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...
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...
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...
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...
Kristin Scott Thomas will receive the Richard Harris Award for outstanding contribution to British film at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards on December 1. Scott Thomas joins previous winners including Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and last year’s winner Judi Dench, in receiving...
After less than 2 weeks in cinemas, RIDE LIKE A GIRL has become the highest grossing Australian film of 2019. The box office total now stands at $5.3m. RIDE LIKE A GIRL was released on 26th September by Transmission Films and it is currently screening at...
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t that excited to attend a preview screening of Ride Like A Girl. The movie, which hits cinemas tomorrow, tells the story of Michelle Payne, who in 2015 became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup. I had an interview lined...
EXCLUSIVE: Bleecker Street is at the altar for U.S. rights to the Toronto Film Festival acquisitions title Military Wives, the Peter Cattaneo-directed film that stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Sharon Horgan and Jason Flemyng. Cattaneo is best known for The Full Monty, and this one also has a feel-good element to it. Pic tells the true story...
CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? IS A SWEET AND FUNNY ROMANTIC COMEDY WITH AN INCREDIBLY CHARMING LEADING DUO IN TYLER HOECHLIN AND ALEXANDRA DADDARIO. Romantic comedies have made a resurgence in recent years, thanks in part to streaming services like Netflix giving a platform to mid-range...
Palm Springs, CA (November 8, 2018) – The 30th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Glenn Close with the Icon Award at its annual Awards Gala for her performance in The Wife. The Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart and presenting sponsor Entertainment...