The Gold is returning for a second season on BBC. The first season was a partnership between BBC and Paramount+, but Deadline reports that the streaming service is not involved with season two. Production on the new episodes will begin in January.
Starring Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia, Stefanie Martini, Daniel Ings, and Adam Nagaitis, the series follows the events surrounding an actual 1983 bank heist where the robbers find £26m inside the vault. That discovery led to a chain of events that lasted decades.
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Starring Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia, Stefanie Martini, Daniel Ings, and Adam Nagaitis, the series follows the events surrounding an actual 1983 bank heist where the robbers find £26m inside the vault. That discovery led to a chain of events that lasted decades.
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- 11/30/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
After launching When You Finish Saving the World at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival edition (sans Park City premiere due to the pandemic of course) it would be fitting for Jesse Eisenberg to have that Sundance experience at a place like the Eccles for his sophomore directorial gig. Plus this is an acquisitions title. Filmed in New York and in Warsaw, Poland at the beginning of this past summer, A Real Pain saw Eisenberg move in front of the camera to be joined by Kieran Culkin and Ellora Torchia in what is tipped as a semi-autobiographical project.…...
- 11/6/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Four years ago, it was announced that Ben Wheatley would be writing, directing, and executive producing Generation Z, a “hilarious, frightening, and political” series that would consist of six hour-long episodes that would “mix flesh-eating zombies into a story that satirizes how Brexit has divided the UK.” That project didn’t make it into production when it was originally supposed to because of the pandemic shutdown… but after making his latest film Meg 2: The Trench (you can read our review at This Link and check out our interview with the filmmaker Here), Wheatley has circled back around to Generation Z and is now knee-deep into filming it! To celebrate the fact that Generation Z is finally being made, Channel 4 has unveiled a batch of first look images, and you can check those out at the bottom of this article.
The show is described as “a coming-of-age parable for...
The show is described as “a coming-of-age parable for...
- 10/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The new live-action BBC-produced TV miniseries “The Gold”, created and written by Neil Forsyth, stars Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia and Stefanie Martini, now streaming on Paramount+:
“..inspired by real-life events November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the ‘Brink's-Mat’ security depot near London's ‘Heathrow Airport’ and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth tens of millions of dollars.
“What started as'a typical ‘Old Kent Road’ armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in world history - but for its wider legacy.
“The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the ‘London Docklands’ property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left...
“..inspired by real-life events November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the ‘Brink's-Mat’ security depot near London's ‘Heathrow Airport’ and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth tens of millions of dollars.
“What started as'a typical ‘Old Kent Road’ armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in world history - but for its wider legacy.
“The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the ‘London Docklands’ property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left...
- 9/18/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
“The Great” Canceled at Hulu
The reign of “The Great” is over at Hulu. The streamer has officially canceled the series after three seasons, coming as a shock for the fan-favorite alternate history satire.
Watch the “The Great” Season 3 trailer below:
Created by Tony McNamara, “The Great” reimagined the life of Catherine the Great, Russia’s reigning empress from 1762 to 1796. The third season premiered on May 12 and revolved around Catherine (played by Elle Fanning) and her husband Peter III (Nicholas Hoult) working on their marriage.
There’s no word yet if “The Great” will be shopped at other networks and streamers.
30-Day Free Trial $7.99+ / month hulu.com “Our Flag Means Death” Gets Official Season 2 Premiere Date
A week after HBO announced its hit comedy series “Our Flag Means Death” would return to Max in October, the rom-com has been given an official premiere date.
Season 2 of the Taikia Waititi and...
The reign of “The Great” is over at Hulu. The streamer has officially canceled the series after three seasons, coming as a shock for the fan-favorite alternate history satire.
Watch the “The Great” Season 3 trailer below:
Created by Tony McNamara, “The Great” reimagined the life of Catherine the Great, Russia’s reigning empress from 1762 to 1796. The third season premiered on May 12 and revolved around Catherine (played by Elle Fanning) and her husband Peter III (Nicholas Hoult) working on their marriage.
There’s no word yet if “The Great” will be shopped at other networks and streamers.
30-Day Free Trial $7.99+ / month hulu.com “Our Flag Means Death” Gets Official Season 2 Premiere Date
A week after HBO announced its hit comedy series “Our Flag Means Death” would return to Max in October, the rom-com has been given an official premiere date.
Season 2 of the Taikia Waititi and...
- 9/1/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
The Gold is headed to Paramount+. The streaming service is set to release the British heist drama, which has already aired on BBC in the UK. Six episodes were produced for this series, which Neil Forsyth created.
Starring Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia, Stefanie Martini, Daniel Ings, and Adam Nagaitis, the series follows the real-life events surrounding a November 1983 bank heist where the robbers find £26m when they get inside the vault.
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Starring Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia, Stefanie Martini, Daniel Ings, and Adam Nagaitis, the series follows the real-life events surrounding a November 1983 bank heist where the robbers find £26m when they get inside the vault.
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- 8/30/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The new live-action BBC-produced TV miniseries “The Gold”, created and written by Neil Forsyth, stars Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia and Stefanie Martini, streaming September 14, 2023 on Paramount+:
“..inspired by real-life events November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the ‘Brink's-Mat’ security depot near London's ‘Heathrow Airport’ and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth tens of millions of dollars.
“What started as'a typical ‘Old Kent Road’ armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in world history - but for its wider legacy.
“The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the ‘London Docklands’ property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left...
“..inspired by real-life events November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the ‘Brink's-Mat’ security depot near London's ‘Heathrow Airport’ and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth tens of millions of dollars.
“What started as'a typical ‘Old Kent Road’ armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in world history - but for its wider legacy.
“The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the ‘London Docklands’ property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left...
- 8/29/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Scottish author, journalist, and television writer Neil Forsyth created the British television drama series ‘The Gold’ which serves as a dramatization of incidents involving the Brink’s-Mat robbery of 1983.
The plot features a robbery that happened in the Heathrow International Trading Estate of London in which twenty-six million worth of diamonds, gold bullion, and cash was robbed resulting in widespread events covering the following decade.
Various international criminal investigations ensued after the robbery. It became the biggest one in history at that time.
The Gold Paramount+ Release Date! Collider
The Gold was first commissioned in August of 2021 by the BBC. Principal photography of the film began in April of the next year with the names of a number of cast members announced at that time.
Lawrence Gough and Aneil Karia were also announced as directors for the series. The first episode was previewed on 17th January 2023 at the BFI Southbank.
