Oscilloscope Laboratories, the distribution company set up by late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, has acquired U.S. rights to The Universal Theory, which recently premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival (as the title The Theory of Everything). A theatrical release is planned for 2024.
From director Timm Kröger, the German drama is set in 1962 at a quantum mechanics conference in an isolated lodge nestled amid the towering landscapes of the Swiss Alps, and is the story of a gifted young physicist, his curmudgeonly mentor and an enigmatic jazz pianist who knows things about our wunderkind scientist that he’s never told another living soul. As the description goes, the film is “driven by astonishing twists, improbable coincidences and Hitchcockian suspense,” and “considers the metaverse theory from a refreshingly intelligent point of view.”
The main cast includes Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber and Imogen Kogge.
From director Timm Kröger, the German drama is set in 1962 at a quantum mechanics conference in an isolated lodge nestled amid the towering landscapes of the Swiss Alps, and is the story of a gifted young physicist, his curmudgeonly mentor and an enigmatic jazz pianist who knows things about our wunderkind scientist that he’s never told another living soul. As the description goes, the film is “driven by astonishing twists, improbable coincidences and Hitchcockian suspense,” and “considers the metaverse theory from a refreshingly intelligent point of view.”
The main cast includes Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber and Imogen Kogge.
- 10/5/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Timm Kröger’s feature debut title is being sold by Paris-based sales outfit Charades.
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK and Ireland rights for Timm Kröger’s Venice competition title The Theory Of Everything from Paris-based sales outfit Charades.
German director Kröger’s black-and-white metaphysical noir is set in the Swiss Alps in the winter of 1962. It centres on a young doctor-to-be attending an international convention where he finds a mysterious pianist, a bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a dark, booming secret under the mountain, all part of the titular “theory of everything.”
The genre-hopping film is produced by Germany’s ma.
Picturehouse Entertainment has taken UK and Ireland rights for Timm Kröger’s Venice competition title The Theory Of Everything from Paris-based sales outfit Charades.
German director Kröger’s black-and-white metaphysical noir is set in the Swiss Alps in the winter of 1962. It centres on a young doctor-to-be attending an international convention where he finds a mysterious pianist, a bizarre cloud formation in the sky and a dark, booming secret under the mountain, all part of the titular “theory of everything.”
The genre-hopping film is produced by Germany’s ma.
- 9/13/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
‘The Theory Of Everything’ Review: A Weirdly Elusive Dive Into The Multiverse – Venice Film Festival
Thanks to science fiction, we all have a basic grip on the theory of the multiverse: the idea that there are innumerable parallel worlds in which the chances and choices of the past – the roads not taken, whether by ourselves or the dinosaurs – have split off into alternative stories, endlessly bifurcating into other pasts, other futures that must be peopled, most provocatively, with other versions of ourselves. It is an idea that has proved rich pickings for comic-book adventures, where peril can come from any available universe and there is always a chance of confronting a doppelganger, but German director Timm Kröger has returned to the theory – which dates back to the 1950s – to explore how mysterious, sinister and terrifyingly vast a proposal it really is. This is a theory of everything where everything – that familiar word – is infinite. Where nothing, in fact, is ever going to be “everything.”
The...
The...
- 9/3/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Imagine that one of Hitchcock’s villains — say, the guy missing the tip of a pinkie in “The 39 Steps,” or the shrink who runs the institute in “Spellbound” — did not simply come from a place of murderous intent but from a different place altogether, perhaps another dimension. Imagine that villain’s supranatural malfeasance backdropped by jagged mountains, captured in black-and-white so crisp it could cut, and widescreen frames so wide whole Alpine ranges fit comfortably inside them. And imagine it all unfolding to a deliberately overpowering score, like Bernard Herrman and Scott Walker conceived a baby during a sonic boom. Now you are somewhere near Timm Kröger’s superbly crafted “The Universal Theory” an overlong but enjoyable metaphysical thriller that delivers pastiche so meticulous it becomes its own source of supremely cinematic pleasure.
It is 1962, in the mountainous Grisons canton of Switzerland. The Cold War is at its coldest, its...
It is 1962, in the mountainous Grisons canton of Switzerland. The Cold War is at its coldest, its...
- 9/3/2023
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Have you heard of a movie about a brilliant quantum physicist who travels to a remote location so he can test a groundbreaking theory that could change the world forever? It’s shot in breathtaking black-and-white, and features Nazis and a doomed romance.
If you’re thinking of Oppenheimer, you’re wrong by a good two decades (in terms of the time setting), as well as a good hundred million dollars (in terms of budget). And yet, like a smaller, distant cousin to the Christopher Nolan blockbuster, German director Timm Kröger’s The Theory of Everything (Die Theorie Von Allem) is also an artfully made, ambitious period piece where reality sometimes bends to the laws of modern physics.
