Contemporary American writer and artist Ben Shattuck wrote a short story titled “The History of Sound,” which also became the title of the whole collection in which it was published. In short, the story tells us of the gay romance between two men who fall in love during World War I. So, why are we reporting on the story? Well, the story is going to be adapted into a movie soon, and we can officially confirm that the filming for the upcoming release has finally been done and that the movie can now enter post-production.
In the upcoming paragraphs, we are going to reveal all the known information about the movie, including the known production details, cast and crew members, plot, and release date, as the movie is entering its final stage of production.
The movie is being directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus, who is known for his LGBTQ+-themed films,...
In the upcoming paragraphs, we are going to reveal all the known information about the movie, including the known production details, cast and crew members, plot, and release date, as the movie is entering its final stage of production.
The movie is being directed by South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus, who is known for his LGBTQ+-themed films,...
- 4/27/2024
- by Arthur S. Poe
- Fiction Horizon
At this year’s Gamescom we tried to stack our schedule with as many horror (or horror-adjacent) titles as we possibly could.
Rushing around the expansive halls of the Koelnmesse venue — trying to make each of our back-to-back appointments — we barely had chance to catch our breath across the jam-packed three days we were there. Among other things, we previewed nearly an hour of Alan Wake 2, got the inside scoop on Still Wakes the Deep, had a lengthy hands-on session with Lords of the Fallen, and then went on a perilous expedition into the bowels of Moria.
But that only represents a small fraction of the exciting projects we saw here. In addition to those big tentpoles, we also took a look at the efforts of some plucky solo devs and indie studios who’ve been working away on interesting little titles that you might be sleeping on.
Here are...
Rushing around the expansive halls of the Koelnmesse venue — trying to make each of our back-to-back appointments — we barely had chance to catch our breath across the jam-packed three days we were there. Among other things, we previewed nearly an hour of Alan Wake 2, got the inside scoop on Still Wakes the Deep, had a lengthy hands-on session with Lords of the Fallen, and then went on a perilous expedition into the bowels of Moria.
But that only represents a small fraction of the exciting projects we saw here. In addition to those big tentpoles, we also took a look at the efforts of some plucky solo devs and indie studios who’ve been working away on interesting little titles that you might be sleeping on.
Here are...
- 8/31/2023
- by Harrison Abbott
- bloody-disgusting.com
Things are still humming along for solo indie developer Catchweight Studio and their upcoming WWI survival horror game Conscript. Only now, Conscript has received a big boost thanks to Team17, who has announced a publishing deal for the title, along with a tentative 2024 release date.
“Catchweight Studio is really just me,” says Jordan Mochi, founder of Catchweight Studio. “So, after six years of development, I’m glad to have backup from the experienced people at Team17. Conscript emerged from my own love of history and my love of survival horror. I’ve long dreamed of making games and of creating stories for people to play. Over the last six years, I’ve been happy to see a community of players grow around Conscript, and I’m looking forward to working with Team17 to launch the game for the community and players around the world in 2024.”
Conscript will be at this...
“Catchweight Studio is really just me,” says Jordan Mochi, founder of Catchweight Studio. “So, after six years of development, I’m glad to have backup from the experienced people at Team17. Conscript emerged from my own love of history and my love of survival horror. I’ve long dreamed of making games and of creating stories for people to play. Over the last six years, I’ve been happy to see a community of players grow around Conscript, and I’m looking forward to working with Team17 to launch the game for the community and players around the world in 2024.”
Conscript will be at this...
- 8/8/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Click here to read the full article.
An acutely personal drama shimmering with the raw pain, pride and hard-won elation of lived experience, The Inspection marks an accomplished narrative feature debut for writer-director Elegance Bratton, who draws on his own story to create one of the most stirring portraits of queer Black masculinity since Moonlight. This unguarded autobiographical work also provides a stellar vehicle for theater discovery Jeremy Pope in his first leading screen role. He plays a young man shunned by his family and determined to avoid becoming another casualty of life on the streets, who chooses the tough path of Marine Corps enlistment in order to prove his value as a man.
Bratton comes from a nonfiction background. He made his first feature doc with Pier Kids, about homeless LGBTQ youth in New York, and was creator and exec producer of the Viceland series My House, on the underground competitive ballroom scene.
An acutely personal drama shimmering with the raw pain, pride and hard-won elation of lived experience, The Inspection marks an accomplished narrative feature debut for writer-director Elegance Bratton, who draws on his own story to create one of the most stirring portraits of queer Black masculinity since Moonlight. This unguarded autobiographical work also provides a stellar vehicle for theater discovery Jeremy Pope in his first leading screen role. He plays a young man shunned by his family and determined to avoid becoming another casualty of life on the streets, who chooses the tough path of Marine Corps enlistment in order to prove his value as a man.
Bratton comes from a nonfiction background. He made his first feature doc with Pier Kids, about homeless LGBTQ youth in New York, and was creator and exec producer of the Viceland series My House, on the underground competitive ballroom scene.
- 9/9/2022
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: James McArdle (Mare Of Easttown) and Fionnula Flanagan (The Others) have been set to lead the ensemble cast of Four Mothers, an Irish-set adaptation of Gianni di Gregorio’s 2008 festival and box office hit Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo Di Ferragosto).
Filming is underway in Dublin on the comedy feature which heralds from Ida producer Eric Abraham and former Working Title exec Jack Sidey’s Portobello Films and Television (Moffie) and Martina Niland for Port Pictures (Sing Street).
Dearbhla Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme), Paddy Glynn (Cinderella) and Stella McCusker (Nowhere Special) also star.
Darren Thornton directs and co-wrote the script with his brother, Colin Thornton. They previously collaborated on their IFTA-winning debut A Date For Mad Mary.
Olivier-award nominee McArdle plays a self-sabotaging novelist, saddled with caring for his mother (Flanagan) after a stroke. After his book becomes an overnight hit, his plans for a U.S. promotional tour are thrown...
Filming is underway in Dublin on the comedy feature which heralds from Ida producer Eric Abraham and former Working Title exec Jack Sidey’s Portobello Films and Television (Moffie) and Martina Niland for Port Pictures (Sing Street).
Dearbhla Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme), Paddy Glynn (Cinderella) and Stella McCusker (Nowhere Special) also star.
Darren Thornton directs and co-wrote the script with his brother, Colin Thornton. They previously collaborated on their IFTA-winning debut A Date For Mad Mary.
Olivier-award nominee McArdle plays a self-sabotaging novelist, saddled with caring for his mother (Flanagan) after a stroke. After his book becomes an overnight hit, his plans for a U.S. promotional tour are thrown...
