On the eve of Cannes, film financing and sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has made several key promotions as well as adding a new hire to its team.
Shane Kelly, who has been with the company since 2019, is being promoted to senior vice president, international sales and acquisitions. In this new role, he will continue to oversee sales and distribution efforts while formalizing the addition of project acquisitions as part of his purview, continuing to report to Mister Smith CEO David Garrett. In his previous role as VP international sales and distribution, Kelly has been instrumental in helping manage the company’s slate through sales, financing, marketing and distribution.
In addition, Emma Mason is being promoted to vice president, international marketing and publicity and will continue to lead the marketing and publicity team and oversee festival strategy for the Mister Smith slate.
Katie Hogan is being promoted to distribution and marketing executive,...
Shane Kelly, who has been with the company since 2019, is being promoted to senior vice president, international sales and acquisitions. In this new role, he will continue to oversee sales and distribution efforts while formalizing the addition of project acquisitions as part of his purview, continuing to report to Mister Smith CEO David Garrett. In his previous role as VP international sales and distribution, Kelly has been instrumental in helping manage the company’s slate through sales, financing, marketing and distribution.
In addition, Emma Mason is being promoted to vice president, international marketing and publicity and will continue to lead the marketing and publicity team and oversee festival strategy for the Mister Smith slate.
Katie Hogan is being promoted to distribution and marketing executive,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
While Martin Scorsese aims to kick off production on his Jesus film this year, Terrence Malick is going on year five of editing his, marking one of the only films to wrap production pre-pandemic that still has yet to be released. As so happens every year before the Cannes Film Festival announces its lineup, rumors have swirled that the director’s Biblical epic The Way of the Wind (formerly known as The Last Planet) may see a premiere in 2024. We will, unfortunately, have to wait another year, but in the meantime we have exclusive new details on the highly anticipated project.
Actor Géza Röhrig, who stars as Jesus in the film, recently stopped by a university in the Northeast for a conversation on his career. During the chat he confirmed the film is targeting a 2025 Cannes debut. Wind will not exactly focus on Jesus and Peter (as played by Matthias Schoenaerts...
Actor Géza Röhrig, who stars as Jesus in the film, recently stopped by a university in the Northeast for a conversation on his career. During the chat he confirmed the film is targeting a 2025 Cannes debut. Wind will not exactly focus on Jesus and Peter (as played by Matthias Schoenaerts...
- 3/27/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Ileen Maisel, who served as a studio executive at Paramount, Lorimar and New Line Cinema and as a producer on films including Onegin, Ripley’s Game and The Golden Compass, has died. She was 68.
Maisel died Feb. 16 of cancer in London, her home for the past 34 years, her sister, Hollywood publicist Cheryl Maisel, announced.
Maisel received a BAFTA nomination for best British film for producing Samuel Goldwyn’s Onegin (1999), starring Ralph Fiennes, and was said to be most proud of her work on the Fine Line Features thriller Ripley’s Game (2002), starring John Malkovich.
In addition to the New Line fantasy The Golden Compass (2007), which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and grossed $372.2 million at the global box office, her other producing credits included Twelfth Night (1996), Inkheart (2008), and Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015).
Born in Los Angeles on April 6, 1955, Ileen Marla Maisel began working for entertainment journalist Rona Barrett...
Maisel died Feb. 16 of cancer in London, her home for the past 34 years, her sister, Hollywood publicist Cheryl Maisel, announced.
Maisel received a BAFTA nomination for best British film for producing Samuel Goldwyn’s Onegin (1999), starring Ralph Fiennes, and was said to be most proud of her work on the Fine Line Features thriller Ripley’s Game (2002), starring John Malkovich.
In addition to the New Line fantasy The Golden Compass (2007), which starred Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and grossed $372.2 million at the global box office, her other producing credits included Twelfth Night (1996), Inkheart (2008), and Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (2015).
Born in Los Angeles on April 6, 1955, Ileen Marla Maisel began working for entertainment journalist Rona Barrett...
- 3/26/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Winterbottom’s drama centres on the romance between a British police officer and a socialist Zionist writer but puts history-telling over emotion
Working with co-writers Laurence Coriat and Paul Viragh, Michael Winterbottom hits a clear, confident stride with a robustly well made, if emotionally flavourless historical drama set during the British mandate in what was then Palestine. It is a film that speaks in a complex way to the current Gaza debate, contending that Zionism has anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in its 20th-century manifestation: a rage against the British masters. But the implication is that it learned habits of ruthlessness from these very people.
The film is based on the true story of Shoshana Borochov, a socialist Zionist writer who came with her Ukrainian family to Tel Aviv as a child in the 1920s and grew up to have a long-term romantic relationship with a British police officer called Thomas Wilkin,...
Working with co-writers Laurence Coriat and Paul Viragh, Michael Winterbottom hits a clear, confident stride with a robustly well made, if emotionally flavourless historical drama set during the British mandate in what was then Palestine. It is a film that speaks in a complex way to the current Gaza debate, contending that Zionism has anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in its 20th-century manifestation: a rage against the British masters. But the implication is that it learned habits of ruthlessness from these very people.
The film is based on the true story of Shoshana Borochov, a socialist Zionist writer who came with her Ukrainian family to Tel Aviv as a child in the 1920s and grew up to have a long-term romantic relationship with a British police officer called Thomas Wilkin,...
- 2/21/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment picked up U.S. distribution rights to the Tel Aviv-set political thriller Shoshana from BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom.
The pic, which debuted at TIFF before playing the London Film Festival, was written by Laurence Coriat, Paul Viragh, and Winterbottom. Cast includes Irina Starshenbaum (Leto), Douglas Booth (That Dirty Black Bag), and Harry Melling (The Pale Blue Eye). Greenwich will release the film next year.
Inspired by real events, Shoshana is a political thriller set in 1930s Tel Aviv. Thomas Wilkin, who works in the anti-terrorist squad of the British Palestine Police Force, is in love with Shoshana Borochov. Through their relationship the film explores the way extremism and violence drive a wedge between people, forcing them to choose sides.
Shoshana is an Italian-uk coproduction between Vision Distribution, Revolution Films, and Bartlebyfilm. Producers on the film include Melissa Parmenter, Massimo Di Rocco, Josh Hyams,...
The pic, which debuted at TIFF before playing the London Film Festival, was written by Laurence Coriat, Paul Viragh, and Winterbottom. Cast includes Irina Starshenbaum (Leto), Douglas Booth (That Dirty Black Bag), and Harry Melling (The Pale Blue Eye). Greenwich will release the film next year.
Inspired by real events, Shoshana is a political thriller set in 1930s Tel Aviv. Thomas Wilkin, who works in the anti-terrorist squad of the British Palestine Police Force, is in love with Shoshana Borochov. Through their relationship the film explores the way extremism and violence drive a wedge between people, forcing them to choose sides.
Shoshana is an Italian-uk coproduction between Vision Distribution, Revolution Films, and Bartlebyfilm. Producers on the film include Melissa Parmenter, Massimo Di Rocco, Josh Hyams,...
- 12/14/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Lamorne Morris and Iris Apatow are set to join the cast of Netflix’s “Unstable” for Season 2.
Morris will play recurring guest star Peter. The charismatic founder of a biotech start-up, Peter’s rising star manages to stoke the already intense rivalry between Ellis (Rob Lowe) and Jackson (John Owen Lowe).
Apatow will play recurring guest star Georgia, Anna’s (Sian Clifford) irreverent ex-stepdaughter turned unwilling Dragon intern. She copes with office life by stirring up trouble and making Anna’s life more difficult whenever possible.
In addition to the father-son duo, they’re joined by returning cast members Sian Clifford, Rachel Marsh, Emma Ferreira and Aaron Branch in the upcoming season. Fred Armisen will also reprise his guest starring role as Leslie, Ellis’s board-appointed therapist who is desperate to be liked and be friends with Ellis.
The comedy follows Ellis Dragon, a universally admired, eccentric, narcissist-adjacent biotech entrepreneur...
