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Florence Pugh opens up about her experience in the Hollywood industry and says it could be “really exhausting,” especially for young women.

In a new interview, the Oppenheimer star shared why there are hardships in the movie industry and why she’s encouraged to raise her voice.

“There are fine lines women have to stay within,” Pugh told The Times. “Otherwise they are called a diva, demanding, problematic. And I don’t want to fit into stereotypes made by others. It is really exhausting for a young woman to just be in this industry, and actually other industries. But I’ve always been encouraged to have a voice.”

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Pugh also reflected on the roles she has played throughout her career like in Lady Macbeth and The Wonder, saying, “Well, it’s always been fashionable to tell a woman how she should live her life.

Eric Bischoff helped change the game of pro wrestling. As executive producer and senior vice president of World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he took the company to new heights with big moves that shook up the industry. Among them turning Hulk Hogan bad to lead the New World Order (nWo), leveraging celebrity involvement including Dennis Rodman and Jay Leno, and making Monday night appointment television with the flagship live show WCW Nitro. After the once Ted Turner-owned promotion was bought by Vince McMahon and shuttered, Bischoff continued to do the unexpected joining the once rival WWE as an onscreen character working alongside “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. He’d also bring his wealth of knowledge as an executive producer for Tna Wrestling. That’s not even counting the success he had in the reality TV realm with his business partner Jason Hervey of The Wonder Years fame. Today it seemed Bischoff...

Early on in her career, Florence Pugh was asked to change her body for a TV show that ultimately didn’t pan out. This incident prompted her not to pursue Hollywood until she was clear on her direction. However, Pugh later proved herself to be an asset with roles in films like The Wonder, Lady Macbeth, and Midsommar.

Florence Pugh in a still from Midsommar | Credits: A24

Pugh played the traumatized Dani Ardor in Ari Aster’s folk horror film Midsommar. Pugh recalled filming one particularly difficult scene in the film, which involved her expressing her extreme emotions. Pugh also shared that she had put herself through abuse for the film.

Florence Pugh’s One Midsommar Scene Was Beyond Challenging To Shoot Florence Pugh as Dani Ardor in Midsommar | Credits: A24

During an interview with Time, Florence Pugh revealed that she infused each character she played with an element of confrontation and survival,...

Following her iconic performances in several critically acclaimed films, if there’s one thing that Florence Pugh has mastered, it’s the art of tugging at our heartstrings. Making her fans tear up every time she’s on screen, Pugh once again proved her prowess as an emotional powerhouse in We Live in Time, alongside Andrew Garfield.

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in We Live in Time | image: A24

While Florence Pugh’s ability to convey raw emotion is nothing short of magical, fans have started noticing how the actress rarely appears in happy roles. Perhaps, it’s a trend set by Pugh of appearing in films that leave her fans teary-eyed and yearning for more.

Florence Pugh’s We Live in Time Happens to be an Emotional Rollercoaster

Buckle up, for Florence Pugh has returned to barge in through our watergates with her latest movie We Live in Time,...

Even though she's no stranger to Netflix, having starred in the streamer's original movies Outlaw King, Malevolent, and The Wonder, Academy Award-nominated actress Florence Pugh's biggest Netflix role is still to come. The talented star will lead the cast of Netflix's upcoming limited series East of Eden, based on the novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.

Pugh first became attached to star when word of the project was revealed by Deadline back in June 2022, but Netflix officially gave the limited series the green light in September 2024. Along with Pugh leading the cast, three additional cast members were announced at the time of the green light: Christopher Abbott, Mike Faist, and Hoon Lee.

On Oct. 21, the ensemble cast of East of Eden was rounded out with Tracy Letts, Matha Plimpton, Ciarán Hinds, Joseph Zada, and Joe Anders. With the cast set, it's reported that production on the seven-episode...

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Production has started on East of Eden, the Netflix adaptation of the 1952 novel by Nobel Prize–winning author John Steinbeck.The seven-episode limited series, written and executive produced by Zoe Kazan, will film in several locations across New Zealand and will star Florence Pugh, who will also executive produce.

The new take on the classic novel continues the legacy of Zoe’s grandfather, Elia Kazan, who directed the 1955 East of Eden film starring James Dean.

“In the process of bringing this family saga to life, the resonance of my own familial connection to the material has not been lost on me,” Kazan told Netflix. “But it is Steinbeck’s writing — personal, shocking, profound, and...