- 5/3/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“Mothering Sunday,” director Eva Husson’s film of Graham Swift’s novel, begins with the words, “Once upon a time,” which are repeated by the heroine Jane Fairchild as we see her open face in close-up.
She eventually begins furiously scrubbing something with a cloth, which lets us know that she is a servant, and a title lets us know that it is supposed to be Mother’s Day in England in 1924. But not everything is as it seems here.
The tone of “Mothering Sunday” is faintly absurd at first in a way that feels deliberate. There are static and pretty shots of grand interiors by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (“Moffie”) and some extremely flattering lighting on Young and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”), who plays Jane’s lover Paul Sheringham; there is one shot of them together near some white roses that is particularly swoon-worthy because of the way the light...
She eventually begins furiously scrubbing something with a cloth, which lets us know that she is a servant, and a title lets us know that it is supposed to be Mother’s Day in England in 1924. But not everything is as it seems here.
The tone of “Mothering Sunday” is faintly absurd at first in a way that feels deliberate. There are static and pretty shots of grand interiors by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (“Moffie”) and some extremely flattering lighting on Young and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”), who plays Jane’s lover Paul Sheringham; there is one shot of them together near some white roses that is particularly swoon-worthy because of the way the light...
- 3/23/2022
- by Dan Callahan
- The Wrap
Stars: Jessica Alexander, Anja Taljaard, Hilton Pelser, Adrienne Pearce, Kitty Harris, Brent Vermeulen | Written by Kelsey Egan, Emma Lungiswa de Wet | Directed by Kelsey Egan
A brand-new post-apocalyptic gothic sci-fi melodrama from South Africa, Glasshouse is one of a growing number of genre films to stem from the country, yet one that is not really known for its genre output but one whose culture and landscape are just rife with terrifying possibilities. The film stars British actress Jessica Alexander (the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid) and newcomer Anja Taljaard as the sisters, Bee and Evie, opposite Hilton Pelser as The Stranger.
Glasshouse is set after The Shred, an airborne dementia, has left humanity roaming like lost and dangerous animals, unable to remember who they are. Confined to their airtight glasshouse, a family does what they must to survive – until the sisters are seduced by a stranger who upsets the family’s rituals,...
A brand-new post-apocalyptic gothic sci-fi melodrama from South Africa, Glasshouse is one of a growing number of genre films to stem from the country, yet one that is not really known for its genre output but one whose culture and landscape are just rife with terrifying possibilities. The film stars British actress Jessica Alexander (the upcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid) and newcomer Anja Taljaard as the sisters, Bee and Evie, opposite Hilton Pelser as The Stranger.
Glasshouse is set after The Shred, an airborne dementia, has left humanity roaming like lost and dangerous animals, unable to remember who they are. Confined to their airtight glasshouse, a family does what they must to survive – until the sisters are seduced by a stranger who upsets the family’s rituals,...
- 3/8/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
“What would you do if you had six months left to live?” asks the doctor who diagnoses a do-nothing bureaucrat with terminal cancer in “Ikiru,” a 1952 masterpiece I suspect precious few of those who see its English-language remake, “Living,” will recall. Quite unlike anything else in Akira Kurosawa’s career, “Ikiru” ranks among the Japanese director’s best: With no samurai battles or set-pieces, the low-key contemporary melodrama raises profound questions about how we choose to spend the limited time we’re afforded, focusing on a stoic functionary about whom even the narrator apologizes, “He might as well be a corpse.”
Culturally specific as so much of “Ikiru” may be, its lessons translate quite well to midcentury British society, courtesy of Nobel-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who did the heavy lifting of adapting it to 1953 London for director Oliver Hermanus (“Moffie”). In “Living,” the dying man is played by Bill Nighy,...
Culturally specific as so much of “Ikiru” may be, its lessons translate quite well to midcentury British society, courtesy of Nobel-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who did the heavy lifting of adapting it to 1953 London for director Oliver Hermanus (“Moffie”). In “Living,” the dying man is played by Bill Nighy,...
- 1/25/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
In Akira Kurosawa’s 1982 autobiography (Something Like an Autobiography) his film Ikiru only gets a passing mention in a chapter dealing with the filming of his cinematic masterpiece, Rashomon. Ikiru, which roughly translates as “To Live”, is one of the director’s most loved masterpieces. Roger Ebert himself claimed that he loved the film so much that he would revisit it every five years; each time, becoming more and more empathetic to the plight of Ikiru’s male protagonist (originally played by Takashi Shimura). However, as good as this 1952 classic may be, it is also a film that is more beloved by extreme cinephiles and graduate level film professors than anyone else. After all, who wants to sit through a two hour plus tale dealing with existential musings on the nature of morality and human decency?
It seems that Hollywood would much rather sit through violent re-renderings of films like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai.
It seems that Hollywood would much rather sit through violent re-renderings of films like Yojimbo or Seven Samurai.
- 1/24/2022
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Crown Emmy winner Josh O’Connor and Normal People star Paul Mescal have been set to star in The History of Sound, a World War I love story adapted from Ben Shattuck’s Pushcart Prize-winning short story. Oliver Hermanus is aboard to direct the pic, which hails from Cop Car producer End Cue. Production is set to begin in summer 2022 in the U.S. and on location in the UK and Italy.
CAA Media Finance is handling U.S. sales and Embankment will rep international at the upcoming American Film Market.
The short story revolved around two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.
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CAA Media Finance is handling U.S. sales and Embankment will rep international at the upcoming American Film Market.
The short story revolved around two young men, Lionel (Mescal) and David (O’Connor), who, during World War I set out to record the lives, voices and music of their American countrymen. In this snatched, short-lived moment in their young lives, and while discovering the epic sweep of the U.S., both men are deeply changed.
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- 10/29/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s a curious quirk of the British calendar that Mother’s Day — or Mothering Sunday, if you want to be formal about it — falls not in May, with all that month’s springy symbolism of new life, but the damp, unripe chill of mid-March, when no one feels much like celebrating anything at all. In “Mothering Sunday,” however, a number of upper-class English families meet to picnic on a day so unseasonably warm and bright that the weather is the one safe running topic of conversation: It’s a gathering of more parents than children, where unspoken and unspeakable losses are politely talked around. If Graham Swift’s 2016 novella was a guest at the same elegant, repressed garden party as L.P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between” and Ian McEwan’s “Atonement,” Eva Husson and screenwriter Alice Birch’s unusual, stimulating adaptation comes closer to the shattered experimentalism of Joseph Losey...