Morris will play recurring guest star Peter. The charismatic founder of a biotech start-up, Peter’s rising star manages to stoke the already intense rivalry between Ellis (Rob Lowe) and Jackson (John Owen Lowe).
Apatow will play recurring guest star Georgia, Anna’s (Sian Clifford) irreverent ex-stepdaughter turned unwilling Dragon intern. She copes with office life by stirring up trouble and making Anna’s life more difficult whenever possible.
In addition to the father-son duo, they’re joined by returning cast members Sian Clifford, Rachel Marsh, Emma Ferreira and Aaron Branch in the upcoming season. Fred Armisen will also reprise his guest starring role as Leslie, Ellis’s board-appointed therapist who is desperate to be liked and be friends with Ellis.
The comedy follows Ellis Dragon, a universally admired, eccentric, narcissist-adjacent biotech entrepreneur...
- 12/7/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Bel Powley and Douglas Booth are married and there were quite a few celebs in attendance at the wedding!
The 31-year-old The Morning Show actress and the 31-year-old The Dirt actor met on the set of the 2016 movie Mary Shelley and have been together ever since.
The couple got engaged in July 2021 and then tied the knot on October 28 in London, England.
The wedding took place at Michelin Green Star restaurant Petersham Nurseries. Bel told Vogue, “Petersham is a beautiful venue, and we fell in love with the chic but incredibly relaxed vibe there. As it’s a nursery, it is filled with beautiful natural greenery, plants, and flowers. We loved the idea of the wedding feeling glamorous and chic but grounded by the fact that everyone’s heels were in the mud!”
For the wedding, Bel wore a Miu Miu dress.
Browse through the slideshow to check out the celeb guests who attended…...
The 31-year-old The Morning Show actress and the 31-year-old The Dirt actor met on the set of the 2016 movie Mary Shelley and have been together ever since.
The couple got engaged in July 2021 and then tied the knot on October 28 in London, England.
The wedding took place at Michelin Green Star restaurant Petersham Nurseries. Bel told Vogue, “Petersham is a beautiful venue, and we fell in love with the chic but incredibly relaxed vibe there. As it’s a nursery, it is filled with beautiful natural greenery, plants, and flowers. We loved the idea of the wedding feeling glamorous and chic but grounded by the fact that everyone’s heels were in the mud!”
For the wedding, Bel wore a Miu Miu dress.
Browse through the slideshow to check out the celeb guests who attended…...
- 11/3/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Soberly relevant in light of the current Israel-Hamas conflict, filmmaker Michael Winterbottom takes us back to the pre-1948 establishment of the state of Israel and early rise of Zionist activism, as told through a love story between a Jew and a Brit. Shoshana is an ambitious project as it weaves action sequences with socio-political ideas of the era with some degree of success – greatly helped by its protagonists’ professions that allow greater insight into the region’s developing unrest.
Set in 1930s’ cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Shoshana (Irina Starshenbaum) casually meets Englishman Thomas Wilkins (Douglas Booth) at a party, who is assigned to the Palestinian police force, and they begin an affair. Their union is doomed from the beginning as work and social alliances threaten journalist Shoshana’s wellbeing, while Wilkins investigates escalating violence against Arabs from various Zionist militant factions and puts himself in danger’s path.
At the same...
Set in 1930s’ cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Shoshana (Irina Starshenbaum) casually meets Englishman Thomas Wilkins (Douglas Booth) at a party, who is assigned to the Palestinian police force, and they begin an affair. Their union is doomed from the beginning as work and social alliances threaten journalist Shoshana’s wellbeing, while Wilkins investigates escalating violence against Arabs from various Zionist militant factions and puts himself in danger’s path.
At the same...
- 11/1/2023
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: A feature film about the escapades of little-known Canadian spy Winthrop Bell is in development.
Toronto-based Wildling Pictures has optioned ‘Cracking the Nazi Code’, a historical spy story from author and philosophy professor Jason Bell, and has attached Adam Yorke to develop it for the big screen.
Screenwriter Yorke is best known for Canadian thriller See For Me, which he co-wrote and co-produced. The film premiered at Tribeca in 2021 and was a major seller for Elle Driver. It was released in the U.S. by IFC Midnight, as we first revealed in August 2021.
‘Cracking the Nazi Code’ tells the story of Bell, a spy whose work is only just being recognized, almost six decades after his death. Known as the MI6 secret agent A12, he was among the first to understand the threat posed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The book begins in...
Toronto-based Wildling Pictures has optioned ‘Cracking the Nazi Code’, a historical spy story from author and philosophy professor Jason Bell, and has attached Adam Yorke to develop it for the big screen.
Screenwriter Yorke is best known for Canadian thriller See For Me, which he co-wrote and co-produced. The film premiered at Tribeca in 2021 and was a major seller for Elle Driver. It was released in the U.S. by IFC Midnight, as we first revealed in August 2021.
‘Cracking the Nazi Code’ tells the story of Bell, a spy whose work is only just being recognized, almost six decades after his death. Known as the MI6 secret agent A12, he was among the first to understand the threat posed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The book begins in...
- 11/1/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Mister Smith Entertainment has clinched first key international sales on Weston Razooli’s “Riddle of Fire.”
Among major territories, Mister Smith has closed Japan (Klockworx), France (ASC Distribution) and Spain (Flamingo Films). Deals build on a co-u.S acquisition by Yellow Veil Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome, which plan a domestic theatrical bow in early 2024, releasing the film on 35mm.
“Riddle of Fire” has also been sold to Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Greece (Odeon) and Femeway/The Film Group and Front Row Filmed Entertainment for the Middle East, Singapore (the Shaw Organization), ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz Film) and worldwide airlines and ships (Anuvu).
Razooli’s first feature made its debut in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and its North American premiere as the Toronto Festival’s Midnight Madness closing-night film.
A highlight on Mister Smith’s AFM slate, “Riddle of Fire” has additional territories in negotiations, which Mse will attempt to close in Santa Monica.
Shot...
Among major territories, Mister Smith has closed Japan (Klockworx), France (ASC Distribution) and Spain (Flamingo Films). Deals build on a co-u.S acquisition by Yellow Veil Pictures and Vinegar Syndrome, which plan a domestic theatrical bow in early 2024, releasing the film on 35mm.
“Riddle of Fire” has also been sold to Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), Greece (Odeon) and Femeway/The Film Group and Front Row Filmed Entertainment for the Middle East, Singapore (the Shaw Organization), ex-Yugoslavia (Blitz Film) and worldwide airlines and ships (Anuvu).
Razooli’s first feature made its debut in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and its North American premiere as the Toronto Festival’s Midnight Madness closing-night film.
A highlight on Mister Smith’s AFM slate, “Riddle of Fire” has additional territories in negotiations, which Mse will attempt to close in Santa Monica.
Shot...
- 11/1/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Sales executive Antone Saliba has left to pursue a new venture.
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Great Point Media’s Augusta ‘Goose’ Charlton as director, international sales and acquisitions.
Charlton was an associate director in their investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Great Point Media representing them at international markets, working across titles including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean.
Charlton started her entertainment career in...
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Great Point Media’s Augusta ‘Goose’ Charlton as director, international sales and acquisitions.
Charlton was an associate director in their investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Great Point Media representing them at international markets, working across titles including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Charlotte Regan’s Scrapper and Georgia Oakley’s Blue Jean.
Charlton started her entertainment career in...
- 10/27/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Augusta Charlton as director, international sales and acquisitions.
Charlton will attend next week’s American Film Market, where Mister Smith’s slate includes “Greedy People,” a darkly comic crime thriller in the vein of the Coen Brothers, from the producers of “Palm Springs,” and featuring an ensemble cast including Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Himesh Patel and Tim Blake Nelson; “Joey Lauren Adams” from director Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”); and the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of Goethe’s 1774 novel “Young Werther,” starring Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, written and directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço.
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media, where she was an associate director in their investments team. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm representing them at international markets.
Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios,...
