Clockwise from top left: Eileen (Neon), Sympathy For The Devil (Rlje Films), The Promised Land (Magnolia Pictures), Ferrari (Neon)Image: The A.V. Club
As the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters, Hulu highlights some A-list stars in indie films for its May calendar. In Eileen, Anne Hathaway...
As the summer movie season gets ready to kick off in theaters, Hulu highlights some A-list stars in indie films for its May calendar. In Eileen, Anne Hathaway...
- 5/2/2024
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Three very different movies, original, with arthouse cred and in theaters for weeks, are drawing audiences showing welcome depth and breadth in the specialty market as awards season kicks off. Nicolas Cage’s nerdy character sees his life collapse when he randomly starts appearing in people’s dreams as Dream Scenario has a solid expansion, Saltburn is attracting young crowds on the coasts, The Holdovers drawing elusive older demos to theaters.
Meanwhile, Bollywood’s Animal showcases the ongoing strength of Indian films Stateside. The revenge thriller starring Ranbir Kapoor racked up an estimated $6.14 million on about 700 screens over the three days, the second biggest opening weekend of all time for a Bollywood film in North America behind Pathaan, taking the no. 7 slot at the North. American box office.
A24’s Dream Scenario has an estimated weekend gross of about $1.69 million in a major expansion...
Meanwhile, Bollywood’s Animal showcases the ongoing strength of Indian films Stateside. The revenge thriller starring Ranbir Kapoor racked up an estimated $6.14 million on about 700 screens over the three days, the second biggest opening weekend of all time for a Bollywood film in North America behind Pathaan, taking the no. 7 slot at the North. American box office.
A24’s Dream Scenario has an estimated weekend gross of about $1.69 million in a major expansion...
- 12/3/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Animal, with Thursday previews of just over $1.25 million, looks set for the biggest North American Bollywood opening day since Brahmastra Part 1: Shiva last year. Both star Ranbir Kapoor.
The Hindi revenge thriller by Sandeep Reddy Vanga about a son’s toxic relationship with a father he idolizes opens on 700 screens (nearly 100 in Canada) with the subtitled trailer below at 81 million views. Co-stars Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol and Rashmika Mandanna. Opening numbers look especially good since the film is violent (it has the equivalent of an R rating in India), likely taking some families out of the mix.
Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Pranay Reddy Vanga, Murad Khetani, Krishan Kumar. Distributors are Moksha Movies and Nirvana Cinemas.
Neon presents Sundance-premiering Eileen with Anne Hathaway from director William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth) in limited release at six theaters. Based on the 2015 debut novel by Otessa Moshfegh,...
The Hindi revenge thriller by Sandeep Reddy Vanga about a son’s toxic relationship with a father he idolizes opens on 700 screens (nearly 100 in Canada) with the subtitled trailer below at 81 million views. Co-stars Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol and Rashmika Mandanna. Opening numbers look especially good since the film is violent (it has the equivalent of an R rating in India), likely taking some families out of the mix.
Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Pranay Reddy Vanga, Murad Khetani, Krishan Kumar. Distributors are Moksha Movies and Nirvana Cinemas.
Neon presents Sundance-premiering Eileen with Anne Hathaway from director William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth) in limited release at six theaters. Based on the 2015 debut novel by Otessa Moshfegh,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
"Everything will happen." Utopia has revealed the trailer for an indie gem from Cannes this year called The Sweet East, the new film from indie cinematographer / filmmaker Sean Price Williams. It premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, then went on to play at the Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, London, New York, Ghent, and Philadelphia Film Festivals this year. Here's the intro: "The mental, social & political disarray of the United States, filmed like a game of hopscotch or a variation on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. High school student Lillian runs away on a school trip and, through a series of encounters, traverses the spectrum of contemporary radicalism & madness, from white supremacists to Islamic radicals, from neo-punks to woke avant-gardists." Talia Ryder stars as Lillian, with an eccentric ensemble cast featuring Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Jacob Elordi, Rish Shah, Gibby Haynes, and Jack Irv.
- 11/2/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: James Franco is starring in a Middle Eastern TV crime drama penned by Shades of Blue creator Adi Hasak. Check out a teaser below.
Alongside a cast of actors who hail from the Mena region, the Oscar-nominated 127 Hours star recently wrapped on Karantina, which is being shopped for the first time at Mipcom Cannes this week. Hasak told Deadline he hopes the “gamechanger” crime drama will “do for Mena what Fauda did for Israel and Squid Game did for Korea.”
Based on the German series Tempel, Franco plays an American laying low from the FBI in Beirut who has opened a club called the Miami Rainbow Club, a “taste of Americana,” according to Hasak.
The show’s lead is Yaqoub Al Farhan as Dahab, who is released from jail and promises his paraplegic wife and teenage daughter that he will never return to a world of crime, instead...
Alongside a cast of actors who hail from the Mena region, the Oscar-nominated 127 Hours star recently wrapped on Karantina, which is being shopped for the first time at Mipcom Cannes this week. Hasak told Deadline he hopes the “gamechanger” crime drama will “do for Mena what Fauda did for Israel and Squid Game did for Korea.”
Based on the German series Tempel, Franco plays an American laying low from the FBI in Beirut who has opened a club called the Miami Rainbow Club, a “taste of Americana,” according to Hasak.
The show’s lead is Yaqoub Al Farhan as Dahab, who is released from jail and promises his paraplegic wife and teenage daughter that he will never return to a world of crime, instead...
- 10/16/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The travelogue drama also recenlty screened at Karlovy Vary.
Utopia has acquired North American rights to The Sweet East, Sean Price Williams’ drama that had its premiere in this year’s Cannes festival Directors’ Fortnight.
Los Angeles-based Utopia is planning an autumn US release for the film, which also recently screened at the Karlovy Vary festival.
Marking the solo feature directing debut of independent film cinematographer Williams, The Sweet East follows a high school student who runs away and on her travels through the US encounters everything from white supremacists to Islamic radicals.
Film critic Nick Pinkerton wrote the script...
Utopia has acquired North American rights to The Sweet East, Sean Price Williams’ drama that had its premiere in this year’s Cannes festival Directors’ Fortnight.
Los Angeles-based Utopia is planning an autumn US release for the film, which also recently screened at the Karlovy Vary festival.