- 7/10/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Filming begins in London; Rocket Science to launch sales at Cannes Pre-Screenings next week.
SAG award-winner Alex Sharp and The Souvenir star Tom Burke have joined the cast of Oliver Hermanus’ Living, which the UK’s Number 9 Films has begun shooting with Bill Nighy.
London-based Rocket Science is handling international sales and will be introducing the project to buyers at the Cannes Pre-Screenings next week. A first look image of Nighy has been released and can be seen above.
Set in London in 1952, Nighy plays a civil servant named Williams who heads to the coast after receiving a life-threatening medical...
SAG award-winner Alex Sharp and The Souvenir star Tom Burke have joined the cast of Oliver Hermanus’ Living, which the UK’s Number 9 Films has begun shooting with Bill Nighy.
London-based Rocket Science is handling international sales and will be introducing the project to buyers at the Cannes Pre-Screenings next week. A first look image of Nighy has been released and can be seen above.
Set in London in 1952, Nighy plays a civil servant named Williams who heads to the coast after receiving a life-threatening medical...
- 6/18/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Photo: ‘Ride or Die’/Netflix ‘Thelma & Louise’ meets ‘Bound’ in ‘Ride or Die’, the new Japanese Netflix original film in which lesbian Rei Nagasawa (Kiko Mizuhara) kills the wife-beating husband of old schoolyard crush Nanae Shinoda (Honami Sato), who undresses early in the film to reveal a body covered in bruises. It begins with a ‘Goodfellas’ tracking shot as Rei enters a nightclub to mark her prey, following him home for a graphic sex scene (did I mention that director Ryuichi Hiroki got his start working on softcore porn?) that ends with bare, blood-spattered breasts--she stabs him in the neck while riding him à la ‘Gone Girl’. Afterward, Rei reveals that she had been a virgin beforehand. Related article: ‘Moffie’ Review: A Stunning Gay Coming-of-Age Story Set In Apartheid South Africa Related article: One of the Most Beautiful Love Stories ‘God’s Own Country’ is a Must Watch for...
- 4/16/2021
- by Daniel Choi
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Call Me by Your Shame: Hermanus Mines Historical Trauma in Coming-of-Age Drama
It’s difficult to reconcile the messiness of the past with potential issues of accountability for those who straddle a precarious line between victim and victimizer. As such, there’s more to parse than meets the eye in Moffie, the fourth feature from South African auteur Oliver Hermanus.
Based on a novel by Andre Carl van der Merwe, thus named for the Afrikaans slur for gay men (the English-derived epithet which served as a title for Larry Kramer’s 1978 novel as well), Hermanus concocts the anti-Call Me by Your Name sentiment, or rather, a more commonplace tale where coming-of-age for young gay men is besotted by trauma and self-loathing.…...
It’s difficult to reconcile the messiness of the past with potential issues of accountability for those who straddle a precarious line between victim and victimizer. As such, there’s more to parse than meets the eye in Moffie, the fourth feature from South African auteur Oliver Hermanus.
Based on a novel by Andre Carl van der Merwe, thus named for the Afrikaans slur for gay men (the English-derived epithet which served as a title for Larry Kramer’s 1978 novel as well), Hermanus concocts the anti-Call Me by Your Name sentiment, or rather, a more commonplace tale where coming-of-age for young gay men is besotted by trauma and self-loathing.…...
- 4/13/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Photo: ‘Moffie'/Amazon In Afrikaans, the “n-word” and the “f-word” are instead the “m-word” and the “k-word.” For the latter, see ‘Kaffir Boy’--for the former, see ‘Moffie’. Directed by Oliver Hermanus and based on André Carl van der Merwe’s 2006 autobiographical novel of the same name, ‘Moffie’ follows Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a gay, English-speaking teenager in South Africa, 1981, at the height of Apartheid and the war in Angola. The White minority of the time, which composed only 18% of South Africa’s population, held complete political control over the Black majority--in a brief sermon partway through the film, a fiery Afrikaner priest likens the struggle of the Whites and the Blacks to that of David and Goliath. From 1957-1993, all White males older than 16 were conscripted into the South African Defence Force (Sadf) for two compulsory years of service--’Moffie’ begins with Van der Swart coming of age.
- 4/12/2021
- by Daniel Choi
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
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This week, Atlas Entertainment’s The Girl Who Believes in Miracles grew to 900 runs in 175 markets (up from 640 runs in 154 markets) as it tallies its weekend best at $604,000 with its cumulative box office total doubling to $1,326,000. In its second weekend, the Rich Correll-directed drama posts the best numbers for this weekend’s specialty box office.
Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate’s The Courier dropped 26% on Friday as it finished with a $437K weekend. Its box office total stands at $4,908,000.
Independent Indian features Vakeel Saab and Karnan made solid performances in their markets grabbing the highest per screen averages of any films in the specialty box office. Both movies averaged at or above $1,000 per screen, far outperforming any other film on the list.
Two new films debuted this weekend: horror flick Held (Magnet Releasing) and Moffie (IFC), a scathing take on the toxic masculinity of the South African apartheid.
This week, Atlas Entertainment’s The Girl Who Believes in Miracles grew to 900 runs in 175 markets (up from 640 runs in 154 markets) as it tallies its weekend best at $604,000 with its cumulative box office total doubling to $1,326,000. In its second weekend, the Rich Correll-directed drama posts the best numbers for this weekend’s specialty box office.
Roadside Attractions/Lionsgate’s The Courier dropped 26% on Friday as it finished with a $437K weekend. Its box office total stands at $4,908,000.
Independent Indian features Vakeel Saab and Karnan made solid performances in their markets grabbing the highest per screen averages of any films in the specialty box office. Both movies averaged at or above $1,000 per screen, far outperforming any other film on the list.
Two new films debuted this weekend: horror flick Held (Magnet Releasing) and Moffie (IFC), a scathing take on the toxic masculinity of the South African apartheid.
- 4/11/2021
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
The second night of Ee British Academy Film Awards followed a Saturday showing that revealed the Brit voting body’s picks for crafts prizes and other below-the-line honors. Sunday night’s show was hosted by Edith Bowman and Dermot O’Leary. See the full list of winners below.
Big winners on Sunday include Best Picture “Nomadland” and Best Actress Frances McDormand, Best Actor Anthony Hopkins for “The Father,” Best Director Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland,” Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Yuh-Jung Youn for Best Supporting Actress for “Minari,” “My Octopus Teacher” for Best Documentary, “Another Round” for Best Film Not in the English Language, “Soul” for Best Animated Film, and “Promising Young Woman” and “The Father” for screenplay prizes.