Two years ago, we brought you the news that Florence Pugh had signed on to star in a new adaptation of East Of Eden, John Steinbeck's 1952 literary epic. In the time since the project — a seven-part Netflix limited series written by Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) — was first announced, Christopher Abbott has joined the show's cast and Pugh's star has continued to rise with winning turns in the likes of The Wonder, Oppenheimer, and Dune: Part Two. And now we're getting an exciting new casting announcement for the series as Netflix has officially greenlit the project. Per Deadline's reporting, Challengers star Mike Faist has joined the ensemble, and whilst earlier indications suggested he will be playing Cal Trask, the part James Dean famously played in Elia Kazan's 1955 movie, it looks instead like he'll be playing the novel's Cain figure, Charles, instead.

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Her boyfriend has just cheated on her, leaving her wronged and distraught. Now on her own for the first time in who-knows-how-long, the girl will commit every act of rebellion she can think of: tattoos, belly button piercings… But being the victim to nearly every man she has encountered is too much, and she soon takes to the edge of an overpass, ready to end it all. Then, as the asshole ex approaches, she jumps… only to reveal it as a prank on the man who jilted her. And this was how Alicia Silverstone was discovered: dangling from a bungee cord and flipping off the viewer. Let’s find out: What Happened to… Alicia Silverstone?

But to truly understand what happened to Alicia Silverstone, we go back to the beginning. And the beginning began when she was born on October 4th, 1976, in San Francisco, CA. Alicia Silverstone fell in love...

Veteran producer-distributor David Kosse has set up a development deal with Prime Video for the UK under his new production outfit Rockwood Pictures.

Kosse was most recently the London-based head of international film at Netflix.

The company’s development deal sits with the streamer’s UK licensing team under Chris Bird, managing director of Prime Video UK. It will cover the development and production of films, Prime Video confirmed to Screen.

The London-based Kosse set up Rockwood in 2023 and has kept a tight lid on his strategy so far, but is known to be quietly developing a slate of film...

Veteran producer-diistrbutor David Kosse has set up a first-look development deal with Prime Video for the UK under his new production outfit Rockwood Pictures.

Kosse was most recently the London-based head of international film at Netflix.

The company’s development deal sits with the streamer’s UK licensing team under Chris Bird, managing director of Prime Video UK. It will cover the development and production of films, Prime Video confirmed to Screen.

The London-based Kosse set up Rockwood in 2023 with former Netflix colleague Claire Willats, who led the Nordics team at the US streamer and produced films such as Troll,...

HanWay Films’ Katie Ellen and Fiona Lamptey, co-founder of Juno Studios and formerly of Netflix, are the latest high-profile executives to join the line-up of speakers at Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ Summit, to be held on September 24, 2024, at BFI Southbank, London.

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Ellen joined UK sales outfit HanWay Films in 2023 in the newly-created role of head of production. She previously worked at the BFI for 12 years, most recently as head of distribution and commercial strategy. BFI FIlm Fund-backed projects Ellen worked on include Scrapper, Aftersun and Triangle Of Sadness.

Lamptey set up Juno Studios...

The Black Phone star Mason Thames is gearing up for a Monster Summer, a spooky family adventure from director David Henrie (“Wizards of Waverly Place”). A brand new trailer debuted today, introducing a supernatural coming-of-age story.

Monster Summer arrives in theaters on October 4, 2024.

In the film, “When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.”

The new trailer below leans into the nostalgia of childhood summers with a suspenseful twist, while giving nothing away. It’s also packed with familiar faces.

Lorraine Bracco, Nora Zehetner (“The Right Stuff”), Noah Cottrell (“The Spiderwick Chronicles), Abby James Witherspoon (Secret Headquarters), Lilah Pate (“Outer Banks”), Julian Lerner (“The Wonder Years”), Patrick Renna (The Sandlot), and Mel Gibson also stars.

The spooky family adventure movie, formerly titled Boys of Summer, was...

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh find everlasting love after she accidentally runs him over in her car in the trailer for director John Crowley’s We Live in Time, which dropped on Wednesday.

That chance encounter changes their lives over decades as they find romance, build a home and family together and face a host of challenges on their way. With their relationship still apparently fresh, Tobias (Garfield) at one point in the trailer, having shed his neck brace after his car accident injuries, tells Almut (Pugh) that he must leave, only to be asked why he’s in a rush.

“Because I’m worried there’s a very distinct and real possibility that I’m about to fall in love with you,” he answers, before they embrace passionately. Along with the birth of a child, Almut faces her own health crisis at another point in the trailer, which has...

