Spanish director David Pujol’s feature debut has commenced shooting in Spain, with UK sales outfit Embankment representing global sales and serving as executive producer. The film is produced by FishCorb Films’ Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher, plus Arlong Productions’ David Ortiz, with Pujol also writing the...
Embankment and Cross City have sold out on The Son, Florian Zeller’s second feature following the Oscar winning The Father. Joining the previously announced deal with Sony Pictures Classics for the U.S., China and multiple international territories, are: UK, Benelux, Italy, Scandinavia & Iceland (STX), Canada...
Production is underway on The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, with shooting beginning on location in the UK on Monday (September 27), in Devon. Linda Bassett, star of East Is East and Kinky Boots, has joined the previously announced cast of Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton. The high-budget independent feature is the first...
Diane Kruger will star alongside Talia Ryder (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) in Joika, writer-director James Napier Robertson’s film about elite American ballet dancer Joy Womack. Ryder is playing Womack (Thomasin McKenzie was previously cast in the role). Kruger will play her tough but inspirational mentor Volkova,...
He's set to win The Legend Award at Wednesday's GQ Men Of The Year Awards. And speaking to the magazine in the run-up to the ceremony, Sir Anthony Hopkins has urged budding actors 'not to waste their money' on acting school. The Oscar-winning star, 83, insisted: 'Don't waste your...
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has scooped up global rights to the Alloy Entertainment Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum-directed romance feature Purple Hearts which will begin shooting in California later this summer with Nicholas Galitzine and Sofia Carson starring. Adapted from Tess Wakefield’s novel of the same name by Tony Award-nominee Kyle Jarrow (Valor) and Liz Garcia (The Lifeguard), Purple Hearts follows an...
Bleecker Street and ShivHans have secured U.S. rights to “Golda,” a biopic about Israel’s only female prime minister, Golda Meir. The film stars Helen Mirren, an expert at revealing the inner lives of public figures in films like “The Queen.” It will be directed by Guy Nattiv,...
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” which will star Vanessa Kirby, Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman, Variety has learned. SPC, which previously worked with Zeller on “The Father,” acquired rights for North America and...
Sales and marketing manager, Embankment Films Graduated from Birkbeck, University of London with a BA in arts and humanities in 2016 Joined Embankment in 2017 through the Film Distributors’ Association trainee scheme “I always knew I wanted to work in film and I stumbled rather luckily...
Vertigo Releasing has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Irish comedy Joyride, starring Olivia Colman, from UK sales outfit Embankment Films. Directed by Emer Reynolds, filming is set to begin in County Kerry, Ireland next week and Vertigo is planning a theatrical release in 2022. Sony Pictures...
Vanessa Kirby has joined the cast of “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” Variety has learned. Kirby, who was Oscar-nominated for “Pieces of a Woman,” will star in the film opposite Laura Dern and Hugh Jackman. As with “The Father,” “The Son” was...
Frances O’Connor is in week two of the edit for her debut feature as writer-director, “Emily,” which brings to life the world of author Emily Brontë in the years leading up to the creation of her seminal novel “Wuthering Heights.” Variety speaks to O’Connor about the film,...