Theo James, Kaya Scodelario & more return for season 2 of ‘The Gentleman’ High Bonneville joins cast
Netflix has confirmed filming is officially underway for the new season of Guy Ritchie’s smash hit series, ‘The Gentlemen.’
The return of the series was announced last year, with Netflix confirming Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings would reprise their roles. The new season also see the return of Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito.
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Joining the cast for season 2 will be Hugh Bonneville (I Came By, The Agency), Benjamin Clementine (Dune, Blitz), Benedetta Porcaroli (The Leopard, Amanda), Michele Morrone (Another Simple Favour, The Housemaid), Sergio Castellito (The Star Maker, Conclave), Amra Mallassi (Dune: Part Two, Hijack), Tyler Conti (Tell Me Everything, Safe) and Maya Jama.
In season 2, it’s been one year since Eddie and Susie joined forces to...
The return of the series was announced last year, with Netflix confirming Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings would reprise their roles. The new season also see the return of Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito.
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Joining the cast for season 2 will be Hugh Bonneville (I Came By, The Agency), Benjamin Clementine (Dune, Blitz), Benedetta Porcaroli (The Leopard, Amanda), Michele Morrone (Another Simple Favour, The Housemaid), Sergio Castellito (The Star Maker, Conclave), Amra Mallassi (Dune: Part Two, Hijack), Tyler Conti (Tell Me Everything, Safe) and Maya Jama.
In season 2, it’s been one year since Eddie and Susie joined forces to...
- 5/29/2025
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We finally have word on The Gentlemen season 2 as the popular Netflix crime dramedy is back filming for season 2 and with a great new cast of guest stars!
The Gentlemen was one of the fun hidden gems of 2024 TV. Created by Guy Ritchie and based on his movie of the same name, it focuses on Eddie Horniman (Theo James), a British soldier who’s called back to the family estate when his wealthy father dies. Eddie is thrown when he inherits the estate over his older brother Freddy (Daniel Ings) due to how Freddy is a drug-addicted moron in debt to mobsters.
While trying to help Freddy out, Eddie learns that his father was making money growing drugs on the estate, which brings in Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), daughter of mobster Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone). Soon, Eddie is pulled into a life of crime amid a mix of drama, action...
The Gentlemen was one of the fun hidden gems of 2024 TV. Created by Guy Ritchie and based on his movie of the same name, it focuses on Eddie Horniman (Theo James), a British soldier who’s called back to the family estate when his wealthy father dies. Eddie is thrown when he inherits the estate over his older brother Freddy (Daniel Ings) due to how Freddy is a drug-addicted moron in debt to mobsters.
While trying to help Freddy out, Eddie learns that his father was making money growing drugs on the estate, which brings in Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), daughter of mobster Bobby Glass (Ray Winstone). Soon, Eddie is pulled into a life of crime amid a mix of drama, action...
- 5/28/2025
- by Michael Weyer
- ShowSnob
Restock the ammo crates and prepare for more shady business because Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Season 2 is officially in production in the UK! In addition to rolling cameras for the next chapter in Ritchie’s episodic crime drama, Netflix sent a press release to outlets announcing additions to The Gentlemen Season 2 cast!
Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine, Benedetta Porcaroli, Michele Morrone, Sergio Castellito, Amra Mallassi, Tyler Conti, British professional boxer Chris Eubank Jr., and TV host, DJ, and entrepreneur Maya Jama will join the cast for season 2.
The return of The Gentlemen was announced last year, with Netflix confirming Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings would reprise their roles. The new season will also see the return of Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito.
Here’s official details about The Gentlemen Season 2 courtesy of Netflix:
It...
Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine, Benedetta Porcaroli, Michele Morrone, Sergio Castellito, Amra Mallassi, Tyler Conti, British professional boxer Chris Eubank Jr., and TV host, DJ, and entrepreneur Maya Jama will join the cast for season 2.
The return of The Gentlemen was announced last year, with Netflix confirming Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings would reprise their roles. The new season will also see the return of Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito.
Here’s official details about The Gentlemen Season 2 courtesy of Netflix:
It...
- 5/28/2025
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
It’s official – The Gentlemen season two is now in production!
Netflix shared the exciting news with a new filming teaser announcement on Wednesday (May 28), featuring returning stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Vinnie Jones and Joely Richardson, as well as series creator Guy Ritchie, who also serves as a writer, director and executive producer.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I am delighted to return to set for season two of The Gentlemen. This chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as we journey from the English countryside to the Italian lakes,” Guy shared in a statement. “Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) find themselves navigating an increasingly volatile empire as they’re besieged on all fronts by an influx of enigmatic new players. The stakes are heightened, the power dynamics are more precarious, and I’m thrilled to be collaborating once again with this exceptional cast and crew.
Netflix shared the exciting news with a new filming teaser announcement on Wednesday (May 28), featuring returning stars Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Vinnie Jones and Joely Richardson, as well as series creator Guy Ritchie, who also serves as a writer, director and executive producer.
Keep reading to find out more…
“I am delighted to return to set for season two of The Gentlemen. This chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as we journey from the English countryside to the Italian lakes,” Guy shared in a statement. “Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) find themselves navigating an increasingly volatile empire as they’re besieged on all fronts by an influx of enigmatic new players. The stakes are heightened, the power dynamics are more precarious, and I’m thrilled to be collaborating once again with this exceptional cast and crew.
- 5/28/2025
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
First photo from the set of ‘The Gentlemen’ season 2 (Photo Credit: Netflix)
Filming’s begun on the eight-episode second season of Netflix’s The Gentlemen. Netflix just announced production is underway and confirmed the new and returning cast members on board for Guy Ritchie’s dark comedy.
Reprising their roles for season two are Theo James (The Monkey), Kaya Scodelario (Senna), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast), Joely Richardson (Ballad of Renegade Nell), Vinnie Jones (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), and Jasmine Blackborow (Marie Antoinette). Michael Vu (In The Grey), Harry Goodwins (Sunset Drive), Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley (The Detectorists), and Giancarlo Esposito (The Residence) also return for season two.
“I am delighted to return to set for season two of The Gentlemen. This chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as we journey from the English countryside to the Italian lakes. Eddie and...
Filming’s begun on the eight-episode second season of Netflix’s The Gentlemen. Netflix just announced production is underway and confirmed the new and returning cast members on board for Guy Ritchie’s dark comedy.
Reprising their roles for season two are Theo James (The Monkey), Kaya Scodelario (Senna), Daniel Ings (I Hate Suzie), Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast), Joely Richardson (Ballad of Renegade Nell), Vinnie Jones (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), and Jasmine Blackborow (Marie Antoinette). Michael Vu (In The Grey), Harry Goodwins (Sunset Drive), Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley (The Detectorists), and Giancarlo Esposito (The Residence) also return for season two.
“I am delighted to return to set for season two of The Gentlemen. This chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as we journey from the English countryside to the Italian lakes. Eddie and...
- 5/28/2025
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The Gentlemen Season 2 is officially on its way, Netflix has confirmed in an exciting announcement this week. Ahead of the streamer's Tudum event, Netflix has confirmed that Guy Ritchie and the rest of the crew have returned to film the second season of the hit action comedy series. The show first premiered on the platform in early 2024 as a spin-off to the acclaimed 2020 film of the same name, The Gentlemen.
On Wednesday, Netflix released a video straight from the production of The Gentlemen Season 2 featuring series stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario, as well as Ritchie himself. In true Gentlemen fashion, the unlikely crime duo are seen walking onto set and grabbing shotguns, ready for whatever is coming next in the highly-anticipated second season. Netflix did not reveal a possible release window for Season 2, but fans might learn more this weekend during the streamer's live-event, Tudum. You can check out the announcement below.
