Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking with British multi-hyphenate Charles Dorfman, who, through his two banners Samuel Marshall Films and Media Finance Capital, has worked across a range of titles from The Lost Daughter to 2nd Chance and his own directorial debut Barbarians. In his first major interview, he outlines his ambitions as a writer-director and as a financier-producer.
Charles Dorfman is coming off the back of a banner few months. Not only did the British writer-director-producer see the release of his debut feature Barbarians earlier this month but he also was a quiet fixture during the Oscar race this year, having produced Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter.
Barbarians, which recently won the Jury’s Special Award at the Fantasporto...
Charles Dorfman is coming off the back of a banner few months. Not only did the British writer-director-producer see the release of his debut feature Barbarians earlier this month but he also was a quiet fixture during the Oscar race this year, having produced Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Lost Daughter.
Barbarians, which recently won the Jury’s Special Award at the Fantasporto...
- 4/20/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: CAA has signed English actor Connor Swindells for representation.
Swindells is best known for starring alongside CAA client Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson on the Netflix series Sex Education. In the BAFTA-winning comedy created by Laurie Nunn, he plays Adam Groff, the bully-turned-love-interest of Ncuti Gatwa’s Eric.
Swindells is currently filming a role opposite CAA clients Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Previously, he wrapped filming the lead role opposite Dominic West and Jack O’Connell on Sas: Rogue Heroes, the series that is set to debut this fall on Amazon and BBC.
Hailing from Sussex, Swindells was training to be an Olympic boxer before a career-ending injury redirected him to acting. He landed the role of Donald in Kristoffer Nyholm’s film The Vanishing at 19 years old, and immediately went on to book the lead in the BBC drama Vs., which...
Swindells is best known for starring alongside CAA client Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson on the Netflix series Sex Education. In the BAFTA-winning comedy created by Laurie Nunn, he plays Adam Groff, the bully-turned-love-interest of Ncuti Gatwa’s Eric.
Swindells is currently filming a role opposite CAA clients Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Previously, he wrapped filming the lead role opposite Dominic West and Jack O’Connell on Sas: Rogue Heroes, the series that is set to debut this fall on Amazon and BBC.
Hailing from Sussex, Swindells was training to be an Olympic boxer before a career-ending injury redirected him to acting. He landed the role of Donald in Kristoffer Nyholm’s film The Vanishing at 19 years old, and immediately went on to book the lead in the BBC drama Vs., which...
- 4/19/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2021 film Barbarians follows four friends at a dinner party celebrating a birthday at a country house and narrates what unfolds in the house over the course of twenty-four hours. It centers on the two couples, Adam and Eva who have just bought their dream home, and their friend Lucas and his girlfriend Chloe who have come to visit and celebrate Adam’s birthday and their new house. However, their evening takes a dark turn when uninvited guests suddenly arrive. The film was directed by Charles Dorfman and stars Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tom Cullen, Iwan Rheon, Inès Spiridonov in lead
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- 4/7/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Gaumont, the powerhouse behind “Narcos,” “Lupin” and “Barbarians,” has boarded “Le Prince,” a period mystery thriller series written by Charles den Tex and Paul de Vrijer (“Hunter Street”).
Currently in development, “Le Prince” will be produced by Gaumont, as well as Stories By, a label launched by France TV Distribution, and Dutch producers Paradise Media.
The six-part series will be driven by a strong female character and will be inspired by the true story of the disappearance of Louis le Prince, the inventor of the first ever motion picture camera.
“Le Prince” unfolds in France, in the late 19th century, a few years before the invention of cinema. Le Prince was a French artist who is believed to have been the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence, years before the Lumière brothers and Thomas Edison. Le Prince mysteriously vanished in 1890 shortly before a planned public demonstration of his camera in the U.
Currently in development, “Le Prince” will be produced by Gaumont, as well as Stories By, a label launched by France TV Distribution, and Dutch producers Paradise Media.
The six-part series will be driven by a strong female character and will be inspired by the true story of the disappearance of Louis le Prince, the inventor of the first ever motion picture camera.
