Sales outfit has been at EFM with Submergence. Embankment Films has appointed Max Pirkis as head of acquisitions and distribution with immediate effect. Pirkis, who joined the London-based sales firm in 2013, now heads up and manages Embankment’s acquisitions slate while also co-ordinating international delivery and distribution...
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...
Embankment sells thriller, the latest movie from Spain’s auteur genre school of filmmaking Rachel Nichols, who starred in “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and 2011’s “Conan the Barbarian,” is attached to topline psychological thriller “Inside,” from director Miguel Angel Vivas, and Spain’s latest English-language genre...
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...
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...