On Wednesday, Netflix released a video straight from the production of The Gentlemen Season 2 featuring series stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario, as well as Ritchie himself. In true Gentlemen fashion, the unlikely crime duo are seen walking onto set and grabbing shotguns, ready for whatever is coming next in the highly-anticipated second season. Netflix did not reveal a possible release window for Season 2, but fans might learn more this weekend during the streamer's live-event, Tudum. You can check out the announcement below.
- 5/28/2025
- by Marcos Melendez
- MovieWeb
Downton Abbey alum Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine (Dune), Benedetta Porcaroli (The Leopard), Michele Morrone (Another Simple Favor), Sergio Castellito (The Star Maker), Amra Mallassi (Dune: Part Two), Tyler Conti (Tell Me Everything), British professional boxer Chris Eubank Jr and TV host, DJ and entrepreneur Maya Jama have been confirmed for Season 2 of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen.
Filming is underway in the UK on Season 2 of the series created by Ritchie based on his movie and produced by Miramax Television.
Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings return to reprise their roles, along with Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito.
Season 2 picks up one year after Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) joined forces to work together in Bobby’s (Winstone) criminal empire overseas. As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound.
Filming is underway in the UK on Season 2 of the series created by Ritchie based on his movie and produced by Miramax Television.
Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings return to reprise their roles, along with Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley and Giancarlo Esposito.
Season 2 picks up one year after Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) joined forces to work together in Bobby’s (Winstone) criminal empire overseas. As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound.
- 5/28/2025
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The Gentlemen have reconvened for Season 2.
Production is underway in the UK on Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series, which stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario as the masterminds behind a drug empire.
The Moonage Pictures drama has added new cast, including Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville and Maya Jama, host of the British version of Love Island.
Others joining The Gentlemen are Benjamin Clementine (Dune), Benedetta Porcaroli (The Leopard), Michele Morrone (Another Simple Favour), Sergio Castellito (Conclave), Amra Mallassi (Dune: Part Two), and Tyler Conti.
Returning cast includes Daniel Ings, Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Ritchie said: “This chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as we journey from the English countryside to the Italian lakes.
“Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) find themselves navigating an increasingly volatile empire as they’re besieged on all...
Production is underway in the UK on Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series, which stars Theo James and Kaya Scodelario as the masterminds behind a drug empire.
The Moonage Pictures drama has added new cast, including Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville and Maya Jama, host of the British version of Love Island.
Others joining The Gentlemen are Benjamin Clementine (Dune), Benedetta Porcaroli (The Leopard), Michele Morrone (Another Simple Favour), Sergio Castellito (Conclave), Amra Mallassi (Dune: Part Two), and Tyler Conti.
Returning cast includes Daniel Ings, Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Ritchie said: “This chapter sees a deliberate expansion, both geographically and thematically, as we journey from the English countryside to the Italian lakes.
“Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) find themselves navigating an increasingly volatile empire as they’re besieged on all...
- 5/28/2025
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The Gentlemen is locked and loaded for a new season, now filming in the UK, Netflix announced on Wednesday.
A TVLine “Hidden Gem” of 2024, the action-comedy was described thusly by our Rebecca Luther: “If you’ve found yourself tiring of TV’s endless string of dour crime dramas, consider The Gentlemen a perfect palate cleanser. The stakes get high, but [it] refuses to take itself too seriously.”
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A TVLine “Hidden Gem” of 2024, the action-comedy was described thusly by our Rebecca Luther: “If you’ve found yourself tiring of TV’s endless string of dour crime dramas, consider The Gentlemen a perfect palate cleanser. The stakes get high, but [it] refuses to take itself too seriously.”
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- 5/28/2025
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Today, Netflix confirmed filming is officially underway in the UK for the new season of Guy Ritchie’s smash hit series, The Gentlemen.
In the second season, it’s been one year since Eddie and Susie joined forces to work together in Bobby’s criminal empire overseas. As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
Now Eddie and Susie must decide whether to take action or risk losing it all, but unfettered ambition never ends well…
The return of The Gentlemen was announced last year, with Netflix confirming Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings would reprise their roles.
The new season will also see the return of Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Joining the cast for season 2 will be Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine,...
In the second season, it’s been one year since Eddie and Susie joined forces to work together in Bobby’s criminal empire overseas. As they drive to expand their enterprise, the decisions Bobby is making seem to be increasingly unsound.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
Now Eddie and Susie must decide whether to take action or risk losing it all, but unfettered ambition never ends well…
The return of The Gentlemen was announced last year, with Netflix confirming Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, and Daniel Ings would reprise their roles.
The new season will also see the return of Ray Winstone, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Jasmine Blackborow, Michael Vu, Harry Goodwins, Ruby Sear, Pearce Quigley, and Giancarlo Esposito.
Joining the cast for season 2 will be Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine,...
- 5/28/2025
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Eddie and Susie are officially back in business. Netflix confirmed today that production is underway on Season 2 of Guy Ritchie's hit action comedy series The Gentlemen, just over a year after Theo James's heir inherited his family's estate and, as a result, was roped into its massive drug empire. The exciting update brings with it some big revelations about what's next now that Eddie and Kaya Scodelario's Susie are more invested than ever in the "high" life with Bobby (Ray Winstone). It promises to be a wild ride with higher stakes than ever as their ambitions for expanding the business run wild.
Season 1 of The Gentlemen follows Eddie as he navigates the weed business operating just under his 15,000-acre estate, thrusting him into the colorful world of the British aristocracy full of proprietors who aren't keen on waiting for him to learn the ropes. By the end of the run,...
Season 1 of The Gentlemen follows Eddie as he navigates the weed business operating just under his 15,000-acre estate, thrusting him into the colorful world of the British aristocracy full of proprietors who aren't keen on waiting for him to learn the ropes. By the end of the run,...
- 5/28/2025
- by Ryan O'Rourke
- Collider.com
Netflix is moving ahead with The Gentlemen season 2 and Hugh Bonneville among others has joined its cast. More details below!
It didn’t take long for Netflix to renew The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s loose spin-off of his own film of the same name, for season 2 but there hasn’t been any news to share about the new season since.
Thankfully, Netflix has now announced that The Gentlemen season 2 is in production and new castmembers are joining the fun.
Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine, Benedetta Porcaroli, Michele Morrone, Sergio Castellito, Amra Mallassi, Tyler Conti and Maya Jama are all getting tangled up in the criminal activities of the Glass family. Considering how many people died in the first season, we doubt many of these new characters make it very far.
Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings are all returning to their roles as are Ray Winstone, Giancarlo Esposito, Joely Richardson and Vinnie Jones.
It didn’t take long for Netflix to renew The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s loose spin-off of his own film of the same name, for season 2 but there hasn’t been any news to share about the new season since.
Thankfully, Netflix has now announced that The Gentlemen season 2 is in production and new castmembers are joining the fun.
Hugh Bonneville, Benjamin Clementine, Benedetta Porcaroli, Michele Morrone, Sergio Castellito, Amra Mallassi, Tyler Conti and Maya Jama are all getting tangled up in the criminal activities of the Glass family. Considering how many people died in the first season, we doubt many of these new characters make it very far.
Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings are all returning to their roles as are Ray Winstone, Giancarlo Esposito, Joely Richardson and Vinnie Jones.
