Being the first to pioneer a new, unfamiliar frontier can ultimately prove to be a challenge for even the strongest people, as seen in the sci-fi thriller, ‘Settlers.’ First-time feature film writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller crafted an intimate, character-driven drama that explores how a small, close-knit family must conquer the daunting wilderness on their own without […]
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- 2/9/2022
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier, llsa (Sofia Boutella) and Reza (Johnny Lee Miller) inhabit a desolate farmstead with their child Remmy (Brooklynn Prince and Nell Tiger Free). They work the land and shield their daughter from the dangers of the harsh surroundings. When hostile intruders threaten to expel them from the compound the family is forced to fight to survive in this science-fiction thrill ride. Rlje Films, a part of AMC Networks, will release Wyatt Rockefeller's sci-fi film Settlers on DVD and Blu-ray on February 15th. Screen Anarchy has two (2) copies to give away to our readers in the U.S. Settlers is written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller (shorts “Groomed” and “Entropy”), and stars Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service,...
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- 2/8/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, will release the sci-fi film Settlers on DVD and Blu-ray on February 15, 2022. Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, IFC Midnight released Settlers in theaters, on Digital Rental & VOD on July 23, 2021.
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Now you can win the Blu-ray of Settlers. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite Sci-Fi Thriller is (I’d say Event Horizon. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Settlers is written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller (shorts “Groomed” and “Entropy”), and stars Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Atomic Blonde), Ismael Cruz Cordova (“Berlin Station,” Mary Queen of Scots), Brooklynn Prince (“Home Before Dark,...
Check out the Trailer:
Now you can win the Blu-ray of Settlers. We Are Movie Geeks has two to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite Sci-Fi Thriller is (I’d say Event Horizon. It’s so easy!)
1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary
Settlers is written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller (shorts “Groomed” and “Entropy”), and stars Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service, Atomic Blonde), Ismael Cruz Cordova (“Berlin Station,” Mary Queen of Scots), Brooklynn Prince (“Home Before Dark,...
- 2/7/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: After signing his new overall deal with Netflix, Zack Snyder is moving fast to get that first film under the deal in front of cameras, as sources tell Deadline he has set Sofia Boutella to star in Rebel Moon. Snyder is directing the film as well as co-writing it with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad, based on a story by Snyder and Johnstad. Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller and Snyder will produce for The Stone Quarry along with Eric Newman for Grand Electric.
Following the success of his first film with the streamer, Army of the Dead, Zack and Deborah Snyder’s The Stone Quarry signed a first-look deal with the studio and soon after named Rebel Moon as Snyder’s next big feature. The 300 director has been meeting with talent for months for the lead role and recently cut it down to a small group of actresses, which included Boutella,...
Following the success of his first film with the streamer, Army of the Dead, Zack and Deborah Snyder’s The Stone Quarry signed a first-look deal with the studio and soon after named Rebel Moon as Snyder’s next big feature. The 300 director has been meeting with talent for months for the lead role and recently cut it down to a small group of actresses, which included Boutella,...
- 11/2/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer, John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella are headlining the Neon horror feature Cuckoo, which Tilman Singer will write and direct. Neon is also financing the project with an eye to shoot in April.
Cuckoo is Tilman’s second movie following his supernatural horror film Luz, which debuted at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Best Horror Film at Fantastic Fest and Best Film at the Milan Film Festival. He’s bringing his Luz team back together for Cuckoo including Dp Paul Faltz, composer Simon Waskow and production designer Dario Mendez Acosta.
Jan Bluthardt, Zita Hanrot, and Proschat Madani round out the cast. Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment are producing along with Markus Halberschmidt and Maria Tsigka of Fiction Park, and Thor Bradwell.
Schafer made her acting debut portraying Jules in the HBO Emmy-winning series Euphoria. She also...
Cuckoo is Tilman’s second movie following his supernatural horror film Luz, which debuted at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Best Horror Film at Fantastic Fest and Best Film at the Milan Film Festival. He’s bringing his Luz team back together for Cuckoo including Dp Paul Faltz, composer Simon Waskow and production designer Dario Mendez Acosta.
