The new romantic comedy, following a love story between the single mother and the band’s frontman, has recently blown up Prime Video’s global chart. It introduced the world to the new movie crush, the young star Nicholas Galitzine, who has already managed to take part in a number of worth-watching movies, available on Prime.
Here are 5 movies of the promising actor, rated 75% or more on Rotten Tomatoes.
Handsome Devil (2016)
First comes Andrew Scott’s coming-of-age dramedy, where Galitzine convincingly played a rugby prodigy and a student of an elite Irish boarding school, who struggles to realize his sexual orientation and gets bullied by all around him. The only exception is Scott’s teacher, who helps him to find himself and to solve his inner conflicts.
High Strung (2016)
There is another worth-watching drama in the actor’s portfolio. It follows the aftermath of a chance encounter of a young...
Here are 5 movies of the promising actor, rated 75% or more on Rotten Tomatoes.
Handsome Devil (2016)
First comes Andrew Scott’s coming-of-age dramedy, where Galitzine convincingly played a rugby prodigy and a student of an elite Irish boarding school, who struggles to realize his sexual orientation and gets bullied by all around him. The only exception is Scott’s teacher, who helps him to find himself and to solve his inner conflicts.
High Strung (2016)
There is another worth-watching drama in the actor’s portfolio. It follows the aftermath of a chance encounter of a young...
- 5/9/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Ava Raxa)
- STartefacts.com
Nicholas Galitzine, who has played several gay or queer characters both on TV and in films, says he has felt “somewhat guilty” over the possibility that he, as a straight man, is “taking up someone’s space.”
In an interview with GQ, Galitzine, currently starring as a queer character in the Starz drama George & Mary, said, “I identify as a straight man, but I have been a part of some incredible queer stories. I felt a sense of uncertainty sometimes about whether I’m taking up someone’s space, and perhaps guilt. At the same time, I see those characters as not solely their sexuality.”
Galitzine also currently stars opposite Anne Hathaway in the romance film The Idea of You. Last year he starred opposite Taylor Zakhar Perez in the Prime Video gay royalty romance film Red White and Royal Blue, and has portrayed a closeted gay rugby player in...
In an interview with GQ, Galitzine, currently starring as a queer character in the Starz drama George & Mary, said, “I identify as a straight man, but I have been a part of some incredible queer stories. I felt a sense of uncertainty sometimes about whether I’m taking up someone’s space, and perhaps guilt. At the same time, I see those characters as not solely their sexuality.”
Galitzine also currently stars opposite Anne Hathaway in the romance film The Idea of You. Last year he starred opposite Taylor Zakhar Perez in the Prime Video gay royalty romance film Red White and Royal Blue, and has portrayed a closeted gay rugby player in...
- 5/9/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
With a number of movies and TV series that have become hugely popular, Nicholas Galitzine has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors over the past few years. The actor, 29, who began his acting career in 2014 with The Beat Beneath My Feet, first caught the interest of viewers when he was cast in the lead role of the 2021 Cinderella flick opposite Camila Cabello. In the musical film, he assumed the role of Prince Robert.
Having starred in Bottoms, Red, White & Royal Blue, and most recently, The Idea of You, he had a busy previous year. In the latter, which was adapted from the same-titled book, he starred as Hayes Campbell alongside Anne Hathaway.
Nicholas Galitzine in a still from Purple Hearts
The Purple Hearts star may be a rising star in the film industry now, but before he graced the big screen, he had a “hellish” job that...
Having starred in Bottoms, Red, White & Royal Blue, and most recently, The Idea of You, he had a busy previous year. In the latter, which was adapted from the same-titled book, he starred as Hayes Campbell alongside Anne Hathaway.
Nicholas Galitzine in a still from Purple Hearts
The Purple Hearts star may be a rising star in the film industry now, but before he graced the big screen, he had a “hellish” job that...
- 4/27/2024
- by Siddhika Prajapati
- FandomWire
Nicholas Galitzine opened up about playing queer characters as a straight actor.
The 29-year-old most recently shot steamy love scenes for Mary & George, a historical miniseries about George Villiers’ affair with King James.
Previously, he played Prince Henry, a gay royal who falls in love with the first son of the United States, in 2023′s Red, White & Royal Blue. He was also cast as a gay character in Handsome Devil.
During a recent interview, Nicholas reflected on having the support of the LGBTQ+ community and what drew him to the roles.
Keep reading to find out more…
While on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the actor spoke about the reception his roles have received from the queer community: “I feel so overwhelmingly proud of the resonance I feel like I’ve been able to have and so touched by, you know, conversations I’ve had with people from the queer community,...
The 29-year-old most recently shot steamy love scenes for Mary & George, a historical miniseries about George Villiers’ affair with King James.
Previously, he played Prince Henry, a gay royal who falls in love with the first son of the United States, in 2023′s Red, White & Royal Blue. He was also cast as a gay character in Handsome Devil.
During a recent interview, Nicholas reflected on having the support of the LGBTQ+ community and what drew him to the roles.
Keep reading to find out more…
While on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show, the actor spoke about the reception his roles have received from the queer community: “I feel so overwhelmingly proud of the resonance I feel like I’ve been able to have and so touched by, you know, conversations I’ve had with people from the queer community,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
The sort of platitudes that often accompany many retrospectives on classic albums, describing heroic narratives in which scenes are burst onto and names are cemented in history books, don’t necessarily fit the Smiths’s 1984 debut very well. Prior to the release of The Smiths, the band had already been voted Best New Act by NME readers. The band’s early singles received radio play from tastemakers like John Peel, and their live sessions for BBC proved so popular that they were rebroadcasted several times.
Frontman Morrissey was becoming a star in his own right, developing a reputation as a colorful interviewee and an unlikely trendsetter. The position of “voice of his generation” was up for grabs in the aftermath of Paul Weller disbanding the Jam, and this entirely new kind of pop personality—a melancholy shut-in from the economically depressed north of England, with Wildean affectations—was more than...
Frontman Morrissey was becoming a star in his own right, developing a reputation as a colorful interviewee and an unlikely trendsetter. The position of “voice of his generation” was up for grabs in the aftermath of Paul Weller disbanding the Jam, and this entirely new kind of pop personality—a melancholy shut-in from the economically depressed north of England, with Wildean affectations—was more than...
- 2/20/2024
- by Lewie Parkinson-Jones
- Slant Magazine
Red, White & Royal Blue is a romantic comedy film directed by Matthew Lopez from a screenplay by Lopez and Ted Malawer. The Prime Video original film is based on a book of the same name by Casey McQuiston and it follows the love story of Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the first female President of the United States Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman) and Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine), a British Prince. The romantic comedy film sees our protagonists pulled between love and duty while having some carefree fun. So, if you loved Red, White & Royal Blue here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Maurice (Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Enterprise Pictures Limited
Synopsis: Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one’s sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding.