- 5/28/2025
- by Maria Lattila
- Film Stories
Steve McQueen's latest film, Blitz, tells the story of a young boy trying to find his way back to his mother in London during World War II. When Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends her son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside for his own safety as London endures the German bombing campaign known as the Blitz, George escapes and makes his way back to the city to rejoin his mother. Ronan is predictably great as Rita, and Heffernan gives a commendable performance as George in his acting debut, but Benjamin Clementine's performance is one of the most impactful of the film, despite his limited screen time. His character, Ife, is the kindest stranger George meets as he navigates war-torn London and arguably the most important for his character development, helping him understand his heritage and providing him with a positive, trustworthy role model.
- 12/8/2024
- by Claudia Picado
- Collider.com
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting the scripts behind the year’s buzziest awards-season films continues with Steve McQueen’s Blitz, a searing period action drama that imagines one story of a million during The Blitz, when Nazi Germany bombed the UK for eight straight months during World War II.
Written and directed by the Oscar-winning McQueen, Apple Original Films’ Blitz had its world premiere as the opening movie of the BFI London Film Festival and closed the New York Film Festival before hitting theaters November 1. It debuted on Apple TV+ on November 22.
The plot follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside amid the bombing. George, defiant and determined to return home, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
Written and directed by the Oscar-winning McQueen, Apple Original Films’ Blitz had its world premiere as the opening movie of the BFI London Film Festival and closed the New York Film Festival before hitting theaters November 1. It debuted on Apple TV+ on November 22.
The plot follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside amid the bombing. George, defiant and determined to return home, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
- 12/5/2024
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Saoirse Ronan's new World War II movie with an 81% Rotten Tomatoes score becomes a streaming success. The Irish actress, primarily known for her performances in period dramas, broke out with her performance as a precious teenager in Atonement at the age of 13, earning her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Ronan continued her rise with lead roles in The Lovely Bones, Hanna, and a supporting role in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.
It wasn't until 2016 that Ronan earned her second Oscar nomination, this time for a leading role, for her performance as a homesick Irish immigrant during the 1950s in 2015's Brooklyn. In the following years, Ronan earned additional critical acclaim for her collaborations with writer-director Greta Gerwig, receiving two more Oscar nominations for Lady Bird and Little Women. With four total Oscar nods to her name, Ronan is one of the best young actresses working today and,...
It wasn't until 2016 that Ronan earned her second Oscar nomination, this time for a leading role, for her performance as a homesick Irish immigrant during the 1950s in 2015's Brooklyn. In the following years, Ronan earned additional critical acclaim for her collaborations with writer-director Greta Gerwig, receiving two more Oscar nominations for Lady Bird and Little Women. With four total Oscar nods to her name, Ronan is one of the best young actresses working today and,...
- 12/2/2024
- by Adam Bentz
- ScreenRant
Watch Saoirse Ronan And Nicholas Britell Perform Live Version Of ‘Blitz’ Original Song ‘Winter Coat’
Exclusive: Saoirse Ronan, a four-time Oscar nominee, has been earning an entirely new set of props for her performance in Blitz, the latest feature from British filmmaker Steve McQueen.
In the WWII pic, Ronan plays Rita, a young mother searching for her son who has gone missing during Germany’s aerial bombardment of London. Rita also is a keen musician and can more than carry a tune. In one scene, she is chosen to sing for a live BBC wartime radio broadcast and performs the gentle but defiant song “Winter Coat.” Ronan has now recorded a new live version of the song, which you can watch above.
The song was written by McQueen, musician Taura Stinson and three-time Oscar-nominated composer Nicholas Britell. The performance above was recorded November 7 in Studio A at the legendary Power Station at BerkleeNYC in New York City. Other sartists known to have recorded at the studio include Bruce Springsteen,...
In the WWII pic, Ronan plays Rita, a young mother searching for her son who has gone missing during Germany’s aerial bombardment of London. Rita also is a keen musician and can more than carry a tune. In one scene, she is chosen to sing for a live BBC wartime radio broadcast and performs the gentle but defiant song “Winter Coat.” Ronan has now recorded a new live version of the song, which you can watch above.
The song was written by McQueen, musician Taura Stinson and three-time Oscar-nominated composer Nicholas Britell. The performance above was recorded November 7 in Studio A at the legendary Power Station at BerkleeNYC in New York City. Other sartists known to have recorded at the studio include Bruce Springsteen,...
- 11/27/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
I consider myself an admirer of Steve McQueen’s career, with 12 Years a Slave remaining his magnum opus, reinforcing my personal opinion that he’s stronger as a director than as a screenwriter, given that it’s the only film in which he didn’t contribute to the script. Therefore, my expectations for Blitz were moderately positive. The story follows George (Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old boy during World War II in London, sent to safer areas within the country by his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan). Defiant and determined to return home, George embarks on a perilous adventure while his mother desperately searches for him.
Of all historical events and periods, WWII is, by far, the one that has inspired the most movie and television adaptations. While there are still original and innovative narratives to be told, the truth is that most films of this kind fall into a generic cycle of stories about survival,...
Of all historical events and periods, WWII is, by far, the one that has inspired the most movie and television adaptations. While there are still original and innovative narratives to be told, the truth is that most films of this kind fall into a generic cycle of stories about survival,...
- 11/24/2024
- by Manuel Sao Bento
- Talking Films
Follow the journey of a boy and his mother separated by war in this Apple TV+ exclusive.
Oscar-winner Steve McQueen is out with his latest film, this time a World War II epic called “Blitz.” This gripping historical drama is told through the eyes of George, a nine-year-old boy (Elliott Heffernan) separated from his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), during the Blitz. While George braves the chaos of war to return to London and get back to his mom, Rita fights desperately to find her missing son. With a stunning premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and a buzzy reception at the New York Film Festival, “Blitz” is one film you don’t want to miss. You can watch it on Apple TV+ when it premieres on Friday, Nov. 22.
How to watch ‘Blitz’ When: Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 Where: Apple TV+ Stream: Watch with a subscription to Apple TV+. 7-Day Free Trial $9.99+ / month apple.
Oscar-winner Steve McQueen is out with his latest film, this time a World War II epic called “Blitz.” This gripping historical drama is told through the eyes of George, a nine-year-old boy (Elliott Heffernan) separated from his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), during the Blitz. While George braves the chaos of war to return to London and get back to his mom, Rita fights desperately to find her missing son. With a stunning premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and a buzzy reception at the New York Film Festival, “Blitz” is one film you don’t want to miss. You can watch it on Apple TV+ when it premieres on Friday, Nov. 22.
How to watch ‘Blitz’ When: Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 Where: Apple TV+ Stream: Watch with a subscription to Apple TV+. 7-Day Free Trial $9.99+ / month apple.
- 11/22/2024
- by Thomas Waschenfelder
- The Streamable
Plot: During the WW2 bombing of Britain, a young mother (Saoirse Ronan) sends her young son, Georgie (Elliott Heffernan), off to the countryside for his own safety. Angry at being separated from his mother and used to being taunted for his mixed-race heritage, he jumps off the train to the countryside and embarks on an odyssey through a bombed-out London to reunite with his family.
Review: Blitz wasn’t what I expected from director Steve McQueen. One of the most potent directors in the business, Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Widows and Small Axe were all dazzlingly well-directed, but there was nothing in any of them which made me think McQueen had a family film in him. Blitz, which carries a PG-13 rating, is his most accessible film to date, with it a soft-hearted journey through London which sometimes feels almost Spielbergian. While it’s not as good as...
Review: Blitz wasn’t what I expected from director Steve McQueen. One of the most potent directors in the business, Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Widows and Small Axe were all dazzlingly well-directed, but there was nothing in any of them which made me think McQueen had a family film in him. Blitz, which carries a PG-13 rating, is his most accessible film to date, with it a soft-hearted journey through London which sometimes feels almost Spielbergian. While it’s not as good as...