The plot features a robbery that happened in the Heathrow International Trading Estate of London in which twenty-six million worth of diamonds, gold bullion, and cash was robbed resulting in widespread events covering the following decade.
Various international criminal investigations ensued after the robbery. It became the biggest one in history at that time.
The Gold Paramount+ Release Date! Collider
The Gold was first commissioned in August of 2021 by the BBC. Principal photography of the film began in April of the next year with the names of a number of cast members announced at that time.
Lawrence Gough and Aneil Karia were also announced as directors for the series. The first episode was previewed on 17th January 2023 at the BFI Southbank.
- 8/25/2023
- by Suvechchha Saha
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
The new live-action BBC-produced TV miniseries “The Gold”, created and written by Neil Forsyth, stars Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Tom Cullen, Emun Elliott, Sean Harris, Ellora Torchia and Stefanie Martini, streaming September 17, 2023:
“..inspired by real-life events November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the ‘Brink's-Mat’ security depot near London's ‘Heathrow Airport’ and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth tens of millions of dollars.
“What started as'a typical ‘Old Kent Road’ armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in world history - but for its wider legacy.
“The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the ‘London Docklands’ property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left controversy and murder in its wake…...
“..inspired by real-life events November 26, 1983, six armed men broke into the ‘Brink's-Mat’ security depot near London's ‘Heathrow Airport’ and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth tens of millions of dollars.
“What started as'a typical ‘Old Kent Road’ armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft - at the time the biggest in world history - but for its wider legacy.
“The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the ‘London Docklands’ property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left controversy and murder in its wake…...
- 8/7/2023
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
A ten minute monologue short where a young woman’s innermost thoughts are laid bare totally captivates in Mat Sheldon’s The Electricity in Me. The story being told is that of a young woman who upon discovering she is pregnant by her professor, a man she refers to as “my monster”, finds herself in the UK where she makes the decision to give her newborn son up for adoption. The film’s visceral stream of consciousness comes directly from the diaries and letters of Writer/Director Sheldon’s birth mother, Joan Stockdale, whose thoughts and feelings he has crafted into an emotionally captivating film about a woman he never knew directly but whose creativity, refusal to conform and loyalty are clearly apparent. The Electricity in Me is a film also driven by a superb performance from award-winning actor Ellora Torchia whose embodiment of the role devastatingly shines through the screen.
- 9/5/2022
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
Lena Dunham is back. Sharp Stick — the writer/director/actor’s follow to HBO series Girls and her first film since Tiny Furniture (2010) – opens in LA at Landmark’s renovated single-screen NuArt Theatre and at the Quad Cinema in NYC. It expands to 40 to 50 screens next weekend, heading to about 100 thereafter – a mix of AMC, Alamo, Laemmle and Harkins circuits and top U.S. arthouses.
Presales have been strong, said Utopia’s marketing and distribution VP Kyle Greenberg. A handful of showings with Dunham Q&As are sold out, natch. The film, which Utopia acquired out of Sundance, releases on PVOD August 16. Deadline review here.
Dunham writes directs, produces and stars with Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Luka Sabbat, Scott Speedman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Taylour Paige and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Sarah Jo (Froseth) is a sensitive and naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her disillusioned mother (Leigh) and influencer...
Presales have been strong, said Utopia’s marketing and distribution VP Kyle Greenberg. A handful of showings with Dunham Q&As are sold out, natch. The film, which Utopia acquired out of Sundance, releases on PVOD August 16. Deadline review here.
Dunham writes directs, produces and stars with Kristine Froseth, Jon Bernthal, Luka Sabbat, Scott Speedman, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Taylour Paige and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Sarah Jo (Froseth) is a sensitive and naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her disillusioned mother (Leigh) and influencer...
- 7/29/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The vicarage has a new occupant as Season 7 of the Masterpiece Mystery! series Grantchester opens in summer 1959. Police inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) is cohabiting with his crime-solving best friend, Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), while trying to win back estranged wife Cathy (Kacey Ainsworth). “He thinks she’s just going to come back,” Green says, “but the more time he spends away from her, the more detached they become.” (Credit: Courtesy of (C) Kudos Film and TV Ltd) In between cases, Reverend Will’s love life gets steamy, and complicated. He falls for Maya (Ellora Torchia), a gal he encounters at a jazz club, but there’s another contender in town: Cathy’s spirited niece Bonnie (Call the Midwife’s Charlotte Ritchie), a young widow with an adorable son (Isaac Highams). One of the ladies calls Will an “incredibly entitled ass.” “Will is a little bit restless and is kind...
- 7/8/2022
- TV Insider
Ali & Ava Trailer — Clio Barnard‘s Ali & Ava (2021) movie trailer has been released by Greenwich Entertainment. The Ali & Ava trailer stars Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook, Ellora Torchia, Shaun Thomas, Natalie Gavin, Krupa Pattani, and Tasha Connor. Crew Clio Barnard wrote the screenplay for Ali & Ava. Harry Escott created the music for [...]
Continue reading: Ali & Ava (2021) Movie Trailer: Sparks Fly Between Ali and Ava in Clio Barnard’s Romance Film...
Continue reading: Ali & Ava (2021) Movie Trailer: Sparks Fly Between Ali and Ava in Clio Barnard’s Romance Film...
- 5/30/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Exclusive: The BBC and Paramount+ have set cast for new drama, The Gold, which quietly began filming this month in London, we can reveal.
Starring will be Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jack Lowden (Small Axe: Mangrove), Dominic Cooper (The Preacher), Charlotte Spencer (Cinderella), Tom Cullen (Black Mirror), Emun Elliot (Old), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible), Ellora Torchia (Midsommar) and Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom).
Inspired by the true story of the UK’s iconic Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed, The Gold dramatizes the country’s ‘crime of the Century’ across six episodes for BBC One and Paramount+ internationally.
Written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt), we can also reveal that the project will be directed by recent Oscar winner Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye) along with Lawrence Gough (Misfits).
Set on the 26th November 1983, the series will chart how six armed men broke into the Brink’s-...
Starring will be Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jack Lowden (Small Axe: Mangrove), Dominic Cooper (The Preacher), Charlotte Spencer (Cinderella), Tom Cullen (Black Mirror), Emun Elliot (Old), Sean Harris (Mission: Impossible), Ellora Torchia (Midsommar) and Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom).
Inspired by the true story of the UK’s iconic Brink’s-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed, The Gold dramatizes the country’s ‘crime of the Century’ across six episodes for BBC One and Paramount+ internationally.
