Never Let Me Go is not coming to Hulu after all. FX ordered the sci-fi drama series in October after putting it into development in May 2022. Melissa Iqbal was set to act as showrunner.
The FX on Hulu series was to be based on the 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. A feature film version was released in 2010. Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman, Kelly Macdonald, Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle, Kwami Odoom, Susan Brown, Keira Chanse, and Edward Holcroft were to star in the sci-fi series.
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The FX on Hulu series was to be based on the 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. A feature film version was released in 2010. Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman, Kelly Macdonald, Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle, Kwami Odoom, Susan Brown, Keira Chanse, and Edward Holcroft were to star in the sci-fi series.
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- 2/4/2023
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
FX is no longer moving forward with its series adaptation of “Never Let Me Go,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The show was originally picked up to series by FX back in October and was meant to air exclusively on Hulu. It had originally been reported as being in development at FX in May 2022. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, production had not yet begun before the decision to scrap the series was made.
The drama series was inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 science fiction novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into a film in 2010. The film was written by Alex Garland, directed by Mark Romanek, and produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich.
Per the logline for the series, it followed “Thora (Viola Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society.
The show was originally picked up to series by FX back in October and was meant to air exclusively on Hulu. It had originally been reported as being in development at FX in May 2022. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, production had not yet begun before the decision to scrap the series was made.
The drama series was inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 science fiction novel of the same name, which was previously adapted into a film in 2010. The film was written by Alex Garland, directed by Mark Romanek, and produced by Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich.
Per the logline for the series, it followed “Thora (Viola Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society.
- 2/3/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
A series adaptation of Never Let Me Go, the Kazuo Ishiguro novel that was adapted as a film starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield, is no longer moving forward at FX, sources close to the project have confirmed to Deadline. Production had not yet begun.
The project, from The Nevers writer Melissa Iqbal, was announced as in development at FX in May 2022 and was ordered to series at FX in October 2022 to air on Hulu.
The series was to star Viola Prettejohn (The Nevers) in the lead role.
The series would have followed Thora (Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Cast also included Tracey Ullman,...
The project, from The Nevers writer Melissa Iqbal, was announced as in development at FX in May 2022 and was ordered to series at FX in October 2022 to air on Hulu.
The series was to star Viola Prettejohn (The Nevers) in the lead role.
The series would have followed Thora (Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Cast also included Tracey Ullman,...
- 2/3/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Never Let Me Go, which has been ordered to series by FX, is headed to Hulu. The sci-fi thriller series is based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, and it will star Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman, Kelly Macdonald, Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle, Kwami Odoom, Susan Brown, Keira Chanse and Edward Holcroft. The series follows a clone as she escapes boarding school and starts a revolution. A premiere date will be announced later.
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- 10/27/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Viola Prettejohn to star in ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Photo Credit: Aaron Crossman)
Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go is being adapted at FX, with the network confirming they’ve given the adaptation a series order. Melissa Iqbal is on board as the showrunner and executive producer. In addition, Iqbal wrote the pilot which executive producer Marc Munden will direct.
Author Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Garland Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, and Maria Fleischer of DNA Productions are also involved as executive producers. Garland adapted Ishiguro’s novel for the 2010 feature film directed by Mark Romanek and starring Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.
“Never Let Me Go is a modern science fiction classic that Melissa Iqbal and the creative team have brilliantly adapted for FX as a drama exploring timely and unsettling themes on life and the ethics of technology,” stated Gina Balian, President, FX Entertainment. “We...
Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go is being adapted at FX, with the network confirming they’ve given the adaptation a series order. Melissa Iqbal is on board as the showrunner and executive producer. In addition, Iqbal wrote the pilot which executive producer Marc Munden will direct.
Author Kazuo Ishiguro, Alex Garland Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich, and Maria Fleischer of DNA Productions are also involved as executive producers. Garland adapted Ishiguro’s novel for the 2010 feature film directed by Mark Romanek and starring Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.
“Never Let Me Go is a modern science fiction classic that Melissa Iqbal and the creative team have brilliantly adapted for FX as a drama exploring timely and unsettling themes on life and the ethics of technology,” stated Gina Balian, President, FX Entertainment. “We...
- 10/25/2022
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Kazuo Ishiguro’s sci-fi tearjerker “Never Let Me Go” is heading to the small screen. FX has officially ordered an adaptation of Ishiguro’s novel, set to air exclusively on Hulu.
Published in 2005, “Never Let Me Go” is one of Ishiguro’s — a Nobel Prize-winning author also known for “The Remains of the Day” — most popular and critically acclaimed novels. Set in Britain during the ’90s, the book focuses on three childhood friends: Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth. Raised at the mysterious Hailsham boarding school, the three are clones created for the purpose of growing up healthy and donating their organs to science. Resigned to their fates, the three grow up close, but interpersonal conflicts between them lead to mistakes that haunt them for the rest of their short lives.
The novel was previously adapted into a 2010 film directed by Mark Romanek, with a screenplay by Alex Garland; Carey Mulligan, Kiera Knightley,...
Published in 2005, “Never Let Me Go” is one of Ishiguro’s — a Nobel Prize-winning author also known for “The Remains of the Day” — most popular and critically acclaimed novels. Set in Britain during the ’90s, the book focuses on three childhood friends: Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth. Raised at the mysterious Hailsham boarding school, the three are clones created for the purpose of growing up healthy and donating their organs to science. Resigned to their fates, the three grow up close, but interpersonal conflicts between them lead to mistakes that haunt them for the rest of their short lives.
The novel was previously adapted into a 2010 film directed by Mark Romanek, with a screenplay by Alex Garland; Carey Mulligan, Kiera Knightley,...
- 10/25/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
FX has greenlit “Never Let Me Go,” a drama series inspired by Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 science fiction novel of the same name.
The thriller series will follow Thora (Viola Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Along with Prettejohn, the cast includes Tracey Ullman, Kelly Macdonald, Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle, Kwami Odoom, Susan Brown, Keira Chanse and Edward Holcroft.
This is the second screen adaptation of the book, as a movie starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield came out in 2010 from Searchlight Pictures. The film was written by Alex Garland, directed by Mark Romanek and produced by Andrew Macdonald Allon and Reich.
The thriller series will follow Thora (Viola Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. As she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Along with Prettejohn, the cast includes Tracey Ullman, Kelly Macdonald, Aiysha Hart, Spike Fearn, Shaniqua Okwok, Gary Beadle, Kwami Odoom, Susan Brown, Keira Chanse and Edward Holcroft.
This is the second screen adaptation of the book, as a movie starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield came out in 2010 from Searchlight Pictures. The film was written by Alex Garland, directed by Mark Romanek and produced by Andrew Macdonald Allon and Reich.