“Le Prince” unfolds in France, in the late 19th century, a few years before the invention of cinema. Le Prince was a French artist who is believed to have been the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence, years before the Lumière brothers and Thomas Edison. Le Prince mysteriously vanished in 1890 shortly before a planned public demonstration of his camera in the U.
- 4/6/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
This past Friday, IFC Midnight released writer/director Charles Dorfman’s intense thriller Barbarians in theaters and on various digital platforms as well. Starring Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Tom Cullen, Barbarians is set over the course of 24 hours and explores the breakdown of civility and manners once a dinner party celebration takes a macabre turn, leaving those caught in the middle having to fight for their lives.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with both Charles Dorfman and Catalina Sandino Moreno about their experiences working together on the project, and the duo discussed how their collaborative efforts helped heighten the material in Dorfman’s script, the intimate nature of the production, and more.
So, Charles, I'd love to start with you and talk a little bit about where the idea for this story came from. Because I have to admit as somebody who used to throw a lot of dinner parties,...
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with both Charles Dorfman and Catalina Sandino Moreno about their experiences working together on the project, and the duo discussed how their collaborative efforts helped heighten the material in Dorfman’s script, the intimate nature of the production, and more.
So, Charles, I'd love to start with you and talk a little bit about where the idea for this story came from. Because I have to admit as somebody who used to throw a lot of dinner parties,...
- 4/5/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Stars: Iwan Rheon, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tom Cullen, Ines Spiridonov, Will Kemp, Connor Swindells, Steve Saunders, Tommy McDonnell | Written by Charles Dorfman, Statten Roeg | Directed by Charles Dorfman
Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Barbarians sees couple Adam (Iwan Rheon) and Eva (Catalina Sandino Moreno) wake up in their supposed dream house on Adam’s birthday. Lucas (Tom Cullen), property developer and friend of the couple, arrives for dinner with his actress girlfriend Chloe (Ines Spiridonov), to celebrate Adam’s birthday and the couple’s buying of the house. But secrets unravel over dinner, and when the doorbell rings the evening takes a nightmarish turn. As manners give way to madness, an ‘idyllic’ evening of celebration descends into a dark night of terror; and the group’s civilized dinner party turns out to be anything but.
There’s been somewhat of a focus recently on uncomfortable dinner parties in horror,...
Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Barbarians sees couple Adam (Iwan Rheon) and Eva (Catalina Sandino Moreno) wake up in their supposed dream house on Adam’s birthday. Lucas (Tom Cullen), property developer and friend of the couple, arrives for dinner with his actress girlfriend Chloe (Ines Spiridonov), to celebrate Adam’s birthday and the couple’s buying of the house. But secrets unravel over dinner, and when the doorbell rings the evening takes a nightmarish turn. As manners give way to madness, an ‘idyllic’ evening of celebration descends into a dark night of terror; and the group’s civilized dinner party turns out to be anything but.
There’s been somewhat of a focus recently on uncomfortable dinner parties in horror,...
- 4/5/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Exclusive: In a rare double interview, Sidonie Dumas, CEO of France’s oldest film company Gaumont, and Vice CEO Christophe Riandee, tell us about transforming the storied theatrical business into a major TV player in Europe and beyond.
Gaumont, producer of international shows including Lupin (one of Netflix’s biggest ever hits), Narcos (the streamer’s first global foreign language success), Barbarians and El Presidente, currently has TV outposts in Paris, LA, London, Berlin, Cologne and Rome. The duo discuss corporate growth, their recently announced slate deal with Paramount+ and what is next for their hit franchises.
The company, which continues to produce and distribute movies, is working on four foreign-language series for Paramount+: horror-thriller The Signal led by showrunner François Uzan (Lupin); dystopian thriller Desolate Future from Argentinian filmmaker Lucia Puenzo; German dramedy Anywhere from creator Jana Burbach (Bad Banks); and French thriller Impact from Jean-Xavier de Lestrade...