However, the similarities end there. Nolan’s movie was science-fact, remaining as close to historic events as technically possible. Kröger’s second feature is more of a genre-jumping experiment, combining Hollywood sci-fi...
If you’re thinking of Oppenheimer, you’re wrong by a good two decades (in terms of the time setting), as well as a good hundred million dollars (in terms of budget). And yet, like a smaller, distant cousin to the Christopher Nolan blockbuster, German director Timm Kröger’s The Theory of Everything (Die Theorie Von Allem) is also an artfully made, ambitious period piece where reality sometimes bends to the laws of modern physics.
However, the similarities end there. Nolan’s movie was science-fact, remaining as close to historic events as technically possible. Kröger’s second feature is more of a genre-jumping experiment, combining Hollywood sci-fi...
- 9/3/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Black-and-white genre hopping thriller is second feature from German director Kröger.
German director Timm Kröger’s black-and-white genre-hopping thriller The Theory of Everything has scored key territory sales ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Paris-based sales outfit Charades has sold the Swiss Alps-set feature to UFO Distribution in France, La Aventura Audiovisual in Spain and Moviesinspired in Italy. Weirdwave will release the film in Greece, Pictureworks has taken rights for India and Megacom will distribute in ex-Yugoslavia. Neue Visionen will release The Theory of Everything in Germany on October 26 and Film Coopi has Swiss rights.
German director Timm Kröger’s black-and-white genre-hopping thriller The Theory of Everything has scored key territory sales ahead of its world premiere in Competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Paris-based sales outfit Charades has sold the Swiss Alps-set feature to UFO Distribution in France, La Aventura Audiovisual in Spain and Moviesinspired in Italy. Weirdwave will release the film in Greece, Pictureworks has taken rights for India and Megacom will distribute in ex-Yugoslavia. Neue Visionen will release The Theory of Everything in Germany on October 26 and Film Coopi has Swiss rights.
- 8/4/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Marc Forster has frequently demonstrated an ability to tastefully moderate the more manipulative or saccharine aspects of popular but somewhat blunt-edged source material, in bestseller screen translations like “The Kite Runner” and “A Man Called Otto.” That knack comes in handy once more with “White Bird,” a graceful adaptation of a YA graphic novel by R.J. Palacio. A “Wonder story” tangentially related to 2012’s “Wonder,” it may get some boost from the connection to that book’s successful 2017 film version with Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson.
This less-starry affair (with brightest luminary Helen Mirren relegated to a glorified cameo) is a period piece mixing the Holocaust and teen romance, likely to appeal to a somewhat narrower audience — albeit one that will broaden in home formats. Though one can quibble over some of the more simplistic story elements here, the director’s astute craftsmanship delivers a handsome result that hits the...
This less-starry affair (with brightest luminary Helen Mirren relegated to a glorified cameo) is a period piece mixing the Holocaust and teen romance, likely to appeal to a somewhat narrower audience — albeit one that will broaden in home formats. Though one can quibble over some of the more simplistic story elements here, the director’s astute craftsmanship delivers a handsome result that hits the...
- 8/4/2023
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
This looks unique. German distributor Neue Visionen Filmverleih has revealed a first look trailer for the indie film Die Theorie von Allem, which translates directly to The Theory of Everything. Yep, it's the same title as the Stephen Hawking film from 2014, and it's also about theoretical physics and scientists. But with a more mysterious, Hitchcockian twist. Set in 1962. A physics congress in the Alps. An Iranian guest. A mysterious pianist. A bizarre cloud in the sky and a booming mystery under the mountain. It's "a quantum mechanical thriller in black & white." The distributor also adds more buzz: with "Timm Kröger, everything is there that makes for great cinematic art in the best Hitchcock tradition. Cast with a fantastic ensemble and interspersed with a phenomenal soundtrack, The Theory of Everything is a brilliant film noir about the contingency of our world, in which much is possible and hardly anything is necessary.
- 7/26/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Timm Kröger’s second film is a German-language psychological thriller.
Charades and Anonymous Content are partnering on sales for German director Timm Kröger’s The Theory of Everything ahead of its world premiere in competition in Venice, announced today.
The genre-blending black and white thriller set in the world of quantum mechanics is Kroger’s second feature. Set in the Swiss Alps, it is about a physicist attending an international convention where an Iranian scientist plans to unveil a groundbreaking new theory in quantum mechanics. Intrigued by a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know intimate details about him, he...
Charades and Anonymous Content are partnering on sales for German director Timm Kröger’s The Theory of Everything ahead of its world premiere in competition in Venice, announced today.
The genre-blending black and white thriller set in the world of quantum mechanics is Kroger’s second feature. Set in the Swiss Alps, it is about a physicist attending an international convention where an Iranian scientist plans to unveil a groundbreaking new theory in quantum mechanics. Intrigued by a mysterious jazz pianist who seems to know intimate details about him, he...