- 10/25/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
FX has ordered a new one-hour drama series based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction novel “Never Let Me Go,” Gina Balian, president of FX Entertainment, announced today. The show of the same name will premiere exclusively on Hulu and has set its main cast.
Produced by DNA Productions, with FX Productions and Searchlight Television, the thriller stars Viola Prettejohn (“The Witcher”), Tracey Ullman (FX’s “Mrs. America”), Kelly Macdonald (“Boardwalk Empire”), Aiysha Hart (“Line of Duty”), Spike Fearn (“The Amazing Mr. Blunden”), Shaniqua Okwok (“Small Axe”), Gary Beadle (“Wheel of Time”), Kwami Odoom (BBC’s “Death in Paradise”), Susan Brown (“It’s a Sin”), Keira Chanse (“Come Away”) and Edward Holcroft (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”).
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“Never Let Me Go” follows Thora (Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone, who escapes from the boarding school where she...
Produced by DNA Productions, with FX Productions and Searchlight Television, the thriller stars Viola Prettejohn (“The Witcher”), Tracey Ullman (FX’s “Mrs. America”), Kelly Macdonald (“Boardwalk Empire”), Aiysha Hart (“Line of Duty”), Spike Fearn (“The Amazing Mr. Blunden”), Shaniqua Okwok (“Small Axe”), Gary Beadle (“Wheel of Time”), Kwami Odoom (BBC’s “Death in Paradise”), Susan Brown (“It’s a Sin”), Keira Chanse (“Come Away”) and Edward Holcroft (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”).
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“Never Let Me Go” follows Thora (Prettejohn), a rebellious teenage clone, who escapes from the boarding school where she...
- 10/25/2022
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- The Wrap
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FX has greenlit a series based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go.
The drama, which will stream on Hulu in the United States, comes from writer and showrunner Melissa Iqbal (HBO’s The Nevers) and counts filmmaker Alex Garland — who wrote the script for a 2010 feature based on the novel — as an executive producer. Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald head the cast.
DNA Productions will produce the series along with FX Productions and Searchlight Television; DNA and Searchlight were behind the 2010 film as well. Iqbal will executive produce with Marc Munden, who directed the pilot; Garland; Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Maria Fleischer of DNA Productions; and Ishiguro. Garland and DNA previously collaborated with FX and Hulu on the limited series Devs.
“Never Let Me Go is a modern science fiction classic that Melissa Iqbal and the...
FX has greenlit a series based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed novel Never Let Me Go.
The drama, which will stream on Hulu in the United States, comes from writer and showrunner Melissa Iqbal (HBO’s The Nevers) and counts filmmaker Alex Garland — who wrote the script for a 2010 feature based on the novel — as an executive producer. Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald head the cast.
DNA Productions will produce the series along with FX Productions and Searchlight Television; DNA and Searchlight were behind the 2010 film as well. Iqbal will executive produce with Marc Munden, who directed the pilot; Garland; Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Maria Fleischer of DNA Productions; and Ishiguro. Garland and DNA previously collaborated with FX and Hulu on the limited series Devs.
“Never Let Me Go is a modern science fiction classic that Melissa Iqbal and the...
- 10/25/2022
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald will star in the series adaptation of Never Let Me Go, which has been handed a series order by FX to air on Hulu.
Earlier this year, Deadline revealed that the Kazuo Ishiguro novel adapted as a film starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield was being turned into a TV series from The Nevers writer Melissa Iqbal.
The sci-fi thriller is now moving forward with Viola Prettejohn, who starred in The Nevers, in the lead role.
She plays Thora, a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. But as she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Ullman (Mrs. America) and Macdonald (Line of Duty) will...
Earlier this year, Deadline revealed that the Kazuo Ishiguro novel adapted as a film starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield was being turned into a TV series from The Nevers writer Melissa Iqbal.
The sci-fi thriller is now moving forward with Viola Prettejohn, who starred in The Nevers, in the lead role.
She plays Thora, a rebellious teenage clone who escapes from the boarding school where she and her fellow clones are kept hidden from society. But as she starts living undercover in the outside world, she unwittingly sets in motion events that will spark a revolution and test the boundaries of what it means to be human.
Ullman (Mrs. America) and Macdonald (Line of Duty) will...
- 10/25/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
"What if the other side has already predicted every step you will take?" Peacock has revealed an official US trailer for a British streaming series titled The Undeclared War, originally made for Channel 4 in the UK. It already premiered there in June, but will start streaming on Peacock in the US this August. This British thriller series is about a fictional future (or perhaps it's a crystal ball?) in 2024 during the next UK elections. A leading team of analysts buried in the heart of Gchq secretly works to ward off a foreign cyber-attack on the country's electoral system. A young student is "quickly thrust into the center of an escalating data war with Russia that has dangerous implications extending far beyond cyberspace." Sounds scary, no? Starring Hannah Khalique-Brown as Saara, along with Simon Pegg, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Edward Holcroft, Adrian Lester, Alex Jennings, Kerry Godliman, plus Mark Rylance as John Yeabsley.
- 7/25/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Horror film Kindred finds a pregnant young woman battling sinister in-laws – not a position its star plans to find herself in. She explains why she’s drawn to strong, resilient characters
Tamara Lawrance says she has “very little desire to be pregnant” and, given the subject matter of her latest film, who can blame her? She stars in the dread-filled psychological horror Kindred as Charlotte, a young woman living in an isolated part of rural England, whose life plans go awry when she gets pregnant with her boyfriend (Edward Holcroft) and is taken into the quasi-care of his sinister family, in their crow-infested, crumbling mansion. Fiona Shaw makes for an imperious matriarch, while Jack Lowden is unnervingly obsequious as the black-sheep stepbrother.
“I really enjoyed the fact that [Charlotte] was not maternal,” says Lawrance, describing the allure of the script by writer-director Joe Marcantonio. “It’s an assumption that women are born with this innate,...
Tamara Lawrance says she has “very little desire to be pregnant” and, given the subject matter of her latest film, who can blame her? She stars in the dread-filled psychological horror Kindred as Charlotte, a young woman living in an isolated part of rural England, whose life plans go awry when she gets pregnant with her boyfriend (Edward Holcroft) and is taken into the quasi-care of his sinister family, in their crow-infested, crumbling mansion. Fiona Shaw makes for an imperious matriarch, while Jack Lowden is unnervingly obsequious as the black-sheep stepbrother.
“I really enjoyed the fact that [Charlotte] was not maternal,” says Lawrance, describing the allure of the script by writer-director Joe Marcantonio. “It’s an assumption that women are born with this innate,...
