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Ahead of his UK tour, the former Monty Python star responds to questions from Catherine Zeta-Jones, David Mamet, Janet Suzman, Steve Coogan, Bill Oddie and others

When news broke in 2021 that Eric Idle had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, dismay was followed by relief when he survived to get the all-clear. Now 83, Idle is thriving and about to embark on his first UK tour since 1973.

Over haddock and chips in London last month, a gentle and friendly Idle answered questions submitted by readers and fellow writers, actors and comedians about his time as a Python, Broadway smash Spamalot – his musical adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail – as well as selfies, Peter Cook and why he feels sorry for the royals.

Stars: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, Ian Pirie, Eilidh Fisher, Steffan Cennydd, Thoren Ferguson, Alexandra Lewis | Written by Christopher Smith, Laurie Cook | Directed by Chris Smith

How would the modern world respond if a fallen angel walked among us? Would science attempt to rationalise it, while religion clung tighter to dogma or would both implode under the weight of something truly unexplainable? These are the philosophical and theological underpinnings that Chris Smith’s Consecration grapples with, sometimes subtly, sometimes overtly, in what is arguably his most thematically ambitious film since Black Death.

Jena Malone stars as Grace, a determined and emotionally guarded ophthalmologist who is pulled into the cloistered world of Mount Saviour convent in the Scottish Highlands after the suspicious death of her brother, a Catholic priest. Her refusal to accept the official ruling of suicide propels her into a quietly escalating mystery, one cloaked in whispers of miracles,...

Grace, an ophthalmologist’s assistant, exists in a world of measurable science and observable truths. Her life is upended by a call informing her that her brother, a priest, has died violently at a remote convent on Scotland’s Isle of Skye.

The official report is a murder-suicide. Grace’s immediate rejection of this fact is absolute; her brother was a man of deep faith, incapable of such an act. This disbelief propels her across a cultural and spiritual threshold.

She leaves the secular logic of her life behind to enter an isolated enclave of fervent Catholicism, a place where faith and horror are intertwined. Her quest for answers pits the modern, rational mind against an ancient, dogmatic institution.

The Ominous Convent and Its Keepers

The Mount Saviour Convent is a place of stark contrasts. Its oppressive stone walls are set against the wild, untamed beauty of the Scottish highlands,...

Purest hokum, of course, but what hokum! Real pride has gone into crafting this set of shocks, and it’s very well acted in beautiful locations

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a wimple. In this well-crafted horror movie, a young woman called Grace (Jena Malone) finds herself up against a bunch of nuns who may or may not be trying to do something extremely dodgy with an unknown relic, and as with last year’s Omen prequel, there’s a nice line in casting here from the Ladybird Book of Horror Nuns. There’s dotty young nun who pops up going “peekaboo” (Eilidh Fisher), an arrogant mother superior (Janet Suzman), a hardliner weapon-of-Christ sort (Jolade Obasola), and the rather rarer spooky nun with one eye hidden behind an ominous white bandage (Alexandra Lewis). Their acting is uniformly excellent, as is that from Danny Huston,...

Check out some stills and the trailer from the film inside.

Consecration Stills And Trailer

Consecration, Christopher Smith's latest, is coming from Vertigo Releasing to digital in the UK on June 16th, 2025. Written by Smith and Laurie Cook, the film stars Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Thoren Ferguson, Will Keen, and Dame Janet Suzman.

After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.

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Vertigo Releasing has announced that Christopher Smith’s religious horror Consecration will make its UK digital debut on 16 June, bringing a haunting tale of murder, memory and ecclesiastical corruption to audiences at home. The film stars Jena Malone as Grace, a trauma-stricken woman drawn into the labyrinthine secrets of a remote Scottish convent following the suspicious death of her brother, a Catholic priest.

Shot on location in Scotland and originally released in cinemas in early 2023, Consecration arrives digitally following a run that included a slot at the Glasgow Film Festival and a streaming debut on Shudder. Its UK digital release renews interest in a film that blends psychological tension with supernatural menace, rooted in themes of faith, guilt and the ever-thin boundary between devotion and delusion.

Malone, best known for her roles in The Neon Demon and The Hunger Games, takes on the role of Grace Fario, a doctor whose...