On Sunday, Hugh Grant presented the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest honor, to Ang Lee in a moving and witty tribute.
The first night...
Big winners on Sunday include Best Picture “Nomadland” and Best Actress Frances McDormand, Best Actor Anthony Hopkins for “The Father,” Best Director Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland,” Daniel Kaluuya for Best Supporting Actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Yuh-Jung Youn for Best Supporting Actress for “Minari,” “My Octopus Teacher” for Best Documentary, “Another Round” for Best Film Not in the English Language, “Soul” for Best Animated Film, and “Promising Young Woman” and “The Father” for screenplay prizes.
On Sunday, Hugh Grant presented the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s highest honor, to Ang Lee in a moving and witty tribute.
The first night...
- 4/11/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
After the very impressive start of “Godzilla vs. Kong” last weekend, the MonsterVerse hit grossed $13.38 million. That’s a big drop from its opening, but how big is a matter of perspective.
Overall, the weekend’s top 10 grossed around $24 million, with all films seeing about $26 million. That’s about 45 percent less than last weekend’s holiday total, but still second best for the year so far. It would have been nice to have another big, new title to build on last weekend’s success, but for now struggling theaters have holdovers.
At $69.5 million domestic over 12 days, it is now the top-grossing domestic release in over a year. Several factors make that even more impressive: HBO Max subscribers can watch “Godzilla vs. Kong” for free, a substantial number of theaters remain closed (including most of Canada), and a swath of the potential audience remains reluctant to enter confined spaces. It suggests...
Overall, the weekend’s top 10 grossed around $24 million, with all films seeing about $26 million. That’s about 45 percent less than last weekend’s holiday total, but still second best for the year so far. It would have been nice to have another big, new title to build on last weekend’s success, but for now struggling theaters have holdovers.
At $69.5 million domestic over 12 days, it is now the top-grossing domestic release in over a year. Several factors make that even more impressive: HBO Max subscribers can watch “Godzilla vs. Kong” for free, a substantial number of theaters remain closed (including most of Canada), and a swath of the potential audience remains reluctant to enter confined spaces. It suggests...
- 4/11/2021
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Lionsgate’s Voyagers isn’t your ordinary “the human race is in danger” sci fi romp.
Written and directed by Neil Burger Voyagers follows a group of young men and women bred specifically to have a great level of intelligence and obedience as they embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet.
Sounds like good, safe fun, right? Well, if it was it wouldn’t be a movie worth watching.
It doesn’t take long for the young group of what could be manufactured automatons to start to uncover disturbing secrets about the mission. As things begin to unravel, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As a result, the entire ship becomes chaos in space as they’re consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
Voyagers stars Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Chanté Adams, Isaac Hempstead Wright,...
Written and directed by Neil Burger Voyagers follows a group of young men and women bred specifically to have a great level of intelligence and obedience as they embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet.
Sounds like good, safe fun, right? Well, if it was it wouldn’t be a movie worth watching.
It doesn’t take long for the young group of what could be manufactured automatons to start to uncover disturbing secrets about the mission. As things begin to unravel, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As a result, the entire ship becomes chaos in space as they’re consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
Voyagers stars Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Chanté Adams, Isaac Hempstead Wright,...
- 4/9/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
There is no more delicious agony than the one felt when you’re sitting millimeters from your crush, wondering who’s going to make the first move, or if someone will at all. That unbearable, painful erotic tension is more or less the sustained mood of Oliver Hermanus’ shimmering and sensual military drama “Moffie,” which is Set in 1981 South Africa at the apex of the South African Border War, the film’s story of gay unrequited desire turns out to be a casing for something far more lethal in its marrow.
“Moffie” is Afrikaans slang for “faggot,” and the film, which is based on André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel of the same name, attempts a bold gesture in reclaiming epithet as an emblem of power. It’s 1981, South Africa, which means it’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effeminacy is a sign of weakness, and being gay is also illegal.
“Moffie” is Afrikaans slang for “faggot,” and the film, which is based on André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel of the same name, attempts a bold gesture in reclaiming epithet as an emblem of power. It’s 1981, South Africa, which means it’s not okay to be a “moffie”; effeminacy is a sign of weakness, and being gay is also illegal.
- 4/9/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Moffie has been on the circuit for a couple of years, picking up awards and acclaim everywhere it goes. Now it finally lands in the US, and to mark the occasion we had the pleasure of speaking to the film’s leading star, Kai Luke Brummer.
The South African actor discusses playing a lead role without a huge amount of dialogue, and the rewarding, if challenging aspects of shooting a film of this nature, both mentally and physically. He speaks about South Africa’s recent history, and what he learnt from conversations with his father, and comments on how much the Apartheid is taught at school, and what this experience also taught him on the nation’s history. Finally we speak about the film’s controversial title, and he tells us why he’s soon moving to London (and whether he’s going to pack a coat!).
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The South African actor discusses playing a lead role without a huge amount of dialogue, and the rewarding, if challenging aspects of shooting a film of this nature, both mentally and physically. He speaks about South Africa’s recent history, and what he learnt from conversations with his father, and comments on how much the Apartheid is taught at school, and what this experience also taught him on the nation’s history. Finally we speak about the film’s controversial title, and he tells us why he’s soon moving to London (and whether he’s going to pack a coat!).
Watch the full...
- 4/9/2021
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For his first film on Apartheid, South African director Oliver Hermanus did not expect to focus on the trauma of white men.
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled “colored” under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
The film is set in the early 1980s. We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 ...
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled “colored” under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
The film is set in the early 1980s. We follow Nicholas van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer), a shy, closeted gay recruit drafted, like all white men over 16 ...
By Abe Friedtanzer
There is a traditional image of military might that emphasizes strength above all else, to the detriment of individualism and often humanity. We’ve seen this portrayed many times in disturbing fashion in movies and television (not to mention real life), as drill sergeants and other commanding officers work to crush the spirits of their charges and “toughen” them up so that their weaknesses will be rooted out. This can obviously have truly scarring effects, felt both during and after service. A powerful showcase of that phenomenon is on display in director Oliver Hermanus’ new film Moffie, opening Friday.
In the same way that Confederate battalions aren’t fondly remembered in America, white men who fought for South Africa in the 1980s aren’t really on the right side of history...
There is a traditional image of military might that emphasizes strength above all else, to the detriment of individualism and often humanity. We’ve seen this portrayed many times in disturbing fashion in movies and television (not to mention real life), as drill sergeants and other commanding officers work to crush the spirits of their charges and “toughen” them up so that their weaknesses will be rooted out. This can obviously have truly scarring effects, felt both during and after service. A powerful showcase of that phenomenon is on display in director Oliver Hermanus’ new film Moffie, opening Friday.
