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It looks like Sharon Stone could be returning to the role that turned her into a Hollywood star and became the original “pause challenge” long before TikTok existed. In a surprising turn of events, Basic Instinct screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is reportedly reviving the erotic thriller franchise for United Artists and Amazon MGM Studio after closing a $4 million deal.

In what is said to be the biggest spec script sale of 2025 (as per The Wrap), Stone could reprise her role as Catherine Tramell for a third time, and according to the source discussing the deal, the film would be an “anti-woke” reboot of the franchise. Although there have been no further details revealed about what the plot could look like or how Stone’s Tramell could figure in a movie where she originally played a post-feminist icon that didn’t mind which gender she dabbled with while running rings around police.

Basic Instinct, the 1992 erotic thriller starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, is being reimagined. It's just the latest feature film from years past to be rebooted by Hollywood.

Per Variety, a new take on Basic Instinct is now in development from Amazon MGM Studios' United Artists and Scott Stuber. Original screenwriter Joe Eszterhas is returning to write the script for the new version, which is not currently titled, but is expected to have a different name. Stuber is producing for United Artists alongside Nick Nesbit and Vault Entertainment's Craig Baumgarten. Cast members are not yet known.

Basic Instinct was directed by Paul Verhoeven. It followed Douglas as Nick Curran, a detective investigating a murder who gets embroiled in a complicated relationship with the prime suspect, played by Stone. The film was a big success, earning $353 million at the box office against a budget of less than $50 million. It also drew acclaim,...

Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired rights to one of the most iconic ’90s erotic thrillers.

Basic Instinct (1992) writer Joe Eszterhas is returning to pen a not-yet-titled reboot of the Paul Verhoeven-helmed box office hit, which starred Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as his case’s seductive prime suspect Catherine Tramell, a manipulative crime novelist.

“To those who question what an 80-year-old man is doing writing a sexy, erotic thriller: the rumors of my cinematic impotence are exaggerated and ageist,” said Eszterhas in a statement. “I call my writing partner the ‘Twisted Little Man’ and he lives somewhere deep inside me. He was born 29 and he will die 29 and he tells me he is ‘sky high up’ to write this piece and provide viewers with a wild and orgasmic ride. That makes me very happy.”

Producers include UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbitt,...

Let’s be honest, when someone mentions Michael J. Fox, your brain probably jumps straight to Back to the Future. The red vest, the DeLorean, that wild “Great Scott!” energy… it’s iconic, and so is he. Marty McFly basically defined a generation. But here’s the thing: Michael J. Fox didn’t stop being awesome after time travel.

He’s been out here delivering underrated bangers, low-key gems, and performances that hit way harder than you’d expect. Comedy? Drama? Even animated voice work? He’s done it all, and chances are, you’ve missed a few of his best roles just because they didn’t involve a flux capacitor.

So if you’ve only seen him skateboarding through Hill Valley, buckle up, we’re about to dive into some seriously good Michael J. Fox movies that deserve their own moment in the spotlight. Trust us, there’s way...

Matthew Modine is attached as an executive producer on a new documentary series exploring the life and career of Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones. The project, Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy’s Life, will trace the director’s path from his upbringing in the working-class town of Broxburn, near Edinburgh, to a prominent career in Hollywood.

The series is a collaboration between Modine and Adam Rackoff’s Cinco Dedos Peliculas and Scottish production companies Two Rivers Media and Partickular Films. It is currently in development without a confirmed distributor.

Caton-Jones is widely known for directing This Boy’s Life, which starred Robert De Niro and introduced Leonardo DiCaprio in a breakout role. His filmography also includes Scandal, Doc Hollywood, and Rob Roy. He is currently working on Eternity, a feature led by King Orba and Rachel Robinson-Zetzer.

The documentary will include interviews with Caton-Jones and longtime collaborators such as David Puttnam, Tim Roth,...

The Jackal is bringing Bruce Willis' take on the iconic killer to a brand-new streaming home. The 1997 action thriller is now on Tubi.

The Jackal, starring Willis as the iconic assassin, has officially become a part of the free streaming platform's ever-expanding catalog of thrillers. The Jackal was quietly added to the Tubi library on April 1. Directed by Michael Caton-Jones from a screenplay written by Chuck Pfarrer, 1997's The Jackal was an updated feature film adaptation of author Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel, The Day of the Jackal.

