London-based production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has come on board Cathy Brady’s debut feature “Wildfire,” which world premieres in the Discovery section at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
The film centers on sisters Lauren and Kelly, an inseparable pair brought up in a small town by the Irish border. Their lives fell apart with the mysterious death of their mother. Left to pick up the pieces, Lauren is confronted with their dark past when Kelly returns home having been missing for a year. “An intense sisterhood reignited, Kelly’s desire to unearth their history is not welcomed by all, and the town is rife with rumors and malice that threaten to overwhelm them,” according to a statement from Film Constellation.
The film’s press and industry screening at Toronto is on Sept. 14 at 11 A.M. via digital access. The festival world premiere is at 9 P.M.
The film centers on sisters Lauren and Kelly, an inseparable pair brought up in a small town by the Irish border. Their lives fell apart with the mysterious death of their mother. Left to pick up the pieces, Lauren is confronted with their dark past when Kelly returns home having been missing for a year. “An intense sisterhood reignited, Kelly’s desire to unearth their history is not welcomed by all, and the town is rife with rumors and malice that threaten to overwhelm them,” according to a statement from Film Constellation.
The film’s press and industry screening at Toronto is on Sept. 14 at 11 A.M. via digital access. The festival world premiere is at 9 P.M.
- 8/25/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
“Lucy was a pioneer in making scriptwriting accessible.”
Lucy Scher, who co-ran UK screenwriting talent incubator The Script Factory from 1996, has died at the age of 53.
Scher joined the organisation a few months after its founding by Charlotte Macleod and helped develop it into a vital part of the UK’s screenwriting development scene, training more than a thousand emerging writers and developers and attracting funding successively from the UK Film Council, Skillset and Creative Europe.
Her colleagues at The Script Factory over the years included Briony Hanson, now director of film at the British Council, and Tricia Tuttle, now...
Lucy Scher, who co-ran UK screenwriting talent incubator The Script Factory from 1996, has died at the age of 53.
Scher joined the organisation a few months after its founding by Charlotte Macleod and helped develop it into a vital part of the UK’s screenwriting development scene, training more than a thousand emerging writers and developers and attracting funding successively from the UK Film Council, Skillset and Creative Europe.
Her colleagues at The Script Factory over the years included Briony Hanson, now director of film at the British Council, and Tricia Tuttle, now...
- 8/2/2018
- by Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Good news, Netflix’s very funny looking original animated show BoJack Horseman featuring the voices of Will Arnett, Aaron Paul and Alison Brie will appear on Netflix on Friday 22nd August just in time to binge watch over the bank holiday weekend.
From what I have seen so far it looks promising but then so did Hemlock Grove. Expect a full report next week. In related news, Netflix have announced a whole slate of stand-up comedy exclusive to its service after the success of the recent Aziz Ansari special. So the likes of Chelsea Handler, Jim Jefferies, Bill Cosby, Bill Burr and Chelsea Peretti will be adding stand up shows to streaming between now and December. I have only heard of a couple of these acts but there again one of the best things to do with an hour to spare is browse Netflix for its plentiful supply of stand-up...
From what I have seen so far it looks promising but then so did Hemlock Grove. Expect a full report next week. In related news, Netflix have announced a whole slate of stand-up comedy exclusive to its service after the success of the recent Aziz Ansari special. So the likes of Chelsea Handler, Jim Jefferies, Bill Cosby, Bill Burr and Chelsea Peretti will be adding stand up shows to streaming between now and December. I have only heard of a couple of these acts but there again one of the best things to do with an hour to spare is browse Netflix for its plentiful supply of stand-up...
- 8/18/2014
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
★★★★☆Adapted from Meg Rosoff's young adult novel, How I Live Now (2013) is director Kevin Macdonald's second narrative film in a row to feature young stars traipsing through the British countryside. The first was The Eagle (2011), as Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell went in search of a lost Roman standard; this time Macdonald's film looks not to the distant past but the near future. Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is an American teenager holidaying with her cousins when a war of unknown scale breaks out. Stranded in rural England, Daisy starts to warm to her cousins, especially the quiet Edmund (Bafta Rising Star nominee George MacKay).
- 2/18/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The celebrated Scottish director Kevin Macdonald is known for his magisterially mounted, adult-inclined works of fiction that are shaded in politics and personal hardships. His movies have leaned toward Oscar glory (Forest Whitaker won Best Actor for his terrifying turn in The Last King of Scotland), while other films have displayed his particular talent for singling out narrative greatness in true-life stories (Marley most recently, and Life in a Day and Touching The Void before it).
His latest film, How I Live Now, which was released last year, is being released on DVD on February 10th – and to celebrate that fact, he dedicated some of his precious time to give HeyUGuys the lowdown on why young actors are better than old ones, his fondness for pulling the rug from beneath the viewer, and what the future holds for him (submarines, apparently). Beware: minor spoilers ahead.
Obviously, How I Live Now...
His latest film, How I Live Now, which was released last year, is being released on DVD on February 10th – and to celebrate that fact, he dedicated some of his precious time to give HeyUGuys the lowdown on why young actors are better than old ones, his fondness for pulling the rug from beneath the viewer, and what the future holds for him (submarines, apparently). Beware: minor spoilers ahead.
Obviously, How I Live Now...
- 2/11/2014
- by Gary Green
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The screenplay of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls has been included in the 2013 Hollywood blacklist of screenplays which show the most promise. We think about which book adaptations we would put on our own blacklists, and ask for your ideas...
Send your own book/film blacklist choices to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk or tweet them to @GdnChildrensBks and we'll post them below
Released earlier today, Hollywood's 2013 blacklist features 72 of the most exciting screenplays in circulation this year. It's an annual list, compiled by asking 250 top film executives to name their 10 favourite scripts that have not yet been put into production. Of the ones-to-watch, there was one in particular which stood out to us: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
It's a heartwrenching, spooky tale of 13-year-old Conor who, living with his terminally ill mum, struggles with recurring nightmares and he tries to come to terms with his mother's cancer diagnosis.
