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& Sons

A famous novelist becomes convinced he is going to die imminently.

Dir:Pablo Trapero

Prod:Matanza Cine srl,Infinity Hill

Where:uk

When:December 2024-ongoing

Distributor:Tbc

Cast:Bill Nighy, George MacKay, Matt Smith

H Is For Hawk

A woman forms an unlikely friendship with a hawk after losing her father.

Dir:Philippa Lowthorpe

Prod:Plan B Entertainment

Where:Wales

When:November 2024-ongoing

Distributor:Lionsgate

Cast:Claire Foy,...

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Next Life

A jazz singer finds herself across two alternative realities.

Dir:Drake Doremus

Prod:Mutressa,Fetisoff Illusion, 42

Where:London

When:December-ongoing

Distributor:Tbc

Cast:Emilia Clarke, Edgar Ramirez

& Sons

A famous novelist becomes convinced he is going to die imminently.

Dir:Pablo Trapero

Prod:Matanza Cine srl,Infinity Hill

Where:uk

When:December-ongoing

Distributor: Tbc

Cast: Bill Nighy, George MacKay, Matt Smith

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Molly Windsor and Sex Education star Asa Butterfield are ready to come Out of the Dust. The pair — who you can see in the production photo above, alongside their co-stars Christopher Eccleston, Siobhan Finneran, and Fra Fee — will lead the upcoming series from Intergalactic writer Julie Gearey.

The psychological thriller takes viewers behind the closed doors of a fictional conservative religious sect. Windsor (Three Girls) will portray Rosie, a devoted wife and mother who’s propelled into a dangerous journey of female emancipation and sexual awakening following a fateful encounter with escaped convict, Sam, played by Rebel Moon baddie Fee.

The series has already started filming in the UK. Keep reading to clear up all your questions about Out of the Dust.

Out of the Dust is a six-episode psychological thriller. It follows Rosie, who lives in a cloistered Christian community with her husband, Adam (Butterfield), and their daughter.

The 68th BFI London Film Festival has announced the films screening in the Official Competition and contending for the Best Film Award.

From a gripping Irish portrait of deep-rooted generational rivalry to a stop-motion animated tale of self-discovery; a moving portrait of living with deaf parents in Tokyo to a follow-up feature from one of Zambia’s most distinctive voices, the films selected for the Official Competition celebrate and recognize inspiring and inventive global filmmaking.

Established in 2009 and first won by Jacques Audiard for ‘A Prophet,’ recent winners of the Best Film Award include Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Evil Does Not Exist’ in 2023 and Marie Kreutzer’s ‘Corsage’ in 2022.

Also in news – Asa Butterfield & Molly Windsor added to cast of series ‘Out of the Dust’

The 11 films in Official Competition are:

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Dea Kulumbegashvili’s probing exploration of rural life in Georgia centres on the experiences of a doctor whose moral...

‘Dune’ and ‘Mission: Impossible’s’ Rebecca Ferguson has been set to join the cast of the Enid Blyton adaptation ‘The Magic Faraway Tree.’

Ferguson will play the story’s terrifying headmistress, Dame Snap, one of Blyton’s most iconic villains.

Ferguson joins the cast which, as previously announced, includes two-time Academy Award-nominee, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Winner Andrew Garfield and Golden Globe and two-time Emmy Award-winner Claire Foy. Also previously announced cast are Jennifer Saunders as the kids’ ruthless Grandma, Nicola Coughlan who is cast as the beloved woodland fairy Silky, and British icons Sirs Lenny Henry, Michael Palin and Simon Russell Beale.

Based on The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, the story follows Polly and Tim Thompson and their children, Beth, Joe and Fran, who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English countryside. There, the children discover a magical tree and its extraordinary and eccentric occupants.

It looks like Sex Education star Asa Butterfield isn't quite done with Netflix just yet, seeing as though he's set to star in an upcoming Netflix thriller series titled Out of the Dust. More on his casting and the show below.

Butterfield is best known for starring in the lead role of Otis Milburn in the Netflix teen series Sex Education. He also had roles in the movies The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Then Came You, Your Christmas or Mine?, All Fun and Games and Your Christmas or Mine 2. His next project, other than Out of the Dust, is an upcoming animated sci-fi film called Rogue Trooper. Besides Sex Education, he has starred in one other Netflix project, the horror-thriller film Choose or Die.