- 7/1/2021
- by Ellen E Jones
- The Guardian - Film News
Sky has launched a new trailer for the upcoming thriller ‘Kindred’.
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas.
They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her only option is to break free from this family once and for all – but at what cost?
Directed by Joe Marcantonio,...
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas.
They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her only option is to break free from this family once and for all – but at what cost?
Directed by Joe Marcantonio,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: German sales firm Beta Cinema has revealed multiple deals for BIFA-nominated psychological-thriller Kindred.
The UK feature debut, starring Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden (Fighting With My Family) and BAFTA-winner Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), has sold to Sky Cinema for the UK and Ireland, Signature Entertainment for Australia/New Zealand and South Africa, Imagine Film for Benelux, Russian World Vision for Cis and Empire Networks for the Middle East. Beta will continue sales at the upcoming virtual EFM.
In Kindred, plagued by mysterious hallucinations, a pregnant woman suspects that the family of her deceased boyfriend has bad intentions for her unborn child.
Directed by Joe Marcantonio, the film was previously released by IFC Midnight in the U.S. Actor Lowden and producer Dominic Norris (Modern Life Is Rubbish) produce through their recently-launched Scotland-based production banner Reiver Pictures.
Also among cast are Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit) and Edward Holcroft...
The UK feature debut, starring Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden (Fighting With My Family) and BAFTA-winner Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), has sold to Sky Cinema for the UK and Ireland, Signature Entertainment for Australia/New Zealand and South Africa, Imagine Film for Benelux, Russian World Vision for Cis and Empire Networks for the Middle East. Beta will continue sales at the upcoming virtual EFM.
In Kindred, plagued by mysterious hallucinations, a pregnant woman suspects that the family of her deceased boyfriend has bad intentions for her unborn child.
Directed by Joe Marcantonio, the film was previously released by IFC Midnight in the U.S. Actor Lowden and producer Dominic Norris (Modern Life Is Rubbish) produce through their recently-launched Scotland-based production banner Reiver Pictures.
Also among cast are Chloe Pirrie (The Queen’s Gambit) and Edward Holcroft...
- 2/19/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s telling that Fiona Shaw so ably slipped into the skin of “Medea,” Euripides’ tragic mother pushed to a murderous brink by her unfaithful husband, on Broadway nearly 20 years ago. Her career has since been marked by playing strong, often quite complicated mommies, like phlegmatic MI6 head Carolyn Martens in BBC’s “Killing Eve” and, most recently, in the new horror film “Kindred.”
But, as Shaw is quick to correct IndieWire via a telephone interview amid filming the new season of “Baptiste” in England, these women aren’t quite “mothers from hell.” “Carolyn is maybe not the best mother,” she said of her “Killing Eve” character, a powerhouse of charged stealth. “It’s very hard to be an actress over 40 and not play mothers.” In comparison, she said. “Medea was a very nice woman. She was a victim of circumstance, and the scary aspect of the play is not...
But, as Shaw is quick to correct IndieWire via a telephone interview amid filming the new season of “Baptiste” in England, these women aren’t quite “mothers from hell.” “Carolyn is maybe not the best mother,” she said of her “Killing Eve” character, a powerhouse of charged stealth. “It’s very hard to be an actress over 40 and not play mothers.” In comparison, she said. “Medea was a very nice woman. She was a victim of circumstance, and the scary aspect of the play is not...
- 11/6/2020
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
When one is pregnant, the most important thing is to stay calm and avoid stress. Finding out about it unexpectedly is not a good start. For Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) it's all the more traumatic because she never planned to have children and there's a history of illness in her family. Loving partner Ben (Edward Holcroft) talks her into it, but then he's killed in a tragic accident. Overwhelmed by grief, Charlotte is taken in by his mother Margaret (Fiona Shaw) and step-brother Thomas (Jack Lowden), but as time goes by and it becomes clear that they don't want her to leave, she becomes increasingly uncomfortable.
Pregnancy can, of course, also interfere with one's thinking. Dizziness, nausea and disorientation don't seem all that remarkable. Even hallucinations, she's assured, can be caused by normal changes. And though no-one mentions it, bereavement can also trigger severe short term mental health problems. Despite these symptoms,...
Pregnancy can, of course, also interfere with one's thinking. Dizziness, nausea and disorientation don't seem all that remarkable. Even hallucinations, she's assured, can be caused by normal changes. And though no-one mentions it, bereavement can also trigger severe short term mental health problems. Despite these symptoms,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
I’m always relieved, if not excited, to encounter a horror film that isn’t about anything supernatural. A lot of today’s audiences wouldn’t even consider that a horror film; if it doesn’t goose you with effects or try for some version of the uncanny, it’s just a drama. But horror doesn’t need to be fantasy, and when it isn’t you can feel like it’s out to spook you without cheating. “Kindred” is a demonstration of how a naturalistic horror film can be derivative, in the most flagrant and shameless way, and still work.
The director, Joe Marcantonio (it’s his first feature), has laced together “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Get Out,” and he’s done it so obviously that you keep ticking off the moments and concepts the film reminds you of. Marcantonio, who co-wrote the script, knows how to raise your pulse without tricks,...
The director, Joe Marcantonio (it’s his first feature), has laced together “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Get Out,” and he’s done it so obviously that you keep ticking off the moments and concepts the film reminds you of. Marcantonio, who co-wrote the script, knows how to raise your pulse without tricks,...
- 11/6/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Long before Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) discovers she is pregnant, the young Brit has reason to worry about her kind boyfriend Ben’s (Edward Holcroft) genetic and genealogical contributions. Ben is wonderful, but his family — rich estate dwellers, no father, a high-strung mother, and a weirdo “stepbrother” Ben can’t stand — are not quite right. There’s the desperation his mother Margaret (Fiona Shaw) displays whenever Ben comes around, the overly solicitous way that interloping sort-of sibling Thomas (Jack Lowden) does everything, the sense the family estate seems bent on holding them all together. Charlotte doesn’t even know if she wants to be a mother, but maybe it will be okay if she and Ben can break free of the oppressive English countryside he was born in and make their way, as planned, to a fresh start in Australia.
That’s not to be. In his elegant and unsettling feature directorial debut,...
That’s not to be. In his elegant and unsettling feature directorial debut,...
- 11/2/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Generating terror on screen isn’t always easy in our current age of Trump headlines, but the British thriller “Kindred” succeeds the old fashion way: pulling from those headlines, seducing us into a clean, logical nightmare about a woman who wants an abortion.
When we first meet Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance), she is living with her boyfriend, Ben (Edward Holcroft), and suffers from cruel judgments about her decision to abort.
Continue reading ‘Kindred’: Joe Marcantonio Uses Horror & Great Performances To Deliver A Timely Message [Review] at The Playlist.