One of the worst kept secrets in Ireland’s film and TV sector has been official confirmed by the local industry body — that the second season of “Wednesday” is now shooting in the country.

The hit Netflix show — produced by MGM Television — became a smash hit in 2023, with season one (which shot in Romania) amassing more than 250 million views and winning four Emmys. It was revealed late last year that the second outing would be shifting production to County Wicklow in Ireland.

But for Screen Ireland, which has helped welcome countless major films and TV shows — including the likes of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” — to its shores since it was re-launched in 1993 (as the Irish Film Board), “Wednesday” marks the “largest production to ever film in Ireland” in terms of production spend.

To celebrate the news, Ireland’s prime minister, Taoiseach Simon Harris, visited the set, meeting series director Tim Burton,...

Bec Mortimer, Fiona Lamptey, Amber Taylor and Vinnie Shergill, four former senior Netflix executives who between them have decades of experience in the entertainment industry involving some of the world’s most successful shows, have joined forces to launch Juno Studios.

Headquartered in London, the new venture is described as an “innovative entertainment studio” with production capabilities and creative expertise across development, production, distribution and marketing.

“Our collective expertise in storytelling runs across development, production, marketing and distribution and we’re excited to bring our entertainment experience to our partners,” the founders said in a joint statement. “Juno Studios operates as an end to end studio with a collaborative cross-platform approach, so we can engage with audiences in the spaces they already love. We are collaborating with writers, filmmakers, on-screen talent, creators, cultural organisations and brands that are intentional about longevity and legacy; who want to bring value to audiences by cultivating belonging.

Lee Daniels’ The Deliverance just got even more haunting with new cast additions. Omar Epps, Demi Singleton, Miss Lawrence and Anthony B. Jenkins will be joining Andra Day, Glenn Close, Mo’Nique, Aunjanue Ellis, Caleb McLaughlin and Tasha Smith in the upcoming horror film.

Inspired by a true story, struggling single mom Ebony Jackson (Day) moves her mother and children into a new home, hoping for a fresh start. The move is anything but a housewarming, however. When the family begins to experience demonic occurrences, Ebony finds herself in a spiritual battle between her faith, her life and the souls of her children — a battle that could have deadly consequences for all of them.

There is no release date yet for the highly anticipated project, but it is expected to...

Cornerstone has closed worldwide distribution deals for Andrea Arnold’s latest feature film Bird, which debuted at last month’s Cannes Film Festival.

The film has been picked up by Mfa (Germany), Lucky Red (Italy), Avalon (Spain), Benelux (Cineart), Cinobo (Greece), New Cinema (Israel), Front Row (Middle East), and Lusomundo (Portugal).

Further deals include Nonstop (Scandinavia), Frenetic (Switzerland), Discovery, Provzglyad (C.I.S), Aerofilm, Impacto Cine (Latin America), New Select (Japan) and Challan (South Korea). Mubi previously announced it had bought the film for North America, Turkey, the UK and Ireland. Ad Vitam is the French distributor.

Written and directed by Arnold, Bird stars BAFTA-winner and Academy-Award nominee Barry Keoghan, Gotham-Award nominee Franz Rogowski, and newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. The film’s synopsis reads: 12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter...

Andrea Arnold’s drama “Bird,” starring Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski and a recent contender for the Palme d’Or in Cannes, has been sold around the world by Cornerstone.

With Mubi having snapped up the film before Cannes for the U.K and Ireland and during the fest for North America and Turkey, the new deals include Mfa (Germany), Lucky Red (Italy), Avalon (Spain), Benelux (Cineart), Cinobo (Greece), New Cinema (Israel), Front Row (Middle East), Lusomundo (Portugal), Nonstop (Scandinavia), Frenetic (Switzerland), Discovery, Provzglyad (C.I.S), Aerofilm, Impacto Cine (Latin America), New Select (Japan) and Challan (South Korea). As previously announced, Ad Vitam is the French distributor.

Written and directed by Arnold, “Bird” sees the director return to the social realist world of her dramas “Red Road” and “Fish Tank” (both of them Cannes jury prize winners). The film sees Keoghan play Bug, a tattoo-covered young father living by the British...

Fan-favorite “Mad Max: Fury Road” character Furiosa gets her story expanded with the prequel film “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.” Anya Taylor-Joy takes the reins from Charlize Theron as the title character but there are many new and familiar faces popping up throughout the movie. Let’s meet them all.

Here’s the official logline: “As the world falls, young Furiosa (Taylor-Joy) is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. She will spend the rest of her life battling to get back home.”