This first Hollywood studio feature with a black female director is a compelling account of a South African who turns against the ruling caste

In the late 80s, there were a number of films about apartheid South Africa that somehow made the black experience dramatically subordinate to white liberal activism. Chris Menges’s A World Apart from 1988 had Barbara Hershey as the white campaigner based on anti-apartheid activist Ruth First; the year before that, Richard Attenborough’s excruciatingly well-intentioned Cry Freedom was supposedly about the friendship between white journalist Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) and Steve Biko (Denzel Washington), but contrived to put Woods at the centre of the action, all but forgetting about Biko. Euzhan Palcy’s A Dry White Season from 1989, now released on Blu-ray, looks on the face of it to be the same sort of thing. And yet this movie is much tougher and shrewder on what...

The event runs June 30-July 8.

Die Hard director John McTiernan and leading French actress and writer Josiane Balasko are among those taking part in this year’s Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (Nifff), which runs June 30-July 8.

The full programme for the 22nd edition of the Swiss event, again under the artistic direction of Pierre-Yves Walder, includes 124 films from 5 continents and 44 countries. There are eight world premieres, among them Irish director Ian Hunt-Duffy’s horror thriller Double Blind starring The Walking Dead’s Pollyanna McIntosh, alongside Millie Brady and Kate Ashfield, and Quarxx’s new horror Pandemonium, both screening in the festival’s Ultra Section.

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

V/H/S/99 Blu-ray from Rlje Films

Produced by Bloody Disgusting, V/H/S/99 is going to Hell on Blu-ray and DVD on May 23 via Rlje Films. Pre-orders are only $14.99.

The fifth installment in the found footage horror franchise consists of five segments from directors Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down), Vanessa & Joseph Winter (Deadstream), Maggie Levin (Into the Dark: My Valentine), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), and Flying Lotus (Kuso).

Special features include a filmmaker audio commentary, New York Comic Con panel, deleted scenes, bloopers, and more.

Bride of Chucky Vinyl Soundtrack from Enjoy the Ride Records

Bride of Chucky’s original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time for $40 via Enjoy the Ride Records.

Stars: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, Ian Pirie, Eilidh Fisher, Steffan Cennydd, Thoren Ferguson, Alexandra Lewis | Written by Christopher Smith, Laurie Cook | Directed by Chris Smith

How would the modern world cope with the coming of a fallen angel? How would science and religion collide and what if a “scientist” was in the centre of it all? Those are the questions Chris Smith’s Consecration asks.

Grace (Jena Malone) is summoned to the Mount Saviour convent deep in the Scottish Highlands following the mysterious death of her priest brother. Refusing to believe he committed suicide, and determined to discover what really happened, Grace starts her own investigation as the nuns prepare a consecration ceremony to purify the holy site. Soon she inadvertently shines a light on murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth, relating to the forgotten years of her own childhood, intertwined with that of the convent’s holy...

Ahead of the European premiere of his psychologically disturbing supernatural thriller, Consecration, at FrightFest Glasgow 2023, director Chris Smith talks about the supernatural side of religion, filming in Scotland, and his encounter with a pregnant sheep.

Chris Smith directing Consecration

Another FrightFest, another Chris Smith movie! Our destinies seem intertwined. Why has FrightFest always been a key component to your release strategy?

I feel very fortunate to have been brought into the FrightFest family. I was very lucky that my first film, Creep, was included and then I got very lucky with the dates of release of my subsequent films. Severance was shown the night before the festival started in 2006 and then of course there was the spectacular Premier for Triangle at the Empire Leicester Square. FrightFest has also shown Black Death and Detour. They didn’t bother with Get Santa but that’s their loss. FrightFest is the best audience for any director.

We move from February into March this week, which means the arrival of Scream VI is now just over one week away. But before we get there, we’ve got other fresh horrors to consume.

This week, Six brand new horror movies will be released, and included in the mix is the latest installment in a long-running franchise based on a classic Stephen King horror novel.

Here’s all the new horror arriving February 28 – March 5, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

First up, Gravitas Ventures unleashes Wolf Garden via On Demand outlets today (February 28), being described by Gravitas as a “elevated horror picture in the tradition of It Follows.”

Written and Directed by Wayne David, Wolf Garden tells the blood-curdling story of William (Wayne David), a young man who disappears upon experiencing haunting visions of the woman he loves and a mysterious creature in the nearby woods.

Jena Malone returns to the horror genre with Consecration. The film centers on Grace, a woman who travels to an isolated Scottish convent to investigate the supposed murder/suicide committed by her brother, only to discover something more sinister going on.

