Exclusive: In a seven-figure deal, Shout! Studios has acquired all North American rights to The Wasp, a psychological thriller starring Academy Award nominee Naomie Harris (Moonlight) and Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones), which adapts the play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm.
Written by Malcolm and directed by two-time BAFTA nominee Guillem Morales (Inside Number 9), in his English-language debut, the film will be released in theaters this summer.
In The Wasp, Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer) agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray from XYZ Films produced, with James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films also producing. Julie Dansker and Jordan Fields of Shout! Studios are executive producers. XYZ Films financed in association with Ipr.Vc and Three Point Capital.
Written by Malcolm and directed by two-time BAFTA nominee Guillem Morales (Inside Number 9), in his English-language debut, the film will be released in theaters this summer.
In The Wasp, Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer) agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray from XYZ Films produced, with James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films also producing. Julie Dansker and Jordan Fields of Shout! Studios are executive producers. XYZ Films financed in association with Ipr.Vc and Three Point Capital.
- 4/2/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Cadiz-based festival kicks off today with gala for refugee drama ’La Ley Del Mar’.
The inaugural South International Series Festival has unveiled its industry programme which runs alongside its progamme of public screenings and events from October 6-12.
Based in the ancient port city of Cadiz, the festival launches today with an opening gala for refugee drama La Ley del Mar, starring Luis Tosar and Blanca Portillo, produced by Studio 60, Rtve and A punt. Some 45 series will play in the festival’s official selection in five different sections. Another 60 titles, spanning both fiction and non-fiction, will have previews and screenings.
The inaugural South International Series Festival has unveiled its industry programme which runs alongside its progamme of public screenings and events from October 6-12.
Based in the ancient port city of Cadiz, the festival launches today with an opening gala for refugee drama La Ley del Mar, starring Luis Tosar and Blanca Portillo, produced by Studio 60, Rtve and A punt. Some 45 series will play in the festival’s official selection in five different sections. Another 60 titles, spanning both fiction and non-fiction, will have previews and screenings.
- 10/6/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
With temperatures starting to drop and darker nights drawing in here in the UK, reminding us that summer is almost over, doesn’t a TV festival on the sunny south coast of Spain sound pretty glorious right now?
We certainly think so, and the first ever edition of the new South International Series Festival, set to be held in Cadiz from 6 October, fits the bill perfectly. Created for the public and industry professionals alike, the South International Series Festival is the first festival of its kind in southern Europe, and was created with the intention to promote the audiovisual small-screen offerings from this region and beyond.
Over seven days, attendees can enjoy a programme including the very best of fiction and unscripted series, some undiscovered gems, and displays of cutting-edge innovation in the industry, with a focus on European and global Spanish-language series, and a spotlight on African nations. The...
We certainly think so, and the first ever edition of the new South International Series Festival, set to be held in Cadiz from 6 October, fits the bill perfectly. Created for the public and industry professionals alike, the South International Series Festival is the first festival of its kind in southern Europe, and was created with the intention to promote the audiovisual small-screen offerings from this region and beyond.
Over seven days, attendees can enjoy a programme including the very best of fiction and unscripted series, some undiscovered gems, and displays of cutting-edge innovation in the industry, with a focus on European and global Spanish-language series, and a spotlight on African nations. The...
- 9/26/2023
- by Empire
- Empire - TV
Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer are teaming up to star in “The Wasp,” a psychological thriller based on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play of the same name.
“Moonlight” Oscar nominee Harris and “Game of Thrones” actor Dormer will play Heather and Carla, who meet up for tea after not having spoken in several years. Heather presents a shocking proposition that will change their lives forever.
Guillem Morales (“Inside No. 9”) will direct, with Malcolm writing the screenplay for producer XYZ Films.
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Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray will produce for XYZ Films. James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment, and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films will also produce. XYZ is financing in association with Ipr.Vc, and will handle worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
“Moonlight” Oscar nominee Harris and “Game of Thrones” actor Dormer will play Heather and Carla, who meet up for tea after not having spoken in several years. Heather presents a shocking proposition that will change their lives forever.
Guillem Morales (“Inside No. 9”) will direct, with Malcolm writing the screenplay for producer XYZ Films.
Also Read:
‘House of the Dragon’ Opening Credits Opt for ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme Over New Music (Video)
Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray will produce for XYZ Films. James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment, and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films will also produce. XYZ is financing in association with Ipr.Vc, and will handle worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
- 9/1/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Naomie Harris (Moonlight) and Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) have been tapped to lead the psychological thriller The Wasp, which BAFTA winner and two-time nominee Guillem Morales (Inside No. 9) is directing for XYZ Films.
The film based on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play of the same name, which ran in 2015 at London’s Hampstead Theatre, follows Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), who agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Malcolm adapted the screenplay for the film, slated to enter production in Bath, UK in November. Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray will produce for XYZ Films, along with James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment, and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films. XYZ is financing, in association with Ipr.Vc, and handling worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
The film based on Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play of the same name, which ran in 2015 at London’s Hampstead Theatre, follows Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), who agree to meet after having not spoken in years. Over tea, Heather presents a very unexpected proposition that will change their lives forever.
Malcolm adapted the screenplay for the film, slated to enter production in Bath, UK in November. Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray will produce for XYZ Films, along with James Harris and Leonora Darby of Tea Shop Productions, Sean Sorensen of Royal Viking Entertainment, and Matthew B. Schmidt of Paradise City Films. XYZ is financing, in association with Ipr.Vc, and handling worldwide sales at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
- 9/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hot off wrapping season one of Amazon’s mega-budget The Lord Of The Rings series, Saint Maud star Morfydd Clark is attached to star alongside Sam Riley (Control) and Dominic Cooper (Preacher) in revenge thriller The Duchess Of Malfi.
Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes) is helming the project from Miriam Segal’s Good Films Collective (Postcard Killings). Luke Garrett has adapted the classic Jacobean play by John Webster. The story follows the recently widowed Duchess (Clark) who falls in love with her steward Antonio. Their union sets in motion a conflict with her cruel and vengeful brothers, thde Cardinal and Ferdinand, who enlist the spy Bosola to keep her from escaping their control.
WestEnd Films has picked up worldwide sales rights and will introduce the project at the virtual Toronto market. Filming is set to start in November in Italy.
Additional cast includes Freddie Fox (The Three Musketeers) and Frank Dillane...
Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes) is helming the project from Miriam Segal’s Good Films Collective (Postcard Killings). Luke Garrett has adapted the classic Jacobean play by John Webster. The story follows the recently widowed Duchess (Clark) who falls in love with her steward Antonio. Their union sets in motion a conflict with her cruel and vengeful brothers, thde Cardinal and Ferdinand, who enlist the spy Bosola to keep her from escaping their control.
WestEnd Films has picked up worldwide sales rights and will introduce the project at the virtual Toronto market. Filming is set to start in November in Italy.
Additional cast includes Freddie Fox (The Three Musketeers) and Frank Dillane...
- 8/27/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“Julia’s Eyes” helmer Guillem Morales is readying 1980s-set psychological thriller “Brother,” with WestEnd Films set to launch sales at the Cannes virtual market later this month.