Send your own book/film blacklist choices to childrens.books@guardian.co.uk or tweet them to @GdnChildrensBks and we'll post them below
Released earlier today, Hollywood's 2013 blacklist features 72 of the most exciting screenplays in circulation this year. It's an annual list, compiled by asking 250 top film executives to name their 10 favourite scripts that have not yet been put into production. Of the ones-to-watch, there was one in particular which stood out to us: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness.
It's a heartwrenching, spooky tale of 13-year-old Conor who, living with his terminally ill mum, struggles with recurring nightmares and he tries to come to terms with his mother's cancer diagnosis.
- 12/17/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Something seems different about 19-year-old Saoirse Ronan from the moment the camera lands on her delicate, determined features in Kevin Mcdonald's youth-in-peril drama "How I Live Now," and it's hard to place exactly what it is. It's not the questioning Transatlantic accent, though that takes some getting used to. That piercing, pale-eyed gaze is one we know well by now, and the same goes for her quietly assured performing presence -- both present and correct in this unusual, genre-melding adaptation of Meg Rosoff's acclaimed teen novel. But as her character, Daisy, flicks her faintly punkish blonde bangs and tunes out everything...
- 11/18/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Not even 20 years old, Saoirse Ronan has already made a significant cinematic impression. Most of us got our first glimpse of Ronan in Joe Wright’s operatic, Oscar-nominated literary adaptation “Atonement,” and in the years since she has anchored films for directors like Peter Jackson, Peter Weir, Andrew Niccol, and Neil Jordan. (She’s set to team with Ryan Gosling and Wes Anderson for future movies, which we quizzed her about here.) Her latest film, “How I Live Now” (our review) comes from “Last King Of Scotland” director Kevin Macdonald and is based on the acclaimed young adult novel of the same name by Meg Rosoff. Last week, we got to chat with Ronan about what drew her to the film, and asked her to reminisce about what it was like working with the late, great James Gandolfini.In “How I Live Now,” Ronan plays a bratty American who is...
- 11/11/2013
- by Drew Taylor
- The Playlist
There’s No Place Like Home; Macdonald Pulled By Too Many Strings
This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald’s fourth fiction feature is a little bit of a head-scratcher. As a war film set in the near future, where the enemy is unknown and adolescents must adapt to their war-torn environment without any adults to guide them, it succeeds. As a sweeping star-crossed love story wherein its teenaged heroine is guided by a telepathic passionate connection to her heart’s desire and must find a path back to him, it also succeeds. The key drawback with How I Live Now, however, is that it so desperately yearns to be both, and flails as a result.
Following the blockbuster success of the Twilight franchise, studios ravenously picked up the film rights to every mildly successful dystopian teen novel ranging from the Hunger Games trilogy to the upcoming Divergent series. Last spring,...
This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald’s fourth fiction feature is a little bit of a head-scratcher. As a war film set in the near future, where the enemy is unknown and adolescents must adapt to their war-torn environment without any adults to guide them, it succeeds. As a sweeping star-crossed love story wherein its teenaged heroine is guided by a telepathic passionate connection to her heart’s desire and must find a path back to him, it also succeeds. The key drawback with How I Live Now, however, is that it so desperately yearns to be both, and flails as a result.
Following the blockbuster success of the Twilight franchise, studios ravenously picked up the film rights to every mildly successful dystopian teen novel ranging from the Hunger Games trilogy to the upcoming Divergent series. Last spring,...
- 11/9/2013
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
How I Live Now tells the story of Daisy, a neurotic and rather high strung teenager who is sent by her father to the English countryside to stay with her British cousins for the summer. Quickly dismissive of her relatives, Daisy prefers to be left on her own. It is not until she gets to know her eldest cousin, Eddie, that she eventually lowers her guard and comes to see the English countryside as a wonderful place to inhabit.
Just as she’s finally settling into her new surroundings, a nuclear bomb goes off in London and plunges the country into World War III. Daisy and the youngest of the cousins, Piper, soon become separated from Eddie and the rest of the family.
How I Live Now is based on the acclaimed novel by Meg Rosoff, and starring as Daisy in this adaptation is Saoirse Ronan. Best known for her performances in Atonement,...
Just as she’s finally settling into her new surroundings, a nuclear bomb goes off in London and plunges the country into World War III. Daisy and the youngest of the cousins, Piper, soon become separated from Eddie and the rest of the family.
How I Live Now is based on the acclaimed novel by Meg Rosoff, and starring as Daisy in this adaptation is Saoirse Ronan. Best known for her performances in Atonement,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Ben Kenber
- We Got This Covered
Based on Meg Rosoff’s award-winning young adult novel, How I Live Now is an awkward mix of a forbidden romance that would make teen girls swoon and a morose, bloody wartime drama for adults that earned the film an R rating. Imagine slamming two very different movies, a brutal and dystopian thriller a la 28 Days Later and a hormonal, Twilight-hued romance, into the same film. As you can imagine, it’s tonally and emotionally lop-sided and even some pretty decent performances can’t save it.
The awkward plotting and genre mixing brings down the film, which is especially shameful as How I Live Now features magnetic young actors Saoirse Ronan and Tom Holland. Ronan does not get a chance to show her impeccable acting range, while Holland, who almost single-handedly anchored the 2012 drama The Impossible, has a character that is mostly shoved to the side.
How I Live Now focuses on Ronan’s Daisy,...
The awkward plotting and genre mixing brings down the film, which is especially shameful as How I Live Now features magnetic young actors Saoirse Ronan and Tom Holland. Ronan does not get a chance to show her impeccable acting range, while Holland, who almost single-handedly anchored the 2012 drama The Impossible, has a character that is mostly shoved to the side.
How I Live Now focuses on Ronan’s Daisy,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Although the subject of whether or not it's truly a science fiction film comes up in the below interview, Kevin Macdonald's new dramatic thriller How I Live Now takes place in the near-future and, through the eyes of an American teen sent to live relatives in Europe, imagines the beginnings of World War III. ComingSoon.net sat down to speak with Macdonald and his young leading lady, Saoirse Ronan. Now 19, Ronan was one of the youngest actors to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Briony Tallis in director Joe Wright's Atonement . Since then, she's starred in projects like City of Ember , The Lovely Bones , Hanna and The Host . In the below interview, she and Macdonald discuss their big screen take on the Meg Rosoff bestseller. How I Live Now...