Maurice (Prime Video Add-On) Credit – Enterprise Pictures Limited
Synopsis: Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one’s sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding.
- 8/11/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Nicholas Galitzine (Purple Hearts) has been tapped to star alongside Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway in Prime Video’s film The Idea of You, based on Robinne Lee’s bestselling contemporary love story of the same name, which goes into production in October.
The film from Emmy-nominated director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) centers on Sophie (Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother. Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has canceled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. Sophie then picks up the pieces, braving the crowds and desert heat in Dan’s place. While at the music festival, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet, August Moon.
Amazon Studios partnered with Welle Entertainment to develop The Idea of You as a starring vehicle for Hathaway back in June of last year, as we told you first.
The film from Emmy-nominated director Michael Showalter (The Big Sick) centers on Sophie (Hathaway), a 40-year-old divorced mother. Sophie’s husband Dan left her for a younger woman, and now he has canceled his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. Sophie then picks up the pieces, braving the crowds and desert heat in Dan’s place. While at the music festival, she meets 24-year-old Hayes Campbell (Galitzine), the lead singer of the hottest boy band on the planet, August Moon.
Amazon Studios partnered with Welle Entertainment to develop The Idea of You as a starring vehicle for Hathaway back in June of last year, as we told you first.
- 9/19/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
In Amazon Prime Video’s “The Idea of You,” Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway stars as a divorced mother who sparks a passionate love affair with a pop star she meets after taking her daughter to a music festival. And now, the object of her on-screen desire has been cast.
Nicholas Galitzine will play Hayes Campbell — the 24-year-old lead singer of the “hottest boy band on the planet,” August Moon — who has been speculated by fans of Robinne Lee’s bestselling debut novel to be inspired by Harry Styles.
The film follows Hathaway’s Sophie, who saves the day after her ex-husband Dan (who left her for a younger woman) cancels his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. When she decides to brave the crowds and desert heat to take her daughter to the music festival, Sophie meets Hayes (Galitzine), and the 40-year-old’s life really heats up.
The British...
Nicholas Galitzine will play Hayes Campbell — the 24-year-old lead singer of the “hottest boy band on the planet,” August Moon — who has been speculated by fans of Robinne Lee’s bestselling debut novel to be inspired by Harry Styles.
The film follows Hathaway’s Sophie, who saves the day after her ex-husband Dan (who left her for a younger woman) cancels his Coachella trip with their 15-year-old daughter. When she decides to brave the crowds and desert heat to take her daughter to the music festival, Sophie meets Hayes (Galitzine), and the 40-year-old’s life really heats up.
The British...
- 9/19/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Taylor Zakhar Perez (The Kissing Booth 2 & 3) and Nicholas Galitzine (Cinderella) have been tapped to lead Prime Video’s romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue, based on Casey McQuiston’s bestselling novel of the same name. Tony Award-winning playwright Matthew López (The Inheritance) will direct, in his feature debut, with Clifton Collins Jr. (Westworld), Stephen Fry (The Dropout) and Sarah Shahi (Sex/Life) also aboard to star.
Red, White & Royal Blue follows the Mexican-American character Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez) who, upon his mother’s election as President, is promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, brilliant―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a long-running feud with his royal counterpart across the pond, Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine). And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between the two, U.S./British relations...
Red, White & Royal Blue follows the Mexican-American character Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez) who, upon his mother’s election as President, is promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, brilliant―his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a long-running feud with his royal counterpart across the pond, Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine). And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an altercation between the two, U.S./British relations...
- 6/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Aidan Gillen, who played Littlefinger in “Game of Thrones,” and Sandrine Bonnaire, a best actress winner at Venice for “La cérémonie,” have joined Gabriel Byrne in Samuel Beckett biopic “Dance First,” directed by Oscar-winner James Marsh.
Film Constellation has closed pre-sales on the film in Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (Bim Distribuzione), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nos Audiovisuais), Greece (Filmtrade), Hungary (Vertigo Media), former Yugoslavia (Discovery) and Taiwan (Cai Chang). Pay TV outlet Sky developed the film as a Sky Original in the U.K.
Marsh, best-known for “The Theory of Everything,” for which Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar, and Oscar-winner “Man on Wire,” will start shooting the film on May 30 in Budapest.
“Dance First’s” cast also includes Fionn O’Shea, who will play the young Beckett. He appeared in “Handsome Devil,” “Dating Amber” and “Normal People,” and will be seen next in “Masters of the Air.” The film is written by Neil Forsyth.
Film Constellation has closed pre-sales on the film in Australia/New Zealand (Icon), Italy (Bim Distribuzione), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nos Audiovisuais), Greece (Filmtrade), Hungary (Vertigo Media), former Yugoslavia (Discovery) and Taiwan (Cai Chang). Pay TV outlet Sky developed the film as a Sky Original in the U.K.
Marsh, best-known for “The Theory of Everything,” for which Eddie Redmayne won an Oscar, and Oscar-winner “Man on Wire,” will start shooting the film on May 30 in Budapest.
“Dance First’s” cast also includes Fionn O’Shea, who will play the young Beckett. He appeared in “Handsome Devil,” “Dating Amber” and “Normal People,” and will be seen next in “Masters of the Air.” The film is written by Neil Forsyth.
- 5/19/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Irish actor Ruairi O’Connor will play rock ‘n’ roll icon Buddy Holly in the biopic “Clear Lake” with a tentative production start date set for the spring.
O’Connor, who stars as a young King Henry VIII in the Starz miniseries “The Spanish Princess,” was selected following a six-month search by the producers and casting directors at Presser/Well Casting to find the right actor who both resembled Holly and could handle vocals and instrumentation on classic songs such as “Everyday,” “That’ll Be the Day” and “Not Fade Away.”
The BMG-backed “Clear Lake” will helmed by Bruce Beresford, who received Oscar nominations for the “Breaker Morant” script and for directing “Tender Mercies.” He also directed “Driving Miss Daisy,” which won the Academy Award for best picture. Producers are Rick French (“Not Without Hope”) of Prix Productions and Stuart Benjamin of Stuart Benjamin Productions.
“Clear Lake” tells the story of...
O’Connor, who stars as a young King Henry VIII in the Starz miniseries “The Spanish Princess,” was selected following a six-month search by the producers and casting directors at Presser/Well Casting to find the right actor who both resembled Holly and could handle vocals and instrumentation on classic songs such as “Everyday,” “That’ll Be the Day” and “Not Fade Away.”
The BMG-backed “Clear Lake” will helmed by Bruce Beresford, who received Oscar nominations for the “Breaker Morant” script and for directing “Tender Mercies.” He also directed “Driving Miss Daisy,” which won the Academy Award for best picture. Producers are Rick French (“Not Without Hope”) of Prix Productions and Stuart Benjamin of Stuart Benjamin Productions.
“Clear Lake” tells the story of...