When we first meet Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance), she is living with her boyfriend, Ben (Edward Holcroft), and suffers from cruel judgments about her decision to abort.
Continue reading ‘Kindred’: Joe Marcantonio Uses Horror & Great Performances To Deliver A Timely Message [Review] at The Playlist.
- 11/2/2020
- by Asher Luberto
- The Playlist
Kindred can be classified as one of those films that leaves you confused as to whether or not you hated it or liked it. It’s much harder to lean into the latter because it’s absolutely maddening. Not because it’s an awful film—it’s not—but because of what the central character goes through. Joe Marcantonio’s feature debut is a psychological thriller that takes psychotic to the max and the thrill to palm-sweaty stress. It’s narratively ambiguous with ideas and themes that are familiar, but it’s held in a tight grip by forceful performances.
The film introduces an interracial couple, Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) and Ben (Edward Holcroft), as they break the news to Ben’s mother, Margaret (Fiona Shaw), that they want to leave Britain and move to Australia. Margaret is sickened at the idea, going off about Ben needing to stay for his family,...
The film introduces an interracial couple, Charlotte (Tamara Lawrance) and Ben (Edward Holcroft), as they break the news to Ben’s mother, Margaret (Fiona Shaw), that they want to leave Britain and move to Australia. Margaret is sickened at the idea, going off about Ben needing to stay for his family,...
- 11/2/2020
- by Sara Clements
- DailyDead
Three out of competition titles also added to programme.
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Three out of competition titles also added to programme.
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
Estonian film festival Tallinn Black Nights has selected 15 titles for the First Feature Competition at its hybrid 24th edition which runs November 13-29.
The festival has also added three out of competition debut films to the programme; the 18 titles in total include 10 world premieres, seven international, and one European.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
World premieres include The Translator, from Syrian filmmakers Rana Kazkaz and Anas Khalaf. Set during the 2011 Syrian revolution, it follows a political refugee living in Australia who makes the journey back to his native country,...
- 10/15/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
"You're not well... You don't even seem to realize that." IFC Midnight has revealed the first official trailer for a "psychological thriller rippling with suspense" titled Kindred, from filmmaker Joe Marcantonio. This one is skipping out on October entirely, and opening at the beginning of November this fall. Kindred follows vulnerable mother-to-be Charlotte, played by Tamara Lawrance, as she is taken in by her recently deceased boyfriend's mother and her step-son, who seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Soon plagued by strange hallucinations, Charlotte's suspicions grow about Margaret and Thomas' intentions for her unborn child. The cast includes Fiona Shaw, Jack Lowden, Edward Holcroft, Chloe Pirrie, & Anton Lesser. This looks extra discomforting and intense, especially when all the weird things start happening in the second half of the trailer. Definitely worth a look. Here's the first official trailer for Joe Marcantonio's Kindred, direct from IFC's YouTube: When...
- 10/1/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Surrounded by people she doesn't know, a pregnant woman has good reason to question the person who tries to assure her by saying: "Everything is under control." Because, in the psychological thriller Kindred, everything is decidedly not under control, as the first, increasingly stressful trailer makes clear. Directed by Joe Marcantonio, his debut feature stars Tamara Lawrance, Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw, and Edward Holcroft. According to the official synopsis: "When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben's family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben's overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas (Jack Lowden,...
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- 10/1/2020
- Screen Anarchy
IFC has announced that they have acquired North American rights to Kindred, with plans to release the film this November:
From the Press Release: IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to Kindred, directed by Joe Marcantonio and produced by Dominic Norris & Jack Lowden of Reiver Pictures. Kindred explores themes of control and a young woman’s struggle with the slow breakdown of her own sense of reality in this twisted psychological drama, with a screenplay by Marcantonio and Jason McColgan. The film stars a breakout performance by Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), and Edward Holcroft. John Keville & Morgan Bushe of Fastnet Films serve as Executive Producers alongside Norman Merry & Peter Hampden of Lipsync Productions, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films, Serotonin Films and Gareth Wiley. IFC Midnight will release the film on November 6th, 2020. When her...
From the Press Release: IFC Midnight announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to Kindred, directed by Joe Marcantonio and produced by Dominic Norris & Jack Lowden of Reiver Pictures. Kindred explores themes of control and a young woman’s struggle with the slow breakdown of her own sense of reality in this twisted psychological drama, with a screenplay by Marcantonio and Jason McColgan. The film stars a breakout performance by Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song), Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), and Edward Holcroft. John Keville & Morgan Bushe of Fastnet Films serve as Executive Producers alongside Norman Merry & Peter Hampden of Lipsync Productions, Phil Hunt and Compton Ross of Head Gear Films, Serotonin Films and Gareth Wiley. IFC Midnight will release the film on November 6th, 2020. When her...
- 7/31/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Exclusive: IFC Midnight we have learned has acquired North American rights to the Joe Marcantonio psychological drama Kindred which they’re planning to open on Nov. 6.
Kindred follows mother-to-be Charlotte. She collapses upon receiving the news that her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas. They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her...
Kindred follows mother-to-be Charlotte. She collapses upon receiving the news that her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother, Margaret, and his controlling stepbrother, Thomas. They are determined to care for her, at least until the baby arrives. Grief stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte accepts their help. But as the days go by she begins to doubt their intentions and her suspicions grow. Are they drugging her and keeping her captive, with the aim of taking her unborn baby? As her visions intensify and the haze of lies grows, Charlotte decides that her...
- 7/29/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Beta Cinema handles international sales
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Joe Marcantonio’s psychological drama Kindred and has set a November 6 release.
Beta Cinema handles international sales on the story of a pregnant women who is taken into care by the overbearing family of her recently deceased boyfriend.
Unsure whether the family mean harm or if she is succumbing to strange visions, she plots her escape.
Tamara Lawrance stars with Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw, and Edward Holcroft.
Marcantonio and Jason McColgan co-wrote the screenplay. Dominic Norris and Lowden of Reiver Pictures produced.
John Keville and Morgan Bushe...
IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Joe Marcantonio’s psychological drama Kindred and has set a November 6 release.
Beta Cinema handles international sales on the story of a pregnant women who is taken into care by the overbearing family of her recently deceased boyfriend.
Unsure whether the family mean harm or if she is succumbing to strange visions, she plots her escape.
Tamara Lawrance stars with Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw, and Edward Holcroft.
Marcantonio and Jason McColgan co-wrote the screenplay. Dominic Norris and Lowden of Reiver Pictures produced.
John Keville and Morgan Bushe...
- 7/29/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Netflix has launched a new trailer for the latest series from ‘Downton Abbey’ creator Julian Fellowes, ‘The English Game’.