Alongside Malone, the cast for Consecration includes Wonder Woman's Danny Huston, Dame Janet Suzman, and Thoren Ferguson. Hailing from Triangle and Black Death writer-director Christopher Smith, the religious horror drama delivers an effectively dreamlike and chilling mystery that results in a shocking finale.

Related: Every Incoming Major 2023 Horror Movie Ranked By Hype

In anticipation of the film's release, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with co-writer and director Christopher Smith and star Jena Malone to discuss Consecration, the film's female empowerment themes, inspirations from prior religious horror movies, and more.

Jena Malone & Christopher Smith on Consecration

Screen Rant: Consecration was a really good ride. It was so ominous and so unique.

“Consecration” is something you hardly see anymore: a Catholic horror movie that isn’t about exorcism. Yet after decades of “Exorcist” knockoffs, moviegoers have been conditioned to anticipate the clichés of demonic possession. We expect them to be delivered, and in a certain way they always are. For moviemakers have been conditioned that way too.

Set in a remote seaside convent in the Scottish highlands, “Consecration” presents the audience with a sinister Mother Superior (Janet Suzman) who talks about God as if he were the devil. She leads a batch of young nuns who smile with too much cultish devotion (one wears an eyepatch because she dug her own eye out after she thought she saw Satan). We keep waiting for the other demonic shoe to drop — to see a nun possessed, or a group of them gathered in a secret ceremony to conjure the Beelzebub of their dreams. All...

Consecration Review — Consecration (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Christopher Smith, written by Laurie Cook and Christopher Smith and starring Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Ian Pirie, Janet Suzman, Thoren Ferguson, Steffan Cennydd, Eilidh Fisher, Victoria Donovan, Angela White, David Boyle and Alexandra Lewis. Jena Malone plays a woman with a troubled past in [...]

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We’ve been tracking this week’s new releases all week long, with four horror movies debuting on Tuesday and two more debuting on Thursday. Believe it or not, we’re still not done.

Here are four more new horror movies released today, February 10, 2023!

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

First up, director Erik Bloomquist (Ten Minutes to Midnight, Long Lost) is back with She Came from the Woods, an ’80s-set summer camp slasher movie that’s now playing in theaters.

We don’t yet have a home video release date, but we expect one soon.

She Came from the Woods follows “a group of counsellors who accidentally unleash an ancient evil spirit on the last night of a summer camp. As the situation turns bloody, the group is forced to confront what stories are worth telling and what secrets are worth keeping.”

She Came from the Woods...

Nothing is more threatening to religion than a woman possessed. A woman in full possession of her own power, freedom, and mind can think for herself, can question male authority, and even create life. Women are typically the recipients of witch burnings, exorcisms, and speaking in twisted tongues; their capacity to be a vessel is both their power and their weakness. Perhaps that’s why the prickly focus of “Consecration,” a muted possession thriller set in an isolated Scottish convent, feels like such a blank slate, albeit a self-possessed one. Jena Malone brings a biting charm to her portrayal of Grace, but the story’s straightforward revelations end up feeling far too muted for the holy surroundings.

Directed and co-written (with Laurie Cook) by British horror maven Christopher Smith (“Black Death”), “Consecration” makes an artful attempt at telling a feminist revamp of a possession thriller. The minimalist story leans into the ornate Scottish Highlands surroundings,...

“Let the Badness Out.”

A nun mutters this as Jena Malone (The Ruins, The Neon Demon) finds her after a chase through the dark in an exclusive clip from Consecration. What follows gets macabre and unsettles her, but did it happen at all?

One thing is clear; there’s something seriously amiss at this convent. And more ominously, what is the badness that needs letting out?

The clip teases the latest mind-bending horror from Triangle, Black Death, and The Banishing director Christopher Smith. The psychological, convent-set horror film releases in theaters on February 10, 2023.

In Consecration, “Grace (Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what was behind the suspicious death of her brother, a priest. She is initially helped by Father Romero (Huston), but she soon comes to distrust the account of the church as she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own...

Consecration Trailer 2 — IFC Films has released the second movie trailer Consecration (2023) movie trailer has been released. View here the first Consecration movie trailer. Crew Christopher Smith‘s Consecration stars Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, and Ian Pirie. Laurie Cook and Christopher Smith wrote the screenplay for Consecration. “Produced by Laurie Cook, [...]

Continue reading: Consecration (2023) Movie Trailer 2: Jena Malone uncovers murder, sacrilege, and her past while visiting a Convent...

