While at the AFM, London-based Embankment Films is kicking off sales on Nick Hamm’s “Driven,” an 1970s action-packed film with Jason Sudeikis and Lee Pace that wrapped shooting Nov. 2. The film is inspired by the true story of an FBI operation that was conceived to...
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Griffiths is getting ready to jump into the feature directing saddle, taking on horse-racing drama Ride Like A Girl. With shooting set to begin in March, Village Roadshow has boarded Australian rights. In the aspirational drama, Teresa Palmer is playing Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the prestigious...
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...
Bleecker Street Andrew Garfield & Claire Foy Deliver Two Of The Year’s Best Performances In Moving True Story Andy Serkis might be best known as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboot films or Gollum in the Lord of the Rings franchise, but he’s about to surprise the world with his ability...
Surprisingly entertaining viewing in its own very British fashion Andrew Garfield stars as an upper-class Englishman with polio who is given weeks to live in the directorial debut of actor Andy Serkis The film is as much about Cavendish’s wife Diana (Claire Foy on leave from ‘The Crown’)...
A priest (Guy Pearce) shows up in a frontier town to the intense distress of one of its inhabitants, a mute midwife (Dakota Fanning) living there with her family. She knows him, and is terrified, and he soon demonstrates why. What’s in their shared past that...
The widely respected veteran could garner her seventh Oscar nom — and maybe even a long-overdue win — if a capable distributor picks up her latest film and releases it before the end of the year. Three years ago, during the latter days of the annual Toronto...
‘Breathe’s Andrew Garfield on “How We Can Create Lives Of Meaning And Joy” Amidst Tragedy —Toronto Studio Chris Chapman A pioneer in the field of computer-generated performances with such films as Lord of the Rings (portraying Gollum) and King Kong—in which he plays Kong himself—Andy Serkis found his directorial breakthrough in The Jungle...
As the apparently-perfect wife of a Nobel prize-winning writer, Close gives arguably her best ever performance in an adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel. “There’s nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt.” The speaker is Joan Castleman, the charming, enigmatically discreet and supportive...
Simon Baker’s directorial debut is an effectionate portrayal of boyhood in 1970s Australia Dir/scr. Simon Baker. Australia. 2017. 115mins. It’s with a soulful splash in coming-of-age waters that Simon Baker makes his feature directorial debut, and his return to the Australian industry after a near two-decade absence....
James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander play separated lovers in Wim Wenders' romance, his most broadly accessible fiction film in ages. A study of longing in conditions both desperate and profound, Wim Wenders' Submergence follows lovers who, having known each other just a day or three, must endure a...
Hatfield House in Hertfordshire has stood in for Wayne Manor (Batman) and Lara Croft’s ancestral pile (Tomb Raider), as well as being the childhood home of Elizabeth I. Today, however, the grand Jacobean manor has been transformed into both a 1970s Oxford hospital car park and...