The cast for FX’s “Alien” series continues to grow, with Deadline reporting that actor Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) joins in recurring capacity. More interestingly, the announcement gives a bit more insight to the many of the characters in the series.
The series is “set in a time period before Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and is the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.” FX originally noted, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”
Bar-El joins previously announced cast members Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla,” “Damilola”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984,” “Noughts and Crosses”), Erana James (“Uproar,” “The Wilds”), Lily Newmark (“Pin Cushion,” “Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black,” “Alex Rider 3”), and Adrian Edmondson, Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror...
The series is “set in a time period before Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and is the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.” FX originally noted, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”
Bar-El joins previously announced cast members Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla,” “Damilola”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984,” “Noughts and Crosses”), Erana James (“Uproar,” “The Wilds”), Lily Newmark (“Pin Cushion,” “Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black,” “Alex Rider 3”), and Adrian Edmondson, Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror...
- 1/4/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The cast for FX’s upcoming “Alien” series continues to grow, with Variety reporting this week that six more actors have signed on to star in the franchise’s first small screen outing.
Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille, and Adrian Edmondson have all been cast in the series.
Sydney Chandler stars in FX’s “Alien” as Wendy, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”
The previously announced cast also includes Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), and Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger).
FX’s “Alien” series is expected sometime in 2025.
Creator Noah Hawley‘s take on the Alien franchise has been described as both an “extension and reinvention” of the films that have come before it,...
Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille, and Adrian Edmondson have all been cast in the series.
Sydney Chandler stars in FX’s “Alien” as Wendy, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”
The previously announced cast also includes Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), and Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger).
FX’s “Alien” series is expected sometime in 2025.
Creator Noah Hawley‘s take on the Alien franchise has been described as both an “extension and reinvention” of the films that have come before it,...
- 11/30/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Noah Hawley’s “Alien” series at FX has filled out its main cast with six new additions, Variety has learned exclusively.
Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille, and Adrian Edmondson have all been cast in the series.
They join previously announced cast members Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, Samuel Blenkin, and Adarsh Gourav.
Plot and character details are being kept under tight wraps on the project, which was first announced in December 2020. The only detail that has been confirmed is that the show will take place on Earth in the not-too-distant future.
Scripts for the series were completed ahead of the recent writers’ strike, and production began on the show in Thailand in July after the onset of the SAG-AFTRA strike with the British cast members who were members of Equity, the British entertainment union. Production was eventually placed on hold,...
Babou Ceesay, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diêm Camille, and Adrian Edmondson have all been cast in the series.
They join previously announced cast members Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, Samuel Blenkin, and Adarsh Gourav.
Plot and character details are being kept under tight wraps on the project, which was first announced in December 2020. The only detail that has been confirmed is that the show will take place on Earth in the not-too-distant future.
Scripts for the series were completed ahead of the recent writers’ strike, and production began on the show in Thailand in July after the onset of the SAG-AFTRA strike with the British cast members who were members of Equity, the British entertainment union. Production was eventually placed on hold,...
- 11/29/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
For their first feature, A Brixton Tale, filmmaking team Darragh Carey and Bertrand Desrochers set themselves a trap. It’s a film about filmmaking ethics—who gets to tell which stories, and where is the line between artistic expression and exploitation? By asking those questions, the Irish Carey and Québécois Desrochers put themselves under the microscope, too, in their depiction of a housing estate in rapidly gentrifying Brixton. They preempt those criticisms with a title card at the beginning that reads, “Made in collaboration with the community,” and yet I still can’t shake the feeling that A Brixton Tale is made with an outsider’s gaze––not because it’s exploitative, but because it’s generic. It’s a film that plays it too safe, sanding off the thorny edges of its characters to make something tiresomely morally straightforward.
The story is centered on a romance between Benji, a Black Brixtoner,...
The story is centered on a romance between Benji, a Black Brixtoner,...
- 2/22/2021
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
In today’s Global Bulletin, the Zurich festival opens with “My Wonderful Wanda,” Philip Garrel, Tsai Ming-liang and Hong Sang-soo are contenders at San Sebastian, a new talent agency launches with “The Crown” actor Emma Corrin, WaZabi picks up Toronto title “Beans,” and the U.K. celebrates returning to cinemas.