- 7/25/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
German director Timm Kröger’s mystery thriller “The Universal Theory” has started shooting at the ski resort of St. Jakob in Defereggen, Austria. The film’s first image has been released.
The cast is led by Jan Bülow, who starred in “Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding,” and Olivia Ross, a Paris-born, British actress whose credits include History’s “Knightfall,” Netflix’s “The Old Guard,” and the BBC’s “War and Peace” and “Killing Eve.”
Kröger previously directed Venice Critics Week entry “The Council of Birds.” The screenplay was written by Roderick Warich (“The Trouble with Being Born”) and Kröger.
Shot in Cinemascope, in black and white, the 1960s set story unfolds against the backdrop of the Alps. Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets his femme fatale, Karin, a jazz pianist...
The cast is led by Jan Bülow, who starred in “Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding,” and Olivia Ross, a Paris-born, British actress whose credits include History’s “Knightfall,” Netflix’s “The Old Guard,” and the BBC’s “War and Peace” and “Killing Eve.”
Kröger previously directed Venice Critics Week entry “The Council of Birds.” The screenplay was written by Roderick Warich (“The Trouble with Being Born”) and Kröger.
Shot in Cinemascope, in black and white, the 1960s set story unfolds against the backdrop of the Alps. Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on site. He meets his femme fatale, Karin, a jazz pianist...
- 1/21/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Mia Hansen-Løve's All Is Forgiven (2007) is showing on Mubi starting January 7, 2021 in most countries in the series First Films First.A modest story told with fierce intelligence and freedom, All Is Forgiven (2007), written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve at the age of 25, signaled the style and strength of a new and most brilliant filmmaker. Not complying with the familiar-looking (French) family drama’s conventions, the film is an achievement in integrity, a first expression of an original filmmaking philosophy that will be refined and reappear again and again in Hansen-Løve’s next five features. In every way, Hansen-Løve’s first feature fits easily within this writer-director’s filmography. Sensitively approaching themes of death, suicide, vocation and melancholy, like Hansen-Løve’s subsequent portraits, character studies and coming-of-age films, All Is Forgiven is styled simply—without much adornment or exposition—and structured unusually,...
- 1/7/2021
- MUBI
Network: History.
Episodes: 18 (hour).
Seasons: Two.
TV show dates: December 6, 2017 — May 13, 2019.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, Bobby Schofield, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Sam Hazeldine, and Nasser Memarzia.
TV show description:
From creators Don Handfield and Richard Rayner, the Knightfall TV show is a fictional historical drama set in the Middle Ages. The story kicks off in the year 1291, as the Knights Templar lose their last Holy Land stronghold -- the City of Acre. The battle claims the lives of many of their order and the Holy Grail is lost, seemingly forever.
Fifteen years later, in...
Episodes: 18 (hour).
Seasons: Two.
TV show dates: December 6, 2017 — May 13, 2019.
Series status: Cancelled.
Performers include: Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, Bobby Schofield, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Sam Hazeldine, and Nasser Memarzia.
TV show description:
From creators Don Handfield and Richard Rayner, the Knightfall TV show is a fictional historical drama set in the Middle Ages. The story kicks off in the year 1291, as the Knights Templar lose their last Holy Land stronghold -- the City of Acre. The battle claims the lives of many of their order and the Holy Grail is lost, seemingly forever.
Fifteen years later, in...
- 5/8/2020
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
It seems like a long time coming, but this week sees a return for the Knights Templars in season 2 of Knightfall in the UK. At the end of season one having fallen from grace, Landry (Tom Cullen) was battered and bruised from an almighty battle with King Philip (Ed Stoppard) and left holding his newborn child.
Knightfall chronicles the mysterious but true accounts of the Knights Templar, the elite warriors of the Crusades. It delves into the great secrets protected by the Templars and tells the story of faith, loyalty and brotherhood that help sustain these warriors on the battlefield and the dark events that would forever sear the infamous date of Friday the 13th into the world’s psyche.
At eight episodes, Season 2 promises even more low points for Landry as he finds himself on a path to redemption. No longer a Knights Templar he finds himself at the...
Knightfall chronicles the mysterious but true accounts of the Knights Templar, the elite warriors of the Crusades. It delves into the great secrets protected by the Templars and tells the story of faith, loyalty and brotherhood that help sustain these warriors on the battlefield and the dark events that would forever sear the infamous date of Friday the 13th into the world’s psyche.
At eight episodes, Season 2 promises even more low points for Landry as he finds himself on a path to redemption. No longer a Knights Templar he finds himself at the...
- 7/1/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Vulture Watch
Will the Knights Templar live to fight another day? Has the Knightfall TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on History? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Knightfall, 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 History Middle Ages drama, Knightfall stars Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, Bobby Schofield, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Sam Hazeldine, and Nasser Memarzia. Years after the Templars lose their last Holy Land stronghold, their dying Master Commander points them to the possible location of the Holy Grail. Whether they’re waging war in the Holy Land or in...