Anya Taylor-Joy as Furiosa “Furiosa” (Warner Bros.)

Anya Taylor-Joy takes over the role of Furiosa from Charlize Theron in this prequel. In “Furiosa,” the titular character struggles to escape after being kidnapped by a warlord and falling in with Dementus’s biker hoard.

Taylor-Joy’s career has exploded in the last few years.

Launched last year by Wes Anderson’s producing partners at Indian Paintbrush, Galerie has emerged as a well-curated film club publishing unique selections of films from artists with their personal annotations. With past lists from the likes of James Gray, Ed Lachman, Mike Mills, Karyn Kusama, Ethan Hawke, and more, today we’re pleased to exclusively share a sneak peek from the lists of two celebrated Chilean filmmakers, Pablo Larraín and Sebastián Lelio, which have recently landed on the site.

Both filmmakers are currently working on their latest projects: Larraín is helming the Angelina Jolie-led Maria Callas drama, while Lelio is handling the musical The Wave, inspired by Chile’s “feminist May” movement in 2018. While in post-production on the projects, they’ve shared their curated collections.

The Spencer and El Conde director features Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing on his list,...

Arthouse streamer Mubi has snatched up Andrea Arnold’s Bird for the U.K. and Ireland ahead of the film’s world premiere in competition in Cannes.

Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, Nykiya Adams, and Jason Buda co-star in the new drama from the American Honey and Red Road director. The film follows a 12-year-old who lives with her brother and single dad in a squat in North Kent. As she approaches puberty she seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.

Bird was produced by Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Lee Groombridge for House Productions (The Iron Claw, The Wonder).

Cornerstone is handling international sales for Bird and is co-repping U.S. rights with CAA Media Finance.

Recent Mubi releases include Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Wim Wender’s Perfect Days, Molly Manning Walker’s How to Have Sex, and Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves, all festival hits. The streamer’s upcoming slate includes Levan Akin’s Crossing,...

The new spinoff from The Big Bang Theory must avoid the canon issues that plagued Young Sheldon. The third spinoff should not be a prequel, allowing for more storytelling freedom and less canon contradiction. The next spinoff could bring back the look and feel of the original show, giving viewers a more nostalgic experience.

The news that there will be a third spinoff from The Big Bang Theory gives the shows creators a chance to avoid a problem that Young Sheldon and its follow-up faced. By all measures, Young Sheldon is a successful sitcom spinoff. The family comedy consistently earns high ratings, is well-liked by fans of the original series, and has made Young Sheldons cast of characters as memorably funny as the original shows heroes. However, the show does have one issue that plagues not only Young Sheldon but also its upcoming spinoff, which focuses on Sheldons brother Georgie and his wife Mandy.

Some cool international film news dropping before Cannes unveils their line-up, Variety gets the exclusive scoop on a new Sebastián Lelio project flying off our radar. Production is now complete on The Wave — a musical inspired by the mass protests and university rallies that took place during Chile’s so-called “feminist May” movement in 2018. Production took place over the past two months back in Chile. After 2022’s The Wonder, we were thinking that he’d move towards previous studio type projects in sci-fi pitched Apple/A24 Bride (last mentioned in 2020) or Voyagers but Lelio focused on a local uprising with the curious choice of utilizing the musical genre for a hard-hitting moment in Chile’s recent history.…...

Oscar-winning Chilean director Sebastián Lelio has wrapped production on the newly announced musical film “The Wave,” inspired by the mass protests and university rallies that took place during Chile’s so-called “feminist May” movement in 2018.

The film — starring newcomers Daniela López, Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo and Paulina Cortés — centers on Julia, a dedicated music student who gets involved in the growing feminist movement on her university campus — a group effort where women step up to bring attention to the widespread harassment and abuse suffered by many of their peers. Amid the excitement of protest marches, she joins her friends in dancing and singing, revisiting her own experiences of mistreatment. But as she gathers the courage to share her story, she unexpectedly becomes a central figure in the movement. It’s a role she didn’t foresee, but one which forces her to address her identity as a survivor in a...

Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio has wrapped production and released first images on his new musical film The Wave (La Ola), inspired by the protests and university rallies that took place in Chile during the so-called “feminist May” in 2018.

The film, which stars newcomers Daniela López, Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo and Paulina Cortés, shot on location in Chile for nine weeks.

It centres on Julia, a dedicated music student, who gets involved in the growing feminist movement on her university campus to protest widespread harassment and abuse suffered by many of their peers. Julia joins her friends in dancing and singing,...