Gaumont, producer of international shows including Lupin (one of Netflix’s biggest ever hits), Narcos (the streamer’s first global foreign language success), Barbarians and El Presidente, currently has TV outposts in Paris, LA, London, Berlin, Cologne and Rome. The duo discuss corporate growth, their recently announced slate deal with Paramount+ and what is next for their hit franchises.
The company, which continues to produce and distribute movies, is working on four foreign-language series for Paramount+: horror-thriller The Signal led by showrunner François Uzan (Lupin); dystopian thriller Desolate Future from Argentinian filmmaker Lucia Puenzo; German dramedy Anywhere from creator Jana Burbach (Bad Banks); and French thriller Impact from Jean-Xavier de Lestrade...
- 4/5/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Barbarians Trailer — Netflix‘s Barbarians (2020) teaser trailer has been released and stars Gaetano Aronica, Bence Ferenczi, Jeanne Goursaud, Tibor Milos Krisko, Jeremy Miliker, Laurence Rupp, David Schütter, Bernhard Schütz, Eva Verena Müller, and Sergej Onopko. Crew Barbara Eder and Steve Saint Leger directed the episodes for this TV series. Plot Synopsis Barbarians‘ plot synopsis: “During the [...]
Continue reading: Barbarians (2020) Teaser Trailer: The Teutoburg Forest Battle between Germanic Tribes & Rome is Brought to Life [Netflix]...
Continue reading: Barbarians (2020) Teaser Trailer: The Teutoburg Forest Battle between Germanic Tribes & Rome is Brought to Life [Netflix]...
- 9/27/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Netflix was ahead of the game for October, releasing its “Netflix and Chills” horror lineup in anticipation of the Halloween season. Now the streaming giant has unveiled its full lineup for October, and believe it or not: horror remains at the forefront of its strategy.
The biggest release this month is undoubtedly The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mike Flanagan’s long-awaited followup to terrifying Haunting of Hill House. That arrives on Oct. 9. The film side of things is where most of Netflix’s other horror originals reside, with Hubie Halloween (Oct. 7), A Babysitters’ Guide to Monster Hunting (Oct. 15), and Rebecca (Oct. 22) all making their debut.
Some non-horror originals of note this month include high school drama Grand Army (Oct. 16) and the Anya-Taylor Joy-starring chess story The Queen’s Gambit (Oct. 26). Aaron Sorkin’s latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, arrives on Oct. 16.
Netflix is adding new library movies like Fargo,...
The biggest release this month is undoubtedly The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mike Flanagan’s long-awaited followup to terrifying Haunting of Hill House. That arrives on Oct. 9. The film side of things is where most of Netflix’s other horror originals reside, with Hubie Halloween (Oct. 7), A Babysitters’ Guide to Monster Hunting (Oct. 15), and Rebecca (Oct. 22) all making their debut.
Some non-horror originals of note this month include high school drama Grand Army (Oct. 16) and the Anya-Taylor Joy-starring chess story The Queen’s Gambit (Oct. 26). Aaron Sorkin’s latest film, The Trial of the Chicago 7, arrives on Oct. 16.
Netflix is adding new library movies like Fargo,...
- 9/23/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
The full list of everything that’s coming to Netflix in October has been released today and as we’re facing the prospect of a Halloween spent at home, the streaming site is making sure that we’ve got more than enough spooky content to keep us occupied. In fact, there’s a huge amount of new movies and TV shows arriving on the service next month as part of the “Netflix and Chills” season.
October 1st also delivers a lot of great newly licensed content, too, which you won’t want to miss. Sticking with the Halloween theme, though, the haul features a few horrors/thrillers including Cape Fear, House of 1000 Corpses and You Have Always Lived in the Castle. Then, on the 2nd, new original movie Vampires vs. the Bronx lands. And skipping ahead to the 7th, be sure to catch Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, Hubie Halloween.
October 1st also delivers a lot of great newly licensed content, too, which you won’t want to miss. Sticking with the Halloween theme, though, the haul features a few horrors/thrillers including Cape Fear, House of 1000 Corpses and You Have Always Lived in the Castle. Then, on the 2nd, new original movie Vampires vs. the Bronx lands. And skipping ahead to the 7th, be sure to catch Adam Sandler’s latest comedy, Hubie Halloween.