Written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt), we can also reveal that the project will be directed by recent Oscar winner Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye) along with Lawrence Gough (Misfits).
Set on the 26th November 1983, the series will chart how six armed men broke into the Brink’s-...
- 4/13/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Enveloped in music, humour and emotion, Ali & Ava, is a heartfelt contemporary love story written and directed by Clio Barnard. Starring Adeel Akhtar, Claire Rushbrook, Shaun Thomas, and Ellora Torchia, Ali & Ava is set and was filmed in Bradford.
Playing in UK cinemas now, Ali & Ava, has been shortlisted for BAFTA Awards in two categories: Outstanding British Film and Best Actor (Adeel Akhtar).
Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.
Check out the trailer:
Plus as a bonus we have...
Playing in UK cinemas now, Ali & Ava, has been shortlisted for BAFTA Awards in two categories: Outstanding British Film and Best Actor (Adeel Akhtar).
Sparks fly after Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia, the child of Ali’s tenants whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava’s warmth and kindness while Ava finds Ali’s complexity and humour irresistible. As the pair begin to form a deep connection they have to find a way to keep their newfound passion from being overshadowed by the stresses and struggles of their separate lives and histories.
Check out the trailer:
Plus as a bonus we have...
- 3/6/2022
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Leading actors from It’s a Sin, Sex Education and Ben Wheatley horror In the Earth have been named on BAFTA’s latest Breakthrough cohort, supported by Netflix.
A jury comprised of the likes of Jerk creator Tim Renkow and Virtues star Niamh Algar unveiled the 36 young hopefuls from the UK and U.S. this afternoon, including It’s a Sin’s Lydia West, who played Jill Baxter in Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 miniseries; Sex Education’s George Robinson, who plays Isaac in the Netflix series,;and In the Earth’s Ellora Torchia.
The list mainly features off-screen talent and is majority British, including Censor director Prano Bailey-Bond and We Are Lady Parts casting director Aisha Bywaters. Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia writer Sarah Lampert is one of the U.S. winners for the initiative, which is supported by the SVoD.
Winners will receive one-to-one industry meetings and group roundtable sessions, access...
A jury comprised of the likes of Jerk creator Tim Renkow and Virtues star Niamh Algar unveiled the 36 young hopefuls from the UK and U.S. this afternoon, including It’s a Sin’s Lydia West, who played Jill Baxter in Russell T Davies’ Channel 4 miniseries; Sex Education’s George Robinson, who plays Isaac in the Netflix series,;and In the Earth’s Ellora Torchia.
The list mainly features off-screen talent and is majority British, including Censor director Prano Bailey-Bond and We Are Lady Parts casting director Aisha Bywaters. Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia writer Sarah Lampert is one of the U.S. winners for the initiative, which is supported by the SVoD.
Winners will receive one-to-one industry meetings and group roundtable sessions, access...
- 12/8/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s our favourite night of the year! The 2021 BIFA awards took place this evening at Old Billingsgate in London. Hosted by People Just Do Nothing’s Asim Chaudhry, those attending include Emma Corrin, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Joe Cole, Lucy Boynton, Jude Law, Harris Dickinson, Paapa Essiedu, Caitriona Balfe, Morfydd Clark, Riz Ahmed, Wumni Mosaku, Ruth Wilson, Stephen Graham and James Norton.
The 24th British Independent Film Awards saw Joanna Scanlan’s After Love take home a handful of awards, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava also did well – and there’s something wonderful in championing the very best in British Independent film – so, hey – we’re all winners here.*
David Sztypuljak and Scott Davis were our men at the event, asking questions.
You can see our interviews below, as well as a full list of tonight’s winners and nominees.
*Actual winners are below.
The 2021 BIFA Red Carpet Interviews
The...
The 24th British Independent Film Awards saw Joanna Scanlan’s After Love take home a handful of awards, Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava also did well – and there’s something wonderful in championing the very best in British Independent film – so, hey – we’re all winners here.*
David Sztypuljak and Scott Davis were our men at the event, asking questions.
You can see our interviews below, as well as a full list of tonight’s winners and nominees.
*Actual winners are below.
The 2021 BIFA Red Carpet Interviews
The...
- 12/6/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
’After Love’ wins best British independent film, plus actress and director prizes.
Aleem Khan’s feature directing debut After Love won six awards at this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which took place tonight (December 5) in London.
Scroll down for full lst of winners
After Love won best British independent film, with Khan taking home three prizes: best director, best debut director and best screenplay. Khan was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2015 and his 2014 short Three Brothers received a Bafta nomination.
The film stars Joanna Scanlan, who also won best actress, as a Muslim woman who...
Aleem Khan’s feature directing debut After Love won six awards at this year’s British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), which took place tonight (December 5) in London.
Scroll down for full lst of winners
After Love won best British independent film, with Khan taking home three prizes: best director, best debut director and best screenplay. Khan was named a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2015 and his 2014 short Three Brothers received a Bafta nomination.
The film stars Joanna Scanlan, who also won best actress, as a Muslim woman who...
- 12/5/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast” and Philip Barantini’s “Boiling Point” lead nominations at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), with 11 nods each.
Nominations for “Belfast,” Branagh’s autobiographical tale of life as a young boy in Belfast in 1969 in the midst of the Troubles, include best actress for Caitríona Balfe, best supporting actress for Judi Dench, best supporting actor for Ciarán Hinds and a breakthrough performance nomination for newcomer Jude Hill in addition to seven craft nominations.
Nominations for single take film “Boiling Point,” which follows an up-and-coming chef under extreme pressure, include best actor for Stephen Graham, best supporting actor for Ray Panthaki, best supporting actress for Vinette Robinson and a breakthrough performance nomination for Lauryn Ajufo.
Aleem Khan’s “After Love,” Prano Bailey-Bond’s “Censor” and Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II” have nine nominations each, while Clio Barnard’s “Ali & Ava” has seven nominations, Sean Durkin...
Nominations for “Belfast,” Branagh’s autobiographical tale of life as a young boy in Belfast in 1969 in the midst of the Troubles, include best actress for Caitríona Balfe, best supporting actress for Judi Dench, best supporting actor for Ciarán Hinds and a breakthrough performance nomination for newcomer Jude Hill in addition to seven craft nominations.
Nominations for single take film “Boiling Point,” which follows an up-and-coming chef under extreme pressure, include best actor for Stephen Graham, best supporting actor for Ray Panthaki, best supporting actress for Vinette Robinson and a breakthrough performance nomination for Lauryn Ajufo.