- 10/8/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Word is getting around that British actor Nicholas Galitzine has won the role of Prince Robert in Sony’s upcoming Camila Cabello musical Cinderella.
After a long search, Galitzine, I hear, wowed the filmmakers in many chemistry readings. In addition to Cabello, the actor joins Idina Menzel and Billy Porter (as the fairy godmother) in the Kay Cannon-directed and scripted feature. James Corden produces and has a story by credit. A production start is scheduled for February for a Feb. 5, 2021 release.
Galitzine’s first big film break came at the age of 20 about five years ago when he scored a role opposite Luke Perry in John Williams’ The Beat Beneath My Feet which played the Berlinale in 2015. In that movie Galitzine played Tom, a teenage loner who discovers his rock god neighbor has faked his death over tax fraud and blackmails him into becoming his guitar teacher.
After a long search, Galitzine, I hear, wowed the filmmakers in many chemistry readings. In addition to Cabello, the actor joins Idina Menzel and Billy Porter (as the fairy godmother) in the Kay Cannon-directed and scripted feature. James Corden produces and has a story by credit. A production start is scheduled for February for a Feb. 5, 2021 release.
Galitzine’s first big film break came at the age of 20 about five years ago when he scored a role opposite Luke Perry in John Williams’ The Beat Beneath My Feet which played the Berlinale in 2015. In that movie Galitzine played Tom, a teenage loner who discovers his rock god neighbor has faked his death over tax fraud and blackmails him into becoming his guitar teacher.
- 12/5/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Lola Petticrew also stars in director David Freyne’s second feature.
Altitude has taken UK distribution rights and international sales on Beards, the Irish comedy-drama that marks the second feature of director David Freyne (The Cured).
Local outfit Wildcard Distribution will handle the Irish release of the project - the company’s previous releases include The Young Offenders and Lady Macbeth.
2017 Screen Star of Tomorrow Fionn O’Shea (Handsome Devil) and Lola Petticrew lead a story set in Ireland during the mid-90s of two closeted teenagers who decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality.
Altitude has taken UK distribution rights and international sales on Beards, the Irish comedy-drama that marks the second feature of director David Freyne (The Cured).
Local outfit Wildcard Distribution will handle the Irish release of the project - the company’s previous releases include The Young Offenders and Lady Macbeth.
2017 Screen Star of Tomorrow Fionn O’Shea (Handsome Devil) and Lola Petticrew lead a story set in Ireland during the mid-90s of two closeted teenagers who decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality.
- 7/29/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Let’s say you want to make a movie about the dynamic between middle-class white folks and the undocumented dayworkers they employ (some would say “exploit”) in a city like Los Angeles. There are plenty of ways to go about it, any number of which could offer a welcome chance to illuminate the ubiquitous but under-chronicled relationship between those two groups: You could make a sentimental dramedy about a cross-cultural friendship, à la “Spanglish” or “Green Book,” or maybe a tense thriller in which the risk of arrest and deportation reveals the lopsided power balance that locks immigrants into such servitude.
Or you could come up with something totally out-of-touch and off-the-wall like “Papi Chulo,” an egregiously miscalculated rent-a-companion comedy from Irish writer-director John Butler (“Handsome Devil”), in which an egocentric gay man (Matt Bomer), abandoned by his longtime Latino lover, hires an undocumented handyman (California-born actor Alejandro Patiño) to...
Or you could come up with something totally out-of-touch and off-the-wall like “Papi Chulo,” an egregiously miscalculated rent-a-companion comedy from Irish writer-director John Butler (“Handsome Devil”), in which an egocentric gay man (Matt Bomer), abandoned by his longtime Latino lover, hires an undocumented handyman (California-born actor Alejandro Patiño) to...
- 6/8/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Well-intentioned but at times insensitive, “Papi Chulo” is a complicated movie. It wants so badly to do the right thing when the situation is all wrong.
Written and directed by John Butler (“Handsome Devil”), “Papi Chulo” follows Sean (Matt Bomer), a popular Los Angeles weatherman, on the heels of an on-air mental breakdown. Forced to take time off from work, he struggles to cope with his loneliness after the loss of his relationship some months before. Looking to do something with the free time on his hands, he enlists the help of a day laborer, Ernesto, to help repaint the deck outside his home. Instead, Sean ends up more or less hiring Ernesto to be his friend.
Many of the jokes in “Papi Chulo” are rooted in this unequal-buddy comedy routine. Sean feels entitled to this friendship with a stranger he barely knows. His behavior comes across as inappropriate even...
Written and directed by John Butler (“Handsome Devil”), “Papi Chulo” follows Sean (Matt Bomer), a popular Los Angeles weatherman, on the heels of an on-air mental breakdown. Forced to take time off from work, he struggles to cope with his loneliness after the loss of his relationship some months before. Looking to do something with the free time on his hands, he enlists the help of a day laborer, Ernesto, to help repaint the deck outside his home. Instead, Sean ends up more or less hiring Ernesto to be his friend.
Many of the jokes in “Papi Chulo” are rooted in this unequal-buddy comedy routine. Sean feels entitled to this friendship with a stranger he barely knows. His behavior comes across as inappropriate even...
- 6/6/2019
- by Monica Castillo
- The Wrap
Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming horror-series ‘Chambers’ starring Uma Thurman and Tony Goldwyn.
The series follows a young heart attack survivor becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the heart that saved her life. However, the closer she gets to uncovering the truth about her donor’s sudden death, the more she starts taking on the characteristics of the deceased — some of which are troublingly sinister.
The series stars Uma Thurman, Tony Goldwyn, Sivan Alyra Rose, Lilliya Reid, Nicholas Galitzine, Kyanna Simone Simpson (White Boy Rick & Ma), Lilli Kay (Paterno), Sarah Mezzanotte and introducing Griffin Powell-Arcand.
Also in trailers – Laura Linney and Ellen Page star in trailer for Netflix limited series ‘Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City’
Netflix launches the series on April 26th.
The post Netflix launch trailer for horror series ‘Chambers’ appeared first on HeyUGuys.
The series follows a young heart attack survivor becomes consumed by the mystery surrounding the heart that saved her life. However, the closer she gets to uncovering the truth about her donor’s sudden death, the more she starts taking on the characteristics of the deceased — some of which are troublingly sinister.
The series stars Uma Thurman, Tony Goldwyn, Sivan Alyra Rose, Lilliya Reid, Nicholas Galitzine, Kyanna Simone Simpson (White Boy Rick & Ma), Lilli Kay (Paterno), Sarah Mezzanotte and introducing Griffin Powell-Arcand.
Also in trailers – Laura Linney and Ellen Page star in trailer for Netflix limited series ‘Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City’
Netflix launches the series on April 26th.