- 11/21/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Get The Full Scoop On The Saoirse Ronan-Led Historical Drama Blitz.. (Photo Credit – Instagram)
Blitz dropped a bomb at the BFI London Film Festival on October 9, 2024, and it was released in theaters on November 1, 2024. No worries if you haven’t watched it—it’ll hit Apple TV+ on November 22, 2024.
This one, directed by Steve McQueen, flips the script on your typical war flick. It’s all about the raw, emotional side of World War II, focusing on the real people who lived through the Blitz—not just the battlefields. And trust, it’s going to hit harder than a bombshell.
Blitz Plot Twist: A Kid’s Journey Through the Blitz
Blitz is about a kid’s wild journey through chaos. Set during the London Blitz, it follows 9-year-old George, who’s sent to the countryside by his mom, Rita (played by the excellent Saoirse Ronan), to escape the bombings.
Blitz dropped a bomb at the BFI London Film Festival on October 9, 2024, and it was released in theaters on November 1, 2024. No worries if you haven’t watched it—it’ll hit Apple TV+ on November 22, 2024.
This one, directed by Steve McQueen, flips the script on your typical war flick. It’s all about the raw, emotional side of World War II, focusing on the real people who lived through the Blitz—not just the battlefields. And trust, it’s going to hit harder than a bombshell.
Blitz Plot Twist: A Kid’s Journey Through the Blitz
Blitz is about a kid’s wild journey through chaos. Set during the London Blitz, it follows 9-year-old George, who’s sent to the countryside by his mom, Rita (played by the excellent Saoirse Ronan), to escape the bombings.
- 11/16/2024
- by Koimoi.com Team
- KoiMoi
Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director behind films such as 12 Years a Slave, Shame, and Widows, revealed that on the eve of shooting his latest film Blitz in 2022, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, Deadline reports. The diagnosis delayed filming of Blitz for two weeks while McQueen underwent a procedure to remove the tumor. Fortunately, the filmmaker reports he is "fully recovered and fully functional."
McQueen kept the diagnosis and procedure a secret from his cast and crew at the time, as he didn't want to worry them or cause any distractions from the work at hand. "I really just wanted to get on with the job," he said. "And thats kind of like who I am. Im a get on with it kind of person."
The director's father, Philbert McQueen, sadly died from prostate cancer in 2006, prompting McQueen to become an advocate for early screening:
The cancers gone and thats down to early detection.
McQueen kept the diagnosis and procedure a secret from his cast and crew at the time, as he didn't want to worry them or cause any distractions from the work at hand. "I really just wanted to get on with the job," he said. "And thats kind of like who I am. Im a get on with it kind of person."
The director's father, Philbert McQueen, sadly died from prostate cancer in 2006, prompting McQueen to become an advocate for early screening:
The cancers gone and thats down to early detection.
- 11/14/2024
- by Christopher Shultz
- MovieWeb
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen is revealing today that two years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent a procedure to remove the tumor.
Thankfully, the filmmaker is now “fully recovered and fully functional,” he tells Deadline.
The knight of the British realm is making a speech this afternoon to U.K. lawmakers at the House Of Commons to launch a new campaign for charity Prostate Cancer Research.
The surgery meant that the start of filming on his exceptional wartime feature Blitz was delayed for two weeks.
McQueen then returned to work without divulging to over two hundred cast and crew the reason for his absence. The director says that he kept his medical operation secret because he didn’t want his health issues to be a distraction to those working on the movie.
Today’s date, November 14, has a special significance for the filmmaker, because it’s two...
Thankfully, the filmmaker is now “fully recovered and fully functional,” he tells Deadline.
The knight of the British realm is making a speech this afternoon to U.K. lawmakers at the House Of Commons to launch a new campaign for charity Prostate Cancer Research.
The surgery meant that the start of filming on his exceptional wartime feature Blitz was delayed for two weeks.
McQueen then returned to work without divulging to over two hundred cast and crew the reason for his absence. The director says that he kept his medical operation secret because he didn’t want his health issues to be a distraction to those working on the movie.
Today’s date, November 14, has a special significance for the filmmaker, because it’s two...
- 11/14/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Ahh November. You know it’s fall in Hollywood because the beaches empty out, the mountains light on fire, and people start to wear fashionable jackets that it’s entirely too warm for. But damn it, if we wish it hard enough, those leaves will change color and it will be perfect pumpkin-spice weather!
It is perfect movie weather though, and we have some hot ones for you this month. We have films from heavy hitters like Steve McQueen and Pablo Larraín, and some exciting sophomore features from the likes of Mati Diop and Jessie Eisenberg. Take a look what this month has to offer below:
Juror No. 2
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Theaters (limited)
Creator/Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collete, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland
Why We’re Excited: Recipient of the 2007 Spirit of Independent Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, director...
It is perfect movie weather though, and we have some hot ones for you this month. We have films from heavy hitters like Steve McQueen and Pablo Larraín, and some exciting sophomore features from the likes of Mati Diop and Jessie Eisenberg. Take a look what this month has to offer below:
Juror No. 2
When You Can Watch: Now
Where You Can Watch: Theaters (limited)
Creator/Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collete, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland
Why We’re Excited: Recipient of the 2007 Spirit of Independent Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival, director...
- 11/13/2024
- by Su Fang Tham
- Film Independent News & More
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for “Blitz,” written and directed by British auteur Steve McQueen, and featuring Saoirse Ronan as Rosie the Riveter by day and devoted mother the rest of the time. In theaters on November 8th, and streaming on Apple TV+ on November 22nd.
Elliot Hefferman is George, being raised by a single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) and his grandfather (Paul Weller). George is bi-racial, and has suffered the slings and arrows associated with that status in Britain circa 1940. When the bombs hit too close to home, Rita sends George away through a British initiative designed to send children to rural areas to protect them. However George escapes from the train on the way there, and ends up embarking on a boy’s war adventure back to his city, home and mother.
”Blitz” is in theaters November 8th, and streaming on November 22nd on Apple TV+. Featuring Saoirse Ronan,...
Elliot Hefferman is George, being raised by a single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) and his grandfather (Paul Weller). George is bi-racial, and has suffered the slings and arrows associated with that status in Britain circa 1940. When the bombs hit too close to home, Rita sends George away through a British initiative designed to send children to rural areas to protect them. However George escapes from the train on the way there, and ends up embarking on a boy’s war adventure back to his city, home and mother.
”Blitz” is in theaters November 8th, and streaming on November 22nd on Apple TV+. Featuring Saoirse Ronan,...
- 11/8/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Blitz starring Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, and Elliot Hefferner, tells the heart-wrenching story of George (Hefferner), a young boy living in England during World War Two. George's mother, Rita (played by Ronan) tries to protect her son from the bombs raining down on London by sending him out of the city. Her defiant son treks back to his home while Rita desperately tries to find him.
Director Steve McQueen presents the horrors of the Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" undertaken by the German air force, the Luftwaffe, with an admirable amount of humanity and intensity. Like many movies about WWII, Blitz highlights the inescapable violence of the conflict, with specific emphasis on the bombing of London. While Blitz takes place over one day and represents the rhythm of daily life during WWII, it is a movie that focuses more on what is going on the ground than the actual aerial attacks.
Director Steve McQueen presents the horrors of the Blitzkrieg or "lightning war" undertaken by the German air force, the Luftwaffe, with an admirable amount of humanity and intensity. Like many movies about WWII, Blitz highlights the inescapable violence of the conflict, with specific emphasis on the bombing of London. While Blitz takes place over one day and represents the rhythm of daily life during WWII, it is a movie that focuses more on what is going on the ground than the actual aerial attacks.