In the same way that Confederate battalions aren’t fondly remembered in America, white men who fought for South Africa in the 1980s aren’t really on the right side of history...
- 4/8/2021
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- FilmExperience
Given the Apartheid-era backdrop of Moffie, there are more than enough prejudices to go around — anti-black, anti-gay, anti-communist, anti-British, for starters — and South African director Oliver Hermanus makes nuanced use of all of them in his very fine fourth feature. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019, the film is at last being released in the U.S. by IFC beginning April 9 and is nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer,
The title is derogatory local slang for queer and, from the evidence on view here, one gleans that there cannot have been many less gay-friendly places on Earth in 1981 than South Africa. Based on an autobiographical novel by south African writer Andre Carl van der Swart, the film lifts the lid on same-sex desire just enough to stir the pot but refuses to indulge in any unrealistic wish fulfillment when depicting a...
The title is derogatory local slang for queer and, from the evidence on view here, one gleans that there cannot have been many less gay-friendly places on Earth in 1981 than South Africa. Based on an autobiographical novel by south African writer Andre Carl van der Swart, the film lifts the lid on same-sex desire just enough to stir the pot but refuses to indulge in any unrealistic wish fulfillment when depicting a...
- 3/29/2021
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
“Moffie” was all over recent awards shows, earning nominations from the BAFTA Awards for the best debut from a British writer/director/producer, Venice Film Festival’s Queer Lion, London Film Festival for best film, and the British Independent Film Awards for best director. The movie is now making its way to the US, with the first trailer giving audiences a taste of what to expect with “Moffie.”
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The movie, an adaptation of André-Carl van der Merwe’s memoir, follows a closeted young man serving mandatory military service during 1980s Apartheid in South Africa.
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The movie, an adaptation of André-Carl van der Merwe’s memoir, follows a closeted young man serving mandatory military service during 1980s Apartheid in South Africa.
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- 3/11/2021
- by Brynne Ramella
- The Playlist
Moffie Trailers — Oliver Hermanus‘ Moffie (2019) movie trailers (international and U.S.) have been released by IFC Films. The Moffie trailers stars Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak, Hilton Pelser, Jan Combrink, Brendan Christopher Van Zyl, Dale Lourens, Ludwig Baxter, Jacques Theron, Israel Ngqawuza, and Matthew Vey. Crew Oliver Hermanus and [...]
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Continue reading: Moffie Trailers: A Soldier Tries to Defend the South African Apartheid Regime in Oliver Hermanus’ 2019 Movie...
- 3/11/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Do whatever you can to stay invisible." IFC Films has revealed an official US trailer for an indie film titled Moffie, the latest from South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus. This originally premiered at the Venice and London Film Festivals in 2019, and stopped by numerous other festivals last year. The story follows a young man named Nicholas van der Swart in 1981 South Africa who must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality. A critical commentary on South Africa, and on the struggle to be true to yourself. Kai Luke Brümmer stars as Nicolas, with Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak, and Hilton Pelser. This looks like it features some stunning cinematography, by Dp Jamie D. Ramsay, and it looks like an outstanding indie film in every sense. There's an emotional urgency to this story, built around compassion and understanding.
- 3/10/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Hot off of a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer, South African drama Moffie is due to release in select U.S. theaters and on digital and VOD platforms via IFC Films on April 9. Check out the new trailer above.
Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie explores the life of a closeted young boy serving his mandatory military service during Apartheid in 1980s South Africa. An adaptation of André-Carl van der Merwe’s iconic memoir, the film exposes the psychological violence of institutionalized homophobia. “Moffie” is a potent and derogatory Afrikaans term for homosexual.
The Afrikaans- and English-language title originally premiered as part of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section in 2019 and later played the London Film Festival, going on to receive three nominations at the British Independent Film Awards. On Tuesday this week, Moffie’s writer/producer Jack Sidey was nominated for a BAFTA.
Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie explores the life of a closeted young boy serving his mandatory military service during Apartheid in 1980s South Africa. An adaptation of André-Carl van der Merwe’s iconic memoir, the film exposes the psychological violence of institutionalized homophobia. “Moffie” is a potent and derogatory Afrikaans term for homosexual.
The Afrikaans- and English-language title originally premiered as part of the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section in 2019 and later played the London Film Festival, going on to receive three nominations at the British Independent Film Awards. On Tuesday this week, Moffie’s writer/producer Jack Sidey was nominated for a BAFTA.
- 3/10/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
London, March 10: Indian actor Adarsh Gourav has been nominated in the Leading Actor category for his role in The White Tiger at the BAFTA Awards 2021. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced its list of nominees for the year on Tuesday, which includes a record breaking number of female directors.
This year also sees the most diverse set of nominations. Notable nominees include ones in the Leading Actress category for Radha Blank for The Forty-Year-Old Version, Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Film and Dominique Fishback for Judas And The Black Messiah.
In the Leading Actor, Adarsh Gourav will compete with late actor Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Anthony Hopkins for The Father.
The White Tiger also received nomination for Ramin Bahrani in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
Here's the list of the nominees at the upcoming BAFTA awards:
Best Film
The Father
The Mauritanian...
This year also sees the most diverse set of nominations. Notable nominees include ones in the Leading Actress category for Radha Blank for The Forty-Year-Old Version, Maria Bakalova for Borat Subsequent Film and Dominique Fishback for Judas And The Black Messiah.
In the Leading Actor, Adarsh Gourav will compete with late actor Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and Anthony Hopkins for The Father.
The White Tiger also received nomination for Ramin Bahrani in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
Here's the list of the nominees at the upcoming BAFTA awards:
Best Film
The Father
The Mauritanian...
- 3/10/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Altitude is in second place with 20 nominations across six titles.
Netflix has topped this year’s list of distributors nominated for Bafta film awards for the second year in a row with 34 nods.
Fifteen Netflix titles received nominations, with Mank leading the way with six, followed by The Dig (five), News Of The World (four), and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and His House (all three). It’s a significant uptick compared to last year, where the streaming giant scored 23 from six films.
‘Nomadland’, ‘Rocks’ lead Bafta 2021 film nominations
Altitude is in second place with 20 nominations across six titles,...
Netflix has topped this year’s list of distributors nominated for Bafta film awards for the second year in a row with 34 nods.