Charlton will attend next week’s American Film Market, where Mister Smith’s slate includes “Greedy People,” a darkly comic crime thriller in the vein of the Coen Brothers, from the producers of “Palm Springs,” and featuring an ensemble cast including Lily James, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Himesh Patel and Tim Blake Nelson; “Joey Lauren Adams” from director Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”); and the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of Goethe’s 1774 novel “Young Werther,” starring Douglas Booth, Alison Pill, Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, written and directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço.
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media, where she was an associate director in their investments team. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm representing them at international markets.
Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Mister Smith Entertainment has hired Augusta Charlton as Director, International Sales & Acquisitions.
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media (Gpm), where she was an Associate Director in their Investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm, representing the company at international markets. Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production, working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios.
During her previous tenure at Gpm, Charlton oversaw multiple film projects, including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City; the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Scrapper, starring Harris Dickinson; Blue Jean, starring Rosy McEwen, who won the Best Lead Performance Award for the film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards; and Rogue Agent starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton.
Charlton’s first sales market for Mister Smith Entertainment will be the upcoming AFM,...
Charlton joins the company from Great Point Media (Gpm), where she was an Associate Director in their Investments team, responsible for sourcing and structuring film and TV production finance opportunities in the UK and international markets. Prior to that, she was a sales executive at Gpm, representing the company at international markets. Charlton started her entertainment career in development and production, working for CrossDay Productions and BBC Studios.
During her previous tenure at Gpm, Charlton oversaw multiple film projects, including Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City; the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Scrapper, starring Harris Dickinson; Blue Jean, starring Rosy McEwen, who won the Best Lead Performance Award for the film at the 2022 British Independent Film Awards; and Rogue Agent starring James Norton and Gemma Arterton.
Charlton’s first sales market for Mister Smith Entertainment will be the upcoming AFM,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The contemporary romantic comedy also stars Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow.
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales at the upcoming American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance overseeing US sales, on the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s hit 1774 novel, Young Werther.
A first-look image featuring Alison Pill and Douglas Booth has also been unveiled.
They are joined in the starry cast by Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, with Canadian filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço making his feature debut as director. He also penned the screenplay.
Young...
UK sales outfit Mister Smith Entertainment is launching international sales at the upcoming American Film Market, with CAA Media Finance overseeing US sales, on the contemporary romantic comedy adaptation of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s hit 1774 novel, Young Werther.
A first-look image featuring Alison Pill and Douglas Booth has also been unveiled.
They are joined in the starry cast by Patrick J. Adams and Iris Apatow, with Canadian filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço making his feature debut as director. He also penned the screenplay.
Young...
- 10/26/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
’Shoshana’ world premiered at Toronto, ahead of screenings at Dinard film festival and BFI London Film Festival.
Michael Winterbottom is one of the UK’s more prolific independent filmmakers, with over 30 features to his name across a 35-year career – but his latest, Shoshana, has been rather a slow burn.
The drama, based on real people and events, premiered in Toronto, before playing in French festival of UK and Irish film Dinard, and will have its UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival on October 7.
It is set in 1930s Tel Aviv, as violence erupt in the British Mandate for Palestine,...
Michael Winterbottom is one of the UK’s more prolific independent filmmakers, with over 30 features to his name across a 35-year career – but his latest, Shoshana, has been rather a slow burn.
The drama, based on real people and events, premiered in Toronto, before playing in French festival of UK and Irish film Dinard, and will have its UK premiere at BFI London Film Festival on October 7.
It is set in 1930s Tel Aviv, as violence erupt in the British Mandate for Palestine,...
- 10/4/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
By Abe Friedtanzer
Courtesy of TIFF
Those who are confused by the current situation in the Middle East have a long, even more complicated history to consider that explains some of the roots of today’s issues. Shoshana takes place in 1938, when the British control Mandatory Palestine and the Nazis are beginning to conquer Europe. Two separate Jewish underground armies exist, the Haganah and the Irgun, each fighting for their vision of the future Israel, and tolerated and vilified to different degrees by the British forces trying to keep the peace. At the center is Shoshana (Irina Starshenbaum), a Jewish woman romantically involved with English police officer Thomas Wilkin (Douglas Booth)…...
Courtesy of TIFF
Those who are confused by the current situation in the Middle East have a long, even more complicated history to consider that explains some of the roots of today’s issues. Shoshana takes place in 1938, when the British control Mandatory Palestine and the Nazis are beginning to conquer Europe. Two separate Jewish underground armies exist, the Haganah and the Irgun, each fighting for their vision of the future Israel, and tolerated and vilified to different degrees by the British forces trying to keep the peace. At the center is Shoshana (Irina Starshenbaum), a Jewish woman romantically involved with English police officer Thomas Wilkin (Douglas Booth)…...
- 9/22/2023
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
Britain’s official post-wwi administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director Michael Winterbottom uses that complicated era as a backdrop to the compelling historical romance “Shoshana.” A passion project 15 years in the making and based on real people and events, the film employs the ill-fated, cross-cultural relationship between a ranking member of the British Palestine Police Force and a young Jewish woman to explore the way extremism and violence push people apart, forcing them to choose sides.
It’s worth noting upfront that while the British rulers had to deal with both Palestine’s Arab and Jewish citizens, each of whom want an independent country, the narrative here hews firmly to a British and Jewish p.o.v., with Arabs barely characterized except as victims and troublemakers. By the 1930s, Palestine is a cauldron...
It’s worth noting upfront that while the British rulers had to deal with both Palestine’s Arab and Jewish citizens, each of whom want an independent country, the narrative here hews firmly to a British and Jewish p.o.v., with Arabs barely characterized except as victims and troublemakers. By the 1930s, Palestine is a cauldron...
- 9/17/2023
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
The stars of the 2023 Toronto Film Festival turned out for the Variety and Chanel Female Filmmakers Dinner hosted at the Soho House. Creators, actors, writers and artists gathered to celebrate the creators of the fest including director of “Quiz Lady” Jessica Yu, documentarian Jen Markowitz of “Summer Qamp,” Lulu Wang of “Expats and many more.
Camila Morrone, Colman Domingo (who has two films at the fest), Willam Dafoe, Douglas Booth, Irina Starshenbaum, Patricia Arquette, Barry Jenkins and Finn Wolfhard were just a few of the attendees.
Camila Morrone, Colman Domingo (who has two films at the fest), Willam Dafoe, Douglas Booth, Irina Starshenbaum, Patricia Arquette, Barry Jenkins and Finn Wolfhard were just a few of the attendees.
- 9/10/2023
- by Meredith Woerner
- Variety Film + TV
Scripted films about political revolutions often have the luxury of marinating in esoteric debates about philosophies and forms of government that are completely detached from reality. If a filmmaker’s mission is to advance one ideology over another, it’s easy to abandon real-world nuance and cast their preferred parties as underdogs in a Hollywood-style good vs. evil saga. Michael Winterbottom’s “Shoshana” takes a different approach, immediately demonstrating its understanding that even the most intellectually committed activists have to consider dubious alliances to avoid total annihilation.
The British director’s new political thriller is set in Tel Aviv in the 1930s, during Britain’s occupation of Palestine that saw the military try to find a peaceful compromise between Palestinian natives and Zionists trying to establish Israel on their faith’s holiest grounds. Locals are forced to choose between supporting an unwanted occupation from an imperialist nation or violent nationalist...
The British director’s new political thriller is set in Tel Aviv in the 1930s, during Britain’s occupation of Palestine that saw the military try to find a peaceful compromise between Palestinian natives and Zionists trying to establish Israel on their faith’s holiest grounds. Locals are forced to choose between supporting an unwanted occupation from an imperialist nation or violent nationalist...
- 9/8/2023
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The U.K. has a robust presence at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, and several of the films screening there find contemporary resonance while exploring historical subjects.
In Thea Sharrock’s 1920s-set “Wicked Little Letters,” Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play neighbors who get on each other’s nerves in a small English town where residents start receiving anonymous, expletive-laden letters. Sharrock sees parallels in the film’s theme with today’s social media trolling replacing poison-pen letters.