Now that it's been announced that he'll be in Out of the Dust, this marks his second Netflix series and his third Netflix project overall.

Doctor Who star Christopher Ecceleston and Hawkeye's Fra Fee star in Netflix's upcoming psychological thriller series Out of the Dust. They are joined by Sex Education's Asa Butterfield, Three Girls' Molly Windsor, and Time's Siobhan Finneran.

According to Variety, Out of the Dust focuses on the life of Rosie (Windsor) with her husband, Adam (Butterfield), in a conservative Christian cult, but her beliefs are challenged when she encounters an escaped convict (Fee).

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El thriller psicológico acaba de comenzar su rodaje. © Netflix

De acuerdo con Variety, Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Molly Windsor (La infamia), Fra Fee (Rebel Moon), Siobhan Finneran (Downton Abbey) y Christopher Eccleston (Thor: El mundo oscuro) protagonizarán la serie de Netflix Out of the Dust.

Out of the Dust es un thriller psicológico de seis episodios que se desarrolla en el contexto de una secta cristiana conservadora, y se centra en la historia de Rosie, una esposa y madre obediente, que se ve abocada a un peligroso camino de emancipación y despertar sexual cuando tiene un encuentro con Sam (Fee), un convicto fugado.

El thriller psicológico está dirigido por Jim Loach (Historial delictivo) y Philippa Langdale (The Capture) y acaba de comenzar su rodaje en el Reino Unido.

Out of the Dust se estrena próximamente en Netflix.

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Apple TV+ is heading back to Las Colinas.

The streaming service has renewed Acapulco for Season 4. The pickup comes three months after its Season 3 finale, which dropped June 26.

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Netflix has announced a new series from writer Julie Gearey (Intergalactic, Cuffs, Prisoners Wives) ‘Out of the Dust’ which is set to star Asa Butterfield and Molly Windsor.

The series is a 6-part psychological thriller set in a conservative Christian sect. The story follows Rosie, a dutiful wife and mother who is propelled into a dangerous journey of female emancipation and sexual awakening following a fateful encounter with escaped convict, Sam.

Also in news – First look at Ciarán Hinds as Dark Wizard in season 2 of ‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ revealed

Rosie lives with her husband Adam and daughter in a cloistered Christian community. The fateful arrival of escaped prisoner Sam into her life, reveals the reality and restraints of her world; perhaps this hidden religious community doesn’t have her best interests at heart. And, as the cracks begin to appear in her marriage, Sam presents as her saviour.

Asa Butterfield (“Sex Education”), Molly Windsor (“Three Girls”), Fra Fee (“Hawkeye”), Siobhan Finneran (“Time”) and Christopher Eccleston (“True Detective”) will lead the cast of “Out of the Dust,” a new Netflix series from “Intergalactic” writer Julie Gearey.

A psychological thriller set in a conservative Christian sect, “Out of the Dust” follows the story of Rosie (Windsor), a dutiful wife and mother who is set on a dangerous path of emancipation and sexual awakening when she has an encounter with Sam (Fee), an escaped convict.

Butterfield plays Adam, Finneran will play Mrs Phillips and Eccleston joins as Mr Phillps in the six-part series from Double Dutch Productions, part of Banijay U.K .

“Rosie lives with her husband Adam and daughter in a cloistered Christian community,” reads the synopsis. “The fateful arrival of escaped prisoner Sam into her life, reveals the reality and restraints of her world; perhaps this hidden religious community...

Exclusive: Sherlock star Mark Gatiss is writing and starring in a British TV drama about a bookshop owner who helps police solve crimes.

Bookish will be a six-part series for UKTV crime drama network Alibi set in post-war London in 1946. Gatiss, the co-creator of BBC shows such as Sherlock and The League of Gentlemen and Netflix/BBC’s Dracula and actor in films including Operation Mincemeat and Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning, is the creator.

The series will follow Gabriel Book (Gatiss), an “erudite and unconventional” sleuth who cracks mysterious cases from his antiquated bookshop, using the thousands of books that line his shelves to provide him with the knowledge that he needs. Around him are a gathering of “loveable, damaged misfits who he informally protects, cajoles and mentors.”

Starring alongside Gatiss is Polly Walker (Bridgerton, Line of Duty), who plays Book’s colourful wife Trottie. She is charismatic and adventurous,...

Joseph Quinn is currently smashing it in Hollywood. After making a name for himself primarily on television, his upcoming movie roles include this year’s A Quiet Place: Day One and Gladiator 2.