Marking the solo feature directing debut of independent film cinematographer Williams, The Sweet East follows a high school student who runs away and on her travels through the US encounters everything from white supremacists to Islamic radicals.
Film critic Nick Pinkerton wrote the script...
- 7/27/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Utopia has acquired North American rights to “The Sweet East,” a contemporary travelogue that marks the feature directing debut of Sean Price Williams. The sale comes after the film debuted at Director’s Fortnight during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
Williams has a reputation as one of the most talented cinematographers in the independent film space, having previously worked with the likes of the Safdie Brothers, Alex Ross Perry, Michael Almereyda, Abel Ferrara and Albert Maysles. Here, he brings a script by cult film critic Nick Pinkerton to the screen.
Critics hailed the film as fresh and often funny, while praising the performance of Talia Ryder, who played a key supporting role in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” In “The Sweet East,” she plays Lillian, who runs away while on a school trip, encountering everyone from white supremacists and Islamic radicals to neo-punks and woke avant-gardists. The film also stars Simon Rex...
Williams has a reputation as one of the most talented cinematographers in the independent film space, having previously worked with the likes of the Safdie Brothers, Alex Ross Perry, Michael Almereyda, Abel Ferrara and Albert Maysles. Here, he brings a script by cult film critic Nick Pinkerton to the screen.
Critics hailed the film as fresh and often funny, while praising the performance of Talia Ryder, who played a key supporting role in “Never Rarely Sometimes Always.” In “The Sweet East,” she plays Lillian, who runs away while on a school trip, encountering everyone from white supremacists and Islamic radicals to neo-punks and woke avant-gardists. The film also stars Simon Rex...
- 7/27/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Sweet East’ Review: ‘Good Time’ Dp Sean Price Williams Hits the Road in Promising Feature Debut
Festival reviews just love to hype a breakout performance, to the extent that one worries about becoming the little critic that cried breakout. But here goes: Talia Ryder, lead actor in “The Sweet East,” is a star. There’s something of Kristen Stewart about her, not merely in terms of physical resemblance, but more in her gift for not just acting but reacting. That’s fortunate, because her character is generally surrounded by extremely chatty blowhards, most of them interested only in the role she might play for them in their own lives. She lies constantly about her identity and where she’s from, and these lies go down easy because nobody is particularly invested in who she might actually be — they’re too keen to fit her into their own mythology.
In debuting director Sean Price Williams’ picaresque road trip along the United States’ east coast, the most horribly...
In debuting director Sean Price Williams’ picaresque road trip along the United States’ east coast, the most horribly...
- 5/18/2023
- by Catherine Bray
- Variety Film + TV
Impulsive, young, naïve — it’s common to speak of America in such terms. Even with almost 250 years under its belt, the country can’t compete with the centuries-long histories of other empires. Descriptions focus on flaws, unrealized visions and the broken promises of the oft-cited American Dream. Sean Price Williams is keenly aware of America’s reputation, and uses his beautiful but tedious directorial debut The Sweet East to find pride in it. Both satire and patriotic statement, the picaresque adventure of Lillian (Never Rarely Sometimes Always star Talia Ryder) paints a sardonic but ultimately uninteresting portrait of America and its cultish factions.
Like most protagonists of stories like this one, Lillian is listless and a bit unmoored. The film opens with an audio of the Pledge of Allegiance before cutting to a scene of post-coital bliss between Lillian and Troy (Jack Irv). Her character is one of few words.
Like most protagonists of stories like this one, Lillian is listless and a bit unmoored. The film opens with an audio of the Pledge of Allegiance before cutting to a scene of post-coital bliss between Lillian and Troy (Jack Irv). Her character is one of few words.
- 5/18/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Match Factory has acquired international sales rights on U.S. cinematographer and filmmaker Sean Price Williams’s feature directorial debut The Sweet East ahead of its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight in May.
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, the movie is described as a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
Williams’s credits as a cinematographer include Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry...
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, the movie is described as a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life.
Williams’s credits as a cinematographer include Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry...
- 4/21/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Film is directorial debut of prolific cinematographer Sean Price Williams.
The Match Factory has boarded Sean Price Williams’ The Sweet East which world premieres next month in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, it is the first feature film directed by cinematographer Price Williams, whose credits Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2018) and the Safdie brothers Good Time (2017).
The Sweet East is billed as picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the US undertaken by Lillian,...
The Match Factory has boarded Sean Price Williams’ The Sweet East which world premieres next month in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.
Written by the film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton, it is the first feature film directed by cinematographer Price Williams, whose credits Owen Kline’s Funny Pages (2022), Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones (2021), Michael Almereyda’s Tesla (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell (2018) and the Safdie brothers Good Time (2017).
The Sweet East is billed as picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the US undertaken by Lillian,...
- 4/21/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The Match Factory has boarded Sean Price Williams’s “The Sweet East,” which has its world premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival in May.
It is the first feature film directed by Price Williams, the cinematographer of Owen Kline’s “Funny Pages” (2022), Abel Ferrara’s “Zeros and Ones” (2021), Michael Almereyda’s “Tesla” (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell” (2018) and the Safdies’ “Good Time” (2017).
The screenplay is by film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton.
“The Sweet East” is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
“Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy-tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions...
It is the first feature film directed by Price Williams, the cinematographer of Owen Kline’s “Funny Pages” (2022), Abel Ferrara’s “Zeros and Ones” (2021), Michael Almereyda’s “Tesla” (2020), Alex Ross Perry’s “Her Smell” (2018) and the Safdies’ “Good Time” (2017).
The screenplay is by film critic and programmer Nick Pinkerton.
“The Sweet East” is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C.
“Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy-tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions...
- 4/21/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Take a look at "The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, now streaming on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'.
"Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'.
"Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 10/26/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
We’re now more than halfway through October, but have no fear. The new horror releases for the Halloween season definitely aren’t slowing down these final two weeks of the month.
This week brings the Bloody Disgusting-produced found footage franchise V/H/S back with a brand new installment, for starters, along with Jordan Peele’s latest horror project.
Here’s all the new horror arriving October 18 – October 23, 2022!
We kick off the week with Well Go USA Entertainment’s coming-of-age horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World, which was released on VOD platforms beginning today.
