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There’s no shortage of boxing dramas in Hollywood, but only one features Orlando Bloom pushing himself beyond the limit. At the same time, John Tuturro makes Burgess Meredith’s Mickey from Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky look like a pussy cat in the relentlessly intense trailer for The Cut.

Anthropoid and Metro Manila director Sean Ellis directs The Cut from a screenplay by Justin Bull, based on a story by Mark Lane. The official synopsis for The Cut reads: After a career-ending defeat, a former champion trains for redemption – but as obsession takes hold and reality unravels, he may be spiraling into something far more terrifying.

Floating like a butterfly into theaters on September 5, 2025, The Cut stars Orlando Bloom, John Turturro, and Caitríona Balfe.

In the trailer for The Cut, Orlando Bloom’s boxer character has six days to gain 26 pounds if he wants to qualify for an upcoming title fight.

Orlando Bloom has shocked fans by revealing he dropped an incredible 52 pounds in just three months for his new boxing drama The Cut. Speaking to Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, Bloom explained how he transformed his body for the role.

In the film, directed by Sean Ellis, Bloom plays a retired boxer making a comeback to fight for a championship title. His character undergoes an extreme weight-cutting program under the guidance of a tough, unorthodox coach, played by John Turturro.

“I basically tiered down the food over a three-month period until just before filming, when I was at my lightest,” Bloom said. “I dropped 52 pounds, and I was about 185 when I started. So I dropped quite a lot of weight, and I was very mentally challenged as well. You feed somebody tuna and cucumber long enough…”

Orlando Bloom undergoes a drastic weight cutting regimen at the...

Orlando Bloom has undergone one of the most intense transformations of his career, losing 52 pounds in just three months for his new boxing drama The Cut. The film, directed by Sean Ellis, follows a retired boxer who comes back to fight for a championship title and is pushed through a brutal weight-cutting routine by his extreme coach, played by John Turturro.

Speaking to Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered on September 5, Bloom explained how he prepared for the role.

“I basically tiered down the food over a three-month period until just before filming, [when] I was at my lightest. I dropped 52 pounds, and I was about 185 when I started,” he said. “So I dropped quite a lot of weight, and I was very mentally challenged as well. You feed somebody tuna and cucumber long enough…”

Orlando Bloom undergoes a drastic weight cutting regimen at the urging...

Werewolf movies are hard to get right. The creature design and transformation sequences are crucial to the success of these films, yet both are notoriously expensive to render. As such, there are a handful of classic lycanthrope pictures that we keep going back to, but few recent efforts seem to stand the test of time.

With that said, there are at least a handful of contemporary werewolf films that get more right than wrong. At least one such example seems to have flown largely under the radar thanks to a lackluster showing at the box office.

I’m talking about The Cursed. The film, which sometimes gets mistaken for Wes Craven’s Cursed, plays out like this: In 19th-century France, a man arrives in a remote country village to investigate an attack by a wild animal. However, he soon discovers a much deeper and sinister force that has the manor...

Werewolves are popping off. While it was met with mixed reviews, there was a lot I liked about Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man (now streaming on Peacock) this year. Next year, we have Robert Eggers’ Werewulf to look forward to. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Lily-Rose Depp, and Willem Dafoe, Werewulf is as much a werewolf movie as it is a Nosferatu reunion. Oh, and Steven C. Miller’s Werewolves, which was released last year, is worth a look, despite not quite getting the acclaim it deserved.

Werewolves, vampires, mummies – we are practically in the midst of a Universal renaissance. It’s a glorious time to be a horror fan, especially a horror fan raised on the movie monster classics. Better still, it’s always refreshing to see these classic tales refracted through a modern lens. One of the best to do so was a surprise Sundance hit that successfully managed a wide theatrical release.

An underseen gothic horror starring Yellowstone’sKelly Reilly has found belated success on Netflix. Reilly portrayed Beth, the only daughter of John and Evelyn Dutton, opposite Kevin Costner on the hit TV Western from 2018 to 2024. However, Reilly’s career also includes appearances across genres in everything from Sherlock Holmes to True Detective.

As an actress whose career boasts acclaimed roles in both film and television, Reilly has had several underrated performances in lesser-known projects. Now, thanks to streaming's power to shine a new light on underappreciated releases, one chilling 2021 horror is gaining a second lease on life as it’s shot up the Netflix streaming charts.

The Cursed Is A Netflix Top 10 Hit Kelly Reilly Played Isabelle Laurent

The Cursed is a gothic horror centered around a rural French village in the 19th century that is being plagued by a werewolf. Coming from writer and director Sean Ellis, known for films like Cashback,...

