn’t go unnoticed, and it...
- 9/25/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A consistently hilarious 90-minute chat that could have gone on for twice as long without ever feeling like too much of a good thing, “Tea With the Dames,” from director Roger Michell (“Notting Hill”), is as cozy and satisfying as its title suggests.
Simply, it consists of Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Eileen Atkins gathering together at Plowright’s home and talking, and the verbal volleying, interruptions, sentence-finishing, and anecdotal confirmation of a 60-plus year friendship between the four only lags when the participants themselves look into the camera to tell the filmmakers that they’re tired.
Bracketed by theater-based vocal warm-up exercises, with all four women rapidly repeating chants such as “red lorry yellow lorry” (and a closing-credits attempt at a tongue twister that won’t be spoiled here), the conversation follows a loosely chronological trajectory — Atkins shares stories of her earliest years...
Simply, it consists of Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright and Dame Eileen Atkins gathering together at Plowright’s home and talking, and the verbal volleying, interruptions, sentence-finishing, and anecdotal confirmation of a 60-plus year friendship between the four only lags when the participants themselves look into the camera to tell the filmmakers that they’re tired.
Bracketed by theater-based vocal warm-up exercises, with all four women rapidly repeating chants such as “red lorry yellow lorry” (and a closing-credits attempt at a tongue twister that won’t be spoiled here), the conversation follows a loosely chronological trajectory — Atkins shares stories of her earliest years...
- 9/21/2018
- by Dave White
- The Wrap
Kate Nash goes from British-model-turn-wrestler in “Glow” to pop-singing rebel in “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” a new film which will have its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival on Sept. 22.
“There’s moments when the universe really does swing you a certain way,” Nash says in the exclusive trailer, which you can watch above.
“This is a matter of life and death to me because making music keeps me alive,” she adds. “And being in the music industry has almost killed me. I’m not going to die for the sake of being a f–king pop star.”
Also Read: Judi Dench's Period Spy Thriller 'Red Joan' Picked Up by IFC Films
Nash is an English musician and actress, whose debut album “Made of Bricks” and her hit song “Foundations” rocketed her to international fame.
In “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” a platinum-selling pop...
“There’s moments when the universe really does swing you a certain way,” Nash says in the exclusive trailer, which you can watch above.
“This is a matter of life and death to me because making music keeps me alive,” she adds. “And being in the music industry has almost killed me. I’m not going to die for the sake of being a f–king pop star.”
Also Read: Judi Dench's Period Spy Thriller 'Red Joan' Picked Up by IFC Films
Nash is an English musician and actress, whose debut album “Made of Bricks” and her hit song “Foundations” rocketed her to international fame.
In “Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl,” a platinum-selling pop...
- 9/17/2018
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
IFC Films has acquired domestic rights to Judi Dench’s period spy thriller “Red Joan,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. IFC Films is planning to release “Red Joan” theatrically in 2019.
Loosely inspired by the biography of British Kgb agent Melita Norwood, the film had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday and is directed by Trevor Nunn. The film also stars Sophie Cookson. “Red Joan” was written by Lindsay Shapero (“Royal Wives at War”) based on Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name.
“Red Joan” features Dench as Joan Stanley, a retired scientist living in a London suburb who is arrested for crimes committed many years ago. We flash back to 1938, and young Joan (Sophie Cookson) is a new student at Cambridge, where a chance encounter with Sonya (Tereza Srbova), an alluring fellow student, draws her into a circle of politicized...
Loosely inspired by the biography of British Kgb agent Melita Norwood, the film had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday and is directed by Trevor Nunn. The film also stars Sophie Cookson. “Red Joan” was written by Lindsay Shapero (“Royal Wives at War”) based on Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name.
“Red Joan” features Dench as Joan Stanley, a retired scientist living in a London suburb who is arrested for crimes committed many years ago. We flash back to 1938, and young Joan (Sophie Cookson) is a new student at Cambridge, where a chance encounter with Sonya (Tereza Srbova), an alluring fellow student, draws her into a circle of politicized...