“The parallels are both so immediate and so obvious, but they’re very subtly made in the writing and therefore in the film,” Sharrock says. “You wonder how far we’ve come in 100 years. Technology-wise, it’s very obvious how far we’ve come, but as human beings in terms of humanity, actually, how much is exactly the same? And how much have we developed in a good way? And...
In Thea Sharrock’s 1920s-set “Wicked Little Letters,” Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play neighbors who get on each other’s nerves in a small English town where residents start receiving anonymous, expletive-laden letters. Sharrock sees parallels in the film’s theme with today’s social media trolling replacing poison-pen letters.
“The parallels are both so immediate and so obvious, but they’re very subtly made in the writing and therefore in the film,” Sharrock says. “You wonder how far we’ve come in 100 years. Technology-wise, it’s very obvious how far we’ve come, but as human beings in terms of humanity, actually, how much is exactly the same? And how much have we developed in a good way? And...
- 9/8/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Winterbottom’s production company Revolution Films is opening an Italian outpost, Variety can exclusively confirm.
The production outfit, known for films and TV series including the Boris Johnson-inspired “This England” and the upcoming TIFF contender “Shoshana,” is in the process of setting up an office in the country, say sources with knowledge of the expansion. Longtime Revolution exec Melissa Parmenter will be running the new branch.
Revolution has increasingly been working in Italy in recent years and a source tells Variety the company is looking to make more films there. “Shoshana” (which was previously titled “Promised Land”) is set in Israel but was entirely shot in Italy. The film, which will premiere at TIFF on Friday, is set during the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s, when the daughter of an Israeli revolutionary (Irina Starshenbaum) falls in love with a British soldier (played by Douglas Booth).
“Shoshana...
The production outfit, known for films and TV series including the Boris Johnson-inspired “This England” and the upcoming TIFF contender “Shoshana,” is in the process of setting up an office in the country, say sources with knowledge of the expansion. Longtime Revolution exec Melissa Parmenter will be running the new branch.
Revolution has increasingly been working in Italy in recent years and a source tells Variety the company is looking to make more films there. “Shoshana” (which was previously titled “Promised Land”) is set in Israel but was entirely shot in Italy. The film, which will premiere at TIFF on Friday, is set during the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1930s, when the daughter of an Israeli revolutionary (Irina Starshenbaum) falls in love with a British soldier (played by Douglas Booth).
“Shoshana...
- 9/5/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
’Silent Roar’, ‘Shoshana’ and ’How To Have Sex’ will also play at the French seaside festival that spotlights UK and Irish cinema.
France’s Dinard Festival of British Film has unveiled the line-up of its 34th edition, which includes Cannes titles Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex.
Also on the line-up is Charlotte Regan’s Sundance title Scrapper. The comedy drama stars Harris Dickinson and follows a young girl forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns, and is currently on release in...
France’s Dinard Festival of British Film has unveiled the line-up of its 34th edition, which includes Cannes titles Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest and Molly Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex.
Also on the line-up is Charlotte Regan’s Sundance title Scrapper. The comedy drama stars Harris Dickinson and follows a young girl forced to confront reality when her estranged father returns, and is currently on release in...
- 8/31/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Four years after his last full-length feature — the black comedy Greed, starring Steve Coogan as a venal business tycoon — Michael Winterbottom is back, this time with a political drama set in Tel Aviv, based on real-life people and events that occurred during the 1930s, in the run-up to the foundation of Israel in 1948.
Making its world premiere next week at the Toronto International Film Festival, it stars newcomer Irina Starshenbaum as the title character, a newspaper journalist with strong leftist leanings and ties to underground Jewish groups. Against the odds, Shoshana is romantically involved with Tom Wilkin (Douglas Booth), whose job as an assistant superintendent with the British Palestine Police puts him in conflict with outlawed organizations such as Irgun and Lehi.
The couple’s unlikely relationship is called into question by the arrival of Geoffrey Morton (Harry Melling), who comes to head up the anti-terrorist squad and, specifically,...
Making its world premiere next week at the Toronto International Film Festival, it stars newcomer Irina Starshenbaum as the title character, a newspaper journalist with strong leftist leanings and ties to underground Jewish groups. Against the odds, Shoshana is romantically involved with Tom Wilkin (Douglas Booth), whose job as an assistant superintendent with the British Palestine Police puts him in conflict with outlawed organizations such as Irgun and Lehi.
The couple’s unlikely relationship is called into question by the arrival of Geoffrey Morton (Harry Melling), who comes to head up the anti-terrorist squad and, specifically,...
- 8/30/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Adapting the biography of a singular figure is hard enough, but how do you adapt the autobiography of a band? Bassist Nikki Sixx, guitarist Mick Mars, drummer Tommy Lee, and Vince Neil joined forces to make Mötley Crüe, one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and well-documented hedonist troublemakers.
In 2001, all four members of the band along with Neil Strauss released an autobiography called "The Dirt," describing the group as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book shot to the top 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for 10 weeks. On a personal note, I used the book as the subject of my own freshman year biography project book report in 2004, when I showed up to school dressed like Nikki Sixx and delivered my presentation in full character ... much to my teacher's chagrin.
In 2019, Netflix adapted "The Dirt" with "Jackass" creator and director Jeff Tremaine at the helm,...
In 2001, all four members of the band along with Neil Strauss released an autobiography called "The Dirt," describing the group as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book shot to the top 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for 10 weeks. On a personal note, I used the book as the subject of my own freshman year biography project book report in 2004, when I showed up to school dressed like Nikki Sixx and delivered my presentation in full character ... much to my teacher's chagrin.
In 2019, Netflix adapted "The Dirt" with "Jackass" creator and director Jeff Tremaine at the helm,...
- 8/13/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Kristian Nairn is an Irish actor and DJ. He is best known for his role as Hodor in Game of Thrones and as John Feeney in Our Flag Means Death.
Kristian Nairn Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Kristian Nairn was born on November 25, 1975 (Kristian Nairn’s age: 47) in Lisburn, North Ireland.
Nairn used his earnings from his role in Game of Thrones to buy his mother a house.
In 2014 Nairn came out as gay, stating that he never hid it but instead waited for someone to ask him about his sexuality. He was a frequent DJ for the gay club Kremlin.
Kristian Nairn Biography: Career
Before his time as Hodor in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Nairn was a drag artist and DJ. In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Nairn talked about his background and how it led him to acting.
“Yeah, I started off as a drag artist,...
Kristian Nairn Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Kristian Nairn was born on November 25, 1975 (Kristian Nairn’s age: 47) in Lisburn, North Ireland.
Nairn used his earnings from his role in Game of Thrones to buy his mother a house.
In 2014 Nairn came out as gay, stating that he never hid it but instead waited for someone to ask him about his sexuality. He was a frequent DJ for the gay club Kremlin.
Kristian Nairn Biography: Career
Before his time as Hodor in HBO’s Game of Thrones, Nairn was a drag artist and DJ. In an exclusive interview with uInterview, Nairn talked about his background and how it led him to acting.
“Yeah, I started off as a drag artist,...
- 6/18/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
A couple months ago, the Shudder streaming service announced that they would be releasing the survival thriller Quicksand in the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on June 23rd… but those plans have now changed. Quicksand‘s has moved back to July 14th, while June 23rd will see the Shudder release of the creature feature Unwelcome.
Directed by Andrés Beltrán (MalaYerba) from a screenplay by Matt Pitts (Fringe), Quicksand stars Carolina Gaitán, who provided the voice of Pepa in Disney’s Encanto, and Allan Hawco of Jack Ryan. The English-language thriller was filmed in the Colombian capital Bogota and tells the story of a married couple on the brink of divorce who become trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
Quicksand was produced by Sangre Films,...
Directed by Andrés Beltrán (MalaYerba) from a screenplay by Matt Pitts (Fringe), Quicksand stars Carolina Gaitán, who provided the voice of Pepa in Disney’s Encanto, and Allan Hawco of Jack Ryan. The English-language thriller was filmed in the Colombian capital Bogota and tells the story of a married couple on the brink of divorce who become trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order to escape.
