Embankment boards Wim Wenders' 'Submergence' as international sales agent. One of the prestige titles making its bow at next month's European Film Market in Berlin has taken shape. Embankment Pictures has boarded Submergence, Wim Wenders' next narrative project, which stars current Hollywood "It" girl and Oscar-nominee Alicia...
U.K. sales banner Embankment has acquired Wim Wenders’ “Submergence,” an epic love story with Oscar-nominated Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) and James McAvoy (“X-Men”) in the run up to Berlin Film Festival. One of the most buzzed-about projects to be pitched at next month’s European Film...
Embankment Films has boarded the Wim Wenders-directed love story Submergencestarring Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy. Pitched as an epic love story,Submergence is produced by Cameron Lamb’s Lila 9th Productions, together with Backup Media and Neue Road Movies and starts shooting in March 2016 throughout Spain, Germany...
“Mad Max: Fury Road” and “The Dressmaker” topped the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts awards. The AACTA awards were presented Wednesday night at the Star Event Centre in Sydney. Red Carpet celebrities included George Miller, Hugo Weaving, Anthony LaPaglia, Rachael Griffiths and Ryan Corr. Cate Blanchett...
Rating: Kate Winslet as the couturier Myrtle and Liam Hemsworth as Teddy in The Dressmaker A dusty onehorse town in the Australian outback. A mysterious stranger in a Dior inspired frock whooshes into town. She is played by Kate Winslet with Gildalength satin gloves, blood red...
Rating: Quirky Kate will have you in stitches: Winslet is stunning as a dressmaker bent on revenge in this black comedy An enigmatic outsider rides into a remote one-street town, seeking vengeance. It sounds like a John Ford Western, starring John Wayne or Gary Cooper. But Western...
The Dressmaker fills cinemas for a second $3m+ weekend The total take of the top 20 movies was again just under $10m for what should be the last time for a few weeks. The new Bond movie Spectre opens next weekend and then The Hunger Games:...
EXCLUSIVE: Brian Welsh to direct drama about lead up to D-Day landing. Brian Cox (The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is newly attached to star in Churchill, a UK drama about the build up to the D-Day landings. Brian Welsh, director of BIFA-winning feature In...
The Kate Winslet-starring film’s $2.8m opening dethroned The Martian, which had remained top of the pile for four weeks. The Dressmaker has opened with an impressive $2.8m across Australia and New Zealand ($2.6m at the former, $0.2 at the latter), prompting the film’s team to call...
Bond Brings Brawn But Female-Driven Pics Sew Girl Power – Intl B.O. Postmortem While Spectre is eyeing global domination in the next frame after grossing a spectacular $80.1M in just six territories this session, there’s a sorority of female-driven films that have been performing, and should continue...
THE DRESSMAKER stitched up the No 1 spot at the Australian box office over the weekend ahead of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi blockbuster The Martian and Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies. Australian director Jocelyn Moorhouse’s gothic revenge comedy, starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam...
EXCLUSIVE: Creatives behind Buried,[REC] (pictured) and Kidnapped join for English-language thriller. [REC] writers Jaume Balagueró and Manu Diez,Kidnapped director Miguel Vivas and producers Adrián Guerra and Núria Valls of Nostromo Pictures (Buried, Red Lights) are joining forces on thriller Inside. Looking to replicate the commercial success of...