The story follows Willis's Jackal, who is being hunted by Sidney Poitier's FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston, and Ira sniper Declan Joseph Mulqueen, played by Richard Gere, as he tries to kill a top-ranking U.S. government official. The film also features appearances by numerous fan-favorite actors, such as J. K. Simmons, Jack Black, Leslie Phillips, and Mathilda May.

The Jackal Received A...

This Drabble adaptation about a PhD student who gets pregnant is kitchen-sinky but without humour or even awareness. It’s an interesting curio

Waris Hussein’s earnest 1969 movie, adapted by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, is a London-set drama about a young woman who has difficulties with men while researching a PhD in English literature – and as a result we get some tremendously nostalgic shots of the British Museum round reading room, when it was still a working library. American star Sandy Dennis puts on a stage-school English accent to play Rosamund, the graduate student who has well-to-do but insufferable bien pensant liberal parents, the kind of people who, as she explains to someone, “let the charlady sit down to dine with us, that kind of nonsense”.

Rosamund finds herself alone in her parents’ London flat while they are away doing good works in Africa and she exchanges brittle,...

Critically acclaimed actor Brian Cox, who recently starred in HBO's Succession, called out several actors in his 2022 memoir Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. Some of the passages included references to Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Steven Seagal, and Quentin Tarantino.

In a new interview with The Guardian, Cox admitted he upset several fellow actors over the years. In his memoir, he called Johnny Depp "so overblown, so overrated," which led to him turning down a role in The Pirates of the Caribbean. He also had other notes about fellow celebrities, as he called Steven Seagal, with whom he worked on 1996's The Glimmer Man "as ludicrous in real life as he appears on screen," noted Edward Norton is "a nice lad, but a bit of a pain in the arse because he fancies himself as a writer-director." He called Michael Caton-Jones, who directed him in Rob Roy, a "complete arsehole.

Brian Cox has doubled down on the description he used in his memoir of actors Johnny Depp and Steven Seagal as “overrated” and “ludicrous” respectively.

The Succession star published his memoirs in 2022, in which he described his The Glimmer Man co-star Seagal “as ludicrous in real life as he appears on screen.” In the same pages, he called Depp “so overblown, so overrated”, Quentin Tarantino’s work “meretricious”, Edward Norton “a nice lad but a bit of pain in the a**e” and director Michael Caton-Jones as “a complete a**ehole.”

This weekend, in an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Cox admitted he’d upset a few people over the years, but added in reference to Depp and Seagal:

“But then they probably think they’re overrated as well. So I’m not saying anything they don’t think anyway.”

Cox also doubled down on his criticism of his Succession...

He’s famed for grumpy roles and outspoken views, but don’t be fooled – the Succession star is a pussycat at heart. He talks about growing up in poverty, falling in love with his wife – and out of love with Labour

As I leave the office, my editor wishes me luck. “Hope he’s not too grumpy!” she says. A moment later, the deputy editor asks where I’m off to. To see Brian Cox, the actor, I say. “Oh!” she says, with a rather-you-than-me look. “Hope he’s not too grumpy!”

Cox has played grumpy for going on 60 years. All sorts of grumpiness – idiot grumpy (independent candidate Bob Servant in the TV comedy of the same name), world-weary grumpy (school principal Dr Nelson Guggenheim in Wes Anderson’s film Rushmore), psychopathic grumpy (the first movie incarnation of Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter), egomaniacal grumpy (Robert McKee in Spike Jonze’s Adaptation) and,...

Ron Perlman has had a remarkable career. His first film was an Oscar winner (Quest for Fire) from a great director; later that decade, he'd win a Golden Globe for the TV series Beauty and the Beast. He's been in everything from big franchise movies and international arthouse films to indie horror and numerous classics with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. But when MovieWeb spoke with Perlman about his new film with Liam Neeson, Absolution, he surprised us when he named the film in his career that he's the proudest of — and it's one hardly anybody has seen.

"I had a production company for about five or six years called Wing and a Prayer Pictures, and I produced about nine movies," explained Perlman. He continued:

"And the first one we identified was called Asher, and it was actually the last movie we produced. It was the movie that killed the company.

The recently released film adaption of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel “It End with Us” was a lot of things and has certainly gotten a lot of people talking. It’s unfortunate, however, that the most important subjects at its center — that of domestic violence and emotional abuse — have not been top-of-mind for most conversations regarding the film, but rather alleged personal riffs between star Blake Lively and director/co-star Justin Baldoni. When domestic violence and abuse have been discussed in reference to the film, it has typically been with criticism over how the film and its rollout have avoided more thoughtfully grappling with these themes, rarely reaching for a narrative that goes any deeper than a casual beach read.