Screen Rant is pleased to present an exclusive clip from Consecration, a new religious thriller from IFC Films and Shudder. Arriving in theaters on February 10, the haunting story follows a young woman named Grace (played by Jena Malone) who makes her way to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland after her brother's mysterious death. It was directed by Christopher Smith, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Laurie Cook.

Alongside Malone, Consecration also stars Danny Huston, Dame Janet Suzman, and Thoren Ferguson. The chilling film captures what happens when someone dies an unholy death in the holiest of places, and it explores what potential sacrilege lies in the forgotten years of Grace's childhood. Check out the exclusive clip below, and learn more about the world of Consecration.

Related: Why Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch Meant A Lot To Star Jena Malone

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In Screen Rant's exclusive clip from Consecration, the...

"I come here when I have dark thoughts... I think I might be a really bad person." IFC Films has unveiled a second official trailer for the indie supernatural horror film Consecration, opening in limited US theaters starting this weekend. Who's down for some freaky Nunsploitation horror?? We posted the first trailer last month giving us a look at these freaky nuns. What are they hiding? Something's going on... After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he apparently fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's official account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself. Jena Malone stars as Grace in this chilling new horror thriller. The cast includes Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, and Ian Pirie. Reviews indicate "fans of a slow-burn psychological horror will certainly find plenty to enjoy from the familiar territory and reliable jump scares." Check out the final preview below.

Be prepared to devour a devilish feast of dread-filled delights as the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event, Frightfest, returns to the renowned Glasgow Film Festival for an 18th year, from Thursday 9th March to Saturday 11th March 2023.

This year’s daring line-up, once again housed at the iconic Glasgow Film Theatre, embraces the latest genre discoveries from around the world, spanning nine countries with an eclectic mix of World, International and UK premieres. FrightFest kicks off with two special screenings on Thursday March 9, opening in grand Gallic style with the UK premiere of Smoking Causes Coughing, a quirky, absurdist comedy sci-fi fantasy from visionary director Quentin Dupieux, whose film Rubber caused a 2010 Gff FrightFest sensation. This is followed by the UK premiere of Sisu, a pulverizing, nerve-shredding and spectacularly gory WW2 action epic by Finnish director Jalmari Helander of Rare Exports fame.

Enter the haunted ‘Devil’s Manor’ as...

Consecration Trailer — Christopher Smith‘s Consecration (2023) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Consecration trailer stars Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, and Ian Pirie. Crew Laurie Cook and Christopher Smith wrote the screenplay for Consecration. “Produced by Laurie Cook, Casey Herbert, Xavier Marchand, and Jason Newmark.” Plot Synopsis Consecration‘s plot synopsis: “After the [...]

Continue reading: Consecration (2023) Movie Trailer: Jena Malone Investigates Her Brother’s Death at a Scotland Convent...

A few months ago, IFC Midnight announced that they had acquired the distribution rights to Consecration, the latest movie from genre regular filmmaker Christopher Smith, whose credits include Creep, Severance, Triangle, Black Death, Detour, and The Banishing. Now IFC Midnight has revealed their release strategy for the film: Consecraction will be reaching theatres on February 10th, with a digital release to follow on March 3rd. At a later date, the movie will also be available to watch on the Shudder streaming service. Along with the release info comes the unveiling of the film’s trailer, which you can check out in the embed above.

Scripted by Smith and Laurie Cook, Consecration follows Grace as she goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what was behind the suspicious death of her brother, a priest. She is initially helped by Father Romero, but she soon comes to distrust...

Jena Malone is on a mission to find a murderer in God’s house.

The “Neon Demon” star plays atheist Grace, who travels to Scotland after her brother kills himself in a nunnery for new horror film “Consecration.” However, Grace’s brother, who was a priest, is also the suspect in a murder investigation, and Grace starts to believe that he in fact was killed and did not take his own life. Once at the monastery, Grace uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.

Janet Suzman portrays a mother superior nun who seems to be protecting supernatural secrets in the horror film. Danny Huston is the lead investigator on the head-scratching case.

Thoren Ferguson and Will Keen also star in the film, directed by Christopher Smith. Smith also co-wrote “Consecration” along with producer Laurie Cook. The film is additionally produced by Jason Newmark, Xavier Marchand, Casey Herbert,...

Consecration is a 2023 horror movie directed by Christopher Smith starring Jena Malone and Danny Huston.

