Picturehouse Entertainment has finalised a deal at the American Film Market (AFM) with Embankment Films for UK rights to Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce drama The Wife. Sony Pictures Classics picked the film up for North America following its well-received world premiere in Toronto. Directed by Björn...
EXCLUSIVE: Breathe and Submergence seller appoints former Celsius and Independent executive. UK sales outfit Embankment Films has appointed former Celsius and Independent executive Calum Gray as head of sales with immediate effect. At Embankment Gray will work on a slate including Andrew Garfield drama Breathe, James McAvoy...
Andy Serkis’ Breathe, Baltasar Kormakur’s Adrift among lineup; UK division will also release Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. STX Entertainment has revealed the first films to be released in the UK through its growing international division STXfilms. Under the stewardship of David Kosse, president of STXinternational, the company...
Director, cast join crime-thriller written by True Detective creator. Ben Foster (Hell or High Water) and Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon) are to star in crime-thriller Galveston which will be directed by Inglorious Basterds star Mélanie Laurent. Shoot is due to get underway on January 10, 2017, on...
Shoot due to get underway on October 31; Embankment handles sales. Principal photography on The Wife, set to star Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater, is due to get underway on 31 October, 2016, on location across Scotland and Stockholm, for seven weeks. Annie Starke (Albert...
Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Pablo Larrain’s Jackie, Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge and Michael Fassbender romanceThe Light Between Oceans among line-up. SCROLL DOWN FOR LINE-UP The 73rd Venice Film Festival (Aug 31 - Sept 10) has unveiled the 55 features – mixing star vehicles and international auteurs –...
EXCLUSIVE: In The Loop and Coriolanus producers team with Embankment Films. Producers Kevin Loader (The Lady in the Van, In The Loop) and Julia Taylor-Stanley (Coriolanus) have joined forces with Embankment Films to tell the story behind the iconic Ferrari motor racing team of the late 1950s. Ferrari:...
EXCLUSIVE: Embankment Films boards adaptation of post-apocalyptic book series ‘Forest Of Hands And Teeth’. Embankment Films has signed on to sell Doug Liman-produced YA thriller The Forest Of Hands And Teeth, which will star Game Of Thrones’ Maisie Williams. The film is based on the first in...
EXCLUSIVE: Mad Men and Spotlight star to play opposite Brian Cox in Churchill, one of five films in production for Embankment Films. Mad Men and Spotlight star John Slattery will play US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower in upcoming biopic Churchill, which will star Brian Cox...
EXCLUSIVE: Mad Men and Spotlight star to play opposite Brian Cox in Churchill, one of five films in production for Embankment Films. Mad Men and Spotlight star John Slattery will play US Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower in upcoming biopic Churchill, which will star Brian Cox...
EXCLUSIVE: Stanley Tucci, Miranda Richardson join drama Churchill starring Brian Cox. Upcoming Winston Churchill biopic Churchill, starring Brian Cox as the British wartime leader, has attached Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) as director. Churchill will also star Miranda Richardson (Testament Of Youth) as the Prime Minister’s wife...
Sales outfit to introduce buyers to Submergence at the EFM. X-Men star James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander, the Oscar-nominated star of The Danish Girl, have been confirmed to topline love story Submergence from director Wim Wenders (Wings Of Desire). The film, which is due to shoot this March...