Morales, one of Spain’s top genre auteurs, is best known for 2010 Spanish horror “Julia’s Eyes” (pictured), which was produced by Guillermo del Toro. The director recently won a BAFTA for his work on the hit BBC dark comedy anthology series “Inside No. 9.”
“Brother” is set in the early 1980s and located in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. The pic turns on the depraved Morrow family, which lives off the beaten path and preys on young women whom they kidnap from the side of the highway. There’s unrest within the family, however, as their 19-year-old son Michael Morrow tries to break free from their clutches and escape his past.
“Set in the early eighties, just as Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ was released in theaters,...
Morales, one of Spain’s top genre auteurs, is best known for 2010 Spanish horror “Julia’s Eyes” (pictured), which was produced by Guillermo del Toro. The director recently won a BAFTA for his work on the hit BBC dark comedy anthology series “Inside No. 9.”
“Brother” is set in the early 1980s and located in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. The pic turns on the depraved Morrow family, which lives off the beaten path and preys on young women whom they kidnap from the side of the highway. There’s unrest within the family, however, as their 19-year-old son Michael Morrow tries to break free from their clutches and escape his past.
“Set in the early eighties, just as Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ was released in theaters,...
- 6/15/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Warning: this Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
Having met his servants in ‘The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge’ and ‘The Harrowing’, it was only a matter of time before Old Scratch turned up on Inside No. 9. This series has always had one cloven hoof dipped in the fantasy-horror genre, so it’s ripe for a visit from the devil himself.
‘How Do You Plead?’ was a choice vehicle, both for the character, and for Sir Derek Jacobi, whose guest performance was perhaps the best this show has had.. Here, Jacobi played Mr Webster, a dying barrister whose term was about to expire on the Faustian contract he’d signed in 1972. Reece Shearsmith played his kindly nurse with the unusual name of Urban Bedford, whose soul Webster attempted to sacrifice in his stead.
Speaking of names, though the full title of Jacobi’s character was never spoken, his initial ‘D’ must have stood for Daniel,...
Having met his servants in ‘The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge’ and ‘The Harrowing’, it was only a matter of time before Old Scratch turned up on Inside No. 9. This series has always had one cloven hoof dipped in the fantasy-horror genre, so it’s ripe for a visit from the devil himself.
‘How Do You Plead?’ was a choice vehicle, both for the character, and for Sir Derek Jacobi, whose guest performance was perhaps the best this show has had.. Here, Jacobi played Mr Webster, a dying barrister whose term was about to expire on the Faustian contract he’d signed in 1972. Reece Shearsmith played his kindly nurse with the unusual name of Urban Bedford, whose soul Webster attempted to sacrifice in his stead.
Speaking of names, though the full title of Jacobi’s character was never spoken, his initial ‘D’ must have stood for Daniel,...
- 6/7/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” won two BAFTAs in a year where there was no single dominant winner at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) Television Awards on Sunday.
The BBC/HBO show won best mini-series and leading actress for Coel, who dedicated the award to the production’s director of intimacy Ita O’Brien.
“Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process,” Coel said.
Paul Mescal won leading actor for BBC/Hulu show “Normal People.”
In the coveted drama series category, Lennie James’ Sky Atlantic show “Save Me Too” won over fancied rivals “The Crown,” “Gangs of London” and “I Hate Suzie.”
At the BAFTA TV Craft Awards that were announced in May,...
The BBC/HBO show won best mini-series and leading actress for Coel, who dedicated the award to the production’s director of intimacy Ita O’Brien.
“Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process,” Coel said.
Paul Mescal won leading actor for BBC/Hulu show “Normal People.”
In the coveted drama series category, Lennie James’ Sky Atlantic show “Save Me Too” won over fancied rivals “The Crown,” “Gangs of London” and “I Hate Suzie.”
At the BAFTA TV Craft Awards that were announced in May,...
- 6/6/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Warning: contains spoilers for Inside No. 9 series 6 episode 2 ‘Simon Says’.
From exsanguination to decapitation, Inside No. 9 episodes have never shied away from grisly murder, and so far, series six is no different. Opener ‘Wuthering Heist’ was a bloodbath, while follow-up ‘Simon Says’ gave us a total of four deaths – two faked and two real.
One of the real ‘Simon Says’ deaths was made to feel all the more authentic for filming choices made by director Guillem Morales. After Simon (Reece Shearsmith), the scheming fan of a fantasy TV series, blackmails its writer Spencer (Steve Pemberton) into remaking the show’s unpopular finale, a misunderstanding leads to Spencer smothering Simon to death.
Speaking on the weekly BBC Sounds ‘Inside Inside No. 9’ podcast, which also includes great insights from the show’s musical composer Christian Henson, the co-creators describe Morales’ intention with the smothering scene. To contrast with the heightened, lavishly scored fake murder that precedes it,...
From exsanguination to decapitation, Inside No. 9 episodes have never shied away from grisly murder, and so far, series six is no different. Opener ‘Wuthering Heist’ was a bloodbath, while follow-up ‘Simon Says’ gave us a total of four deaths – two faked and two real.
One of the real ‘Simon Says’ deaths was made to feel all the more authentic for filming choices made by director Guillem Morales. After Simon (Reece Shearsmith), the scheming fan of a fantasy TV series, blackmails its writer Spencer (Steve Pemberton) into remaking the show’s unpopular finale, a misunderstanding leads to Spencer smothering Simon to death.
Speaking on the weekly BBC Sounds ‘Inside Inside No. 9’ podcast, which also includes great insights from the show’s musical composer Christian Henson, the co-creators describe Morales’ intention with the smothering scene. To contrast with the heightened, lavishly scored fake murder that precedes it,...
- 5/18/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for Inside No. 9 series 6 episode 2.
The online petition to ‘Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers’ currently has over 1.8 million signatures. Despite the series having ended two years ago and HBO politely declining the opportunity to bin its $100m first attempt and have another go, people continue to add their names. Call it love or call it entitlement, some fans can’t move on.
That’s the context for ‘Simon Says’, a dark story about the writer of a fictional fantasy TV epic with a famously unpopular ending. When fans Simon and Gavin (Reece Shearsmith and Nick Mohammed) blackmail Spencer Maguire (Steve Pemberton) into remaking the season seven finale of The Ninth Circle, they unexpectedly end up starring in finales of their own. After their scheme goes badly wrong, Maguire murders one, and then kills the other to cover his tracks.
With its heightened tone, scheming power-grabs,...
The online petition to ‘Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers’ currently has over 1.8 million signatures. Despite the series having ended two years ago and HBO politely declining the opportunity to bin its $100m first attempt and have another go, people continue to add their names. Call it love or call it entitlement, some fans can’t move on.
That’s the context for ‘Simon Says’, a dark story about the writer of a fictional fantasy TV epic with a famously unpopular ending. When fans Simon and Gavin (Reece Shearsmith and Nick Mohammed) blackmail Spencer Maguire (Steve Pemberton) into remaking the season seven finale of The Ninth Circle, they unexpectedly end up starring in finales of their own. After their scheme goes badly wrong, Maguire murders one, and then kills the other to cover his tracks.