Fifteen Netflix titles received nominations, with Mank leading the way with six, followed by The Dig (five), News Of The World (four), and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Trial of the Chicago 7 and His House (all three). It’s a significant uptick compared to last year, where the streaming giant scored 23 from six films.
‘Nomadland’, ‘Rocks’ lead Bafta 2021 film nominations
Altitude is in second place with 20 nominations across six titles,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
“Saint Maud,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Nomadland,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Ammonite” are among the leading films on the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) longlist for annual British Film Awards that were announced Thursday.
The publication of the longlists follows the BAFTA 2020 Review, where over 120 wide-ranging changes were introduced across voting, membership and campaigning to address a lack of diversity in the 2020 Film Awards nominations. As part of these changes, a new longlisting initial round was introduced for the awards, resulting in three rounds of voting. Round one voting, which took place from Jan. 12-26, produced the longlists in all categories.
The directing category sees the BAFTA make an effort towards gender parity. To determine this longlist, in Round One, the directing chapter voted and the top eight female and top eight male directed films were automatically longlisted. The remaining two female and two...
The publication of the longlists follows the BAFTA 2020 Review, where over 120 wide-ranging changes were introduced across voting, membership and campaigning to address a lack of diversity in the 2020 Film Awards nominations. As part of these changes, a new longlisting initial round was introduced for the awards, resulting in three rounds of voting. Round one voting, which took place from Jan. 12-26, produced the longlists in all categories.
The directing category sees the BAFTA make an effort towards gender parity. To determine this longlist, in Round One, the directing chapter voted and the top eight female and top eight male directed films were automatically longlisted. The remaining two female and two...
- 2/4/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA has published the longlists for its 2021 Film Awards, which members will now whittle down to the final nominations. You can see the lists in full below, there are 15 per category for most awards, with exceptions.
These aren’t nominations, so drawing too many conclusions from them is premature at this stage. However, if a title didn’t make the cut here, it won’t be getting a nom.
A few takeaways: as per the Globes, Minari is in for foreign-language movie but not for Best Film (Another Round made both); Tenet missed both Best Film and British Film but did make Director and below-the-line categories; Spike Lee isn’t on the Director list, but Da 5 Bloods is on nine including Best Film and Screenplay; Malcolm & Marie missed everything aside from the two lead performances; zilch for On The Rocks, and fairly slim pickings for Apple in total,...
These aren’t nominations, so drawing too many conclusions from them is premature at this stage. However, if a title didn’t make the cut here, it won’t be getting a nom.
A few takeaways: as per the Globes, Minari is in for foreign-language movie but not for Best Film (Another Round made both); Tenet missed both Best Film and British Film but did make Director and below-the-line categories; Spike Lee isn’t on the Director list, but Da 5 Bloods is on nine including Best Film and Screenplay; Malcolm & Marie missed everything aside from the two lead performances; zilch for On The Rocks, and fairly slim pickings for Apple in total,...
- 2/4/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Oliver Hermanus to direct drama, with production set to begin in spring 2021.
Lionsgate has swooped on UK distribution rights to Oliver Hermanus’ Living, starring Bill Nighy, which is produced by the UK’s Number 9 Films.
The feature is set to shoot on location in the UK next spring and is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Japanese drama Ikiru.
The most recent feature from South African filmmaker Hermanus was queer war drama Moffie. The screenplay is written by Kazuo Ishiguro, whose award-winning novels include The Remains Of The Day and Never Let Me Go.
London-based Rocket Science is handling international...
Lionsgate has swooped on UK distribution rights to Oliver Hermanus’ Living, starring Bill Nighy, which is produced by the UK’s Number 9 Films.
The feature is set to shoot on location in the UK next spring and is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Japanese drama Ikiru.
The most recent feature from South African filmmaker Hermanus was queer war drama Moffie. The screenplay is written by Kazuo Ishiguro, whose award-winning novels include The Remains Of The Day and Never Let Me Go.
London-based Rocket Science is handling international...
- 12/21/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Venice festival premiere has been set for an April launch in the US.
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
- 12/18/2020
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
The Venice festival premiere has been set for an April launch in the US.
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
IFC Films has bought North American rights to queer war film Moffie, from South African director Oliver Hermanus and UK independent Portobello Productions.
IFC has set the film, which opened in South Africa and the UK earlier this year, for a release in April, 2021.
Set against the backdrop of the Apartheid-era South African Border War and adapted from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical novel by Hermanus and Portobello’s Jack Sidey, Moffie premiered at last year’s Venice film festival. Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers,...
- 12/18/2020
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
IFC Films has nabbed North American rights to South African Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie,” a queer war film that is set against the backdrop of a South African border war. The indie studio will release the film in April 2021.
Hermanus directs the film and adapted the story from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical 2006 novel with Jack Sidey. “Moffie” premiered at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. It was a homecoming of sorts for the director, whose previous feature, “The Endless River,” was the first South African film to be nominated for the Golden Lion.
“‘Moffie’ is a brilliant cinematic vision with a powerful message that will inspire audiences and critics alike,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films, said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to come on board with such an accomplished film and singular directorial voice.”
“Moffie” stars Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak,...
Hermanus directs the film and adapted the story from André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical 2006 novel with Jack Sidey. “Moffie” premiered at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. It was a homecoming of sorts for the director, whose previous feature, “The Endless River,” was the first South African film to be nominated for the Golden Lion.
“‘Moffie’ is a brilliant cinematic vision with a powerful message that will inspire audiences and critics alike,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films, said in a statement. “We’re thrilled to come on board with such an accomplished film and singular directorial voice.”
“Moffie” stars Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Vermaak,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Kazuo Ishiguro is writing the screenplay with Oliver Hermanus to direct.
Bill Nighy and Sex Education breakout Aimee Lou Wood have signed to star in Living, an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Japanese drama Ikiru, for the UK’s Number 9 Films, Film4, and Ingenious Media.
The film will shoot on location in the UK next spring; Kazuo Ishiguro is writing the screenplay, with Moffie filmmaker Oliver Hermanus to direct.
Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen will produce for Number 9, with Ko Kurosawa of Kurosawa Productions as executive producer.
UK-based sales agent Rocket Science will open sales on the project at...
Bill Nighy and Sex Education breakout Aimee Lou Wood have signed to star in Living, an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Japanese drama Ikiru, for the UK’s Number 9 Films, Film4, and Ingenious Media.
The film will shoot on location in the UK next spring; Kazuo Ishiguro is writing the screenplay, with Moffie filmmaker Oliver Hermanus to direct.
Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen will produce for Number 9, with Ko Kurosawa of Kurosawa Productions as executive producer.