- 11/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
You're a teenager spending a summer with relatives when you strike up an increasingly intimate friendship with a local person your age. We've all been there. Or, at least we've all thought about that happening. In either scenario, it's probably a safe bet that your burgeoning romance wasn't interrupted by a world war. That's the setup for How I Live Now, an adaptation of Meg Rosoff's popular young adult novel starring Saoirse Ronan, one of the most talented young actresses we have. But before you groan about yet another Ya movie, it's worth pointing out that this isn't trying to be the next Twilight or Hunger Games. How I Live Now was directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void), and looks to avoid...
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- 11/8/2013
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
The future looks bleak—yet again—in this adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s young adult novel, which hasn’t much to recommend it except the presence of Saoirse Ronan in the leading role. Her command of the screen, even playing a sullen American teenager, almost makes up for director Kevin Macdonald’s minimalist treatment of a war that forces Ronan and her cousins to go into survival mode, without grownups around to protect them. The setting is the English countryside, away from London, where Ronan is forced to bond with her young relatives when the going gets tough. But a handsome neighbor truly captures her heart, and it’s that relationship—tested under fire, as it were—that gives the film...
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- 11/8/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
A sullen, angst-ridden and hormonal teen struggles to filter a hostile world through the voices in her head in "How I Live Now." Funny that Saoirse Ronan decided to take, basically, another crack at "The Host" in tackling the lead in this film of the Meg Rosoff novel.
"How I Live" is another dystopia about a world under siege and a teen-age girl trying to survive war and find a little love along the way. But this Kevin ("Last King of Scotland") Macdonald film scores over the earlier Stephenie Meyer mess by being more plausible in every measurable way, with Ronan a much more recognizably real teen.
Elizabeth, she is named, a vision in pale-faced scowls and torn fishnet stockings. A New Yorker, she's come to the UK from America to visit her step-cousins, the British children of her mother's sister. And she makes friends, right off the plane.
"Nobody calls me 'Elizabeth.
"How I Live" is another dystopia about a world under siege and a teen-age girl trying to survive war and find a little love along the way. But this Kevin ("Last King of Scotland") Macdonald film scores over the earlier Stephenie Meyer mess by being more plausible in every measurable way, with Ronan a much more recognizably real teen.
Elizabeth, she is named, a vision in pale-faced scowls and torn fishnet stockings. A New Yorker, she's come to the UK from America to visit her step-cousins, the British children of her mother's sister. And she makes friends, right off the plane.
"Nobody calls me 'Elizabeth.
- 11/7/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
War has provided cinema with fodder for both entertainment and terror, but never the twain shall meet -- except this weekend, when both "Thor: The Dark World" and "How I Live Now" hit theaters (as well as digital platforms, in the case of "How I Live Now"). On the surface, the two movies have little in common: The sequel to 2011's "Thor" is the latest edition to Disney's vast commercial enterprise as it continues to beef up its expansive translation of Marvel comics to the big screen; "How I Live Now" is director Kevin Macdonald's quiet, stirring adaptation of Meg Rosoff's acclaimed novel about a group of young people struggling to survive in the English countryside after the outbreak of World War III. Yet the timing of their releases leads to an intriguing contrast between radically different approaches to exploring collective fears through the same medium. In "How I Live Now,...
- 11/6/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Here's how disastrous the MPAA rating system has become. How I Live Now, Kevin Macdonald's stellar adaptation of Meg Rosoff's uncommonly smart and insightful near-future young adult novel, has won an R rating. The film is apocalyptic in the most literal sense, as in, an apocalypse occurs, harrowing the characters with grim violence and horror — but that violence is nothing compared to what goes down in PG-13s like The Hunger Games or whatever this spring's G.I. Joe movie was called. Same goes for the sweet, unexplicit sex scene, which could run on network TV unedited.
The R instead comes from the film's language: The protagonist, Daisy, played by a prickly and raw-eyed Saoirse Ronan, is at first often uncertain and hostile, a punkish sort who pushe...
The R instead comes from the film's language: The protagonist, Daisy, played by a prickly and raw-eyed Saoirse Ronan, is at first often uncertain and hostile, a punkish sort who pushe...
- 11/6/2013
- Village Voice
Note the title, “How I Live Now,” and its absence of colons, commas, or other punctuation implying further installments—it’s the first sign of the crucial immediacy to Meg Rosoff’s 2004 Ya novel, now brought to the screen by “Last King of Scotland” director Kevin Macdonald. The second is impossible to miss—a nuclear bomb detonation in near-future London—and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout. That clash of R-rated approach and broad melodrama proves an uneven pitch at times but Macdonald’s signature intensity, combined with another sneak attack performance from Saoirse Ronan, assembles a thrilling genre entry that stands firmly alongside its contemporaries in terms of quality. The apocalyptic stakes are pushed to the fringes initially—not for narrative convenience but for the narcissism of the film’s 15-year-old American protagonist,...
- 11/5/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
ComingSoon.net has your exclusive first look at a clip from How I Live Now , directed by Kevin Macdonald ( The Last King of Scotland , State of Play , The Eagle ) and based on the award-winning novel by Meg Rosoff. Set in the near-future UK, Saoirse Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay). But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense news reports of an escalating conflict in Europe. As the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting to survive. How I Live Now will hit theaters, On Demand and iTunes on November 8.
- 10/31/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Kids know a good story when they see one, so it's no surprise that the best Ya novels can hold an adult's attention - and sometimes teach us a little something as well. Share your thoughts on the books our staffers are enjoying - and let us know what you're reading. Betsy Gleick, Executive Editor Her Pick: Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff I've just started Meg Rosoff's Picture Me Gone. My Ya book group chose it and then it was shortlisted for the National Book Awards, so I'm psyched. It's about Mila, a hyper-observant 12-year-old English girl who...