Quicksand was produced by Sangre Films,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Mediawan has been shaking the foundations of the film and TV world in France and Europe since it was launched in 2015 by producer Pierre-Antoine Capton, billionaire entrepreneur Xavier Niel and financier Matthieu Pigasse.
Raising an initial $342 million (300 million euros) by listing shares on the Euronext Paris stock exchange in 2016, the Paris-based group has since gathered some 70 film and TV production labels under its umbrella as well as secured the backing of U.S. investment firms Kkr and Atwater Capitol.
High-profile acquisitions have included the television division of Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp; Lagardère Studios and its 25 labels, including Spain’s Boomerang Group; French production houses Chapter 2, Chi-Fou-Mi, Radar Films and Call My Agent creator Mon Voisin Productions as well as Italian producer Palomar.
Elisabeth d’Arvieu
In 2021, it took a majority stake in the U.K.’s Drama Republic, while on the eve of Cannes, it bought Submarine, the Amsterdam and...
Raising an initial $342 million (300 million euros) by listing shares on the Euronext Paris stock exchange in 2016, the Paris-based group has since gathered some 70 film and TV production labels under its umbrella as well as secured the backing of U.S. investment firms Kkr and Atwater Capitol.
High-profile acquisitions have included the television division of Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp; Lagardère Studios and its 25 labels, including Spain’s Boomerang Group; French production houses Chapter 2, Chi-Fou-Mi, Radar Films and Call My Agent creator Mon Voisin Productions as well as Italian producer Palomar.
Elisabeth d’Arvieu
In 2021, it took a majority stake in the U.K.’s Drama Republic, while on the eve of Cannes, it bought Submarine, the Amsterdam and...
- 5/21/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Douglas Booth, Alison Pill and Iris Apatow have joined an adaptation of the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe classic “The Sorrows of Young Werther.”
The film, simply titled “Young Werther,” is produced by Toronto-based film and TV outfit Wildling Pictures, which describes the project as a modern retelling of the book.
Booth (“That Dirty Black Bag”) and Pill (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) will take lead roles, with Apatow (“The Bubble”) also set to star along Patrick J. Adams (“Suits”). Production will begin this month in Toronto.
Drawing from Goethe’s passionate personal accounts, which were first published in letter form in 1774, “Young Werther” is the story of a charmingly irresponsible and enthusiastic young man named Werther (Booth) who finds himself at the mercy of Charlotte (Pill), whose allure and commitment to her impressive fiancé Albert turns Werther’s life upside down.
The project marks the feature directorial debut for José...
The film, simply titled “Young Werther,” is produced by Toronto-based film and TV outfit Wildling Pictures, which describes the project as a modern retelling of the book.
Booth (“That Dirty Black Bag”) and Pill (“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”) will take lead roles, with Apatow (“The Bubble”) also set to star along Patrick J. Adams (“Suits”). Production will begin this month in Toronto.
Drawing from Goethe’s passionate personal accounts, which were first published in letter form in 1774, “Young Werther” is the story of a charmingly irresponsible and enthusiastic young man named Werther (Booth) who finds himself at the mercy of Charlotte (Pill), whose allure and commitment to her impressive fiancé Albert turns Werther’s life upside down.
The project marks the feature directorial debut for José...
- 5/17/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The Morning Show star on playing the woman who hid Anne Frank, revitalising period dramas and working with her teenage heroes Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon
Isobel “Bel” Powley, 31, was born in west London. In 2016 she was Bafta-nominated for The Diary of a Teenage Girl and shortlisted for a British independent film award for playing Princess Margaret in A Royal Night Out. Subsequent film roles include The King of Staten Island and Mary Shelley, where she met her fiance, actor Douglas Booth. On TV, she’s starred in The Morning Show and Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love. She now plays Hermine “Miep” Gies in miniseries A Small Light, based on the true story of the young woman who hid the Frank family during the second world war and preserved Anne’s diary.
Were you familiar with Miep Gies’s story?
I’d read Anne Frank’s diary as a kid,...
Isobel “Bel” Powley, 31, was born in west London. In 2016 she was Bafta-nominated for The Diary of a Teenage Girl and shortlisted for a British independent film award for playing Princess Margaret in A Royal Night Out. Subsequent film roles include The King of Staten Island and Mary Shelley, where she met her fiance, actor Douglas Booth. On TV, she’s starred in The Morning Show and Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love. She now plays Hermine “Miep” Gies in miniseries A Small Light, based on the true story of the young woman who hid the Frank family during the second world war and preserved Anne’s diary.
Were you familiar with Miep Gies’s story?
I’d read Anne Frank’s diary as a kid,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Michael Hogan
- The Guardian - Film News
Warning: This review contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Great Expectations.
There have been plenty of good, and even great, adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations.
Unfortunately, this is not one of them.
Most recently, Mike Newell directed a film version in 2012 starring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter.
BBC, one of the production companies behind this version (along with FX), produced a three-part miniseries in 2011-2012 starring Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone, and Gillian Anderson.
The most famous adaptation this side of the pond is probably Alfonso Cuarón's modern version in 1998, starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anne Bancroft.
News of Steven Knight's version was exciting, particularly with the announcement of Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham.
If you're going to remake something that has been adapted so many times, you have to approach it from a new vantage point.
Cuarón's version, for example, didn't always work,...
There have been plenty of good, and even great, adaptations of the Charles Dickens classic Great Expectations.
Unfortunately, this is not one of them.
Most recently, Mike Newell directed a film version in 2012 starring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter.
BBC, one of the production companies behind this version (along with FX), produced a three-part miniseries in 2011-2012 starring Douglas Booth, Ray Winstone, and Gillian Anderson.
The most famous adaptation this side of the pond is probably Alfonso Cuarón's modern version in 1998, starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Anne Bancroft.
News of Steven Knight's version was exciting, particularly with the announcement of Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham.
If you're going to remake something that has been adapted so many times, you have to approach it from a new vantage point.
Cuarón's version, for example, didn't always work,...
- 3/26/2023
- by Mary Littlejohn
- TVfanatic
Sanditon is back for its third and final season on PBS. The romantic period drama’s last outing kicks off on Sunday, March 19 and will wrap up the story of Charlotte Heywood, played by Rose Williams.
Fans will soon have to say goodbye to Williams as Charlotte. However, they can still check out some of her other work, which includes roles in shows and movies such as Reign, That Dirty Black Bag, and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
Rose Williams played Princess Claude in ‘Reign’ Rose Williams | Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
One of Williams’ first major roles was on the CW series Reign. She played Princess Claude, the daughter of King Henry and Queen Catherine and the younger sister of Prince Henry, in the historical drama that was loosely inspired by the life of a young Mary Queen of Scots.
“It was the best,” Williams said of landing the gig...
Fans will soon have to say goodbye to Williams as Charlotte. However, they can still check out some of her other work, which includes roles in shows and movies such as Reign, That Dirty Black Bag, and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.
Rose Williams played Princess Claude in ‘Reign’ Rose Williams | Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
One of Williams’ first major roles was on the CW series Reign. She played Princess Claude, the daughter of King Henry and Queen Catherine and the younger sister of Prince Henry, in the historical drama that was loosely inspired by the life of a young Mary Queen of Scots.
“It was the best,” Williams said of landing the gig...
- 3/19/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The new releases just keep coming here in 2023, and while Scream VI continues to slash up the screen, another Nine brand new horror movies are coming along in its wake this week.
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 14 – March 19, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
First up, the Elizabeth Banks-directed horror-comedy Cocaine Bear is now available at home beginning today; you can rent the film for $19.99 or Digitally purchase it for $24.99.
From Universal Pictures, Cocaine Bear was released in theaters on February 24, the film gobbling its way to a $51 million domestic haul. Worldwide, the current total is $65 million.