- 11/4/2024
- by Eliss Watkins
- MovieWeb
Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” (Apple TV+) is a tale of two Londons under harrowing German aerial assault during World War II. There’s the communal stiff-upper-lip resilience that defines the Brits and the more personal family drama, which centers on biracial youngster George (Elliott Heffernan), who’s hurled on an incredible “Oliver Twist”-like adventure. After being evacuated out of London on a train with other children for safekeeping, George immediately runs away and perilously heads back home to his munitions worker mom, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), and musical grandfather Gerald Hanway (Paul Weller of The Jam).
The convergence of these two perspectives in “Blitz” becomes the basis of a primal survival story told as social realist fable. It alternates between naturalism and surrealism, yet it’s completely anchored in historical truth. Among the real-life incidents depicted in the film: the East End air-raid shelter run by Mickey (“the Midget”) Davies...
The convergence of these two perspectives in “Blitz” becomes the basis of a primal survival story told as social realist fable. It alternates between naturalism and surrealism, yet it’s completely anchored in historical truth. Among the real-life incidents depicted in the film: the East End air-raid shelter run by Mickey (“the Midget”) Davies...
- 11/4/2024
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
A WWII drama with a buzzy cast might seem like typical generic awards fodder, but in the hands of a brilliant filmmaker like Steve McQueen, it can be so much more. McQueen’s Blitz is a technically masterful and narratively impressive film that uses the formula of its genre to create one of the most harrowingly beautiful movies of the year.
Blitz Review
Blitz follows a mother and son who must fight their way back to each other in WWII London during a terrifying period of air raids in the city. Although there have been plenty of films about trying to stay alive during the war, we less often see one set on the homefront, and in many ways, seeing the horrors of war against a backdrop that is supposed to be comfortable like home makes what we see all the more horrifying.
Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan in “Blitz,...
Blitz Review
Blitz follows a mother and son who must fight their way back to each other in WWII London during a terrifying period of air raids in the city. Although there have been plenty of films about trying to stay alive during the war, we less often see one set on the homefront, and in many ways, seeing the horrors of war against a backdrop that is supposed to be comfortable like home makes what we see all the more horrifying.
Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan in “Blitz,...
- 11/1/2024
- by Sean Boelman
- FandomWire
This review was originally published as a part of our 2024 Middleburg Film Festival coverage.
Writer-director Steve McQueen has become adept at making movies of lost characters trying to find their way back to their families. He did it with 12 Years a Slave and hes doing it with his latest feature, Blitz. The historical drama is set in 1940, during Nazi Germanys blitz against Britain. At times harrowing and traumatic, McQueen never shows the moment the bombings happen. Still, there are close-ups of the weapons the Germans dropped on Londons civilian population that foreshadow exactly what will come next. Blitz is a capably made movie that, with a few exceptions, rings hollow.
Blitz (2024)
Director Steve McQueenRelease Date November 1, 2024Writers Steve McQueenCast Cj Beckford, Mica Ricketts, Leigh Gill, Benjamin Clementine, Paul Weller, Kathy Burke, Elliott Heffernan, Sally Messham, Joshua McGuire, Erin Kellyman, Stephen Graham, Harris Dickinson, Hayley Squires, Alex Jennings, Saoirse RonanCharacter(s) Gerald,...
Writer-director Steve McQueen has become adept at making movies of lost characters trying to find their way back to their families. He did it with 12 Years a Slave and hes doing it with his latest feature, Blitz. The historical drama is set in 1940, during Nazi Germanys blitz against Britain. At times harrowing and traumatic, McQueen never shows the moment the bombings happen. Still, there are close-ups of the weapons the Germans dropped on Londons civilian population that foreshadow exactly what will come next. Blitz is a capably made movie that, with a few exceptions, rings hollow.
Blitz (2024)
Director Steve McQueenRelease Date November 1, 2024Writers Steve McQueenCast Cj Beckford, Mica Ricketts, Leigh Gill, Benjamin Clementine, Paul Weller, Kathy Burke, Elliott Heffernan, Sally Messham, Joshua McGuire, Erin Kellyman, Stephen Graham, Harris Dickinson, Hayley Squires, Alex Jennings, Saoirse RonanCharacter(s) Gerald,...
- 11/1/2024
- by Mae Abdulbaki
- ScreenRant
Saoirse Ronan did not expect her off-handed comment on The Graham Norton Show to go as viral as it did, but she thinks it's "wild" and "amazing" that the moment resonated with women the world over. Ronan addressed the video clip's popularity on social media to Ryan Tubridy during The Ryan Tubridy Show on Virgin Radio UK while promoting her new wartime drama Blitz, as reported on by Rolling Stone.
Ronan appeared on the longstanding British chat show on October 25, alongside Gladiator II actors Denzel Washington and Paul Mescal, as well as The Day of the Jackal star Eddie Redmayne. During the conversation, Redmayne brought up a defensive training trick he learned on the set of the TV thriller using your cell phone as a defense weapon which set the men on stage into silly hysterics upon considering the seeming absurdity of using one's cell phone to protect them from an attacker.
Ronan appeared on the longstanding British chat show on October 25, alongside Gladiator II actors Denzel Washington and Paul Mescal, as well as The Day of the Jackal star Eddie Redmayne. During the conversation, Redmayne brought up a defensive training trick he learned on the set of the TV thriller using your cell phone as a defense weapon which set the men on stage into silly hysterics upon considering the seeming absurdity of using one's cell phone to protect them from an attacker.
- 10/30/2024
- by Alicia Lutes
- MovieWeb
There’s a scene early on in Steve McQueen’s Blitz in which Rita (Saoirse Ronan), a munitions-factory worker with a talent for singing, reluctantly packs off her young, mixed-race son George (Elliott Heffernan) to the countryside to avoid the horrors of continuous bombing. It’s a scenario we have seen a million times before — a tearful train-station goodbye — but McQueen makes it heart-rending. Over its two-hour running time, Blitz pulls off this trick constantly. Seen through McQueen’s vibrant but clear-eyed lens, it takes stock situations from countless creaky black-and-white films and makes them feel raw, real and fresh.
The story starts with the ferocity of D-Day: Saving Private Ryan transported to Stepney Green. In the aftermath of a night-time Luftwaffe bombing sortie, firefighters are struggling to contain a raging blaze (think battling Drogon with a couple of pails of water). At one point, a canvas hose escapes from a fireman’s clutches,...
The story starts with the ferocity of D-Day: Saving Private Ryan transported to Stepney Green. In the aftermath of a night-time Luftwaffe bombing sortie, firefighters are struggling to contain a raging blaze (think battling Drogon with a couple of pails of water). At one point, a canvas hose escapes from a fireman’s clutches,...
- 10/30/2024
- by Ian Freer
- Empire - Movies
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Apple TV+ entered into the streaming game pretty late but because of the quality of their originals, they are quickly becoming everybody’s favorite. After the success of shows like Ted Lasso and Slow Horses, the Apple-owned streaming service is showing no signs of slowing down and releases new brilliant TV shows and movies every month to expand its impressive content library. So, here are the best new movies and shows coming on Apple TV+ in November 2024.
Bad Sisters Season 2 (November 13)
Bad Sisters returns for its much anticipated Season 2 this November on Apple TV+. Created by Sharon Horgan, Dave Finkel, and Brett Baer, the Irish dark comedy-drama series is based on the Flemish TV series by Malin-Sarah Gozin. Season 2 is set two years after the events of Season 1 and it continues the story of the Garvey sisters,...