The six-part drama charts the origins of football and how those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world’s most popular sport.
Directed by Birgitte Stærmose and Tim Fywell, the series stars Edward Holcroft, Kevin Guthrie, Charlotte Hope, Craig Parkinson, James Harkness, Niamh Walsh, Gerard Kearns, Joncie Elmore, Sam Keeley, Daniel Ings, Kate Dickie, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Kate Phillips, Ben Batt, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Harry Michell and Anthony Andre.
Also in trailers – Michiel Huisman stars in trailer for ‘The Other Lamb’
The show will launch on Netflix March 20th
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The six-part drama charts the origins of football and how those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world’s most popular sport.
Directed by Birgitte Stærmose and Tim Fywell, the series stars Edward Holcroft, Kevin Guthrie, Charlotte Hope, Craig Parkinson, James Harkness, Niamh Walsh, Gerard Kearns, Joncie Elmore, Sam Keeley, Daniel Ings, Kate Dickie, Henry Lloyd Hughes, Kate Phillips, Ben Batt, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Harry Michell and Anthony Andre.
Also in trailers – Michiel Huisman stars in trailer for ‘The Other Lamb’
The show will launch on Netflix March 20th
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- 3/5/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Production has kicked off on Julian Fellowes’ Netflix drama The English Game. This comes after HBO picked up Downton Abbey creator’s period drama The Gilded Age, taking over from NBC.
The English Game, which is written and exec produced by Fellowes and produced by Traitors and Watership Down producer 42, is a six-part series that charts the origins of football and how those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world’s most popular sport. It is currently shooting in the UK and will launch on Netflix in 2020.
The series will star Edward Holcroft (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), Kevin Guthrie (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Charlotte Hope (The Spanish Princess), Craig Parkinson (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), James Harkness (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Niamh Walsh (Jamestown), Gerard Kearns (Last Kingdom), Joncie Elmore (Downton Abbey), Sam Keeley (Anthropoid), Daniel Ings (The Crown...
The English Game, which is written and exec produced by Fellowes and produced by Traitors and Watership Down producer 42, is a six-part series that charts the origins of football and how those involved in its creation reached across the class divide to establish the game as the world’s most popular sport. It is currently shooting in the UK and will launch on Netflix in 2020.
The series will star Edward Holcroft (Kingsman: The Golden Circle), Kevin Guthrie (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Charlotte Hope (The Spanish Princess), Craig Parkinson (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch), James Harkness (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Niamh Walsh (Jamestown), Gerard Kearns (Last Kingdom), Joncie Elmore (Downton Abbey), Sam Keeley (Anthropoid), Daniel Ings (The Crown...
- 5/3/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
One of the favorites heading into this year’s Canneseries Short-Form Competition has to be the star-studded anthology series “Do Not Disturb,” spearheaded by the U.K.’s Pulse Films in association with Blackpills Studio.
Michael Haussman and Larry Volpi created the series, and its nine, 10-minute episodes were written by the two along with Olivia Poulet, Mike O’Leary, Nida Manzoor and Davey Spens.
“Do Not Disturb” takes the audience behind the little plastic placards we hang on hotel-room door handles when we need a nap, want to be left alone, or perhaps up to something a bit more adult, as is often the case in this show.
Some episodes are comedies, some terrifying and others sultry, but each explores the darker side of humanity that is often kept behind closed doors.
The series’ directors include Haussman, Jude Law, Jake Chapman, Mounia Akl, Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace, Zoe Casavettes and Matthew Huston.
Michael Haussman and Larry Volpi created the series, and its nine, 10-minute episodes were written by the two along with Olivia Poulet, Mike O’Leary, Nida Manzoor and Davey Spens.
“Do Not Disturb” takes the audience behind the little plastic placards we hang on hotel-room door handles when we need a nap, want to be left alone, or perhaps up to something a bit more adult, as is often the case in this show.
Some episodes are comedies, some terrifying and others sultry, but each explores the darker side of humanity that is often kept behind closed doors.
The series’ directors include Haussman, Jude Law, Jake Chapman, Mounia Akl, Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace, Zoe Casavettes and Matthew Huston.
- 4/6/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Previously worked together on ‘Calibre’.
Following their successful collaboration on Scottish thriller Calibre, German sales powerhouse Beta Cinema and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2014 Jack Lowden are partnering again on new thriller Corvidae.
Beta Cinema has taken global rights excluding North America to the psychological thriller, which is directed by Joe Marcantonio and stars Lowden, Tamara Lawrance and Fiona Shaw. UTA will handle the North American sale.
When her boyfriend dies suddenly in an accident, a psychologically fragile mother-to-be is taken in by his family, who seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Plagued by mysterious hallucinations, her suspicions grow about...
Following their successful collaboration on Scottish thriller Calibre, German sales powerhouse Beta Cinema and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2014 Jack Lowden are partnering again on new thriller Corvidae.
Beta Cinema has taken global rights excluding North America to the psychological thriller, which is directed by Joe Marcantonio and stars Lowden, Tamara Lawrance and Fiona Shaw. UTA will handle the North American sale.
When her boyfriend dies suddenly in an accident, a psychologically fragile mother-to-be is taken in by his family, who seem increasingly obsessed with her every move. Plagued by mysterious hallucinations, her suspicions grow about...
- 2/8/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Some actors like to keep an air of mystery about them, and Edward Holcroft is one of those that tends to only share what he wants to say at any given moment. He’s a hardworking actor however that has put up a few notable roles and been instrumental in helping various projects succeed. To say that he’s still kind of working out the kinks in his act might not be totally fair since he is an established actor, but he’s been in the business for less than a decade and as such it would seem that he’s still kind of
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- 11/3/2018
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
All 22,000 plus voting members of the TV academy have until June 25 to cast their ballots for program nominations (save for animated documentary/nonfiction which are restricted to their peer groups.) Unlike the Oscars, Emmy voters do not rank their choices and nominees are determined by a simple tally. In the past, voters were limited in the number of programs that they could put forth. Last year that cap (which was usually 10 per category) was lifted.
While there has been an explosion in the number of comedy and drama series in the last several years, the limited series genre had been almost static. There were 25 entries in 2015, 26 in 2016 and 25 again in 2017. But this year there has been an uptick, with 33 such shows submitted. Even so, with six nominees for Best Limited Series, the odds for each of the entries detailed below are pretty good. We fill find out which half dozen...
While there has been an explosion in the number of comedy and drama series in the last several years, the limited series genre had been almost static. There were 25 entries in 2015, 26 in 2016 and 25 again in 2017. But this year there has been an uptick, with 33 such shows submitted. Even so, with six nominees for Best Limited Series, the odds for each of the entries detailed below are pretty good. We fill find out which half dozen...