Jan Bluthardt, Zita Hanrot, and Proschat Madani round out the cast. Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment are producing along with Markus Halberschmidt and Maria Tsigka of Fiction Park, and Thor Bradwell.
Schafer made her acting debut portraying Jules in the HBO Emmy-winning series Euphoria. She also...
- 8/31/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Film producer and director Wyatt Rockefeller spoke about his experience in filming his new movie, Settlers, in his new uInterview. “It’s about a young girl and her parents living on the remote outskirts of the martian frontier on a homestead and just really getting by,” Rockefeller told uInterview Founder Erik Meers. “They’ve got each other and they’re […]
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- 8/10/2021
- by Alexandra Llorca
- Uinterview
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #232: How to make an epic Sci-Fi Drama Feature with...
For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.
The Filmmakers Podcast #232: How to make an epic Sci-Fi Drama Feature with...
- 8/9/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Wyatt Rockefeller’s Martian-set drama about a family living a lie is a quietly impressive piece of work
Independent film-makers working on their debuts usually have a tough time getting the money together, mastering the art of networking and finding influential contacts. That may not have been a problem for 36-year-old debut feature director Wyatt Rockefeller, who only recently took a master’s degree in film at NYU; before that, he was part of President Barack Obama’s administration at the Environmental Protection Agency. He is also the great-great-grandson of John D Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. But Wyatt Rockefeller’s movie is no mere vanity project. He has written and directed an interesting sci-fi western in a starkly pessimistic vein, with an audaciously developed narrative and nice performances; all in all, the work of someone serious about cinema.
Jonny Lee Miller and Sofia Boutella play Reza and Ilsa, a...
Independent film-makers working on their debuts usually have a tough time getting the money together, mastering the art of networking and finding influential contacts. That may not have been a problem for 36-year-old debut feature director Wyatt Rockefeller, who only recently took a master’s degree in film at NYU; before that, he was part of President Barack Obama’s administration at the Environmental Protection Agency. He is also the great-great-grandson of John D Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil. But Wyatt Rockefeller’s movie is no mere vanity project. He has written and directed an interesting sci-fi western in a starkly pessimistic vein, with an audaciously developed narrative and nice performances; all in all, the work of someone serious about cinema.
Jonny Lee Miller and Sofia Boutella play Reza and Ilsa, a...
- 7/28/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
"Settlers" is a new science fiction feature, written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, starring Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller, now playing in theaters:
"...following an ecological disaster, a family from Earth eke out an existence on a desolate 'Mars' homestead. 'Reza' (Miller) and his wife 'Ilsa' (Boutella), do their best to protect nine-year-old daughter 'Remmy' (Brooklynn Prince) from the perils of this forbidding landscape. But when hostile outsiders appear in the surrounding hills, Remmy realizes the disturbing reality her parents have been keeping from her..."
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"...following an ecological disaster, a family from Earth eke out an existence on a desolate 'Mars' homestead. 'Reza' (Miller) and his wife 'Ilsa' (Boutella), do their best to protect nine-year-old daughter 'Remmy' (Brooklynn Prince) from the perils of this forbidding landscape. But when hostile outsiders appear in the surrounding hills, Remmy realizes the disturbing reality her parents have been keeping from her..."
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- 7/27/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
As our society has watched the likes of billionaire Richard Branson and Amazon mastermind Jeff Bezos proclaim themselves interstellar pioneers with their recent self-funded forays to the edge of space, it’s serendipitous to see a newly released movie about people inhabiting Mars following an ecological disaster on Earth and a story that unfolds where things predictably go awry. Though said effort, entitled “Settlers” and helmed by Wyatt Rockefeller, foregoes the sleek spacecraft Branson & Bezos have both commandeered in favor of a stark, eroded landscape appropriate for the red planet.
Continue reading ‘Settlers’ Does Home Invasion & Stockholm Syndrome In Space When They Could’ve Stayed Home [Review] at The Playlist.