As of Valentine’s Day this year, when the film’s whole cast was announced, he’s also been confirmed as playing Johnny Storm, Aka the Human Torch, in Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four, which is due for release in July 2025.

It’s an interesting casting, but there’s no doubt the English actor can pull it off. Here are five of Joseph Quinn’s past roles that prove he’ll make a superb Johnny Storm for the MCU’s Fantastic Four.

Dickensian Joseph Quinn as Arthur Havisham in Dickensian.

Dickensian is a 20-part British drama series aired on the BBC in 2015 and 2016. The series unites characters from several Charles Dickens novels in a Victorian London neighborhood.

BayView Entertainment have released Make Up to Blu-ray in the USA.

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On a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into a mysterious obsession when she suspects her boyfriend has cheated on her.

Directed by Claire Oakley and starring Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Molly Windsor (War of the Worlds), and Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom).

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Make Up directed by Claire Oakley and starring Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Molly Windsor (War of the Worlds), and Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom) is coming out on Blu-ray March 28, 2023 from Bayview Entertainment.

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‘Gunehgaar’, ‘The Fame Game’, ‘Mithya’, ‘Suzhal: The Vortex’ and ‘Delhi Crime-2’ were some of the most engrossing slow-burners of the year. Long format, procedural as well dramatic shows and teleplays added to the diverse viewing experience of audiences on the small screen in 2022. They brought along with them ample thrills, chills, and psychological intrigue. Here is our pick of the best, immersive entertainers from this lot.

The Fame Game

You may argue that the series that heralded Madhuri Dixit Nene in the Ott space frittered away its potential at the end but a second season may just redeem it. Yet, for the most part, this show was a perfect blend of drama, emotional heft, mystery, psychological layers, and histrionics with Dixit demonstrating why she is still considered one of the best actors to grace the silver screen. A moving performance by Manav Kaul, strong turns by Sanjay Kapoor, Suhasini Mulay,...

The upcoming second season of Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which is currently in production in the UK, will be directed by Charlotte Brändström, who is coming back after helming two episodes in Season 1, as well as Sanaa Hamri and Louise Hooper who are new to the franchise. The announcement also indirectly confirmed that Season 2 will consist of the same number of episodes as Season 1, eight.

In Season 1, Brändström was the only female director; in Season 2 she is leading an all-female directing team.

Brändström — who directed Episodes 106/“Udûn,” which featured Season 1’s big battle scene and the Mount Doom’s eruption, and 107/“The Eye,” which chronicled its aftermath — will be directing four episodes and will also serve as co-executive producer this season. She is taking over the lead director position from Wayne Che Yip, who directed four episodes, including the finale, and co-executive produced...

Five years after allegations surfaced against Harvey Weinstein, the bombshell investigation that exposed the movie titan to be a serial sexual abuser is getting the Hollywood treatment —­ and his victims are helping filmmakers tell the story. “She Said,” based on the book by New York Times investigative journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who first reported on Weinstein’s history of sexual harassment and assault in depth, hits theaters this weekend. The film doesn’t just center on the two reporters. It’s also about the women who came forward to expose Weinstein’s abuse across decades, igniting the hashtag #MeToo, blazing a cultural and societal fire of truth-telling and knocking down systemic abuses of power in the workplace. The Universal-distributed movie includes an unprecedented level of participation from these same women, many of whom advised the filmmakers and some of whom act on-screen.

When “She Said” premieres Nov.

The humans continue their fight for survival in the third season of the War of the Worlds TV show on Epix. As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a series like War of the Worlds is cancelled or renewed for season four (Epix isn't part of that system). Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the third season episodes of War of the Worlds here.

An Epix science-fiction drama series, the War of the Worlds TV show stars Gabriel Byrne, Léa Drucker, Bayo Gbadamosi, Emilie de Preissac, Natasha Little, Ty Tennant, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stéphane Caillard, Molly Windsor, Ernest Kingsley Junior, Madeleine Worrall, and Oliver Hembrough. The story takes place in present-day Europe...