Oscar-winning filmmaker Sebastián Lelio has wrapped production on musical film The Wave (La Ola) inspired by the wave of feminist civil disobedience that swept Chile in the spring of 2018.

The mass protests and university rallies, sparked by a collective desire to bring attention to widespread harassment and abuse against women in Chile, came to be known as the “Feminist May”.

The movement was seen as a turning point for Chilean consciousness around women’s rights, reverberated across the world.

The movie’s original musical compositions have been created collaboratively by 17 female Chilean musicians including Ana Tijoux, Camila Moreno and Javiera Parra, as well as the film’s award-winning composer Matthew Herbert, whose credits include Lelio’s The Wonder, A Fantastic Woman, Gloria Bell and Disobedience.

The choreographer is award-winning Ryan Heffington who has worked with recording artists including Sia, Florence and the Machine and Christine and the Queens as well...

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio has revealed details of his new film, The Wave, a Spanish-language production the director of The Wonder and A Fantastic Woman has shot under the radar in Chile over the past nine weeks.

A musical, The Wave was inspired by the mass demonstrations protesting violence against women that swept Chile in 2018, galvanizing the feminist movement in the country and leading to constitutional reform on the rights of women.

The film follows Julia (newcomer Daniela López), a Chilean music student who gets involved in the growing feminist movement on her university campus. While joining her friends in dancing and singing as part of the protests against gender-based violence, Julia revisits her own experiences of mistreatment. She unexpectedly becomes a central figure in the movement that is pushing for change in a society that is resistant to it. Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue and Lelio,...

Sebastián Lelio is setting the soundtrack of a feminist revolution with musical film “The Wave (La Ola)” — it just wrapped production.

The Academy Award-winning director helms the film that follows music student Julia (Daniela López) who gets involved in the growing feminist #MeToo movement on her university campus. Amid the excitement of protest marches, per the official synopsis, Julia joins her friends in dancing and singing, revisiting her own experiences of mistreatment. As she gathers the courage to share her own abuse story, she unexpectedly becomes a central figure in the movement — a role she didn’t foresee, which forces her to address her identity as a survivor in a society that promises change but remains resistant to it.

Avril Aurora, Lola Bravo, and Paulina Cortés also star. See below for first-look images.

Lelio co-wrote the screenplay with Manuela Infante, Josefina Fernández, and Paloma Salas. The writer/director/producer was...

Amazon MGM Studios executives have been screening privately a 10-minute sizzle reel of the upcoming Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans action adventure Red One and discussing the upcoming theatrical slate with exhibitors.

Red One was originally planned to launch on Prime Video and will now open theatrically on November 15. The move offers an indication of what the studio, led by head of film Courtenay Valenti and head of theatrical distribution Kevin Wilson, plans to assemble.

Executives did not host a CinemaCon presentation this year but are bullish on theatrical and say they want to offer broad tentpoles and awards-focused films.

La película dirigida por George Miller y protagonizada por Anya Taylor-Joy y Chris Hemsworth, iluminará la Croisette. © Warner Bros

Nueve años se cumplen desde el estreno de “Mad Max: Fury Road”, y la famosa saga del director, guionista y productor australiano George Miller vuelve a la Croisette. La esperada “Furiosa” será la película que inaugure la 77ª edición del Festival de Cannes en presencia del director y del reparto, encabezado por Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth y Tom Burke, como parte de la sección fuera de competición en el Grand Théâtre Lumière del Palais des Festivals el miércoles 15 de mayo. Una edición que se celebrará del martes 14 de mayo al sábado 25 de mayo de 2024.

En esta nueva entrega, la joven Furiosa es arrebatada del Lugar Verde de Muchas Madres y cae en manos de una gran Horda de Motoristas liderada por el Señor de la Guerra Dementus. Mientras recorren el Páramo,...

¡Adrenalina pura en el nuevo tráiler de “Furiosa”! © Warner Bros

El esperado regreso al mundo distópico de “Mad Max” llega con fuerza con “Furiosa”, la película protagonizada por Anya Taylor-Joy y Chris Hemsworth, bajo la dirección del genio George Miller. Un regreso al icónico mundo distópico que se creó hace más de 30 años con las películas de referencia de “Mad Max”. Una película que revelará los orígenes del poderoso personaje de “Mad Max: Furia en la Carretera”, ganadora de varios Oscar y todo un éxito mundial.