- 6/13/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Network: BBC AmericaEpisodes: Five (hour)Seasons: OneTV show dates: January 21, 2016 — February 18, 2016Series status: EndedPerformers include: Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent, Edward Holcroft, Samantha Spiro, Lorraine Ashbourne, David Hayman, Clarke Peters, Charlotte Rampling, Mark Gatiss, Harriet Walter, James Fox, Adrian Lester, Riccardo Scamarcio, Josef Altin, Zrinka Cvitešić, Nicolas Chagrin, and Richard Cunningham.TV show description:Part love story, part spy thriller, this British mystery drama features Daniel Edward Holt (Ben Whishaw). A hungover party boy, Danny stands on London's Lambeth's Bridge at dawn, wondering if life gets any easier.Along comes Alex (Edward Holcroft), out for an early morning jog. While clubber Danny is outgoing, romantic and self-indulgent, brilliant investment banker Alex is mysterious and aloof.Opposites attract. Danny and Alex form a bond. They soon...
- 3/22/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Winners of the 2018 British Academy Film Awards (the BAFTAs) were revealed on Sunday February 18 (two days before final voting for the Oscars begins) in a ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) takes over emcee duties from Stephen Fry, who hosted for the last 12 years running. Ridley Scott receives the BAFTA Fellowship from BAFTA patron Prince William. Read the full report on the 2018 BAFTA Awards.
The roster of presenters includes: Gemma Arterton, Orlando Bloom, Sam Claflin, Bryan Cranston, Natalie Dormer, Taron Egerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rebecca Ferguson, Karen Gillan, Naomie Harris, Salma Hayek, Edward Holcroft, Nicholas Hoult, Isabelle Huppert, Lily James, Jennifer Lawrence, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Lupita Nyong’o, Sergei Polunin, Will Poulter, Andrea Riseborough, Sir Patrick Stewart, Mark Strong, Hayley Squires, Tom Taylor, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rachel Weisz and Letitia Wright.
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Best...
The roster of presenters includes: Gemma Arterton, Orlando Bloom, Sam Claflin, Bryan Cranston, Natalie Dormer, Taron Egerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rebecca Ferguson, Karen Gillan, Naomie Harris, Salma Hayek, Edward Holcroft, Nicholas Hoult, Isabelle Huppert, Lily James, Jennifer Lawrence, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Lupita Nyong’o, Sergei Polunin, Will Poulter, Andrea Riseborough, Sir Patrick Stewart, Mark Strong, Hayley Squires, Tom Taylor, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rachel Weisz and Letitia Wright.
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Best...
- 2/18/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The 2018 BAFTA Awards begin at the Royal Albert Hall in London at 7:00 pm Sunday (Feb. 18). However, the BBC won’t air the show until 9 pm local time. And it won’t go out on BBC America until 5 pm Pt/8 pm Et. But we will have the results here at Gold Derby as they unfold, beginning at 11:00 am Pt/2:00 pm Et. Throughout the day, be sure to join the live discussion in our message boards. And then check back here after the results are in for our analysis of what these wins (and losses) at the BAFTAs mean for the Oscars.
Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) takes over hosting duties from Stephen Fry, who emceed for the last 12 years running. One highlight of the evening is sure to be Ridley Scott receiving the BAFTA Fellowship. It is this group’s version of a lifetime achievement award, and will be...
Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) takes over hosting duties from Stephen Fry, who emceed for the last 12 years running. One highlight of the evening is sure to be Ridley Scott receiving the BAFTA Fellowship. It is this group’s version of a lifetime achievement award, and will be...
- 2/18/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
The February 18 BAFTA Awards will be hosted by Joanna Lumley (“Absolutely Fabulous”) and air on a tape-delayed basis on both BBC One in England and BBC America in the United States. Sixteen of this year’s 20 nominees in the acting categories are schedule to attend Sunday’s ceremony at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
All five Best Actress nominees are expected: Annette Bening (“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”), Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”), Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”).
Likewise for the five fellows up for Best Actor: Jamie Bell (“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”), Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me by Your Name”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“Phantom Thread”), Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”) and Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”).
And four of the five Best Supporting Actress hopefuls will be in the audience: Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), Lesley Manville...
All five Best Actress nominees are expected: Annette Bening (“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”), Sally Hawkins (“The Shape of Water”), Frances McDormand (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”), Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Lady Bird”).
Likewise for the five fellows up for Best Actor: Jamie Bell (“Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool”), Timothee Chalamet (“Call Me by Your Name”), Daniel Day-Lewis (“Phantom Thread”), Daniel Kaluuya (“Get Out”) and Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour”).
And four of the five Best Supporting Actress hopefuls will be in the audience: Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”), Lesley Manville...
- 2/16/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Author: Jon Lyus
This evening the red carpet was unfurled at the opening gala of the Newport Beach Film Festival UK Honours held at The Rosewood Hotel in London.
Those attending the event included Simon Pegg who talked about the Henry Cavill Mission Impossible/Justice League moustache controversy, Sir Patrick Stewart, Andy Serkis, Celia Imrie, Jason Isaacs, Eleanor Tomlinson, Gurinder Chadha, Mark Gatiss, Anya Taylor-Joy who told us about New Mutants and working with Bruce Willis on the Split sequel Glass, Game of Thrones and Maze Runner star Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sophie Skelton, Edward Holcroft, Rungano Nyon and many more.
The event marked the launch of the festival as well as the bestowing of several awards, details of which you can see below.
Outstanding Achievement In Global Cinema:
Darkest Hour
Icon:
Sir Patrick Stewart, Gurinder Chadha, Celia Imrie & Andy Serkis
Artist Of Distinction:
Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss, Jason Isaacs & Thomas Brodie-Sangster...
This evening the red carpet was unfurled at the opening gala of the Newport Beach Film Festival UK Honours held at The Rosewood Hotel in London.
Those attending the event included Simon Pegg who talked about the Henry Cavill Mission Impossible/Justice League moustache controversy, Sir Patrick Stewart, Andy Serkis, Celia Imrie, Jason Isaacs, Eleanor Tomlinson, Gurinder Chadha, Mark Gatiss, Anya Taylor-Joy who told us about New Mutants and working with Bruce Willis on the Split sequel Glass, Game of Thrones and Maze Runner star Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Sophie Skelton, Edward Holcroft, Rungano Nyon and many more.
The event marked the launch of the festival as well as the bestowing of several awards, details of which you can see below.
Outstanding Achievement In Global Cinema:
Darkest Hour
Icon:
Sir Patrick Stewart, Gurinder Chadha, Celia Imrie & Andy Serkis
Artist Of Distinction:
Simon Pegg, Mark Gatiss, Jason Isaacs & Thomas Brodie-Sangster...