After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own past.

Release Date

Opening in theaters February 10 and on VOD March 3

Cast

Jena Malone

Danny Huston

Thoren Ferguson

Will Keen

Janet Suzman

Ian Pirie

Steffan Cennydd

Angela White

Kit Rakusen

Eilidh Fisher

See full credits >>...

Heading to theaters on February 10th from IFC Films and Shudder, here's a look at the trailer for Consecration, directed by Black Death and Severance's Christopher Smith!

In Consecration, after the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own past.

Director: Christopher Smith Screenwriters: Christopher Smith, Laurie Cook Starring: Jena Malone, Danny Huston, Dame Janet Suzman, Thoren Ferguson Producers: Laurie Cook, Jason Newmark, Xavier Marchand, Casey Herbert, Stuart Ford Cinematographers: Rob Hart, Shaun Mone Editor: Arthur Davis Language: English Running Time: 90 min. Country of Origin: Scotland

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"What is it that you think you know?" IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie supernatural horror film titled Consecration, the latest from British genre filmmaker Chris Smith. This will be debuting in February in theaters, and on VOD in March if anyone is looking for a good scare. After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself. Jena Malone stars as Grace in this chilling Nun thriller. There's some freaky shots of the nuns looking sinister and suspicious, don't even want to go to this convent please. The film's cast includes Danny Huston, Janet Suzman, and Ian Pirie. This definitely does look creepy and disquieting, tons of disturbing scenes in here. Check it out. ›››

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Triangle, Black Death, and The Banishing director Christopher Smith returns to horror with Consecration, coming soon from IFC Midnight and Shudder here in early 2023.

IFC Midnight will first release the film in theaters on February 10, 2023, Entertainment Weekly reports this morning. Consecration then comes to Digital on March 3, 2023.

Consecration stars Jena Malone (The Ruins), Danny Huston (30 Days of Night, “American Horror Story”), and Janet Suzman. Christopher Smith co-wrote the script with Laurie Cook.

In Consecration, “After the suspicious death of her brother, a priest, Grace (Jena Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own past.”

Previously, Smith described the project as “a film about the nature of religion and how defining one thing as divine creates a false opposite that is heretical.”

He added: “This film is an opportunity to...

First landing on my radar with the back-to-back genre blasts Triangle and Black Death, director Christopher Smith is returning this year with Consecration. Led by Jena Malone, the psychological horror drama follows her character, Grace, to a Scotland convent upon the news of her brother, a priest, passing under mysterious circumstances. Once there she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a disturbing truth about her own past. Ahead of a February 10 release from IFC Midnight, the first trailer has now arrived.

Also starring Danny Huston, Dame Janet Suzman, and Thoren Ferguson, the preview hints at a brooding mystery conveyed with chilly atmosphere, clues leading to the inevitably bloody conclusion. Malone is poised for quite a major year or two, starring alongside Kristen Stewart in Rose Glass’ Saint Maud follow-up Love Lies Bleeding, Kevin Costner’s western epic Horizon, and Zack Snyder’s sci-fi feature Rebel Moon.

See the trailer below.

Consecration opens in theaters on February 10th.

Consecration, the latest movie from genre regular filmmaker Christopher Smith, whose credits include Creep, Severance, Triangle, Black Death, Detour, and The Banishing, has just secured distribution! Variety reports that IFC Midnight will be giving the supernatural thriller a theatrical release sometime in 2023, then the film will be moving over for the Shudder streaming service. Shudder has the exclusive rights to Consecration‘s first streaming window.

Scripted by Smith and Laurie Cook, Consecration follows Grace as she goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what was behind the suspicious death of her brother, a priest. She is initially helped by Father Romero, but she soon comes to distrust the account of the church as she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.

Jena Malone (The Hunger Games) plays Grace, with Danny Huston (Wonder Woman) as Father Romero.

AGC International screening supernatural thriller for AFM buyers.

IFC Midnight and Shudder are acquiring North American rights to AGC Studios’ supernatural thriller Consecration directed by Christopher Smith and starring Jena Malone and Danny Huston.

IFC Midnight will release the film theatrically in 2023 and Shudder will take the exclusive first streaming window. AGC is screening the film for international buyers at AFM.

Smith co-wrote the screenplay with Laurie Cook about Grace, who following the suspicious death of her priest brother goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what happened.

When Grace enlists the help of Father Romero she uncovers murder,...