Starring Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), The Loneliest Boy in the World is billed as a modern fairytale — except with zombies.
“When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet.
This week brings the Bloody Disgusting-produced found footage franchise V/H/S back with a brand new installment, for starters, along with Jordan Peele’s latest horror project.
Here’s all the new horror arriving October 18 – October 23, 2022!
We kick off the week with Well Go USA Entertainment’s coming-of-age horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World, which was released on VOD platforms beginning today.
Starring Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), The Loneliest Boy in the World is billed as a modern fairytale — except with zombies.
“When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet.
- 10/18/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
There is only one week to go before Netflix releases the new film "The School for Good and Evil." To celebrate the streaming adaptation of the best-selling series of the same name by Soman Chainani, we have a brand new trailer that gives a deeper look at what's coming. If you aren't familiar with the story, two best friends in the village of Gavaldon are taken off to a magical school by a giant flying creature. Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) wants to be a princess, and Agatha (Sofia Wylie) has all the makings of a witch.
These two friends get kidnapped and sent to the School for Good and Evil, but on the opposite side of where they wanted to go. Agatha ends up on the Princess side of things, sent to the "groom room" for pretty frocks and lovely flowers. Sophie is trying to use her blond hair as...
These two friends get kidnapped and sent to the School for Good and Evil, but on the opposite side of where they wanted to go. Agatha ends up on the Princess side of things, sent to the "groom room" for pretty frocks and lovely flowers. Sophie is trying to use her blond hair as...
- 10/12/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
It’s almost time to enroll in The School for Good and Evil, and Netflix has dropped the final trailer for the fantasy epic before it debuts next week.
Based on the international best-selling series by Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil centers on Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), two best friends who find themselves on opposing sides of a modern fairy tale when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where young heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance of good and evil. The film was directed by Paul Feig, who also co-wrote the script with David Magee.
Related The School For Good and Evil trailer reveals how fairy tale heroes and villains become a part of history
In addition to Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie, The School for Good and Evil features a star-studded cast which includes Charlize Theron,...
Based on the international best-selling series by Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil centers on Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), two best friends who find themselves on opposing sides of a modern fairy tale when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where young heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance of good and evil. The film was directed by Paul Feig, who also co-wrote the script with David Magee.
Related The School For Good and Evil trailer reveals how fairy tale heroes and villains become a part of history
In addition to Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie, The School for Good and Evil features a star-studded cast which includes Charlize Theron,...
- 10/12/2022
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Image Source: Netflix
Netflix is unleashing a world of magic in a new fairy-tale fantasy, "The School For Good and Evil." Leading up to the film's October release, the streamer unveiled not one but two full trailers of the adaptation based on author Soman Chainani's best-selling YA hexalogy of books, both clips revealing whimsical characters portrayed by Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron, and Michelle Yeoh.
"The School For Good and Evil" follows misfits/best friends Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie) as they find themselves swept up in a storybook tale of their own. While Sophie dreams of abandoning her ordinary village life to join the likes of Snow White and Cinderella, Agatha hopes that her grim personality will help her become the wicked witch she's destined to be. The film's first teaser, which debuted on June 7, teases that the two will attend their respective enchanted schools to...
Netflix is unleashing a world of magic in a new fairy-tale fantasy, "The School For Good and Evil." Leading up to the film's October release, the streamer unveiled not one but two full trailers of the adaptation based on author Soman Chainani's best-selling YA hexalogy of books, both clips revealing whimsical characters portrayed by Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron, and Michelle Yeoh.
"The School For Good and Evil" follows misfits/best friends Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie) as they find themselves swept up in a storybook tale of their own. While Sophie dreams of abandoning her ordinary village life to join the likes of Snow White and Cinderella, Agatha hopes that her grim personality will help her become the wicked witch she's destined to be. The film's first teaser, which debuted on June 7, teases that the two will attend their respective enchanted schools to...
- 10/12/2022
- by Njera Perkins
- Popsugar.com
Take a look at new footage from "The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, streaming October 21, 2022 on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'.
"Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'.
"Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 10/12/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Take a look at new footage from "The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, streaming October 21, 2022 on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 9/14/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Sophia Anne Caruso and Sofia Wylie star as Sophie and Agatha, “two misfits and best friends” who “share the unlikeliest of bonds” in the new trailer for “The School for Good and Evil“.
The official synopsis explains that Sophie, “a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life to become a princess, while Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and offbeat mother, has the makings of a real witch.
“The School for Good and Evil” — Photo: Netflix
“One night under a blood red moon, a powerful force sweeps them away to the School for Good and Evil — where the true stories behind every great fairy tale begin. Yet something is amiss from the start: Sophie is dropped into the School for Evil, run by the glamorous and acid-tongued Lady Lesso (Charlize Theron), and Agatha in the School for Good, overseen by the sunny and kind Professor Dovey (Kerry Washington).
Kerry Washington...
The official synopsis explains that Sophie, “a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life to become a princess, while Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and offbeat mother, has the makings of a real witch.
“The School for Good and Evil” — Photo: Netflix
“One night under a blood red moon, a powerful force sweeps them away to the School for Good and Evil — where the true stories behind every great fairy tale begin. Yet something is amiss from the start: Sophie is dropped into the School for Evil, run by the glamorous and acid-tongued Lady Lesso (Charlize Theron), and Agatha in the School for Good, overseen by the sunny and kind Professor Dovey (Kerry Washington).
Kerry Washington...
- 9/13/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Soman Chainani’s bestselling book series springs to life in Netflix’s The School for Good and Evil. The official trailer explains that this special academy trains heroes and villains, and is the origin of every great fairy tale story.
The huge ensemble cast features Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Patti LuPone, Sophia Anne Caruso, Sofia Wylie, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Flatters, Kit Young, and Peter Serafinowicz. Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Rachel Bloom, Earl Cave, Demi Isaac Oviawe, Freya Parks, Kaitlyn Akinpelumi, Holly Sturton, Emma Lau, Briony Scarlett, and Ally Cubb also star.
Additional cast members include Rosie Graham, Joelle, Chinenye Ezeudu, Oliver Watson, Ali Khan, Myles Kamwendo and Misia Butler.
Sofia Wylie and Sophia Ann Caruso star as BFFs Agatha and Sophie who are given the opportunity to study at the magical school. Discussing the relationship between these two characters with Netflix’s Tudum, Wylie explained, “Both of the...