With its heightened tone, scheming power-grabs,...
- 5/17/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Series five took Inside No. 9 to new and unusual places: the changing room at a premier league football match, a Louisiana prison, a cemetery at night, Wood Green… In fan-treat episode ‘Death Be Not Proud’, it even revisited an old haunt. Co-creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith welcomed new guest stars including David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Jenna Coleman, Phil Davis and Maxine Peake.
The series earned Bafta nominations for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, to go with Steve Pemberton’s 2019 Bafta win for the previous series. It offered laughter, tears, blood, a gristly beheading, and most of all, it offered variety. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, find all the series five episode details and links to our spoiler-filled reviews below.
The Referee’s a W***er
Directed by: Matt Lipsey
Guest cast: David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Dipo Ola, Steve Speirs...
The series earned Bafta nominations for Best Scripted Comedy and Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, to go with Steve Pemberton’s 2019 Bafta win for the previous series. It offered laughter, tears, blood, a gristly beheading, and most of all, it offered variety. Streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK, find all the series five episode details and links to our spoiler-filled reviews below.
The Referee’s a W***er
Directed by: Matt Lipsey
Guest cast: David Morrissey, Ralf Little, Dipo Ola, Steve Speirs...
- 5/13/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
This Inside No. 9 review contains spoilers.
There’s old school comedy of the ‘Frank Spencer roller-skating under a lorry’ kind, and then there’s old school comedy of the ‘clowns, dukes, ruffs and rhyming couplets’ variety. The Inside No. 9 series six opener draws on the latter, improbably combining 16th century commedia dell’arte with a modern-day jewel heist. It’s proof, if any were needed, that there really is no formula to this show. Peculiarity is its only genre.
Commedia dell’arte sounds complicated because it’s Italian, but so does bruschetta, and that’s just tomato on toast. The term describes a form of historical theatre using a group of stock characters wearing masks and doing gags around a familiar plot.
‘Wuthering Heist’ explains its conceit early on with a self-aware to-camera monologue by Columbina, a servant played by the always-great Gemma Whelan. She tells us the reason...
There’s old school comedy of the ‘Frank Spencer roller-skating under a lorry’ kind, and then there’s old school comedy of the ‘clowns, dukes, ruffs and rhyming couplets’ variety. The Inside No. 9 series six opener draws on the latter, improbably combining 16th century commedia dell’arte with a modern-day jewel heist. It’s proof, if any were needed, that there really is no formula to this show. Peculiarity is its only genre.
Commedia dell’arte sounds complicated because it’s Italian, but so does bruschetta, and that’s just tomato on toast. The term describes a form of historical theatre using a group of stock characters wearing masks and doing gags around a familiar plot.
‘Wuthering Heist’ explains its conceit early on with a self-aware to-camera monologue by Columbina, a servant played by the always-great Gemma Whelan. She tells us the reason...
- 5/10/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Steve McQueen’s anthology series leads the pack with 15 nominations.
Small Axe leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards, which take place on June 6 and May 24, respectively.
The BBC mini-series, created and directed by Steve McQueen, is up for 15 awards (six television and three craft), including best mini-series, John Boyega and Shaun Parkes for leading actor, Letitia Wright for leading actress, and Malachi Kirby and Michael Ward for supporting actor.
Small Axe was produced by Turbine Studios and Lammas Park alongside the BBC and Amazon Studios. Two episodes – Mangrove and Lovers Rock – were picked...
Small Axe leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards, which take place on June 6 and May 24, respectively.
The BBC mini-series, created and directed by Steve McQueen, is up for 15 awards (six television and three craft), including best mini-series, John Boyega and Shaun Parkes for leading actor, Letitia Wright for leading actress, and Malachi Kirby and Michael Ward for supporting actor.
Small Axe was produced by Turbine Studios and Lammas Park alongside the BBC and Amazon Studios. Two episodes – Mangrove and Lovers Rock – were picked...
- 4/28/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
2021’s totally online NATPE Virtual Miami is just but half over. Some inkling of how it might shape out, however, is fast falling into place.
Basically, streaming stole the show. Yes, Fox did announce during NATPE that the Jay Leno-hosted “You Bet Your Life” reboot, bowing this fall, has sold in 85% of the U.S. Yet a once annual launchpad for shows seeking U.S. syndication was dominated this time round by the seismic pivot of Hollywood’s majors and other players into global VOD platforms, and the impact of this tectonic shunt on the industry at large.
Dominating NATPE-related business announcements and online panel discussions, that impact is inevitable.
But it didn’t always play out in the most obvious fashion.
Following, six – somewhat provisional – takeaways from this year’s NATPE Miami, focused on its international business:
The Big Swings
During NATPE, Paramount Plus set a March 4 launch date for the U.
Basically, streaming stole the show. Yes, Fox did announce during NATPE that the Jay Leno-hosted “You Bet Your Life” reboot, bowing this fall, has sold in 85% of the U.S. Yet a once annual launchpad for shows seeking U.S. syndication was dominated this time round by the seismic pivot of Hollywood’s majors and other players into global VOD platforms, and the impact of this tectonic shunt on the industry at large.
Dominating NATPE-related business announcements and online panel discussions, that impact is inevitable.
But it didn’t always play out in the most obvious fashion.
Following, six – somewhat provisional – takeaways from this year’s NATPE Miami, focused on its international business:
The Big Swings
During NATPE, Paramount Plus set a March 4 launch date for the U.
- 1/25/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based international TV powerhouse The Mediapro Studio has sold banner series “The Head” to HBO Max for the U.S. as it powers into English-language production, partnering with John Turturro, “Casualty” writers Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, U.K. producer Big Talk and London-based director Guillem Morales.
The drive into U.S. and now most especially U.K. production marks the latest strategic growth in one of the fastest ramp-ups in drama series production in Europe, spearheaded by Laura Fernández Espeso, appointed The Mediapro corporate director in October 2019 and chief executive last month.
“We are making a large bet on fortifying our position in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America, and feature film production, and are proud to be working with a huge range of high-caliber partners,” Fernández-Espeso told Variety.
Underscoring her point, she noted four U.S. projects now in development; a production alliance with Erik Barmack,...
The drive into U.S. and now most especially U.K. production marks the latest strategic growth in one of the fastest ramp-ups in drama series production in Europe, spearheaded by Laura Fernández Espeso, appointed The Mediapro corporate director in October 2019 and chief executive last month.
“We are making a large bet on fortifying our position in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America, and feature film production, and are proud to be working with a huge range of high-caliber partners,” Fernández-Espeso told Variety.
Underscoring her point, she noted four U.S. projects now in development; a production alliance with Erik Barmack,...
- 1/25/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Amazon Prime Video has announced a slate of three new Spanish original series set for 2020, which will strengthen the streamer’s domestic catalog in the country. It also shared the first trailer for its second Spanish soccer docu-series “El corazón de Sergio Ramos” (The Heart of Sergio Ramos).