Will the Knights Templar live to fight another day? Has the Knightfall TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on History? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Knightfall, 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 History Middle Ages drama, Knightfall stars Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, Bobby Schofield, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Sam Hazeldine, and Nasser Memarzia. Years after the Templars lose their last Holy Land stronghold, their dying Master Commander points them to the possible location of the Holy Grail. Whether they’re waging war in the Holy Land or in...
- 2/12/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
"You betrayed the brotherhood." History has just released the official trailer for season two of Knightfall.
Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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- 2/12/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
"Leave us and never return." History has just released a new teaser for season two of Knightfall.
Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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- 1/25/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Dominic Minghella.
Australian producers who lament the time and resources devoted to developing projects that don’t eventuate can take heart from Dominic Minghella.
Despite a stellar track record as the creator of Doc Martin and Robin Hood, the UK producer/writer says his strike rate is just one in six of all the projects he’s developed.
“I have been incredibly lucky, but what you don’t see are the projects I wrote which I was sure would work and didn’t work,” he tells If via Skype from his home in London. “Development isn’t fun.”
Minghella will be a keynote speaker at Screen Producers Australia’s Screen Forever conference in Melbourne this November, marking just his second trip down under. In 2008 he took part in Spark, the script development program by the Australian Film Commission run in conjunction with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs...
Australian producers who lament the time and resources devoted to developing projects that don’t eventuate can take heart from Dominic Minghella.
Despite a stellar track record as the creator of Doc Martin and Robin Hood, the UK producer/writer says his strike rate is just one in six of all the projects he’s developed.
“I have been incredibly lucky, but what you don’t see are the projects I wrote which I was sure would work and didn’t work,” he tells If via Skype from his home in London. “Development isn’t fun.”
Minghella will be a keynote speaker at Screen Producers Australia’s Screen Forever conference in Melbourne this November, marking just his second trip down under. In 2008 he took part in Spark, the script development program by the Australian Film Commission run in conjunction with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (Aftrs...
- 11/8/2018
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Are you ready for the new season of Knightfall? History just released a new image of Mark Hamill (see above) from the TV show's second season.
Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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- 9/27/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Good news for Knightfall fans! Today A&E announced the TV show will return for a second season and Mark Hamill is joining the cast.
Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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Set in the Middle Ages, the historical drama tells the story of the Knights Templar as they wage war in the Holy Land. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, and Bobby Schofield.
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- 8/14/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Killing Eve” Episode 6, “Take Me to the Hole.”]
Sunday’s “Killing Eve” lacked that intense and dark chemistry between MI5 officer Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and the assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) that was seen in last week’s episode. Both of them head to Russia with the same target: to reach the imprisoned Nadia (Olivia Ross), who had survived getting run over — twice! — by Villanelle. But while our killer intends to do what she does best and make the murder stick this time, Eve is unaware of her whereabouts and instead hopes to obtain information from Nadia about Villanelle.
Accompanying Eve on this trip is her boss Carolyn (Fiona Shaw), who like Bill in Germany, appears to have contacts and deep, sexy history in Russia. “God, my bones come alive in this country,” she says upon arrival. It’s the first sign of Carolyn’s party girl side, not that...
Sunday’s “Killing Eve” lacked that intense and dark chemistry between MI5 officer Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and the assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) that was seen in last week’s episode. Both of them head to Russia with the same target: to reach the imprisoned Nadia (Olivia Ross), who had survived getting run over — twice! — by Villanelle. But while our killer intends to do what she does best and make the murder stick this time, Eve is unaware of her whereabouts and instead hopes to obtain information from Nadia about Villanelle.
Accompanying Eve on this trip is her boss Carolyn (Fiona Shaw), who like Bill in Germany, appears to have contacts and deep, sexy history in Russia. “God, my bones come alive in this country,” she says upon arrival. It’s the first sign of Carolyn’s party girl side, not that...
- 5/14/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for History Channel. The cable network has two drama series with “Knightfall” and “Vikings” plus several programs in the reality and documentary fields among their 2018 contenders.
SEEClive Standen (‘Vikings’): His character Rollo ‘doesn’t like feeling the emotional pain’ [Exclusive Video]
Below, the list of History Channel lead and supporting submissions for these two drama programs plus the other genres. More names might be added by the network before final Emmy paperwork deadlines. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
“Alone”
Reality-Competition Program
“America’S War On Drugs”
Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“The Curse Of Oak Island”
Unstructured Reality Program
“Forged In Fire”
Reality-Competition Program
“Knightfall”
Drama Series
Drama Actor – Tom Cullen
Drama Supporting Actress – Sabrina Bartlett, Olivia Ross
Drama Supporting Actor – Jim Carter,...