Bettina Oberli’s “My Wonderful Wanda” will open the 16th Zurich film festival on Sept. 24, the first time the event is opening with a film by a female director.
The film was supposed to bow at Tribeca, until the coronavirus pandemic forced its postponement to 2021. Consequently, it will have its world premiere at Zurich.
“My Wonderful Wanda” tells the story of Polish-born Wanda who looks after patriarch and post-stroke patient Josef at his lakeside family villa. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money to support her own family back in Poland. As a live-in caregiver, she gains...
Bettina Oberli’s “My Wonderful Wanda” will open the 16th Zurich film festival on Sept. 24, the first time the event is opening with a film by a female director.
The film was supposed to bow at Tribeca, until the coronavirus pandemic forced its postponement to 2021. Consequently, it will have its world premiere at Zurich.
“My Wonderful Wanda” tells the story of Polish-born Wanda who looks after patriarch and post-stroke patient Josef at his lakeside family villa. The work is poorly paid, but Wanda needs the money to support her own family back in Poland. As a live-in caregiver, she gains...
- 8/21/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: UK management firm Insight Management & Production is launching with a roster of rising talents including Emma Corrin, who will star as Lady Diana Spencer in all 10 episodes of Netflix’s The Crown season four, BAFTA Breakthrough Brit Abubakar Salim and Peaky Blinders actor Jordan Bolger.
Founded by agents Maya Hambro, Tom Jeggo and Charlie Wilson, with Tim Bradbeer as an associate, the London-based boutique agency will offer personal management while also working with clients to option and develop new and existing IP. The aim is to develop a literary department as well.
The roster also includes Lily Newmark, nominated for BIFA’s Most Promising Newcomer for her role in Venice Film Festival drama Pin Cushion and co-star of Netflix fantasy series Cursed, and Sam Clemmett, best known for playing Albus Potter in the original West End and Broadway cast of the hit theatre production Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.
Founded by agents Maya Hambro, Tom Jeggo and Charlie Wilson, with Tim Bradbeer as an associate, the London-based boutique agency will offer personal management while also working with clients to option and develop new and existing IP. The aim is to develop a literary department as well.
The roster also includes Lily Newmark, nominated for BIFA’s Most Promising Newcomer for her role in Venice Film Festival drama Pin Cushion and co-star of Netflix fantasy series Cursed, and Sam Clemmett, best known for playing Albus Potter in the original West End and Broadway cast of the hit theatre production Harry Potter And The Cursed Child.
- 8/21/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Shalom Brune-Franklin as Bindy in ‘Bad Mothers’ (Photo: Scott McAulay).
Currently on screen in the Nine Network’s Bad Mothers, Shalom Brune-Franklin has joined the cast of Cursed, a UK drama commissioned by Netflix.
Aussie-born Katherine Langford is playing the female lead, Nimue, a teenage sorceress who becomes the Lady of the Lake in the re-imagining of the King Arthur legend.
Brune-Franklin is Morgana, also known as Morgan le Fay, a fairy queen and sorceress who is one of Arthur’s three half-sisters.
Now shooting in England and Wales, the 10-episode series was co-created by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler, based on their upcoming young adult illustrated book of the same name.
The cast includes Devon Terrell (Barry), Gustaf Skarsgård, Daniel Sharman (Fear the Walking Dead), Peter Mullan (Ozark), Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion), Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates (Flack), Catherine Walker (Versailles) and Billy Jenkins.
Zetna Fuentes is directing and serving...
Currently on screen in the Nine Network’s Bad Mothers, Shalom Brune-Franklin has joined the cast of Cursed, a UK drama commissioned by Netflix.
Aussie-born Katherine Langford is playing the female lead, Nimue, a teenage sorceress who becomes the Lady of the Lake in the re-imagining of the King Arthur legend.
Brune-Franklin is Morgana, also known as Morgan le Fay, a fairy queen and sorceress who is one of Arthur’s three half-sisters.
Now shooting in England and Wales, the 10-episode series was co-created by Frank Miller and Tom Wheeler, based on their upcoming young adult illustrated book of the same name.
The cast includes Devon Terrell (Barry), Gustaf Skarsgård, Daniel Sharman (Fear the Walking Dead), Peter Mullan (Ozark), Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion), Sebastian Armesto, Emily Coates (Flack), Catherine Walker (Versailles) and Billy Jenkins.