In speaking on adapting Hoover’s novel for the screen in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Baldoni acknowledged his interest in focusing on how Lively’s character, Lily Bloom, overcomes her circumstances,...

Despite a star-studded cast, This Boy's Life only earned $4 million at the box office upon release in 1993. The family drama film failed to stand out among others in the genre, leading to its relative obscurity today. The movie served as an early launching pad for several rising stars, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and more.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro are among the most iconic actors working today. While both have appeared in their share of critically acclaimed titles, they've also collaborated a handful of times, most notably with Martin Scorsese. Killers of the Flower Moon is the most recent, while DiCaprio and De Niro also appeared in Scorsese's 2015 short film The Audition. But there was another time the two legends shared the screen over 30 years ago.

DiCaprio and De Niro first appeared together in the 1993 drama This Boy's Life, from director Michael Caton-Jones. DiCaprio starred as young Toby Wolff,...

Exclusive: Jonathan Keasey, the scribe behind Danielle Deadwyler’s Parallel and Demi Lovato’s Tow, has signed on to adapt The Barracks Thief, a novella from award-winning author Tobias Wolff.

Keasey joins playwright Tyler Rivenbark on the project. The pair will collaborate on the screenplay based on Wolff’s novella.

Wolff, an Emeritus professor at Stanford, is best known as a memoirist. Most notably, his 1989 book This Boy’s Life: A Memoir was adapted for the screen by Michael Caton-Jones, with Leonardo DiCaprio starring as the teenage Wolff in his breakout big-screen performance and Robert De Niro as his abusive step-father Dwight.

The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery,...

The event runs December 16-19 in the French Alps.

France’s Les Arcs Film Festival has unveiled the 18 European feature film projects that will be presented in the 15th edition of its Co-production Village, running December 16-19 in the French Alps.

The showcase aims to connect projects in various stages of development with co-producers, sales agents, distributors and other co-financing partners. This year’s roster boasts a 50-50 gender parity, with nine projects from female filmmakers and nine from male directors. 10 are first fiction features and five are second films, representing 15 different countries.

All the projects will compete for the...

The Les Arcs Film Festival has unveiled the 18 European film projects selected for its Les Arcs Coproduction, running from December 16 to 19 within the framework of the Alpine event’s 15th edition.

The selection, chosen from 269 submitted projects hailing from 15 different countries, has achieved gender parity in terms of the directors involved, even though only 36% applications of the projects submitted were directed by women.

Ten of projects are first fiction feature projects, five are second features and 3 by more established filmmakers, including Michael Caton-Jones and Ena Sendijarević, whose latest film Sweet Dreams is the Netherlands’s Best International Feature Film entry this year.

The Netherlands is Les Arcs Film Festival’s country focus this year and the Coproduction village will welcome three projects from the territory.

There will also be an industry talks program featuring a panel on production issues related to AI, organized by the European Producers Club,...

While Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny didn’t quite make the splash it was hoping to make when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, another movie that made its debut there (to much greater success) is Martin Scorsese’s new anticipated drama Killers of the Flower Moon. This film brings a collaboration of Scorsese’s two prominent go-to actors of his career, Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. Both of them have worked together previously, portraying father and son in 1993’s This Boy’s Life from director Michael Caton-Jones. However, the standout performance that audiences have been raving about is Lily Gladstone, as DiCaprio’s Native American spouse.

Apple has recently released a new trailer for the drama. And the official synopsis reads,

At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight.

Released in 2013, “Lone Survivor” is an emotional tour de force based on the best-selling 2007 memoir by the same name. Directed by Peter Berg, this action-packed war movie follows a Navy Seal team on a mission to capture Taliban leader Ahmad Shah in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region.

The thrilling cast and on-location filming create an intense viewing experience that highlights the bravery of the soldiers who fought alongside one another. With numerous awards and nominations under its belt, “Lone Survivor” provides a natural and powerful look at the life of a soldier in modern warfare.

The gripping movie, directed and penned by Peter Berg, featured Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana in pivotal roles.

With a budget of 40 million, Lone Survivor became a box-office success, grossing over 154 million worldwide. The film has also been met with positive reviews from critics and audiences alike.

If you...

Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh's forbidden romance makes them one of the most popular 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way couples, and it's time to share facts about the duo. Oddly, being a victim of catfishing made Jenny fall deeply in love with Sumit, but his lies later triggered turbulence in the TLC pair’s lives. In true reality TV fashion, Jenny and Sumit gave fans countless moments of panic and confusion before they finally tied the knot. Still, there’s a lot about Jenny that’s still not known to 90 Day Fiancé fans, from her former life in California to her love of Bollywood.

Palm Springs resident Jenny was 60 when she was first introduced on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way season 1. Fans saw Jenny packing her bags for her second-ever trip to India, as she waited for her visa to arrive. Jenny was moving to India permanently to be with Sumit,...

90 Day Fiancé is a show all about long-distance relationships, many of which began online. While many online relationships began truthfully, there have been a fair amount of cast members that have lied to their partners about their appearance or other areas of their life. Lies about physical appearance are a surprisingly common theme on the show, with cast members lying about their looks on 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way and 90 Day Fiancé: Before The 90 Days.

90 Day Fiancé fans can recall many times when popular cast members have lied about their looks in some way. Redditor Secretlyicarus began a thread on the topic, and fans in the comments were quick to throw out the names of various cast members who have lied at one point or another. Many 90 Day Fiancé fans commented about Yolanda Leak, who was catfished by a man named Williams on Before The 90 Days season...

Warning! This post contains Spoilers!!!!

90 Day Fiancé couple Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh star in 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? season 7, and fans want to know if they're still together, in light of what a disturbing clip revealed. Star-crossed lovers Jenny and Sumit had a strange meeting story, which fans learned about in 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way season 1. Sumit from India was catfishing Palm Springs resident Jenny, pretending to be Michael Jones. He kept up the act for almost a year, until he developed feelings and came clean.

Jenny was 60 and Sumit was 30 when she moved to India, after they'd met just once in person, although they'd romanced one another for a decade. What Jenny was unaware of was the fact that Sumit’s parents Anil and Sadhna Singh didn’t want an older woman as their daughter-in-law. They married him off to someone else. Jenny only realized...

Michael Caton-Jones is confirmed to direct an Amsterdam-set road-trip dramedy titled “Baggage,” which centers around a Holocaust survivor and her family.

The logline reads, “A dysfunctional family embarks on a road trip to their matriarch’s Holocaust hero ceremony, but their decades-old secrets threaten to derail the European vacation.”

Penned by Ryan Elkins, the script was previously recognized as a semifinalist for the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowship. “Baggage” marks Elkins’ feature film debut, but the up-and-comer is currently in production on another movie as well, which has yet to be announced.

Caton-Jones most recently directed, wrote and produced 2019’s “Our Ladies,” which is nominated for two awards, including best feature film, at the 2022 BAFTA Scotland Awards. The Scottish-born filmmaker garnered critical acclaim for his direction on features like 1990’s “Memphis Belle” and the rom-com “Doc Hollywood” the following year. Other notable works include 1997 action thriller “The Jackal,” starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere...

A TV series adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s thriller novel “The Day of the Jackal” has been ordered by Peacock and Sky, it was announced Thursday.

First published in 1971, the original “The Day of the Jackal” novel is set in 1963, the year the president of France, Charles de Gaulle, granted Algeria its independence. The move resulted in several assassination attempts on his life, mostly from the far-right Organisation de L’Armée Secrète (Oas). The novel focuses on a fictional Oas plot to kill de Gaulle via a mysterious foreign assassin with the codename “The Jackal.” Meanwhile, the French government gets wind of the plot and hires Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel to find and capture the assassin. The novel was well received upon publication, and Forsyth received an Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1972.

Sky and Peacock’s adaptation is described as a “contemporary reimagining” of the novel,...

In a preview clip for the next episode of 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?, Sumit Singh demonstrated a sudden change of heart about becoming a father. Sumit and his wife, Jenny Slatten, have been part of the 90 Day Fiance franchise for several years, first appearing in 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way season 1 and continuing on through seasons 2 and 3. The couple has been together for over a decade and recently got married, and 90 Day Fiancé viewers have been able to see the full trials and tribulations of their disagreements in married life.

In a Happily Ever After preview clip, shared by Et, Sumit confides in his business partner Rohit that he is considering having children with Jenny. Rohit reacts with a quick stunned look that mirrors the stated reactions of Sumit's parents, as the 30-year age gap between Jenny and Sumit poses obvious problems for this plan. Sumit...

Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh from 90 Day Fiancé are celebrating Diwali together in India by wearing traditional Indian clothing. 63-year-old Jenny met 33-year-old Sumit when he was catfishing her as Michael Jones on Facebook 10 years ago. Jenny and Sumit began a real relationship without letting his parents know, who even married him off to a different woman. Now that Jenny and Sumit are finally married to each other on 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? season 7, Sumit’s parents have disowned him. It seems Sumit now wants to win over his parents by having a baby, which Jenny won’t be able to give him.

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Jenny doesn’t agree with Sumit’s baby talk and instead wants to take him to America to be away from his parents. But even in October 2022, Jenny is still in Noida with Sumit,...

Jenny Slatten and Sumit Singh spoiled their 90 Day Fiancé storyline and ended up offending the show’s longtime fans with the big reveal. 63-year-old Jenny, met Sumit, 33, over a decade ago when he tried to catfish her on Facebook. While Sumit eventually told Jenny that he wasn’t Michael Jones but a call center employee from Delhi and the couple still continued their relationship, his family didn’t approve of the May/December romance. Sumit’s parents got him married off to a different woman, unbeknownst to Jenny. But years later after Sumit finally divorced his ex-wife and wed Jenny in secret to not rile up his folks, though he told them his secret on 90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After? and got disowned by them.

However, it turns out all is well between Sumit and his family, at least his brother Amit Singh and his wife Shree Singh.

Hobart, Oct 21 (Ians) Captain Craig Ervine played a captain’s knock of 58 off 54 balls while Sikandar Raza smacked a cameo of 40 as Zimbabwe beat Scotland by five wickets in the first round of Icc Men’s T20 World Cup at Bellerive Oval to end up as winners of Group B and clinch the final Super 12 spot.

After Tendai Chatara and Richard Ngarava picked two wickets each in a clinical bowling performance to restrict Scotland to a paltry total of 132/6 in 20 overs, Zimbabwe were in trouble at 42/3 in eight overs.

But Ervine, who hit his sixth T20I fifty, and Raza shared a 64-run stand off 43 balls, followed by Milton Shumba and Ryan Burl applying finishing touches for Zimbabwe to chase down the total with nine balls to spare, continuing their good run in the tournament after featuring the last time in T20 World Cup in 2016.

As Group B toppers, Zimbabwe...

Hobart, Oct 21 (Ians) Tendai Chatara and Richard Ngarava picked two wickets each in a clinical bowling performance as Zimbabwe restricted Scotland to a paltry total of 132/6 in 20 overs in final Group B match in round one of the Icc Men’s T20 World Cup at Bellerive Oval on Friday.

Scotland were unable to justify their captain Richie Berrington’s decision to bat first as none of the batters looked fluent, including their top-scorer George Munsey, who made 54 off 51 balls with seven fours.

Moreover, Zimbabwe bowlers resorted to straight lines and with spinners keeping things tight, didn’t concede a single six in the innings, the first time an instance like this was recorded in ongoing T20 World Cup.

Scotland lost their openers Michael Jones and Matthew Cross in the first 4.1 overs. Munsey, Berrington and Calum MacLeod tried their best to get the Scotland innings back on track, but they never...

Hobart, Oct 20 (Ians) Taking inspiration from their shock 42-run win over West Indies in their opening Group B match in first round of Icc Men’s T20 World Cup, Scotland coach Shane Burger is confident of executing their plans right on Friday to upstage their opponents Zimbabwe in order to qualify for Super 12 stage of the tournament for second straight time in as many editions.

“We know that without focusing too much on the opposition, if we go out and play our way, we know we can beat any team. We did so not very long ago against the two-time world champions (West Indies). So if we execute the way we know, hopefully it will send ripples through that Zimbabwe team. We can put a bit more pressure on them,” said Burger in the pre-match press conference.

After the victory over West Indies, Scotland were well on their way to...

Hobart, Oct 19 (Ians) Curtis Campher and George Dockrell shared an unbeaten 119-run stand for the fifth wicket in Ireland’s successful chase of 177 to seal a come-from-behind six-wicket win over Scotland in their Group B match of the first round in Icc Men’s T20 World Cup at Bellerive Oval on Wednesday.

After opener Michael Jones hit a magnificent 86 off 55 balls to carry Scotland to a massive 176/5, the bowlers came into act by reducing Ireland to 61/4 in 9.3 overs and victory looked improbable with every minute.

That’s when Campher (72 not out off 37 balls) and Dockrell (39 not out off 27 balls) joined forces to shock Scotland and get a win out of nowhere for Ireland with a brilliant partnership in just 9.3 overs and keep them in the reckoning for a Super 12 spot.