- 9/23/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
When Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy “broke” the Cannes Critics Week selection six years ago with the devastating “The Tribe,” casting deaf actors in an institutional parable exclusively told through sign language, it seemed some sort of event horizon for authenticity and formal daring had been reached. But the deserving Best European Film winner in the Giornate sidebar of the 2020 Venice Film Festival, “Oasis,” which is director Ivan Ikic’s second feature after 2014’s raw and rattling football-hooliganism drama “Barbarians,” may outmatch even that benchmark. An unadorned three-way love story set within the joyless confines of a Serbian institute for people with mental disabilities, it is an unsparing though enrichingly shot tragedy, and its three young stars, as well as most of the background cast, are learning-disabled residents of the facility in real life.
The approach lends the slight story an impressive gravity, while also treating its subjects with profound respect — a quality...
The approach lends the slight story an impressive gravity, while also treating its subjects with profound respect — a quality...
- 9/16/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Three teenagers living in an institution for people with special needs fall into an unexpected love triangle, and are suddenly forced to navigate powerful new feelings of envy and desire. As their emotions threaten to upend the carefully structured world around them, the trio find themselves increasingly willing to resort to desperate measures to find a way out.
“Oasis” is the sophomore feature film from Serbian director Ivan Ikić, which world premieres Sept. 3 in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. Starring Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković, and Valentino Zenuni in their first acting roles, the film was produced by Milan and Marija Stojanović of Belgrade-based Sense Production, and co-produced by Tramal Films (Slovenia), Keplerfilm (Netherlands), Les Films d’Antoine (France), and Scca/Pro.ba (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
The inspiration for “Oasis” was drawn from the real-life experiences of Ikić, who visited an institution...
“Oasis” is the sophomore feature film from Serbian director Ivan Ikić, which world premieres Sept. 3 in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. Starring Marijana Novakov, Tijana Marković, and Valentino Zenuni in their first acting roles, the film was produced by Milan and Marija Stojanović of Belgrade-based Sense Production, and co-produced by Tramal Films (Slovenia), Keplerfilm (Netherlands), Les Films d’Antoine (France), and Scca/Pro.ba (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Heretic Outreach is handling world sales.
The inspiration for “Oasis” was drawn from the real-life experiences of Ikić, who visited an institution...
- 9/3/2020
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Three teenagers from Serbia, all living in an institution for young people with special needs, aren’t exactly intent on expressing their feelings vocally in Ivan Ikic’ deceptively titled second fiction feature, Oasis (Oaza).
The talented writer-director’s frenzied but vibrant debut, Barbarians, from 2014 but set in 2008, looked at the lost generation of adolescents coming of age after the Balkan Wars, who had no people to look up to and who were desperate to simply feel something. Judging by his more sedately observed sophomore outing, not much has changed for teens in the intervening years except for the fact that the same message ...
The talented writer-director’s frenzied but vibrant debut, Barbarians, from 2014 but set in 2008, looked at the lost generation of adolescents coming of age after the Balkan Wars, who had no people to look up to and who were desperate to simply feel something. Judging by his more sedately observed sophomore outing, not much has changed for teens in the intervening years except for the fact that the same message ...
Three teenagers from Serbia, all living in an institution for young people with special needs, aren’t exactly intent on expressing their feelings vocally in Ivan Ikic’ deceptively titled second fiction feature, Oasis (Oaza).
The talented writer-director’s frenzied but vibrant debut, Barbarians, from 2014 but set in 2008, looked at the lost generation of adolescents coming of age after the Balkan Wars, who had no people to look up to and who were desperate to simply feel something. Judging by his more sedately observed sophomore outing, not much has changed for teens in the intervening years except for the fact that the same message ...
The talented writer-director’s frenzied but vibrant debut, Barbarians, from 2014 but set in 2008, looked at the lost generation of adolescents coming of age after the Balkan Wars, who had no people to look up to and who were desperate to simply feel something. Judging by his more sedately observed sophomore outing, not much has changed for teens in the intervening years except for the fact that the same message ...