- 2/15/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Although it sounds like the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones won't premiere until 2019, fans don't have to wait that long to see more Kit Harington on their screens. The Gunpowder premieres on Monday, December 18, 2017 at 10:00pm, and HBO has released episode photos and descriptions. Check them out, below. A historical drama based on the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot," which is still marked in UK as "Guy Fawkes Day," Gunpowder delves into events behind the legend. The HBO mini-series stars Harington as his ancestor, Robert Catesby. The cast also includes: Mark Gatiss, Peter Mullan, Liv Tyler, Edward Holcroft, Shaun Dooley, Tom Cullen, Robert Emms, Derek Riddell, Sian Webber, David Bamber, and Kevin Eldon. Read More…...
- 12/8/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
On paper, Netflix’s newest original series, Alias Grace, appears to be another product of Seo and word cloud analysis:
“People watch period pieces like Downtown Abby and fiction based on true crime.”
“Hulu had a big hit with adapting a Margaret Atwood book!”
“Women Behind Bars and Killer Women both get lots of hits among a key demo.”
Regardless if the methods for generating content like House of Cards and Stranger Things are stomach churning, the results are generally enjoyable. Alias Grace, based on Atwood’s fictionalized examination of the Irish immigrant at the center of a historical 19th-century murder, is no exception.
While a narrative primarily organized around the psychiatric evaluation (think In Treatment) of the increasingly troubled life of a young servant in Victorian Ontario may not be promising, the result is cooly intoxicating. Anchored by Sarah Gadon’s subtle performance as Grace Marks, and punctuated by stabs of del Toro-esque imagery,...
“People watch period pieces like Downtown Abby and fiction based on true crime.”
“Hulu had a big hit with adapting a Margaret Atwood book!”
“Women Behind Bars and Killer Women both get lots of hits among a key demo.”
Regardless if the methods for generating content like House of Cards and Stranger Things are stomach churning, the results are generally enjoyable. Alias Grace, based on Atwood’s fictionalized examination of the Irish immigrant at the center of a historical 19th-century murder, is no exception.
While a narrative primarily organized around the psychiatric evaluation (think In Treatment) of the increasingly troubled life of a young servant in Victorian Ontario may not be promising, the result is cooly intoxicating. Anchored by Sarah Gadon’s subtle performance as Grace Marks, and punctuated by stabs of del Toro-esque imagery,...
- 11/28/2017
- by Jarret Green
- Destroy the Brain
For two decades, Sarah Polley has been desperately trying to adapt Margaret Atwood's book about a young woman who was abused, mistreated and silenced in the mid-1800s. By the time the 38-year-old actor-turned-writer/director brought the author's 1996 historical novel Alias Grace to the small screen – the six-hour miniseries began streaming on Netflix in early November – she had no idea she'd end up discussing the very same issues taking place in the 21st century. "I was imagining when I did press for [this], I would be introducing this as a conversation,...
- 11/7/2017
- Rollingstone.com
“She feels like prey. She lives in a completely predatory world. Her job is to not respond to endless amounts of harassment and violence.”
This is how writer and producer Sarah Polley describes the central character of the Netflix/CBC miniseries “Alias Grace.” This is also a statement that makes the based-on-real-events story of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a 19th-century Canadian woman who spent years in prison after being convicted of murder, infinitely relatable to many women yesterday and today, but hopefully less so tomorrow.
“I think a lot of what [‘Alias Grace’] explores is what it meant to be a woman and how much it meant to be a young woman at that time, but also what it means to be a young woman at any time, when especially it’s exaggerated in Grace Marks’ case,” Polley told IndieWire. “I think a lot of women can relate to that, right now...
This is how writer and producer Sarah Polley describes the central character of the Netflix/CBC miniseries “Alias Grace.” This is also a statement that makes the based-on-real-events story of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), a 19th-century Canadian woman who spent years in prison after being convicted of murder, infinitely relatable to many women yesterday and today, but hopefully less so tomorrow.
“I think a lot of what [‘Alias Grace’] explores is what it meant to be a woman and how much it meant to be a young woman at that time, but also what it means to be a young woman at any time, when especially it’s exaggerated in Grace Marks’ case,” Polley told IndieWire. “I think a lot of women can relate to that, right now...
- 11/5/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Brace yourself: You’re going to want to binge “Alias Grace.” The six-episode limited series — streaming now on Netflix following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and subsequent broadcasting in Canada on the CBC — is downright hypnotic, rapturous, and engrossing.
Watching evokes the sense of sinking into a great novel, which seems only fitting, given that it’s based on the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood, one of our greatest living novelists. But everything in the execution is owed to the detail-rich writing of Sarah Polley and direction of Mary Harron, who take this real-life tale of murder and give it rich depths, digging into the harm done to a human soul by a lifetime of oppression.
At the center of “Grace” is Grace Marks (played by Sarah Gadon in a star-making turn), a 19th-century Irish immigrant convicted of a notorious double murder, whose mental state comes...
Watching evokes the sense of sinking into a great novel, which seems only fitting, given that it’s based on the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood, one of our greatest living novelists. But everything in the execution is owed to the detail-rich writing of Sarah Polley and direction of Mary Harron, who take this real-life tale of murder and give it rich depths, digging into the harm done to a human soul by a lifetime of oppression.
At the center of “Grace” is Grace Marks (played by Sarah Gadon in a star-making turn), a 19th-century Irish immigrant convicted of a notorious double murder, whose mental state comes...
- 11/4/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Patience is a virtue… especially when judging a TV series. My feelings about Netflix’s 19th-century crime drama Alias Grace, which debuts today, see-sawed back and forth as I made my way through all six episodes. There’s a lot to like about it — it’s gorgeously shot and quietly compelling, with a potent lead performance from Sarah Gadon — but at times, it gets sluggish and overly gloomy. Stick with it, though, because the sixth and final episode is truly remarkable, weaving all of its disparate narrative strands together for a thoroughly satisfying finish.
When we first meet Irish immigrant maid Grace in 1859 Canada,...
When we first meet Irish immigrant maid Grace in 1859 Canada,...
- 11/3/2017
- TVLine.com
Vulture Watch Is Grace Marks' fate carved in stone? Has the Alias Grace TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on Netflix? The television vulture is watching all the latest TV cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Alias Grace, season two. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you? What's This TV Show About? A Canadian series streaming on the Netflix paid subscription platform, Alias Grace stars Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Anna Paquin, Paul Gross, Rebecca Liddiard, Kerr Logan, Zachary Levi, and David Cronenberg. A Sarah Polley adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel which was inspired by real-life events, the historical drama centers on a poor, young Irish immigrant from Ulster — Grace Marks. Grace works as a domestic servant in...