Premium network Epix announced today that the upcoming third season of their blockbuster science fiction-drama series from Urban Myth Films and Studiocanal, War of the Worlds, will return on Monday, September 12 at 9 p.m. Edt/Pdt. Subsequent episodes will air weekly on Sundays at 9 p.m. Edt/Pdt. Written and created by BAFTA Award-winner Howard Overman (Misfits, Crazyhead, Future Man), the third season sees the return of Golden Globe-winner and Emmy- and Tony Award-nominee Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment). Joining the ensemble cast are BAFTA-winner Molly Windsor (Three Girls), Ernest Kingsley Junior, Madeleine Worrall, and Oliver Hembrough. Set in present-day France and the U.K., Season Three picks up as the war between the survivors and aliens reaches a new turning point and a terrifying phenomenon grips countless people across the globe. With stakes at an all-time high, one survivor sets out to investigate, forming a tentative partnership with another unlikely hero along the way.

Today, the London Critics Circle announced the nominations for the 41st annual London Critics’ Circle Film Awards which saw Rose Glass’ dramatic horror, ‘Saint Maud’, out in front with 8 nominations.

Other leading contenders include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story ‘Rocks’ with 6 nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie ‘Nomadland’ with 5, and Emerald Fennell’s provocative blackly comical thriller ‘Promising Young Woman’ with 4. Also earning 4 nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic ‘Mank’ and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama ‘Lovers Rock’. McQueen is up for Director of the Year for his five Small Axe films.

The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations both for his lead role in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ and his supporting role in ‘Da 5 Blood’s. Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and ‘Rocks‘ newcomer Bukky Bakray.

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Films by women writer-directors including Rose Glass, Sarah Gavron, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell scored the most nominations for the 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, which were announced on Tuesday.

Glass’s horror film “Saint Maud” earned eight nominations, including film, director, screenwriter, actress (Morfydd Clark), supporting actress (Jennifer Ehle) and British/Irish film of the year, while Clark is also nominated for British/Irish actress.

Sarah Gavron’s coming-of-age tale “Rocks” scored six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s road movie “Nomadland” five, and Emerald Fennell’s black comedy “Promising Young Woman” four. David Fincher’s biopic “Mank” and Steve McQueen’s house-party film “Lovers Rock” also had four nominations each.

The late Chadwick Boseman received nominations for his lead role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and his supporting role in “Da 5 Bloods.” Other multiple acting nominees include Morfydd Clark, Anthony Hopkins, Carey Mulligan, Riz Ahmed, Vanessa Kirby, Sacha Baron Cohen and Bukky Bakray.

Multiple nominations for ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Promising Young Woman’.

Rose Glass’ debut feature Saint Maud heads the nominations at the 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with eight nominations including film of the year and director of the year.

The horror film is also up for British/Irish film of the year, with further nominations for Glass in screenwriter and breakthrough British/Irish filmmaker, and Morfydd Clark in both actress and British/Irish actress of the year (the latter also for her role in Eternal Beauty).

Rocks, another UK title directed by Sarah Gavron with associate director Anu Henriques, received six...

Films by writer-directors Rose Glass, Sarah Gavron, Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell earned the most nominations for the 41st London Critics‘ Circle Film Awards, which will be presented virtually in early February. Scroll down for full list of nominees.

Glass’ dramatic horror Saint Maud was out front with eight nominations, including Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress (Morfydd Clark) and Supporting Actress (Jennifer Ehle). In addition, the film is nominated for British/Irish Film of the Year, and Clark is nominated for British/Irish Actress, a body-of-work award that includes her appearance in Eternal Beauty.

Other leading contenders include Sarah Gavron’s London coming-of-age story Rocks with six nominations, Chloé Zhao’s improvised American road movie Nomadland with five, and Emerald Fennell’s provocative blackly comical thriller Promising Young Woman with four.

Also earning four nominations were David Fincher’s Hollywood biopic Mank and Steve McQueen’s house-party drama Lovers Rock. McQueen...

First love sours almost imperceptibly in Make Up, the assured feature debut of Claire Oakley, in which an off-season beach destination is just quiet enough to force an 18 year-old to grapple with questions she doesn’t know she needs to ask. Atmosphere plays a large role here, opening up thriller-ish possibilities without disturbing the realism of a setting where teens in the service industry earn a living and don’t think much about the future. Benefitting from an unassuming but dead-on performance by lead Molly Windsor, the picture may frustrate those expecting a true horror film, but earns Oakley a ...