Aleem Khan’s “After Love,” Prano Bailey-Bond’s “Censor” and Joanna Hogg’s “The Souvenir Part II” have nine nominations each, while Clio Barnard’s “Ali & Ava” has seven nominations, Sean Durkin...
- 11/3/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Maybe she was kidding, but director Clio Barnard recently described “Ali & Ava” as her shot at making a “social-realist musical.” The phrase, which slipped out during an interview from the BFI London Film Festival, struck me as some kind of oxymoron at first: How could a rugged, true-to-life depiction of a struggling working-class English couple possibly coexist with that most surreal of cinematic genres? But in light of the end result, Barnard’s ambition makes perfect sense. The film’s two title characters don’t burst into song out of the blue but rather, listen to music as an escape from their everyday stresses. It’s the force that brings them together.
Embodied with equal parts weariness and good cheer by British Bengali actor Kamal Kaan (“Four Lions”), Ali is a Yorkshire-based ex-radio DJ who gravitates to dance and electronic music. An Irish transplant to the region, Ava (Claire Rushbrook...
Embodied with equal parts weariness and good cheer by British Bengali actor Kamal Kaan (“Four Lions”), Ali is a Yorkshire-based ex-radio DJ who gravitates to dance and electronic music. An Irish transplant to the region, Ava (Claire Rushbrook...
- 10/28/2021
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Variety Director to Watch Prano Bailey-Bond (“Censor”) and BAFTA-nominated “After Love” filmmaker Aleem Khan are among the 39 filmmakers longlisted in the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) new talent categories.
The 39 longlisted filmmakers will be invited to join BIFA’s Springboard scheme, a tailored program of professional development, peer-to-peer support, mentoring, networking and skills enhancement aimed to nurture emerging talent as they build on the success of their first features.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced on Nov. 3. Winners will be revealed at the ceremony on Dec. 5.
The longlists:
The Douglas Hickox Award
(Best Debut Director)
Aleem Khan – “After Love”
Matt Chambers – “The Bike Thief”
Prano Bailey-Bond – “Censor”
Jonathan Butterell – “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”
Sonita Gale – “Hostile”
Jack Clough – “People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan”
Reggie Yates – “Pirates”
Celeste Bell “Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché” [also Directed By Paul Sng]
Corinna Faith – “The Power”
Charlotte Colbert – “She Will...
The 39 longlisted filmmakers will be invited to join BIFA’s Springboard scheme, a tailored program of professional development, peer-to-peer support, mentoring, networking and skills enhancement aimed to nurture emerging talent as they build on the success of their first features.
The final five nominations in each category will be announced on Nov. 3. Winners will be revealed at the ceremony on Dec. 5.
The longlists:
The Douglas Hickox Award
(Best Debut Director)
Aleem Khan – “After Love”
Matt Chambers – “The Bike Thief”
Prano Bailey-Bond – “Censor”
Jonathan Butterell – “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie”
Sonita Gale – “Hostile”
Jack Clough – “People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan”
Reggie Yates – “Pirates”
Celeste Bell “Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché” [also Directed By Paul Sng]
Corinna Faith – “The Power”
Charlotte Colbert – “She Will...
- 10/20/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Clio Barnard took inspiration from two people she met while filming previous films for Ali & Ava, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
“I knew I wanted it to be a love story,” Bernard said to Anna Smith at Deadline’s Contender’s Event: London. She also described the idea behind the film as a “bio-fiction.”
Joining Bernard on the stage were the film’s stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook.
“It all felt very organic and very easy and slow moving,” said Akhtar, “to the point where when we were on set, and I was actually being Ali, I think it was the most free I’ve ever felt.”
“It’s clear from reading the script that it was a very tender, warm, and funny love story” said Rushbrook. “Just being free with no preconceptions… I don’t feel like I came with much prepared, just a keenness to being open.
“I knew I wanted it to be a love story,” Bernard said to Anna Smith at Deadline’s Contender’s Event: London. She also described the idea behind the film as a “bio-fiction.”
Joining Bernard on the stage were the film’s stars Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook.
“It all felt very organic and very easy and slow moving,” said Akhtar, “to the point where when we were on set, and I was actually being Ali, I think it was the most free I’ve ever felt.”
“It’s clear from reading the script that it was a very tender, warm, and funny love story” said Rushbrook. “Just being free with no preconceptions… I don’t feel like I came with much prepared, just a keenness to being open.
- 10/9/2021
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
The cross-cultural romance film has seen many iterations, so the fact that filmmaker Clio Barnard has added an elegantly crafted and utterly enjoyable new entry into the oversaturated genre is as delightful a surprise as the film itself. Set in Barnard’s West Yorkshire, “Ali & Ava” charts the tender friendship and gradual romance that develops between two lonely souls from different worlds who share a love of music and a mischievous twinkle in their eyes. Energized by the engrossing charisma of leads Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook, “Ali & Ava” is
Reeling from a recent separation from his wife following a miscarriage, the exuberant Ali (Akhtar) spends his days visiting tenants and listening to music. When he picks up his tenant’s daughter from school, he offers her teacher a ride home in the rain. He’s charming and persistent, and Ava (Rushbrook) has no choice but to accept...
Reeling from a recent separation from his wife following a miscarriage, the exuberant Ali (Akhtar) spends his days visiting tenants and listening to music. When he picks up his tenant’s daughter from school, he offers her teacher a ride home in the rain. He’s charming and persistent, and Ava (Rushbrook) has no choice but to accept...
- 9/15/2021
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Their differences are plenty. Her heritage is Irish; his is Pakistani. She lives in a part of Britain where he knows to worry about getting stones thrown at him; he lives amongst a diaspora of immigrants from Europe and Asia. She has four kids and five grandkids; he has a wife with whom he’s separated yet still unable to admit it to his family, for they wouldn’t approve of letting her stay while she finishes school. The one thing Ava (Claire Rushbrook) and Ali (Adeel Akhtar) do have in common is a little girl named Sofia (Ariana Bodorova). Ava provides educational assistance during her schooling as an aide. Ali employs the girl’s father to help him look after his properties and tenants, of which he’s also one.
Fate brings them together. A downpour keeps little Sofia under an awning with Ava as Ali pulls up to take her home.
Fate brings them together. A downpour keeps little Sofia under an awning with Ava as Ali pulls up to take her home.