- 10/24/2013
- PEOPLE.com
After a quiet period at the box office, Britain's favourite movie remains unchanged for the first time since July
• Read Mark Kermode's review of Prisoners
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
The winner
After a pretty dismal frame at the UK box office, Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, retained the top spot, with a 17% decline from the previous weekend. It marks the end of a long run where fresh titles conquered the chart summit each week – The Wolverine, The Smurfs 2, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Kick-Ass 2, Elysium, One Direction: This Is Us, About Time, Insidious Chapter 2 and Rush. Prisoners is the first film to land consecutive number one chart placements since Monsters University back in July.
Jackman has now spent seven weeks at the UK chart summit, with Prisoners, The Wolverine and Les Miserables.
The runner-up
Following its very strong opening in Scotland the previous weekend,...
• Read Mark Kermode's review of Prisoners
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
The winner
After a pretty dismal frame at the UK box office, Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, retained the top spot, with a 17% decline from the previous weekend. It marks the end of a long run where fresh titles conquered the chart summit each week – The Wolverine, The Smurfs 2, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Kick-Ass 2, Elysium, One Direction: This Is Us, About Time, Insidious Chapter 2 and Rush. Prisoners is the first film to land consecutive number one chart placements since Monsters University back in July.
Jackman has now spent seven weeks at the UK chart summit, with Prisoners, The Wolverine and Les Miserables.
The runner-up
Following its very strong opening in Scotland the previous weekend,...
- 10/9/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
★★☆☆☆ Apocalyptic teen angst is the order of the day in Kevin Macdonald's limp and languid How I Live Now (2013), a functional - if uninspiring - adaptation of the 2004 Meg Rosoff novel of the same name. Starring Saoirse Ronan as the American relative of a rurally-situated British family, the film sees our green and pleasant land under attack from an unknown foe, commencing with a catastrophic nuclear strike on London. Though such subject matter may sound provocative on paper (indeed, Rosoff's text is highly regarded), Macdonald's big screen translation is too dour and generic to ever truly capture the imagination.
Kitted out in leather and shades, Daisy (Ronan) arrives in the UK at a time of unclarified unrest. Picked up from the airport by 14-year-old Isaac (Tom Holland), she's soon introduced to her English aunt (Anna Chancellor) and fellow cousins, including Edmond (George MacKay, seen again this week in two...
Kitted out in leather and shades, Daisy (Ronan) arrives in the UK at a time of unclarified unrest. Picked up from the airport by 14-year-old Isaac (Tom Holland), she's soon introduced to her English aunt (Anna Chancellor) and fellow cousins, including Edmond (George MacKay, seen again this week in two...
- 10/6/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
An adaptation of Meg Rosoff's tale of an American girl caught in England during world war three fails to sparkle
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In Australia, they have Tomorrow, When the War Began, the first in a trilogy of films based on John Marsden's novels in which plucky teens get their shit together when their homeland is invaded by evil foreigners. Here, we have this adaptation of Meg Rosoff's award-winning book (it scooped the Guardian's children's fiction prize in 2004) about a stroppy American girl sojourning in England when the third world war breaks out and a nuclear explosion flattens London.
Saoirse Ronan is Daisy, the uppity incomer who refuses to muck in with her bohemian British counterparts until her heart is captured by handsome cousin Edmond (the omnipresent George MacKay) and her frosty facade begins to crack. But when war tears the boys and girls apart,...
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In Australia, they have Tomorrow, When the War Began, the first in a trilogy of films based on John Marsden's novels in which plucky teens get their shit together when their homeland is invaded by evil foreigners. Here, we have this adaptation of Meg Rosoff's award-winning book (it scooped the Guardian's children's fiction prize in 2004) about a stroppy American girl sojourning in England when the third world war breaks out and a nuclear explosion flattens London.
Saoirse Ronan is Daisy, the uppity incomer who refuses to muck in with her bohemian British counterparts until her heart is captured by handsome cousin Edmond (the omnipresent George MacKay) and her frosty facade begins to crack. But when war tears the boys and girls apart,...
- 10/5/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
A stroppy American teen holidays with her goofy Brit cousins – and postapocalyptic anxiety ensues
Teenagers may be renowned for their drama, but it can't get more dramatic than this: a geopolitical catastrophe. How I Live Now is the story of Daisy, a stroppy American teen on holiday in the remote English countryside with her goofy Brit cousins some time in the future. Their world is about to be turned upside down by events they are vaguely aware of from TV news. It is adapted from the 2004 young adult bestseller by Meg Rosoff, which may disappoint all those oldsters crowding into the cinema hoping for an Anthony Trollope adaptation.
Kevin Macdonald directs with a sure hand, and Saoirse Ronan is strong and confident in the lead. When she arrives at the farmhouse, Daisy is baffled by the uncool, outdoorsy kids she's expected to hang out with, including someone called Edmond. (As in Pevensie?...
Teenagers may be renowned for their drama, but it can't get more dramatic than this: a geopolitical catastrophe. How I Live Now is the story of Daisy, a stroppy American teen on holiday in the remote English countryside with her goofy Brit cousins some time in the future. Their world is about to be turned upside down by events they are vaguely aware of from TV news. It is adapted from the 2004 young adult bestseller by Meg Rosoff, which may disappoint all those oldsters crowding into the cinema hoping for an Anthony Trollope adaptation.
Kevin Macdonald directs with a sure hand, and Saoirse Ronan is strong and confident in the lead. When she arrives at the farmhouse, Daisy is baffled by the uncool, outdoorsy kids she's expected to hang out with, including someone called Edmond. (As in Pevensie?...
- 10/4/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Inspiring us with his latest documentary Marley, Scottish director Kevin MacDonald is back making narrative features, and as we prepare for the impending release of How I Live Now – we had the chance to sit down and discuss the film with the man himself.
Discussing the Meg Rosoff book of which the film is based on, MacDonald also speaks of how much he is inspired by the collection of talented young performers, with the likes of Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland and Harley Bird impressing, even calling the former a ‘genius actor’.
