Embankment Films has sold British rights to Lionsgate U.K. for romantic drama “Summerland,” starring Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Variety has been given the exclusive first-look image for the film, which has just wrapped production. The pic is the feature debut of British playwright Jessica Swale, who won an Olivier Award for...
Hugh Jackman and Glenn Close will receive the respective Hollywood Actor and Actress honors from the Hollywood Film Awards next month, producer dick clark productions said today. His award for Sony’s The Front Runner and hers for Sony Pictures Classics’ The Wifewill be presented November 4 during the 22nd annual Hollywood Film Awards ceremony...
Netflix has released the trailer for “Malevolent,” one of many horror offerings debuting on the streaming service during this most spooky of months. It has the benefit of starring Florence Pugh, who endeared herself to many with her role in “Lady Macbeth” and also stars in Netflix’s...
The story of automobile designer and entrepreneur John DeLorean’s decline and fall becomes a comedy-tinged buddy movie with a twist in Nick Hamm’s follow-up to another very different male-bonding saga, The Journey. Once again, two fine central performances bring a clever Colin Bateman script alive,...
Closing Night films at festivals aren’t always the most prestigious slot you can get (witness the debacle of Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote at Cannes this year), but sometimes a surprise is in store. I think that is exactly the case for...
Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan have signed to star in Peter Cattaneo’s Military Wives for London and Los Angeles-based outfit 42. Embankment Films arranged financing for the film and is launching worldwide sales in Toronto. CAA co-represents US rights. Lionsgate has acquired the film for the UK. Written...
It’s been said that though women are capable of writing the Great American Novel, the writers who achieve the kind of iconic status of literary gods are always men. That’s because myths can be built around them. This is also true, by the way, about...
Glenn Close has won multiple Tonys, Emmys and numerous other awards in her storied career. She also is, perplexingly, a frequent Oscar bridesmaid, having been nominated six times but still without a win. That finally and deservedly could change this year with The Wife, in...
Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce give searing performances in The Wife, a drama about what happens to a long-married couple when the husband is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The film is an astoundingly good drama, with gripping performances and an engrossing story. Continue...
"I'm all about female empowerment." Alexandra Daddario is venturing into producing after almost 20 years acting in projects from Parenthood and Percy Jackson to Baywatch and San Andreas. Daddario will be starring in and executive producing Can You Keep a Secret?, based on the book by Sophie Kinsella and directed by Elise Duran (Below Deck)....
The classic narrative of a troubled creative genius flying too high too fast acquires emotional depth to match its visual splendors in Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui's sensory documentary portrait of Alexander McQueen. It will be no news to the million-plus people who saw the stunning...
While the multiplex might be overrun with superheroes, dinosaurs and space cowboys, the season also offers up a set of films untouched by sequelitis Hearts Beat Loud On paper, Hearts Beat Loud might tick off a few too many twee Sundance-friendly boxes, but there’s something disarmingly likable...