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- 4/11/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Empathy comes from an unexpected place in Papi Chulo, a modest but disarming buddy movie in which a well-heeled white, gay Angeleno reaches across the socioeconomic divide to seek the comfort of companionship from a straight Mexican day laborer. Irish writer-director John Butler shows the same light touch with borderline sticky sentiment that made his 2016 feature Handsome Devil a minor-key charmer. But it’s the synergistic performances of Matt Bomer, playing raw and broken, and Alejandro Patino, conveying decency and nonjudgmental compassion behind his deadpan raised eyebrows, that make the movie click.
The strongest selling point will be Bomer’s heart-on-his-sleeve ...
The strongest selling point will be Bomer’s heart-on-his-sleeve ...
- 9/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Empathy comes from an unexpected place in Papi Chulo, a modest but disarming buddy movie in which a well-heeled white, gay Angeleno reaches across the socioeconomic divide to seek the comfort of companionship from a straight Mexican day laborer. Irish writer-director John Butler shows the same light touch with borderline sticky sentiment that made his 2016 feature Handsome Devil a minor-key charmer. But it’s the synergistic performances of Matt Bomer, playing raw and broken, and Alejandro Patino, conveying decency and nonjudgmental compassion behind his deadpan raised eyebrows, that make the movie click.
The strongest selling point will be Bomer’s heart-on-his-sleeve ...
The strongest selling point will be Bomer’s heart-on-his-sleeve ...
- 9/12/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In “Papi Chulo,” a scrupulously low-key and unassumingly ingratiating dramedy about the friendship forged between a thirtysomething Anglo TV weatherman and a middle-aged Mexican migrant day laborer, Irish-born writer-director John Butler turns an outsider’s eye to the dynamics of interrelationships that cross socioeconomic divides in L.A., and makes it clear, without hammering home his point too insistently, that one can intelligently and entertainingly illuminate universal verities about basic human needs by focusing on specific details of place, class, and sexual orientation.
Sean, played with an admirable fearlessness by Matt Bomer, is the weatherman, a usually chipper professional who has an on-camera meltdown — something more than a crying jag, but not quite a cry of anguish — while forecasting another day of hellish heat in and around L.A. Ordered to take a sabbatical by a news director who’s worried about tarnishing the station’s “brand,” Sean finds himself...
Sean, played with an admirable fearlessness by Matt Bomer, is the weatherman, a usually chipper professional who has an on-camera meltdown — something more than a crying jag, but not quite a cry of anguish — while forecasting another day of hellish heat in and around L.A. Ordered to take a sabbatical by a news director who’s worried about tarnishing the station’s “brand,” Sean finds himself...
- 9/9/2018
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Lionsgate is proud to announce The Watcher in the Woods, starring Academy Award® winner Anjelica Huston, arriving on DVD September 11.
The thrilling reimagining of the ’80s cult classic film comes home when Lifetime’sThe Watcher in the Woods arrives on DVD September 11 from Lionsgate. Starring Academy Award® winner Anjelica Huston and executive produced by Melissa Joan Hart (TV’s “Melissa & Joey”), the film tells the tale of a family that rents a countryside manor for the summer and encounters the dark past hidden by the townspeople. The Watcher in the Woods DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $14.98.
When Jan Carstairs and her family rent a manor in the idyllic British countryside, the owner, Mrs. Aylwood, notices that Jan bears a striking resemblance to her daughter, Karen, who disappeared over twenty years ago. Mrs. Aylwood warns Jan to stay out of the surrounding woods, and when strange occurrences unnerve the family,...
The thrilling reimagining of the ’80s cult classic film comes home when Lifetime’sThe Watcher in the Woods arrives on DVD September 11 from Lionsgate. Starring Academy Award® winner Anjelica Huston and executive produced by Melissa Joan Hart (TV’s “Melissa & Joey”), the film tells the tale of a family that rents a countryside manor for the summer and encounters the dark past hidden by the townspeople. The Watcher in the Woods DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $14.98.
When Jan Carstairs and her family rent a manor in the idyllic British countryside, the owner, Mrs. Aylwood, notices that Jan bears a striking resemblance to her daughter, Karen, who disappeared over twenty years ago. Mrs. Aylwood warns Jan to stay out of the surrounding woods, and when strange occurrences unnerve the family,...
- 8/29/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The ’80s cult classic The Watcher in the Woods has been retold by director Melissa Joan Hart and is headed to DVD September 11, from Lionsgate. Below are all the details on the release.
The thrilling reimagining of the ’80s cult classic film comes home when Lifetime’sThe Watcher in the Woods arrives on DVD September 11 from Lionsgate. Starring Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston and executive produced by Melissa Joan Hart (Melissa & Joey), the film tells the tale of a family that rents a countryside manor for the summer and encounters the dark past hidden by the townspeople. The Watcher in the Woods DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $14.98.
Official Synopsis
When Jan Carstairs and her family rent a manor in the idyllic British countryside, the owner, Mrs. Aylwood, notices that Jan bears a striking resemblance to her daughter, Karen, who disappeared over twenty years ago.
The thrilling reimagining of the ’80s cult classic film comes home when Lifetime’sThe Watcher in the Woods arrives on DVD September 11 from Lionsgate. Starring Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston and executive produced by Melissa Joan Hart (Melissa & Joey), the film tells the tale of a family that rents a countryside manor for the summer and encounters the dark past hidden by the townspeople. The Watcher in the Woods DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $14.98.
Official Synopsis
When Jan Carstairs and her family rent a manor in the idyllic British countryside, the owner, Mrs. Aylwood, notices that Jan bears a striking resemblance to her daughter, Karen, who disappeared over twenty years ago.
- 7/4/2018
- by Chris Salce
- Age of the Nerd
What better time for a rollout of To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story than on Friday the 13th?! Courtesy of Epic Pictures Releasing and Dread Central Presents, To Hell and Back on Blu-Ray and DVD comes packed with 90+ minutes of bonus features. We also have the DVD debut of Melissa Joan Hart's Watcher in the Woods, starring Anjelica Huston, and Kickstarter information for the new film Ex Voto.
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story Release Details: Hollywood, CA – On Friday, July 13, 2018, Epic Pictures Releasing via its horror label, Dread Central Presents will release To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story, both On Demand and as part of a fully loaded Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack.
Directed by Derek Dennis Herbert, To Hell and Back tells the harrowing story of famed stuntman and actor Kane Hodder, who overcame a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks,...
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story Release Details: Hollywood, CA – On Friday, July 13, 2018, Epic Pictures Releasing via its horror label, Dread Central Presents will release To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story, both On Demand and as part of a fully loaded Blu-Ray/DVD combo pack.
Directed by Derek Dennis Herbert, To Hell and Back tells the harrowing story of famed stuntman and actor Kane Hodder, who overcame a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Golden Globe-winning actor Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart) has signed on to star in Papi Chulo, the new film from Handsome Devil director John Butler.
In the black comedy, which U.K. sales outfit Bankside Films will launch to international buyers in Berlin next week, the Magnificent Seven and Magic Mike alumnus will play a lonely TV weatherman who strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker, played by The Runaways' Alejandro Patino.