‘Cocaine Bear’ Review – A Raucously Entertaining and Gory Horror-Comedy
The movie is inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, and it was written by Jimmy Warden. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) produced.
“The movie finds an oddball group of cops,...
Here’s all the new horror releasing March 14 – March 19, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
First up, the Elizabeth Banks-directed horror-comedy Cocaine Bear is now available at home beginning today; you can rent the film for $19.99 or Digitally purchase it for $24.99.
From Universal Pictures, Cocaine Bear was released in theaters on February 24, the film gobbling its way to a $51 million domestic haul. Worldwide, the current total is $65 million.
‘Cocaine Bear’ Review – A Raucously Entertaining and Gory Horror-Comedy
The movie is inspired by true events that took place in Kentucky in 1985, and it was written by Jimmy Warden. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) produced.
“The movie finds an oddball group of cops,...
- 3/14/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Shout! Studios presents The Magic Flute by Florian Zigl, executive produced by Roland Emmerich, at 325 theaters with expansion likely. A reimagining of the Mozart opera, it follows a present-day teen sent from London to the Austrian Alps on singing scholarship at the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a century old forgotten passageway into the magical world of Mozart’s famed opera.
This Harry Potter-ish adventure fantasy stars Jack Wolfe as Tim Walker, who passes from school into the world of the opera and its many adventures as hero Prince Tamino. Wide releases may be picking up steam and Scream, but in terms of new specialty, and family fare, these isn’t much new competition this weekend.
Melissa Boag, EVP of Family Entertainment at Shout! Studios, hopes it will play with fans of magical adventure, Harry Potter, and classical music. Wolfe is a star of Netflix YA series Shadow & Bone.
This Harry Potter-ish adventure fantasy stars Jack Wolfe as Tim Walker, who passes from school into the world of the opera and its many adventures as hero Prince Tamino. Wide releases may be picking up steam and Scream, but in terms of new specialty, and family fare, these isn’t much new competition this weekend.
Melissa Boag, EVP of Family Entertainment at Shout! Studios, hopes it will play with fans of magical adventure, Harry Potter, and classical music. Wolfe is a star of Netflix YA series Shadow & Bone.
- 3/10/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The Irish thriller Unwelcome follows the story of an expecting couple, Jamie (Douglas Booth) and Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) when they move to rural Ireland in hopes of a quiet life. Since their new houses needed repairs, the couple hire the Whelan family who bring their superstitions and violent tendencies with them.
In an exclusive interview with uInterview, John-Kamen discussed the scariest scenes for her to shoot.
“I mean where does it end, the kind of horror, I mean,” she began. “It’s just horror on some horror, it’s just like such a layer aspects but I think the most scariest thing that I felt really connected to was – it wasn’t even just the physical kind of you know, the physical fear of having your home invaded or the Whelan’s or the Red Caps even, it was actually the idea of losing my mind and feeling that loneliness and that madness,...
In an exclusive interview with uInterview, John-Kamen discussed the scariest scenes for her to shoot.
“I mean where does it end, the kind of horror, I mean,” she began. “It’s just horror on some horror, it’s just like such a layer aspects but I think the most scariest thing that I felt really connected to was – it wasn’t even just the physical kind of you know, the physical fear of having your home invaded or the Whelan’s or the Red Caps even, it was actually the idea of losing my mind and feeling that loneliness and that madness,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Stars: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Chris Walley, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Kristian Nairn, Niamh Cusack | Written by Jon Wright, Mark Stay | Directed by Jon Wright
Well my friends I have officially seen what I consider to be my best of 2023… So far of course, I mean it’s only March. However I kid you not, Unwelcome is exactly what you need When you need it. A low key top quality cast, gorgeous sprawling Irish landscapes, a wicked smart script and outrageously awesome practical Goblins. Yes, you read that right and I will say it again Goblins people we are dealing with fricking Goblins.
Director of 2009s Tormented Jon Wright comes at us with Unwelcome, where we find a young married couple, newly pregnant Maya and Jamie, brutally attacked in their London flat by a group of Roadmen (my daughter’s words). A short time later a relative of Jamie has...
Well my friends I have officially seen what I consider to be my best of 2023… So far of course, I mean it’s only March. However I kid you not, Unwelcome is exactly what you need When you need it. A low key top quality cast, gorgeous sprawling Irish landscapes, a wicked smart script and outrageously awesome practical Goblins. Yes, you read that right and I will say it again Goblins people we are dealing with fricking Goblins.
Director of 2009s Tormented Jon Wright comes at us with Unwelcome, where we find a young married couple, newly pregnant Maya and Jamie, brutally attacked in their London flat by a group of Roadmen (my daughter’s words). A short time later a relative of Jamie has...
- 3/8/2023
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Grabbers director Jon Wright’s latest, Unwelcome, blends modernism with Irish mythology. Described in a pitch as “Gremlins meets Straw Dogs,” Unwelcome introduces the far darrig, tiny bloodthirsty fae also dubbed redcaps for their signature red hats. Yet Wright, who co-wrote with screenwriter Mark Stay, struggles to find a consistent tone. The emphasis on gritty home invasion thriller clashes with the lighter horror-comedy creature feature.
Elation turns to trauma when a pregnancy celebration between Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and her husband, Jamie (Douglas Booth), morphs into a harrowing home invasion nightmare. Jamie then conveniently inherits a house in rural Ireland, giving the couple the perfect opportunity to flee their dangerous London neighborhood. The locals are welcoming, though superstitious; Maya placates her neighbor (Niamh Cusack) with promises to continue the tradition of leaving proper blood sacrifices at the edge of their garden to appease the far darrig. Remembering to uphold her commitment...
Elation turns to trauma when a pregnancy celebration between Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and her husband, Jamie (Douglas Booth), morphs into a harrowing home invasion nightmare. Jamie then conveniently inherits a house in rural Ireland, giving the couple the perfect opportunity to flee their dangerous London neighborhood. The locals are welcoming, though superstitious; Maya placates her neighbor (Niamh Cusack) with promises to continue the tradition of leaving proper blood sacrifices at the edge of their garden to appease the far darrig. Remembering to uphold her commitment...
- 3/7/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Grabbers director Jon Wright is back with the creature feature Unwelcome (formerly The Little People), and Bloody Disgusting has another exclusive clip for you this week in which we learn that a nightly blood offering should keep “the little people” happy.
Well Go USA Entertainment will unleash Jon Wright’s new horror movie in select theaters across North America (US and Canada) on March 8th as an AMC “Thrills and Chills” exclusive, followed by a PVOD release on March 14, 2023.
The film, described as Gremlins meets Straw Dogs, spins a tale of what happens to people who come in contact with the violent, bloodthirsty goblins known originally in Irish folklore as the fear dearg or “far darrig,” now often referred to worldwide as the “Redcaps.”
Unwelcome, which is directed by Irish-born Jon Wright and based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay, stars Hannah John-Kamen (Red Sonja, Black Mirror, Ant-Man and The Wasp,...
Well Go USA Entertainment will unleash Jon Wright’s new horror movie in select theaters across North America (US and Canada) on March 8th as an AMC “Thrills and Chills” exclusive, followed by a PVOD release on March 14, 2023.
The film, described as Gremlins meets Straw Dogs, spins a tale of what happens to people who come in contact with the violent, bloodthirsty goblins known originally in Irish folklore as the fear dearg or “far darrig,” now often referred to worldwide as the “Redcaps.”
Unwelcome, which is directed by Irish-born Jon Wright and based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay, stars Hannah John-Kamen (Red Sonja, Black Mirror, Ant-Man and The Wasp,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Irish thriller Unwelcome follows the story of an expecting couple, Jamie (Douglas Booth) and Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) when they move to rural Ireland in hopes of a quiet life. Since their new houses needed repairs, the couple hire the Whelan family who bring their superstitions and violent tendencies with them. Kristian Nairn, who is best known as Hodor in Game of Thrones, plays the eldest of the Whelan children, Eoin.
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In an exclusive interview with uInterview founder Erik Meers, Nairn discussed the scariest scene from the movie.