The duo ran excellently hard between the wickets, converted their ones into twos, twos into threes and kept the boundaries...

Hobart, Oct 19 (Ians) Scotland continued to impress in the Icc Men’s T20 World Cup as opener Michael Jones hit a magnificent 86 to carry the side to a massive 176/5 against Ireland in their Group B match of the first round at Bellerive Oval on Wednesday.

It was a dominant innings for Scotland, who hardly kept any foot wrong from the time of winning the toss and electing to bat first. Jones was unarguably the star of Scotland’s innings, hitting six fours and four sixes in his 55-ball 86, at a high strike-rate of 156.36.

After losing his opening partner George Munsey in the second over of the innings, Jones had to be cautious as well as adjust to the conditions. After passing through the initial phase, he then came out swinging with his array of shots, and looking delightful in hitting a majority of his boundaries through the leg-side, including one...

Hobart, Oct 17 (Ians) Just 24 hours after Namibia kick-started the Men’s T20 World Cup with a stunning 55-run win over Sri Lanka, Scotland pulled off another major upset in the tournament with a shock 42-run victory over two-time champions West Indies in a Group B first round match at the Bellerive Oval on Monday.

After opener George Munsey carried his bat throughout the innings to slam an unbeaten 66 to help Scotland post an excellent 160/5, left-arm spinner Mark Watt led a fantastic bowling show with his brilliant 3/12 to bowl out West Indies for 118 all out in 18.3 overs.

The 42-run win for Scotland, ranked 15th in men’s T20I rankings, comes exactly a year after they defeated Bangladesh by six runs in their opening first round match of 2021 T20 World Cup at Al Amerat, Oman and entering the ongoing tournament on the back of playing only two T20Is this year.

Hobart, Oct 17 (Ians) Opener George Munsey carried his bat throughout the innings to slam an unbeaten 66 to help Scotland post an excellent 160/5 in their Group B match of the T20 World Cup against the West Indies at the Bellerive Oval on Monday.

For the West Indies, veteran all-rounder Jason Holder was the pick of the bowlers with 2/14, while young fast bowler Alzarri Joseph picked up 2/28 while Odean Smith finished with figures of 1/31.

Pushed into batting first, Scotland were off to a breezy start, making 54 runs for no loss inside the first six overs, including nine boundaries hit by Munsey and Michael Jones, before rain interrupted their fine opening partnership.

Post resumption after a 47-minute break, Scotland scored only 16 runs in their next four overs, but lost Jones and Matthew Cross to Jason Holder, who hit the deck hard with his hard lengths to get West Indies back in the match.

The ceremony will be held in Glasgow on November 20

Terence Davies’ Benediction and Michael Caton-Jones’ Our Ladies have scooped up two nominations each in the Bafta Scotland awards.

Both Peter Capaldi and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Jack Lowden are nominated for their performances in Davies’ biopic about war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Benediction was previously nominated for two Bifas, and picked up the jury prize for best screenplay at San Sebastian in 2021 where it was screening in official competition.

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2018 Screen star Marli Siu received an acting nomination for Our Ladies; while the comedy-drama is...

Glasgow, Sep 22 (Ians) Experienced batter Richie Berrington on Thursday was named as Scotland’s captain for the Icc Men’s T20 World Cup to be held in Australia from next month. Matt Cross will be the wicketkeeper and serve as Berrington’s deputy.

The 15-member side also includes leg-spin all-rounder Chris Greaves, who made his Scotland debut at last year’s T20 World Cup and came into limelight by scoring a match-winning 45 against Bangladesh in first round.

The squad also features the uncapped Brandon McMullen who impressed at the Regional series and A team matches with both bat and ball as a genuine all-rounder. He will provide the squad with an option to be versatile in any role. With the bat, apart from Berrington and Cross, George Munsey and Calum MacLeod will also hold the key.

“We are very pleased and excited to announce our 15 players for the T20 World Cup.

Following the world premiere of “My Neighbor Adolf” on the Piazza Grande in Locarno, Beta Cinema has sold the dark comedy to Vendetta Films, which will bring the Udo Kier and David Hayman starrer to cinemas across Australia and New Zealand in the first quarter of next year.

Prior to Locarno, Beta Cinema sold the film to Hungary (Cinetel) and Switzerland (Praesens Film), while deals for North America (Cohen Media Group), U.K. and Ireland (Signature Entertainment), Italy (I Wonder), South Korea (Lumix Media) and Japan (Tohokushinsha Film) had been revealed before.