Director Sean Ellis has had an unusual career; if it seems like his fellow Brits, David Mackenzie and Kevin Macdonald have been genre-agnostic, Ellis has taken things a step farther. He remains best known for the deeply affecting drama Metro Manila, which is essentially a foreign-language film. But a few years ago, he tried his hand at horror. He directed the werewolf movie The Cursed, starring Kelly Reilly and Boyd Holbrook, and while the film didn't make much of a dent at the box office, it's climbing up the streaming ranks following its Netflix debut.

According to FlixPatrol, The Cursed was the sixth-most-popular film on Netflix in the United States on July 20, beating the likes of Brick, Penguins of Madagascar, Despicable Me 4, and The Old Guard 2. That's quite a diverse slate of titles for any film to outperform, let alone one that barely got a theatrical release despite being designed for one.

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Hulu is one of the best places to find the best movies and TV shows you can watch on any streaming service. Every month, it adds hundreds of new titles to its content library. For instance, this month, we are getting the much-anticipated Season 17 of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the streaming release of the hit action thriller film The Amateur, but with that, some titles have to leave the service for a number of reasons. So, today, we are here to tell you about the best film you should watch before it leaves Hulu in May 2025.

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Minamata is a biographical drama film directed by Andrew Levitas from a screenplay by David Kessler. Based on the 1975 book of the same name by Aileen M. Smith and W. Eugene Smith, the 2020 film follows Eugene Smith,...

Exclusive: Caitríona Balfe is set to join the ensemble of Apple Original Films upcoming pic Tenzing, which already stars Tom Hiddleston and Willem Dafoe. Jennifer Peedom is directing the film. Peedom has a close relationship with the Tenzing family and the Sherpa community following her acclaimed documentary, Sherpa.

Oscar-winning producer See-Saw Films (The King’s Speech) is producing Tenzing, about the inspirational life of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his summit of Mount Everest in 1953 alongside fellow outsider New Zealander Edmund Hillary. Balfe will play ‘Jill Henderson,’ a friend of Tenzing who helped organize trips up Mount Everest.

Tibetan born Tenzing Norgay, alongside New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary, both outsiders on a British Expedition, defied insurmountable odds to achieve what was once thought impossible, reaching the summit of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest. After six previous attempts, Tenzing risked everything for one final venture. He had to navigate treacherous...

Voltage Pictures has taken a majority stake in fellow international sales and finance company The Exchange as it continues to expand operations.

Under the new structure, Brian O’Shea will remain CEO of The Exchange and focus on creative strategy and expanding the slate of projects.Financial terms were not disclosed.

Voltage COO Sarah Dunn will oversee day-to-day operations, and Alexandra Cocean has been promoted to president of global sales and distribution, working across both companies to integrate their films.

Screenunderstands worldwide sales and distribution presidentNat McCormick has left The Exchange.

Voltage CEO Nicolas Chartier announced the development and said the...

While the trailers set up The Cut as another run-of-the-mill boxing rehabilitation story, director Sean Ellis had bigger ambitions. His film focuses less on fights and more on the rigorous preparations between rounds.

At its heart is Orlando Bloom’s gripping performance as a worn-out Irish boxer desperate for one final title shot. But to get in the ring, he must first wage a dangerous battle many have never seen—dropping over 30 pounds in just one week—to qualify for the match.

We’re introduced to Bloom’s character a decade after blowing a championship. Now running a small gym, an offer arises to replace an injured fighter. But he’s well over the weight limit. So our boxer and his coach Caitlin travel to Las Vegas, embarking on an unflinching look at extreme weight cutting.

What follows isn’t a stylized training montage either. Ellis immerses us in the relentless physicality,...

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Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, The Cut follows an obsessive fighter who will do whatever it takes to get back in the ring. After being forced into retirement, Orlando Bloom's character, known only as "The Boxer," opens a successful gym with his wife. When an opportunity arises to make a comeback in the sport, he is determined to take it. However, in order to qualify for a spot, The Boxer must drop a dangerous amount of weight in only six days.

In addition to Bloom, the sports drama stars Caitrona Balfe (Outlander), John Turturro, Clare Dunne, Gary Beadle, Ed Kear, Oliver Trevena, and Andonis Anthony. Sean Ellis serves as the director, while Justin Bull wrote the screenplay with Mark Lane. The cast and crew admit they have never worked on a film like The Cut, and commend...