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- 7/24/2021
- by Brian Farvour
- The Playlist
Settlers IFC Midnight Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Wyatt Rockefeller Writer: Wyatt Rockefeller Cast: Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Jonny Lee Miller Screened at: Critics’ link, LA, 7/6/21 Opens: July 23rd, 2021 Our planet is dying, and though some protest that science is all one big conspiracy theory, […]
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- 7/23/2021
- by abe
- ShockYa
Uniquely American, the Western genre has changed radically over the last century, from nationalistic, myth-building propaganda to revisionist self-critique, specifically of the colonialist narrative that centered white Europeans and left indigenous peoples, in the margins at best or primitive, violent savages at worse. Less rectified than simply ignored or set aside as a once dominant genre faded into disuse, the colonialist-imperialist narrative still exists, albeit often transposed to other settings and time periods like writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller’s feature-length debut, Settlers, a deeply unsettling, discomfiting exploration of a simple, if still provocative, thesis: Wherever we go, there we are, bringing our biases, prejudices, and propensity for violence to frontier life even in a far-flung, futuristic Martian settlement. When we first meet Reza (Jonny Lee Miller,...
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- 7/23/2021
- Screen Anarchy
Given the fanfare surrounding Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos’ recent forays into space, “Settlers” feels especially timely. Writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller uses his debut film to anticipate the next step after space travel, raising questions about both human sustainability and ownership.
In some ways, the film also calls to mind the current culture wars revolving around America's origins, with an underlying message about not repeating history.
Unlike Matt Damon’s abandoned scientist in "The Martian," Reza (Jonny Lee Miller) and Ilsa and their daughter Remmy have presumably chosen to dwell in the vast wasteland of the red planet. For nine-year-old Remmy, Earth is merely an idea, a place from which her parents hail. Mars is the only reality she has known, and from the outside looking in, it appears bleak.
Rather than over-the-top echoes of danger, there’s a natural unease to “Settlers” that comes from its stark, dystopian what-if scenarios.
In some ways, the film also calls to mind the current culture wars revolving around America's origins, with an underlying message about not repeating history.
Unlike Matt Damon’s abandoned scientist in "The Martian," Reza (Jonny Lee Miller) and Ilsa and their daughter Remmy have presumably chosen to dwell in the vast wasteland of the red planet. For nine-year-old Remmy, Earth is merely an idea, a place from which her parents hail. Mars is the only reality she has known, and from the outside looking in, it appears bleak.
Rather than over-the-top echoes of danger, there’s a natural unease to “Settlers” that comes from its stark, dystopian what-if scenarios.
- 7/22/2021
- by Ronda Racha Penrice
- The Wrap
The thing about withholding plot information is that you must generally divulge that which you’ve held back at some point. To simply ignore that your audience is in the dark as far as the big picture is concerned is a sure-fire way to lose interest. Because what’s the point then? What are we really watching if the endgame leaves its characters in the same exact place they were before? I think writer/director Wyatt Rockefeller hopes that his feature debut Settlers will succeed for no other reason than the fact that it attempts to find some semblance of circuitous repetition. When you’re dealing with science fiction colored by the selfishness and greed of humanity, that type of narrative often plays—if it provides something to latch onto.
The lead character Remmy isn’t enough despite being, for all intents and purposes, mankind’s last hope: a precocious...
The lead character Remmy isn’t enough despite being, for all intents and purposes, mankind’s last hope: a precocious...
- 7/20/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Principal photography has started in Tunisia on contemporary drama Contra, set in the aftermath of the powerful anti-government protests that provoked a wave of change in the region, known as the Arab spring.
The film (previously known as Before Spring) is being directed by Egyptian-British filmmaker Lotfy Nathan and will star French Tunisian actor Adam Bessa, known for his performances in recent action movies Mosul and Extraction.
A modern day parable about resistance, the film centers on the story of Ali, a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life, making a precarious living selling contraband gas at the local black market. When his father suddenly dies, he’s forced to take charge of his two younger sisters and their impending eviction. The movie will feature a combination of local actors and non-professionals.
Nathan’s narrative debut, shot on 35mm film, is being produced by Julie Viez (Long Day’s Journey Into Night...
