Judy Davis has joined Kate Winslet on The Dressmaker, which has received backing from Screen Australia and is Jocelyn Moorhouse’s first film since 1997. The board of Screen Australia has approved financing of The Dressmaker, which marks the return of Jocelyn Moorhouse to the director’s chair for...
Films from Roger Michell and Bertrand Tavernier as well as Jonathan Teplitzky’s The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, among first wave of titles. The 61st San Sebastian Film Festival has revealed the first six titles to compete in its Official Selection. They include Le...
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and Wikileaks drama The Fifth Estate are among a raft of world premieres set for the 38th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Toronto will open on September 5 with Bill Condon’s The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder...
The royal princes William and Harry have had all but one significant scene of them cut out of Diana, a new film about their late mother’s torrid romance with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. The princes, played by actors Laurence Belcher (William) and Harry Holland (Harry), are...
The trademark late cascade of US deals emerged on Thursday [23] as Cannes neared the finish line, led by eOne’s acquisition of US rights to hot market title Diana. eOne concluded the Diana deal with Embankment Films and Ecosse Films and has earmarked a release later...
EXCLUSIVE: UK sci-fi Our Robot Overlords nabs closing finance from Pinewood Pictures, new financier Umbra Telegraph. Ambitious UK sci-fi Our Robot Overlords, which will star Sir Ben Kingsley, Gillian Anderson [pictured], Callan McAuliffe (The Great Gatsby) and Ella Hunt (Les Miserables), has corralled closing finance from a...
Embankment Films is handling international sales and co-represent the U.S. with CAA. The company will commence sales to international distributors at Cannes. Winslet plays Tilly, an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused...
Filming underway on UK sci-fi starring Gillian Anderson, Sir Ben Kingsley and Callan McAuliffe. Filming has begun in Northern Ireland and Isle of Man on UK sci-fi Our Robot Overlords, starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson. The sci-fi thriller, about a gang of children battling an...
EXCLUSIVE: Winslet to lead Jocelyn Moorhouse’s period romance set to shoot in autumn, Embankment to launch sales in Cannes. Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1950’s-set revenge-romance The Dressmaker. Winslet will play Tilly, an avenging angel who returns home to the remote Australian...
EXCLUSIVE: Informant Media’s thriller adds cast, director ahead of Cannes. Embankment to sell. Informant Media’s heist-thriller about the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken is set to star Anthony Hopkins as the kidnapped brewing magnate and will be directed by Millennium series director Daniel Alfredson. Tim Haslam and Hugo...
EXCLUSIVE: Warm Bodies star signs on for Rupert Wyatt’s adaptation of best-selling First World War love-story; Embankment handles sales. In-demand UK actor Nicholas Hoult hassigned on to play the lead in writer-director Rupert Wyatt’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ best-selling First World War novel Birdsong. Warm Bodies star Hoult...
X Files star attached to Our Robot Overlords as UK sales outfit Embankment Films builds on prestige slate ahead of the EFM. UK sales outfit Embankment Films continues to attract high level projects to its year-old slate, with new additions including Rupert Wyatt’s adaptation of Sebastian...