★★★★☆ She wowed in Broadchurch. She was The Queen in The Crown. She won an Oscar for The Favourite. And she’s also snagged a Bafta, an Emmy and three Golden Globes. Is there anything that Olivia Colman cannot do? Well, a passable Irish accent certainly seems...
The line-up of the 79th Venice Film Festival (August 31-September 10) has been announced by festival president Roberto Cicutto and artistic director Alberto Barbera. The heavyweight competition line-up includes films by Alejandro G. Inarritu, Joanna Hogg, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Darren Aronofsky, Andrew Dominik, Luca Guadagnino, Martin McDonagh...
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...
Bleecker Street has bought the U.S. rights for writer-director Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut, “Emily,” which tells the story of author Emily Brontë’s real-life romance in the lead up to her seminal novel, “Wuthering Heights.” Bleecker Street is planning a 2023 theatrical release Stateside, while Warner Bros. will...
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Sarah Paulson (12 Years a Slave), Gotham Award winner Anthony Mackie (Captain America), BAFTA winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), and triple Emmy winner Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black) will star in feature Clybourne Park, which is a hot package launching for the Cannes market. Bruce Norris’ adaptation of his incendiary Pulitzer-, Tony- and...
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...
EXCLUSIVE: UK sales and production firm Embankment (The Father, The Wife) is teaming up with veteran UK producer Kevin Loader (The Death Of Stalin, The Lady In The Van) to create new label Free Range Entertainment. The key shareholders in the company are Embankment’s Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar and Free Range’s...
We are about to be swamped by tributes for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee but surely none will capture the resilience, tedium and absurdity of her 70 years on the throne as wittily as Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s). Roger Michell’s feature-length documentary, the last film...
Moment the Queen gently ticked off a two-year-old Eugenie for stepping on her toes...
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...
EXCLUSIVE: Roger Michell’s last movie, Elizabeth, about British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, has sold around the world for Embankment Films. Following the pre-sales we revealed with A24 for the U.S. and Signature for the UK, pacts have also been set in in France (Originals Factory), Germany (Square One), Benelux (The...
EXCLUSIVE: Roger Michell’s last movie, the documentary Elizabeth about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, has been picked up by Signature Entertainment and set for a Friday 3 June theatrical release to coincide with the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee. The late British filmmaker, known for movies including Notting Hill, The Duke, Hyde Park On Hudson and My...