Orlando Bloom is far from the first actor to play a boxer on the big screen, but the star of the upcoming drama The Cut certainly faced a unique challenge in preparing for the role. Boxing dramas often tell a classic underdog story, where an unranked fighter receives the opportunity of a lifetime, usually fighting for some kind of championship belt. The movies usually show their hard upbringing, before jumping to a kick-ass training montage, and then leaping to the big fight. But a lot of boxing films leave out one of the most grueling parts of being a professional fighter, the weight cut. That's something Sean Ellis' The Cut is looking to rectify.

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By Sunday morning US acquisitions activity at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was starting to grind through the gears.

Buyers were understood to be circling Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation The Life Of Chuck and David Gordon Green’s festive festival opener Nutcrackers, while A24 announced at the start of the day its US buy on Brady Corbet’s Venice Silver Lion winner The Brutalist.

The Life Of Chuck stars Tom Hiddleston and is a drama, despite the heavyweight horror credentials of King and Flanagan. It premiered on Friday and played again as a P&i and public screening on Saturday,...

While the just-ended Venice Film Festival exploded out of the gate with two high-profile acquisition annoucements in its first 24 hours for Maria and Queer, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was staying true to form as the first major on-site deals were yet to materialise heading into Sunday.

Anticipated heavyweights like Ron Howard’s Eden, Daniel Minahan’s 1950s drama On Swift Horses, and Anderson .Paak’s K-Pops received their world premieres on Saturday, while Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl first screened on Friday and has sparked admiring talk of a possible awards play for Pamela Anderson’s lead...

Orlando Bloom said the grueling physical and mental challenges he faced losing 33 pounds left him “out of sorts” while preparing for his role as a washed-up fighter in Sean Ellis’ boxing drama “The Cut.”

Bloom, best known for starring in franchises like “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Lord of the Rings,” detailed his grueling three-month regime prior to filming during an interview with TheWrap’s Steve Pond at TheWrap’s 2024 TIFF Studio sponsored by Moët & Chandon and Boss Design. His preparation involved not just physical training but also a strict dietary plan overseen by his nutritionist.

“You’re tired because you’re not really sleeping because you’re not eating a lot. I had to restrict carbohydrates, and I was working with this great nutritionist and he had me on a very tight regime,” Bloom said.”I’m about 185 and I dropped to 152 pounds.”

Bloom’s daily routine included...

Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Pamela Anderson, Chole Sevigny, Ben Stiller and more struck a pose at TheWrap’s 2024 TIFF Studio sponsored by Moët & Chandon and Boss Design.

This year’s iteration of the Toronto International Film Festival is playing host to the premieres of the Stiller-fronted comedy “Nutcrackers,” Anderson’s Vegas showgirl drama “The Last Showgirl,” the adaptation “Bonjour Tristesse” and others, and the cast and filmmakers behind these films stopped by TheWrap’s studio for interviews and to post for portraits by photographer O’Shane Howard.

Peruse TheWrap’s TIFF Studio portrait gallery below and check back throughout the festival as we update with more portraits.

Photo by O’Shane Howard

Kiernan Shipka, “The Last Showgirl” at TheWrap TIFF 2024 Portrait Studio.

Photo by O’Shane Howard

Jamie Lee Curtis, “The Last Showgirl” at TheWrap TIFF 2024 Portrait Studio.

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Pamela Anderson, “The Last Showgirl” at TheWrap TIFF 2024 Portrait Studio.

For about five minutes, “The Cut” gives the audience what they’d expect from a movie set in the world of boxing. A fighter played by Orlando Bloom is in the ring, and the action is ferocious, and ferociously photographed in bruising closeups. The punches are thunderous, the blood flows, and you know just what you’re going to get: another tough drama about an over-the-hill boxer getting one last shot at the big time.

And then director Sean Ellis and writer Justin Bull pull the rug out from under the audience – because that opening sequence in the ring is the last time boxing action is going to be center stage in “The Cut.” From there, it becomes a boxing drama in which the focus isn’t the fight, it’s the weigh-in, and in which the real violence isn’t the punching, it’s the dieting.

“The Cut,” which...

Orlando Bloom is opening up about the intense preparation he underwent for his new movie.

In the new movie The Cut, the 47-year-old actor plays an boxer on the brink of a breakdown as he races against the clock to drop weight, in ways that threaten his life, before a fight.

While promoting the movie at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, Orlando said he shed 52 pounds in three months in preparation for the movie.

Keep reading to find out more…“I basically tiered down the food over a three-month period until just before filming, [when] I was at my lightest,” Orlando shared with Variety. “I dropped 52 pounds, and I was about 185 when I started.”

“So I dropped quite a lot of weight, and I was very mentally challenged as well,” he added. “You feed somebody tuna and cucumber long enough…”

Director Sean Ellis filmed The Cut in reverse chronological order, meaning that...