In “El Cid,” popular Spanish actor Jaime Lorente, a lead player in Netflix’s two biggest Spanish hits thus far “Money Heist” and “Elite,” will play Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in a series inspired by the legendary medieval war hero, whose deeds inspired one of the most important of medieval Spanish epic poems, “El Cantar de Mio Cid.”
“’El Cid’ will be a unique and ambitious series that requires a cast with incredible talent and agility,” said Georgia Brown, Amazon director of European Original series in a press release. “Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is a fascinating figure, a true hero whose...
In “El Cid,” popular Spanish actor Jaime Lorente, a lead player in Netflix’s two biggest Spanish hits thus far “Money Heist” and “Elite,” will play Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in a series inspired by the legendary medieval war hero, whose deeds inspired one of the most important of medieval Spanish epic poems, “El Cantar de Mio Cid.”
“’El Cid’ will be a unique and ambitious series that requires a cast with incredible talent and agility,” said Georgia Brown, Amazon director of European Original series in a press release. “Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is a fascinating figure, a true hero whose...
- 7/23/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Two weeks after HBO’s Southern gothic thriller “Sharp Objects” revealed its twisted ending, another drama featuring a dollhouse is opening its doors to welcome viewers into a meticulously crafted world. “The Miniaturist,” based on Jessie Burton’s novel of the same name, is PBS’ three-part adaptation that satisfies the “Masterpiece” aesthete’s hunger for beautiful visuals, lavish costuming, and mesmerizing performances.
Set in the 17th century, “The Miniaturist” follows Petronella “Nella” Oortman (“The Witch” and “Split” star Anya Taylor-Joy), a wide-eyed 18-year-old from Assendelft, who has traveled to Amsterdam to join the household of her new husband, Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell). On the surface, it appears to be the usual sort of marriage contract: She and her family benefit from his wealth and status, while he receives a youthful bride to help continue the Brandt line and look pretty while doing it. The latter, in fact, appears to be...
Set in the 17th century, “The Miniaturist” follows Petronella “Nella” Oortman (“The Witch” and “Split” star Anya Taylor-Joy), a wide-eyed 18-year-old from Assendelft, who has traveled to Amsterdam to join the household of her new husband, Johannes Brandt (Alex Hassell). On the surface, it appears to be the usual sort of marriage contract: She and her family benefit from his wealth and status, while he receives a youthful bride to help continue the Brandt line and look pretty while doing it. The latter, in fact, appears to be...
- 9/9/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Aliya Whiteley Dec 27, 2017
Spoilers ahead in or review of BBC One's sumptuous Christmas drama, The Miniaturist...
This review contains spoilers.
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Boxing Day evening has become a strong slot to kick off dark BBC drama, with two excellent Agatha Christie adaptations being shown in recent years that have relished in the kind of misdeeds that suit the post-gift comedown. This year we had a break from the golden era of crime for something contemporary: Jessie Burton’s bestselling novel The Miniaturist, published in 2014, adapted for the screen by John Brownlow. Still firmly in the realm of mystery, this was not about murder, but offered a very intriguing set of puzzles to be solved - although the answer were, perhaps, less suited to the screen than the page.
Some elements were a gift to the eyes: seventeenth century Amsterdam brings to mind the paintings of masters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer,...
Spoilers ahead in or review of BBC One's sumptuous Christmas drama, The Miniaturist...
This review contains spoilers.
See related 35 must-watch movies in 2017
Boxing Day evening has become a strong slot to kick off dark BBC drama, with two excellent Agatha Christie adaptations being shown in recent years that have relished in the kind of misdeeds that suit the post-gift comedown. This year we had a break from the golden era of crime for something contemporary: Jessie Burton’s bestselling novel The Miniaturist, published in 2014, adapted for the screen by John Brownlow. Still firmly in the realm of mystery, this was not about murder, but offered a very intriguing set of puzzles to be solved - although the answer were, perhaps, less suited to the screen than the page.
Some elements were a gift to the eyes: seventeenth century Amsterdam brings to mind the paintings of masters such as Rembrandt and Vermeer,...
- 12/19/2017
- Den of Geek
Anya Taylor-Joy, Romola Garai and Alex Hassell have been set to star in BBC One and Masterpiece's period thriller The Miniaturist, based on the best-selling novel by Jessie Burton. They'll be joined in the three-part series, which is currently filming, by Paapa Essiedu (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) and Emily Berrington (Humans). Fleming and Sylvia scribe John Brownlow pens the series while Guillem Morales directs. Story is set in 1686, when…...
- 4/7/2017
- Deadline TV
Louisa Mellor Mar 14, 2017
The latest Inside No. 9 is a dark tale of obsession guest-starring Keeley Hawes. Spoilers ahead…
This review contains spoilers.
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3.5 Diddle Diddle Dumpling
As if we needed more proof of this strand’s ingenuity, the latest No. 9 was neither a house or a room, but a shoe. A lack of walls didn’t make it any less encompassing or prisonlike for the story’s lead David, a character played with painful depth by Reece Shearsmith.
What started as a light and witty portrait of an eccentric obsession ended as the darkest picture of a mind unhinged by grief. Over a spring, summer and winter, a lone shoe seemingly discarded in front of his house became the focus of David’s spiralling breakdown. Though as the CCTV footage playing over the end credits showed,...
The latest Inside No. 9 is a dark tale of obsession guest-starring Keeley Hawes. Spoilers ahead…
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3.5 Diddle Diddle Dumpling
As if we needed more proof of this strand’s ingenuity, the latest No. 9 was neither a house or a room, but a shoe. A lack of walls didn’t make it any less encompassing or prisonlike for the story’s lead David, a character played with painful depth by Reece Shearsmith.
What started as a light and witty portrait of an eccentric obsession ended as the darkest picture of a mind unhinged by grief. Over a spring, summer and winter, a lone shoe seemingly discarded in front of his house became the focus of David’s spiralling breakdown. Though as the CCTV footage playing over the end credits showed,...
- 3/14/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Mar 7, 2017
All change for Inside No. 9 series 3, which delivers a quasi-musical in karaoke-themed instalment, Empty Orchestra…
This review contains spoilers.
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3.4 Empty Orchestra
“When you’ve cut someone’s bum off and eaten it, you kind of go, well, better try something different!” Steve Pemberton told us at the Inside No. 9 series three launch. In Empty Orchestra, a (whisper it) love story with a (keep whispering) happy ending, something different is exactly what he and Reece Shearsmith have done.
Compared to the thoroughgoing nastiness of The Riddle Of The Sphinx, this one’s as refreshing as a sea breeze. The baddies are punished, the goodies are rewarded, and the viewer can skip happily to bed...
All change for Inside No. 9 series 3, which delivers a quasi-musical in karaoke-themed instalment, Empty Orchestra…
This review contains spoilers.
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3.4 Empty Orchestra
“When you’ve cut someone’s bum off and eaten it, you kind of go, well, better try something different!” Steve Pemberton told us at the Inside No. 9 series three launch. In Empty Orchestra, a (whisper it) love story with a (keep whispering) happy ending, something different is exactly what he and Reece Shearsmith have done.
