Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all rights in the US, Latin America and across south-east Asia and eastern Europe to The Miracle Club, directed by Irish filmmaker Thaddeus O’Sullivan, starring Laura Linney, Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Agnes O’Casey. The UK’s Embankment Films is handling...
Frances O’Connor’s Emily proved the big hit of the 33rd edition of Dinard Film Festival, the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema, for French audiences that closed on October 2. Emily won the Golden Hitchcock for best film, with Emma Mackey receiving the...
UK sales agent Embankment Films has appointed HanWay Films’ Mark Lane as its new head of worldwide sales and distribution, taking over from Calum Gray. Lane has joined after 13 years at UK sales agent HanWay Films, where he was director of sales. Gray is leaving Embankment...
UK sales outfit Embankment has unveiled a first look at Lone Scherfig’s The Movie Teller. Screen can exclusively reveal the image, which features newcomer Alondra Valenzuela with Bérénice Bejo and Antonio de la Torre. The Spanish-language film is set in a 1960s mining community in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where it is...
UK sales outfit Embankment has released a first-look image of Talia Ryder and Diane Krüger in James Napier Robertson’s Joika, as production gets underway in Poland. The New Zealand-Poland co-production is based on the true story of American ballerina Joy Womack, who is also choreographing the film’s...
Shooting has begun on location in County Dublin in Ireland on Uncle Silas, an adaptation of J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 1864 gothic horror novel of the same name. The film is being directed by Lisa Mulcahy. Ruth Carter and Blue Ink Films are producing the feature, which...
Spanish director David Pujol’s feature debut has commenced shooting in Spain, with UK sales outfit Embankment representing global sales and serving as executive producer. The film is produced by FishCorb Films’ Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher, plus Arlong Productions’ David Ortiz, with Pujol also writing the...
Production is underway on The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, with shooting beginning on location in the UK on Monday (September 27), in Devon. Linda Bassett, star of East Is East and Kinky Boots, has joined the previously announced cast of Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton. The high-budget independent feature is the first...