Zetna Fuentes is directing and serving...
- 3/6/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
This evening the 2019 Critics Circle Award were held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Each year the ceremony brings together the finest in modern film and 2019 continues to focus a wider spotlight than the glitzier events.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ cruelty-saoked period drama The Favourite is rightly, well – the favourite for many of the awards. Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War joins Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince with five nominations apiece.
As well as the winners (indicated in Bold) below we were on the red carpet to speak with the nominees and guests at the event.
We spoke to Richard E. Grant (Star Wars Episode IX), Anya Taylor-Joy, Fionn Whitehead (Back Mirror Bandersnatch, Dunkirk & many more this evening the 2019 Critics Circle Award, which were held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Each year the ceremony brings together...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ cruelty-saoked period drama The Favourite is rightly, well – the favourite for many of the awards. Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War joins Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here, Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma and Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince with five nominations apiece.
As well as the winners (indicated in Bold) below we were on the red carpet to speak with the nominees and guests at the event.
We spoke to Richard E. Grant (Star Wars Episode IX), Anya Taylor-Joy, Fionn Whitehead (Back Mirror Bandersnatch, Dunkirk & many more this evening the 2019 Critics Circle Award, which were held at the May Fair Hotel in London. Each year the ceremony brings together...
- 1/20/2019
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Elementary and Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller and Oscar and Grammy-winner Common (The Hate U Give) have been set to star in Nine Lives, the movie adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette of the same name.
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic story follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. Shoot is being lined up for next summer.
Screenplay comes from debut writer-director Siri Rodnes and Tom Basden, who was BAFTA nominated for Fresh Meat. Rodnes will also direct. Producers are Gavin Humphries of Quark Films, who was recently Bifa-nominated for Pin Cushion; and former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez) of Bandit Country, whose upcoming slate also includes fantasy-horror A Spriggan with John Boyega as executive producer. Nine Lives has been selected as part of...
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic story follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. Shoot is being lined up for next summer.
Screenplay comes from debut writer-director Siri Rodnes and Tom Basden, who was BAFTA nominated for Fresh Meat. Rodnes will also direct. Producers are Gavin Humphries of Quark Films, who was recently Bifa-nominated for Pin Cushion; and former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez) of Bandit Country, whose upcoming slate also includes fantasy-horror A Spriggan with John Boyega as executive producer. Nine Lives has been selected as part of...
- 11/14/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Guests at the event include Clare Binns of Picturehouse Cinemas.
UK exhibitors’ conference This Way Up has announced speakers for its fifth edition, which will take place in Liverpool on December 5-6 2018.
Speakers will include Clare Binns, joint managaing director of Picturehouse Cinemas, who will take part in an ‘in conversation with’ event analysing her career and insights on leadership.
A segment examining the story of ‘From distributor to screen’ will involve a discussion between Mia Bays, producer and director-at-large of Birds’ Eye View, director Deborah Haywood and actor Joanna Scanlan. It will be hosted by Annabel Grundy, major programmes...
UK exhibitors’ conference This Way Up has announced speakers for its fifth edition, which will take place in Liverpool on December 5-6 2018.
Speakers will include Clare Binns, joint managaing director of Picturehouse Cinemas, who will take part in an ‘in conversation with’ event analysing her career and insights on leadership.
A segment examining the story of ‘From distributor to screen’ will involve a discussion between Mia Bays, producer and director-at-large of Birds’ Eye View, director Deborah Haywood and actor Joanna Scanlan. It will be hosted by Annabel Grundy, major programmes...
- 11/2/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Joseph Baxter Nov 14, 2018
Nine Lives, a novelette from the late sci-fi great, Ursula K. Le Guin, is being developed as a movie.
The legacy of the influential sci-fi author, Ursula K. Le Guin, appears to be highly coveted in the immediate aftermath of her death this past January, with live-action adaptation projects continuing to join the queue. While prospects are glistening for a movie adaptation of The Telling, as well as a properly-reverent movie adaptation of Le Guin’s sprawling magnum opus, the Earthsea novels, the latest project is a bit more of an esoteric choice from her works, a 1969 novelette, called Nine Lives.