Rob Walpole and Rebecca O'Flanagan are producing Papi Chulo for Treasure Entertainment, with backing from the Irish Film Board, Head Gear Films, Rte and Windmill Lane....
In the black comedy, which U.K. sales outfit Bankside Films will launch to international buyers in Berlin next week, the Magnificent Seven and Magic Mike alumnus will play a lonely TV weatherman who strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker, played by The Runaways' Alejandro Patino.
Rob Walpole and Rebecca O'Flanagan are producing Papi Chulo for Treasure Entertainment, with backing from the Irish Film Board, Head Gear Films, Rte and Windmill Lane....
- 2/8/2018
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Butler’s third feature gets sales deal.
UK sales outfit Bankside Films is launching John Butler’s Papi Chulo at this year’s European Film Market (Efm).
Golden Globe-winning Matt Bomer (The Magnificent Seven) will star alongside Alejandro Patiño (The Runaways) in the black comedy about a lonely TV weatherman who strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Director Butler’s last two features, The Stag and Handsome Devil, both premiered in Toronto. The latter was picked up by Netflix.
Rob Walpole and Rebecca O’Flanagan of Treasure Entertainment are producing the film, which is being financed by the Irish Film Board, Head Gear Films, Rte and Windmill Lane.
Executive producers are Phil Hunt and Compton Ross for Head Gear Films and Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher for Bankside Films
Stephen Kelliher said of the project: “We have long admired John Butler’s work and were delighted to read his script which tells such...
UK sales outfit Bankside Films is launching John Butler’s Papi Chulo at this year’s European Film Market (Efm).
Golden Globe-winning Matt Bomer (The Magnificent Seven) will star alongside Alejandro Patiño (The Runaways) in the black comedy about a lonely TV weatherman who strikes up an unusual friendship with a middle-aged Latino migrant worker.
Director Butler’s last two features, The Stag and Handsome Devil, both premiered in Toronto. The latter was picked up by Netflix.
Rob Walpole and Rebecca O’Flanagan of Treasure Entertainment are producing the film, which is being financed by the Irish Film Board, Head Gear Films, Rte and Windmill Lane.
Executive producers are Phil Hunt and Compton Ross for Head Gear Films and Hilary Davis and Stephen Kelliher for Bankside Films
Stephen Kelliher said of the project: “We have long admired John Butler’s work and were delighted to read his script which tells such...
- 2/8/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Full list of nominations revealed for 15th edition of awards.
The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) has unveiled the nominations for its 2018 film and drama awards.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics
Maudie
Now in its 15th year, the event celebrates the best in Irish film and TV from the past 12 months.
In the film categories, Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, starring Sally Hawkins, leads the way with six nominations including best feature film and director.
Cardboard Gangsters, Handsome Devil, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Farthest follow with five nominations, while The Drummer And The Keeper, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Maze and Michael Inside received four apiece.
The Lodgers, Pilgrimage, Song Of Granite all received three nods, while Lady Bird received two.
In the drama categories, Vikings leads the way on six nominations including best drama, while Game Of Thrones and Peaky Blinders received five each. Paula received four, Acceptable Risk and [link=tt...
The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) has unveiled the nominations for its 2018 film and drama awards.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics
Maudie
Now in its 15th year, the event celebrates the best in Irish film and TV from the past 12 months.
In the film categories, Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, starring Sally Hawkins, leads the way with six nominations including best feature film and director.
Cardboard Gangsters, Handsome Devil, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Farthest follow with five nominations, while The Drummer And The Keeper, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Maze and Michael Inside received four apiece.
The Lodgers, Pilgrimage, Song Of Granite all received three nods, while Lady Bird received two.
In the drama categories, Vikings leads the way on six nominations including best drama, while Game Of Thrones and Peaky Blinders received five each. Paula received four, Acceptable Risk and [link=tt...
- 1/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
An abridged version of this interview was previously published at Towleroad
Nicholas Galitzine is a star on the rugby field in "Handsome Devil"
by Nathaniel R
The third time is the charm. Just three years and three films into his acting career, Nicholas Galitzine has what looks like a breakout role. John Butler's Irish dramedy Handsome Devil centers around the unlikely friendship of a new student Ned (Fionn O’Shea) and the star athlete Conor (Galitzine) at a rugby-mad boarding school. Their friendship is encouraged by their teacher Mr Sherry (played by the fine Irish actor Andrew Scott of Pride and Sherlock fame) but the rugby team isn’t wild about it. Conor is a wonderful showcase for Galitzine’s talent, and in more ways than one. The role also allows the actor to use what he calls his "separate passion,” music.
Screen International named Galitzine one of their...
Nicholas Galitzine is a star on the rugby field in "Handsome Devil"
by Nathaniel R
The third time is the charm. Just three years and three films into his acting career, Nicholas Galitzine has what looks like a breakout role. John Butler's Irish dramedy Handsome Devil centers around the unlikely friendship of a new student Ned (Fionn O’Shea) and the star athlete Conor (Galitzine) at a rugby-mad boarding school. Their friendship is encouraged by their teacher Mr Sherry (played by the fine Irish actor Andrew Scott of Pride and Sherlock fame) but the rugby team isn’t wild about it. Conor is a wonderful showcase for Galitzine’s talent, and in more ways than one. The role also allows the actor to use what he calls his "separate passion,” music.
Screen International named Galitzine one of their...
- 6/4/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Just be yourself: sentiments easier said than done. The phrase is perfect fodder for coming-of-age films whether the meaning is to educate acceptance in one’s self on the skin’s surface or below. But being perfectly suited towards becoming a resonant vehicle for life lessons doesn’t mean the process of accomplishing that goal with mass audience appeal will be a walk in the park. Sometimes the inherent convention of such thematic underpinnings is too great to overcome. Sometimes the dramatic weight of heavier circumstances projected upon them—those able to necessitate your desire to cease being that which everyone wants—is too tragic for the public at-large to fully embrace. Writer/director John Butler‘s Handsome Devil possesses subject matter for both these pitfalls to consume and yet it survives nonetheless.
A lot of this is due to an endearing cast of characters able to charm their way...
A lot of this is due to an endearing cast of characters able to charm their way...
- 6/2/2017
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Irish-set project opened the Glasgow Film Festival and co-stars Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine.
Radiant Films International has sold key territories on Irish comedy Handsome Devil.
President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and her team have licensed Australia and New Zealand to Rialto, and closed deals with Salzgeber for Germany and Tongariro Releasing for Poland.
Breaking Glass Pictures plans a Us theatrical release in June and Icon Distribution released the film in the UK and Ireland last month.
Handsome Devil premiered in Toronto and has become a festival darling, opening the Glasgow Film Festival and closing the Dublin International Film Festival in February.
