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Gwayne Hightower is fully introduced in House of the Dragon season 2, played by Freddie Fox. Gwayne has been living in Oldtown before arriving at King's Landing in season 2. Gwayne's role in the war strategy and battles under Ser Criston Cole adds complexity to character dynamics.

Another member of House Hightower is introduced in House of the Dragon season 2, episode 3, begging the questions of where Gwayne Hightower has been and how important Alicents brother is to the Dance. After House of the Dragon season 2, episode 2 confirmed the existence of Alicents fourth child, Daeron Targaryen, the latest episode finally reveals her long-unseen older brother, Gwayne Hightower. Joining the cast of House of the Dragon season 2 as Gwayne Hightower is actor Freddie Fox, who will become...

Welcome back to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. Led by yours truly, Michael Snydel, I invite a guest to discuss an arthouse, foreign, or experimental film of their choice.

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For the eleventh episode, I switched up the format of the show a little bit and talked to both Charlie Nash, a contributor at Edge Media and various other publications, and his close friend, William Willoughby, a veteran who was kind enough to speak about the film’s relationship with his own Ptsd, about Elem Klimov’s controversial and influential 1985 Russian anti-war film, Come and See––which is available on The Criterion Collection and to stream on The Criterion Channel. Klimov’s...

To mark the release of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on 21st May, we’ve been given a copy to give away on Blu-ray along with a screenplay book signed by Martin McDonagh and a trucker hat. We also have a trucker hat available for 2 runners up.

Many months have passed since the rape and murder of Mildred Hayes’ (Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand) daughter with no suspects identified. Mildred makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into Ebbing with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award® nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.

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The following content has been sponsored by Fox Searchlight Pictures. In a small Midwestern town, a mother searches for justice. “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” the acclaimed new feature from Martin McDonagh, stars Academy Award winner Frances McDormand in what critics have called one of the finest performances of her celebrated career (and one that garnered a Golden Globe win for Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture). After months have gone by since her daughter’s murder, McDormand’s Mildred Hayes decides to challenge the apparent apathy of the town’s law enforcement in a very public way. Commissioning three billboards leading straight into the titular town, Mildred directs their messages to Ebbing’s Police Chief, William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson). What begins as a mother’s plea to avenge her daughter’s death quickly escalates into a hard-fought battle between Mildred and the entirety of Ebbing’s law enforcement unit,...

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the big winner at the Golden Globes this week, and we had the pleasure of meeting the man who thought the whole thing up, speaking to writer/director Martin McDonagh when in London during the capital’s annual film festival.

McDonagh, whose previous films are In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, tells us what inspired this unique, original story, and how he went about securing an unfathomable redemption tale for one of the film’s leading roles.

He also goes to explain why Sam Rockwell listened to Abba in the movie, and what attracts him to working with the same actors on numerous occasions. Talking of which he tells us that he’s trying to get Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson back together, and that he also has an idea to bring Christopher Walken and Rockwell together on screen.

We also ask...

Den Of Geek Jan 5, 2018

We're putting a free London preview screening of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri! Details right here...

We’re a week into 2018, and already, we can comfortably predict that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is going to be a tough film to beat. It’s from the director of In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, and features Frances McDormand in the lead role. And we’re proud as punch to be putting on an early preview screening just for Den Of Geek readers!

The official synopsis for the movie reads as follows…

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comedic drama from Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby...

Frances McDormand gives her best performance since Fargo over two decades ago in Three Billboards Outside Ebbibg, Missouri which, despite its cumbersome title, is one of the best films of 2017. She plays Mildred Hayes, a middle-aged divorcee who, out of grief and frustration, rents three dilapidated billboards outside the sleepy burg of Ebbing, Missouri (look it up – it’s one town over from Blaine) and has them decked with incriminating messages; “Raped While Dying”,“And Still No Arrests”, and “How Come, Chief Willoughby?” Mildred is basically declaring war on Ebbing’s Police Chief, William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), but the locals are incensed at her, mostly because the Chief is not only widely beloved, but he’s also dying of pancreatic cancer. Mildred doesn’t care what her neighbors think or of Willoughby’s fine character and impending death. She’s just angry because several months have passed and not enough...

Justice League, Wonder and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri top our What to Watch weekend previewJustice League, Wonder and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri top our What to Watch weekend previewTanner Zipchen11/16/2017 3:52:00 Pm

This weekend, I'm excited to see Justice League, Wonder and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri!