Nine Lives is expected to commence production in the summer of 2019 with U.K. producers Gavin Humphries (Pin Cushion) of Quark Films and former Sony Pictures International producer Josephine Rose, reports Deadline. Tom Basden will co-write the script with Siri Rodnes, an actress and burgeoning filmmaker,...
Nine Lives, a novelette from the late sci-fi great, Ursula K. Le Guin, is being developed as a movie.
The legacy of the influential sci-fi author, Ursula K. Le Guin, appears to be highly coveted in the immediate aftermath of her death this past January, with live-action adaptation projects continuing to join the queue. While prospects are glistening for a movie adaptation of The Telling, as well as a properly-reverent movie adaptation of Le Guin’s sprawling magnum opus, the Earthsea novels, the latest project is a bit more of an esoteric choice from her works, a 1969 novelette, called Nine Lives.
Nine Lives is expected to commence production in the summer of 2019 with U.K. producers Gavin Humphries (Pin Cushion) of Quark Films and former Sony Pictures International producer Josephine Rose, reports Deadline. Tom Basden will co-write the script with Siri Rodnes, an actress and burgeoning filmmaker,...
- 8/15/2018
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Sci-fi giant Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed novelette Nine Lives is being reworked as a feature by UK producers Gavin Humphries (Pin Cushion) of Quark Films and former Sony Pictures International producer Josephine Rose.
Tom Basden, BAFTA-nominated for Netflix series Fresh Meat and a regular actor and writer on ITV2 comedy Plebs (recently picked up for remake by Seth Rogen), is co-scripting the adaptation with Nfts alum Siri Rodnes, who will also direct. The team is in discussions with cast.
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic Nine Lives follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. The story’s themes of cloning, individualism and the importance of social connection hit home when the story was published by Playboy in 1968 and still resonate today.
Rodnes, whose 2016 short Take Your Partner was BAFTA-nominated and played in Berlin,...
Tom Basden, BAFTA-nominated for Netflix series Fresh Meat and a regular actor and writer on ITV2 comedy Plebs (recently picked up for remake by Seth Rogen), is co-scripting the adaptation with Nfts alum Siri Rodnes, who will also direct. The team is in discussions with cast.
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic Nine Lives follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. The story’s themes of cloning, individualism and the importance of social connection hit home when the story was published by Playboy in 1968 and still resonate today.
Rodnes, whose 2016 short Take Your Partner was BAFTA-nominated and played in Berlin,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Among the nominees at last year’s British Independent Film Awards, an event that has often served as a well trusted indicator of upcoming names to watch out for, was Lily Newmark.
Then 23 (she’s now 24), the London-born actress was in the running for most promising newcomer for her film debut — and lead role — in the British indie Pin Cushion, a colorfully chintzy yet disturbing and tragic tale of bullying and mental illness from first-time director Deborah Hayward.
Newmark may not have taken home the award (which went to Naomie Ackie for Lady Macbeth), but just more ...
Then 23 (she’s now 24), the London-born actress was in the running for most promising newcomer for her film debut — and lead role — in the British indie Pin Cushion, a colorfully chintzy yet disturbing and tragic tale of bullying and mental illness from first-time director Deborah Hayward.
Newmark may not have taken home the award (which went to Naomie Ackie for Lady Macbeth), but just more ...
- 7/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Among the nominees at last year’s British Independent Film Awards, an event that has often served as a well trusted indicator of upcoming names to watch out for, was Lily Newmark.
Then 23 (she’s now 24), the London-born actress was in the running for most promising newcomer for her film debut — and lead role — in the British indie Pin Cushion, a colorfully chintzy yet disturbing and tragic tale of bullying and mental illness from first-time director Deborah Hayward.
Newmark may not have taken home the award (which went to Naomie Ackie for Lady Macbeth), but just more ...
Then 23 (she’s now 24), the London-born actress was in the running for most promising newcomer for her film debut — and lead role — in the British indie Pin Cushion, a colorfully chintzy yet disturbing and tragic tale of bullying and mental illness from first-time director Deborah Hayward.
Newmark may not have taken home the award (which went to Naomie Ackie for Lady Macbeth), but just more ...
- 7/20/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Last weekend was a historically low three-day period.