Apple TV+ entered into the streaming game pretty late but because of the quality of their originals, they are quickly becoming everybody’s favorite. After the success of shows like Ted Lasso and Slow Horses, the Apple-owned streaming service is showing no signs of slowing down and releases new brilliant TV shows and movies every month to expand its impressive content library. So, here are the best new movies and shows coming on Apple TV+ in November 2024.
Bad Sisters Season 2 (November 13)
Bad Sisters returns for its much anticipated Season 2 this November on Apple TV+. Created by Sharon Horgan, Dave Finkel, and Brett Baer, the Irish dark comedy-drama series is based on the Flemish TV series by Malin-Sarah Gozin. Season 2 is set two years after the events of Season 1 and it continues the story of the Garvey sisters,...
- 10/27/2024
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Apple TV+ has announced the programming that will be added to the streaming service next month. The Apple TV Plus November 2024 lineup includes Bad Sisters Season 2, the documentary Bread & Roses, the war drama Blitz, and Silo Season 2.
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.
Silo Season 2 Apple TV Plus November 2024 Schedule
Available November 1
Blitz (PG-13 War Drama Film)
Steve McQueen‘s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
Apple TV+ offers premium, compelling drama and comedy series, feature films, groundbreaking documentaries, and kids and family entertainment. It is available to watch across all of a user’s favorite screens.
Silo Season 2 Apple TV Plus November 2024 Schedule
Available November 1
Blitz (PG-13 War Drama Film)
Steve McQueen‘s “Blitz” follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a nine-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.
- 10/25/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
"Everything about this film feels incredibly authentic. It's a true portrayal of London." Apple TV has just unveiled a behind-the-scenes featurette providing a quick look at Steve McQueen's latest - a WWII drama set in London called Blitz. Taking place during the bombings on London at the start of WWII, following a young boy lost in the city. This premiered at the 2024 London & NYFF Film Festivals and will be opening in November in theaters first before it's later on Apple TV to stream at home. Nice to see McQueen on set in some of this footage. A defiant young boy goes on an adventure running around London during the war only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son. Saoirse Ronan is Rita, with Elliott Heffernan as her 9-year-old son George. The full ensemble cast in this features Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine,...
- 10/24/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Steve McQueen’s film work has never exhibited much of an interest in moral complexity or psychological nuance, usually conveying themes such as the institutionalized horror of chattel slavery (12 Years a Slave) or the principled self-negation of Irish republican resistance (Hunger) in easily understood terms. It makes sense, then, that his latest tale of another dark period in recent history is told primarily from the perspective of a child.
Blitz follows George (Elliott Hefferman), a young boy evacuated from London during the heavy German bombing raids of the city that began in September 1940. Bailing early from a train carrying him and hundreds of other children to the relative safety of rural villages, he hops on another heading back to the city, hoping to return to his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), and grandfather, Gerald (Paul Weller), in their increasingly devastated East End neighborhood.
McQueen’s choice to recreate this particular...
Blitz follows George (Elliott Hefferman), a young boy evacuated from London during the heavy German bombing raids of the city that began in September 1940. Bailing early from a train carrying him and hundreds of other children to the relative safety of rural villages, he hops on another heading back to the city, hoping to return to his mother, Rita (Saoirse Ronan), and grandfather, Gerald (Paul Weller), in their increasingly devastated East End neighborhood.
McQueen’s choice to recreate this particular...
- 10/11/2024
- by David Robb
- Slant Magazine
With his new World War II drama Blitz, uncompromising filmmaker Steve McQueen is once more tackling weighty, vital material. He tells us about his ongoing mission to break new ground…
Here’s what you need to know about Steve McQueen, as a man and as a filmmaker: he will not waste your time. Not with false modesty, nor with empty boasting. Not by suffering fools or flattering royalty. This is sometimes mistaken for brusqueness. It isn’t. It’s a guarantee that when a single shot of a priest conversing with a prisoner lasts 17 minutes and 11 seconds (as in 2008 feature debut Hunger), or when his 2023 Holocaust documentary Occupied City takes four hours and 26 minutes (not including interval), every moment is necessary and accounted for.
It’s this disciplined focus on what McQueen emphatically calls “the work... The W-O-R-K” which has enabled the 54-year-old to frequently...
Here’s what you need to know about Steve McQueen, as a man and as a filmmaker: he will not waste your time. Not with false modesty, nor with empty boasting. Not by suffering fools or flattering royalty. This is sometimes mistaken for brusqueness. It isn’t. It’s a guarantee that when a single shot of a priest conversing with a prisoner lasts 17 minutes and 11 seconds (as in 2008 feature debut Hunger), or when his 2023 Holocaust documentary Occupied City takes four hours and 26 minutes (not including interval), every moment is necessary and accounted for.
It’s this disciplined focus on what McQueen emphatically calls “the work... The W-O-R-K” which has enabled the 54-year-old to frequently...
- 10/10/2024
- by Ellen E Jones
- Empire - Movies
BFI CEO Ben Roberts and Working Title producer Tim Bevan praised the confirmation of the Independent Film Tax Credit (Iftc), at the opening night of the 68th BFI London Film Festival.
“It’s really brilliant news that this morning the government confirmed a game-changing new tax initiative to support British films, which will create so many opportunities for filmmaking and developing talent,” said Roberts in his opening address. “A strong and diverse film culture, including this film festival, needs all the support it can get.”
Roberts also welcomed Lisa Nandy, UK culture secretary under the new Labour government, who attended...
“It’s really brilliant news that this morning the government confirmed a game-changing new tax initiative to support British films, which will create so many opportunities for filmmaking and developing talent,” said Roberts in his opening address. “A strong and diverse film culture, including this film festival, needs all the support it can get.”
Roberts also welcomed Lisa Nandy, UK culture secretary under the new Labour government, who attended...
- 10/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Saoirse Ronan is stepping out for the world premiere of her new movie!
The 30-year-old Oscar-nominated actress joined co-stars Elliott Heffernan and Harris Dickinson at the world premiere of Blitz held during the Opening Night Gala of the 2024 BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday (October 9) at The Royal Festival Hall in London, England.
Fellow cast members in attendance included Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Benjamin Clementine, Erin Kellyman, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, Cj Beckford, Alex Jennings, and Sally Messham.
Director and writer Steve McQueen was also at the premiere along with his wife Bianca Stigter, their daughter Alex, and their son Dexter.
Here’s the synopsis: “Sir Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Weller) in East London,...
The 30-year-old Oscar-nominated actress joined co-stars Elliott Heffernan and Harris Dickinson at the world premiere of Blitz held during the Opening Night Gala of the 2024 BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday (October 9) at The Royal Festival Hall in London, England.
Fellow cast members in attendance included Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Benjamin Clementine, Erin Kellyman, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, Cj Beckford, Alex Jennings, and Sally Messham.
Director and writer Steve McQueen was also at the premiere along with his wife Bianca Stigter, their daughter Alex, and their son Dexter.
Here’s the synopsis: “Sir Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Weller) in East London,...
- 10/10/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson and Steve McQueen have together ushered in the 2024 BFI London Film Festival.
With the world premiere of McQueen’s latest film Blitz opening the fest Wednesday night, fans flocked to the BFI’s Southbank Centre to catch a glimpse of the cast, led by Ronan.
The Academy Award nominee wore a form-fitting white dress with a detailed, silver-buckled belt, and coo-ed over her co-star, 11-year-old Elliott Heffernan, who was shown where and how to pose for the crowd of photographers shouting his name. Stephen Graham, Paul Weller and Benjamin Clementine were among the cast members present.