The huge ensemble cast features Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Patti LuPone, Sophia Anne Caruso, Sofia Wylie, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Flatters, Kit Young, and Peter Serafinowicz. Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Rachel Bloom, Earl Cave, Demi Isaac Oviawe, Freya Parks, Kaitlyn Akinpelumi, Holly Sturton, Emma Lau, Briony Scarlett, and Ally Cubb also star.
Additional cast members include Rosie Graham, Joelle, Chinenye Ezeudu, Oliver Watson, Ali Khan, Myles Kamwendo and Misia Butler.
Sofia Wylie and Sophia Ann Caruso star as BFFs Agatha and Sophie who are given the opportunity to study at the magical school. Discussing the relationship between these two characters with Netflix’s Tudum, Wylie explained, “Both of the...
- 9/13/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Netflix’s ‘The School for Good and Evil’ Trailer Unlocks the True Story Behind Every Great Fairytale
The School for Good and Evil is set to open its doors on October 19, 2022, based on Soman Chainani’s debut novel, and Netflix has released the film’s official trailer this morning.
Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) directed The School for Good and Evil for Netflix, bringing the most iconic fairytales into the real world. Watch the trailer down below.
In the Netflix movie…
“Best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposing sides of an epic battle when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where aspiring heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance between Good and Evil.”
“In the village of Gavaldon, two misfits and best friends, Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), share the unlikeliest of bonds. Sophie, a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life to become a princess, while Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and offbeat mother, has the makings of a real witch.
Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) directed The School for Good and Evil for Netflix, bringing the most iconic fairytales into the real world. Watch the trailer down below.
In the Netflix movie…
“Best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposing sides of an epic battle when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where aspiring heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance between Good and Evil.”
“In the village of Gavaldon, two misfits and best friends, Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), share the unlikeliest of bonds. Sophie, a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life to become a princess, while Agatha, with her grim aesthetic and offbeat mother, has the makings of a real witch.
- 9/13/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Soman Chainani’s debut novel The School for Good and Evil, which was published in 2013 and launched a franchise, is getting a movie over at Netflix, with Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, Last Christmas) in the director’s chair. The School for Good and Evil is set to open its doors on October 19, 2022, and Netflix has opened up an image gallery this afternoon.
Check out the full image gallery below, while you wait.
In the Netflix movie…
“Best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposing sides of an epic battle when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where aspiring heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance between Good and Evil.”
“In the village of Gavaldon, two misfits and best friends, Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), share the unlikeliest of bonds. Sophie, a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life to become a princess,...
Check out the full image gallery below, while you wait.
In the Netflix movie…
“Best friends Sophie and Agatha find themselves on opposing sides of an epic battle when they’re swept away into an enchanted school where aspiring heroes and villains are trained to protect the balance between Good and Evil.”
“In the village of Gavaldon, two misfits and best friends, Sophie (Sophia Anne Caruso) and Agatha (Sofia Wylie), share the unlikeliest of bonds. Sophie, a golden-haired seamstress, dreams of escaping her dreary life to become a princess,...
- 9/12/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
"The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, stars Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, streaming October 21, 2022 on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
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"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
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- 8/29/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, is directed by Paul Feig, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, streaming October 21, 2022 on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
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"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
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- 7/21/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, is directed by Paul Feig, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, streaming September 2022 on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 7/7/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"The School for Good and Evil", based on the first of six supernatural novels by Soman Chainani, is directed by Paul Feig, starring Charlize Theron and Kerry Washington, streaming September 2022 on Netflix:
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...best friends 'Sophie' and 'Agatha', are about to discover where fairytale legacies go to school: 'The School for Good and Evil'. Sophie knows she’ll be picked for the 'School of Good' and join' alums like 'Cinderella' and 'Snow White', while Agatha knows she’s fit for the 'Evil School'. However, when their fortunes are reversed, their friendship is put to the test, and the girls discover who they really are...”
Additional cast includes Ben Kingsley, Rachel Bloom, Pattie LuPone, Rob Delaney, Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Jamie Flatters, Earl Cave, Emma Lau, Kit Young and Briony Scarlett.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 6/7/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Fans of fairytale origins got a first look at the stars of “The School for Good And Evil” on Tuesday, after a teaser was debuted during Netflix’s Geeked Week event. Sofia Wylie and Sophia Anne Caruso star as Agatha and Sophie, respectively, two best friends who are kidnapped and placed in the School for Good and Evil and must find their way back home.
“Did you ever wonder where every great fairytale begins?,” Charlize Theron, who plays Lady Lesso, asks in the teaser. “Where the good become heroes and the evil become villains? Welcome, we’ve been expecting you.”
The film, directed by Paul Feig, is adapted from the 2013 novel by Soman Chainani. David Magee, Laura Solon, Malia Scotch Marmo and Chainani wrote the screenplay for the film, which features a star-studded cast that includes Kerry Washington, Ben Kingsley, Patti LuPone, Rachel Bloom, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Flatters,...
“Did you ever wonder where every great fairytale begins?,” Charlize Theron, who plays Lady Lesso, asks in the teaser. “Where the good become heroes and the evil become villains? Welcome, we’ve been expecting you.”
The film, directed by Paul Feig, is adapted from the 2013 novel by Soman Chainani. David Magee, Laura Solon, Malia Scotch Marmo and Chainani wrote the screenplay for the film, which features a star-studded cast that includes Kerry Washington, Ben Kingsley, Patti LuPone, Rachel Bloom, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Flatters,...
- 6/7/2022
- by Sasha Urban
- Variety Film + TV
To mark the release of Days of the Bagnold Summer, out now, we’ve been given 2 sign Blu-ray copies to give away.
Sue (Monica Dolan) works in a library. Daniel (Earl Cave) eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his dad and his dad’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies – and pursue their personal passions.
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Sue (Monica Dolan) works in a library. Daniel (Earl Cave) eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his dad and his dad’s new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies – and pursue their personal passions.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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Open to UK residents only The competition will close 16th May 2022 at 23.59 GMT The winner will be picked at random from entries received No cash alternative is available...
- 5/2/2022
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: UK publicists Donna Mills and Emma Jackson, longtime reps at London-based Premier Communications, have launched new publicity agency Tapestry London.