- 9/13/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
British director Clio Barnard put the northern English city of Bradford on the world film map with her previous award-winning efforts, “The Arbor” and “The Selfish Giant,” and she now returns for an interracial romance powered by two excellent performances.
In “Ali & Ava,” which premiered on Sunday in the Directors Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival, Ali is played by Adeel Akhtar, who radiates an optimistic warmth despite going through a painful domestic situation and hiding the imminent breakup of his marriage from his proud Asian family. Indeed, he is still living with his wife (Ellora Torchia) and sleeping in separate rooms of a large house, and they both dutifully turn up at bustling family dinners.
However, Ali has taken a shine to the young daughter of one of his tenants; he gives her lifts to primary school, where he meets the little girl’s teacher, Ava (Claire Rushbrook), a blonde,...
In “Ali & Ava,” which premiered on Sunday in the Directors Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival, Ali is played by Adeel Akhtar, who radiates an optimistic warmth despite going through a painful domestic situation and hiding the imminent breakup of his marriage from his proud Asian family. Indeed, he is still living with his wife (Ellora Torchia) and sleeping in separate rooms of a large house, and they both dutifully turn up at bustling family dinners.
However, Ali has taken a shine to the young daughter of one of his tenants; he gives her lifts to primary school, where he meets the little girl’s teacher, Ava (Claire Rushbrook), a blonde,...
- 7/11/2021
- by Jason Solomons
- The Wrap
Clio Barnard returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the British drama Ali & Ava. While billed as a romance, the Directors’ Fortnight entry doesn’t take the path of a traditional idealized love story, instead exploring the connection between a new couple within Barnard’s social realist world. Based on locals that she encountered while filming The Arbor (2010) and The Selfish Giant (2013) in Bradford, it stars Claire Rushbrook (Secrets & Lies) as Ava and Adeel Akhtar (Four Lions) as Ali.
Ava is a single mother and teaching assistant living in the kind of area cab drivers won’t go. Ali is a DJ and landlord who still lives with the wife he’s split from, and is keeping their parting a secret from his family. These characters have a lot of problems, and on paper, they could be living miserable lives in a downbeat film. But, no: Barnard seeks out...
Ava is a single mother and teaching assistant living in the kind of area cab drivers won’t go. Ali is a DJ and landlord who still lives with the wife he’s split from, and is keeping their parting a secret from his family. These characters have a lot of problems, and on paper, they could be living miserable lives in a downbeat film. But, no: Barnard seeks out...
- 7/11/2021
- by Anna Smith
- Deadline Film + TV
Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook embark on a forbidden affair in this charming and heartfelt drama from Clio Barnard
There’s a tremendous human warmth to this love story from writer-director Clio Barnard, a social-realist tale that you might compare to Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss (though Loach might not have made the landlord the good guy). It’s a drama of autumnal love conquering the divisions of race, the disillusionments of middle age, the discomfort of parenthood and grandparenthood, and the tensions of class.
Adeel Akhtar is Ali, a likable, happy-go-lucky British Asian in Bradford whose family is well-off. They own properties and insofar as Ali has a job, it is going around collecting rent, and he is a genial friend to the tenants and their families. Ali sees himself as a frustrated DJ and a musician: his house has a converted basement “mancave” where he keeps his extensive vinyl collection.
There’s a tremendous human warmth to this love story from writer-director Clio Barnard, a social-realist tale that you might compare to Ken Loach’s Ae Fond Kiss (though Loach might not have made the landlord the good guy). It’s a drama of autumnal love conquering the divisions of race, the disillusionments of middle age, the discomfort of parenthood and grandparenthood, and the tensions of class.
Adeel Akhtar is Ali, a likable, happy-go-lucky British Asian in Bradford whose family is well-off. They own properties and insofar as Ali has a job, it is going around collecting rent, and he is a genial friend to the tenants and their families. Ali sees himself as a frustrated DJ and a musician: his house has a converted basement “mancave” where he keeps his extensive vinyl collection.
- 7/11/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
When it comes to writer/director Ben Wheatley all bets are really well and truly off. Over the course of his career, he has released a divisive, incredible and disturbing collection of pictures upon us, some better than others but every film his name is on is immediately one that you must see to make up your own mind on. It is quite the trick to be a director whose work, no matter what form it takes, demands your undivided attention and Wheatley’s latest, in folkish horror In The Earth, may be his most psychedelic film yet.
The film is set in the late stages of a pandemic ravaged world (familiar?), as people are looking for some semblance of normality again, learning to live in spite of the virus, and seeking the right cure. Martin Lowery (rising star Joel Fry) is a scientist sent to a government-controlled outpost in the forestlands of Bristol,...
The film is set in the late stages of a pandemic ravaged world (familiar?), as people are looking for some semblance of normality again, learning to live in spite of the virus, and seeking the right cure. Martin Lowery (rising star Joel Fry) is a scientist sent to a government-controlled outpost in the forestlands of Bristol,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
This low-budget folk-horror is back in Wheatley’s weird, sly world as Joel Fry and Ellora Torchia get lost in the forest
Here is a low-budget, low-profile film that scampers through the undergrowth up to a horrible folk-horror epiphany, with undeadpan comedy and a gibbering shroom meltdown, percussively hammered home with strobe lightning flashes and skull-splittingly loud snaps. At one point, we are encircled by a fog, which a frowning scientist describes as a “suspension of mushroom spores and water droplets in the air”. It was one of those rare moments when you are glad of a mask in the cinema.
This is a return to home territory for its writer-director Ben Wheatley, maybe reminiscent of his 17th-century Leveller freakout A Field in England from 2013, which was about civil war deserters captured by an alchemist and finding the world turned upside down. And there are admittedly some familiar tropes: forests...
Here is a low-budget, low-profile film that scampers through the undergrowth up to a horrible folk-horror epiphany, with undeadpan comedy and a gibbering shroom meltdown, percussively hammered home with strobe lightning flashes and skull-splittingly loud snaps. At one point, we are encircled by a fog, which a frowning scientist describes as a “suspension of mushroom spores and water droplets in the air”. It was one of those rare moments when you are glad of a mask in the cinema.
This is a return to home territory for its writer-director Ben Wheatley, maybe reminiscent of his 17th-century Leveller freakout A Field in England from 2013, which was about civil war deserters captured by an alchemist and finding the world turned upside down. And there are admittedly some familiar tropes: forests...