The film is set in Colombia in 1960, just a few days after the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann was caught by Mossad agents in Argentina. Polsky, played by Hayman, is a lonely and grumpy old man, living in the remote Colombian countryside. He is a survivor of the Holocaust. He spends his days playing chess and tending his beloved rosebushes.

Siu stars alongside Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest in the psychological thriller.

Filming has wrapped in the UK on Natalie Erika James’ psychological thriller Apartment 7A, which added 2018 Screen Star of Tomorrow Marli Siu to its cast.

Siu stars opposite Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest in the film, for which plot details are not known.

It is produced by Paramount Players, the US production arm of Paramount Pictures; producers are Michael Bay, John Krasinski, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller and Allyson Seeger, for US companies Platinum Dunes and Sunday Night.

Apartment 7A is co-written by James, Skylar James and Christian White. It...

Our first look at new books on filmmaking in 2022 must start with a mention of what is sure to be the most noteworthy cinema-related text in the first quarter of this year: Kyle Buchanan’s Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road (William Morrow). To learn more about this relentlessly readable look at the creation of George Miller’s masterpiece, check out my interview with Buchanan. And then go buy the book. You’ll thank me.

Now, on to other recommended reads from the tail-end of 2021 and the start of 2022…

Tech Noir: The Art of James Cameron by James Cameron (introduction by Guillermo del Toro) (Titan Books)

It is hard to believe that (if all goes according to plan) James Cameron’s Avatar 2 will finally be released at the end of 2022. However, even as Cameron prepares his first of four returns to Pandora,...

Further new openers include ‘Our Ladies’, ‘The Nest’.

Universal’s franchise title Candyman leads this weekend’s new openers at the UK-Ireland box office, looking to join the list of horror films to have made strong debuts since cinemas reopened.

Candyman is directed by Nia DaCosta and written by DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. It is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name, and the fourth film in the Candyman series, based on Clive Barker’s 1985 short story The Forbidden.

The film has been delayed several times due to the pandemic, having been first scheduled for June,...

Further new openers include ‘Our Ladies’, ‘The Nest’.

Universal’s franchise title Candyman leads this weekend’s new openers at the UK-Ireland box office, looking to join the list of horror films to have made strong debuts since cinemas reopened.

Candyman is directed by Nia DaCosta and written by DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld. It is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name, and the fourth film in the Candyman series, based on Clive Barker’s 1985 short story The Forbidden.

The film has been delayed several times due to the pandemic, having been first scheduled for June,...

This adaptation of Alan Warner’s The Sopranos is led by a terrific ensemble cast – though some of the gags feel dated post #MeToo

After Alan Warner published his brilliant and hilarious third novel The Sopranos in 1998, about a group of working-class convent schoolgirls on the rampage in Edinburgh, for years the big surprise has been that it hasn’t been turned into a film. Now, finally, here it is, an adaptation of The Sopranos – and the thing is, it’s a few years too late. Post #MeToo, there are scenes here that are a bit off; in all honesty, though, they might have felt wrong as far back as the Rotherham child abuse scandal. Such as the moment when the girls on the back of the coach flash their bras and wave “shag me” signs to passing builders’ vans.

Still, plenty of Warner’s wonderfully un-pc gags stand the test of time.

Things were going well for Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones at the start of 2020. The director of Scandal (1989), This Boy’s Life (1993) and Rob Roy (1995), among many others, Caton-Jones was preparing for the theatrical release of Our Ladies, a passion project he’d been trying to get made for over 20 years. It had received its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2019, where it “played out of this world”, in his words, to an audience of roughly 800 attendees in its first public screening. Flying relatively under the radar in a stacked program largely […]

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Things were going well for Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones at the start of 2020. The director of Scandal (1989), This Boy’s Life (1993) and Rob Roy (1995), among many others, Caton-Jones was preparing for the theatrical release of Our Ladies, a passion project he’d been trying to get made for over 20 years. It had received its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival in October 2019, where it “played out of this world”, in his words, to an audience of roughly 800 attendees in its first public screening. Flying relatively under the radar in a stacked program largely […]

The post “I Feel Completely Vindicated Now the Film’s Been Made”: Michael Caton-Jones on Our Ladies’s 20+-Year Journey to the Screen first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.

To celebrate the release of Our Ladies, which opens in UK cinemas this week, we sat down with the film’s amazing cast and its director to find out about one of the year’s very best films.