The company will specialise in actor and filmmaker representation, with the majority of their clients based in Europe and represented by the company globally.
Their impressive roster of clients includes Michaela Coel, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Claire Foy, James Norton, Ashley Walters and Sam Mendes.
Also on the roster are Agnes O’Casey , Anne-Marie Duff , Anthony Boyle, Bertie Carvel , Daisy Haggard, Denise Gough, Earl Cave , Emily Watson, George MacKay , Georgina Campbell , Dame Harriet Walter, Himesh Patel , Joe Alwyn , Joe Cole, Joe Gilgun, John Simm , Kyle Soller, Leila Farzad, Maxine Peake, Paapa Essiedu, Ruth Madeley, Sarah Solemani , Sverrir Gudnasson, Sheila Atim, Stacy Martin , Tom Hughes , Vicky Krieps, Viveik Kalra, Will Poulter and Will Sharpe.
The duo told us: “Having worked together for the best part of a decade, we couldn’t...
The company will specialise in actor and filmmaker representation, with the majority of their clients based in Europe and represented by the company globally.
Their impressive roster of clients includes Michaela Coel, Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Claire Foy, James Norton, Ashley Walters and Sam Mendes.
Also on the roster are Agnes O’Casey , Anne-Marie Duff , Anthony Boyle, Bertie Carvel , Daisy Haggard, Denise Gough, Earl Cave , Emily Watson, George MacKay , Georgina Campbell , Dame Harriet Walter, Himesh Patel , Joe Alwyn , Joe Cole, Joe Gilgun, John Simm , Kyle Soller, Leila Farzad, Maxine Peake, Paapa Essiedu, Ruth Madeley, Sarah Solemani , Sverrir Gudnasson, Sheila Atim, Stacy Martin , Tom Hughes , Vicky Krieps, Viveik Kalra, Will Poulter and Will Sharpe.
The duo told us: “Having worked together for the best part of a decade, we couldn’t...
- 8/10/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Monday, Dec. 14 Greenwich Acquires North American Rights to ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’
Greenwich Entertainment has bought North American distribution rights to “Days of the Bagnold Summer,” the directorial debut of Simon Bird (star of “The Inbetweeners”), for a Feb. 19 release in theaters and on demand.
Bird’s comedy, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, contains a soundtrack by Belle & Sebastian and is based on the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart with a screenplay written by Lisa Owens. Starring Earl Cave, Monica Dolan and Rob Brydon, the film explores the wobbly relationship between a well-intentioned single librarian and her black-clad teenage son, who’d rather listen to Metallica than his mother.
“Days of the Bagnold Summer” was produced by Matthew James Wilkinson and co-produced by Isabelle Georgeaux with executive producers James Appleton, James Atherton, Reinhard Besser, Will Clarke, Walter Mair, Andy Mayson, Jan Pace, Mike Runagall and Pat Wintersgill.
Greenwich Entertainment has bought North American distribution rights to “Days of the Bagnold Summer,” the directorial debut of Simon Bird (star of “The Inbetweeners”), for a Feb. 19 release in theaters and on demand.
Bird’s comedy, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, contains a soundtrack by Belle & Sebastian and is based on the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart with a screenplay written by Lisa Owens. Starring Earl Cave, Monica Dolan and Rob Brydon, the film explores the wobbly relationship between a well-intentioned single librarian and her black-clad teenage son, who’d rather listen to Metallica than his mother.
“Days of the Bagnold Summer” was produced by Matthew James Wilkinson and co-produced by Isabelle Georgeaux with executive producers James Appleton, James Atherton, Reinhard Besser, Will Clarke, Walter Mair, Andy Mayson, Jan Pace, Mike Runagall and Pat Wintersgill.
- 12/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has picked up North American distribution rights to comedy feature Days of The Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.
Bird’s film, starring Earl Cave (True History Of The Kelly Gang), Monica Dolan (Pride) and Rob Brydon (The Trip), premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and will open stateside in theaters, virtual cinemas, and on demand from February 19, 2021.
The movie charts the wobbly relationship between well-intentioned single librarian Sue Bagnold and her black-clad teenage son Daniel, who’d rather listen to Metallica than his mother. Daniel was meant to spend the summer in Florida visiting his dad, but is now stuck with mom following the trip’s cancellation.
With a soundtrack by indie band Belle & Sebastian, the film is based on the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart with a screenplay written by Lisa Owens.
The North American deal was negotiated by Greenwich...
Bird’s film, starring Earl Cave (True History Of The Kelly Gang), Monica Dolan (Pride) and Rob Brydon (The Trip), premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and will open stateside in theaters, virtual cinemas, and on demand from February 19, 2021.
The movie charts the wobbly relationship between well-intentioned single librarian Sue Bagnold and her black-clad teenage son Daniel, who’d rather listen to Metallica than his mother. Daniel was meant to spend the summer in Florida visiting his dad, but is now stuck with mom following the trip’s cancellation.
With a soundtrack by indie band Belle & Sebastian, the film is based on the graphic novel by Joff Winterhart with a screenplay written by Lisa Owens.
The North American deal was negotiated by Greenwich...
- 12/14/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
2020, as well as being an all-round garbage fire, is likely to go down as a strange year for film. Almost all of year’s biggest titles remain in limbo, waiting for cinemas to be able to safely reopen. That said, more than half way through the year, we have now seen a lot of excellent films getting released. Some managed to sneak in to cinemas in ‘the time before’, but many have made their debuts via streaming or paid VOD.
Even with a much reduced slate, there are still great films out there that have either got lost in the shuffle or might not have had the mainstream appeal to connect with an audience as wide as they deserve. Here, we’ve got several of the Hey U Guys staff together to pick some of their favourites of 2020 so far that you might not have caught up with yet.
Alex...
Even with a much reduced slate, there are still great films out there that have either got lost in the shuffle or might not have had the mainstream appeal to connect with an audience as wide as they deserve. Here, we’ve got several of the Hey U Guys staff together to pick some of their favourites of 2020 so far that you might not have caught up with yet.
Alex...
- 8/14/2020
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Festival adds ‘Quiz’ series with Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford.
Franco-uk event the Dinard Film Festival will open its 31st edition with Days Of The Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.
The event will run from September 30 to October 4 and is scheduled to go ahead as a physical event.