The film centres on a bullied outsider and a star athlete who bond when they are forced to share a room at a rugby school.
Fionn O’Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Moe Dunford, and Andrew Scott star. Rebecca O’Flanagan and Robert Walpole produced for Treasure Entertainment.
“The accessible...
Radiant Films International has sold key territories on Irish comedy Handsome Devil.
President and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and her team have licensed Australia and New Zealand to Rialto, and closed deals with Salzgeber for Germany and Tongariro Releasing for Poland.
Breaking Glass Pictures plans a Us theatrical release in June and Icon Distribution released the film in the UK and Ireland last month.
Handsome Devil premiered in Toronto and has become a festival darling, opening the Glasgow Film Festival and closing the Dublin International Film Festival in February.
The film centres on a bullied outsider and a star athlete who bond when they are forced to share a room at a rugby school.
Fionn O’Shea, Nicholas Galitzine, Moe Dunford, and Andrew Scott star. Rebecca O’Flanagan and Robert Walpole produced for Treasure Entertainment.
“The accessible...
- 5/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A new film has emerged at the 70th Cannes Film Festival titled The Changeover. It is based on Margaret Mahy’s best-selling, Carnegie Award-winning novel from New Zealand.
When a sinister visitor arrives in her town, sixteen-year-old Laura Chant discovers awesome new powers within herself that she must harness in order to rescue her younger brother from the man’s evil plans.
The supernatural thriller stars Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, Harry Potter series), Melanie Lynskey (I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore, Up in the Air, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Lucy Lawless (Parks and Recreation, Battlestar Galactica, Xena: Warrior Princess), Nicholas Galitzine (Handsome Devil, High Strung), Erana James.
In 2014, Spall won the Best Actor award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for portraying J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s biographical film Mr. Turner. He also collaborated with Leigh on Topsy-turvy and the brilliant Secrets & Lies.
When a sinister visitor arrives in her town, sixteen-year-old Laura Chant discovers awesome new powers within herself that she must harness in order to rescue her younger brother from the man’s evil plans.
The supernatural thriller stars Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner, Harry Potter series), Melanie Lynskey (I Don’t Feel at Home in this World Anymore, Up in the Air, The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Lucy Lawless (Parks and Recreation, Battlestar Galactica, Xena: Warrior Princess), Nicholas Galitzine (Handsome Devil, High Strung), Erana James.
In 2014, Spall won the Best Actor award at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for portraying J. M. W. Turner in Mike Leigh’s biographical film Mr. Turner. He also collaborated with Leigh on Topsy-turvy and the brilliant Secrets & Lies.
- 5/18/2017
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
New film Handsome Devil has been hailed as ‘the Irish Moonlight’
A while back, the director John Butler decided he wanted to make a mainstream buddy movie with a difference. It was to feature two teenage boys, whose sexuality would never explicitly be revealed, and the backdrop would be a fee-paying rugby-obsessed Irish school with a culture of unthinking homophobia. It would have a dash of Dead Poets Society, a nod to the feelgood John Hughes films of the 1980s, and it would culminate in a classic tale of sporting triumph on the rugby pitch. And Butler wanted to do all this on a shoestring budget and a 25-day shoot.
Amazingly, the 44-year-old director managed it. Handsome Devil, which stars young Irish actors Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine as the adolescent schoolboys, and Sherlock star Andrew Scott as their inspirational teacher, has just been released to a wave of acclaim.
A while back, the director John Butler decided he wanted to make a mainstream buddy movie with a difference. It was to feature two teenage boys, whose sexuality would never explicitly be revealed, and the backdrop would be a fee-paying rugby-obsessed Irish school with a culture of unthinking homophobia. It would have a dash of Dead Poets Society, a nod to the feelgood John Hughes films of the 1980s, and it would culminate in a classic tale of sporting triumph on the rugby pitch. And Butler wanted to do all this on a shoestring budget and a 25-day shoot.
Amazingly, the 44-year-old director managed it. Handsome Devil, which stars young Irish actors Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine as the adolescent schoolboys, and Sherlock star Andrew Scott as their inspirational teacher, has just been released to a wave of acclaim.
- 4/29/2017
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
Author: Stefan Pape
Handsome Devil charmed the pants off us at the Toronto International Film Festival last Autumn, and so needless to say it was our pleasure to spend some time with the film’s leading stars; newcomer Fionn O’Shea and the consistently impressive Andrew Scott, meeting in a Canadian coffee shop near the Entertainment District.
In this John Butler film Fionn O’Shea plays Ned, an outsider who vies tirelessly to convince his dad (Ardal O’Hanlon) not to send him to a boarding school where rugby seems to come first, and education second. Picked on by many of his peers, and even the ignorant sports coach Pascal (Moe Dunford), Ned is disenchanted when his new roommate is jock – and star of the rugby team – Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), as the two polar opposites clash right from the offset. But as time progresses, and with a little help from supportive English teacher Mr.
Handsome Devil charmed the pants off us at the Toronto International Film Festival last Autumn, and so needless to say it was our pleasure to spend some time with the film’s leading stars; newcomer Fionn O’Shea and the consistently impressive Andrew Scott, meeting in a Canadian coffee shop near the Entertainment District.
In this John Butler film Fionn O’Shea plays Ned, an outsider who vies tirelessly to convince his dad (Ardal O’Hanlon) not to send him to a boarding school where rugby seems to come first, and education second. Picked on by many of his peers, and even the ignorant sports coach Pascal (Moe Dunford), Ned is disenchanted when his new roommate is jock – and star of the rugby team – Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), as the two polar opposites clash right from the offset. But as time progresses, and with a little help from supportive English teacher Mr.
- 4/27/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Set in a posh Irish boarding school, John Butler’s film focuses on an unlikely friendship between a star rugby player and his sensitive roommate
Writer-director John Butler won hearts and minds with his 2013 comedy The Stag; this new movie is about homophobia and conformism in a posh Irish boarding school. Very clearly, it is a personal and autobiographical project for him. For me, Handsome Devil exists in a Venn diagram tonal overlap between John Carney’s Sing Street and Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did. Music is a vital lifeline for the kids growing up who feel alone – who are quiet or artistic or just don’t fit in. Meanwhile, rugby is a macho fetish, notably for the well-off.
Fionn O’Shea plays sensitive Ned, bullied for being “different” by the rugby types. Then he’s made to share a room with Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a new boy thrown...
Writer-director John Butler won hearts and minds with his 2013 comedy The Stag; this new movie is about homophobia and conformism in a posh Irish boarding school. Very clearly, it is a personal and autobiographical project for him. For me, Handsome Devil exists in a Venn diagram tonal overlap between John Carney’s Sing Street and Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did. Music is a vital lifeline for the kids growing up who feel alone – who are quiet or artistic or just don’t fit in. Meanwhile, rugby is a macho fetish, notably for the well-off.