En esta nueva entrega, la joven Furiosa es arrebatada del Lugar Verde de Muchas Madres y cae en manos de una gran Horda de Motoristas liderada por el Señor de la Guerra Dementus. Mientras recorren el Páramo, se topan con la Ciudadela presidida por El Inmortan Joe. Furiosa deberá superar muchas pruebas mientras reúne los medios para encontrar el modo de volver a casa...

Florence Pugh's impressive Rotten Tomatoes audience streak may be at stake with Marvel's Thunderbolts project in 2025. Pugh has shown versatility in various movie genres, from action to drama, maintaining consistent success and critical acclaim. Dune: Part Two showcases Pugh's star power, as she makes an impact with minimal screen time, boosting audience interest.

Appearing in 16 movies since 2016, Florence Pugh has sustained an impressive audience Rotten Tomatoes streak that could yet be jeopardized by Marvel's 2025 Thunderbolts movie. Dune: Part Two has scored another critical hit for the Princess Irulan actress, with Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic sitting at an impressive audience score of 95% (alongside a critical rating of 94%). While this would be an impressive achievement in isolation, it actually reflects a wider trend for Pugh that she will be keen to sustain.

An impressive fact of Pugh's film career is the Oxford-born actress's commitment to a variety of different movies and genres.

Dune: Part Two hit theaters on March 1 and is making waves with audiences. It’s earning high praise from both critics and fans, holding strong with an impressive 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Social media is buzzing about the actors’ performances in the movie, too. Moviegoers loved seeing Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya back on screen as Paul Atreides and Chani, and Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha.

Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune : Part Two

Florence Pugh’s portrayal of Princess Irulan (an important character from the book) is also receiving praise. Pugh joining Dune: Part Two was a thrilling addition, bringing another talented rising star to the film.

After portraying psychiatrist Jean Tatlock in Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer, she landed a role in another big blockbuster of this year. It seems like Pugh’s mother’s motivation keeps her focused.

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Exclusive: Tessa Ross and Juliette Howell do not court publicity and when the duo welcome Deadline to their London office in early February, it is the first interview they have given about House Productions since they set up the film and TV outfit nearly seven years ago.

The Zone of Interest and The Iron Claw are in UK movie theaters when we speak, serving as a timely reminder of the company’s film credits, which have been built brick by brick. A second season of James Graham’s drama series Sherwood will drop in coming months on the BBC and the House principals are fresh back from L.A. as they line up U.S. partners for new projects.

Drama in the works include a series about the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster, a TV adaptation of the musical Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, and an early-stage project with Ncuti Gatwa.

Sky has unleashed the full official trailer for the limited event series, ‘Mary & George,’ starring Academy Award and BAFTA-winning actor Julianne Moore alongside Nicholas Galitzine.

is inspired by the outrageous true story of Mary Villiers, who moulded her beautiful and charismatic son, George, to seduce King James VI of Scotland and I of England (Tony Curran) and become his all-powerful lover.

Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become the richest, most titled and influential players the English court had ever seen, and the King’s most trusted advisors.

And with England’s place on the world stage under threat from a Spanish invasion and rioters taking to the streets to denounce the King, the stakes could not have been higher.

Prepared to stop at nothing and armed with her ruthless political steel, Mary married her way up the ranks, bribed politicians, colluded with criminals and...

Amazon MGM Studios is partnering with The Wonder Project to launch House of David, a straight to order series that will stream exclusively on Prime Video.

House of David follows the once-mighty King Saul as he falls victim to his own pride. A prophet prepares to overthrow him — anointing the outcast shepherd boy David as a second king. As Saul’s fury grows, David navigates love, violence and politics in the court of the very man he’s destined to replace. Two kings. One Kingdom. The outcome is war.

The Wonder Project, led by veteran producer Jon Erwin and entertainment executive Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten, will also develop series and films rooted in spirituality for Prime Video under this new deal. Dallas Jenkins, the creator and producer-director of The Chosen, is a large shareholder and special advisor to The Wonder Project.

House of David is the first project in this collaboration...

Veteran producer Jon Erwin and former Netflix and YouTube exec Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten have announced the launch of The Wonder Project, a new independent studio that will cater to faith and values-oriented audiences.

Founded by Chief Content Officer Erwin and overseen by CEO Hoogstraten, The Wonder Project will look to create premium film and TV content for what they see as a huge audience that has traditionally been underserved by the entertainment industry. They’ll aim to build on the marked success in this arena of such recent titles as The Chosen and The Sound of Freedom, as well as older works like The Passion of the Christ, Heaven is for Real, I Can Only Imagine, War Room, Miracles from Heaven, and Soul Surfer, as they build their global audience.