First love sours almost imperceptibly in Make Up, the assured feature debut of Claire Oakley, in which an off-season beach destination is just quiet enough to force an 18 year-old to grapple with questions she doesn’t know she needs to ask. Atmosphere plays a large role here, opening up thriller-ish possibilities without disturbing the realism of a setting where teens in the service industry earn a living and don’t think much about the future. Benefitting from an unassuming but dead-on performance by lead Molly Windsor, the picture may frustrate those expecting a true horror film, but earns Oakley a ...

BBC Film and the BFI today announce a new season of British films beginning on BBC Two on Saturday 24 October with Daniel Kokotajlo’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Apostasy.’

British Film Premiere: New Films from New Voices will present a brand new premiere every Saturday night, celebrating a new wave of British filmmakers who are offering fresh perspectives on UK life and experiences.

Each film will be available on BBC iPlayer after its transmission on BBC Two, and all will be accompanied by a short introduction from a UK film critic. Most of the films will also be available for free on BFI Player.

The films premiering in the British Film Premiere season are all backed by BBC Film and the BFI, which awards National Lottery funding. They are all critically acclaimed feature films which premiered at top tier international film festivals, with many nominated for or winning major awards.

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Mark Addy stars alongside Molly Windsor (‘Make Up’).

Gravitas Ventures has acquired North America rights to Richard Heap’s UK drama The Runaways, starring 2016 Screen Star of Tomorrow Molly Windsor.

The US distributor has set a provisional release of November 2020 for the title, which it acquired from UK-based sales agent Moviehouse Entertainment.

The Runaways follows the adventures of three children and their donkeys in a chase across the North York Moors. Mark Addy (The Full Monty) and Tara Fitzgerald (Brassed Off) star alongside Windsor, who recently lead Claire Oakley’s Make Up.

Heap wrote, directed and produced the film for Sheffield-based Slackjaw Film.

Undoubtedly one of the British films of the year, it was our pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to the leading star, as we chatted on Zoom with Make Up’s Molly Windsor.

We discuss with the talented young actress (second time of asking – we had internet issues that scampered plans earlier in the day) the joys in tackling such a complex, nuanced role, and whether characters like this come around very often. She comments on her memorable experience shooting, and what it was like to be on the Cornish coast. She also talks about collaborating with director Claire Oakley, and finally on her rise through the industry, and why she feels there’s been such an influx of creative talent to have come out of the Midlands.

Watch the full interview with Molly below:

Synopsis

On a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into...

Claire Oakley's assured debut is all about liminal spaces, both physical and mental, the places and feelings that hang eerily between the concrete and the comforting. Set on a Cornish static caravan site, perched on a clifftop, a scrap of land between civilisation and the sea, this isn't a place full of holidaymakers but a patch of life in transition, as the year slips slowly into winter and the campers slip away.

It's where Tom (Joseph Quinn) has worked the winters for years and where Ruth (Molly Windsor) has come to join him for the first time, finally considered old enough by her parents. She is also in a halfway place, still somewhere between childhood and adulthood, leaving one but perhaps not quite arrived at the other, dipping her toe in the waters with help from fellow, slightly older worker Jade (Stefanie Martini). She has all the assurance Ruth lacks,...

A teenager encounters ghostly goings-on and sexual intrigue at an out-of-season caravan park in a stylish psychological drama

The out-of-season holiday resort, like the abandoned city or ruined temple, has something fascinating and even erotic in its emptiness. Writer-director Claire Oakley taps into this mood for her debut feature, a psychological drama-thriller set in a wintry caravan park in St Ives, Cornwall. She has taken the template of arthouse Brit realism and audaciously spiked it with some genre thrills, as if Ken Loach collaborated with Brian De Palma or Nicolas Roeg. With cinematographer Nick Cooke, Oakley finds the bracingly different aspects of the Cornish landscape: ominous in the darkness, wild in the sunshine and menacing in the cold, as distant sea spray mixes with the cloud cover.

Molly Windsor (whom I last saw 10 years ago as a child actor in Samantha Morton’s The Unloved) plays Ruth, a teenager who...

"It's not about what it looks like, it's how it makes you feel." Artificial Eye in the UK has released an official trailer for an indie psychological drama titled Make Up, marking the feature directorial debut of English filmmaker Claire Oakley. This initially premiered at the London Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Rotterdam, Göteborg, and Glasgow Film Festivals this year. While at a remote holiday park in Cornwall, a young woman is drawn into a mysterious obsession when she suspects her boyfriend has cheated on her. The official synopsis adds: "Transforming her remote coastal setting into an intangible labyrinth of creeping intrigue, Claire Oakley inventively flirts with genre conventions to weave a singular tale of self-acceptance and sexual awakening." I'm intrigued. Molly Windsor stars as Ruth, with a cast including Joseph Quinn, Stefanie Martini, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Lisa Palfrey, and Elodie Wilton. This looks very moody and hauntingly atmospheric,...