SEEClive Standen (‘Vikings’): His character Rollo ‘doesn’t like feeling the emotional pain’ [Exclusive Video]
Below, the list of History Channel lead and supporting submissions for these two drama programs plus the other genres. More names might be added by the network before final Emmy paperwork deadlines. Also note that performers not included on this list may well be submitted by their personal reps.
“Alone”
Reality-Competition Program
“America’S War On Drugs”
Documentary or Nonfiction Series
“The Curse Of Oak Island”
Unstructured Reality Program
“Forged In Fire”
Reality-Competition Program
“Knightfall”
Drama Series
Drama Actor – Tom Cullen
Drama Supporting Actress – Sabrina Bartlett, Olivia Ross
Drama Supporting Actor – Jim Carter,...
- 5/1/2018
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
‘Killing Eve’s’ Assassin Continues to Blindside Everyone — Even Viewers — With Her Batshit Brutality
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Killing Eve” Episode 4, “Sorry, Baby.”]
“I want to kill her with my bare hands,” says Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), indicating that the Mi-6 officer has turned a corner in her investigation into a female assassin.
On last week’s “Killing Eve,” the show made a huge leap from being a diverting spy-assassin romp to must-see television when Villanelle (Jodie Comer) took out Bill (David Haig), Eve’s longtime colleague. This marked the first time Eve has actually cared for one of the victims, and his murder at her hands amounted to an assassination. After all, this was someone close to Eve, and she’s certainly taking that act personally. The gauntlet has been thrown.
Sunday’s episode deals with the aftermath when Eve’s emotional state is still raw; she’s still trying to make sense of Bill’s death and find purpose in work. At the same time, the...
“I want to kill her with my bare hands,” says Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), indicating that the Mi-6 officer has turned a corner in her investigation into a female assassin.
On last week’s “Killing Eve,” the show made a huge leap from being a diverting spy-assassin romp to must-see television when Villanelle (Jodie Comer) took out Bill (David Haig), Eve’s longtime colleague. This marked the first time Eve has actually cared for one of the victims, and his murder at her hands amounted to an assassination. After all, this was someone close to Eve, and she’s certainly taking that act personally. The gauntlet has been thrown.
Sunday’s episode deals with the aftermath when Eve’s emotional state is still raw; she’s still trying to make sense of Bill’s death and find purpose in work. At the same time, the...
- 4/30/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
As sister station A&E concentrates on "reality" programming, History is increasing its scripted offerings. They've already had some success in the ratings with Vikings and Six. Now, they're introducing another bellicose drama, the Knightfall TV show, from executive producer Jeremy Renner. Will it prove to be a success? Will Knightfall be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. Set in the Middle Ages, Knightfall tells the story of the Knights Templar. The scripted History drama stars Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, Bobby Schofield, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Sam Hazeldine, and Nasser Memarzia. Years after the Templars lose their last Holy Land stronghold, their dying Master Commander points them to the possible location of the Holy Grail. Whether they're waging war in the Holy Land or in conflict with the king, they are rushing headlong toward...
- 2/9/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Will there be another season of Knightfall? According to SpoilerTV, History has renewed the new TV show for a second season.The historical drama is set in the Middle Ages and tells the story of the Knights Templar. The cast includes Tom Cullen, Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Jim Carter, Bobby Schofield, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Sam Hazeldine, and Nasser Memarzia...
- 12/29/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
This is either the best or worst time to be releasing a new series set in the aftermath of The Crusades, a centuries-long campaign to claim the Holy Land as Christian territory. Regardless of its timing, the new History series “Knightfall” falls short of the careful examination that this monumental period of world history deserves. Ambitious in its scale, but hamstrung by its conventions, “Knightfall” often confuses violence and brutality for visceral authenticity. Using the Templar Knights as an entry point into a volatile period in France and the world at large, the result is a series that often focuses its energies on the least compelling areas of its tapestry.
As a sword and shield epic, “Knightfall” brings a kind of visual comfort that will likely endear it to pre-existing fans of “Game of Thrones,” “Lord of the Rings,” or even “Braveheart” (whose antagonist King Edward “Longshanks” I is name-dropped...
As a sword and shield epic, “Knightfall” brings a kind of visual comfort that will likely endear it to pre-existing fans of “Game of Thrones,” “Lord of the Rings,” or even “Braveheart” (whose antagonist King Edward “Longshanks” I is name-dropped...
- 12/6/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The Knightfall crew moved heaven and earth to bring the show to screen... and so did its star, Tom Cullen.
The show was picked up for 10 episodes straight-to-series in January 2016, signifying History's confidence in the Jeremy Renner-executive produced project, despite a massive set fire halfway through filming, and a Welsh actor who auditioned for the role of a warrior monk looking "like a mix between a gerbil and a Christmas pudding."
"Honestly, I looked like a turkey!" Cullen boldly confesses to Et after a night out promoting the show in Los Angeles. "I had just come out of Christmas, and I just looked like Christmas, do you know what I mean? I was the human equivalent of Christmas, so I had to do a lot of work in order to make myself look like a knight."