“I just love the scene in the forest, it was such a beautiful atmospheric setting,” Nairn said. “Also playing a character that is very different to myself and doing things that I would never do, I mean that’s one of the most fun things about been an actor, you get to do even the horrible things are kind of fun.
>Watch Kit Harington’s uBIO Now!
In an exclusive interview with uInterview founder Erik Meers, Nairn discussed the scariest scene from the movie.
“I just love the scene in the forest, it was such a beautiful atmospheric setting,” Nairn said. “Also playing a character that is very different to myself and doing things that I would never do, I mean that’s one of the most fun things about been an actor, you get to do even the horrible things are kind of fun.
- 3/3/2023
- by Hailey Schipper
- Uinterview
Unwelcome is a horror movie directed by Jon Wright starring Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth.
A mixture of horror and local bright spots that, as it progresses, stops being “scary” to introduce us to “something else” that, although it will not be that surprising, it is quite interesting.
The creatures that appear will be quite familiar to you (whether or not they resemble the Critters is up to you).
Movie Review Unwelcome (2023)
For a B-movie, it has its merits in some places, especially in terms of cinematography. It knows how to maintain its tone of a fable and coherently interconnect the protagonist landscape with the narrative and the personal dramas of each one. The acting is fine, but no one here is exactly going to win an Oscar.
As for the horror story, it gets somewhat blurred as soon as the “protagonists” of the story appear (we will not give...
A mixture of horror and local bright spots that, as it progresses, stops being “scary” to introduce us to “something else” that, although it will not be that surprising, it is quite interesting.
The creatures that appear will be quite familiar to you (whether or not they resemble the Critters is up to you).
Movie Review Unwelcome (2023)
For a B-movie, it has its merits in some places, especially in terms of cinematography. It knows how to maintain its tone of a fable and coherently interconnect the protagonist landscape with the narrative and the personal dramas of each one. The acting is fine, but no one here is exactly going to win an Oscar.
As for the horror story, it gets somewhat blurred as soon as the “protagonists” of the story appear (we will not give...
- 3/3/2023
- by Ana Gomez
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
This article contains major Unwelcome spoilers.
British horror Unwelcome sees city couple Maya (Hannah-John Kamen) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) move to Ireland after a horrific home invasion leaves them shaken. But the new rural home isn’t the peaceful idyll they had hoped for, with a baby on the way. If the violent local family hired to do some building work weren’t enough, they also have murderous Redcaps to deal with. It’s a lot.
“It started originally from a conversation I had with Mark Stay, who wrote the film,” says director Jon Wright. “We were kind of almost making fun of each other, and making fun of ourselves really about what cowards we were, and how, if we were ever confronted with physical violence, how frightening we found it, and how useless we were at fighting. We were saying that being a pacifist is really a kind of...
British horror Unwelcome sees city couple Maya (Hannah-John Kamen) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) move to Ireland after a horrific home invasion leaves them shaken. But the new rural home isn’t the peaceful idyll they had hoped for, with a baby on the way. If the violent local family hired to do some building work weren’t enough, they also have murderous Redcaps to deal with. It’s a lot.
“It started originally from a conversation I had with Mark Stay, who wrote the film,” says director Jon Wright. “We were kind of almost making fun of each other, and making fun of ourselves really about what cowards we were, and how, if we were ever confronted with physical violence, how frightening we found it, and how useless we were at fighting. We were saying that being a pacifist is really a kind of...
- 3/3/2023
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Grabbers director Jon Wright is back with the creature feature Unwelcome (formerly The Little People), and Bloody Disgusting has an exclusive clip for you this week.
This clip introduces the film’s tiny Gremlins-style goblins, one of whom ends up getting well acquainted with a cleaver. And his friends are out for bloody revenge…
Watch Bd’s exclusive first-look clip from Unwelcome below!
Well Go USA Entertainment will unleash Jon Wright’s new horror movie in select theaters across North America (US and Canada) on March 8th as an AMC “Thrills and Chills” exclusive, followed by a PVOD release on March 14, 2023.
The film, described as Gremlins meets Straw Dogs, spins a tale of what happens to people who come in contact with the violent, bloodthirsty goblins known originally in Irish folklore as the fear dearg or “far darrig,” now often referred to worldwide as the “Redcaps.”
Unwelcome, which is directed...
This clip introduces the film’s tiny Gremlins-style goblins, one of whom ends up getting well acquainted with a cleaver. And his friends are out for bloody revenge…
Watch Bd’s exclusive first-look clip from Unwelcome below!
Well Go USA Entertainment will unleash Jon Wright’s new horror movie in select theaters across North America (US and Canada) on March 8th as an AMC “Thrills and Chills” exclusive, followed by a PVOD release on March 14, 2023.
The film, described as Gremlins meets Straw Dogs, spins a tale of what happens to people who come in contact with the violent, bloodthirsty goblins known originally in Irish folklore as the fear dearg or “far darrig,” now often referred to worldwide as the “Redcaps.”
Unwelcome, which is directed...
- 3/1/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Full Moon Features Launches “Full Moon Horror Line”, A Brand New Premium Toy Division LED By Award-winning Toy And Collectibles Mogul, Rick Phares: "Los Angeles, CA - January 30, 2023 - Full Moon Features (Fmf) announced today the launch of the Full Moon Horror Line, its new, premium toy division, creating, developing, and producing a breadth of new, high-end replicas and figures, along with innovative toys and merchandise based off of Fmf’s vast catalog of legacy franchises and licenses. Fmf has tapped award-winning toy and collectibles mogul, Rick Phares to develop and oversee all products coming out of its new division.
The Full Moon Horror Line will kick off in Q1 of this year with the launch of its flagship product, the 1:1 scale talking Baby Oopsie prop replica, a high-end collectible from Fmf’s cult-following franchise, “Demonic Toys”. Retailing for 299.95, the Baby Oopsie replica is cast from the original...
The Full Moon Horror Line will kick off in Q1 of this year with the launch of its flagship product, the 1:1 scale talking Baby Oopsie prop replica, a high-end collectible from Fmf’s cult-following franchise, “Demonic Toys”. Retailing for 299.95, the Baby Oopsie replica is cast from the original...
- 2/1/2023
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Stars: Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Chris Walley, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Kristian Nairn, Niamh Cusack | Written by Jon Wright, Mark Stay | Directed by Jon Wright
Director Jon Wright has a good track record when it comes to comedy horror, having previously made high school slasher Tormented (2009) and boozy creature feature Grabbers (2012). His latest film, Unwelcome, adds more monsters to his menagerie, in an effective genre offering that plays like Straw Dogs meets Gremlins, by way of Leprechaun.
Unwelcome opens in a dodgy area of London, where newly pregnant couple Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) are brutally beaten after local thugs invade their flat. Nine months later, with Maya’s baby imminent, the pair relocate to rural Ireland, after Jamie inherits his aunt’s house.
Almost immediately, Maya is warned that there are certain rituals that have to be obeyed, specifically that she has to leave a piece of...
Director Jon Wright has a good track record when it comes to comedy horror, having previously made high school slasher Tormented (2009) and boozy creature feature Grabbers (2012). His latest film, Unwelcome, adds more monsters to his menagerie, in an effective genre offering that plays like Straw Dogs meets Gremlins, by way of Leprechaun.
Unwelcome opens in a dodgy area of London, where newly pregnant couple Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) and Jamie (Douglas Booth) are brutally beaten after local thugs invade their flat. Nine months later, with Maya’s baby imminent, the pair relocate to rural Ireland, after Jamie inherits his aunt’s house.
Almost immediately, Maya is warned that there are certain rituals that have to be obeyed, specifically that she has to leave a piece of...
- 1/27/2023
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
‘Pathaan’ makes fast start; Venice winner ‘All The Beauty…’ launches.
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans makes its UK-Ireland box office bow this weekend, with competition from Lionsgate action film Plane, Bollywood thriller Pathaan and Venice-winning documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
The Fabelmans is the widest opening title of the weekend, starting in 670 locations (and 767 screens) through eOne. This marks the company’s third-widest opening of all time in the territory, behind 1917’s 692 sites from January 2020, and The Bfg’s 680 from July 2016.