After a six-year hiatus from feature filmmaking, Serbian director Ivan Ikic, best known for his bruising coming of age drama “Barbarians,” is back in the director’s chair and hitting the European festival circuit. Ikic will next screen his ambitious “Oasis” at Venice Days, Venice’s independently run section that, this year, offers a distinctly Eastern European bent to its 10 competition films.
Ikic’s offering is a special one, utilizing non-actors to tell a story close to their (and the filmmaker’s) heart. Per the film’s official synopsis: “Upon her arrival at an institution for people with mental disabilities, Maria becomes fast friends with the equally fiery Dragana. When it becomes clear that they are both in love with the more withdrawn Robert, their relationship is upset and gradually grows into a dangerous game of hide-and-seek to win him over. Condemned to a lifetime of hiding away from society,...
Ikic’s offering is a special one, utilizing non-actors to tell a story close to their (and the filmmaker’s) heart. Per the film’s official synopsis: “Upon her arrival at an institution for people with mental disabilities, Maria becomes fast friends with the equally fiery Dragana. When it becomes clear that they are both in love with the more withdrawn Robert, their relationship is upset and gradually grows into a dangerous game of hide-and-seek to win him over. Condemned to a lifetime of hiding away from society,...
- 9/1/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Reign and Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce alum Will Kemp is set to star opposite Lacey Chabert in Christmas Waltz, Hallmark Channel’s upcoming holiday movie.
In Christmas Waltz, after Avery’s (Chabert) storybook Christmas wedding is canceled unexpectedly, dance instructor Roman (Kemp) helps her rebuild her dreams.
Directed by Michael Damian, Christmas Waltz will air as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas 2020.
Christmas Waltz reunites Kemp and Chabert, who starred in last year’s Valentine-themed Hallmark Channel movie Love, Romance & Chocolate. This will be Chabert’s ninth Christmas movie for Hallmark Channel and Kemp’s third.
Known for playing Lord Darnley in the CW’s Reign and Scott on Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Kemp most recently starred opposite January Jones and Kaya Scodelario in ice skating drama Spinning Out for Netflix. He’ll next be seen in the upcoming UK independent film Barbarians.
In Christmas Waltz, after Avery’s (Chabert) storybook Christmas wedding is canceled unexpectedly, dance instructor Roman (Kemp) helps her rebuild her dreams.
Directed by Michael Damian, Christmas Waltz will air as part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas 2020.
Christmas Waltz reunites Kemp and Chabert, who starred in last year’s Valentine-themed Hallmark Channel movie Love, Romance & Chocolate. This will be Chabert’s ninth Christmas movie for Hallmark Channel and Kemp’s third.
Known for playing Lord Darnley in the CW’s Reign and Scott on Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, Kemp most recently starred opposite January Jones and Kaya Scodelario in ice skating drama Spinning Out for Netflix. He’ll next be seen in the upcoming UK independent film Barbarians.
- 8/13/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
(l-r, foreground) Johnny Depp as Colonel Joll and Mark Rylance as the Magistrate, in Waiting For The Barbarians. Photo courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films.
If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, the old saying goes, and if you assume everyone is your enemy, they might become exactly that. Waiting For The Barbarians is drama based on J. M. Coetzee’s novel, that presents a cautionary tale about nations or empires sowing the seeds of their own destruction in their search for imagined threats. Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson star in director Ciro Guerra’s powerful adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s classic novel of the same name, in a haunting cautionary tale of empire and cultural misunderstanding, with a striking contemporary echoes.
There is a lot of talent assembled in this film – an Oscar-nominated director, a Nobel Prize-winning author, an Oscar winning cinematographer,...
If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, the old saying goes, and if you assume everyone is your enemy, they might become exactly that. Waiting For The Barbarians is drama based on J. M. Coetzee’s novel, that presents a cautionary tale about nations or empires sowing the seeds of their own destruction in their search for imagined threats. Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson star in director Ciro Guerra’s powerful adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s classic novel of the same name, in a haunting cautionary tale of empire and cultural misunderstanding, with a striking contemporary echoes.