- 9/14/2018
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
IFC Films has scooped up the U.S. rights to Trevor Nunn’s period spy thriller “Red Joan” with Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson, which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Thursday.
Represented in international markets by Embankment Films, “Red Joan” explores the complex persona and legacy of Joan Stanley, a seemingly demure physicist who was also a long-serving British spy for the Kgb. “Red Joan” was written by Lindsay Shapero (“Royal Wives at War”) based on Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name.
“Red Joan” stars Dench as Joan Stanley, a retired scientist living in a London suburb who gets arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. We flash back to 1938, and young Joan (Cookson) is a new physics student at Cambridge, where she is drawn into a circle of pro-ussr politicized youths and falls for a young communist,...
Represented in international markets by Embankment Films, “Red Joan” explores the complex persona and legacy of Joan Stanley, a seemingly demure physicist who was also a long-serving British spy for the Kgb. “Red Joan” was written by Lindsay Shapero (“Royal Wives at War”) based on Jennie Rooney’s best-selling novel of the same name.
“Red Joan” stars Dench as Joan Stanley, a retired scientist living in a London suburb who gets arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. We flash back to 1938, and young Joan (Cookson) is a new physics student at Cambridge, where she is drawn into a circle of pro-ussr politicized youths and falls for a young communist,...
- 9/14/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
IFC Films has acquired U.S. rights to Trevor Nunn’s Red Joan, starring Judi Dench, which it plans to release theatrically in 2019.
Based on the novel of the same name by Jennie Rooney and adapted for the screen by Lindsay Shapero, the film focuses on a woman, living in retirement, who is suddenly arrested by MI5 and accused of spying for Russia during World War II. Sophie Cookson plays the younger version of Dench’s character, a Cambridge physics student who goes to work in a top-secret nuclear research facility.
Red Joan, which had its world premiere Thursday at the ...
Based on the novel of the same name by Jennie Rooney and adapted for the screen by Lindsay Shapero, the film focuses on a woman, living in retirement, who is suddenly arrested by MI5 and accused of spying for Russia during World War II. Sophie Cookson plays the younger version of Dench’s character, a Cambridge physics student who goes to work in a top-secret nuclear research facility.
Red Joan, which had its world premiere Thursday at the ...
- 9/14/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Dench is a pensioner pulled up for her wartime sympathies in a stodgy espionage drama that can’t disguise its mediocrity
“No one suspects us because we’re women,” smiles one feminine conspirator to another in Trevor Nunn’s wartime spy drama Red Joan. Never mind all the espionage and atomic physics, this movie is really about the dangers of underestimating women. Our Joan is patronised in two different eras of her life, both as the pensioner charged with treason and as a demure Cambridge scientist in the 1940s, who slips nuclear secrets to the Soviets on the sly.
The older Joan, played all too briefly by Judi Dench, is a retired and softly spoken librarian apparently engrossed in watercolours and gardening. Her friends, neighbours and even her adult sonare flabbergasted when the police come knocking. Surely the old dear can’t have snow on her boots? These dopes haven...
“No one suspects us because we’re women,” smiles one feminine conspirator to another in Trevor Nunn’s wartime spy drama Red Joan. Never mind all the espionage and atomic physics, this movie is really about the dangers of underestimating women. Our Joan is patronised in two different eras of her life, both as the pensioner charged with treason and as a demure Cambridge scientist in the 1940s, who slips nuclear secrets to the Soviets on the sly.
The older Joan, played all too briefly by Judi Dench, is a retired and softly spoken librarian apparently engrossed in watercolours and gardening. Her friends, neighbours and even her adult sonare flabbergasted when the police come knocking. Surely the old dear can’t have snow on her boots? These dopes haven...
- 9/12/2018
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
A selection of the British movies screening at the Toronto Film Festival:
“Outlaw King”
Director: David Mackenzie
Section: Gala Presentations
Logline: Forced into exile by the English, Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) fights to reclaim
the Scottish throne.