How I Live Now is released on October 4, and you can read our review here.
The post The HeyUGuys Interview: Kevin MacDonald Discusses How I Live Now appeared first on HeyUGuys.
Discussing the Meg Rosoff book of which the film is based on, MacDonald also speaks of how much he is inspired by the collection of talented young performers, with the likes of Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland and Harley Bird impressing, even calling the former a ‘genius actor’.
How I Live Now is released on October 4, and you can read our review here.
The post The HeyUGuys Interview: Kevin MacDonald Discusses How I Live Now appeared first on HeyUGuys.
- 10/4/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Review Cameron K McEwan 4 Oct 2013 - 12:30
Starring Saoirse Ronan, How I Live Now arrives in UK cinemas today. And it really deserves your support...
Director Kevin MacDonald returns to the world of fiction, after his well-received documentary Marley, with an adaptation of a hugely successful young adult novel. How I Live Now, based on the book by Meg Rosoff. It sees the filmmaker combine his documentary style (witnessed in Touching The Void) with his creative cinematic gaze (The Last King of Scotland), whilst it sees some extraordinary performances from an exceptional group of young actors and actresses.
The story finds young American girl Daisy, played by Saoirse Ronan (Byzantium, Hanna), who has been sent to her cousins' home in the beautiful English countryside (though actually filmed in equally beautiful Wales, fact fans). Her real name is actually Elizabeth but chooses to name herself against her given title, in an...
Starring Saoirse Ronan, How I Live Now arrives in UK cinemas today. And it really deserves your support...
Director Kevin MacDonald returns to the world of fiction, after his well-received documentary Marley, with an adaptation of a hugely successful young adult novel. How I Live Now, based on the book by Meg Rosoff. It sees the filmmaker combine his documentary style (witnessed in Touching The Void) with his creative cinematic gaze (The Last King of Scotland), whilst it sees some extraordinary performances from an exceptional group of young actors and actresses.
The story finds young American girl Daisy, played by Saoirse Ronan (Byzantium, Hanna), who has been sent to her cousins' home in the beautiful English countryside (though actually filmed in equally beautiful Wales, fact fans). Her real name is actually Elizabeth but chooses to name herself against her given title, in an...
- 10/4/2013
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Saoirse Ronan may only be 19, but she's already worked with a host of Hollywood's top directors such as Peter Jackson, Joe Wright and Peter Weir.
Next up she's teaming with The Last King of Scotland's Kevin Macdonald for an adaptation of Meg Rosoff's novel How I Live Now, a story about teens trying to survive in Britain after the outbreak of World War III.
Digital Spy sat down with Ronan and Macdonald to discuss whether the film sits in the flourishing "young adult" genre, accurately reflecting teen life and more.
How I Live Now opens in UK cinemas on October 4.
Next up she's teaming with The Last King of Scotland's Kevin Macdonald for an adaptation of Meg Rosoff's novel How I Live Now, a story about teens trying to survive in Britain after the outbreak of World War III.
Digital Spy sat down with Ronan and Macdonald to discuss whether the film sits in the flourishing "young adult" genre, accurately reflecting teen life and more.
How I Live Now opens in UK cinemas on October 4.
- 10/3/2013
- Digital Spy
Jake Gyllenhaal cop drama was the only film to deliver a gross in excess of £1m, though Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine sneaked a nifty total to become his biggest ever opener
• Read Mark Kermode's review of Prisoners
• Read the archive of Charles Gant's UK box office reports
The winner
Late September, rarely a robust time for UK cinemagoing, continues the seasonally becalmed pattern. Overall, the 27-29 September session represented the third worst weekend for box office in the past year. Given that the previous frame delivered the second worst, it's clear just how sluggish the market is right now.
The only film delivering a weekend gross in excess of £1m was Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Aside from the previous weekend, when Rush held on to the top spot with £1.34m, Prisoners' £1.37m tally is the lowest for a No 1 film since Dredd landed...
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The winner
Late September, rarely a robust time for UK cinemagoing, continues the seasonally becalmed pattern. Overall, the 27-29 September session represented the third worst weekend for box office in the past year. Given that the previous frame delivered the second worst, it's clear just how sluggish the market is right now.
The only film delivering a weekend gross in excess of £1m was Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Aside from the previous weekend, when Rush held on to the top spot with £1.34m, Prisoners' £1.37m tally is the lowest for a No 1 film since Dredd landed...
- 10/3/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Kevin Macdonald; Screenwriters: Jeremy Brock, Jack Thorne, Tony Grisoni, Starring: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird; Running time: 101 mins; Certificate: 15
If there's one thing director Kevin Macdonald excels at, it's balancing realism with high suspense, from his documentary Touching the Void to The Last King of Scotland and conspiracy thriller State of Play. His latest, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a teenager living through a nuclear war, plays to his strengths though it never catches fire in the way it should.
That said, there's plenty of intrigue from the moment Daisy (Ronan) lands in Britain on holiday from America. It's a recognisable landscape except for the military presence on the streets, barbed wire fences and a general feeling of unease. But the story unfolds away from the city in a rural idyll where Daisy's cousins hope to entertain her for the summer, a daunting task because Daisy is brittle,...
If there's one thing director Kevin Macdonald excels at, it's balancing realism with high suspense, from his documentary Touching the Void to The Last King of Scotland and conspiracy thriller State of Play. His latest, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a teenager living through a nuclear war, plays to his strengths though it never catches fire in the way it should.
That said, there's plenty of intrigue from the moment Daisy (Ronan) lands in Britain on holiday from America. It's a recognisable landscape except for the military presence on the streets, barbed wire fences and a general feeling of unease. But the story unfolds away from the city in a rural idyll where Daisy's cousins hope to entertain her for the summer, a daunting task because Daisy is brittle,...
- 9/30/2013
- Digital Spy
As the romantically-inclined pair of teens in the World War III drama How I Live Now, Saoirse Ronan and George MacKay have nothing but praise for each other’s work. We sat down with the pair after the premiere of their film at theToronto International Film Festival to talk about the movie.