The film (previously known as Before Spring) is being directed by Egyptian-British filmmaker Lotfy Nathan and will star French Tunisian actor Adam Bessa, known for his performances in recent action movies Mosul and Extraction.
A modern day parable about resistance, the film centers on the story of Ali, a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life, making a precarious living selling contraband gas at the local black market. When his father suddenly dies, he’s forced to take charge of his two younger sisters and their impending eviction. The movie will feature a combination of local actors and non-professionals.
Nathan’s narrative debut, shot on 35mm film, is being produced by Julie Viez (Long Day’s Journey Into Night...
- 7/10/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
London-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has inked the key first deals on psychological thriller “John and the Hole,” directed by Pascual Sisto, on the back of the film’s virtual market premiere at Cannes. The film was written by Nicolás Giacobone, an Oscar-winner with “Birdman,” who adapted his short story “El Pozo.”
“John and the Hole” sold in the U.K./Ireland to Vertigo Releasing, in Australia and New Zealand to Rialto Distribution, and in South Korea to the Coup Corporation. As previously reported, IFC Midnight will release the film in the U.S. later this summer.
Following the film’s selection for the Cannes 2020 Label, and on the back of its Sundance 2021 competition selection, a physical market premiere will be staged for international buyers on Sunday in Cannes, with Sisto in attendance.
Described by Variety’s Peter Debruge as “calculated and precise [with] director Pascual Sisto weaving...
“John and the Hole” sold in the U.K./Ireland to Vertigo Releasing, in Australia and New Zealand to Rialto Distribution, and in South Korea to the Coup Corporation. As previously reported, IFC Midnight will release the film in the U.S. later this summer.
Following the film’s selection for the Cannes 2020 Label, and on the back of its Sundance 2021 competition selection, a physical market premiere will be staged for international buyers on Sunday in Cannes, with Sisto in attendance.
Described by Variety’s Peter Debruge as “calculated and precise [with] director Pascual Sisto weaving...
- 7/8/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
If there’s life on Mars, there must also be death on Mars: That’s the plainest takeaway from “Settlers,” a stark, scorched, occasionally jolting sci-fi slow burn in which relocating to the red planet can’t save humanity from its basest instincts. Tracing the tumultuous household dynamics of four ex-earthlings over the course of a decade, as they attempt to forge a new life on a hostile surface, Wyatt Rockefeller’s polished, confident debut feature succeeds most vividly as a feat of minimalist world-building — constructing an overwhelmingly desolate Martian farmstead in South Africa’s Namaqualand desert, in which avenues of exploration feel infinite, and escape impossible. Rockefeller’s story world might indeed be more richly imagined than his story, which tends to idle after a tensely wound opening. Still, a fine, surprising ensemble lends human heft to this Tribeca premiere, which could springboard its writer-director to more lavish visions.
- 6/26/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Further new deals include Cis, Baltics, Middle East.
Paris-based distributor Originals Factory has acquired French rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s sci-fi Settlers from Film Constellation at this week’s online Pre-Cannes Screenings.
Originals Factory will release the film day-and-date in cinemas and on VoD.
Film Constellation has also sealed deals on the film for the Cis and Baltics (VolgaFilm) and the Middle East and North Africa (Falcon Films). They follow previously signed deals for the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
IFC Midnight will release the film in the US later in the summer.
Paris-based distributor Originals Factory has acquired French rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s sci-fi Settlers from Film Constellation at this week’s online Pre-Cannes Screenings.
Originals Factory will release the film day-and-date in cinemas and on VoD.
Film Constellation has also sealed deals on the film for the Cis and Baltics (VolgaFilm) and the Middle East and North Africa (Falcon Films). They follow previously signed deals for the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
IFC Midnight will release the film in the US later in the summer.