More than $75 million in seed and Series A funding was raised ahead of launch from such major players as Sovereign’s Capital,...

This post contains spoilers for "Eileen." Seriously. If you haven't seen the movie yet, please check it out and then return to this article.

I fell hard for "Eileen" when I saw it at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, so I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with director William Oldroyd to mark the film's wide release. This is his second feature film, and he's now made two movies about young women who feel restricted by the worlds they live in and dramatically lash out as a result. That's certainly true of his first film, 2016's "Lady Macbeth," which helped catapult a young Florence Pugh to stardom, and for a significant portion of its runtime, it seems as if "Eileen" is going to be a much different kind of story -- a lush but low-key period romance between a mousy young prison employee played by Thomasin McKenzie...

Signature Entertainment has launched the trailer for Mahalia Belo’s debut feature ‘The End We Start From’, which recently secured 9 BIFA nominations.

When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman (Jodie Comer) and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival.

Penned by award-winning British writer Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth, Normal People, The Wonder) and anchored by a tour-de-force performance from Jodie Comer (Killing Eve, The Last Duel, Prima Facie), the film also features supporting turns from Joel Fry (Cruella, Yesterday), Katherine Waterston (Fantastic Beasts, Inherent Vice), BAFTA nominee Mark Strong (1917, Kingsman), BAFTA award-winning Gina McKee (My Policeman, Line Of Duty), Nina Sosanya (Screw, His Dark Materials) and two-time Academy award nominee and BAFTA award-winning Benedict Cumberbatch.

Shortly after shooting his 2015 film “The Lobster,” director Yorgos Lanthimos approached his producing partners Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe about another project he was interested in — “Poor Things,” based on the novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. “Having made a film with him and having seen all of his previous work, we were very committed to him as a filmmaker,” Guiney tells Gold Derby. “The book ‘Poor Things’ sounded extraordinary. Without really knowing how we would pull it off, we signed up to think about getting it made.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Guiney and Lowe above.

Oscar winner Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter in the film, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). The actress also signed up as a producer early on, after discussing the project with Lanthimos on the set of “The Favourite.

Sky and Starz have released a first-look teaser trailer for the spectacular and unapologetic limited event series, ‘Mary & George,’ starring Academy Award and BAFTA-winning actor Julianne Moore alongside Nicholas Galitzine.

is inspired by the outrageous true story of Mary Villiers, who moulded her beautiful and charismatic son, George, to seduce King James VI of Scotland and I of England (Tony Curran) and become his all-powerful lover.

Through outrageous scheming, the pair rose from humble beginnings to become the richest, most titled and influential players the English court had ever seen, and the King’s most trusted advisors.

And with England’s place on the world stage under threat from a Spanish invasion and rioters taking to the streets to denounce the King, the stakes could not have been higher.

Prepared to stop at nothing and armed with her ruthless political steel, Mary married her way up the ranks, bribed politicians,...

The BAFTAs have a soft spot for home-grown talent. Earlier this year, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” scored four bids at the British Academy Film Awards, including Best Actor (Daryl McCormack) and Best Actress (Emma Thompson). Before that, in 2022, Adeel Akhtar snuck into the Best Actor lineup for “Ali & Ava” and Joanna Scanlan won Best Actress for “After Love.”

This pattern of Brits recognizing Brits could bode well for Daniel Kaluuya this year, who makes his directorial debut with the new Netflix drama “The Kitchen.” The film depicts a dystopian London in which all social housing has been eliminated. The focus in the story are the residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to leave their homes despite their struggles. At the heart of the film is Kane Robinson‘s (also known as Kano) Izi, who takes Jedaiah Bannerman‘s young boy under his wing and tries...

You can smell what’s happening in “Starve Acre” before you puzzle the rest of it out. The grassy, peaty dampness of its rural Yorkshire setting seems to hit the olfactory glands without any scratch-and-sniff assistance, only intensifying as the film unearths its literally deep-buried secrets. Daniel Kokotajlo’s impressive second feature unfolds in a vein of British folk horror that has been popular of late — with films from Ben Wheatley’s “A Field in England” to Mark Jenkins’s “Enys Men” all tapping into that retro “Wicker Man” eeriness — but rarely with such rattling sensory specificity or formal refinement. Starring Morfydd Clark and Matt Smith as former townies unprepared for the full burden of lore they inherit with their desolate farmhouse, it’s a tale of quite outlandish fantastical leaps, grounded by the chills it also finds in common weather and wildlife.