The actor was in the gym five hours a day for three months "to make myself look less [like a] turkey" before filming...
The show was picked up for 10 episodes straight-to-series in January 2016, signifying History's confidence in the Jeremy Renner-executive produced project, despite a massive set fire halfway through filming, and a Welsh actor who auditioned for the role of a warrior monk looking "like a mix between a gerbil and a Christmas pudding."
"Honestly, I looked like a turkey!" Cullen boldly confesses to Et after a night out promoting the show in Los Angeles. "I had just come out of Christmas, and I just looked like Christmas, do you know what I mean? I was the human equivalent of Christmas, so I had to do a lot of work in order to make myself look like a knight."
The actor was in the gym five hours a day for three months "to make myself look less [like a] turkey" before filming...
- 12/6/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Kirsten Howard Michael Ahr Sep 26, 2017
A new crusades-era drama on the History Channel is ready to roll out, and we've now got a big trailer and a confirmed air date for the show.
Following in the tradition of its highly successful period drama, Vikings, the History Channel is all set to introduce another historical fiction series to the world. Entitled Knightfall, it aims to capture the political intrigue of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, who sought the holy grail during the Middle Ages.
We now have a proper, full trailer for the series. It gives viewers a good idea of how broadly Knightfall intends to explore the world of 1306....
The first trailer gave us a glimpse of the mystery surrounding the location of the holy grail and how the warriors of the Templar Order sought it against all enemies.
Knightfall air date
Knightfall will make its debut on the History Channel on December 6,...
A new crusades-era drama on the History Channel is ready to roll out, and we've now got a big trailer and a confirmed air date for the show.
Following in the tradition of its highly successful period drama, Vikings, the History Channel is all set to introduce another historical fiction series to the world. Entitled Knightfall, it aims to capture the political intrigue of the Crusades and the Knights Templar, who sought the holy grail during the Middle Ages.
We now have a proper, full trailer for the series. It gives viewers a good idea of how broadly Knightfall intends to explore the world of 1306....
The first trailer gave us a glimpse of the mystery surrounding the location of the holy grail and how the warriors of the Templar Order sought it against all enemies.
Knightfall air date
Knightfall will make its debut on the History Channel on December 6,...
- 9/26/2017
- Den of Geek
History has set a Dec. 6 premiere date for “Knightfall,” the network announced on Monday. The 10-episode series delves into the medieval politics and warfare of the Knights Templar, the most powerful, wealthy and mysterious military order of the Middle Ages who were entrusted with protecting Christianity’s most precious relics. “Downton Abbey” alum Tom Cullen stars in the series as the headstrong Templar Knight Landry as he embarks on a mission in search of the Holy Grail. Also Read: 'Vikings' Lands Early Season 6 Renewal From History The series also stars Pádraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, Jim Carter, Olivia Ross, Ed Stoppard,...
- 9/25/2017
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Author: David Sztypuljak
Here’s the brand new UK poster for Icon’s Personal Shopper which sees Kristen Stewart taking on the role. The movie comes from writer / director Olivier Assayas (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and sees Stewart play the character of Maureen Cartwright, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the rich and famous . She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.
Related: Watch the trailer here
The movie unfolds when one of her millionaire shoppers makes her a proposition and she has to decide if what he’s telling her is real, or imagined. Joining the Twilight star are Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten and Olivia Ross.
If you missed it, our NY correspondent James Kleinmann attended the...
Here’s the brand new UK poster for Icon’s Personal Shopper which sees Kristen Stewart taking on the role. The movie comes from writer / director Olivier Assayas (Clouds Of Sils Maria) and sees Stewart play the character of Maureen Cartwright, a young American living in Paris and working as a high-fashion personal shopper to the rich and famous . She is also a spiritual medium, and grieving the recent death of her twin brother, she haunts his Parisian home, determined to make contact with him.
Related: Watch the trailer here
The movie unfolds when one of her millionaire shoppers makes her a proposition and she has to decide if what he’s telling her is real, or imagined. Joining the Twilight star are Lars Eidinger, Anders Danielsen Lie, Ty Olwin, Nora von Waldstätten and Olivia Ross.
If you missed it, our NY correspondent James Kleinmann attended the...
- 1/26/2017
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Donald Trump is no stranger to controversial tweets but when he took aim at Meryl Streep following her passionate Golden Globes speech, Twitter users fired back to defend the beloved actress.
After the president-elect told the The New York Times over the telephone that he had not watched the awards show but was “not surprised” that he was attacked by “liberal movie people,” Trump took to Twitter to share his distaste for the 67-year-old movie star.
“Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes,” Trump, 70, wrote...
After the president-elect told the The New York Times over the telephone that he had not watched the awards show but was “not surprised” that he was attacked by “liberal movie people,” Trump took to Twitter to share his distaste for the 67-year-old movie star.