There is a lot of talent assembled in this film – an Oscar-nominated director, a Nobel Prize-winning author, an Oscar winning cinematographer,...
- 8/7/2020
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
We’re now well into August, and there’s still no sign of the movie industry returning to any sort of normality in the near future. The vast majority of theaters have had their doors locked since March, with release dates being shifted on a regular basis, and as a result, VOD sales and subscriptions to streaming services have shot up, while drive-ins have also experienced a massive resurgence in popularity.
The most high profile and expensive blockbusters of the year are all sitting on a shelf waiting for the all-clear, with the notable exception of Disney’s Mulan, which is generating plenty of controversy by heading exclusively to Disney Plus for a one-off fee, while some big names are seeing their latest efforts going straight to digital with almost no fanfare.
In fact, this weekend brings three movies starring three world-famous actors heading exclusively to VOD, and they couldn’t be any more different.
The most high profile and expensive blockbusters of the year are all sitting on a shelf waiting for the all-clear, with the notable exception of Disney’s Mulan, which is generating plenty of controversy by heading exclusively to Disney Plus for a one-off fee, while some big names are seeing their latest efforts going straight to digital with almost no fanfare.
In fact, this weekend brings three movies starring three world-famous actors heading exclusively to VOD, and they couldn’t be any more different.
- 8/7/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
The Venice Film Festival’s independently run Venice Days section has unveiled its lineup of 10 competition entries, nine of which are world premieres.
The lineup also includes a mix of buzz titles from known and emerging talent, characterized this year by an accent on Eastern Europe, as well as the section’s customary strong representation of female directors.
Hotly anticipated queer comedy fantasy “Saint-Narcisse” by Canadian artist-turned-filmmaker Bruce Labruce and queer romance drama “My Tender Matador,” directed by Chile’s Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa — and set during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship — are among the standouts, as are shorts by French-Senegalese director Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska (“Body”), which will unspool as part of the Prada-commissioned Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of short films directed by women.
The opener will be French/Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar,” which was developed with...
The lineup also includes a mix of buzz titles from known and emerging talent, characterized this year by an accent on Eastern Europe, as well as the section’s customary strong representation of female directors.
Hotly anticipated queer comedy fantasy “Saint-Narcisse” by Canadian artist-turned-filmmaker Bruce Labruce and queer romance drama “My Tender Matador,” directed by Chile’s Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúa — and set during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship — are among the standouts, as are shorts by French-Senegalese director Mati Diop (“Atlantics”) and Poland’s Malgorzata Szumowska (“Body”), which will unspool as part of the Prada-commissioned Miu Miu Women’s Tales, a series of short films directed by women.
The opener will be French/Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz’s promising feature debut “Honey Cigar,” which was developed with...
- 7/23/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
After making its debut at last year’s Venice Film Festival, everyone assumed that Ciro Guerra’s “Waiting for the Barbarians” would eventually get a sizeable theatrical debut, especially considering the film stars Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, and Robert Pattinson. But, as we now know, Covid-19 had other plans, and ‘Barbarians’ is now destined for a VOD launch.
According to Deadline, Samuel Goldwyn Films has purchased the North American distribution rights for “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Now, Guerra’s film, which was originally set for a theatrical release, will now debut on VOD sometime in August.
Continue reading Ciro Guerra’s ‘Waiting For The Barbarians’ Is Skipping Theaters & Going To VOD This August at The Playlist.
According to Deadline, Samuel Goldwyn Films has purchased the North American distribution rights for “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Now, Guerra’s film, which was originally set for a theatrical release, will now debut on VOD sometime in August.
Continue reading Ciro Guerra’s ‘Waiting For The Barbarians’ Is Skipping Theaters & Going To VOD This August at The Playlist.