Premiering in the main competition at this year’s London Film Festival,...

In the Fire is a psychological thriller film directed by Connor Allyn, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Pascal Borno and Silvio Muraglia. The story of the film is set in the 1890s and it revolves around a New York doctor travelling to a remote location in order to care for a boy who has unexplainable powers. In the Fire stars Amber Heard in the lead role with Eduardo Noriega, Luca Calvani, and Lorenzo McGovern Zaini starring in supporting roles. So, if you like the thriller film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

The Wonder (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Synopsis: 1862, 13 years after the Great Famine. An English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) is called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 11-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months,...

It begins as a spatter of heavy rainfall — nothing out of the ordinary for acclimatized Brits, for whom an actual storm can even be cozily welcome after days of noncommittal drear and drizzle. But then it doesn’t stop, deep-set wet turns to invasive flooding, and what seemed a mere bout of inclement weather has swept you — and countless others like you — out of house and home. Megan Hunter’s speculative novel “The End We Start From” was a neat metaphor for the larger threat in seemingly minor signifiers of climate crisis; briskly adapted by screenwriter Alice Birch, Mahalia Belo’s fine film version matches its pragmatic, coolly urgent vision of a world coming apart slowly, gradually, and then all at once.

Tight in budget and focus, this isn’t disaster cinema of the lurid Hollywood school, revelling in the grand spectacle of destruction. For much of the film’s running time,...

Voting will close on November 1.

Voting is now open for the Big Screen Award’s Best British Film of the Year 2023.

The vote closes on November 1 and the winner will be announced at the Big Screen Awards ceremony on November 23 at The Brewery in London.

The Big Screen Awards 2023: Best British Film Of The Year

Last year’s best British film was awarded to Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast with Mark Jenkin’s Bait winning in 2019 and 2018’s inaugural prize going to Daniel Kokotajlo’s Apostasy.

The full list of nominees for this year’s Big Screen Awards can be found here.

Aimee Lou Wood for ‘Living’, ‘Rye Lane’ team and ‘Aftersun’ director Charlotte Wells among the nominees

The Big Screen Awards can unveil the shortlists for best British film as well as the nominees for breakthrough British actor and filmmaker.

The nominees for British film, which will be decided by a public vote, include Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin, Matthew Warchus’s Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical and Sam Mendes’ Empire Of Light.

Vote for Best British Film of the Year here

Also among the nominees is Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun and Raine Allen-Miller’s Rye Lane – both of...

An orphaned Irish teenager spars with her scheming uncle in this insightful reworking of Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel

Here is a tightly laced, elegantly cut gothic period drama that easily slips through the cracks as the barrage of upmarket cinema vying for awards begins. The 19th-century source material, Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel Uncle Silas, isn’t super well-known outside university literature departments, and the lead actors aren’t especially famous names either – although gravelly-voiced David Wilmot, here playing the heavy, has built a career making indelible impressions with supporting roles on film and TV (Station Eleven). Likewise, if you caught limited TV series Ridley Road then the talents of Agnes O’Casey will already be a known quantity. But in a way, the freshness of face and/or versatility of both O’Casey and Wilmot, along with the rest of the cast, are what makes this feel like a discovery.

As we begin to see, it feels almost weekly, 'natural' (i.e. created by human activity) disasters happening around the world - floods, fires, you name it - you would be hard-pressed not think about what you would do with you were caught in such a disaster. What would you pack? Where would you go? To whom could you turn for help? At what point could you leave a loved on behind? In her feature debut, director Mahalia Belo, with a script by playwright and screenwriter Alice Birch based on the novel by Megan Hunter, follows this woman's story as she must constantly be aware of the physical, while the space and seemingly endless time around her also force to contemplate the...

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There’s much to celebrate this September thanks to Plex! The free streaming service is adding 23 new titles to its library of over 50,000 this month, and even though the list may seem short, especially compared to some of the major streamers’ lists, Plex is flexing its movie muscles with major titles such as “L.A. Confidential,” “The King of Comedy,” and more.

Check out The Streamable’s top picks for the coming month and the full list below!

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Before “Requiem for a Dream,” “The Whale,” and the rest of his filmography, Darren Aronofsky made his feature directorial debut with the black-and-white psychological thriller “Pi.” Starring Sean Gullette, the film follows Max Cohen, a paranoid mathematician with an obsession to find order in the world amongst the diametrically opposed concepts of human irrationality and mathematical rationality.