In the Sean Ellis film “The Cut,” Orlando Bloom plays a boxer on the brink of a total breakdown as he races against the clock to drop weight before a fight. Under the guidance of a shady coach, played by John Turturro, Bloom will do anything to shed pounds, even as it threatens his life.

Bloom himself lost a whopping 52 pounds in three months in preparation for the movie, which also stars Caitríona Balfe. He discussed his eye-popping physical transformation at Variety‘s Toronto Film Festival Studio, sponsored by J.Crew and SharkNinja.

“I basically tiered down the food over a three-month period until just before filming, [when] I was at my lightest. I dropped 52 pounds, and I was about 185 when I started,” Bloom said. “So I dropped quite a lot of weight, and I was very mentally challenged as well. You feed somebody tuna and cucumber long enough…”

Since the...

The Cut is a heavy film. From the opening scene, which sees Nick (Orlando Bloom) in a brutal boxing match, the film is already layered with intensity. He loses the fight after a devastating cut to his eye and director Sean Ellis fast-forwards to ten years later. With that one scene setting the stage, it was only a matter of time before Nicks trauma would come around, gripping The Cut so hard without easing up. This overreliance on Nicks trauma aided by multiple flashbacks to his childhood and relationship with his mother (Clare Dunne) was taxing.

The Cut

Director Sean EllisWriters Mark Lane, Justin BullCast Eric D. Smith, Ed Kear, Andonis Anthony, Oliver Trevena, Clare Dunne, Orlando Bloom, John Turturro, Caitriona BalfeGenres Thriller

Written by Justin Bull from a story by Mark Lane, its a gut-wrenching look at a destructive boxer who cant let go of his shot at the ring one last time,...

A few days after Ian McKellen expressed interest in returning as Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s new live-action “Lord of the Rings” movies, his co-star Orlando Bloom is adding his name to the list.

When asked by Variety if he was interested in returning to the Tolkien franchise, the Legolas actor said, “Oh, man, those things are amazing. Yeah. I don’t know how they’d do it. I guess with AI you can do anything these days. But, if Pete [Peter Jackson] says jump, I say, ‘how high?’ I mean, he started my whole career.”

The new Middle-earth movies will kick off in 2026 with “Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” directed by Andy Serkis, who will reprise his role of Gollum/Sméagol. Original franchise director Jackson is on board to produce alongside his partners Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. The plan is for that film to be the start...

Katy Perry is stepping out to support Orlando Bloom!

The longtime loves made a picture perfect couple at the premiere of his new movie The Cut held on Thursday (September 5) held during the 2024 Toronto Film Festival at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Canada.

For the premiere, the 39-year-old “Women’s World” singer wore black bandeau bra with a coordinating high-waisted skirt and an embroidered silk black veil while the 47-year-old Lord of the Rings actor wore a black Celine suit with a white mock turtleneck.

Also joining Orlando at the premiere were his co-stars Caitriona Balfe and John Turturro along with director Sean Ellis.

Keep reading to find out more…Here’s the movie’s synopsis via TIFF: “The Cut follows a retired fighter obsessed with getting back in the ring, even if it costs him his life. The protagonist (Bloom) is known only as The Boxer. And...

Sean Ellis’s sixth feature, following the deliriously atmospheric 19th-century vampire movie Eight for Silver (2021), is yet another curveball from the criminally underrated British director. Titled The Cut, it is the story of a past-his-prime boxer who goes behind his wife Caitlin’s back to accept a lucrative comeback fight in Las Vegas. But this is not yet another Rocky-style underdog story, the kind that culminates in the ring. Instead, it is a sometimes-shocking psychological thriller, a sort of boxing procedural that details the extreme lengths that cornered fighters will go to. On paper, it sounds like Southpaw, but in reality, it has a little more in common with this year’s Cannes hit The Substance, a visceral body-horror movie about a fading starlet (Demi Moore) and her desperate drive to maintain her fame.

Sean Ellis

In The Cut it is actor Orlando Bloom’s turn to defy expectations. As the boxer,...

With over 200 films screening at the Venice, Telluride, Toronto film festivals this year, a majority of them without distributors, there’s a lot of product to go around, with everything from star-studded genre films to under-the-radar indie dramas waiting to be discovered.

We couldn’t touch on everything that sounds exciting, but here are 20 films that we believe could find homes in the coming weeks.

“The Assessment”

Director: Fleur Fortune

Section: TIFF Special Presentations

Domestic Sales: UTA

Fleur Fortune is a first-time feature director coming from the world of music videos, and her debut is a sci-fi parable about a world wreaked by climate change in which couples must pass an exam before they’re allowed to have a child. Alicia Vikander stars as the assessor, and Elizabeth Olsen and Himesh Patel play the hopeful couple.