Shortly before the screening started, McQueen spoke highly of Heffernan and lauded the “stillness” casting directors saw in his tape that landed him the role. “I’m very grateful he exists,” the director said, before Ronan spoke about wanting to make his first film set as welcoming and “fun” as...
With the world premiere of McQueen’s latest film Blitz opening the fest Wednesday night, fans flocked to the BFI’s Southbank Centre to catch a glimpse of the cast, led by Ronan.
The Academy Award nominee wore a form-fitting white dress with a detailed, silver-buckled belt, and coo-ed over her co-star, 11-year-old Elliott Heffernan, who was shown where and how to pose for the crowd of photographers shouting his name. Stephen Graham, Paul Weller and Benjamin Clementine were among the cast members present.
Shortly before the screening started, McQueen spoke highly of Heffernan and lauded the “stillness” casting directors saw in his tape that landed him the role. “I’m very grateful he exists,” the director said, before Ronan spoke about wanting to make his first film set as welcoming and “fun” as...
- 10/9/2024
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Steve McQueen enjoyed the unusual coincidence of celebrating both the world premiere of his latest film and his birthday on Wednesday night.
“Blitz” — McQueen’s WWII drama starring Saoirse Ronan and young newcomer Elliot Heffernan and set during Nazi Germany’s intense bombing campaign of the U.K. between 1940 and 1941 — opened the BFI London Film Festival, the second time McQueen has done so after his 2018 crime thriller “Widows.” As the credits rolled on the emotional mother-son story, the audience gave a round of applause, particularly for Heffernan, while several were seen wiping tears from their eyes.
Speaking on stage at Royal Festival Hall, the filmmaker reflected on the sobering message of the film and gave a shout out to another creative who shares the same birthday.
“I share a birthday with one of the greatest British artists that ever lived, John Lennon,” he said. “And right now I can only think of the song ‘Imagine,...
“Blitz” — McQueen’s WWII drama starring Saoirse Ronan and young newcomer Elliot Heffernan and set during Nazi Germany’s intense bombing campaign of the U.K. between 1940 and 1941 — opened the BFI London Film Festival, the second time McQueen has done so after his 2018 crime thriller “Widows.” As the credits rolled on the emotional mother-son story, the audience gave a round of applause, particularly for Heffernan, while several were seen wiping tears from their eyes.
Speaking on stage at Royal Festival Hall, the filmmaker reflected on the sobering message of the film and gave a shout out to another creative who shares the same birthday.
“I share a birthday with one of the greatest British artists that ever lived, John Lennon,” he said. “And right now I can only think of the song ‘Imagine,...
- 10/9/2024
- by Ellise Shafer and Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Steve McQueen’s Blitz is the opening night film at the 2024 BFI London Film Festival, arriving with sky-high expectations. Written, produced, and directed by the award-winning filmmaker and artist, the World War II drama is set during the German air raids on London, with a cast led by Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Graham (The Irishman) and newcomer Elliott Heffernan. Blitz seeks to explore both personal and collective trauma during the London Blitz, but the end result oscillates between impactful moments and underwhelming narrative execution.
Blitz tells a story of survival, resilience, and the emotional ties between a mother and son amid wartime chaos. The film follows George (played by Heffernan), a young boy who embarks on a dangerous journey through London during the Nazi bombing campaign. Separated from his family and thrust into peril, George’s mother Rita (Ronan) launches a desperate search for her child. Alongside her, we meet characters...
Blitz tells a story of survival, resilience, and the emotional ties between a mother and son amid wartime chaos. The film follows George (played by Heffernan), a young boy who embarks on a dangerous journey through London during the Nazi bombing campaign. Separated from his family and thrust into peril, George’s mother Rita (Ronan) launches a desperate search for her child. Alongside her, we meet characters...
- 10/9/2024
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
London film festival
The director unexpectedly channels The Railway Children as Saoirse Ronan stars as the single mother whose son is evacuated, only to run away in a perilous bid to find her
Steve McQueen finds the key of C major for this well made and unashamedly old-fashioned wartime adventure, heartfelt and rousing and – yes – a bit trad overall, sometimes even channelling the spirit of Lionel Jeffries’s The Railway Children, although for me that’s no put-down.
This is a film about the blitz of 1940 which tries to restate the accepted imagery, the dramatic stock footage and familiar ideas but also absorb revisionist approaches – themselves increasingly accepted nowadays: it evokes the way that the British wartime authorities reverently invoked the loyalty of empire and Commonwealth but maintained a casually racist attitude to actual people of colour.
The cheerful obedience of the London East End working class was sentimentally taken...
The director unexpectedly channels The Railway Children as Saoirse Ronan stars as the single mother whose son is evacuated, only to run away in a perilous bid to find her
Steve McQueen finds the key of C major for this well made and unashamedly old-fashioned wartime adventure, heartfelt and rousing and – yes – a bit trad overall, sometimes even channelling the spirit of Lionel Jeffries’s The Railway Children, although for me that’s no put-down.
This is a film about the blitz of 1940 which tries to restate the accepted imagery, the dramatic stock footage and familiar ideas but also absorb revisionist approaches – themselves increasingly accepted nowadays: it evokes the way that the British wartime authorities reverently invoked the loyalty of empire and Commonwealth but maintained a casually racist attitude to actual people of colour.
The cheerful obedience of the London East End working class was sentimentally taken...
- 10/9/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Steve McQueen is back in the director’s chair for an alternately compelling and cliché-peppered WWII drama. Here’s our Blitz review.
It’s worth mentioning now that this isn’t 2011 “cop-killer versus killer-cop” Jason Statham vehicle of the same name, because these two films could hardly be more different. If video rentals were still around, we’d be seeing a lot of very confused fans from both camps.
Parts of Blitz (2024), though, are just as thrilling as watching the Stath run around after a London-based serial killer, if you can imagine such a thing. Using a conflicted mother (Saoirse Ronan)’s hunt for her runaway eight-year-old as a setup, McQueen’s latest is something of an anthology film disguised as a conventional A-to-b drama. On his travels, young George (Elliott Heffernan) encounters folk from across the capital’s social strata, from a kindly air raid warden (Benjamin Clementine) to...
It’s worth mentioning now that this isn’t 2011 “cop-killer versus killer-cop” Jason Statham vehicle of the same name, because these two films could hardly be more different. If video rentals were still around, we’d be seeing a lot of very confused fans from both camps.
Parts of Blitz (2024), though, are just as thrilling as watching the Stath run around after a London-based serial killer, if you can imagine such a thing. Using a conflicted mother (Saoirse Ronan)’s hunt for her runaway eight-year-old as a setup, McQueen’s latest is something of an anthology film disguised as a conventional A-to-b drama. On his travels, young George (Elliott Heffernan) encounters folk from across the capital’s social strata, from a kindly air raid warden (Benjamin Clementine) to...
- 10/9/2024
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
After exploring the ramifications of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam in his 4 1/2-hour 2023 documentary Occupied City, director-writer Steve McQueen returns to the era for his latest narrative feature Blitz, which takes us to the German Blitzkrieg of London as seen through the innocent eyes of a young boy who must survive it. The movie was the opening-night attraction of the London Film Festival, and will also be making its North American premiere later this month at the New York Film Festival. It begins a three-week theatrical window November 1 ahead of its streaming debut on Apple TV+ November 22.
Movies have centered on this dark period in British history before, and notably a Best Picture Oscar-nominated film, Hope And Glory in 1987, detailed it in a lighter fashion (if there could be one) with director John Boorman’s own semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story as a 9-year-old experiencing the Blitz.