Triangle, Black Death, and The Banishing director Christopher Smith returns to horror once more with upcoming supernatural thriller Consecration.

Per Variety, IFC Midnight and Shudder have acquired North American rights to the film. IFC Midnight will release the film in theaters in 2023 with Shudder subsequently taking the first streaming window exclusively.

Consecration stars Jena Malone (The Ruins), Danny Huston, and Janet Suzman. Smith co-wrote the script with The Banishing producer Laurie Cook.

In Consecration, “Grace (Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what was behind the suspicious death of her brother, a priest. She is initially helped by Father Romero (Huston), but she soon comes to distrust the account of the church as she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about her own shadowy past that brings long-buried trauma to the surface.”

Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films, said in a statement, “Christopher Smith...

IFC Midnight and Shudder are acquiring North American rights to “Consecration,” a supernatural thriller from AGC Studios. The film boasts a cast that includes Jena Malone of “The Hunger Games” franchise, Danny Huston from “Wonder Woman” and “Children of Men,” and Janet Suzman, a stage and screen doyenne who received an Oscar nomination for her work in “Nicolas and Alexandra.” Christopher Smith (“Detour”) directs from the script he wrote with Laurie Cook (“The Banishing”).

IFC Midnight will release the film in theaters in 2023 with Shudder subsequently taking the first streaming window exclusively. Both companies share a parent company in AMC Networks.

In the film Grace (Malone) goes to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what was behind the suspicious death of her brother, a priest. She is initially helped by Father Romero (Huston), but she soon comes to distrust the account of the church as she uncovers murder,...

Film shot entirely in UK last autumn.

AGC Studios has released the exclusive first-look image from its supernatural thriller Consecration ahead of the launch of sales in Cannes.

Stuart Ford and the AGC International sales team will show footage at an invitation-only buyer event from the latest genre title by Christopher Smith, the director of The Banishing, Detour and Severance who co-wrote Consecration with Laurie Cook.

The film stars Jena Malone, Danny Huston and Janet Suzman and takes place in Scotland, where Grace goes to the Mount Saviour Convent to learn more about the suspicious death of her priest brother.

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1971 Best Actress (50 years ago) is the furthest back you can go to get a category (any category) where all the nomines are still alive: Julie Christie, Jane Fonda, Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave, and Janet Suzman

Loyal readers know we are always irritated that the Academy cares more about imaginary audiences than the one they have so we're thinking of the awesomeness of Hollywood and Oscar history today (since they won't). You've seen our lists of the "oldest living screen stars"  and the "oldest living Oscar nominees" but we're aware Oscar is never going to do anything cool like a "family album" again, a great moment from the broadcast.  But They Should. If the Academy leaned back into tradition rather than pretend it didn't exist, they could harness more respect and enthusiasm again. Institutions become institutions for a reason. Institutions aren't "cool" by nature since they're like giant...

AGC International handles worldwide sales.

Principal photography has begun in London and Scotland on AGC Studios supernatural horror thriller Consecration starring Jena Malone, Danny Huston and Janet Suzman.

Christopher Smith, whose credits include The Banishing and Black Death, directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with Laurie Cook. Xavier Marchand of Moonriver Content and Jason Newmark and Laurie Cook of Bigscope Films are producing.

AGC Studios is fully financing and co-produces. Chairman and CEO Stuart Ford is executive producer alongside the company’s Linda McDonough, Miguel Palos, and co-executive producer Zachary Garrett, and Bigscope’s Ed Fraiman and Adam Nagel. Casey Herbert...

Wild parties, stunning performances, silhouette erections and marrying Patrick Stewart twice. As the actor turns 80, friends including Derek Jacobi, Janet Suzman, Michael Sheen, Bill Condon and Stephen Fry pay tribute

Ian has been been very important in my life, even before we became good friends. When I was a young teen I remember watching Walter on the TV and being hugely affected by it. Then at Rada in the early 90s, I finally saw him live, in Richard III at the National. I was blown away. I remember him doing the opening speech while lighting a cigarette one-handed. It was brilliant, so understated. It exemplified his mastery – and his work ethic. To do something so difficult and complicated and make it look so easy. Ian has an innate sense of theatrical audacity, something I think he shares with Olivier. They both did things that would make the audience gasp self-consciously.