- 5/20/2020
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the Ciro Guerra-directed feature, Waiting for the Barbarians, which stars Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise), newly minted Batman Robert Pattinson (The Lighthouse), Gana Bayarsaikhan (Ex Machina), and Greta Scacchi (The Girl in the Fog). Originally slated for a theatrical release, the pic will now be available on digital platforms this August.
The drama is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee, who also adapted the screenplay. It follows a Magistrate (Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire who looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Depp), whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which...
The drama is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee, who also adapted the screenplay. It follows a Magistrate (Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire who looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Depp), whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which...
- 5/20/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Best Friend Forever boards sales on Radu Jude’s Berlinale Forum title ‘Uppercase Print’ (exclusive)
Feature tells true story of student arrested by Communist Romania’s secret services after challenging regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Brussels-based sales company Best Friend Forever (Bff) has boarded world sales on Romanian director Radu Jude’s new political drama Uppercase Print ahead of its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Forum section.
An adaptation of 2013 play Typographic Capital Letters by Romanian playwright Gianina Carbunariu, it tells the true story of high school student Mugur Călinescu who was arrested in the early 1980s by Romania’s secret police agency, or Securitate, for graffiti criticising the regime of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Brussels-based sales company Best Friend Forever (Bff) has boarded world sales on Romanian director Radu Jude’s new political drama Uppercase Print ahead of its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Forum section.
An adaptation of 2013 play Typographic Capital Letters by Romanian playwright Gianina Carbunariu, it tells the true story of high school student Mugur Călinescu who was arrested in the early 1980s by Romania’s secret police agency, or Securitate, for graffiti criticising the regime of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
- 1/21/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Christian Bale broke his silence on Robert Pattinson’s Batman casting while attending the Toronto International Film Festival to screen his buzzy race car drama “Ford v Ferrari.” Speaking to Variety, the Oscar winner had a brief but enthusiastic response when asked to weigh in on Pattinson taking over the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman on the big screen. “Good choice!” Bale said. “He’s interesting.”
Bale’s “Ford v Ferrari” co-star Matt Damon also showed Pattinson some support. “Did you see the Safdie brothers movie he did? He was fantastic,” Damon said, referring to the 2017 crime thriller “Good Time.”
Pattinson, also attending Tiff 2019 with his acclaimed psychological drama “The Lighthouse,” was officially cast as Batman at the end of May. The actor is set to lead Matt Reeves’ 2021 comic book tentpole “The Batman,” plot details for which remain under wraps. Bale played the Caped Crusader in three hugely successful...
Bale’s “Ford v Ferrari” co-star Matt Damon also showed Pattinson some support. “Did you see the Safdie brothers movie he did? He was fantastic,” Damon said, referring to the 2017 crime thriller “Good Time.”
Pattinson, also attending Tiff 2019 with his acclaimed psychological drama “The Lighthouse,” was officially cast as Batman at the end of May. The actor is set to lead Matt Reeves’ 2021 comic book tentpole “The Batman,” plot details for which remain under wraps. Bale played the Caped Crusader in three hugely successful...
- 9/9/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
With only four features under his belt, Ciro Guerra has already established himself as one of Colombia’s most important filmmakers and earned the country’s first-ever Oscar nod for 2015’s “Embrace of the Serpent.”
Guerra’s latest feature, and the first in English, is the cinematic adaptation of the same-named J.M. Coetzee novel “Waiting for Barbarians,” which world premiered on Friday at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
In the film, Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance plays an imperial magistrate in the throes of a crisis of conscious after witnessing the inhumane torture of an indigenous woman (Gana Bayarsaikhan) on the frontier he is meant to be protecting.
After helping the woman escape, the magistrate is captured and replaced by a younger officer, played by Robert Pattinson, and charged with treason. Johnny Depp plays a colonel tasked with leading a special forces unit dedicated to the capture and often public torture of the “barbarians.
Guerra’s latest feature, and the first in English, is the cinematic adaptation of the same-named J.M. Coetzee novel “Waiting for Barbarians,” which world premiered on Friday at the 67th Venice Film Festival.
