Former Manchester United striker Eric Cantona in The United Way London-based feature film financer and distributor Embankment Films is pushing further into feature docs with a new slate of titles, following its success with McQueen and Harvey Weinstein exposé Untouchable. Led by partners Hugo Grumbar and Tim...
Embankment Films has revealed the top-line cast of feelgood feature The Miracle Club and a key pre-sale, and boarded a raft of documentaries as part of a major push into factual. Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith will be joined by fellow Oscar-winner Kathy Bates and Ozark star Laura Linney in the...
EXCLUSIVE: Fast-rising actress Thomasin McKenzie, star of Jojo Rabbit and Leave No Trace, is to play American ballet dancer Joy Womack in biopic Joika. Womack, who is only the second American to graduate from Moscow’s infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is personally overseeing McKenzie’s training and will act as the actress’s...
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand young talents Emma Mackey (Sex Education), Joe Alwyn (The Favourite), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk) and Emily Beecham (Cruella) will star in Emily, Golden Globe-nominated actress Frances O’Connor’s (Mansfield Park) directorial debut about the early life of Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë. Mackey, star of Netflix smash Sex Education and Fox’s...
The British period drama marks the feature directorial debut for writer-director Jessica Swale. IFC Films has picked up the U.S. rights to Summerland, Jessica Swale's feature directorial debut that stars Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and is planning a July 31 release. The drama portrays a folklore...
The first feature from writer/director Florian Zeller, The Father began its life as an award-winning play. “I wrote it seven years ago, and it was [inspired by] a personal issue,” the director said, in conversation with Deadline in Sundance. “My grandmother raised me, and she started...
Anthony Hopkins delivers a tour-de-force performance in Florian Zeller's drama of dementia, which puts us in the mind of a man who's losing his. There have been some good dramas about people sliding into dementia, like “Away From Her” and “Still Alice,” but I confess I...
A brutal, trippy portrait of what it must feel like to lose your grip on reality boasts an Oscar-worthy performance. Most years at Sundance, usually within the midnight movies strand, a horror film breaks out, terrifying all those able to endure it, kickstarting a buzz that...
THE BOTTOM LINE: A diabolically brilliant Anthony Hopkins rails at his disappearing memory. Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman play a dementia-afflicted man and his daughter in Florian Zeller's screen adaptation of his own play. The best film about the wages of aging since Amour eight years ago,...
"For the last year I feel like I've been living someone else's life and now I feel like I'm winning someone else's award," Colman said of playing Queen Elizabeth II. Olivia Colman was named best actress in a television series, drama at the 77th annual Golden...
Sony Pictures Classics started the Sundance Film Festival acquisitions market off early, acquiring US and select international territories on the Florian Zeller-directed The Father. The adaptation of Zellers’s stage play stars Anthony Hopkins, the actor who is up for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Two Popes, and Oscar-winning The...
PREMIERE The Father / United Kingdom, France (Director: Florian Zeller, Screenwriters: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, Producers: Philippe Carcassonne, Jean-Louis Livi, David Parfitt) — Anthony is 80 years old. He lives alone in London and refuses the nurses that his daughter tries to impose upon him. Yet...