“Widows”
Director: Steve McQueen
Section: Gala Presentations
Logline: Crime thriller about four women left in the lurch when their criminal husbands are killed.
“Colette” (U.K.)
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Section: Special Presentations
Logline: Keira Knightley stars in historical drama about the eponymous French novelist.
“Driven”
Director: Nick Hamm
Section: Special Presentations
Logline: Lee Pace and Jason Sudeikis star in this story of the rise and fall of automotive maverick John DeLorean.
“Red Joan” (U.K.)
Director: Trevor Nunn
Section: Special Presentations
Logline: Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson take on the complex persona of a seemingly demure physicist who is a British spy for the Kgb.
“Teen Spirit” (U.K.)
Director: Max Minghella...
“Outlaw King”
Director: David Mackenzie
Section: Gala Presentations
Logline: Forced into exile by the English, Robert the Bruce (Chris Pine) fights to reclaim
the Scottish throne.
“Widows”
Director: Steve McQueen
Section: Gala Presentations
Logline: Crime thriller about four women left in the lurch when their criminal husbands are killed.
“Colette” (U.K.)
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Section: Special Presentations
Logline: Keira Knightley stars in historical drama about the eponymous French novelist.
“Driven”
Director: Nick Hamm
Section: Special Presentations
Logline: Lee Pace and Jason Sudeikis star in this story of the rise and fall of automotive maverick John DeLorean.
“Red Joan” (U.K.)
Director: Trevor Nunn
Section: Special Presentations
Logline: Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson take on the complex persona of a seemingly demure physicist who is a British spy for the Kgb.
“Teen Spirit” (U.K.)
Director: Max Minghella...
- 9/11/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The creatively rich, diverse lineup of British films at the Toronto Film Festival — headlined by David Mackenzie’s historical epic “Outlaw King,” Wash Westmoreland’s costume drama “Colette” and Steve McQueen’s crime thriller “Widows,” among others — suggests that the ambitions of the country’s film folks remain high, even while the challenges they face continue to mount.
In many ways “Widows” is an example of what is right about the British scene. The movie offered creative progression for the director, both in terms of scale and a move into a new area, a U.S.-set genre pic. This was, in large part, made possible through the first-look deal the film’s U.K. production company, SeeSaw Films, has with New Regency, which allowed it to secure the rights to the source material — Lynda La Plante’s 1983 TV series of the same name.
Not many U.K. producers have such deep-pocketed backers,...
In many ways “Widows” is an example of what is right about the British scene. The movie offered creative progression for the director, both in terms of scale and a move into a new area, a U.S.-set genre pic. This was, in large part, made possible through the first-look deal the film’s U.K. production company, SeeSaw Films, has with New Regency, which allowed it to secure the rights to the source material — Lynda La Plante’s 1983 TV series of the same name.
Not many U.K. producers have such deep-pocketed backers,...
- 9/11/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Dench will also present Trevor Nunn’s ‘Red Joan’ at the festival.
The 14th Zurich Film Festival (September 27-October 7) will present Judi Dench with its Golden Icon honourary award on Wednesday October 3, as part of this year’s event.
The award is given ‘in appreciation of the lifetime achievements of an actor or actress’.
Dench will attend the festival to receive the award, and present a screening of her latest film Red Joan alongside co-star Sophie Cookson.
Cookson plays Joan Stanley, a Cambridge physics student in 1938 who falls for a young communist, while Dench takes up the character in 2000 as...
The 14th Zurich Film Festival (September 27-October 7) will present Judi Dench with its Golden Icon honourary award on Wednesday October 3, as part of this year’s event.
The award is given ‘in appreciation of the lifetime achievements of an actor or actress’.
Dench will attend the festival to receive the award, and present a screening of her latest film Red Joan alongside co-star Sophie Cookson.