Adapted from the 2004 young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, the movie is about Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), an unlikeable but strong-willed American who finds herself in the adult-free company of her distant cousins when World War III breaks out.
Along with the eldest of the clan, Eddie (George MacKay), the pair continues to look after the youngsters before the war separates Daisy and young cousin Piper (Harley Bird) from the boys of the family, including The Impossible’s Tom Holland. Determined to meet up again, the girls embark on a journey on foot across treacherous territory through the backwoods of wartime England.
Adapted from the 2004 young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, the movie is about Daisy (Saoirse Ronan), an unlikeable but strong-willed American who finds herself in the adult-free company of her distant cousins when World War III breaks out.
Along with the eldest of the clan, Eddie (George MacKay), the pair continues to look after the youngsters before the war separates Daisy and young cousin Piper (Harley Bird) from the boys of the family, including The Impossible’s Tom Holland. Determined to meet up again, the girls embark on a journey on foot across treacherous territory through the backwoods of wartime England.
- 9/12/2013
- by Rachel West
- Cineplex
Kevin Macdonald has teenagers in the crosshairs with this post-nuclear puppy love story
When the voices in Daisy's head aren't calling her a fucking loser, they're reciting hackneyed pop wisdom ("If you don't give up, you can't fail") or ticking her off about skin care and hydration. Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is your catalogue order troubled teen, re-located from California to spend a summer with her cousins in their charming English farmhouse. The cousins are cheeky Isaac (Tom Holland), sweet-natured Piper (Harley Bird) and big, brooding Edmond (George MacKay), a cow-whispering hottie with mud on his boots and sex on the brain. Daisy's aunt (Anna Chancellor) is too preoccupied with work to pay their rough and tumble much attention. So the kids play tag, fly hawks, go swimming. Daisy sits moodily to one side, addled by inner demons.
Still, nothing clears the mind like armageddon. World war three hits the Blyton-esque brood just after sandwiches.
When the voices in Daisy's head aren't calling her a fucking loser, they're reciting hackneyed pop wisdom ("If you don't give up, you can't fail") or ticking her off about skin care and hydration. Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is your catalogue order troubled teen, re-located from California to spend a summer with her cousins in their charming English farmhouse. The cousins are cheeky Isaac (Tom Holland), sweet-natured Piper (Harley Bird) and big, brooding Edmond (George MacKay), a cow-whispering hottie with mud on his boots and sex on the brain. Daisy's aunt (Anna Chancellor) is too preoccupied with work to pay their rough and tumble much attention. So the kids play tag, fly hawks, go swimming. Daisy sits moodily to one side, addled by inner demons.
Still, nothing clears the mind like armageddon. World war three hits the Blyton-esque brood just after sandwiches.
- 9/11/2013
- by Henry Barnes, Kevin Macdonald
- The Guardian - Film News
What starts as potentially interesting apocalyptic speculative fiction devolves into dreary sub-Hunger Games survivalism and banal teen romance in How I Live Now. Young Irish actress Saorise Ronan is almost always worth watching, but not especially in this drippy outing, in which she morphs from sullen teen brat to can-do wilderness heroine under the influence of an attractive red-headed hawk trainer. Commercial prospects look modest. Director Kevin Macdonald's scene-setting is mildly intriguing, if mostly because so much information is withheld in this adaptation of a novel by Meg Rosoff. Disagreeable American punk Daisy (Ronan) unwillingly arrives
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- 9/11/2013
- by Todd McCarthy
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's hard to throw a stone in Hollywood without hitting a Young Adult novel turned quickly-optioned screenplay. Nine times out of ten the story involves mythological creatures or futuristic themes. So you would be forgiven for dismissing the big screen adaptation of Meg Rosoff's 2004 novel How I Live Now as yet another sci-fi-ish Young Adult adventure. And in some respects you would be right. Yes, this film of the same name follows the similar tropes of eschewing hard character development for the convenient empowerment of teenage romantic love. But it does so with the steady hand of an accomplished director that is able to avoid the pitfalls that many of these films fall into and ultimately deliver a rather enjoyable character journey. The...
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- 9/11/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Tiff Review: Kevin Macdonald’s ‘How I Live Now’ Starring Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, & George MacKay
Note the title, “How I Live Now,” and its absence of colons, commas, or other punctuation implying further installments—it’s the first sign of the crucial immediacy to Meg Rosoff’s 2004 Ya novel, now brought to the screen by “Last King of Scotland” director Kevin Macdonald. The second is impossible to miss—a nuclear bomb detonation in near-future London—and while the film delivers a dystopian teen romance in the center of its aftermath, an unnerving atmosphere and surprising brutality actually creates tangible jeopardy and tension throughout. That clash of R-rated approach and broad melodrama proves an uneven pitch at times but Macdonald’s signature intensity, combined with another sneak attack performance from Saoirse Ronan, assembles a thrilling genre entry that stands firmly alongside its contemporaries in terms of quality. The apocalyptic stakes are pushed to the fringes initially—not for narrative convenience but for the narcissism of the film’s 15-year-old American.
- 9/10/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Please note that this is a capsule review. Our full review is under embargo until the film’s release date, which is October 4th.
Taken from the award-winning 2004 novel by Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now tells the story of Daisy (Saoirse Ronin), a disaffected young American sent to rural England to stay with distant family. The oddball clan is helmed by Aunt Penn (Anna Chancellor), a woman so entangled in her government job that she’s content to let her 9-year-old daughter Piper (Harley Bird) and 14-year-old son Isaac (Tom Holland) run amok in the woods surrounding the estate. The only real parent in the household is 17-year-old Edmond (George MacKay), a quiet animal lover who seems to have a gift for reading peoples’ minds.
When Aunt Penn heads to Geneva on a work assignment, the children are left waiting for their temporary caretaker when a bomb hits London,...