The festival will also screen ITV series Quiz starring Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford, telling the true story of Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana, who were accused of cheating on UK TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2001.
Produced by Left Bank Pictures,...
Franco-uk event the Dinard Film Festival will open its 31st edition with Days Of The Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.
The event will run from September 30 to October 4 and is scheduled to go ahead as a physical event.
The festival will also screen ITV series Quiz starring Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford, telling the true story of Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana, who were accused of cheating on UK TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2001.
Produced by Left Bank Pictures,...
- 8/11/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Festival adds ‘Quiz’ series with Matthew Macfadyen, Sian Clifford.
Franco-British event Dinard Film Festival will open its 31st edition with Days Of The Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.
The event will run from September 30 to October 4 and is currently scheduled to go ahead as a physical event.
The festival will also screen ITV series Quiz starring Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford, telling the true story of Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana, who were accused of cheating on UK TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2001.
Produced by Left Bank Pictures,...
Franco-British event Dinard Film Festival will open its 31st edition with Days Of The Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.
The event will run from September 30 to October 4 and is currently scheduled to go ahead as a physical event.
The festival will also screen ITV series Quiz starring Matthew Macfadyen and Sian Clifford, telling the true story of Major Charles Ingram and his wife Diana, who were accused of cheating on UK TV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in 2001.
Produced by Left Bank Pictures,...
- 8/11/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Simon Bird’s debut feature captures the comedy and tragedy in the lives of a single mother and her stroppy teenage son
Lockdown has done strange things to families. Some have been stretched to breaking point by lengthy periods of communal incarceration; others have been brought together, reforging bonds that may have been broken. In Days of the Bagnold Summer, a bittersweet coming-of-age tale (for both of its central characters), mother and son Sue and Daniel aren’t actually in lockdown but they might as well be. Forced to spend several weeks getting under each other’s feet, theirs is a tale of isolation and social distancing that has nothing to do with Covid-19 but still strikes a timely chord.
Monica Dolan is terrific as Sue Bagnold, the put-upon yet quietly indomitable fiftysomething librarian whose feckless former husband is now swanning around the States with his pregnant new partner. Lank-haired...
Lockdown has done strange things to families. Some have been stretched to breaking point by lengthy periods of communal incarceration; others have been brought together, reforging bonds that may have been broken. In Days of the Bagnold Summer, a bittersweet coming-of-age tale (for both of its central characters), mother and son Sue and Daniel aren’t actually in lockdown but they might as well be. Forced to spend several weeks getting under each other’s feet, theirs is a tale of isolation and social distancing that has nothing to do with Covid-19 but still strikes a timely chord.
Monica Dolan is terrific as Sue Bagnold, the put-upon yet quietly indomitable fiftysomething librarian whose feckless former husband is now swanning around the States with his pregnant new partner. Lank-haired...
- 6/7/2020
- by Mark Kermode Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
The star of the film Days of the Bagnold Summer talks about how the death of her brother came while she was preparing to play a bereaved woman
Two years ago, in a neat suburban house on a cul-de-sac in Bromley, where all furniture was floral, and every wall painted magnolia, I watched Monica Dolan poke her head out of a loft hatch. She was filming Days of the Bagnold Summer, the adaptation of the much loved graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. Her character, Sue Bagnold, was having an argument with her sulky teenage son, Daniel (Earl Cave). “Was that a bit much?” she asked her director, Simon Bird, at one point. “Try it softer,” he said, later adding, “Gosh. That’s lovely stuff.” Later, in the back garden, Dolan sat and explained what had been going through her mind. “I thought, ‘What if I fall through?’” At 51, the actor had a new challenge.
Two years ago, in a neat suburban house on a cul-de-sac in Bromley, where all furniture was floral, and every wall painted magnolia, I watched Monica Dolan poke her head out of a loft hatch. She was filming Days of the Bagnold Summer, the adaptation of the much loved graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. Her character, Sue Bagnold, was having an argument with her sulky teenage son, Daniel (Earl Cave). “Was that a bit much?” she asked her director, Simon Bird, at one point. “Try it softer,” he said, later adding, “Gosh. That’s lovely stuff.” Later, in the back garden, Dolan sat and explained what had been going through her mind. “I thought, ‘What if I fall through?’” At 51, the actor had a new challenge.
- 6/6/2020
- by Rebecca Nicholson
- The Guardian - Film News
Earl Cave and Monica Dolan are a delight in this charming comedy directed by The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird
Here’s a movie that tells us that the days of summer, like the boys of summer in Don Henley’s song, are going to get outlived by the love they inspire. It’s what happens in this thoroughly sweet-natured, charming and unassuming British film, adapted by screenwriter Lisa Owens from the 2012 graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, with a creamy soundtrack by Belle and Sebastian. Simon Bird (best known for playing Will in TV’s The Inbetweeners) makes his directorial debut.
Earl Cave and Monica Dolan play metalhead teenager Daniel Bagnold and his gentle, sad, divorced mum, Sue Bagnold, failing to get on with each other over an interminable summer in the epically boring British suburbs. Daniel is crucified with disappointment when a summer holiday with his dad in Florida is cancelled...
Here’s a movie that tells us that the days of summer, like the boys of summer in Don Henley’s song, are going to get outlived by the love they inspire. It’s what happens in this thoroughly sweet-natured, charming and unassuming British film, adapted by screenwriter Lisa Owens from the 2012 graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, with a creamy soundtrack by Belle and Sebastian. Simon Bird (best known for playing Will in TV’s The Inbetweeners) makes his directorial debut.
Earl Cave and Monica Dolan play metalhead teenager Daniel Bagnold and his gentle, sad, divorced mum, Sue Bagnold, failing to get on with each other over an interminable summer in the epically boring British suburbs. Daniel is crucified with disappointment when a summer holiday with his dad in Florida is cancelled...
- 6/4/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Altitude Films has debuted a new trailer for Simon Bird’s directorial debut ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’ featuring Rob Brydon and Alice Lowe.
The film is an adaptation of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel of the same name and follows a heavy-metal-loving teenager as his holiday plans fall through at the last minute, meaning he must spend the whole summer with the person who annoys him most in the world: his mum.