UK-based sales agent Rocket Science will open sales on the project at...
- 10/15/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
BAFTA and Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy will headline the cast of “Living,” alongside Aimee Lou Wood, known for her breakout role in Netflix’s “Sex Education.”
The screenplay by Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of The Day”) is an English-language adaptation of the 1952 classic “Ikiru,” written by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
The film will be directed by multiple award-winning filmmaker Oliver Hermanus (“Moffie”).
Set in London circa 1952, the film will follow Nighy’s veteran civil servant, who has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-wwii England. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness, and begins a quest to find some meaning to his monotonous life before it slips away. He becomes intrigued by a young co-worker, who inadvertently shows him how to harness his years of experience and dedication...
The screenplay by Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of The Day”) is an English-language adaptation of the 1952 classic “Ikiru,” written by Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
The film will be directed by multiple award-winning filmmaker Oliver Hermanus (“Moffie”).
Set in London circa 1952, the film will follow Nighy’s veteran civil servant, who has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-wwii England. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness, and begins a quest to find some meaning to his monotonous life before it slips away. He becomes intrigued by a young co-worker, who inadvertently shows him how to harness his years of experience and dedication...
- 10/15/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA and Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy is set to take the lead in Living, an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Japanese classic Ikiru from Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of The Day and Never Let Me Go.
Oliver Hermanus (Moffie, The Endless River) will direct the feature, heading to next month’s American Film Market (AFM) with Rocket Science. Alongside Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, best known for playing Aimee Gibbs in Netflix’s hit series Sex Education and soon to be seen alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy in the biopic Louis Wain for Amazon, will also star....
Oliver Hermanus (Moffie, The Endless River) will direct the feature, heading to next month’s American Film Market (AFM) with Rocket Science. Alongside Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, best known for playing Aimee Gibbs in Netflix’s hit series Sex Education and soon to be seen alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy in the biopic Louis Wain for Amazon, will also star....
- 10/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
BAFTA and Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy is set to take the lead in Living, an English-language adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 Japanese classic Ikiru from Nobel and Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of The Day and Never Let Me Go.
Oliver Hermanus (Moffie, The Endless River) will direct the feature, heading to next month’s American Film Market (AFM) with Rocket Science. Alongside Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, best known for playing Aimee Gibbs in Netflix’s hit series Sex Education and soon to be seen alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy in the biopic Louis Wain for Amazon, will also star....
Oliver Hermanus (Moffie, The Endless River) will direct the feature, heading to next month’s American Film Market (AFM) with Rocket Science. Alongside Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, best known for playing Aimee Gibbs in Netflix’s hit series Sex Education and soon to be seen alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy in the biopic Louis Wain for Amazon, will also star....
- 10/15/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Olivia Colman and Colin Firth will star in “Mothering Sunday” for director Eva Husson. Rocket Science is handling sales.
Alice Birch penned the screenplay from the bestselling novel by Graham Swift.
Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films will produce the film, with financing from Film4 and Ingenious. The film has been developed with the support of Film4 and the BFI awarding National Lottery funding. It will shoot on location in the U.K. this Autumn.
The project has already attracted a stellar set of head of departments with Sandy Powell on board as costume designer, cinematographer Jamie Ramsay, make-up designer Nadia Stacey (“The Favourite”), production designer Helen Scott and editor Emilie Orsini.
The film is set in 1924 at Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch...
Alice Birch penned the screenplay from the bestselling novel by Graham Swift.
Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley’s Number 9 Films will produce the film, with financing from Film4 and Ingenious. The film has been developed with the support of Film4 and the BFI awarding National Lottery funding. It will shoot on location in the U.K. this Autumn.
The project has already attracted a stellar set of head of departments with Sandy Powell on board as costume designer, cinematographer Jamie Ramsay, make-up designer Nadia Stacey (“The Favourite”), production designer Helen Scott and editor Emilie Orsini.
The film is set in 1924 at Beechwood, England. Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch...
- 6/25/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Benjamin Ree’s “The Painter and the Thief,” Jóhann Johánsson’s “Last and First Men,” Oliver Hermanus’ “Moffie” and Amanda Kernell’s “Charter” are some of the titles announced for the upcoming 10th Atlàntida Film Fest, the largest online film festival in Europe, organized by Spain’s Filmin platform.
The event will take a double format –one on-site in Palma de Mallorca from July 27 to Aug. 2, and another longer online version from July 27 through Aug. 27.
Mainly focused on Europe, final selection will see about 95 titles online –including TV series,– and 4o titles will be screened in theaters in Mallorca, where the Atlàntida Film Fest has been taking place for the past five years.
Benjamin Ree’s “The Painter and the Thief” will open the festival. Premiered in Sundance this year, it won the world cinema documentary special jury prize for creative storytelling. Neon-distributed, it is “a stranger-than-fiction friendship story in...
The event will take a double format –one on-site in Palma de Mallorca from July 27 to Aug. 2, and another longer online version from July 27 through Aug. 27.
Mainly focused on Europe, final selection will see about 95 titles online –including TV series,– and 4o titles will be screened in theaters in Mallorca, where the Atlàntida Film Fest has been taking place for the past five years.
Benjamin Ree’s “The Painter and the Thief” will open the festival. Premiered in Sundance this year, it won the world cinema documentary special jury prize for creative storytelling. Neon-distributed, it is “a stranger-than-fiction friendship story in...
- 6/23/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi also reveals ’Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ has become its most-viewed film in the UK to date.
Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers topped UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema’s (Chc) most-watched films over the weekend, after bypassing a theatrical release due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Romanian crime thriller, which debuted in competition at Cannes last year, was originally due to receive a UK day-and-date release on June 26 via Curzon. But ongoing cinema closures meant the film launched exclusively on Chc on May 8, seven weeks early, and performed strongly as audiences look to streaming platforms for new titles during lockdown.
Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers topped UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema’s (Chc) most-watched films over the weekend, after bypassing a theatrical release due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Romanian crime thriller, which debuted in competition at Cannes last year, was originally due to receive a UK day-and-date release on June 26 via Curzon. But ongoing cinema closures meant the film launched exclusively on Chc on May 8, seven weeks early, and performed strongly as audiences look to streaming platforms for new titles during lockdown.
- 5/13/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Harvey Weinstein-inspired drama received an early digital release in the UK due to cinema closures.
UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) has recorded its biggest weekend to date following the early digital release of Harvey Weinstein-inspired drama The Assistant.
The film, starring Julia Garner (Ozark), helped the platform generate a 7.4% revenue boost on its previous best weekend and was 340% up on Chc’s equivalent weekend in 2019.