Zack Synder's Justice League is here! Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) enlists the help of his newfound ally, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), to face an even greater enemy. Together, the two work quickly to find and recruit a team of other superheroes (Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash) to stand against this newly awakened threat. The epic action in this is a must see on the big screen!

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This fall, you’ve likely been hearing plenty of music from Oscar-nominated composer Carter Burwell. He’s put his magic touch already on “Goodbye Christopher Robin” and “Wonderstruck,” and this month, he shows his talent and range once again with the score for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”

The new film by Martin McDonagh (“Seven Psychopaths,” “In Bruges“) follows Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), who makes a bold move, commissioning three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police, after months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case.

Continue reading Stream 2 Tracks From Carter Burwell’s Score For ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ [Exclusive] at The Playlist.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri opens in St. Louis on Wednesday November 22nd. Wamg has your free passes to see the film first!

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comedic drama from Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award® nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only exacerbated.

Fox Searchlight Pictures and Film 4 present, a Blueprint Pictures production, a Martin McDonagh film, written and directed by Martin McDonagh, starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell,...

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For your chance to receive a pair of complimentary passes to see the new film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at the Landmark Main Art Theater in Royal Oak, Michigan on Tuesday, November 14th at 7:00Pm, just look for the “Enter the Contest” box further down on this page. But hurry because there are a limited number of passes available and when they’re gone, they’re gone!

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comedic drama from Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award® winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, commissioning three...

This year’s Best Actress race may already be stacked with plenty of talents and turns to keep an eye on, but few are as out-and-out fierce as Frances McDormand’s in the lauded dramedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The film has already enjoyed a hearty festival run, including stops at Venice and Toronto, where it won the prestigious People’s Choice Award. Featuring McDormand in a banger of a performance as a mother driven to some wild ends, the film will likely be one to beat during awards season, and the actress has emerged as its biggest gun.

But what do you need to know about McDormand as Mildred Hayes? Our exclusive new featurette, amusingly and officially titled “Why the Fck Not,” introduces McDormand’s latest role in truly indelible style. The video features McDormand herself sounding off on Mildred’s motivations — she’s a woman after justice,...

We at Collider are happy to debut a batch of exclusive new images from Fox Searchlight’s upcoming darkly comedic drama Three Billboards Outisde Ebbing, Missouri. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths), the film stars Oscar-winner Frances McDormand as a woman who, after months pass without movement towards finding her daughter’s killer, commissions three billboard signs leading into her small town that single out the town’s chief of police William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). The film racked up rave reviews on the fall film festival circuit and won the Audience Award at the Toronto …...

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Photo: Courtesy of London Film Festival Michael McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, will close the 61st edition of the London Film Festival on October 15.

It is expected that the director and stars Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell will attend the screening, which will be the UK premiere after it makes its debut in Venice this August.

The film charts the story of Mildred Hayes (McDormand), who decides to take matters into her own hands after her daughter's murder remains unsolved after months - taking on the town's police chief William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson). When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing’s law enforcement goes from bad to worse.

The film also features Abbie Cornish, Lucas Hedges, Zeljko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Clarke Peters, Samara Weaving, John Hawkes and Peter Dinklage.

Fox Searchlight has set an awards-friendly release date for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to “Seven Psychopaths” starring Frances McDormand. The playwright-turned-filmmaker made his cinematic debut with “In Bruges,” which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. His latest is due in theaters on October 13, leaving plenty of time for the studio to make pushes for McDonagh and McDormand.

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Here’s the synopsis: “‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (‘In Bruges’). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police.

We see a lot of blockbuster, big-budget movie trailers here at Lrm, and sometimes it's easy to overlook smaller films telling simple, personal stories. But every once in a while a new independant feature appears that demands our attention, and isn't afraid to crack us upside the head with its message.

Martin McDonagh, best known for the tragically dark 2008 comedy In Bruges, about a pair of Irish hitmen trying (and failing) to lay low after a botched assassination. In Bruges was wickedly funny and surreal, a great work by a dynamic, new director. However, aside from 2012's little-seen crime-comedy, Seven Psychopaths, McDonagh has been off the grid.

Well, he's resurfaced and judging by the trailer for Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the English-born auteur has made a new film that appears to be his funniest, darkest, and edgiest project to-date.

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In Bruges director Martin McDonagh returns with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Here's the new trailer...