A haunting slow-burn thriller turned coming out story, Make Up is an atmospheric and somewhat provocative tale of Ruth (Molly Windsor), a young woman brought in the middle of the night to a trailer park overlooking the beach in Cornwall, England by boyfriend Tom (Joseph Quinn). Tom works long hours at a local factory, coming home late to Ruth, often loaded. The details are a bit sparse, relying mostly on mood and the tropes of psychological horror to pull the narrative together as Ruth has a series of encounters that, at times, often reminded me of a low-rent version of Peter Strickland’s lush In Fabric.

Directed by Claire Oakley, Make Up is a debut feature lensed in large part like a thriller as the misty atmosphere of a small tourist beach resort in the offseason leads Ruth, a plain Jane who wears little make-up, down some dark corners as...

Other new titles include ‘Seberg’ and ‘Uncut Gems’.

eOne’s 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, and Universal’s Seberg, starring Kristen Stewart, are among the new openers at the UK box office this weekend.

First World War thriller 1917 arrives on a wave of critical acclaim, which includes nine Bafta nominations and Golden Globe wins for best drama film and best director. It will be distributed in the UK by eOne in 686 cinemas.

Told in what appears to be one continuous shot, the film primarily centres on two young British soldiers on a mission to deliver a message deep in enemy territory.

BBC to make the film available eight weeks after the cinema release.

Curzon and BBC Films have jointly bought UK rights to Make Up, the feature debut of Screen Star Of Tomorrow Claire Oakley, which is competing for the first feature (Sutherland) award at this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Lff).

The deal will see Curzon release theatrically in the UK and Ireland and day-and-date on its VoD platform Curzon Home Cinema, with the BBC taking early free TV and iPlayer rights for 12 months, making the film available eight weeks after the cinema release.

Worldwide sales are represented by Protagonist Pictures.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has extended its growing “Breakthrough” talent initiative to China. It has teamed with financier Yu Holdings to launch BAFTA Breakthrough China, which was unveiled at the Shanghai International Film Festival. British actor Tom Hiddleston will be an ambassador for the scheme.

The China initiative with Yu Holdings follows BAFTA’s pact with Netflix to extend the Breakthrough initiative internationally. The program identifies and nurtures emerging talent. The U.K. edition has included BAFTA Award winners Molly Windsor and Daisy May Cooper in recent years, as well as the likes of Letitia Wright and Tom Holland.

A jury of Chinese and British industry experts will select five breakthrough talents from across China to take part in the yearlong mentoring and guidance program. Their names will be announced at an event in Shanghai in October. The winners will then be flown to the U.

Netflix has signed on as a partner on BAFTA’s Breakthrough Brits, the program that supports up-and-coming U.K. talent.

BAFTA said the partnership with the streaming giant will help facilitate expansion of its “Breakthrough” initiative globally, and the partners will work to identify overseas talent in new territories. This year’s scheme is open to Brits residing in the U.K. and the U.S. In the future, the intention is to widen the list of qualifying countries, and possibly to broaden the whole program to go beyond just talented Brits, a BAFTA spokesman told Variety.

Netflix is deepening its roots in the U.K. amid talk that the company is looking for permanent studio space as it increases the number of its British-originated shows. Netflix is taking over from fashion brand Burberry as BAFTA’s main partner on Breakthrough Brits, which was started in 2013.

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The British Academy's Breakthrough Brits initiative, which aims to showcase and support emerging creative talent from across film, games and television, has found a new partner in Netflix.

The streaming giant replaces Burberry as the chief sponsor of Breakthrough Brits, now into its seventh year and having helped champion more than 100 talented newcomers, including actors Florence Pugh, Josh O’Connor, Malachi Kirby, Ray Panthaki and Molly Windsor, composer Segun Akinola, game producer Dan Gray, and directors Destiny Ekaragha and Michael Pearce.

The partnership with Netflix will help facilitate expansion of the Breakthrough initiative globally, working to identify ...

The British Academy's Breakthrough Brits initiative, which aims to showcase and support emerging creative talent from across film, games and television, has found a new partner in Netflix.