- 6/16/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Joel Fry, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, Ellora Torchia, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero | Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley
In the Earth, the new film from Ben Wheatley (Kill List), begins with images all to familiar images of people in masks and hazmat suits. Here, as in real life, the world is in the grip of a pandemic. It’s against this backdrop that Martin Lowery (Joel Fry; Silent Night) arrives at a vacation lodge repurposed as a research facility. He’s there to try to find Olivia Wendle (Hayley Squires; In Fabric) a scientist who went missing in the surrounding forest.
With Alma, one of the park rangers as a guide he ventures into the woods. It doesn’t take long before they’re attacked in their sleep and their shoes stolen. They’re found by Zach who has been illegally living in the woods. He offers to help,...
In the Earth, the new film from Ben Wheatley (Kill List), begins with images all to familiar images of people in masks and hazmat suits. Here, as in real life, the world is in the grip of a pandemic. It’s against this backdrop that Martin Lowery (Joel Fry; Silent Night) arrives at a vacation lodge repurposed as a research facility. He’s there to try to find Olivia Wendle (Hayley Squires; In Fabric) a scientist who went missing in the surrounding forest.
With Alma, one of the park rangers as a guide he ventures into the woods. It doesn’t take long before they’re attacked in their sleep and their shoes stolen. They’re found by Zach who has been illegally living in the woods. He offers to help,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Released in cinemas 18th June with previews on 17th June, In The Earth is an atmospheric new horror from visionary writer-director Ben Wheatley. To celebrate the release, we are giving away 3 limited edition t-shirts featuring an original design by Wheatley himself.
As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
In The Earth stars Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Mark Monero and John Hollingworth.
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As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
In The Earth stars Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Mark Monero and John Hollingworth.
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- 6/13/2021
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The director on his new horror movie set during a pandemic, fearing he’d never work again, and why audiences love Jason Statham
For many of us, much of the past year will have felt like the plot of a horror film. So when, in March 2020, the British writer and director Ben Wheatley, 48, found himself with some unexpected free time, it was clear what the genre of his next project would be. The result, the terrifying and blackly comic In the Earth, went from concept to virtual Sundance premiere in less than 12 months. It is set in the midst of a pandemic that may feel familiar in some senses but, on a two-day forest trek, a scientist (Joel Fry) and a park scout (Ellora Torchia) also have to contend with a malignant woodland spirit and a deranged Reece Shearsmith. Wheatley has an eclectic, never-dull, often grisly backlist that includes Sightseers,...
For many of us, much of the past year will have felt like the plot of a horror film. So when, in March 2020, the British writer and director Ben Wheatley, 48, found himself with some unexpected free time, it was clear what the genre of his next project would be. The result, the terrifying and blackly comic In the Earth, went from concept to virtual Sundance premiere in less than 12 months. It is set in the midst of a pandemic that may feel familiar in some senses but, on a two-day forest trek, a scientist (Joel Fry) and a park scout (Ellora Torchia) also have to contend with a malignant woodland spirit and a deranged Reece Shearsmith. Wheatley has an eclectic, never-dull, often grisly backlist that includes Sightseers,...
- 6/13/2021
- by Tim Lewis
- The Guardian - Film News
Tactfully crafting a horror about (and during) the Coronavirus pandemic must have been no simple task. Despite having genuine dread to draw from, it would be too easy to tastelessly exploit Covid as a tool to terrorise and risk offending or alienating those suffering because of it who are seeking cinema as a means to escape.
Instead of blandly sensationalising Covid or reducing it to a component, writer/director Ben Wheatley’s ninth feature, In The Earth, lets the virus reside in the story’s backdrop, insentiently feeding setting and context like a slumbering beast teat, without drawing from the pandemic as a primary source of despair.
Set between lockdowns, the story centres on Martin Lowery (Joel Fry), a thirty-something scientist who travels to a remote forest lodge to meet park scout Alma (Ellora Torchia), who plans to guide him to a medical facility, fifteen miles into the forest, so...
Instead of blandly sensationalising Covid or reducing it to a component, writer/director Ben Wheatley’s ninth feature, In The Earth, lets the virus reside in the story’s backdrop, insentiently feeding setting and context like a slumbering beast teat, without drawing from the pandemic as a primary source of despair.
Set between lockdowns, the story centres on Martin Lowery (Joel Fry), a thirty-something scientist who travels to a remote forest lodge to meet park scout Alma (Ellora Torchia), who plans to guide him to a medical facility, fifteen miles into the forest, so...
- 6/9/2021
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Warning: This interview contains spoilers about tonight’s Part One Finale for HBO’s The Nevers, “True”.
After watching the first 26 minutes of tonight’s The Nevers, viewers were probably asking “What show is this?!”.
The series 6th episode, which is the last for this year, kicks off roughly a century from our present day in the future, but no exact year. A fighting squad secures an abandoned area where one of the alien Galanthi currently lives. More to the point, we meet Stripe (Claudia Black), a female fighter, whose soul is ultimately transported back into the body of Molly (who ultimately becomes Amalia True), played by Laura Donnelly, on the day of The Touched, Aug. 3, 1896.
We see Amalia’s past as Molly before she became Touched: How she was a gifted baker, married to a domineering, boorish husband who dies and leaves her with next to nothing. In the wake of this,...
After watching the first 26 minutes of tonight’s The Nevers, viewers were probably asking “What show is this?!”.
The series 6th episode, which is the last for this year, kicks off roughly a century from our present day in the future, but no exact year. A fighting squad secures an abandoned area where one of the alien Galanthi currently lives. More to the point, we meet Stripe (Claudia Black), a female fighter, whose soul is ultimately transported back into the body of Molly (who ultimately becomes Amalia True), played by Laura Donnelly, on the day of The Touched, Aug. 3, 1896.
We see Amalia’s past as Molly before she became Touched: How she was a gifted baker, married to a domineering, boorish husband who dies and leaves her with next to nothing. In the wake of this,...
- 5/17/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Ben Wheatley released his most recent film, Rebecca, only six months ago on Netflix. He’s already back with his second film to arrive during the pandemic: a horror feature inspired by the virus called In the Earth. He shot it in fifteen days and wrapped the movie during lockdown, using the latest on-set procedures to ensure everyone’s safety.
In the Earth is based in a world not unlike our own. A disastrous virus explodes with millions of infected people across the earth, sending civilization’s brightest scientists on a mission to cure the outbreak. Joel Fry plays a scientist and Ellora Torchia plays a park scout who ventures deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. During the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage of survival when they’re encountered by hostile forces and a forest that comes to life around them.
I spoke with Wheatley...