Fionn O’Shea plays sensitive Ned, bullied for being “different” by the rugby types. Then he’s made to share a room with Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a new boy thrown...
- 4/27/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Handsome Devil screens Sunday, Apr. 2 at 7:30pm at the .Zack (3224 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103) as part of this year’s QFest St. Louis. Ticket information can be found Here. Shown With: “More Than God” (Kev Cahill, 2015, Ireland, 9 min.) This comedy set in modern Ireland follows the attempts of a religious doctor to uncover his wife’s suspected affair. In the process, he is confronted by the rigidity of his beliefs.
In the Irish comedy Handsome Devil, a gay student who is a fish-out-of-water at his rugby-obsessed boarding school finds an unlikely ally in a new student, a handsome devil who is rugby star.
Things have not gone well for Ned Roche (Fionn O’Shea) since his widowed father remarried a younger woman. The couple now live in Dubai but send the teen to a boarding school back home in Ireland. There Ned is subjected to endless bullying. Short,...
In the Irish comedy Handsome Devil, a gay student who is a fish-out-of-water at his rugby-obsessed boarding school finds an unlikely ally in a new student, a handsome devil who is rugby star.
Things have not gone well for Ned Roche (Fionn O’Shea) since his widowed father remarried a younger woman. The couple now live in Dubai but send the teen to a boarding school back home in Ireland. There Ned is subjected to endless bullying. Short,...
- 3/31/2017
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Drama directed by John Butler also stars Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine.
Icon Film Distribution has announced that the UK release date for Handsome Devil starring Andrew Scott is April 28. It will be released a week earlier in Ireland on April 21.
The film, premiering tonight (March 24) at the BFI Flare Festival, is directed by John Butler (The Stag).
Scott plays an inspirational English teacher who befriends Ned (Finn O’Shea), a gawky youngster who is sent to a macho Irish boarding school. Ned is bullied and lonely until he strikes up an unlikely friendship with new roommate Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a star player for the school rugby team.
Radiant Films International is handling international sales, with Breaking Glass Pictures acquiring Us rights.
It was produced by Rebecca O’Flanagan and Rob Walpole for Treasure Entertainment (The Stag, Viva), with support from Irish Film Board.
The film recently opened the Glasgow Film Festival and was awarded best Irish...
Icon Film Distribution has announced that the UK release date for Handsome Devil starring Andrew Scott is April 28. It will be released a week earlier in Ireland on April 21.
The film, premiering tonight (March 24) at the BFI Flare Festival, is directed by John Butler (The Stag).
Scott plays an inspirational English teacher who befriends Ned (Finn O’Shea), a gawky youngster who is sent to a macho Irish boarding school. Ned is bullied and lonely until he strikes up an unlikely friendship with new roommate Conor (Nicholas Galitzine), a star player for the school rugby team.
Radiant Films International is handling international sales, with Breaking Glass Pictures acquiring Us rights.
It was produced by Rebecca O’Flanagan and Rob Walpole for Treasure Entertainment (The Stag, Viva), with support from Irish Film Board.
The film recently opened the Glasgow Film Festival and was awarded best Irish...
- 3/24/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
It’s almost time to get your Q on, St. Louis!!
The 10h Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis, runs March 29th – April 2nd at the .Zack (3224 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103)
The St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, QFest will present an eclectic slate of films from filmmakers that represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to illustrate the diversity of the Lgbtq community and to explore the complexities of living an alternative lifestyle.
All screenings at the .Zack (3224 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103). Individual tickets are $13 for general admission, $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs.
Advance tickets may be purchased at the Hi-Pointe Backlot box office or website. For more info, visit the Cinema St. Louis site Here
http://www.
The 10h Annual QFest St. Louis, presented by Cinema St. Louis, runs March 29th – April 2nd at the .Zack (3224 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103)
The St. Louis-based Lgbtq film festival, QFest will present an eclectic slate of films from filmmakers that represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to illustrate the diversity of the Lgbtq community and to explore the complexities of living an alternative lifestyle.
All screenings at the .Zack (3224 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo 63103). Individual tickets are $13 for general admission, $10 for students and Cinema St. Louis members with valid and current photo IDs.
Advance tickets may be purchased at the Hi-Pointe Backlot box office or website. For more info, visit the Cinema St. Louis site Here
http://www.
- 3/16/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Michael Almereyda’s new documentary “Escapes,” a dynamic portrait of Hampton Fancher, executive produced by Wes Anderson. “Escapes” will open in theaters this summer followed by a VOD and Home Video release in the fall.
“Escapes” showcases the storytelling talents of Hampton Fancher, flamenco dancer, film and TV actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” as well as screenwriter on the upcoming sequel “Blade Runner 2049.” Fancher’s running commentary – with a little help from Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott – works in concert with extensive archival footage as Fancher relates death-defying escapades from a remarkable life.
– Grasshopper Film has announced the acquisition of all U.S. distribution rights to Michael Almereyda’s new documentary “Escapes,” a dynamic portrait of Hampton Fancher, executive produced by Wes Anderson. “Escapes” will open in theaters this summer followed by a VOD and Home Video release in the fall.
“Escapes” showcases the storytelling talents of Hampton Fancher, flamenco dancer, film and TV actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic “Blade Runner,” as well as screenwriter on the upcoming sequel “Blade Runner 2049.” Fancher’s running commentary – with a little help from Philip K. Dick and Ridley Scott – works in concert with extensive archival footage as Fancher relates death-defying escapades from a remarkable life.
- 3/10/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Lgbt drama received world premiere at Toronto 2016.
The distributor plans a limited theatrical release in June on Irish writer-director John Butler’s drama followed by VOD and DVD release. Radiant Films International handles international sales.
Handsome Devil centres on Ned, a bullied outsider, and Conor, a new boy and star rugby player, who are forced to room together at their boarding school.
The boys take an instant dislike to one another other until a teacher show them the value of finding their own voice. The rugby coach has his own agenda and harbours deep suspicions.
Fionn O’Shea stars alongside Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott and Moe Dunford. Rebecca O’Flanagan and Robert Walpole produced, while Rory Gilmartin served as executive producer.
The film received its Us premiere at NewFest and screened at the Glasgow Film Festival and the AFI European Showcase and will screens at the current Miami International Film Festival.
“We could not...
The distributor plans a limited theatrical release in June on Irish writer-director John Butler’s drama followed by VOD and DVD release. Radiant Films International handles international sales.
Handsome Devil centres on Ned, a bullied outsider, and Conor, a new boy and star rugby player, who are forced to room together at their boarding school.
The boys take an instant dislike to one another other until a teacher show them the value of finding their own voice. The rugby coach has his own agenda and harbours deep suspicions.
Fionn O’Shea stars alongside Nicholas Galitzine, Andrew Scott and Moe Dunford. Rebecca O’Flanagan and Robert Walpole produced, while Rory Gilmartin served as executive producer.