“Meryl Streep, one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood, doesn’t know me but attacked last night at the Golden Globes,” Trump, 70, wrote...
- 1/9/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
Filming has begun on the Knightfall TV show for History, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Check out set photos and videos, below. The Adventure Dubrovnik touring company announced on its Facebook page that it has temporarily relocated its sea kayaking start point to accommodate filming of the upcoming Knights Templar drama. Per History, Knightfall will also film in Czech Republic.The Knightfall TV series cast includes: Tom Cullen, Bobby Schofield, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Padraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, and Olivia Ross. Jeremy Renner will reportedly guest star in the historical series, which hails from Renner’s and Don Handfield’s production company The Combine and Midnight Radio. .Read More…...
- 6/30/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
History has announced casting for the new Knightfall TV show. The series comes from A+E Studios in association with Jeremy Renner’s and Don Handfield’s production company The Combine and Midnight Radio. Season one of this Knights Templar drama consists of 10 one-hour episodes.
Joining the Knightfall TV series cast are Bobby Schofield, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Padraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, and Olivia Ross. Tom Cullen was previously announced. Renner is expected to guest star.
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Joining the Knightfall TV series cast are Bobby Schofield, Sabrina Bartlett, Julian Ovenden, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Padraic Delaney, Simon Merrells, and Olivia Ross. Tom Cullen was previously announced. Renner is expected to guest star.
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- 6/15/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
For years, it seemed the History Channel was lost in the weeds. Despite changing their name to History, their shows were more “mindless reality TV binge watch” and less “did I just accidentally learn something?” An intellectual wasteland, Ancient Aliens was the closest you could find to an edutainment series on the channel from 2010 to 2013. Then along came Vikings, and everything changed. Vikings premiered to 6 million viewers — and while not 100% historically accurate, it was head and shoulders above History’S other offerings at the time. The success opened the door to programming like the limited-series Barbarians Rising and the recent remake of Roots. But until now, Vikings has been the lone History historical series, adrift in a sea of Mountain Men and Swamp People. This solitude ends when Knightfall joins the line-up. A new series from Jeremy Renner’s (yes, Hawkeye) and Don Handfield’s production company The Combine and Midnight Radio, Knightfall will follow the Vikings model of blending history and drama, only this time during the fall of the Knights Templar. One of the most mysterious and powerful orders of the Middle Ages, the Knights Templar were a military group entrusted with the keeping of the Holy Grail and — according to legend — knew secrets about the Church that could bring it to its knees. But they were also an order of men, with all the messy politicking and “mean-girling” that entails. Knightfall promises to go deep into the inner circle of the Knights Templar’s clandestine world. Not just the battles in the Holy Land, but the battles on the home front. Not everyone loved the Templars, leading to clashes with both the King of France and Pope Boniface VIII. The latter of which would end in the disbanding the order on Friday the 13th, which is why the date is considered unlucky even now. Oh, look! The show hasn’t even started, and you’re already learning something. Production for Knightfall begins this summer in Croatia and the Czech Republic. Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey) was previously announced to star as Landry, a former warrior and current leader of the Knights Templar. But now the cast is fully in place and ready to return to the 12th century. From the press release: [Starring] Bobby Schofield (Black Sea, Our World War) as Parsifal, a young man of ordinary birth who will join the Knights Templar seeking revenge, but ultimately finds a higher purpose; Sabrina Bartlett (DaVinci’s Demons, Poldark) as Princess Isabella, Queen Joan and King Philip's daughter, her upcoming wedding stands to forge a powerful political alliance for France; Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey, Person of Interest, The Colony) as De Nogaret, King Philip’s Machiavellian lawyer and right hand man; Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (The Bridge, The Absent One) as Adelina, as a child she was rescued in the Holy Land by the Templar Knights, but now in her early 20s, she lives on the streets of Paris as a thief; Padraic Delaney (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Tudors) as Gawain, once the greatest swordsman of the Templar Order whose role with them is at a crossroads; Simon Merrells (Spartacus, Dominion ) as Tancrede, a veteran sergeant fanatically devoted to the Templar Knight cause and Olivia Ross (War and Peace, Blowing Louder than the Wind , Father of My Children) as Queen Joan of Navarre, Queen of France and Queen Regnant of Navarre, a devoted mother, warrior, and a formidable diplomat and strategist. We’re entering a new era. One in which History retakes the torch. It was up to Comedy Central, of all places, to keep the learning fires alive with Drunk History and Another Period. But now the original is back, and hopefully better than ever.
- 6/15/2016
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
San Francisco International Film Festival
SAN FRANCISCO --Writer/director Mia Hansen-Love's first feature, "All is Forgiven", a keenly observed study in intimacy that has the rhythm and feel of real life, announces the arrival of an intriguing sensibility. Technically accomplished and finely acted without artifice by a talented ensemble cast, it's an astutely written, mature work in its content, understated, naturalistic style and sensitive rendering of complex emotion.