McQueen researched the period heavily...
Movies have centered on this dark period in British history before, and notably a Best Picture Oscar-nominated film, Hope And Glory in 1987, detailed it in a lighter fashion (if there could be one) with director John Boorman’s own semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story as a 9-year-old experiencing the Blitz.
McQueen researched the period heavily...
- 10/9/2024
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Steve McQueen said he prefers a collaborative style of filmmaking, saying that “being a director is not about being an arsehole”.
“Once you have a situation where everyone’s together – I’ll take a good idea from anybody,” said UK filmmaker McQueen, at a Screen Talk ahead of the world premiere of his new film Blitz, opening the 68th BFI London Film Festival this evening.
“A director is not about being an arsehole. A director is about listening and feeling and smelling and tasting…There are too many arseholes, trust me,” said the director, who did not name names.
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“Once you have a situation where everyone’s together – I’ll take a good idea from anybody,” said UK filmmaker McQueen, at a Screen Talk ahead of the world premiere of his new film Blitz, opening the 68th BFI London Film Festival this evening.
“A director is not about being an arsehole. A director is about listening and feeling and smelling and tasting…There are too many arseholes, trust me,” said the director, who did not name names.
This...
- 10/9/2024
- ScreenDaily
Oscar- and BAFTA Award-winning British writer and director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, Hunger, Shame, Small Axe, Uprising, Occupied City) got a huge applause in honor of his birthday on Wednesday during a BFI London Film Festival event.
He spoke during a “Screen Talk” Wednesday afternoon and press conference ahead of the world premiere of his new movie Blitz — starring Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Graham, Elliot Heffernan and Benjamin Clementine — which is the opening film of the 68th edition of the London fest (Lff).
The movie, McQueen’s third Lff opening film, follows 9-year-old George (Heffernan) in wartime London after his mother Rita (Ronan) sends him as an evacuee to safety in the English countryside. Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son.
He spoke during a “Screen Talk” Wednesday afternoon and press conference ahead of the world premiere of his new movie Blitz — starring Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Graham, Elliot Heffernan and Benjamin Clementine — which is the opening film of the 68th edition of the London fest (Lff).
The movie, McQueen’s third Lff opening film, follows 9-year-old George (Heffernan) in wartime London after his mother Rita (Ronan) sends him as an evacuee to safety in the English countryside. Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son.
- 10/9/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Saoirse Ronan, young co-star Elliot Heffernan, Stephen Graham, and Benjamin Clementine, the stars of Steve McQueen’s new film Blitz, along with the writer and director, met the press in London Wednesday mid-day for a press conference ahead of the drama’s evening world premiere that will open the 68th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff).
The movie follows 9-year-old George (Heffernan) in wartime London after his mother Rita (Ronan) sends him as an evacuee to safety in the English countryside. Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son.
What was it like to play a woman in war? “I’m sure [it was] incredibly trying for these young women” who stepped into jobs and roles previously filled by men who had to go to war,...
The movie follows 9-year-old George (Heffernan) in wartime London after his mother Rita (Ronan) sends him as an evacuee to safety in the English countryside. Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son.
What was it like to play a woman in war? “I’m sure [it was] incredibly trying for these young women” who stepped into jobs and roles previously filled by men who had to go to war,...
- 10/9/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Saoirse Ronan discussed the relevance of Steve McQueen’s WWII drama “Blitz” amid escalating global conflict during a BFI London Film Festival press conference, saying that it was her first time not being able to “escape” from a project.
“The thing that made this so real as a filming experience is that you’d shoot certain scenes where there’s total chaos and pandemonium and we’re having to portray characters in abject fear and horror, and then you would leave set and you’d turn on the radio and you’d hear exactly the same thing, and you’d put on the news and you’d see exactly the same thing,” she said. “It was the first time I’d ever had an experience on a project where there wasn’t really an escape from it.”
Ronan stars in the historical drama as Rita, a distraught mother who frantically...
“The thing that made this so real as a filming experience is that you’d shoot certain scenes where there’s total chaos and pandemonium and we’re having to portray characters in abject fear and horror, and then you would leave set and you’d turn on the radio and you’d hear exactly the same thing, and you’d put on the news and you’d see exactly the same thing,” she said. “It was the first time I’d ever had an experience on a project where there wasn’t really an escape from it.”
Ronan stars in the historical drama as Rita, a distraught mother who frantically...
- 10/9/2024
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Steve McQueen is set to open the BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday night with a world premiere — and it’s not his first time doing so. But his new film “Blitz” is very different from crime thriller “Widows,” which lifted the curtain back in 2018.
“Blitz” is set in WWII London as it came under devastating nightly attacks from German bomber planes, with a population that was forced to seek shelter underground not knowing what would be left of the city they returned to each morning. Taking place over just a few days, the visceral drama follows a 9-year-old boy — played by newcomer Elliot Heffernan — sent off to safety in the countryside but determined to return home to find his mother (Saoirse Ronan), who likewise is desperately searching for her missing son amid the chaos and carnage.
For the Oscar-winning and two-time BAFTA-winning McQueen, the idea of “Blitz” first began...
“Blitz” is set in WWII London as it came under devastating nightly attacks from German bomber planes, with a population that was forced to seek shelter underground not knowing what would be left of the city they returned to each morning. Taking place over just a few days, the visceral drama follows a 9-year-old boy — played by newcomer Elliot Heffernan — sent off to safety in the countryside but determined to return home to find his mother (Saoirse Ronan), who likewise is desperately searching for her missing son amid the chaos and carnage.
For the Oscar-winning and two-time BAFTA-winning McQueen, the idea of “Blitz” first began...
- 10/8/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Pedro Almodóvar (holding up a copy of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through) with Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro at The Room Next Door press conference
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Pedro Almodóvar is the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award. Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through and Golden Lion winner at the Venice International Film Festival), starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton with John Turturro, Alex Høgh Andersen, and Alessandro Nivola, was the Centerpiece Gala selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival.
Pedro Almodóvar on Alice Tully Hall in The Room Next Door: “It was perfect to say we are in the heart of New York.” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze
RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater,...
Film at Lincoln Center has announced that Pedro Almodóvar is the recipient of the 50th Chaplin Award. Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through and Golden Lion winner at the Venice International Film Festival), starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton with John Turturro, Alex Høgh Andersen, and Alessandro Nivola, was the Centerpiece Gala selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival.
Pedro Almodóvar on Alice Tully Hall in The Room Next Door: “It was perfect to say we are in the heart of New York.” Photo: Anne Katrin Titze
RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Nickel Boys, starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater,...
- 10/7/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The trailer for Saoirse Ronan‘s new movie has been released!
The 30-year-old Oscar-nominated actress star in Apple’s upcoming World War II drama Blitz, written and directed by Oscar and BAFTA winner Steve McQueen.
Here’s the synopsis: “Sir Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.”
Keep reading to find out more…The movie also stars Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, Cj Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham.
If you missed it,...
The 30-year-old Oscar-nominated actress star in Apple’s upcoming World War II drama Blitz, written and directed by Oscar and BAFTA winner Steve McQueen.
Here’s the synopsis: “Sir Steve McQueen’s Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and his grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, embarks on an adventure, only to find himself in immense peril, while a distraught Rita searches for her missing son.”
Keep reading to find out more…The movie also stars Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clementine, Kathy Burke, Paul Weller, Stephen Graham, Leigh Gill, Mica Ricketts, Cj Beckford, Alex Jennings, Joshua McGuire, Hayley Squires, Erin Kellyman, and Sally Messham.
If you missed it,...
- 9/21/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
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