Secret agent Michael Caine must take on both the kidnappers of his son and his own suspect Army Intelligence colleagues in Don Siegel’s efficiently filmed, curiously tame suspense thriller. Delphine Seyrig is enticing and Donald Pleasance an unlikeable security bureaucrat, while the capable Janet Suzman and John Vernon fill out a top-flight cast that performs well in thriller surprisingly lacking in dramatic impact.

The Black Windmill

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1974 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date December 4, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Janet Suzman, Delphine Seyrig, John Vernon, Clive Revill, Joss Ackland, Catherine Schell, Joseph O’Conor, Hermoine Baddeley, John Rhys-Davies

Cinematography: Ousama Rawi

Film Editor: Antony Gibbs

Original Music: Roy Budd

Written by Leigh Vance, from the novel Five Days to a Killing by Clive Egleton

Produced and Directed by Don Siegel

Something seems wrong from the first with The Black Windmill: the...

This is a weird potentially morbid trivia list for you coming for no reason whatsoever -or perhaps my birthday? Uff getting older is thumbs down -- but we follow our trivia instincts wherever they take us. Here are the oldest years in each category wherein all the nominees are still living

Earliest Best Actress Race Where All Women Are Still With Us

1971

Julie Christie, McCabe & Mrs Miller

Jane Fonda, Klute ★

Glenda Jackson, Sunday Bloody Sunday

Vanessa Redgrave, Mary Queen of Scots

Janet Suzman, Nicholas and Alexandra

Janet Suzman and Julie Christie appear to have retired now... but both within the past handful of years so maybe it won't stick. The others are still very active of course with Glenda Jackson just finishing the Triple Crown resorting in a big trivia update on our part.

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The Royal Theatre in Los Angeles will be presenting a 45th anniversary DVD screening of Peter Medak’s 1972 film The Ruling Class. The 154-minute film, which stars Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Caroline Seymour, Coral Browne, Harry Andrews, and Peter O'Toole, will be screened on DVD on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 7:00 pm.

Please Note: At press time, director Peter Medak is scheduled to appear in person for a discussion about the film following the screening.

From the press release:

Part of our Anniversary Classics series. For details, visit: laemmle.com/ac.

The Ruling Class (1972)

45th Anniversary Screening

Tuesday, April 25, at 7 Pm at the Royal Theatre

Followed by Q & A with Director Peter Medak

Presented on DVD

This biting black comedy, in the tradition of such British classics as Kind Hearts and Coronets, focuses on a fierce battle for succession within an aristocratic family. Peter O’Toole plays a...

Ground-breaking is the word to describe the panelists at The Hollywood Reporter's 5th annual Mipcom Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch, which THR is hosting together with A+E Networks and Lifetime. Euzhan Palcy of Jmj International Pictures, who was born in France, can lay claim to being the first-ever black woman to direct a Hollywood feature — 1989's A Dry White Season, a South Africa-set thriller featuring Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman and Marlon Brando, who received an Oscar nomination for his supporting turn. Palcy will be joined by Shondaland's Betsy Beers. With ABC hits Grey's Anatomy,

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'Nicholas and Alexandra': Movie starred Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman 'Nicholas and Alexandra' movie review: Opulent 1971 spectacle lacks emotional core Nicholas and Alexandra is surely one of the most sumptuous film productions ever made. The elaborate sets and costumes, Richard Rodney Bennett's lush musical score, and frequent David Lean collaborator Freddie Young's richly textured cinematography provide the perfect period atmosphere for this historical epic. Missing, however, is a screenplay that offers dialogue instead of speeches, and a directorial hand that brings out emotional truth instead of soapy melodrama. Nicholas and Alexandra begins when, after several unsuccessful attempts, Tsar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) finally becomes the father of a boy. Shortly thereafter, he and his wife, the German-born Empress Alexandra (Janet Suzman), have their happiness crushed when they discover that their infant son is a hemophiliac. In addition to his familial turmoil, the Tsar must also deal with popular...

One of the most Our Kind of Shows-friendly networks, The CW, has done us a few more favors, bless ‘em. They’ve given us not only the dates for the season finales of all Our Kind of Shows that they broadcast – that’s Arrow, The Tomorrow People, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Star-Crossed, and The 100 – but tacked on a new one as a bonus!

Well, it’s not a new series, but Labyrinth is a four-hour miniseries, and it stars so many familiar faces. The War Doctor! The Winter Soldier! Draco Malfoy! Defiance‘s Datak Tarr! Winter’s Tale‘s Beverly! More info about that below, along with the season finale dates and times. The SciFi Mafia Calendar (see the Calendar tab above) has also been updated.