- 6/24/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Written & Directed By Wyatt Rockefeller Starring Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz CÓRDOVA, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Jonny Lee Miller On a remote homestead amongst the Martian frontier, a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine-year-old …
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- 6/22/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Settlers Trailer — Wyatt Rockefeller‘s Settlers (2021) movie trailer has been released by IFC Midnight. The Settlers trailer stars Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Matthew Van Leeve, and Natalie Walsh. Crew Wyatt Rockefeller wrote the screenplay for Settlers. Nitin Sawhney created the music for the film. Willie [...]
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- 6/20/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Settlers" is a new science fiction feature, written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, starring Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller releasing July 23, 2021:
"...following an ecological disaster, a family from Earth eke out an existence on a desolate 'Mars' homestead. 'Reza' (Miller) and his wife 'Ilsa' (Boutella), do their best to protect nine-year-old daughter 'Remmy' (Brooklynn Prince) from the perils of this forbidding landscape. But when hostile outsiders appear in the surrounding hills, Remmy realizes the disturbing reality her parents have been keeping from her..."
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"...following an ecological disaster, a family from Earth eke out an existence on a desolate 'Mars' homestead. 'Reza' (Miller) and his wife 'Ilsa' (Boutella), do their best to protect nine-year-old daughter 'Remmy' (Brooklynn Prince) from the perils of this forbidding landscape. But when hostile outsiders appear in the surrounding hills, Remmy realizes the disturbing reality her parents have been keeping from her..."
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- 6/18/2021
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"We left because we wanted something more." IFC Midnight has unveiled the first trailer for an intriguing sci-fi western thriller titled Settlers, which is premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival in the next few days. On a remote homestead amongst the Martian frontier, a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, they must deal with the truth about who they really are. Starring Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller, and Brooklynn Prince as the family, plus Nell Tiger Free, Ismael Cruz Cordova, and Natalie Walsh. Settlers was filmed on location in the isolated desert area of Vioolsdift, situated in the Northern Cape in South Africa. The film is actually producer / filmmaker Wyatt Rockefeller's feature directorial debut, and it's among the NYU Production Lab's supported projects. As a sci-fi geek, I am...
- 6/17/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Film Constellation Boards Cannes Market Bound Psychological Thriller ‘John and the Hole’ (Exclusive)
Production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded international sales on psychological thriller “John and the Hole.” The film is directed by Spanish helmer Pascual Sisto, who was selected as one of the top 10 directors to watch by Variety this year, and is written by Oscar winning “Birdman” scribe Nicolás Giacobone, adapted from his short story “El Pozo.”
Following the film’s Cannes 2020 Label and Sundance 2021 competition selection, a virtual market premiere will be orchestrated for international buyers in June, combined with a physical screening in Cannes in July.
“John and the Hole” plays out the unsettling reality of 13 year-old John, who decides to hold his affluent family captive in an underground bunker in the land behind their house. Left without supervision, John experiences newfound independence, exploring the difficult passage from childhood freedom to adult responsibility.
The film stars Emmy-winner Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Charlie Shotwell, BAFTA winner Jennifer Ehle,...
Following the film’s Cannes 2020 Label and Sundance 2021 competition selection, a virtual market premiere will be orchestrated for international buyers in June, combined with a physical screening in Cannes in July.
“John and the Hole” plays out the unsettling reality of 13 year-old John, who decides to hold his affluent family captive in an underground bunker in the land behind their house. Left without supervision, John experiences newfound independence, exploring the difficult passage from childhood freedom to adult responsibility.
The film stars Emmy-winner Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Charlie Shotwell, BAFTA winner Jennifer Ehle,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Brooklynn Prince also stars in the film, which is currently in post.
Wyatt Rockefeller’s UK sci-fi Settlers has acquired distribution in key territories through sales agent Film Constellation.
New deals for the film include the UK (Vertigo Releasing), Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy (Koch Films) and Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution). Negotiations for further territories are ongoing; the film sold to IFC Midnight for the US in April, with a release set for this summer.
Sofia Boutella stars as Ilsa, a refugee from Earth who has settled with her husband, daughter Remmy and a domesticated robot on the harsh,...
Wyatt Rockefeller’s UK sci-fi Settlers has acquired distribution in key territories through sales agent Film Constellation.
