Katharine Hepburn lived her 96 years with such a thigh-slapping can-do relish she was probably as infuriating to live with as she was captivating to watch. You sometimes sensed in Lorna Tucker’s film Katharine Hepburn: Call Me Kate (Sky Arts/Now) that she was also quite...
Following the success of “Purple Hearts,” Embankment will launch global pre-sales of new romantic movie, “The Upside of Falling Down,” at the Cannes film market. The film is directed by Oran Zegman (“Honor Society”) and stars Antonia Gentry from worldwide hit “Ginny & Georgia” alongside Calam...
The opening shot of this long-awaited literary adaptation is as perfectly chosen, and as filled with symbolic power, as the great opening images of such Hollywood masterpieces as The Searchers (the opened door), Raging Bull (slow-mo De Niro) and Forrest Gump (the feather). It's the...
Holdovers continued to dominate the UK-Ireland box office over the bank holiday weekend, with eOne’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry the only new release, and only non-franchise title, to find a spot in the top five. Universal’s The Super Mario Bros Movie took £3.1m in...
Mild-mannered pensioner Harold Fry (Jim Broadbent) takes a stroll to the postbox one bright Devon morning. But for some reason he can’t bring himself to post the letter. It’s just a few stunted lines on headed notepaper, a reply to his old friend and former...
The U.K.’s Embankment Films has made four key hires to lead its unscripted division. Nick Taussig and Malcolm Neaum both join as producer, unscripted; Sophie Harmer as head of production, unscripted; and Henry Farrington as head researcher. BAFTA and Grierson nominated feature documentary producer Taussig (“McQueen,” “Audrey,”...
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...
“Wuthering Heights” was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. “Jane...
Frances O’Connor’s intimate film Emily tells the story of author Emily Brontë, played by rising actress Emma Mackey, and how she pushed back against society. Frances O’Connor’s Emily, her directorial debut, takes a familiar literary biography and garnishes it with the right kind of creative liberties...
The first-time writer-director shines a light on the troubled life of the ‘Wuthering Heights’ scribe. There’s a very good chance that you’ve crossed paths with the literary legends that are the Brontë sisters at some point during your academic career. Their work is synonymous with required...
She brings the prime minister to flinty, vibrant life at a time when Israel faced an existential threat. In “Golda,” Helen Mirren, acting with deft skill and control beneath one of those startling transformative prosthetic makeup jobs, portrays Golda Meir during the three-week cataclysm of the...
Only two minutes into "Emily," a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë's life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy freshly bound volumes of "Wuthering Heights," her only novel and life's achievement. "By Emily Brontë," the cover says. But Brontë fans and even some...