The CW Sets Season Finale Dates And Kicks Off Summer With Four-hour Event Series “Labyrinth” Labyrinth Makes Its Broadcast Television Premiere Across Two Nights on Thursday,...

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That Lars von Trier, he's a naughty one, eh? And befitting its subject matter, his latest grandiose provocation has been preceded by a prolonged foreplay-session of teaser trailers and titillating rumours. Now, for one night only, you can watch both halves of the movie back to back before it goes on release in two halves later this month. Despite being four hours long and sexually explicit, it's far from the sado-masochistic experience it sounds, with digressions into baroque music, fly fishing and dessert forks, and a steady procession of familiar faces including Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell and Willem Dafoe. Afterwards, you'll be rewarded with a satellite Q&A, live from the Curzon Chelsea, in which three of the film's stars – Von Trier veteran Stellan Skarsgård and Britons Stacy Martin...

The CW has acquired the four-hour period mini-series based on Kate Mosse's novel "Labyrinth," though no premiere date has yet been announced.

Jessica Brown Findlay ("Downton Abbey"), Sebastian Stan ("Captain America: The First Avenger"), Tom Felton ("Harry Potter") and veteran acting legend John Hurt lead a cast that includes Janet Suzman, Claudia Gerini, Katie McGrath, Emun Elliott and Tony Curran.

The story follows two women separated by centuries who are united by the search for the Holy Grail, the action switching between 13th century and modern-day France.

Christopher Smith helms the project from a script by Adrian Hodges. The mini was shot in southwest France and Cape Town.

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The CW is jumping into the miniseries game. The network has acquired the four-hour period mini Labyrinth, starring Downton Abbey alum Jessica Brown Findlay, The CW announced Wednesday afternoon during a panel at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. Veteran actor John Hurt; Sebastian Stan, who returns to The CW (he recurred on Gossip Girl); and Tom Felton also star in the mini. Janet Suzman, Claudia Gerini, Katie McGrath, Emun Elliott and Tony Curran also co-star. A premiere date will be announced later. Labyrinth, based on the novel by Kate Mosse, will shift back and forth between medieval

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Marlon Brando in ‘A Dry White Season,’ James Earl Jones in ‘Cry the Beloved Country’: Apartheid movies (photo: Marlon Brando in ‘A Dry White Season’) (See previous post: “Nelson Mandela: Sidney Poitier and ‘Malcolm X’ Cameo Apperance.”) Besides the Nelson Mandela movies discussed in the previous two posts, South Africa’s apartheid has been portrayed in a number of films in the last few decades. Among the most notable ones are the following: Zoltan Korda’s Cry the Beloved Country (1951). Based on Alan Paton’s novel, this British-made film features Canada Lee and Charles Carson as two men struggling to deal with the disastrous consequences of apartheid. Ralph Nelson’s The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine star as, respectively, an anti-apartheid South African activist and a British engineer on the run from South Africa’s secret police, headed by racist Nicol Williamson. Chris Menges’ A World Apart...

Powerful stage and screen actor often cast as an aristocrat, king or moustachioed villain

When the whisky flowed, according to the writer John Heilpern, the actor Nigel Davenport looked "as if he might knock you through the wall for sport". However, words such as "imposing" and "heavyweight", both often applied to his performances on stage and screen across more than 40 years, do not do sufficient justice to his lightness of touch and comic energy.

Davenport, who has died aged 85, was a founder member of the English Stage Company (Esc) at the Royal Court – in the first season, he was in every production except Look Back in Anger – and a distinguished president of Equity, the actors' union; he played leads in Restoration comedy and absurdist drama as well as King Lear.

In a recent rerun of the BBC's Keeping Up Appearances, he loomed as a lubricious old navy commodore coming on...

The new South African family feature film, Felix!, which features an all-star cast that includes Joburg-born Oscar-nominee Dame Janet Suzman in her first South African film; South African Film and Television Award (Safta) Best Actress winner Linda Sokhulu in her feature film debut; and newcomer Hlayani Mabasa, who was cast in the title role from over 400 auditions across the country. What's the film about? 14-year-old Felix Xaba dreams of becoming a saxophonist like his late father, but his mother Lindiwe (Sokhulu) thinks jazz is the devil’s music. When Felix leaves his township friends to take up a scholarship at an elitist private school, he defies his mother and...