- 11/3/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Network: Netflix. Episodes: Ongoing (hour). Seasons: Ongoing. TV show dates: November 3, 2017 — present. Series status: Has not been cancelled. Performers include: Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Anna Paquin, Paul Gross, Rebecca Liddiard, Kerr Logan, Zachary Levi, and David Cronenberg. TV show description: A Sarah Polley adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel which was inspired by real-life events, the Alias Grace TV show centers on a poor, young Irish immigrant from Ulster -- Grace Marks. Grace works as a domestic servant in Upper Canada. After her employer and his housekeeper are brutally murdered, Grace and a stablehand are accused of the crime. Read More…...
- 11/3/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Becky Lea Nov 3, 2017
Sarah Polley's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace is now on Netflix and nothing short of a triumph. Spoilers ahead in our review...
Warning: contains book and series spoilers.
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There is a quilt pattern, mentioned in Alias Grace, called Attic Windows, which is an exercise in shifting perspectives. To look at the quilt one way is to see a collection of closed boxes, but to look at it from another finds you looking at open boxes. A quilt such as this one is stitched together from various materials, each one individual but in service of the larger pattern. To see one part of the quilt is to only see one aspect of it. A quilt must be seen in its entirety in order to appreciate the pattern effect as a whole. Alias Grace is a similar kind of construction,...
Sarah Polley's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace is now on Netflix and nothing short of a triumph. Spoilers ahead in our review...
Warning: contains book and series spoilers.
See related Paddington 2 review Paul King interview: Paddington 2
There is a quilt pattern, mentioned in Alias Grace, called Attic Windows, which is an exercise in shifting perspectives. To look at the quilt one way is to see a collection of closed boxes, but to look at it from another finds you looking at open boxes. A quilt such as this one is stitched together from various materials, each one individual but in service of the larger pattern. To see one part of the quilt is to only see one aspect of it. A quilt must be seen in its entirety in order to appreciate the pattern effect as a whole. Alias Grace is a similar kind of construction,...
- 11/2/2017
- Den of Geek
Sarah Gadon on How Margaret Atwood's Work Resonates in Hollywood’s Truth-Telling Climate (Exclusive)
In light of the recently amplified conversation surrounding sexual harassment and sexual assault in Hollywood, Margaret Atwood’s 1996 novel, Alias Grace, feels at once timely and timeless. The new six-part Netflix miniseries, set in 19th-century Canada, tussles with a lot of the same themes that are making headlines today: female agency, abortion, immigrant rights and class tensions.
Adapted by Sarah Polley for the screen, Alias Grace weaves in and out of the life of Grace Marks, an Irish immigrant and servant girl who finds herself thrust into the public spotlight as a “celebrated murderess” after her master and his mistress are brutally killed at their farm. Grace and stableman James McDermott are both convicted of the crime. But while McDermott (Kerr Logan) is hanged, Grace is sentenced to life imprisonment. A church committee sets out to prove her innocence, citing hysteria or psychological issues (Grace cannot recall committing the murders), enlisting the help of Dr. Simon Jordan (Edward Holcroft), a physician...
Adapted by Sarah Polley for the screen, Alias Grace weaves in and out of the life of Grace Marks, an Irish immigrant and servant girl who finds herself thrust into the public spotlight as a “celebrated murderess” after her master and his mistress are brutally killed at their farm. Grace and stableman James McDermott are both convicted of the crime. But while McDermott (Kerr Logan) is hanged, Grace is sentenced to life imprisonment. A church committee sets out to prove her innocence, citing hysteria or psychological issues (Grace cannot recall committing the murders), enlisting the help of Dr. Simon Jordan (Edward Holcroft), a physician...
- 11/1/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Born Free USA, a global leader in animal welfare and wildlife conservation, brought its unique message of Compassionate Conservation to an audience of Hollywood stars and animal lovers at its late September benefit at the Palihouse West Hollywood, exceeding fundraising goals by raising more than six figures in donations.
Abigail Spencer Attends Born Free USA Event
In addition to several high profile television executives and Born Free supporters, notable Hollywood actors Katie Cleary, Edward Holcroft and Abigail Spencer attended the benefit to hear about and support the charity’s work to end cruelty to wild animals – in captivity and in their natural habitat – and to keep wildlife in the wild.
“These are tough times for wild animals, both here in the United States and around the world,” said Prashant K. Khetan, CEO and general counsel of Born Free USA. “Captive animal abuse, trapping, the brutal killing of animals for their fur,...
Abigail Spencer Attends Born Free USA Event
In addition to several high profile television executives and Born Free supporters, notable Hollywood actors Katie Cleary, Edward Holcroft and Abigail Spencer attended the benefit to hear about and support the charity’s work to end cruelty to wild animals – in captivity and in their natural habitat – and to keep wildlife in the wild.
“These are tough times for wild animals, both here in the United States and around the world,” said Prashant K. Khetan, CEO and general counsel of Born Free USA. “Captive animal abuse, trapping, the brutal killing of animals for their fur,...
- 10/13/2017
- Look to the Stars
Duncan Bowles Sep 26, 2017
Jane Goldman chats to us about writing Kingsman, Stardust, The Walking Dead and more...
Ever since teaming up with Matthew Vaughn a decade ago to adapt and write Stardust, Jane Goldman’s profile as a writer has been on the rise and rightly so. As has already been stated many times in our interviews for Kingsman 2 over the last week, with both Mark Strong and Vaughn himself – the films they’ve made together have been fantastic and highlights of each of the genres they’ve represented, whether fantasy (Stardust), comic book (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class), or spy (Kingsman).
We sat down with Jane Goldman for a chat about her love of film and writing process and found her in fine spirits, full of laughter and happily enthusing about variety of topics close to our hearts, ingratiating herself further into the realms of geekdom, as we started...
Jane Goldman chats to us about writing Kingsman, Stardust, The Walking Dead and more...
Ever since teaming up with Matthew Vaughn a decade ago to adapt and write Stardust, Jane Goldman’s profile as a writer has been on the rise and rightly so. As has already been stated many times in our interviews for Kingsman 2 over the last week, with both Mark Strong and Vaughn himself – the films they’ve made together have been fantastic and highlights of each of the genres they’ve represented, whether fantasy (Stardust), comic book (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class), or spy (Kingsman).
We sat down with Jane Goldman for a chat about her love of film and writing process and found her in fine spirits, full of laughter and happily enthusing about variety of topics close to our hearts, ingratiating herself further into the realms of geekdom, as we started...
- 9/23/2017
- Den of Geek
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