Related: Days of the Bagnold Summer – Lff 2019 Review
‘The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird makes his directorial debut. BAFTA-winning actress Monica Dolan (Eye in the Sky, W1A), Earl Cave (True History of the Kelly Gang, The End of the F***ing World), Rob Brydon (The Trip, A Cock and Bull Story), Alice Lowe (Prevenge, Sightseers), Tamsin Greig (The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Green Wing), Tim Key (Greed, This Time with Alan Partridge) and Elliot Speller-Gillot (Uncle) all star in the film.
The film is an adaptation of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel of the same name and follows a heavy-metal-loving teenager as his holiday plans fall through at the last minute, meaning he must spend the whole summer with the person who annoys him most in the world: his mum.
Related: Days of the Bagnold Summer – Lff 2019 Review
‘The Inbetweeners’ Simon Bird makes his directorial debut. BAFTA-winning actress Monica Dolan (Eye in the Sky, W1A), Earl Cave (True History of the Kelly Gang, The End of the F***ing World), Rob Brydon (The Trip, A Cock and Bull Story), Alice Lowe (Prevenge, Sightseers), Tamsin Greig (The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Green Wing), Tim Key (Greed, This Time with Alan Partridge) and Elliot Speller-Gillot (Uncle) all star in the film.
- 4/29/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
One of our Locarno Film Festival favorites, Days of the Bagnold Summer marks the feature directorial debut of Simon Bird, best known for his work in The Inbetweeners. Described by our own Leonardo Goi as a gentle, heartfelt portrait of a preternaturally shy middle-aged mother, and her moody, laconic metalhead son, it’s a chronicle of the summer they’re forced to spend together once the boy’s much-awaited trip to the States falls through. Led by Monica Dolan and Earl Cave, Nick’s son, and graced with original tracks by Scottish band Belle and Sebastian, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of a U.K. digital release this June.
“I knew when I read [Joff Winterhart’s book] that it felt very interesting and unique, and I was very aware that we wanted to retain that,” Bird said to us. “And again, it would have been really easy...
“I knew when I read [Joff Winterhart’s book] that it felt very interesting and unique, and I was very aware that we wanted to retain that,” Bird said to us. “And again, it would have been really easy...
- 4/29/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
"It's not my fault you are the most boring person in the world!" Altitude Films has debuted the UK trailer for an indie coming-of-age comedy titled Days of the Bagnold Summer, from actor / director Simon Bird. This premiered at the Locarno Film Festival last year, and also played at the London, Mill Valley, Bath, and Göteborg Film Festivals as well. A teenager named Daniel who was supposed to spend time his father in Florida ends up stuck spending his summer listening to heavy metal music and trying to get along with his "boring" librarian mom. Adapted from the award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart, Days of the Bagnold Summer is described as "a tender, funny coming-of-age story featuring original songs by the indie band Belle & Sebastian." Starring Earl Cave, Monica Dolan, Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig, Alice Lowe, and Tim Key. This looks earnest and humorous and delightful. This seems pretty dang good,...
- 4/28/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The story of the notorious outlaw Ned Kelly is dropping on digital and on-demand today with the Justin Kurzel-directed True History of the Kelly Gang starring George MacKay, Russell Crowe and Nicholas Hoult.
The grimy western crime drama, which was adapted by Kurzel from the novel of the same name by Peter Carey, features MacKay as the titular Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly and has a foundation of a love story between a mother and a son. The film was acquired by IFC Films ahead of its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
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The grimy western crime drama, which was adapted by Kurzel from the novel of the same name by Peter Carey, features MacKay as the titular Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly and has a foundation of a love story between a mother and a son. The film was acquired by IFC Films ahead of its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.
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- 4/24/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
“Nothing You Are About to See Is True.”
Those are the words that teasingly introduce True History of the Kelly Gang, the dazzling and defiantly rogue western from director Justin Kurzel that plays with facts to get at a deeper truth about Ned Kelly. This we know is true about 19th-century outlaw: The Irish-Catholic bank robber and cop killer who wore a metal helmet and a suit of armor in his final shootout with the law became known as Australia’s Robin Hood as he and his gang fought against...
Those are the words that teasingly introduce True History of the Kelly Gang, the dazzling and defiantly rogue western from director Justin Kurzel that plays with facts to get at a deeper truth about Ned Kelly. This we know is true about 19th-century outlaw: The Irish-Catholic bank robber and cop killer who wore a metal helmet and a suit of armor in his final shootout with the law became known as Australia’s Robin Hood as he and his gang fought against...
- 4/23/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
"A man cannot outrun his destiny." IFC Films has released one more trailer, the official Us trailer, for the Australian crime drama True History of the Kelly Gang. This is the third trailer for the film, confirming that the Us will finally get a chance to see this film at the end of April. True History of the Kelly Gang is a re-envisioning of the tall tale of an Australian bush-ranger named Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from the authorities during the 1870s. "Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of this tale is the fractured and powerful love story between a mother and a son." Starring George MacKay (from 1917) as Ned Kelly, Essie Davis as his mother Ellen Kelly, plus Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Thomasin McKenzie, Sean Keenan, Earl Cave, Orlando Schwerdt, and Charlie Hunnam. Critics have been raving about...
- 3/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
While he played a noble soldier in “1917,” George MacKay’s latest film “The True History of the Kelly Gang” casts him as a ruthless, murderous outlaw and gang leader with a taste for blood and revenge.
MacKay stars with Russell Crowe and Nicholas Hoult in this western-esque thriller from director Justin Kurzel that’s set during a violent period in Australian history.
“Many would call me the coldest blooded murderer ever, but others knowing the truth would call me a hero,” MacKay says with menace in the first trailer for the film.
Also Read: 'True History of the Kelly Gang' Filmmaker on Directing His Wife Essie Davis in a Sex Scene With Charlie Hunnam (Video)
“The True History of the Kelly Gang” follows MacKay as Ned Kelly, who as a boy in 19th-century Australia is sold into the care of a notorious “bushranger” played by Crowe. He...
MacKay stars with Russell Crowe and Nicholas Hoult in this western-esque thriller from director Justin Kurzel that’s set during a violent period in Australian history.
“Many would call me the coldest blooded murderer ever, but others knowing the truth would call me a hero,” MacKay says with menace in the first trailer for the film.