A sudden, inconclusive ending that comes out of left field will leave some unsatisfied. Plus an ostensibly depressing subject, the disintegration of a family, could limit its Art House potential in the U.S. This slice of life picture, punctuated by poetry and cultural discourse, may fare better in European markets and on the festival circuit.
Playing Victor, a feckless aspiring poet coasting through life on little more than boyish good looks and charm, actor Paul Blain reveals the fault lines underneath his character's amiable, sometimes volatile demeanor. When Victor descends into the drug addiction, which inevitably destroys his relationship with his exasperated Austrian wife, Annette (Marie-Christine Friedrich), and his young daughter, Pamela (Victoire Rousseau), it seems like a natural progression. Unfolding with minimal exposition, the story, set in Vienna and Paris, picks up 11 years later with Pamela (Constance Rousseau, Victoire's older sister), now a young woman, warily reuniting with her father after a long estrangement. The reading aloud of letters between them, a conceit that could bring the film to a halt, is handled with finesse. Rousseau, a shimmering, delicate beauty, brings a combination of tentativeness and resolve to Pamela, a product of a fractious home embarking on her own life. Production designers Sophie Reynaud and Thierry Poulet get the telling accoutrements just right, from the rambling chaos of the bourgeois family residence to a struggling couple's suffocating apartment. Pascal Auffray's luminous cinematography, shot through with painterly light, brings to mind the pastoral idylls and muted urban landscapes of the Impressionists.
Wistful folk songs underscore the sorrow of missed connections, a condition that plagues Hansen-Love's intelligent, wounded characters.
Production Company: Les Films Pelleas. Cast: Paul Blain, Marie-Christine Friedrich, Victoire Rousseau, Constance Rousseau, Carole Franck, Olivia Ross. Director: Mia Hansen-Love. Screenwriters: Mia Hansen-Love. Executive Producers: not listed. Producer: David Thion. Director of Photography: Pascal Auffray. Production Designer: Sophie Reynaud, Thierry Poulet. Music: not listed. Costume Designer: Eleonore O'Byrne, Sophie Lifshitz. Editor: Marion Monnier. Sales Agent: Pyramide International. No rating, 100 minutes.
SAN FRANCISCO --Writer/director Mia Hansen-Love's first feature, "All is Forgiven", a keenly observed study in intimacy that has the rhythm and feel of real life, announces the arrival of an intriguing sensibility. Technically accomplished and finely acted without artifice by a talented ensemble cast, it's an astutely written, mature work in its content, understated, naturalistic style and sensitive rendering of complex emotion.
A sudden, inconclusive ending that comes out of left field will leave some unsatisfied. Plus an ostensibly depressing subject, the disintegration of a family, could limit its Art House potential in the U.S. This slice of life picture, punctuated by poetry and cultural discourse, may fare better in European markets and on the festival circuit.
Playing Victor, a feckless aspiring poet coasting through life on little more than boyish good looks and charm, actor Paul Blain reveals the fault lines underneath his character's amiable, sometimes volatile demeanor. When Victor descends into the drug addiction, which inevitably destroys his relationship with his exasperated Austrian wife, Annette (Marie-Christine Friedrich), and his young daughter, Pamela (Victoire Rousseau), it seems like a natural progression. Unfolding with minimal exposition, the story, set in Vienna and Paris, picks up 11 years later with Pamela (Constance Rousseau, Victoire's older sister), now a young woman, warily reuniting with her father after a long estrangement. The reading aloud of letters between them, a conceit that could bring the film to a halt, is handled with finesse. Rousseau, a shimmering, delicate beauty, brings a combination of tentativeness and resolve to Pamela, a product of a fractious home embarking on her own life. Production designers Sophie Reynaud and Thierry Poulet get the telling accoutrements just right, from the rambling chaos of the bourgeois family residence to a struggling couple's suffocating apartment. Pascal Auffray's luminous cinematography, shot through with painterly light, brings to mind the pastoral idylls and muted urban landscapes of the Impressionists.
Wistful folk songs underscore the sorrow of missed connections, a condition that plagues Hansen-Love's intelligent, wounded characters.
Production Company: Les Films Pelleas. Cast: Paul Blain, Marie-Christine Friedrich, Victoire Rousseau, Constance Rousseau, Carole Franck, Olivia Ross. Director: Mia Hansen-Love. Screenwriters: Mia Hansen-Love. Executive Producers: not listed. Producer: David Thion. Director of Photography: Pascal Auffray. Production Designer: Sophie Reynaud, Thierry Poulet. Music: not listed. Costume Designer: Eleonore O'Byrne, Sophie Lifshitz. Editor: Marion Monnier. Sales Agent: Pyramide International. No rating, 100 minutes.
- 6/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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