Cookson plays Joan Stanley, a Cambridge physics student in 1938 who falls for a young communist, while Dench takes up the character in 2000 as...
- 9/10/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Judi Dench will be honored with the Golden Icon award at the Zurich Film Festival. The Oscar-winning actress will attend the festival to collect the award and to present her new movie, “Red Joan.”
A longstanding star of stage and screen, Dench has appeared in such films as “Victoria & Abdul,” “Philomena” and “Mrs Brown.” She also played M in several Bond films.
In Trevor Nunn’s “Red Joan,” she plays Joan Stanley, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement when she’s arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. Sophie Cookson (“Kingsman”) plays the young Joan.
Dench, who recently wrapped on Disney’s “Artemis Fowl,” won an Oscar and a BAFTA for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in “Shakespeare in Love.”
“With an Academy Award and six further Academy Award nominations to her name, along with numerous other awards, Judi is a true icon,” Zurich...
A longstanding star of stage and screen, Dench has appeared in such films as “Victoria & Abdul,” “Philomena” and “Mrs Brown.” She also played M in several Bond films.
In Trevor Nunn’s “Red Joan,” she plays Joan Stanley, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement when she’s arrested by MI5 and accused of providing intelligence to Communist Russia. Sophie Cookson (“Kingsman”) plays the young Joan.
Dench, who recently wrapped on Disney’s “Artemis Fowl,” won an Oscar and a BAFTA for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in “Shakespeare in Love.”
“With an Academy Award and six further Academy Award nominations to her name, along with numerous other awards, Judi is a true icon,” Zurich...
- 9/10/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench will be honored this year with the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich International Film Festival.
Dench will receive the lifetime achievement honor in Zurich on Oct. 3. The British actress will also present her latest drama, Red Joan.
In the feature, from director Trevor Nunn, Dench plays a Russian spy who spent decades undercover in England. The plot is inspired by the true story of British civil servant Melita Norwood, who spent 40 years as an undercover Kgb agent. Sophie Cookson, who plays the younger version of Dench's character, will also present Red Joan in ...
Dench will receive the lifetime achievement honor in Zurich on Oct. 3. The British actress will also present her latest drama, Red Joan.
In the feature, from director Trevor Nunn, Dench plays a Russian spy who spent decades undercover in England. The plot is inspired by the true story of British civil servant Melita Norwood, who spent 40 years as an undercover Kgb agent. Sophie Cookson, who plays the younger version of Dench's character, will also present Red Joan in ...
- 9/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench will be honored this year with the Golden Icon Award at the Zurich International Film Festival.
Dench will receive the lifetime achievement honor in Zurich on Oct. 3. The British actress will also present her latest drama, Red Joan.
In the feature, from director Trevor Nunn, Dench plays a Russian spy who spent decades undercover in England. The plot is inspired by the true story of British civil servant Melita Norwood, who spent 40 years as an undercover Kgb agent. Sophie Cookson, who plays the younger version of Dench's character, will also present Red Joan in ...
Dench will receive the lifetime achievement honor in Zurich on Oct. 3. The British actress will also present her latest drama, Red Joan.
In the feature, from director Trevor Nunn, Dench plays a Russian spy who spent decades undercover in England. The plot is inspired by the true story of British civil servant Melita Norwood, who spent 40 years as an undercover Kgb agent. Sophie Cookson, who plays the younger version of Dench's character, will also present Red Joan in ...
- 9/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A good old-fashioned British spy thriller in the scientific mold of Enigma, with a bewitching female heroine (or anti-heroine, if you will) played by the excellent actresses Judi Dench and (as her younger self) Sophie Cookson, Red Joan revisits the incredible real-life spy case of Melita Norwood. It is directed with a strong sense for character by Trevor Nunn, the former director of the Royal Shakespeare Co. whose rare excursions into film include woman-centered works like Hedda, Lady Jane and Twelfth Night: Or What You Will. After its Toronto premiere, this well-rounded piece has the cards in hand to find a happy niche with ...
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