“The Cut”

Director: Sean Ellis

Section: TIFF Special Presentations

Domestic Sales: UTA and WME...

John Turturro, one of this year’s recipients of an honorary Heart of Sarajevo Award for career achievement took time between his sold-out masterclass and presenting an open-air screening of “Barton Fink” to visit the Variety Lounge, presented by the Sarajevo Film Festival and Bh Telecom.

Turturro, who said he was making his first visit to the Bosnian capital, described visiting various mosques, the Jewish Museum, Grand Synagogue and Jewish cemetery along with other historical sites.

Turturro, who acted in two of the fall film festival’s most hotly anticipated titles, discussed playing the ex-boyfriend of Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming English-language feature, “The Room Next Door.” He will be going to Toronto to support that film and Sean Ellis’s “The Cut.”

Turturro mentioned the advantages of having a long-term relationship with a filmmaker, noting that, “It’s a big advantage because you develop...

David Gordon Green y Rebel Wilson en la inauguración y clausura.

El Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF) ha revelado su programación para la edición de 2024.

La nueva película de David Gordon Green, “Nutcrackers”, protagonizada por Ben Stiller, inaugurará el Festival, mientras que la nueva película musical “The Deb”, dirigida y protagonizada por Rebel Wilson, será la encargada de clausurarlo.

Entre las películas que harán su debut mundial en TIFF, se encuentran el drama deportivo “Unstoppable”, dirigido por William Goldenberg y protagonizado por Jharrel Jerome y Jennifer Lopez; la película dramática “Hard Truths”, de Mike Leigh y con Marianne Jean-Baptiste; el terror psicológico de A24, “Heretic”, de Scott Beck y Bryan Woods con Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher y Chloe East; la comedia criminal “Riff Raff”, de Dito Montiel, con Jennifer Coolidge, Dustin Hoffman, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson, Ed Harris y Bill Murray; la película de animación “The Wild Robot”, de Chris Sanders,...

The 49th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival have unveiled their lineup of 63 films from the Gala and Special Presentations programs. Notable titles include the world premieres of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and The Last Showgirl, the North American premieres of Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest and Justin Kurzel’s The Order, the Canadian premiere of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, along with many favorites from this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Check out the lineup below.

Galas 2024 (in alphabetical order)

*Previously announced

Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe Cosima Spender | UK

World Premiere

Better Man Michael Gracey | USA

Canadian Premiere

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Embeth Davidtz | South Africa

Canadian Premiere

Sales Title

*Eden Ron Howard | USA

World Premiere

Sales Title

*Elton John: Never Too Late R.J. Cutler, David Furnish | USA

World Premiere

*Harbin Woo Min-ho | South Korea

World Premiere

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The Toronto Film Festival has turned up the star power for its 49th edition, having added the latest movies from Alicia Vikander, Lupita Nyong’o, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes, Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, Lily James and Riz Ahmed.

For the Gala section at Roy Thomson Hall, there’s world bows for two music specials: the Andrea Bocelli biopic Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe, a doc about the Italian tenor by director Cosima Spender; and Thom Zimny’s Bruce Springsteen doc for Disney+ and Hulu, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Zimny was in Toronto last year with his Sylvester Stallone documentary Sly for Netflix.

TIFF will also give a first look to Uberto Pasolini’s historical epic The Return, with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reteaming after The English Patient. And there’s gala world premieres for Peter Cattaneo’s The Penguin Lessons, toplined by Steve Coogan and...

World premieres from Angelina Jolie, Mike Leigh, David Mackenzie, Edward Burns, Uberto Pasolini, Peter Cattaneo, and Rachel Morrison among the Gala and Special Presentation titles unveiled by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) today (July 22).

Hard Truths is a rare TIFF premiere for Leigh after the UK auteur’s last film Peterloo debuted in Venice in 2018, while Mr. Turner in 2014 and Another Year in 2010 both premiered in Cannes. Cornerstone represents sales and Bleecker Street will handle US distributon on the film, which stars Marianne Jean-Baptiste from Secrets And Lies.

Pasolini’s The Return marks his follow-up to Venice 2020 entry Nowhere Special...

Conventional horror movies centered around werewolves often go heavy on special effects, showcasing the transformation from man to wolf and its subsequent uncontrollable slaughter. But the transformative aspect and dual nature of werewolves provide fertile ground for metaphor beyond their primal, animalistic urge to eviscerate everything in their path.