The streaming giant replaces Burberry as the chief sponsor of Breakthrough Brits, now into its seventh year and having helped champion more than 100 talented newcomers, including actors Florence Pugh, Josh O’Connor, Malachi Kirby, Ray Panthaki and Molly Windsor, composer Segun Akinola, game producer Dan Gray, and directors Destiny Ekaragha and Michael Pearce.

The partnership with Netflix will help facilitate expansion of the Breakthrough initiative globally, working to identify ...

For the third year, the UK’s three leading financiers, the BFI, BBC Films and Film4, in collaboration with the British Council and the UK government’s ‘Great’ campaign, will be showcasing up-and-coming UK talent in Cannes via the ‘Great 8’ program. Scroll down for the lineup.

Highlighted on Tuesday May 14 during a private reception at the Hotel Gray d’Albion, the event will reveal unseen footage from eight UK projects in post-production. These are relatively low-budget UK movies in the Cannes marché with breakout festival, commercial or critical potential. Guests will comprise international buyers and festival programmers.

Movies selected in recent years include Michaela Coel musical Been So Long, which was nabbed by Netflix in a multi-million dollar deal soon after the festival, Michael Pearce drama Beast, which went on to play at festivals including Toronto, London and Sundance, and Brian Welsh’s Beats.

Great 8, 2019 Lineup

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Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You” and Jessica Hausner’s “Little Joe” have been selected to play in competition at Cannes. But buyers looking for more British-originated fare can head to the firmly established “Great 8” presentation of titles from the country’s up-and-coming filmmakers.

The Great 8 event is backed by the BFI, the British Council, BBC Films and Film4. U.S. buyers from Bleecker Street, Apple and IFC have attended previous editions, as have the likes of France-based The Jokers and Netherlands-based Cherry Pickers, and Transmission Films and Madman from Australasia.

This year the buyers at the sales-boosting event will get a best-of-British look at new films from writers and directors Simon Bird, Cathy Brady, Fyzal Boulifa, Hong Khaou, Rose Glass, Claire Oakley, Eva Riley, and Nick Rowland.

The 2019 lineup includes Rowland’s “Calm With Horses,” starring Cosmo Jarvis (“Lady Macbeth”) and Barry Keoghan (“Dunkirk”), which counts Michael Fassbender among its exec producers.

Exclusive: Amazon Studios has hired Fleabag producer Lydia Hampson to oversee its scripted drive in the UK.

Deadline understands Hampson is set to join the digital TV giant next week and will be tasked with growing its drama and comedy originals out of London.

This comes after it unveiled The Power its first major commission to emerge out of its UK division, which is run by Director of European Originals Georgia Brown. The show, which was announced by Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke at last week’s TCA, is an adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s book and is produced by Jane Featherstone’s British indie Sister Pictures with The Handmaid Tale’s Reed Morano exec producing.

Hampson joins from Two Brothers Pictures, the All3Media-backed producer responsible for Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s cult comedy. Hampson produced the first and second season of the show. She’s experienced working with Amazon as...

All3Media International has secured another major pre-sale on Two Brothers Pictures’ “Cheat” ahead of its screening as part of the European Film Market’s official Drama Series Days program in Berlin next week. Ard Degeto has acquired the drama series for Germany, with plans to air the show later this year.

“Cheat” stars Katherine Kelly and BAFTA-winner Molly Windsor in a psychological thriller centering on a dangerous relationship between a university professor (Kelly) and her student (Windsor). What begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception quickly spirals out of control, ending in fatal consequences and triggering a devastating sequence of events that threaten to engulf them both. The four-part series was written and created by newcomer Gaby Hull and directed by Louise Hooper.

It was produced by Two Brothers for ITV, with AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now taking North American rights last summer.

German public broadcasting group Ard Degeto has picked up rights to two new British series ahead of next week's Drama Series Days event at Berlin's European Film Market: Cheat, a psychological thriller starring Happy Valley's Katherine Kelly and Molly Windsor (Three Girls), and Baptiste, a crime drama featuring The Missing actor Tcheky Karyo, The Night Manager's Tom Hollander and Jessica Raine (Informer).

Originally commissioned for Britain's ITV, Cheat has already sold wide, including to France Television, Australia's Seven Network and to Sundance Now for North America.

Baptiste, a BBC One production, has been picked up by Dr in Denmark and ...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced 2018’s BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, in partnership with Burberry.