Compared to the thoroughgoing nastiness of The Riddle Of The Sphinx, this one’s as refreshing as a sea breeze. The baddies are punished, the goodies are rewarded, and the viewer can skip happily to bed...
- 3/7/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Feb 28, 2017
Inside No. 9 series 3 pays homage to Sleuth in a delightfully nasty, slippery story themed around cryptic crosswords…
This review contains spoilers.
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3.3 The Riddle Of The Sphinx
With its single location, limited cast and playful, macabre twists, the 1972 film Sleuth starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine is a godfather of sorts to Inside No. 9. This week’s especially slippery episode pays homage to Anthony Shaffer’s warped story of revenge between two rivals in love.
It’s the most complicated tale Inside No. 9 has ever spun. As co-creator Steve Pemberton told us at the series three press launch, “If you missed two sentences in a row, you’d be like ‘what?’ Even I was thinking how are people following this?...
Inside No. 9 series 3 pays homage to Sleuth in a delightfully nasty, slippery story themed around cryptic crosswords…
This review contains spoilers.
See related Prime Suspect prequel on its way Celebrating Jimmy McGovern's Cracker Endeavour series 4 episode 4 review: Harvest Inspector Morse 30th anniversary: the top 10 episodes
3.3 The Riddle Of The Sphinx
With its single location, limited cast and playful, macabre twists, the 1972 film Sleuth starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine is a godfather of sorts to Inside No. 9. This week’s especially slippery episode pays homage to Anthony Shaffer’s warped story of revenge between two rivals in love.
It’s the most complicated tale Inside No. 9 has ever spun. As co-creator Steve Pemberton told us at the series three press launch, “If you missed two sentences in a row, you’d be like ‘what?’ Even I was thinking how are people following this?...
- 2/28/2017
- Den of Geek
Louisa Mellor Feb 21, 2017
Inside No. 9 returns with a very fraught, very funny episode co-starring Philip Glenister and Jason Watkins. Spoilers ahead…
This review contains spoilers.
3.2 The Bill
“People arguing over a bill - how the hell are you going to keep that going for half an hour without becoming boring?” asked Inside No. 9’s Steve Pemberton here. He and writing partner Reece Shearsmith know full well how; by performing their show’s best trick and twisting the quotidian into lurid, unusual shapes.
The intrigue as to who’s conning who in The Bill motors us through the half-hour—this is Inside No. 9 so we know something’s up—but there’s plenty to admire on the way to our destination. Before it becomes a blood-bath and then an episode of Hustle, The Bill works as an entertaining look at passive aggression and competitiveness.
The dialogue fizzes along,...
Inside No. 9 returns with a very fraught, very funny episode co-starring Philip Glenister and Jason Watkins. Spoilers ahead…
This review contains spoilers.
3.2 The Bill
“People arguing over a bill - how the hell are you going to keep that going for half an hour without becoming boring?” asked Inside No. 9’s Steve Pemberton here. He and writing partner Reece Shearsmith know full well how; by performing their show’s best trick and twisting the quotidian into lurid, unusual shapes.
The intrigue as to who’s conning who in The Bill motors us through the half-hour—this is Inside No. 9 so we know something’s up—but there’s plenty to admire on the way to our destination. Before it becomes a blood-bath and then an episode of Hustle, The Bill works as an entertaining look at passive aggression and competitiveness.
The dialogue fizzes along,...
- 2/21/2017
- Den of Geek
[caption id="attachment_50966" align="aligncenter" width="389"] Decline and Fall image via Hachette Book Group./caption]
As expected, Eva Longoria has joined the cast of the Decline and Fall TV show comedy at BBC Two. James Wood is the first writer to adapt the late Evelyn Waugh's novel for television. Production in Wales begins in July. Decline and Fall is slated for a late 2016 debut. Longoria's recent sitcom, Telenovela, was cancelled by NBC after one season.
The Decline and Fall TV series cast also includes: Jack Whitehall, David Suchet, and Penny Dreadful's Douglas Hodge. Decline and Fall is planned as a three-part comedy satire. Ben Cavey, Will Gould, and Wood are executive producing, with Guillem Morales directing.
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As expected, Eva Longoria has joined the cast of the Decline and Fall TV show comedy at BBC Two. James Wood is the first writer to adapt the late Evelyn Waugh's novel for television. Production in Wales begins in July. Decline and Fall is slated for a late 2016 debut. Longoria's recent sitcom, Telenovela, was cancelled by NBC after one season.
The Decline and Fall TV series cast also includes: Jack Whitehall, David Suchet, and Penny Dreadful's Douglas Hodge. Decline and Fall is planned as a three-part comedy satire. Ben Cavey, Will Gould, and Wood are executive producing, with Guillem Morales directing.
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- 6/17/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Shearsmith and Pemberton's Inside No. 9 delivers a well-crafted, moving character study that proves this show is much more than a novelty...
This review contains spoilers.
2.2. 12 Days Of Christine
This week’s instalment of Inside No. 9’s six standalone mystery plays took a drastically different turn from twisty series 2 opener La Couchette. Also directed by horror director Guillem Morales, The 12 Days of Christine moved from following a group of people in (almost) real time as they deal with a particular set of difficulties and instead introduced one central character as the focus. Here we were invited to spend time with Sheridan Smith’s Christine over the course of 12 important days of her life – a seemingly simple set up that, as to be expected from No. 9, was cunningly deceptive…
Beginning with an establishing shot of a tower block of flats, with the sound of city sirens in the distance, we...
This review contains spoilers.
2.2. 12 Days Of Christine
This week’s instalment of Inside No. 9’s six standalone mystery plays took a drastically different turn from twisty series 2 opener La Couchette. Also directed by horror director Guillem Morales, The 12 Days of Christine moved from following a group of people in (almost) real time as they deal with a particular set of difficulties and instead introduced one central character as the focus. Here we were invited to spend time with Sheridan Smith’s Christine over the course of 12 important days of her life – a seemingly simple set up that, as to be expected from No. 9, was cunningly deceptive…
Beginning with an establishing shot of a tower block of flats, with the sound of city sirens in the distance, we...
- 4/1/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Here's a spoiler-free look at what to expect from the second series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's glorious Inside No. 9...
Inside No. 9 returns to BBC Two on Thursday the 26th of March for six more ingenious genre slices of horror, suspense and psychology. Those who were rattled and gripped by the first round of half-hour plays from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith know to expect to be skilfully sucker-punched with sharp, tricksy writing and well-drawn characters.
Viewers engrossed by the psychological character focus of series one’s Tom & Gerri, the jump scares of series finale The Harrowing, and the unexpected emotional sting of opener Sardines have lots to look forward to from the second series’ first brace of episodes. La Couchette and The 12 Days Of Christine tell the respective stories of a fraught overnight train journey and a woman plagued by a mysterious visitor, featuring guest roles from Mark Benton,...
Inside No. 9 returns to BBC Two on Thursday the 26th of March for six more ingenious genre slices of horror, suspense and psychology. Those who were rattled and gripped by the first round of half-hour plays from Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith know to expect to be skilfully sucker-punched with sharp, tricksy writing and well-drawn characters.
