EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one out of Blighty. Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent is set to star in the movie adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s genuinely best-selling novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. BAFTA-winner Hettie Macdonald, who directed BBC and Hulu hit Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is aboard to direct, and BAFTA-winner...
Nominations for the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards were revealed Wednesday morning as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association set its noms for the best in film and TV. In a year of theatrical upheaval thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, streaming giant Netflix dominated both fields with a...
The 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Thursday morning by Lily Collins (“Mank,” “Emily in Paris”) and Daveed Diggs (“Hamilton,” “Snowpiercer”) on the SAG Awards’ Instagram page, after a few technical hiccups. The films leading the way in the outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture...
Netflix Drama Leads Spain's Goya Awards Nominations The Netflix drama 'Adú,' directed by Salvador Calvo, is the frontrunner for the 35th Goya, Spain's top film honors, with 14 nominations, including for best film and best director. The Netflix drama Adú, directed by Salvador Calvo, is the frontrunner for the...
Fast-risers Sofia Carson (Songbird) and Charles Melton (Riverdale) have boarded director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum’s (Sneakerella) YA romance Purple Hearts about two star-crossed lovers. Adapted from Tess Wakefield’s novel by Tony Award-nominee Kyle Jarrow (Valor) and Liz Garcia (The Lifeguard), Rosenbaum will direct the story of aspiring...
Oscar winner Olivia Colman will take the lead role in Joyride, a feel-good Irish drama marking Emmy-winning doc maker Emer Reynolds’ (The Farthest) first foray into film features. Pic will see Colman play Joy, a train-wreck on an adventure who is ready to give away her...
British director Roger Michell previously won awards for hit film Notting HillHe is chronicling the Queen's life using archived footage in new film, Elizabeth Exclusive: Filmmaker is asking public for footage of the 94-year-old monarch Helen Mirren won an Oscar for her portrayal of the sovereign in...
Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Spencer Tracy. Besides being some of history’s finest performers, they are also the select few that have won two Academy Awards for best actor, with just Daniel Day-Lewis surpassing them as...
The U.K.’s Embankment Films has launched worldwide sales ahead of the Toronto Film Festival on “Call Me Kate,” a feature documentary on Katharine ‘Kate’ Hepburn, the actor from Hollywood’s Golden Age. The feature documentary is from director Lorna Tucker (“Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist”) and produced by Salon Pictures, the producers...
Clive Whittingham examines what’s trending in documentaries, whether Covid-themed projects are in or out and what the big concerns are for distributors heading into 2021. The streamers have had a transformative affect on all corners of the content business and docs are no exception. London-based feature...
EXCLUSIVE: The exciting trio of Daisy Ridley (Star Wars), Kristin Scott Thomas (Darkest Hour) and Nina Hoss (Phoenix) have been set to star in Jane Anderson’s (The Wife) adaptation of Jessica Shattuck’s 2017 New York Times bestseller Women In The Castle, about three widows of conspirators involved in an assassination attempt on Hitler. The...
UK feature film financing and distribution specialist Embankment Films is pushing its ‘conversion’ strategy into feature documentaries, with a new slate of projects unveiled this week. McQueen looks at the life of fashion designer Alexander McQueen The role of the television distributor has changed dramatically. It has...