In the Earth is based in a world not unlike our own. A disastrous virus explodes with millions of infected people across the earth, sending civilization’s brightest scientists on a mission to cure the outbreak. Joel Fry plays a scientist and Ellora Torchia plays a park scout who ventures deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. During the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage of survival when they’re encountered by hostile forces and a forest that comes to life around them.
I spoke with Wheatley...
- 4/22/2021
- by Joshua Encinias
- The Film Stage
British filmmaker Ben Wheatley had his Rebecca remake in the can and was in pre-production on the sequel to 2018’s Tomb Raider reboot (which he is now no longer attached to) when the coronavirus began tearing its path around the globe. It would soon shut down almost all film production in addition to all other aspects of society.
At first stunned and frightened like everyone else, Wheatley — whose iconoclastic filmography also includes the nerve-rattling Kill List, the psychedelic period piece A Field in England, and the satirical crime thriller Free Fire — did what all creative people always do: channeled what was happening into a completely new idea for a movie.
One year later, Wheatley is out with In The Earth, his first horror movie since Field and, after Rebecca, a return to his low-budget roots. Set during the aftermath of an unspecified pandemic, In The Earth follows a scientist named...
At first stunned and frightened like everyone else, Wheatley — whose iconoclastic filmography also includes the nerve-rattling Kill List, the psychedelic period piece A Field in England, and the satirical crime thriller Free Fire — did what all creative people always do: channeled what was happening into a completely new idea for a movie.
One year later, Wheatley is out with In The Earth, his first horror movie since Field and, after Rebecca, a return to his low-budget roots. Set during the aftermath of an unspecified pandemic, In The Earth follows a scientist named...
- 4/16/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Welcome back, Weird-as-fuck Ben Wheatley. We’ve missed you.
Since Down Terrace, the 2009 blend of Sopranos-style gangster saga and kitchen-sink drama that remains one of the strongest debut films in a decade, the British director has fashioned himself as a purveyor of oddball genre mash-ups, combining elements that go together like peanut butter and peyote. What if a hitman thriller took a detour into Wicker Man territory? (2011’s Kill List.) What if a daffy, misfits-in-love rom-com doubled as a portrait of serial killers? (2012’s Sightseers.) What if a tale...
Since Down Terrace, the 2009 blend of Sopranos-style gangster saga and kitchen-sink drama that remains one of the strongest debut films in a decade, the British director has fashioned himself as a purveyor of oddball genre mash-ups, combining elements that go together like peanut butter and peyote. What if a hitman thriller took a detour into Wicker Man territory? (2011’s Kill List.) What if a daffy, misfits-in-love rom-com doubled as a portrait of serial killers? (2012’s Sightseers.) What if a tale...
- 4/16/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough set off on a whirlwind weekend romance in Monday, a romantic drama that IFC Films released in theaters and on-demand Friday.
It’s the fourth feature from director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, who also wrote and produced the film.
Here is the plot: When Mickey (Stan) is dragged away from his DJ set by a drunken friend and introduced to Chloe (Gough) one hot summer night in Athens, the attraction between the pair is immediately palpable. So palpable that before they know it they’re waking up naked on the beach Saturday morning. And so it goes that a one-night stand on Friday turns into a whirlwind weekend romance that leads to serious conversations when they face the harsh sunlight on Monday morning.
The pic was an official selection at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2020 Toronto Film Festival. Check out the trailer below.
Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman...
It’s the fourth feature from director Argyris Papadimitropoulos, who also wrote and produced the film.
Here is the plot: When Mickey (Stan) is dragged away from his DJ set by a drunken friend and introduced to Chloe (Gough) one hot summer night in Athens, the attraction between the pair is immediately palpable. So palpable that before they know it they’re waking up naked on the beach Saturday morning. And so it goes that a one-night stand on Friday turns into a whirlwind weekend romance that leads to serious conversations when they face the harsh sunlight on Monday morning.
The pic was an official selection at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and the 2020 Toronto Film Festival. Check out the trailer below.
Oscar-winner Morgan Freeman...
- 4/16/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal Pictures UK has released the trailer for the latest horror ‘In The Earth’ from ‘Kill List’ and High Rise’ filmmaker Ben Wheatley.
As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
Written and directed by Ben Wheatley, the movie stars Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Mark Monero and John Hollingworth.
Also in trailers – Toni Collette & Anna Kendrick star in trailer for ‘Stowaway’
The film is set for a UK release, June 18th
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As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
Written and directed by Ben Wheatley, the movie stars Joel Fry, Reece Shearsmith, Hayley Squires, Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Mark Monero and John Hollingworth.
Also in trailers – Toni Collette & Anna Kendrick star in trailer for ‘Stowaway’
The film is set for a UK release, June 18th
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- 3/26/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In the Earth Trailer — Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth (2021) movie trailer has been released by Neon. The In the Earth trailer stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Mark Monero, John Hollingworth, and Reece Shearsmit. Crew Ben Wheatley wrote the screenplay for In the Earth. Clint Mansell created the music for the [...]
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- 3/25/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Described as a "trippy and unsettling viewing experience" in Heather Wixson's four-star Sundance review, Ben Wheatley's In the Earth is coming to theaters on April 23rd via Neon, and the official trailer for the film has now been revealed.
Written and directed by Ben Wheatley, In the Earth stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Reece Shearsmith, and Hayley Squires.
Synopsis: "As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them."
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Written and directed by Ben Wheatley, In the Earth stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Reece Shearsmith, and Hayley Squires.
Synopsis: "As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them."
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- 3/25/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"There's no reception in there... People get a bit funny in the woods sometimes." Neon has debuted the full-length official trailer for Ben Wheatley's latest unsettling horror film In the Earth, which just premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. This is Wheatley new hallucinogenic eco-horror that he secretly shot during the pandemic summer last year in the woods in the UK. As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. But their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the "heart of darkness", the forest coming to life around them. The film stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, as well as BAFTA Award Winner Reece Shearsmith. The freaky new film is a commentary not only on isolation and the pandemic, but on mother nature itself and the way it subtly controls us.
- 3/25/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Here’s your first look at the brand-new trailer for director Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth.
As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them. In The Earth stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero.
Ben Wheatley’s films have won numerous awards, received international critical acclaim and have been theatrically released globally. Ben’s films include High Rise, Sightseers, A Field In England, Kill List while his latest film “Rebecca”, an adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier classic, premiered on Netflix in November 2020. In October 2020 it was announced that the director would helm The Meg 2 (link)
When asked what inspired the story of In The Earth,...