Viewers engrossed by the psychological character focus of series one’s Tom & Gerri, the jump scares of series finale The Harrowing, and the unexpected emotional sting of opener Sardines have lots to look forward to from the second series’ first brace of episodes. La Couchette and The 12 Days Of Christine tell the respective stories of a fraught overnight train journey and a woman plagued by a mysterious visitor, featuring guest roles from Mark Benton,...
- 3/16/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
★★★★☆Take your seats for the next performance of Eugenio Mira's preposterous but breathlessly entertaining thriller, Grand Piano (2013). It's a genre piece packed with the kind of knowing Hitchcockian thrills peddled by Mira's fellow Spanish contemporaries like Guillem Morales (Julia's Eyes) and J. A. Bayona (The Orphanage), but the Usp here is the additional Speed-like high concept device, transposed to a more sedate setting while still delivering on the excitement. The eternally pixie-like Elijah Wood takes the lead as Tom Selznick, a young pianist virtuoso preparing for his big return to the limelight and a chance to tackle his demons after developing a disastrous bout of stage fright just five years earlier.
- 9/17/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Forty Canadian and international producers will head to the Ontario Media Development Corporation’s annual International Financing Forum in Toronto.Scroll down for full list of projects
The ninth-annual International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 7-8 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti), and Toronto Film Commission & Entertainment Industries.
Among this year’s international projects are:
The Lunchbox producer Guneet Monga with sci-fi drama Punha, starring Kanal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory;
Land Ho! producers Mynette Louie and Sara Murphy reteaming with director Aaron Katz on Settlers;
former Screen International Future Leader Sol Bondy of Germany’s One Two Films with Us-based Jennifer Fox with her thriller The Tale to star Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn and [link...
The ninth-annual International Financing Forum (Iff), a feature co-financing market for English-language projects, will run Sept 7-8 during Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-14).
The two-day event includes one-on-one meetings, an industry panel discussion, roundtable meetings, a networking luncheon, and a producers’ opening night networking reception.
Iff partners include Telefilm Canada, UK Trade and Investment (Ukti), and Toronto Film Commission & Entertainment Industries.
Among this year’s international projects are:
The Lunchbox producer Guneet Monga with sci-fi drama Punha, starring Kanal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory;
Land Ho! producers Mynette Louie and Sara Murphy reteaming with director Aaron Katz on Settlers;
former Screen International Future Leader Sol Bondy of Germany’s One Two Films with Us-based Jennifer Fox with her thriller The Tale to star Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn and [link...
- 8/26/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Produced by Guillermo Del Toro, this Spanish chiller tells the story of Julia (The Orphanage's Belen Rueda), a woman who is slowly losing her sight while trying to prove the mysterious hanging of her twin sister was not suicide. Director Guillem Morales weaves a tense tale with the neat premise that the more Julia's vision fails the more she sees the truth. This isn't the sunny Spain of summer holidays but a bleak, foreboding place where nothing is as it seems.
- 6/3/2014
- Sky Movies
Exclusive Media has scored the international rights to two supernatural thrillers and a crime caper.
The first is Guillem Morales's "Shomer" which deals with a religious overnight vigil of a corpse that results in a demonic encounter. Aneurin Barnard stars in the film which is currently in pre-production.
The second is Luís Quílez's "Out Of The Dark" which stars Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman as a couple in Colombia who discover a shocking family secret. It is currently in post-production.
The last is Gillian Greene's "Murder Of A Cat" which is also currently in post-production. It follows an oddball who tries to uncover the truth behind his murdered cat. Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, Jk Simmons, Blythe Danner and Greg Kinnear all star in that one, while Sam Raimi is producing.
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The first is Guillem Morales's "Shomer" which deals with a religious overnight vigil of a corpse that results in a demonic encounter. Aneurin Barnard stars in the film which is currently in pre-production.
The second is Luís Quílez's "Out Of The Dark" which stars Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman as a couple in Colombia who discover a shocking family secret. It is currently in post-production.
The last is Gillian Greene's "Murder Of A Cat" which is also currently in post-production. It follows an oddball who tries to uncover the truth behind his murdered cat. Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, Jk Simmons, Blythe Danner and Greg Kinnear all star in that one, while Sam Raimi is producing.
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- 11/6/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Three titles being repped by Exclusive Media at the American Film Market have been revealed. The first is Murder of a Cat , produced by Sam Raimi, Molly Hassell and Ivan Orlic. Currently in post-production and written by "New Girl" writers Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow, the film stars Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, J.K. Simmons, Blythe Danner and Greg Kinnear and is a comedic murder mystery full of hilarious hijinks as the story follows Clinton Moisey, an endearing oddball who sets out to uncover the truth behind the secret double life of his murdered cat and finds himself in the middle of a city wide conspiracy, unexpectedly finding love along the way. Next up is the supernatural thriller Shomer from producer Lawrence Bender and directed by Guillem Morales ( Julia's...
- 11/6/2013
- Comingsoon.net
And the barrage of Afm news keeps rolling in even though it's still technically the evening before the show. Next out of the gate is word regarding three projects Exclusive Media will be shopping at this year's big dance.
According to The Wrap Exclusive Media has picked up the international rights to three new feature film titles and will be offering them to buyers, including a supernatural thriller titled Shomer that will star Aneurin Barnard. Exclusive Media will also be shopping Gillian Greene’s directorial debut Murder of a Cat, which is produced by Sam Raimi, as well as Participant Media’s Out of the Dark, which stars Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman.
Spanish filmmaker Guillem Morales is directing Shomer, which will be produced by Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds), Lauren Selig (Lone Survivor) and Ray Ricord.
Currently in pre-production, Shomer follows 25-year-old Isaac (Barnard), a shomer for the deceased who...
According to The Wrap Exclusive Media has picked up the international rights to three new feature film titles and will be offering them to buyers, including a supernatural thriller titled Shomer that will star Aneurin Barnard. Exclusive Media will also be shopping Gillian Greene’s directorial debut Murder of a Cat, which is produced by Sam Raimi, as well as Participant Media’s Out of the Dark, which stars Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman.
Spanish filmmaker Guillem Morales is directing Shomer, which will be produced by Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds), Lauren Selig (Lone Survivor) and Ray Ricord.
Currently in pre-production, Shomer follows 25-year-old Isaac (Barnard), a shomer for the deceased who...
- 11/6/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Three titles being repped by Exclusive Media at the American Film Market have been revealed. The first is Murder of a Cat, produced by Sam Raimi, Molly Hassell and Ivan Orlic. Currently in post-production and written by New Girl writers Christian Magalhaes and Robert Snow, the film stars Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, Jk Simmons, Blythe Danner and Greg Kinnear and is a comedic murder mystery full of hilarious hijinks as the story follows Clinton Moisey, an endearing oddball who sets out to uncover the truth behind the secret double life of his murdered cat and finds himself in the middle of a city wide conspiracy, unexpectedly finding love along the way.
Next up is the supernatural thriller Shomer from producer Lawrence Bender and directed by Guillem Morales (Julia's Eyes).
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Next up is the supernatural thriller Shomer from producer Lawrence Bender and directed by Guillem Morales (Julia's Eyes).