Taken from the award-winning 2004 novel by Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now tells the story of Daisy (Saoirse Ronin), a disaffected young American sent to rural England to stay with distant family. The oddball clan is helmed by Aunt Penn (Anna Chancellor), a woman so entangled in her government job that she’s content to let her 9-year-old daughter Piper (Harley Bird) and 14-year-old son Isaac (Tom Holland) run amok in the woods surrounding the estate. The only real parent in the household is 17-year-old Edmond (George MacKay), a quiet animal lover who seems to have a gift for reading peoples’ minds.
When Aunt Penn heads to Geneva on a work assignment, the children are left waiting for their temporary caretaker when a bomb hits London,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Kristal Cooper
- We Got This Covered
Natasha Khan has recorded a duet with Jon Hopkins for the soundtrack of Kevin Macdonald's new film How I Live Now.
'Garden's Heart' is released via Parlophone as a standalone digital single on October 7.
Khan, who releases her solo music as Bat For Lashes, has made her directorial debut for the single's video.
The promo features Saoirse Ronan, who stars in How I Live Now, based on the young adult novel by Meg Rosoff.
George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird and Anna Chancellor also feature in the movie, which is released on October 4.
Hopkins scores the movie, whose soundtrack also features songs by Daughter, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention and Amanda Palmer. It is released in November via Just Music.
"Having been fans of each other's work for some time, Khan and Hopkins have been looking for the right project to collaborate on," said Parlophone.
"While Hopkins was working...
'Garden's Heart' is released via Parlophone as a standalone digital single on October 7.
Khan, who releases her solo music as Bat For Lashes, has made her directorial debut for the single's video.
The promo features Saoirse Ronan, who stars in How I Live Now, based on the young adult novel by Meg Rosoff.
George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird and Anna Chancellor also feature in the movie, which is released on October 4.
Hopkins scores the movie, whose soundtrack also features songs by Daughter, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention and Amanda Palmer. It is released in November via Just Music.
"Having been fans of each other's work for some time, Khan and Hopkins have been looking for the right project to collaborate on," said Parlophone.
"While Hopkins was working...
- 9/2/2013
- Digital Spy
Sneak Peek director Kevin Macdonald's 'doomsday' feature "How I Live Now", based on the 2004 novel of same name by author Meg Rosoff. Written by Tony Grisoni, Jeremy Brock and Penelope Skinner, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay, Corey Johnson and Sabrina Dicken:
"...'Daisy' (Ronan), a teenager from New York City, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with 'Eddie' (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st-century world war.
"Along with Eddie’s younger siblings, 'Isaac' (Holland) and 'Piper' (Harley Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is...
"...'Daisy' (Ronan), a teenager from New York City, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with 'Eddie' (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st-century world war.
"Along with Eddie’s younger siblings, 'Isaac' (Holland) and 'Piper' (Harley Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is...
- 8/29/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Two weeks ago we shared an official trailer for Kevin Macdonald‘s doomsday thriller How I Live Now, which is set to hit theaters this November. Now, we’re back to add another poster and 20 new images with lovely Saoirse Ronan, aka an American girl on holiday in the English countryside who finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as the third world war breaks out. Definitely sounds (and looks) promising, give it a look… Based on the 2004 novel of same name by Meg Rosoff, the movie is set in the near-future UK, and follows Ronan’s character – an American teenager named Daisy,...
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- 8/28/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Magnolia Pictures has revealed the poster for Kevin Macdonald's doomsday thriller How I Live Now , starring Saoirse Ronan and based on the award winning novel by Meg Rosoff. Check it out below! Set in the near-future UK, Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay). But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense news reports of an escalating conflict in Europe. As the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting to survive. How I Live Now is scheduled for a limited release on November 8. If you missed the trailer that came...
- 8/27/2013
- Comingsoon.net
See the second poster for Kevin McDonald's adaptation of Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan Jeremy Brock, Tony Grisoni and Penelope Skinner script, with a cast also including Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay, Harley Bird and Natasha Jonas. Daisy (Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie's younger siblings...
- 8/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Canadian film festival expands its programme with 12 more world premieres
Woody Allen pimping John Turturro, Kevin Kline impersonating Errol Flynn, Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche as scrapping teachers... these are just a few of the attractions just added to the Toronto film festival, which has announced a string of new films on top of its already impressive line-up.
Fading Gigolo, the film featuring the paid-for-sex team of Allen and Turturro, is Turturro's fifth film as director. Allen plays a bookstore owner who sends his reluctant friend Turturro ("an experienced lover") over to Sharon Stone in return for a "small fee". It will have its world premiere in Toronto, as will Words and Pictures, in which Owen and Binoche play a literature and art teacher respectively, setting up a competition as to whether "words" or "pictures" are more important. Fred Schepisi directs. Owen will have another film in the festival, Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties,...
Woody Allen pimping John Turturro, Kevin Kline impersonating Errol Flynn, Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche as scrapping teachers... these are just a few of the attractions just added to the Toronto film festival, which has announced a string of new films on top of its already impressive line-up.
Fading Gigolo, the film featuring the paid-for-sex team of Allen and Turturro, is Turturro's fifth film as director. Allen plays a bookstore owner who sends his reluctant friend Turturro ("an experienced lover") over to Sharon Stone in return for a "small fee". It will have its world premiere in Toronto, as will Words and Pictures, in which Owen and Binoche play a literature and art teacher respectively, setting up a competition as to whether "words" or "pictures" are more important. Fred Schepisi directs. Owen will have another film in the festival, Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties,...
- 8/14/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Saoirse Ronan (The Host) is the star of this new drama called How I Live Now. It comes from The Last King of Scotland director Kevin MacDonald, and the story centers on a teenage American girl named Daisy who is sent to live with some relatives in the English countryside when World War III breaks out. Things seem to start out well, but eventually the war reaches the countryside and Daisy is forced into a situation of survival and protection of her cousins.
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Meg Rosoff. I've never read it, but the movie looks like it will be really good. Here's the story description:
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The...
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Meg Rosoff. I've never read it, but the movie looks like it will be really good. Here's the story description:
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The...