After a very quiet period at the UK box office - last week’s three-day weekend was the second lowest since 2011 - cinemagoers are expected back into the theatres from today (July 13).
Walt Disney is opening Brad Bird’s Pixar title Incredibles 2. The first film, also directed by Bird, grossed $62m at the UK box office back in 2004 to make it the fourth-highest grossing film of that year.
Action thriller Skyscraper, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, hits theatres around the world this weekend, including 542 sites in the UK via Universal.
Sergio...
After a very quiet period at the UK box office - last week’s three-day weekend was the second lowest since 2011 - cinemagoers are expected back into the theatres from today (July 13).
Walt Disney is opening Brad Bird’s Pixar title Incredibles 2. The first film, also directed by Bird, grossed $62m at the UK box office back in 2004 to make it the fourth-highest grossing film of that year.
Action thriller Skyscraper, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, hits theatres around the world this weekend, including 542 sites in the UK via Universal.
Sergio...
- 7/13/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
In Deborah Haywood’s debut feature Pin Cushion, Joanna Scanlan and Lily Newmark (Solo: A Star Wars Story) star as a close-knit mother and daughter who move to a new town for a fresh start, only to encounter bullying at the hands of those who refuse to see beyond their apparent oddities and twee lifestyle. Loosely based on Haywood’s own childhood, the film relies heavily on its inspired magical realist and whimsical aesthetics to tell a beautifully well observed and sometimes harrowing story of alienation and painful childhood memories.
Lynn (Scanlan) and daughter Iona (Newmark) have always had a strong mother/daughter bond. Spending every waking hours together and referring to each other as “Dafty 1 and 2”, the pair had until now lived a beautifully sheltered and trouble-free life, but all this changes when they move to a new neighbourhood. Soon Lynn’s visible physical disability and Iona’s odd...
Lynn (Scanlan) and daughter Iona (Newmark) have always had a strong mother/daughter bond. Spending every waking hours together and referring to each other as “Dafty 1 and 2”, the pair had until now lived a beautifully sheltered and trouble-free life, but all this changes when they move to a new neighbourhood. Soon Lynn’s visible physical disability and Iona’s odd...
- 7/13/2018
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It’s hard out there for coming-of-age movies. It’s the type of genre that has to continually reinvent itself for fear of becoming stagnant and outdated. Which is what makes “Pin Cushion” such a refreshing film to see. In our review of the film, we called it “no ordinary British indie coming-of-age dramedy” that treats happiness as “a piece of scotch tape that is bound to come off in the rain.” And thanks to the trailer and synopsis, it’s easy to see why.
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Continue reading ‘Pin Cushion’ Trailer: A Great Coming-Of-Age Film That Proves That Making Friends Can Be The Worst at The Playlist.
- 7/12/2018
- by Erica Bahrenburg
- The Playlist
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with Deborah Haywood about her debut feature films Pin Cushion, which will be released in select cinemas across the UK from Friday 13th July.
Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both Mother and Daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
- 7/6/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
"Don't worry, we'll take care of you." Cleopatra Entertainment has debuted the official Us trailer for quirky British coming-of-age drama Pin Cushion, a film about a mother and daughter drifting apart. This is the feature debut of an award-winning shorts filmmaker named Deborah Haywood, and it first premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Lily Newmark stars as a young girl raised by her strict, very close, kooky but loving mother. She reaches a point where she feels the need to go out and make new friends, but in the process everything starts to fall apart. Joanna Scanlan stars as her mother, and the cast includes Loris Scarpa and Sacha Cordy-Nice. I saw this film in Venice last year and it's very weird yet oddly endearing, but a bit too dark and melodramatic for my taste. Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Deborah Haywood's Pin Cushion, direct ...
- 5/29/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with Deborah Haywood about her debut feature films Pin Cushion, which received its London Premiere on Sunday 22 April as part of the East End Film Festival and was followed by an extended panel discussion about Female Filmmakers in partnership with Underwire Festival.
Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and her daughter Iona (rising star Lily Newmark) arrive in town looking for a fresh start, but as Iona longs for a life beyond the confines of their home, the eccentric fantasy world they’ve built for themselves starts to crumble. Casting a keen eye on the complex relationships between women, this deliciously dark and utterly distinctive British debut infuses its dreamlike, fairytale quality with shards of something much sharper and more troubling.
Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and her daughter Iona (rising star Lily Newmark) arrive in town looking for a fresh start, but as Iona longs for a life beyond the confines of their home, the eccentric fantasy world they’ve built for themselves starts to crumble. Casting a keen eye on the complex relationships between women, this deliciously dark and utterly distinctive British debut infuses its dreamlike, fairytale quality with shards of something much sharper and more troubling.
- 4/24/2018
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Deborah Haywood’s “Pin Cushion” is a decidedly hateful movie. And it’s indiscriminating in its hatred; it loathes everyone. “Pin Cushion” is full of viciously mean-spirited characters and ambivalent pedestrians; whenever you think a character is about to do the right thing, they go ahead and do something far worse than you could have imagined. Everyone aside from the two lead characters is evil; people go about their daily lives looking to inflict as much pain and damage unto others as is humanly possible.
- 3/30/2018
- by Eli Fine
- The Playlist
One of American cinema’s most unusual delights celebrated its 20th birthday in Boston, Massachusetts last week. The Boston Underground Film Festival has a simple name and premise, but its breadth of content is far from standard. Its fearless leaders, Nicole McControversy and Kevin Monahan, consistently curate beguiling, unexpected work from around the world. With films from Turkey, Mexico, the UK, South Korea and more, the festival has outdone itself, but beyond internationality, the programming is inclusive as well.
This year's festival opened with My Name is Myeisha, a searing experimental drama recounting a true story of police brutality. Good Manners closed out the festival, bringing a tense, beautifully shot twist on several genres from Brazil. Its quiet characterizations and slow-building oddities create an almost lulling pace, so the moments of horror arise suddenly with genuine effect. The matte paintings and direct framing harken back to 1950s science fiction, but...
This year's festival opened with My Name is Myeisha, a searing experimental drama recounting a true story of police brutality. Good Manners closed out the festival, bringing a tense, beautifully shot twist on several genres from Brazil. Its quiet characterizations and slow-building oddities create an almost lulling pace, so the moments of horror arise suddenly with genuine effect. The matte paintings and direct framing harken back to 1950s science fiction, but...
- 3/28/2018
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
We go to film festivals to find the stories that follow a different rhythm, one not so easily classified by trends or genre, deemed too difficult to market. These are often the films that affect us most deeply. While far from a traditional genre film, Pin Cushion stands out as a devastating example of this. Deborah Haywood arrives at the 20th annual Boston Underground Film Festival with her feature film debut, a weird, often uncomfortable, and ultimately heartbreaking story about two people seeking connection.
Mother-daughter pair Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and Iona (Lily Newmark) lead a solitary but happy life that Iona is determined to break from when she transfers schools. With a cute boy to woo and three popular girls to befriend, things seem to be going well, but Lyn’s old-fashioned, paranoid view of the world holds her back. As Iona lies her way into the popular clique at school,...
Mother-daughter pair Lyn (Joanna Scanlan) and Iona (Lily Newmark) lead a solitary but happy life that Iona is determined to break from when she transfers schools. With a cute boy to woo and three popular girls to befriend, things seem to be going well, but Lyn’s old-fashioned, paranoid view of the world holds her back. As Iona lies her way into the popular clique at school,...
- 3/27/2018
- by Ben Larned
- DailyDead
A shining beacon of the weird, the wonderful, the nasty, the niche, and the eclectic, Boston Underground Film Festival returns for its 20th edition next month, and has announced its first wave of feature titles. I had the great pleasure to attend last year, and was blown away not only by the variety and quality of programming, but also the amazing staff, volunteers, and venue. Already they're knocking it out of the park, with films such as Revenge, Coralie Fargeat's new take on the revenge thriller; Deborah Haywood's heartbreaking Pin Cushion; and Let the Corpses Tan, the latest trippy mystery from Belgian duo Hélèn Cattet and Bruno Forzani. There's some exciting queer content with underground film Liquid Sky, and what looks to be a fascinating...
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- 2/28/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Bero Beyer speech kicks off 47th edition.
Source: Iffr
Iffr director Bero Beyer
The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off its 47th edition last night (Jan 24) with an impassioned speech from festival director Bero Beyer.