It marks an ongoing success story for the streaming platform, which has seen a consistent rise in figures following the closure of all cinemas in mid-March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) has recorded its biggest weekend to date following the early digital release of Harvey Weinstein-inspired drama The Assistant.
The film, starring Julia Garner (Ozark), helped the platform generate a 7.4% revenue boost on its previous best weekend and was 340% up on Chc’s equivalent weekend in 2019.
It marks an ongoing success story for the streaming platform, which has seen a consistent rise in figures following the closure of all cinemas in mid-March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- 5/6/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Distributor partnering with groups through expanded ’Community Cinema’ programme.
Bleecker Street will release Military Wives starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan on May 22 on digital platforms.
Peter Cattaneo’s (The Full Monty) film will be available to rent or buy through AppleTV, Amazon Prime Video and other major VOD platforms and on Hulu.
At the same time Bleecker Street will partner with choir groups, performing arts centers, community centers, military organisations, and theatrical exhibitors through an expanded “Community Cinema” programme.
Through the initiative, half of all revenue will go to these organisations, similar to what Bleecker Street did with...
Bleecker Street will release Military Wives starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan on May 22 on digital platforms.
Peter Cattaneo’s (The Full Monty) film will be available to rent or buy through AppleTV, Amazon Prime Video and other major VOD platforms and on Hulu.
At the same time Bleecker Street will partner with choir groups, performing arts centers, community centers, military organisations, and theatrical exhibitors through an expanded “Community Cinema” programme.
Through the initiative, half of all revenue will go to these organisations, similar to what Bleecker Street did with...
- 4/28/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’, ‘And Then We Danced’ lead Mubi, BFI Player charts.
Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie topped UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema’s (Chc) most-watched films over the weekend, after sidestepping a theatrical release due to the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.
The gay military drama, which had its world premiere in the Horizons section of Venice, was originally due to receive a UK day-and-date release on April 24. But the continued closure of cinemas meant the film launched exclusively on Chc and performed strongly as audiences continue to seek out home entertainment during quarantine.
From April 24-26, Chc reported...
Oliver Hermanus’ Moffie topped UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema’s (Chc) most-watched films over the weekend, after sidestepping a theatrical release due to the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.
The gay military drama, which had its world premiere in the Horizons section of Venice, was originally due to receive a UK day-and-date release on April 24. But the continued closure of cinemas meant the film launched exclusively on Chc and performed strongly as audiences continue to seek out home entertainment during quarantine.
From April 24-26, Chc reported...
- 4/28/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
A gay, white teenager endures the terrors of national service while hiding his sexuality in a drama that’s grimly compelling – and beautifully tender
Oliver Hermanus delivered a gut punch in 2011 with his powerful film Skoonheid, or Beauty. Now he has directed a fiercely engaged, complex drama of sexual identity and suppressed yearning in apartheid-era South Africa – a film with a humid intensity. It is also a war movie about a country at war with itself, with its neighbours and with the whole world. Hermanus and his co-writer, Jack Sidey, have adapted the novel by André Carl van der Merwe, entitled Moffie – the (still very much unreclaimed) Afrikaans word for “faggot”.
Related: 'It's a triggering film': visceral South African drama Moffie...
Oliver Hermanus delivered a gut punch in 2011 with his powerful film Skoonheid, or Beauty. Now he has directed a fiercely engaged, complex drama of sexual identity and suppressed yearning in apartheid-era South Africa – a film with a humid intensity. It is also a war movie about a country at war with itself, with its neighbours and with the whole world. Hermanus and his co-writer, Jack Sidey, have adapted the novel by André Carl van der Merwe, entitled Moffie – the (still very much unreclaimed) Afrikaans word for “faggot”.
Related: 'It's a triggering film': visceral South African drama Moffie...
- 4/23/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
‘Portrait Of A Lady On Fire’ leads Mubi chart.
Safy Nebbou’s Who You Think I Am has topped UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema’s (Chc) most-watched films for a second week as audiences continue to seek home entertainment during the lockdown.
A month after all cinemas closed across the UK, in a bid to stem the spread of Covid-19, Curzon’s streaming platform reported a 211% revenue increase on the equivalent weekend in 2019.
However, income from April 17-19 was down 31% on the previous weekend, highlighting the importance of launching strong, new titles on a weekly basis.
Romantic drama Who You Think I Am,...
Safy Nebbou’s Who You Think I Am has topped UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema’s (Chc) most-watched films for a second week as audiences continue to seek home entertainment during the lockdown.
A month after all cinemas closed across the UK, in a bid to stem the spread of Covid-19, Curzon’s streaming platform reported a 211% revenue increase on the equivalent weekend in 2019.
However, income from April 17-19 was down 31% on the previous weekend, highlighting the importance of launching strong, new titles on a weekly basis.
Romantic drama Who You Think I Am,...
- 4/21/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
‘Bait’ and ‘Knives Out’ lead BFI Player charts.
UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) has reported a record digital opening for Safy Nebbou’s Who You Think I Am.
The romantic drama, starring Juliette Binoche, delivered the platform’s biggest three-day opening for a premium VoD title to date.
It benefitted from Curzon bringing forward the release of the film from May 8, implemented as part of a larger reshuffle to bolster its online offering while cinemas remain closed, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The performance helped Chc record a 630% increase on the equivalent weekend in 2019 and revenue generated from...
UK streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) has reported a record digital opening for Safy Nebbou’s Who You Think I Am.
The romantic drama, starring Juliette Binoche, delivered the platform’s biggest three-day opening for a premium VoD title to date.
It benefitted from Curzon bringing forward the release of the film from May 8, implemented as part of a larger reshuffle to bolster its online offering while cinemas remain closed, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The performance helped Chc record a 630% increase on the equivalent weekend in 2019 and revenue generated from...
- 4/15/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Curzon has reshuffled its releases to strengthen its streaming schedule.
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth has retained its lead as the most-watched title on Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) as the UK streaming platform prepares to strengthen its schedule of new releases.
The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, held the top spot on the platform for the third consecutive weekend. It is on track to overtake Chc’s most successful title to date, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, as audiences continue to seek out new releases at home due to the closure of cinemas in...
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth has retained its lead as the most-watched title on Curzon Home Cinema (Chc) as the UK streaming platform prepares to strengthen its schedule of new releases.
The Truth, starring Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche, held the top spot on the platform for the third consecutive weekend. It is on track to overtake Chc’s most successful title to date, Celine Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, as audiences continue to seek out new releases at home due to the closure of cinemas in...
- 4/8/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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