Out this week is The Beast Within, a werewolf movie with a fairy tale twist, framing its horror story from the perspective of a young girl discovering the truth about her afflicted father.

It’s the unconventional approach to werewolf lore that inspires this week’s streaming picks: five unconventional werewolf horror movies that defy easy categorization and use lycanthropy to explore historical horrors, the growing pains of youth, or simply loneliness.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf – AMC+, Kanopy, Pluto TV, the Roku Channel,...

Eight For Silver Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Institute

Eight For Silver, Netflix, from Easter Monday

If the news that Leigh Whannell's Wolfman has been delayed until 2025 has left you howling, then this werewolf twist on the myth should help. Released in cinemas under the much more boring title The Cursed, Sean Ellis' atmospheric period horror is thankfully back under its old moniker for its Netflix release. A silver bullet extracted from a dead man near the start of the film, clues us into the territory we're entering as the film moves back in time to his childhood in rural France. When his heartless father massacres a Romany settlement, the children start to have nightmares... and then begin to disappear. As pathologist John McBride (Boyd Holbrook) suspects something supernatural is at work, Ellis plays around with the werewolf myth that draws on the idea of a beast consuming you from within.

Some bonds develop unexpectedly, transcending the limits of professional collaborations. For Irish actor Cillian Murphy, known for his enigmatic roles and intense performances, one such unexpected bromance took center stage, not with Jamie Dornan, but with the iconic filmmaker, Christopher Nolan.

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan in an interview | Photo: Screengrab/YouTube/Wonder Movies

Irish actors Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy might seem like a natural match. After all, they hail from the same land and even broke out into the public eye around the same time with 50 Shades of Grey and Peaky Blinders, respectively. However, despite their initial admiration for each other’s work, Murphy’s true bromance bloomed with someone else entirely: Hollywood Auteur Christopher Nolan.

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Gritty drama premiered at Tribeca Festival.

The Exchange has boarded international sales to Jennifer Esposito’s debut feature Fresh Kills and will launch sales at AFM on the female-driven family story set in the world of organised crime.

The gritty drama, also written by, starring and co-produced by Esposito, premiered at 2023 Tribeca Festival and has had a strong run on the US festival circuit since.

It won the audience award for best narrative feature and an honorary prize for Excellence in Directing a Narrative Film from NY Women in Film & Television at Hamptons International Festival, in addition to the Best...

After world premiering to critical acclaim at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, Ld Entertainment’s sci-fi thriller I.S.S. starring West Side Story Oscar winner Ariana DeBose has been picked up for U.S. release by Bleecker Street. The film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite from Nick Shafir’s script will hit theaters nationwide at a date that has not been disclosed.

I.S.S. marks Bleecker’s second collaboration with Cowperthwaite following 2017’s Megan Leavey, and its fourth with Ld, which in addition to that true-life military drama, produced their films Anthropoid and Teen Spirit from Sean Ellis and Max Minghella, respectively. The film follows two crews of scientists — one group American, the other Russian — aboard the International Space Station, as they conduct research towards the betterment of humanity. Soon, however, international tensions on Earth escalate in unpredictable ways and the teams are commanded to take control...

Peacock has ordered Orlando Bloom: To The Edge, a limited adventure docuseries following the actor and adventure enthusiast, from STX Television and Bloom’s Amazing Owl.

Per the description, in the three-episode, hourlong series, Bloom “takes viewers on a thrilling journey of self-discovery as he pushes his limits physically and mentally in order to reach his personal edge of what is possible. Through fear defying adventures and spiritual awareness, Bloom overcomes his fears and learns more about himself, while inspiring the audience at home to explore and expand their own limits in everyday life.”

In the series, Bloom undertakes learning three extreme sports — wingsuiting, free diving and rock climbing. “With family, friends and his spiritual Buddhist practice guiding the way, Bloom is trained by experts who help him overcome obstacles, face his fears and discover valuable lessons about himself.”

A premiere date is Tba.

Bloom executive produces the docuseries, along with Adam Karasick,...

The Cursed debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021 under the title Eight for Silver. It was renamed for the theatrical release in February 2022. The film tells the story of John McBride (Boyd Holbrook), a traveling pathologist investigating strange deaths and disappearances on nobleman Seamus Laurent’s (Alistair Petrie) land. Yellowstone's Kelly Reilly stars as Seamus' wife, Isabel. The Cursed was written, directed, and produced by Oscar-nominated director Sean Ellis. Ellis attempts to bring new life into the old-school story of werewolves through a combination of a period piece and a horror film. While The Cursed successfully handles the period piece portion of its genre, the horror is ineffective, repetitive, and overly derivative.