Beyer addressed what he described as the “pattern of widespread abuse and often quite criminal sexual misconduct, committed almost exclusively by white middle-aged heterosexual men of power or status in the film industry.”
“It’s hard to say what’s more disturbing: The fact that anyone ever considered this behaviour to be acceptable, that so many were willing to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t going on,” Bero commented of the recent spate of industry scandals.
“It matters who tells the story and it matters who we see on our many screens. Too often history is written by the so-called winners, but mostly by bullies and mostly by men. So, if Iffr is part of the film industry: Who should...
Source: Iffr
Iffr director Bero Beyer
The International Film Festival Rotterdam kicked off its 47th edition last night (Jan 24) with an impassioned speech from festival director Bero Beyer.
Beyer addressed what he described as the “pattern of widespread abuse and often quite criminal sexual misconduct, committed almost exclusively by white middle-aged heterosexual men of power or status in the film industry.”
“It’s hard to say what’s more disturbing: The fact that anyone ever considered this behaviour to be acceptable, that so many were willing to look the other way and pretend it wasn’t going on,” Bero commented of the recent spate of industry scandals.
“It matters who tells the story and it matters who we see on our many screens. Too often history is written by the so-called winners, but mostly by bullies and mostly by men. So, if Iffr is part of the film industry: Who should...
- 1/25/2018
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The 2018 edition of the Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 21 – March 4) revealed its full line-up this evening, including Scottish premieres of You Were Never Really Here, Submergence and In The Fade.
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan will world premiere her debut feature as a director, The Party’s Just Beginning, in Glasgow. Gillan was also recently announced as the patron of the festival’s expanding youth strand.
As previously reported, the festival will open with a screening of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation Isle Of Dogs.
In total, the festival will host 13 world and European premieres, 77 UK premieres and 52 Scottish premieres.
Further world premieres include Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Nae Pasaran, a Scottish made documentary that will close their year’s festival, Douglas King’s feature debut Super November, and Donal O’Ceilleachair’s documentary The Camino Voyage.
European premieres include David Tennant-starring rom-com You, Me And Him, and...
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan will world premiere her debut feature as a director, The Party’s Just Beginning, in Glasgow. Gillan was also recently announced as the patron of the festival’s expanding youth strand.
As previously reported, the festival will open with a screening of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animation Isle Of Dogs.
In total, the festival will host 13 world and European premieres, 77 UK premieres and 52 Scottish premieres.
Further world premieres include Felipe Bustos Sierra’s Nae Pasaran, a Scottish made documentary that will close their year’s festival, Douglas King’s feature debut Super November, and Donal O’Ceilleachair’s documentary The Camino Voyage.
European premieres include David Tennant-starring rom-com You, Me And Him, and...
- 1/24/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
InsectThe upcoming 47th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 24 – February 4) is going to be the third with Dutch independent producer Bero Beyer as festival director. “To be honest, it is exhilarating,” said Beyer to the Notebookwhen asked how it feels to lead the festival for the third time. He began his tenure with an enthusiasm that he still harbors and he is determined to usher Iffr into a new era. Beyer had a clear vision he wanted to pursue and steer the industry and programming to. “There were three main goals,” Beyer said regarding his vision, “one was to be more coherent in our professional approach. To really be a partner to a film project than to be just a short-term platform.” The festival integrates funding, development, production and distribution into more a tightknit operation, revising the film market CineMart and moving it with the Hubert Bals Fund “under one roof,...
- 1/24/2018
- MUBI
Director Deborah Haywood has won a lot of love for her quirky outsider drama Pin Cushion, including in these very pages. And with its festival tour continuing with a stop at the International Film Festival Rotterdam just around the corner, Screen Anarchy is very pleased to present the first look at the film's official trailer. Super close Mother Lyn and daughter Iona (Dafty One and Dafty Two) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn also makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each...
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- 1/18/2018
- Screen Anarchy
This year, Fantastic Fest turned 13, a number that felt apt if you’ve been following the news. Most conversations started like this:
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
- 9/29/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- Indiewire
Editor’s note: The last few weeks have seen a series of scandals overtake the film community, starting with the allegations of sexual assault against the Cinefamily in L.A. and followed by a resurgence of problems involving sexual assault at the Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest. Former Cinefamily staffer Suki-Rose Simakis attended Fantastic Fest this year and participated in one of its marquee events, so we asked her to share these thoughts on her experiences.