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- 11/6/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Heading into Afm, Exclusive Media has picked up the international rights to three new feature film titles and will be offering them to buyers, including a supernatural thriller titled “Shomer” that will star Aneurin Barnard. Exclusive Media will also be shopping Gillian Greene’s directorial debut “Murder of a Cat,” which is produced by Sam Raimi, as well as Participant Media’s “Out of the Dark,” which stars Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman. Spanish filmmaker Guillem Morales is directing “Shomer,” which will be produced by Lawrence Bender (“Inglourious Basterds”), Lauren Selig (“Lone Survivor”) and Ray Ricord. Also Read: Exclusive Media...
- 11/6/2013
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Exclusive Media has picked up international rights to the supernatural thrillers Shomer and Out Of The Dark and the crime caper Murder Of A Cat.
Lawrence Bender, Lauren Selig and Ray Ricord are producing Shomer, which is in pre-production and centres on a religious overnight vigil of a corpse that results in a demonic encounter. Guillem Morales will direct his follow-up to Julia’s Eyes from a screenplay by David Abram Nahmod. Aneurin Barnard stars.
Len Blavatnik of Access Industries is the executive producer with Shomer financier Aviv Giladi and Vince Holden of AI Film.
Gillian Greene’s directorial debut Murder Of A Cat is in post-production and tells of an oddball who tries to uncover the truth behind his murdered cat. Sam Raimi, Molly Hassell and Ivan Orlic produce and Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, Jk Simmons, Blythe Danner and Greg Kinnear star. CAA handles Us sales.
Out Of The Dark is in post and stars [link=nm...
Lawrence Bender, Lauren Selig and Ray Ricord are producing Shomer, which is in pre-production and centres on a religious overnight vigil of a corpse that results in a demonic encounter. Guillem Morales will direct his follow-up to Julia’s Eyes from a screenplay by David Abram Nahmod. Aneurin Barnard stars.
Len Blavatnik of Access Industries is the executive producer with Shomer financier Aviv Giladi and Vince Holden of AI Film.
Gillian Greene’s directorial debut Murder Of A Cat is in post-production and tells of an oddball who tries to uncover the truth behind his murdered cat. Sam Raimi, Molly Hassell and Ivan Orlic produce and Fran Kranz, Nikki Reed, Jk Simmons, Blythe Danner and Greg Kinnear star. CAA handles Us sales.
Out Of The Dark is in post and stars [link=nm...
- 11/6/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Grand Piano, a thriller starring Elijah Wood, will open this year’s Sitges Festival in October
Spain’s Sitges Festival (October 11-20) has unveiled a selection of titles for its 46th edition.
Grand Piano, the new film by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) with an international cast led by Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Alex Winter, will open the festival.
A production by Adrián Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), the real-time thriller tells the story of a retired piano player who finally goes back to work under threat of death by a mysterious killer if he misses one note.
The festival has also named other titles in its official section including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives; Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive; Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III and Ari Folman’s The Congress.
“When things work out there is no need for dramatic changes”, Sitges festival director Angel Sala told Screen...
Spain’s Sitges Festival (October 11-20) has unveiled a selection of titles for its 46th edition.
Grand Piano, the new film by Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) with an international cast led by Elijah Wood, John Cusack and Alex Winter, will open the festival.
A production by Adrián Guerra and Rodrigo Cortés (Buried), the real-time thriller tells the story of a retired piano player who finally goes back to work under threat of death by a mysterious killer if he misses one note.
The festival has also named other titles in its official section including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives; Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive; Roman Coppola’s A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III and Ari Folman’s The Congress.
“When things work out there is no need for dramatic changes”, Sitges festival director Angel Sala told Screen...
- 6/28/2013
- by jsardafr@hotmail.com (Juan Sarda)
- ScreenDaily
Spanish fantastic film has been having an incredible renaissance over the past 15 years. From Álex de la Iglesia to Alejandro Amenábar to Nacho Vigalondo, all range of horror, science fiction and fantasy has been pouring out of the country, to be embraced by cinephiles and cult film enthusiasts. And Spanish production company Rodar y Rodar is taking advantage of this new wave, not only by producing new films, but remaking some for those filmgoers who don't like to read subtitles.According to Screen Daily, English-language remakes are in the works for Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (a film that already did well in the Us market for a non-English film), Guillem Morales' Julia's Eyes and The Uninvited Guest (the latter of which, according to rumor, will be directed by...
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- 1/25/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Even though we haven't heard a damn thing about it in quite some time, Screen Daily is reporting that Spain’s Rodar y Rodar Films has just announced its slate of upcoming films, which includes the remake of The Orphanage.
The site reports that a “new international version of ‘The Orphanage’ from Ja Bayona” is on its way along with remakes of Guillem Morales’ Julia’s Eyes and The Uninvited Guest as well as a remake of Oriol Paulo’s The Body. It's like Rodar y Rodar's way of saying to the world, "If you missed it in Spanish, you're getting it in English!" No word on if Bayona will be directing the remake. Our guess is he'll serve as producer, etc. After all, here in America we love to give remake jobs to music video directors. That's like our thing.
In other new movie news, Rodar y Rodar also...
The site reports that a “new international version of ‘The Orphanage’ from Ja Bayona” is on its way along with remakes of Guillem Morales’ Julia’s Eyes and The Uninvited Guest as well as a remake of Oriol Paulo’s The Body. It's like Rodar y Rodar's way of saying to the world, "If you missed it in Spanish, you're getting it in English!" No word on if Bayona will be directing the remake. Our guess is he'll serve as producer, etc. After all, here in America we love to give remake jobs to music video directors. That's like our thing.
In other new movie news, Rodar y Rodar also...
- 1/21/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Screen Daily reports that a new version of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (pictured), previously attempted by New Line Cinema with Larry Fessenden and then The Mothman Prophecies’ Mark Pellingon at the helm, is on the schedule of Spanish company Rodar y Rodar, which produced the original. Also on its slate is a similar revamp of Guillem Morales’ blindness chiller Julia’S Eyes, which starred Orphanage’s Belén Rueda; both movies had del Toro on their producing teams. Rodar y Rodar further plans to revisit Morales’ 2004 psychological chiller The Uninvited Guest and the mystery/thriller The Body, which marked the directorial debut of Eyes scripter Oriol Paulo, in English. For more on director Andy Muschietti’s Mama, including words with Guillermo del Toro, pick up Fango #320, on sale now.
- 1/21/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Screen Daily reports that a new version of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (pictured), previously attempted by New Line Cinema with Larry Fessenden and then The Mothman Prophecies’ Mark Pellingon at the helm, is on the schedule of Spanish company Rodar y Rodar, which produced the original. Also on its slate is a similar revamp of Guillem Morales’ blindness chiller Julia’S Eyes, which starred Orphanage’s Belén Rueda; both movies had del Toro on their producing teams. Rodar y Rodar further plans to revisit Morales’ 2004 psychological chiller The Uninvited Guest and the mystery/thriller The Body, which marked the directorial debut of Eyes scripter Oriol Paulo, in English. For more on director Andy Muschietti’s Mama, including words with Guillermo del Toro, pick up Fango #320, on sale now.