Exclusive: Orlando Bloom is set to play an American linguist in a series based on Maggie O’Farrell’s This Must Be The Place.

Bloom is also set as an exec producer on the project, which is in the works at Amazon, where the Pirates of the Caribbean star has a first-look deal.

Suzanne Heathcote, who served as showrunner on the third season of Killing Eve, will write and exec produce the adaptation. It comes from Bloom’s Amazing Owl, BBC Studios, Brexit: The Uncivil War producer House Productions and Amazon Studios.

This Must Be The Place crisscrosses time and continents to reveal the redemptive power of love and how the choices of our past have unexpected consequences in our present, as an American linguist and a reclusive Anglo-French actress find their marriage threatened by their earlier lives.

The book follows Daniel Sullivan, who leads a complicated life. A New Yorker...

Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, Nigel Betts, Simon Kunz, Stuart Bowman, Amelia Crouch, Max Mackintosh, Tommy Rodger, Mine Rose Daly, Millie Kiss | Written and Directed by Sean Ellis

Eight for Silver is a horror movie that was originally released in 2021 under the title The Cursed. Directed by Sean Ellis, it stars Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, and Alistair Petrie and takes place in the late 19th century, centring around a small village in France where a series of brutal murders have taken place. The locals are convinced that a pack of wolves is responsible for the killings, but a British pathologist, John McBride (Holbrook), arrives to investigate and discovers that something far more sinister is at play.

One of the strengths of Eight for Silver is its visual style. The movie is shot in a dark, atmospheric manner that perfectly captures the eerie and foreboding mood of the story.

Exclusive: Pirates Of The Caribbean and Carnival Row star Orlando Bloom is attached to play a boxer who comes out of retirement in psychological thriller The Cut, which The Exchange is launching ahead of the EFM in Berlin.

Bloom will be the pugilist who is coming out of retirement to vie for his championship title through a grueling and unsanctioned weight cut program with a coach who knows no limits, alienating himself from reality and loved ones, as he spirals out of control. Filming is due to start in summer 2023 in Nevada.

Sean Ellis, director of thriller Anthropoid and BAFTA-nominated crime-drama Metro Manila, will direct an adapted screenplay by Justin Bull (Little Rituals) from a story by Mark Lane.

Producers are James Harris (47 Meters Down) and Mark Lane (47 Meters Down) of Tea Shop Productions and Orlando Bloom and Adam Karasick (3:10 To Yuma) of Amazing Owl.

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To celebrate the release of Eight For Silver – out now on DVD & Blu-ray – we have a Blu-ray up for grabs!

Flickering candles, fog, and a ferocious beast in the forest… get ready for a fresh spin on the werewolf film, Eight For Silver, written and directed by Oscar and Bafta-nominated Sean Ellis. The film boasts a superb cast, including Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman) and Cannes-winner Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), in an eerie story about a small town in 19th century France menaced by an ancient curse.

Sumptuously shot, packed with frights and superb special effects, with a mesmerising, spine-tingler of a score, and featuring a scarecrow “that’ll haunt your dreams” (Bloody Disgusting), the film recalls, according to Screen Daily “everything from Hammer to The Innocents, Dracula to creepy country house Gothic horror”.

A creature feature classic for the 21st-century, that The Screen Scene calls “one of the best horror films...

The main extra here is a Behind The Scenes featurette, which is short but includes contributions from several cast members as well as director Sean Ellis, sharing their thoughts on the film and why they got involved with it. There's also a chance to see the monster in action - wheels and all - and there's some discussion of its design.

In addition to this, the disc includes the theatrical trailer, which features some great editing, patching together the scariest bits of the film but managing not to spoil its surprises. This is a tricky task and it's rare to see it accomplished so well.

The menu is simple and easy to use. The only real problem is that the volume is significantly higher in the extras than in the film itself, so you will need to be ready with the remote control....

To celebrate the release of Eight For Silver – released on DVD & Blu-ray 30th January – we have a Blu-ray up for grabs!

Flickering candles, fog, and a ferocious beast in the forest… get ready for a fresh spin on the werewolf film, Eight For Silver, written and directed by Oscar and Bafta-nominated Sean Ellis. The film boasts a superb cast, including Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman) and Cannes-winner Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), in an eerie story about a small town in 19th century France menaced by an ancient curse.

Sumptuously shot, packed with frights and superb special effects, with a mesmerising, spine-tingler of a score, and featuring a scarecrow “that’ll haunt your dreams” (Bloody Disgusting), the film recalls, according to Screen Daily “everything from Hammer to The Innocents, Dracula to creepy country house Gothic horror”.

A creature feature classic for the 21st-century, that The Screen Scene calls “one of the best horror...