Nineteen of the UK’s most promising future stars of film, games and television have been carefully selected by this years jury members which included actress and producer Gemma Arterton (Ee Rising Star nominee in 2011), actress Stacy Martin (BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2014), actor George MacKay (Ee Rising Star nominee in 2014), and composer Nainita Desai (BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2016).

The full list of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits in 2018 is:

Adrienne Law – Games Producer (Monument Valley 2) Annie Price – Presenter (Tears and Tantrums: Diary of a New Mum) Chris Walley – Actor (The Young Offenders) Daniel Kokotajlo – Writer/Director (Apostasy) Daniel Lawrence Taylor – Actor/Writer (Timewasters) Ellena Wood – Director (Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia) Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly – Producer Harry Nesbitt – Artist and Game Developer (Alto’s Odyssey) Jay Armstrong – Game Developer (Adventure Pals) Jessica Barden...

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has revealed its newest roster of Breakthrough Brits, talent whom the organization identifies as ones to watch. Actors Jessica Barden and Paapa Essiedu and writer and director Lucy Cohen are among a 19-strong lineup that spans film, TV and gaming.

Previous Breakthrough Brits have gone on to become established stars at home and abroad, meaning that the accolade is prized by emerging talent and the list is scrutinized by the industry. Molly Windsor and Daisy May Cooper, who scooped leading actress in TV series “Three Girls” and female performance for “This Country” respectively at the 2018 BAFTA Awards, have both been Breakthrough talent. Letitia Wright (“Black Panther”) and Alex Lawther are among other recent Breakthrough Brits.

Barden stars with Lawther in Channel 4 and Netflix drama “The End of the F***ing World.” Now getting ready to appear in a production of Harold Pinter...

Exclusive: Howards End star Joseph Quinn is in advanced talks to join Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in the cast of HBO and Sky’s upcoming mini-series Catherine The Great.

Quinn will play the role of Catherine’s son and heir, Prince Paul.

Oscar-winner Mirren will star as the iconic 18th Century Russian monarch who ruled for 30 years. Written by Nigel Williams (Elizabeth) and directed by Philip Martin (The Crown), the four-parter looks at Catherine at the end of her reign and her affair with Grigory Potemkin, who will be played by Zero Dark Thirty star Jason Clarke. Mirren and Clarke are the only cast reported before today.

Produced by Origin Pictures and New Pictures, the show will air on HBO in the U.S. and Sky Atlantic in the U.K. and Europe. The drama will be Mirren’s first major TV role for more than a decade. Filming...

Sundance Now has boarded British drama Cheat, from the makers of Fleabag and Liar.

The Svod platform has become the U.S. partner for the four-part drama, which is produced by All3Media’s Two Brothers Pictures for ITV.

The psychological thriller, created by newcomer Gaby Hull, starts filming this month with The Night Manager and Strike Back star Katherine Kelly and Three Girls’ Molly Windsor starring. Kelly plays university professor Leah, who starts a dangerous relationship with her student Rose, played by Windsor, and is thrust into a case of academic deception, which has fatal consequences.

Humans and Mr Selfridge star Tom Goodman-Hill plays Leah’s university professor boyfriend James, while Unforgotten’s Lorraine Ashbourne and Spooks and Victoria star Peter Firth play her parents. The Young Ones’ Adrian Edmondson plays Rose’s father William.

Cheat is exec produced by Two Brothers Pictures founders Harry and Jack Williams and Christoper Aird.

Sundance Now, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, has pre-bought U.S. rights to upcoming British psychological thriller “Cheat,” produced by Two Brothers Pictures, best known for “Fleabag,” “Liar” and “The Missing.” It will star Molly Windsor, BAFTA winner for “Three Girls,” and Katherine Kelly, best known for British soap “Coronation Street.” The news was announced Monday at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

The four-part miniseries, commissioned by U.K. broadcaster ITV and written by screenwriting newcomer Gaby Hull, centers on a “dangerous relationship between university professor Leah and her student Rose, when what begins as a seemingly open and shut case of academic deception quickly spirals out of control.” All3Media Intl. is distributing the show globally.

Two Brothers, which was set up in 2014 by writers/producers Harry and Jack Williams, has a strong slate including “The Widow,” starring Kate Beckinsale, and Season 2 of “Liar,” starring “Downton Abbey’s” Joanne Froggatt...