New deals for the film include the UK (Vertigo Releasing), Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy (Koch Films) and Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution). Negotiations for further territories are ongoing; the film sold to IFC Midnight for the US in April, with a release set for this summer.
Sofia Boutella stars as Ilsa, a refugee from Earth who has settled with her husband, daughter Remmy and a domesticated robot on the harsh,...
- 5/10/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s “Settlers.”
The film, which marks Rockefeller’s feature narrative debut, stars Sofia Boutella or “Kingsman: The Secret Service” fame, and Brooklynn Prince, who first captured audiences’ hearts in “The Florida Project.” Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller round out the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film in summer 2021.
“Settlers” is set a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, where a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine-year-old Remmy (Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Boutella) and father (Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her.
“We are excited ‘Settlers’ has found a home with IFC Midnight,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films said. “Wyatt Rockefeller is a talented new voice in...
The film, which marks Rockefeller’s feature narrative debut, stars Sofia Boutella or “Kingsman: The Secret Service” fame, and Brooklynn Prince, who first captured audiences’ hearts in “The Florida Project.” Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller round out the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film in summer 2021.
“Settlers” is set a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, where a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine-year-old Remmy (Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Boutella) and father (Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her.
“We are excited ‘Settlers’ has found a home with IFC Midnight,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films said. “Wyatt Rockefeller is a talented new voice in...
- 4/14/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
London-based production, finance and sales outfit “Film Constellation” has boarded international sales on dystopian sci-fi thriller “Settlers,” directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, and starring Sofia Boutella, whose credits include “Atomic Blonde,” “The Mummy,” the “Kingsman” franchise and “Star Trek: Beyond.”
Boutella plays Ilsa, a refugee from Earth, who has settled with her husband and daughter on the harsh and arid terrain of a Martian outpost. With nothing but a few crops and a domesticated robot, the family clings to hope for a better life, but everything is turned upside down when a group of armed assailants appear on the surrounding hills. Mother and daughter must then adapt at all cost to survive until it’s time to finally strike back.
The movie, which was shot on the remote border of South Africa and Namibia, is now in post-production.
The cast also includes Brooklynn Prince, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller.
Boutella plays Ilsa, a refugee from Earth, who has settled with her husband and daughter on the harsh and arid terrain of a Martian outpost. With nothing but a few crops and a domesticated robot, the family clings to hope for a better life, but everything is turned upside down when a group of armed assailants appear on the surrounding hills. Mother and daughter must then adapt at all cost to survive until it’s time to finally strike back.
The movie, which was shot on the remote border of South Africa and Namibia, is now in post-production.
The cast also includes Brooklynn Prince, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller.
- 4/12/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar-winner Common and Elementary alum Jonny Lee are set to co-star opposite Keke Palmer in the Steel Springs Pictures thriller Alice from writer and director Krystin Ver Linden. Inspired by the true events, the plot follows a woman of servitude in 1800s Georgia, who escapes the 55 acre confines of her captor to discover the shocking reality that exists beyond the tree line… it’s 1973.
Steel Springs’ Peter Lawson is producing the project with executive producers Jose Agustin Valdes, Luisa Fernanda Espinosa, and Palmer. Steel Springs is fully financing and will commence production this August in Georgia.
Recording artist and actor and actor Common stars in Tate Taylor’s upcoming drama Ava with Jessica Chastain and the sci-fi feature Nine Lives also opposite Miller. Earlier this month, Common and Palmer also co-hosted the YouTube fundraiser Bear Witness, Take Action, dedicated to amplifying and developing the voices of Black creators,...
Steel Springs’ Peter Lawson is producing the project with executive producers Jose Agustin Valdes, Luisa Fernanda Espinosa, and Palmer. Steel Springs is fully financing and will commence production this August in Georgia.
Recording artist and actor and actor Common stars in Tate Taylor’s upcoming drama Ava with Jessica Chastain and the sci-fi feature Nine Lives also opposite Miller. Earlier this month, Common and Palmer also co-hosted the YouTube fundraiser Bear Witness, Take Action, dedicated to amplifying and developing the voices of Black creators,...
- 6/24/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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