As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them. In The Earth stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, John Hollingworth, Mark Monero.
Ben Wheatley’s films have won numerous awards, received international critical acclaim and have been theatrically released globally. Ben’s films include High Rise, Sightseers, A Field In England, Kill List while his latest film “Rebecca”, an adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier classic, premiered on Netflix in November 2020. In October 2020 it was announced that the director would helm The Meg 2 (link)
When asked what inspired the story of In The Earth,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ben Wheatley struck out with his critically-maligned remake of “Rebecca” for Netflix last year, but fortunately he’s already rebounding with “In the Earth.” The project world premiered to strong buzz at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and marks Wheatley’s return to the horror genre, where he first made a name for himself as a filmmaker with cult favorites “Sightseers” and “Kill List.” “In the Earth” was filmed over 15 days in secret during the pandemic and stars Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith.
The official synopsis for “In the Earth” from Neon reads: “As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and a park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.”
IndieWire senior film critic David Ehrlich...
The official synopsis for “In the Earth” from Neon reads: “As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and a park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.”
IndieWire senior film critic David Ehrlich...
- 3/25/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Shot during the pandemic and about a pandemic but not precisely the ongoing pandemic, Ben Wheatley is returning to smaller-scale horror with In the Earth. Coming from Neon next month following a Sundance premiere, the first trailer has now arrived.
Starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith, as one can see, the film’s plot has clearly been inspired by the current real-world crisis. As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
Christopher Schobert said in his Sundance review, “Creating a new film is not the worst way to spend some forced Covid-19 downtime. It is, however, no excuse for making one as tiresome and disappointing as In the Earth.
Starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, and Reece Shearsmith, as one can see, the film’s plot has clearly been inspired by the current real-world crisis. As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
Christopher Schobert said in his Sundance review, “Creating a new film is not the worst way to spend some forced Covid-19 downtime. It is, however, no excuse for making one as tiresome and disappointing as In the Earth.
- 3/25/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Undoubtedly inspired by the ongoing pandemic, as well as some of his earlier films, Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth is a rather intriguing return to form for the U.K. filmmaker behind one of my very favorite dark comedies of the last ten years, Sightseers. Wheatley’s latest is something of a different beast than Sightseers, though, where here he mixes together elements of a pagan-esque forest horror story with a hallucinogenic descent into madness as well as some gnarly body horror moments for good measure to create In the Earth. A wholly unsettling and slightly off-putting experience (which I mean as a compliment), In the Earth certainly won’t be everybody’s cup of tea, but it most definitely was mine, making Wheatley’s newest project one of my favorite films that I saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Written last March and shot during the summer months in the U.
Written last March and shot during the summer months in the U.
- 2/19/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Chicago – The 2021 Sundance Film Festival is winding down on Day Five, after a huge weekend of film premieres. This year’s festival is virtual and online, meaning anyone with a ticket or a pass can indulge in the film offerings throughout the festival, which runs until Wednesday, February 3rd.
For the premieres of 2021, the cutting edge potential influencer films and all the ancillary new voice filmmakers, the Sundance Film Festival is the one that begins every film year with the movies that ultimately become the talk of the town and the gatherer of year end awards. Your ticket to the festival is your chance to see these films and filmmakers before the general public.
Prisoners of Ghostland
Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.
For the premieres of 2021, the cutting edge potential influencer films and all the ancillary new voice filmmakers, the Sundance Film Festival is the one that begins every film year with the movies that ultimately become the talk of the town and the gatherer of year end awards. Your ticket to the festival is your chance to see these films and filmmakers before the general public.
Prisoners of Ghostland
Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and dedicated to the growth of independent artists.
- 2/1/2021
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There is a stellar moment in Mark Harris’ stunning new biography Mike Nichols: A Life in which the director’s early 70s oddity The Day of the Dolphin is released to dismissive and hostile reviews. Leave it to Pauline Kael to hurl the most incisive and devastating line about the film: “If Mike Nichols and [screenwriter] Buck Henry don’t have anything better to make movies about than English-speaking dolphins in assassination attempts, why don’t they stop making movies?” It was difficult not to think of that comment when watching Ben Wheatley’s In the Earth, a pandemic horror film that lands with a thud. A Deadline article published the day of Earth’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival explained that, according to Wheatley, “He simply wanted to make a movie and get [out] of the house.”
Creating a new film is not the worst way to spend some forced Covid-19 downtime.
Creating a new film is not the worst way to spend some forced Covid-19 downtime.
- 1/30/2021
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
Shortly before Netflix released his adaptation of “Rebecca” in October of last year, director Ben Wheatley was already at work on his follow-up project. A return to the low-budget thrillers like “Sightseers” and “Kill List” that launched him to wide acclaim, “In the Earth” was conceived and shot during the coronavirus pandemic and takes place in a world ravaged by an out of control virus.
“It was done as a reaction to the coronavirus,” Wheatley says of his new film, a horror-thriller hybrid that debuts at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “I started the project to keep me sane. It started about a week and a half into the lockdown in the UK.”
Wheatley shot the film over two weeks in August during a lull in coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom. The feature is set largely outdoors and stars a small cast, including Joel Fry and Ellora Torchia.
“It was done as a reaction to the coronavirus,” Wheatley says of his new film, a horror-thriller hybrid that debuts at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “I started the project to keep me sane. It started about a week and a half into the lockdown in the UK.”
Wheatley shot the film over two weeks in August during a lull in coronavirus cases in the United Kingdom. The feature is set largely outdoors and stars a small cast, including Joel Fry and Ellora Torchia.
- 1/30/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
With the unfortunate exception of “Songbird,” which tried to wangle a Michael Bay movie out of the pandemic by turning the pandemic into a Michael Bay movie, the first wave of films written and shot during Covid have all been as confined as any of the people watching them from home. But leave it to Ben Wheatley — an irrepressible British filmmaker whose best movies have always felt like claustrophobic reactions to the psychic horrors of modern living — to zag where the likes of “Locked Down,” “Coastal Elites,” and “Malcolm & Marie” have zigged, and leverage our suffocating new status quo into an open-air horror movie that will make you never want to go outside again.
When it was first announced that Wheatley had taken it upon himself to a shoot a pandemic movie of his own last summer, the director said his response to the virus was provoked by “the...
When it was first announced that Wheatley had taken it upon himself to a shoot a pandemic movie of his own last summer, the director said his response to the virus was provoked by “the...
- 1/30/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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