The meaning of the fake name that Dexter Morgan uses in Dexter: New Blood pays tribute to the serial killer character’s origins. When Dexter returned in New Blood, he was introduced under an entirely new name and persona in Iron Lake, New York after fleeing Miami, Florida. A decade after faking his death, Dexter's protagonist was going by the alias James “Jim” Lindsay, an act that he would keep up until being exposed shortly before his death in New Blood's finale.

As a serial killer who had to anonymously introduce himself to potential victims or purchase items that couldn’t be traced back to him, Harry's Code dictated that Dexter Morgan had to come up with plenty of fake identities in the original series. Some of Dexter’s most notable aliases included Kyle Butler (to Arthur Mitchell’s family), Daryl Tucker, Sean Ellis, Patrick Bateman, M.D., and Dave Cutler.

British-Iranian filmmaker Hassan Nazer’s latest film Winners has been selected as the UK’s entry to the Best International Film category.

Written and directed by Nazer, the film is set in a poor Iranian village where the children work hard to support their families. One day nine-year-old Yahya and his friend Leyla find a precious statuette in the desert. As the authorities search for the lost treasure, sharing a passion for cinema Yahya’s boss Nasser Khan decides to help the children find its owner.

Winners was fully financed in Scotland with support from Creative Scotland and shot entirely in Iran with 100 Farsi dialogue. Post-production was conducted in Scotland. The film debuted at the Edinburgh Film Festival in August, where it picked up the Audience Award.

Reza Naji (The Song of Sparrows) stars in the film alongside Hossein Abedini, Parsa Maghami, Helia Mohammadkhani, and Malalai Zikria. Cinematography is by Arash Seifi Jamadi,...

Yellow Veil Pictures has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Canadian director Charlotte Le Bon’s “Falcon Lake” which world premiered at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight.

The coming-of-age tale, handled by Memento International, marks the feature debut of Le Bon, an actor-turned-filmmaker who notably starred in Sean Ellis’s “Anthropoid,” Lasse Hallström’s “The Hundred Foot Journey” and Terry George’s “The Promise.”

“Falcon Lake” follows two teenagers, Bastien and Chloé, who spend their summer vacation with their families at a lake cabin in Quebec which is haunted by a ghost legend. Despite the age gap between them, they form a singular bond. Ready to overcome his worst fears to earn a place in Chloé’s heart, the young boy experiences a turbulent pivotal moment during this holiday.

Following Cannes, the French-language film played at Toronto and Deauville, where it won the d’Ornano-Valenti prize. It will have its U.S.

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Aftershock (Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt)

A work of deep pain and fervent justice, Tonya Lewis Lee and Paula Eiselt’s Sundance winner Aftershock examines the failings of maternal health support particularly as it relates to Black mothers. Centering on two NYC families forever torn apart after maternal deaths due to childbirth-related complications, the film takes an intimate look at the widowers and family left behind as they pick up the pieces to fight for change in a prejudiced system. Amongst its most interesting passages, the filmmakers also go back decades and beyond, filling in the historical foundation for how we ended up with our current, faltering maternal health system and setting the stage for how it can be changed.

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Christina Bazdekis has joined United Talent Agency as an agent in the motion picture division. Based in New York, she will report to MP co-heads Jason Burns and Julien Thuan.

“Christina is incredibly well-respected and a driving force,” said Thuan in a statement. “She has championed artists throughout her career and is responsible for guiding their ambitions in creative storytelling. We look forward to bringing her passion and commitment to advancing film here at UTA.”

“As the entertainment industry continues to evolve, UTA has proven to be an innovative leader in representation, devoted to fostering the most unique and compelling voices working today,” added Bazdekis in a statement. “I am excited to join the dynamic team at UTA, bringing my experience and expanding upon an incredible roster of clients.”

Prior to joining UTA, Bazdekis served as an agent within ICM’s motion picture department. Throughout her career which also included a stint at CAA,...

‘Metro Manila‘ is the story of a good man in a bad world. All elements in the movie seems to stem from that core principle and the only question left for the story to answer is if a good man can remain good when all odds are piled against him. And, except for the unconditional love of a family, I really mean all odds. Right off the bat, Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal), an ex-military turned farmer, is forced by the severe rural economic crisis to sell all his few belongings and start anew with his family in the fascinating and colorful chaos of Manila, a gritty and chaotic megalopolis where dreams seems to be forged. Unfortunately, as soon he will discover, the city specializes in bad dreams. The relentless, unmerciful, dog-eat-dog pulse of the streets beats the hope out of the Ramirez family bit by bit, bite by bite, until...