Those films started with £7.3m and £5.3m respectively; anything approaching either of those figures would...
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical drama The Fabelmans makes its UK-Ireland box office bow this weekend, with competition from Lionsgate action film Plane, Bollywood thriller Pathaan and Venice-winning documentary All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
The Fabelmans is the widest opening title of the weekend, starting in 670 locations (and 767 screens) through eOne. This marks the company’s third-widest opening of all time in the territory, behind 1917’s 692 sites from January 2020, and The Bfg’s 680 from July 2016.
Those films started with £7.3m and £5.3m respectively; anything approaching either of those figures would...
- 1/27/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
With its polyfoam beasties and diddly-dee charm, the latest from comedy-horror specialist Jon Wright sustains suspense amid silliness
The 90s straight-to-video horror series Leprechaun was rebooted a few years back, but this is better. A young London couple expecting their first child escape inner-city dystopia for a diddly-dee Irish village when one inherits their aunt’s country pile. However, such unearned property wealth can never go unpunished – especially not in a housing crisis – and inevitably there’s a catch. Local folklore tells of “little people” – definitely not leprechauns – at the end of the garden, who’ll turn nasty if they don’t get their nightly blood offering.
Man of the house Jamie (Douglas Booth) fears he may not be man enough for this particular house. That leaves his heavily pregnant wife Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) alone to fend off all manner of local threats, including, but not limited to, the Whelans,...
The 90s straight-to-video horror series Leprechaun was rebooted a few years back, but this is better. A young London couple expecting their first child escape inner-city dystopia for a diddly-dee Irish village when one inherits their aunt’s country pile. However, such unearned property wealth can never go unpunished – especially not in a housing crisis – and inevitably there’s a catch. Local folklore tells of “little people” – definitely not leprechauns – at the end of the garden, who’ll turn nasty if they don’t get their nightly blood offering.
Man of the house Jamie (Douglas Booth) fears he may not be man enough for this particular house. That leaves his heavily pregnant wife Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) alone to fend off all manner of local threats, including, but not limited to, the Whelans,...
- 1/24/2023
- by Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Over a year ago, a trailer was released for director Jon Wright’s creature feature Unwelcome – and at the time, we were told the film would be receiving a theatrical release in March of 2022. That didn’t happen, but now our friends at Bloody Disgusting have been able to confirm that Well Go USA Entertainment is planning to give Unwelcome a theatrical release on March 10th, with a PVOD release to follow on March 14th. Unwelcome is also set to reach theatres in the UK and Ireland on January 27th. We’ve been waiting for this movie for a while, and it looks like the wait is almost over.
Originally announced under the title The Little People and described as “Gremlins meets Straw Dogs“, Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen of Ant-Man and the Wasp, the Netflix series The Stranger, and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City). The film centers on a...
Originally announced under the title The Little People and described as “Gremlins meets Straw Dogs“, Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen of Ant-Man and the Wasp, the Netflix series The Stranger, and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City). The film centers on a...
- 1/23/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Unwelcome is a horror movie starring Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth. It is directed by Jon Wright.
There’s something lurking at the bottom of the garden. Watch the trailer for #UnwelcomeMovie now and uncover the secrets in cinemas January 27 2023!
Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth as a couple who escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. Additional cast include Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Chris Walley and Kristian Nairn. Directed by Jon Wright, the film is based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay.
Unwelcome (2023)
The film has also reunited the Grabbers creature team; including prosthetics by Shaune Harrison who has worked on some of the world’s highest grossing blockbusters including the Harry Potter films, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Avengers: Age of Ultron...
There’s something lurking at the bottom of the garden. Watch the trailer for #UnwelcomeMovie now and uncover the secrets in cinemas January 27 2023!
Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth as a couple who escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. Additional cast include Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Chris Walley and Kristian Nairn. Directed by Jon Wright, the film is based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay.
Unwelcome (2023)
The film has also reunited the Grabbers creature team; including prosthetics by Shaune Harrison who has worked on some of the world’s highest grossing blockbusters including the Harry Potter films, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Avengers: Age of Ultron...
- 1/22/2023
- by Movies Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Magazine - Movies
A whole new year has begun – and it’s going to be a belter for brand new movies. 2023 brings with it all kinds of cinematic treats to look forward to – epic blockbusters, long-awaited returns from auteur directors, eye-popping animation, soul-stirring dramas, major awards contenders, and schlocky blasts that you won’t want to miss on the big screen. It’s going to be the year of Indiana Jones’ comeback, of fresh films from both Spielberg_ – a film about a bear, high on cocaine. Cinema is alive and well!
Empire’s epic 2023 preview is your guide to the best films hitting UK screens in the next 12 months – from Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and beyond. Prepare for eye-popping horror, adrenaline-pumping action, heartwarming romance, dazzling sci-fi and much more. See you at the movies, everyone!
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Empire’s epic 2023 preview is your guide to the best films hitting UK screens in the next 12 months – from Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie, to Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and beyond. Prepare for eye-popping horror, adrenaline-pumping action, heartwarming romance, dazzling sci-fi and much more. See you at the movies, everyone!
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- 1/13/2023
- by Ben Travis, James White
- Empire - Movies
Grabbers director Jon Wright is back with the creature feature Unwelcome (formerly The Little People), and it’s getting a brand new release date just in time for St. Patrick’s Day.
Well Go USA Entertainment will unleash chilling the creature feature in select theaters on March 10, followed by a PVOD release on March 14, 2023.
The film, described as Gremlins meets Straw Dogs, spins a tale of what happens to people who come in contact with the violent, bloodthirsty goblins known originally in Irish folklore as the fear dearg or “far darrig,” now often referred to worldwide as the “Redcaps.”
Unwelcome, which is directed by Irish-born Jon Wright and based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay, stars Hannah John-Kamen (Red Sonja, Black Mirror, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Ready Player One) and Douglas Booth (Loving Vincent, hit Netflix film The Dirt, Jupiter Ascending, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) as a couple...
Well Go USA Entertainment will unleash chilling the creature feature in select theaters on March 10, followed by a PVOD release on March 14, 2023.
The film, described as Gremlins meets Straw Dogs, spins a tale of what happens to people who come in contact with the violent, bloodthirsty goblins known originally in Irish folklore as the fear dearg or “far darrig,” now often referred to worldwide as the “Redcaps.”
Unwelcome, which is directed by Irish-born Jon Wright and based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay, stars Hannah John-Kamen (Red Sonja, Black Mirror, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Ready Player One) and Douglas Booth (Loving Vincent, hit Netflix film The Dirt, Jupiter Ascending, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) as a couple...
- 1/12/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Unwelcome stars Hannah John-Kamen and Douglas Booth as a couple who escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden.
The rest of the film’s cast includes Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Chris Walley, Kristian Nairn and Niamh Cusack. Directed by Jon Wright, the film is based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay.
Unwelcome also reunites the Grabbers creature team; including prosthetics by Shaune Harrison who has worked on some of the world’s highest grossing blockbusters including the Harry Potter films, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Avengers: Age of Ultron along with creature designs by Paul Catling and longtime Wright collaborator VFX supervisor Paddy Eason.
Unwelcome is released in cinemas on January 27th 2023. Check out the trailer and brand-new poster below:...
The rest of the film’s cast includes Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Chris Walley, Kristian Nairn and Niamh Cusack. Directed by Jon Wright, the film is based on an original screenplay by Mark Stay.
Unwelcome also reunites the Grabbers creature team; including prosthetics by Shaune Harrison who has worked on some of the world’s highest grossing blockbusters including the Harry Potter films, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Avengers: Age of Ultron along with creature designs by Paul Catling and longtime Wright collaborator VFX supervisor Paddy Eason.
Unwelcome is released in cinemas on January 27th 2023. Check out the trailer and brand-new poster below:...
- 1/5/2023
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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