Also Read: 'True History of the Kelly Gang' Filmmaker on Directing His Wife Essie Davis in a Sex Scene With Charlie Hunnam (Video)
“The True History of the Kelly Gang” follows MacKay as Ned Kelly, who as a boy in 19th-century Australia is sold into the care of a notorious “bushranger” played by Crowe. He...
- 3/13/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Glasgow Film Festival celebrated its highest ever attendance, with more than 43,000 admissions. In addition to the 43,147 attending screenings and events across the city, over 3000 people attended the first ever UK exhibition of work by legendary Hollywood photographer Susan Wood. The exhibition ran throughout the festival at The Lighthouse.
GFF20 finished in style on Sunday night with the UK premiere of How To Build A Girl, the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s memoir which was directed by Coky Giedroyc. Moran and Giedroyc were both in attendance. This year the festival also played host to a number of guests including Simon Pegg, George Mackay, Earl Cave, Simon Bird, Monica Dolan, Emily Beecham, Imogen Poots, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson, Alice Winocour and the cast of Our Ladies. International guests included Marjane Satrapi and Ingvar Sigurðsson.
Gff closed on International Women’s Day (Iwd) with a programme dedicated to female talent both...
GFF20 finished in style on Sunday night with the UK premiere of How To Build A Girl, the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s memoir which was directed by Coky Giedroyc. Moran and Giedroyc were both in attendance. This year the festival also played host to a number of guests including Simon Pegg, George Mackay, Earl Cave, Simon Bird, Monica Dolan, Emily Beecham, Imogen Poots, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson, Alice Winocour and the cast of Our Ladies. International guests included Marjane Satrapi and Ingvar Sigurðsson.
Gff closed on International Women’s Day (Iwd) with a programme dedicated to female talent both...
- 3/9/2020
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
To mark the release of True History of the Kelly Gang, out now, we’ve been given a copy of the book along with an official film poster signed by George MacKay, Essie Davis, Earl Cave, Louis Hewison, and Justin Kurzel to give away to 1 winner.
Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s True History Of The Kelly Gang shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind the life of Ned Kelly and force a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past.
Spanning the younger years of Ned’s life to the time leading up to his death, the film explores the blurred boundaries between what is bad and what is good, and the motivations for the demise of its hero. Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of this...
Inspired by Peter Carey’s Man Booker prize winning novel, Justin Kurzel’s True History Of The Kelly Gang shatters the mythology of the notorious icon to reveal the essence behind the life of Ned Kelly and force a country to stare back into the ashes of its brutal past.
Spanning the younger years of Ned’s life to the time leading up to his death, the film explores the blurred boundaries between what is bad and what is good, and the motivations for the demise of its hero. Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of this...
- 3/2/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
(L-r) Earl Cave, Essie Davis, Justin Kurzel and George MacKay at the UK premiere.
Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang opened in the UK last Friday, drawing mostly enthusiastic reviews but lukewarm interest from moviegoers.
Picturehouse launched the subversive bushranger movie adapted by Shaun Grant from the Peter Carey novel on 93 screens, generating £155,000 and £170,000 including previews in three days.
Kurzel and stars Essie Davis, George MacKay and Earl Cave attended the charity premiere at Picturehouse Central last Tuesday, which raised £4,000 for the Country Fire Authority of Victoria to help fight the bushfires in the region.
Porchlight Film’s Liz Watts, Daybreak Pictures’ Hal Vogel, Kurzel and Paul Ranford produced the film which had an abbreviated theatrical release here before the Stan Original premiere, grossing $116,000,
Evidently few moviegoers took much notice of the critics such as The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey, who observed: “Director Justin Kurzel, after an...
Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang opened in the UK last Friday, drawing mostly enthusiastic reviews but lukewarm interest from moviegoers.
Picturehouse launched the subversive bushranger movie adapted by Shaun Grant from the Peter Carey novel on 93 screens, generating £155,000 and £170,000 including previews in three days.
Kurzel and stars Essie Davis, George MacKay and Earl Cave attended the charity premiere at Picturehouse Central last Tuesday, which raised £4,000 for the Country Fire Authority of Victoria to help fight the bushfires in the region.
Porchlight Film’s Liz Watts, Daybreak Pictures’ Hal Vogel, Kurzel and Paul Ranford produced the film which had an abbreviated theatrical release here before the Stan Original premiere, grossing $116,000,
Evidently few moviegoers took much notice of the critics such as The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey, who observed: “Director Justin Kurzel, after an...
- 3/1/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Nick Cave’s son was first seen on screen in a pair of intimate documentaries. Now, family tragedy has inspired him to ‘make something beautiful’ in his acting career
Earl Cave’s first onscreen appearance was in the 2014 music documentary 20,000 Days on Earth: Earl and his twin, Arthur, are sitting at home in school uniform either side of their father, the musician Nick Cave. All three are eating pizza and watching Scarface. The boys are 13.
“Films were a huge part of my childhood,” says Cave. “Inappropriate movie night was once a week and my dad would show us ungodly, outrageous films. We were obsessed with getting as scared as possible.
Earl Cave’s first onscreen appearance was in the 2014 music documentary 20,000 Days on Earth: Earl and his twin, Arthur, are sitting at home in school uniform either side of their father, the musician Nick Cave. All three are eating pizza and watching Scarface. The boys are 13.
“Films were a huge part of my childhood,” says Cave. “Inappropriate movie night was once a week and my dad would show us ungodly, outrageous films. We were obsessed with getting as scared as possible.
- 2/27/2020
- by Daniel Dylan Wray
- The Guardian - Film News
"We're rebels... bandits... warriors..." Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK has revealed a new official UK trailer for the Australian indie drama True History of the Kelly Gang, which opens in Australia this month. This is the latest feature from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel, of The Snowtown Murders and Macbeth previously, and it's a re-envisioning of the tall tale of an Australian bush-ranger named Ned Kelly and his gang as they flee from the authorities during the 1870s. If you're from Australia, you probably know the story, but if not - this flips the whole story on its head anyway. "Youth and tragedy collide in the Kelly Gang, and at the beating heart of this tale is the fractured and powerful love story between a mother and a son." Starring George MacKay (from 1917) as Ned Kelly, Essie Davis as his mother Ellen Kelly, plus Russell Crowe, Nicholas Hoult, Thomasin McKenzie, Sean Keenan,...
- 1/10/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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