- 1/21/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Screen Daily reports that a new version of Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage (pictured), previously attempted by New Line Cinema with Larry Fessenden and then The Mothman Prophecies’ Mark Pellingon at the helm, is on the schedule of Spanish company Rodar y Rodar, which produced the original. Also on its slate is a similar revamp of Guillem Morales’ blindness chiller Julia’S Eyes, which starred Orphanage’s Belén Rueda; both movies had del Toro on their producing teams. Rodar y Rodar further plans to revisit Morales’ 2004 psychological chiller The Uninvited Guest and the mystery/thriller The Body, which marked the directorial debut of Eyes scripter Oriol Paulo, in English. For more on director Andy Muschietti’s Mama, including words with Guillermo del Toro, pick up Fango #320, on sale now.
- 1/21/2013
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
While the horror community has been raving over films like Scream 4, Insidious, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil and Hobo with a Shotgun, Guillem Morales Spanish chiller, Julias Eyes has managed to fly under the radar in a manner rarely seen, even amongst our oft abysmal genre. Shot in 2010, Julias eyes wasnt made available to the mass Us public until mid-2011, and without a doubt, it should be being considered one of the years true gems; unfortunatel…...
- 12/30/2011
- Horrorbid
This is the Pure Movies review of Julia's Eyes, directed by Guillem Morales and starring Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella, Joan Dalmau and Boris Ruiz. When Salvador Dali and director Luis Buñuel teamed up to create short film Un Chien Andalo they included the now-infamous eyeball-slitting scene, a wince-inducing moment. Since that surrealist moment in 1929, the threat eyeball of torture has been used on-screen make us cringe and squirm in varying ways. Films like Day of the Triffids and Blindness remind us how vulnerable the human body is, and present the horrific implications of a world without sight. The latest production from Guillem del Toro adds itself to this disparate canon of ‘films about sight’. In Julia’s Eyes, the eyes really do have it. If the thought of eyeballs coming into contact with any dangerous substance, blade or needle fills you with abject horror, then this...
- 9/17/2011
- by Natalie Peck
- Pure Movies
Spanish filmmaker Guillermo del Toro appears to have a lot of spare time on his hands at present. After ducking out of the director's seat for the upcoming The Hobbit films (with Peter Jackson stepping in), del Toro seems to have taken it upon himself to single-handedly promote every Spanish supernatural horror released, in an attempt to discover the next Pan's Labyrinth (2006). The latest del Toro charity case is Guillem Morales' frankly underwhelming Julia's Eyes (2010).
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- 9/12/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Once in a while, a truly sensational piece of world cinema is released that audiences should seek out. Julia’s Eyes is a prime example of such a film, but having Guillermo Del Toro for a producer doesn’t make this surprising. Released today on Blu-ray and DVD, take a look at our review below.
When Sara (Belen Rueda), a young woman with a degenerative sight condition finally goes blind, her inability to accept her fate seems to lead her to commit suicide in the basement of her house. When her twin sister Julia (also Rueda) discovers her sister’s actions, she cannot believe that suicide was the case instead convinced that she was murdered. Determined to prove that the case is not a simple open and shut verdict of suicide, Julia begins to investigate. With the assistance of her seemingly devoted husband, Isaac (Lluís Homar), she begins to track...
When Sara (Belen Rueda), a young woman with a degenerative sight condition finally goes blind, her inability to accept her fate seems to lead her to commit suicide in the basement of her house. When her twin sister Julia (also Rueda) discovers her sister’s actions, she cannot believe that suicide was the case instead convinced that she was murdered. Determined to prove that the case is not a simple open and shut verdict of suicide, Julia begins to investigate. With the assistance of her seemingly devoted husband, Isaac (Lluís Homar), she begins to track...
- 9/12/2011
- by Stuart Cummins
- Obsessed with Film
For those of you who've ever suffered from poor eyesight, either long or short term, I'll bet that losing your sight altogether has at least fleetingly crossed your mind. And if it has, then Julia's Eyes is absolutely terrifying. It's far from a perfect movie, but where it counts Guillem Morales creates a truly horrible sense of helplessness, especially in the film's agonising final third. Julia suffers from a degenerative eye disease that will leave her blind if she doesn't receive a donor transplant soon. When her sister Sara, also blind from the same disease, commits suicide under mysterious circumstances, Julia becomes obsessed with a strange shadowy figure she believes to be involved. Amidst sceptical loved ones and disbelieving police, she battles to save her...
- 9/5/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Julia's Eyes; 13 Assassins; Water for Elephants; Priest; A Little Bit of Heaven
A few years ago actress Belén Rueda dazzled audiences with her fearsomely engaging central performance in Ja Bayona's ghostly chiller The Orphanage. Now, in Guillem Morales's intense psychological thriller Julia's Eyes (2010, Optimum, 15), she reconfirms her position as one of modern cinema's most credible and entrancing performers. As the eponymous heroine, a woman suffering from progressive sight loss worsened by emotional trauma, Rueda brings real conviction to a role that demands both audience sympathy and not a little suspension of disbelief. Compelled to uncover the truth behind the alleged suicide of a similarly afflicted sister, Julia retraces her twin's footsteps to discover the faceless spectre of a mysterious man lurking always at the periphery of her vision. As the darkness of her condition closes in, Julia's mental state starts to collapse – or does it?
Like The Orphanage, this...
A few years ago actress Belén Rueda dazzled audiences with her fearsomely engaging central performance in Ja Bayona's ghostly chiller The Orphanage. Now, in Guillem Morales's intense psychological thriller Julia's Eyes (2010, Optimum, 15), she reconfirms her position as one of modern cinema's most credible and entrancing performers. As the eponymous heroine, a woman suffering from progressive sight loss worsened by emotional trauma, Rueda brings real conviction to a role that demands both audience sympathy and not a little suspension of disbelief. Compelled to uncover the truth behind the alleged suicide of a similarly afflicted sister, Julia retraces her twin's footsteps to discover the faceless spectre of a mysterious man lurking always at the periphery of her vision. As the darkness of her condition closes in, Julia's mental state starts to collapse – or does it?
Like The Orphanage, this...
- 9/3/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Actress Belén Rueda had built up a strong résumé in Spanish TV before she decided to leave the popular series Los Serrano to focus on feature films. It wasn’t long before she broke out in 2007’s The Orphanage, the supernatural thriller that brought her the attention of movie audiences around the globe. She returns to the genre in Julia’S Eyes, directed by Guillem Morales and (like Orphanage) produced by Guillermo del Toro.
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- 8/26/2011
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Roberto E. D'Onofrio)
- Fangoria
Actress Belén Rueda had built up a strong résumé in Spanish TV before she decided to leave the popular series Los Serrano to focus on feature films. It wasn’t long before she broke out in 2007’s The Orphanage, the supernatural thriller that brought her the attention of movie audiences around the globe. She returns to the genre in Julia’S Eyes, directed by Guillem Morales and (like Orphanage) produced by Guillermo del Toro.
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- 8/26/2011
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Roberto E. D'Onofrio)
- Fangoria
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