In the film, Oscar-winning actor Mark Rylance plays an imperial magistrate in the throes of a crisis of conscious after witnessing the inhumane torture of an indigenous woman (Gana Bayarsaikhan) on the frontier he is meant to be protecting.
After helping the woman escape, the magistrate is captured and replaced by a younger officer, played by Robert Pattinson, and charged with treason. Johnny Depp plays a colonel tasked with leading a special forces unit dedicated to the capture and often public torture of the “barbarians.
- 9/7/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A civil officer in a sleepy border town of an unnamed empire unexpectedly comes face-to-face with the machinations of power in Waiting for the Barbarians, the English-language debut from Colombian director Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage, the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent). Barbarians is based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning South African writer J.M. Coetzee, who also penned this adaptation. Set in an unspecified geographical area that looks Middle Eastern but in an Arabian Nights-fantasy-on-a-budget kind of way, this is a beautifully, if austerely, staged parable that casts the always-reliable Mark Rylance as the well-meaning ...
A civil officer in a sleepy border town of an unnamed empire unexpectedly comes face-to-face with the machinations of power in Waiting for the Barbarians, the English-language debut from Colombian director Ciro Guerra (Birds of Passage, the Oscar-nominated Embrace of the Serpent). Barbarians is based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning South African writer J.M. Coetzee, who also penned this adaptation. Set in an unspecified geographical area that looks Middle Eastern but in an Arabian Nights-fantasy-on-a-budget kind of way, this is a beautifully, if austerely, staged parable that casts the always-reliable Mark Rylance as the well-meaning ...
The cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno, Conor Swindells, Will Kemp, and Tommy McDonnell.
Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey) have been signed to star in UK thriller Barbarians, which started shooting this week in Surrey and is the feature directing debut of Charlie Dorfman, who also wrote the script.
The cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), newcomer Ines Spiridonov, Conor Swindells (Sex Education), Will Kemp (Reign), and Tommy McDonnell (Starred Up).
Rheon, Cullen and Swindells were Screen Stars of Tomorrow in 2010, 2011 and 2017 respectively.
Director Dorfman has worked as an executive producer on the...
Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey) have been signed to star in UK thriller Barbarians, which started shooting this week in Surrey and is the feature directing debut of Charlie Dorfman, who also wrote the script.
The cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), newcomer Ines Spiridonov, Conor Swindells (Sex Education), Will Kemp (Reign), and Tommy McDonnell (Starred Up).
Rheon, Cullen and Swindells were Screen Stars of Tomorrow in 2010, 2011 and 2017 respectively.
Director Dorfman has worked as an executive producer on the...
- 8/8/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno, Conor Swindells, Will Kemp, and Tommy McDonnell.
Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey) have been signed to star in UK thriller Barbarians, which started shooting this week in Surrey.
The project is the feature directing debut of Charlie Dorfman, who also wrote the script and is chairman of one of the film’s financiers, Media Finance Capital (Mfc).
The cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), newcomer Ines Spiridonov, Conor Swindells (Sex Education), Will Kemp (Reign), and Tommy McDonnell (Starred Up).
Rheon, Cullen and Swindells were Screen Stars of Tomorrow in 2010, 2011 and 2017 respectively.
Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey) have been signed to star in UK thriller Barbarians, which started shooting this week in Surrey.
The project is the feature directing debut of Charlie Dorfman, who also wrote the script and is chairman of one of the film’s financiers, Media Finance Capital (Mfc).
The cast also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), newcomer Ines Spiridonov, Conor Swindells (Sex Education), Will Kemp (Reign), and Tommy McDonnell (Starred Up).
Rheon, Cullen and Swindells were Screen Stars of Tomorrow in 2010, 2011 and 2017 respectively.
- 8/8/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The competition for this year’s Venice International Film Festival is stacked, to say the least. While there’s plenty to talk about regarding gender disparity, combined with the addition of Roman Polanski, just on paper, it would appear that Venice 2019 is going to have one of the most interesting competitions from any film festival this year. And with this morning’s announcement, we have some first look images from some of those films.
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- 7/25/2019
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
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