Based on the award-winning novel “The Sopranos” by Alan Warner, Our Ladies follows a group of Scottish schoolgirls on a day trip to Edinburgh to perform in a choir competition. These teens from a small town in the Scottish Highlands become a chance to escape their daily lives and run riot in the big city. With few expectations for their futures, Orla (Tallulah Greive), Finnoula (Abigail Lawrie), Manda (Sally Messham), Kay (Eve Austin), Chell (Rona Morison), and Kylah (Marli Siu) is determined to live for every moment in this raucous tale of love, life, and true friendship.

We spoke to all the ladies about the film, their experiences together whilst making it,...

Luke Scrase, the former Sony Pictures International Productions executive, is launching his own UK-based production outfit Golden Gate Studios. The company has secured a first-look deal for film and TV projects with Sony, effective this month.

Golden Gate will focus on developing and producing British and European genre films as well as commercially-driven television series for the global market. The aim will be to produce a mix of both English and local-language content.

Scrase remains attached to various Sony projects he initiated during his time in the studio’s UK office. His credits include Michael Winterbottom’s Greed and Michael Caton-Jones’s Our Ladies, the latter of which is coming out later this year. He also has Patrick Marber’s Curtain Call, set to star Colin Firth and Gemma Arterton, and The Dead Spit of Kelly, to be directed by Iain Softley, in the works.

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by Eric Blume

It’s been a quarter century since the release of Rob Roy, a film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and featuring the pairing of Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange. The period drama is about the eponymous 18th Century Scotland clan chief Robert Roy MacGregor.

Evidently there was a box-office hunger for this type of film around 1995, since one month later Mel Gibson’s Braveheart opened. The latter tragically went on to win Best Picture some nine months later. Both films feature tales of broad-stroke heroism, where the main figure is portrayed as a rebel fighting the system, full of masculine bravado and Bde (the un-fun kind)...

This year’s edition of the BFI London Film Festival, which starts today, marks Tricia Tuttle’s first in an official capacity as artistic director after she stood in last year while her predecessor was on sabbatical. So what does she have planned?

Tuttle looks back at last year’s performance with satisfaction when, with a total audience of more than 200,000, per screen attendance rose by 12% to an average paid occupancy of 72%, and overall capacity of 84%. This she ascribes to “a strong year for films driving audience interest,” which she believes she’s matched this year with, among 229 feature films, “The Personal History of David Copperfield” opening the festival, and “The Irishman” closing it, and gala screenings including “Knives Out,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “The King” and “Jojo Rabbit.”

Among the festival’s world premieres are Wash Westmoreland’s “Earthquake Bird,” starring Alicia Vikander, Gerard Johnson’s “Muscle,” Michael Caton-Jones’ “Our Ladies,...

The post-war romance picked up two awards.

Marcus H. Rosenmuller’s The Keeper, about acclaimed German prisoner of war-turned-footballer Bert Trautmann and his romance with an English woman, won the Golden Hitchcock for best film at the Dinard Film Festival on Saturday, September 28.

The film also picked up the audience award at the festival, which showcases UK films to French audiences.

The Keeper is produced by Chris Curling for Zephyr Films, Steve Milne for British Film Company (both UK operations), and Robert Marciniak for Germany’s Lieblingsfilm.

It tells the story of Bert Trautmann, a German prisoner of war in...

With The Irishman set to close the BFI London Film Festival, its star Robert De Niro has now joined the event's growing lineup of onstage interviews.

De Niro — celebrating his ninth film with Martin Scorsese in Netflix's much-hyped gangster thriller — will discuss a career spanning more than four decades and collaborations with the likes of Sergio Leone, Michael Mann, Penny Marshall, Brian De Palma, Terry Gilliam, Nancy Meyers, James Mangold, Harold Ramis, Michael Caton-Jones, David O. Russell and Tony Scott.

The London Film Festival's Screen Talk program for 2019 also includes Michael B. Jordan, Kim Longinotto, Lukas ...

With The Irishman set to close the BFI London Film Festival, its star Robert De Niro has now joined the event's growing lineup of onstage interviews.

De Niro — celebrating his ninth film with Martin Scorsese in Netflix's much-hyped gangster thriller — will discuss a career spanning more than four decades and collaborations with the likes of Sergio Leone, Michael Mann, Penny Marshall, Brian De Palma, Terry Gilliam, Nancy Meyers, James Mangold, Harold Ramis, Michael Caton-Jones, David O. Russell and Tony Scott.

The London Film Festival's Screen Talk program for 2019 also includes Michael B. Jordan, Kim Longinotto, Lukas ...