When we interviewed writer/director Martin McDonagh for his last movie, Seven Psychopaths, he told us a couple of key things. Firstly, that he only makes a film every three or four years. Secondly, he knew what his next project was going to be, and that it was going to have a comma in the title.

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That film is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and it sees McDonagh steering a cast that includes Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. It’s a mix of drama and black comedy, about McDormand’s character trying to find justice after her daughter is murdered. Her efforts centre, as you might expect, on three billboards leading into her town.

In Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Frances McDormand plays Mildred Hayes, a mother seeking answers and justice following her daughter's unsolved murder.

Written and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths), the film also stars Woody Harrelson as chief of police William Willoughby. 

In the Nsfw, Red Band trailer, Hayes is frustrated with the town's police department after they've not made progress in her daughter's case after seven months. So, she uses billboards, two of which say "Still no arrests?" and "How Come, Chief Willoughby?," to spur some action.

Fox Searchlight Pictures has debuted the first red band trailer and poster for the upcoming Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which doesn't have a release date in place at this time. This dark comedy marks the return of Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh, whose films In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths have both achieved cult status. With his third feature film, Martin McDonagh heads to the Midwest, to tell the tale of a mother who uses some unique tactics to find justice for her slain daughter.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police.

Frances McDormand says the words “f—,” “p—” and “c—” in Fox Searchlight’s Nsfw trailer for her latest vehicle, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” … and that’s just in the opening 10-seconds seconds of the preview. The “Fargo” Oscar winner lets the curse words fly as Mildren Hayes, a grieving mother who takes on local enforcement after months with no leads on her daughter’s killer. To get their attention, she erects provocative billboards calling out police chief, William Willoughby (Woody Harrelson), just outside her town. “This doesn’t put an end to s—,” she tells a reporter. “This is just the f—ing start.

Oh my! The first trailer for Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is frankly hilarious, confrontational, and very very very much not safe for work, due to its high degree of profanities. Here's the official synopsis: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between...

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri spark widespread havoc in the fantastic red band trailer for Martin McDonagh’s starry crime thriller.

Headed up by Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes, Three Billboards is a black comedy and proud of it, with enough cussing and shenanigans to warrant an R rating ten times over. Directing from his own script, McDonagh’s latest creative venture orbits around Mildred Hayes, who takes it upon herself to raise awareness for her daughter’s murder case months after it was willfully tossed to the side by the local police department. The result is, well, three rather incendiary billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri that in turn spur the police force into action. Thrust into the midst of that storm is Chief William Willoughby (Han Solo star Woody Harrelson), who struggles to keep a lid on things once Hayes’ campaign for justice begins to take hold.

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From the director who helmed the brilliant In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh, comes the first trailer for Fox Searchlight Pictures’ Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

Full disclosure – I’m a huge fan of this McDonagh and Seven Psychopaths and In Bruges were two of the best films of 2012 and 2008. See both if you missed them in the cinemas!

In the meantime, watch the red-band preview below.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winning filmmaker McDonagh.

After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s boy with a penchant for violence,...

His 2008 dark comedy In Bruges topped our list of the best comedies of the century so far and now writer-director Martin McDonagh is finally returning five years after Seven Psychopaths with a new film. Ahead of a release later this year by Fox Searchlight, the first trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has arrived, but be warned: it’s red band due to a plethora of euphoric cussing.

Starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, Caleb Landry Jones, Kathryn Newton, Peter Dinklage, John Hawkes, and Lucas Hedges, the film follows a 50-year-old woman whose daughter is murdered and she goes to war with the police in her home town, because she thinks they are more interested in torturing black people than getting justice.

Check out the trailer and poster below.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh (In Bruges...

Discarded plots, quotes from canon, Martin Freeman's hatred of Watson's moustache... Here's a long list of Sherlock series 3 trivia...

Released this month, the collector’s edition Sherlock series 3 DVDs are crammed with nerd succour, from the episodes one and three commentaries by Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat, Sue Vertue and Una Stubbs, to behind-the-scenes featurettes, falling-over and dancing outtakes, footage from episode read-throughs, a deleted scene in which Lars Mikkelsen licks Benedict Cumberbatch, technical special effects gubbins, clips from the only existing television interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and - we almost forgot - the series itself.

For Sherlock fans who haven’t yet had the pleasure, we’ve ploughed through all the bonus material on the discs, turning up the odd bit of trivia treasure as we did so. Find out below about Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's plans for Sherlock to teach Mary the violin, Benedict Cumberbatch...