As a former employee of The Cinefamily (2008-2012), the past month has been emotionally draining, scary, and painful. When the information surfaced about the Drafthouse, I felt like I’d been kicked in the teeth, and attending Fantastic Fest took on the possibility of being incredibly scary. I remain hurt by what occurred, especially within the context of what we are dealing with at home in L.A.
It took days of personal deliberation...
As a former employee of The Cinefamily (2008-2012), the past month has been emotionally draining, scary, and painful. When the information surfaced about the Drafthouse, I felt like I’d been kicked in the teeth, and attending Fantastic Fest took on the possibility of being incredibly scary. I remain hurt by what occurred, especially within the context of what we are dealing with at home in L.A.
It took days of personal deliberation...
- 9/26/2017
- by Suki-Rose Simakis
- Indiewire
Some people like to say that bullies really just hate themselves. That might be true of many, but not of all; some people are just mean, and enjoying being mean to others to give themselves power, or because they get some perverse pleasure from it. And sadly, there are some people who never seem to escape the taunts of bullies, no matter their age. In Pin Cushion, writer/director Deborah Haywood tells a beautiful and thoroughly heartbreaking story of two people who cannot seem to escape these bullies, and the terrible strain it puts on them and their relationship. Iona (Lily Newmark) and her mother Lyn (Joana Scanlan) have moved to a new town to start fresh. But it seems they can't escape bullying and ridicule;...
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- 9/26/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The National Union of Italian Film Critics has unveiled its selection of films for the upcoming Venice International Film Critics' Week, an independent and parallel section which runs alongside the Venice International Film Festival. This year's program includes a selection of seven debut films in competition and two special events out of competition, all world premiere screenings. Brit title Pin Cushion, the debut feature from writer-director Deborah Haywood, will screen…...
- 7/24/2017
- Deadline
Independent festival strand unveils 2017 line-up.
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
The line-up for the 2017 edition of the Venice Film Festival’s independent parallel strand Critics’ Week (Aug 30 – Sept 9) has been revealed.
Organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics, the selection is curated by the general delegate of the Venice Critics’ Week Giona A. Nazzaro with the selection committee comprised of Luigi Abiusi, Alberto Anile, Beatrice Fiorentino and Massimo Tria.
Following last year, when UK filmmaker Alice Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge opened Venice Critics’ Week, this year’s opener is again a feature debut from a UK female director.
Writer-director Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion will screen out of competition as the strand’s opening film. Starring Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan, the film is produced by Gavin Humphries with Maggie Monteith of Dignity Film Finance. Executive producers are Josephine Rose, Chis Reed, and Lizzie Francke for the British Film Institute (BFI).
Pin Cushion is an all-girl gothic fairy tale set...
- 7/24/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
The Venice International Film Critics' Week on Monday unveiled its lineup, which includes seven debut films and two out-of-competition selections.
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion,...
All films in the sidebar will have their world premieres in Venice.
The films will compete for the Critics’ Week audience award, as well as prizes for most innovative film and best technical contribution. They are also eligible, as is the case with all competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival, to compete for the Lion of the Future award for best debut film, complete with a $100,000 prize.
The Critics’ Week lineup will open with Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion,...
- 7/24/2017
- by Ariston Anderson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Cancer Conflict
Logline: Two cancer patients, two different treatments. We explore why the UK has the lowest cancer survival rate in Western Europe.
Elevator Pitch:
If you get cancer, what do you chose to treat it with in the country with the worst cancer survival rate in Western Europe? You speak to experts who say chemo is the answer and then Google tells you there are loads of solutions outside the system that work, but aren’t clinically trialled and approved and the system disregards. You’re torn – and yet you still have to do something.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Cancer Conflict
Logline: Two cancer patients, two different treatments. We explore why the UK has the lowest cancer survival rate in Western Europe.
Elevator Pitch:
If you get cancer, what do you chose to treat it with in the country with the worst cancer survival rate in Western Europe? You speak to experts who say chemo is the answer and then Google tells you there are loads of solutions outside the system that work, but aren’t clinically trialled and approved and the system disregards. You’re torn – and yet you still have to do something.
- 11/22/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
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