- 8/13/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
[Click on the poster to see it in hi-res] Saoirse Ronan stars in the first trailer for How I Live Now, and you can also see the new quad poster, above. Based on the young adult novel by Meg Rosoff and directed by The Last King Of Scotland’s Kevin Macdonald, the hard-to-categorise romantic drama sees Daisy (Ronan) leaving America to spend time with her cousins in England. Initially frosty, Daisy soon establishes a bond with her cousins, particularly the eldest, Edmond (George MacKay), with whom she develops a romantic relationship. ...
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- 8/13/2013
- by Matt Maytum
- TotalFilm
A teen struggling to survive in the dystopian future -- no, we're not talking about "The Hunger Games," but rather "How I Live Now," an adaptation of Meg Rosoff's popular novel.
The movie's new trailer shows an American teen named Daisy ("Hanna" star Saoirse Ronan) moving to the English countryside when World War III breaks out.
"Before the war, I thought one day the world around me would start to make sense," she says.
Once there, she falls for the handsome Edmond (George MacKay) and they enjoy an idyllic summer, until the bomb drops -- literally. Then soldiers come to take them away, separating the young lovers.
"Wherever they take you, find a way to get back here," Edmond pleads. When Daisy manages to escape her camp, she embarks on a dangerous journey to return home.
"How I Live Now" also stars Tom Holland and Anna Chancellor, and opens October 4 in the U.
The movie's new trailer shows an American teen named Daisy ("Hanna" star Saoirse Ronan) moving to the English countryside when World War III breaks out.
"Before the war, I thought one day the world around me would start to make sense," she says.
Once there, she falls for the handsome Edmond (George MacKay) and they enjoy an idyllic summer, until the bomb drops -- literally. Then soldiers come to take them away, separating the young lovers.
"Wherever they take you, find a way to get back here," Edmond pleads. When Daisy manages to escape her camp, she embarks on a dangerous journey to return home.
"How I Live Now" also stars Tom Holland and Anna Chancellor, and opens October 4 in the U.
- 8/13/2013
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
The new trailer has arrived for eOne's How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan in the Kevin MacDonald film adapted from Meg Rosoff's award-winning novel. Jeremy Brock, Tony Grisoni and Penelope Skinner wrote the screenplay. Daisy (Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie's younger siblings...
- 8/13/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Magnolia Pictures on Monday revealed a first look at Kevin MacDonald's The Last King of Scotland follow-up, starring Saoirse Ronan. How I Live Now, based on Meg Rosoff's novel of the same name, is set in the U.K. in the near future, where the nation is at war. Ronan plays Daisy, an American teen who ventures overseas to live with her aunt and cousins in the countryside. When her aunt is stuck in Norway and England is invaded by an unnamed force, Daisy and her cousins are left to live in a utopian-type setting, unencumbered by adults.
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- 8/13/2013
- by Sophie Schillaci
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In recent years, everything from vampires to aliens to zombies have being given the romantic treatment, and now it is the turn of the actual end of the world in Kevin McDonald's (The Last King of Scotland) How I Live Now. Based on the young-adult novel by Meg Rosoff. Saoirse Ronan stars as Daisy, a sullen American teenager forced to spend the summer in the English countryside with her aunt and cousins. Slowly, she adapts to her new surroundings, and begins to fall in love with Eddie (George McKay). But when the world breaks out in nuclear war, she is ripped from her family, and taken far, far away. Escaping from her captors, she embarks on a terrifying to reunite with the boy she loves. How I Live Now seems to possess a harder edge than most romance movies aimed at the teenage crowd, and offers a unique take...
- 8/12/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
These days, everything seems to be all "post-apocalypse this," "post-apocalypse that," but what about the pre-apocalypse? (Though, in a way, all movies set in the present are pre-apocalypse movies.) Which brings us to How I Live Now, a film starring Saoirse Ronan as an American teen who goes to stay with British relatives right before World War III breaks out. The film is an adaptation of an acclaimed novel by Meg Rosoff and is directed by The Last King of Scotland's Kevin MacDonald. It will be released in the U.K. on October 18, with a U.S. date yet to be announced. Hopefully, we'll get it Stateside before the atomic-bomb-caused milk-rain starts to fall. ...
- 8/12/2013
- by Jesse David Fox
- Vulture
The end of times is a popular trope for movies, especially summer fare, and from World War Z to This is the End to Pacific Rim, the apocalypse has been treated in a number of different ways this season alone but rarely does the point of view belong to a teenage girl.
Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now, an adaptation of the award-winning young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, finds grumpy adolescent Elizabeth (a Blondie-d Saoirse Ronan), who goes by Daisy thank you very much, shuffled off to the English countryside from her native New York and though initially upset to be away from home finds herself falling for Edmond (George McKay) and basking in the idyllic surroundings until a war breaks out and changes everything.
Check out the trailer for How I Live Now.
Kevin Macdonald's How I Live Now, an adaptation of the award-winning young adult novel by Meg Rosoff, finds grumpy adolescent Elizabeth (a Blondie-d Saoirse Ronan), who goes by Daisy thank you very much, shuffled off to the English countryside from her native New York and though initially upset to be away from home finds herself falling for Edmond (George McKay) and basking in the idyllic surroundings until a war breaks out and changes everything.
Check out the trailer for How I Live Now.
- 8/12/2013
- by Andrea Miller
- Cineplex
It seems that this summer’s end-of-the-world movie trend (World War Z, This is the End, The World’s End, Pacific Rim…I’ll keep going) is getting extended into the fall with another film about a bleak future, this time starring a mad as hell Saoirse Ronan. Kevin MacDonald’s How I Live Now, based on the massively popular Ya novel by Meg Rosoff, tells the story of American girl Daisy (seriously, guys, screw off if you call her Elizabeth – only her Dad calls her that, and he’s totally lame), who is sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives. Fortunately, Cute Boy Edmund (George MacKay) lives nearby, and they strike up the kind of love you only dream about. Their idyllic summer is cut short when Wwiii begins and England becomes a violent military state; Daisy spends the rest of the film trying to escape her captors and find her lost love because...
- 8/12/2013
- by Samantha Wilson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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