The film received its Us premiere at NewFest and screened at the Glasgow Film Festival and the AFI European Showcase and will screens at the current Miami International Film Festival.
“We could not...
- 3/8/2017
- ScreenDaily
11th Gasparilla International Film Festival to Screen 35 Features Including J.K. Simmons’ ‘All Nighter’“All Nighter”
The 11th edition of Tampa’s most prominent film event, Suncoast Credit Union’s Gasparilla International Film Festival (Giff), will take place March 2-March 9, 2017 at the Tampa Theater and AMC Centro Ybor. Gavin Wiesen’s “All Nighter,” starring Academy Award-winner J. K. Simmons will have its World Premiere as part of the festival.
A total of 35 films and over 70 shorts will screen over eight days and will include international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films from around the world. In addition to the film program, Giff will also feature master classes and panel discussions.
The title sponsor, Suncoast Credit Union, has been committed to the festival for three consecutive years with the goal of bringing quality entertainment and enrichment to the community. The Suncoast Credit Union also sponsors the Family Fun...
The 11th edition of Tampa’s most prominent film event, Suncoast Credit Union’s Gasparilla International Film Festival (Giff), will take place March 2-March 9, 2017 at the Tampa Theater and AMC Centro Ybor. Gavin Wiesen’s “All Nighter,” starring Academy Award-winner J. K. Simmons will have its World Premiere as part of the festival.
A total of 35 films and over 70 shorts will screen over eight days and will include international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films from around the world. In addition to the film program, Giff will also feature master classes and panel discussions.
The title sponsor, Suncoast Credit Union, has been committed to the festival for three consecutive years with the goal of bringing quality entertainment and enrichment to the community. The Suncoast Credit Union also sponsors the Family Fun...
- 3/1/2017
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Suncoast Credit Union Gasparilla International Film Festival (Giff) announced its official selection for the annual event held at the Tampa Theater and AMC Centro Ybor in Tampa, Florida, from March 2-March 9.
The festival will host the world premiere for All Nighter starring Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons and directed by Gavin Wiesen.
There will be 35 films and over 70 shorts, in which it will host international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films around the world.
Here are the highlighted line up of the films:
Opening Night Film:
Burn Your Maps: A nine-year-old boy, grieving with his parents over the recent loss of his baby sister, becomes obsessed with the idea that he’s a Mongolian goat herder who belongs back home in his small village in Mongolia. Cast: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Virginia Madsen, Suraj Sharma. Directed by Jordan Roberts
Closing Night Film:
Unleashed: When...
The festival will host the world premiere for All Nighter starring Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons and directed by Gavin Wiesen.
There will be 35 films and over 70 shorts, in which it will host international and regional premieres of narrative features, documentaries and short films around the world.
Here are the highlighted line up of the films:
Opening Night Film:
Burn Your Maps: A nine-year-old boy, grieving with his parents over the recent loss of his baby sister, becomes obsessed with the idea that he’s a Mongolian goat herder who belongs back home in his small village in Mongolia. Cast: Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay, Virginia Madsen, Suraj Sharma. Directed by Jordan Roberts
Closing Night Film:
Unleashed: When...
- 2/22/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Irish writer-director John Butler won a lot of love in these pages with his debut feature The Stag - later released on these shores as The Bachelor Weekend - and he has followed that crowd pleasing comedy with an equally strong second effort in Handsome Devil. Here's how the film was described on its premiere at the Toronto Intenrational Film Festival: With his dyed hair, willowy build, and penchant for sexually ambivalent pop and rock from generations past, 16-year-old Ned (Fionn O'Shea) has never fit in at the rugby-mad boarding school his father insists he attend. Determined to simply keep his nose down and weather another year of loneliness and bullying, Ned is pleasantly surprised when he develops a friendship with his dashing new roommate,...
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- 2/21/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Majority of production loans have gone to female directors.
New projects from Neil Jordan, Neasa Hardiman (both pictured) and John Butler are among those supported by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
In an apparent nod to recent pledges by the Ifb to commit to gender parity in its funded projects, three of the four production loans in this quarter were given to films with female directors.
Filmmaker Neasa Hardiman, whose television credits include Happy Valley and Tracy Beaker Returns, will make her feature directorial debut with Sea Fever, which has been given a provisional offer of commitment by the Ifb.
The film, centred on a science student who becomes isolated from her superstitious trawler crew as they struggle to overcome a deadly parasite in their water supply, was also written by Hardiman and will be produced by Fantastic Films.
The End of Romance, written and directed by Trish McAdam, based on the...
New projects from Neil Jordan, Neasa Hardiman (both pictured) and John Butler are among those supported by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
In an apparent nod to recent pledges by the Ifb to commit to gender parity in its funded projects, three of the four production loans in this quarter were given to films with female directors.
Filmmaker Neasa Hardiman, whose television credits include Happy Valley and Tracy Beaker Returns, will make her feature directorial debut with Sea Fever, which has been given a provisional offer of commitment by the Ifb.
The film, centred on a science student who becomes isolated from her superstitious trawler crew as they struggle to overcome a deadly parasite in their water supply, was also written by Hardiman and will be produced by Fantastic Films.
The End of Romance, written and directed by Trish McAdam, based on the...
- 1/31/2017
- ScreenDaily
Festival to host 65 UK Premieres, including Terrence Malick’s Voyage Of Time and Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro.
The full programme for the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 15-26) has been revealed.
The festival will host 65 UK premieres, 67 Scottish premieres and nine world and international premieres.
As previously reported, Glasgow will kick off with the European premiere of Handsome Devil, a coming-of-age drama starring Andrew Scott and directed by John Butler (The Stag).
The world premiere of Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant as renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, closes the festival. Tennant is expected to attend.
Premieres
Other highlights include UK Premieres of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey [pictured], Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome and Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope.
There will also be first Scottish screenings of Paul Verhoeven’s Golden Globe-winning Elle, Ben Wheatley’s [link...
The full programme for the 2017 Glasgow Film Festival (Feb 15-26) has been revealed.
The festival will host 65 UK premieres, 67 Scottish premieres and nine world and international premieres.
As previously reported, Glasgow will kick off with the European premiere of Handsome Devil, a coming-of-age drama starring Andrew Scott and directed by John Butler (The Stag).
The world premiere of Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant as renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, closes the festival. Tennant is expected to attend.
Premieres
Other highlights include UK Premieres of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey [pictured], Cate Shortland’s Berlin Syndrome and Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope.
There will also be first Scottish screenings of Paul Verhoeven’s Golden Globe-winning Elle, Ben Wheatley’s [link...
- 1/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
BBC, BFI, Film4, Creative Scotland execs to speak on panel discussion about the future of Scottish film industry.
The full programme has been announced for the Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus strand, which runs 21-24 February 2017.
Powerhouse independent film producer Christine Vachon will discuss her career at an In Conversation event. She’s produced more than 100 films, including Carol, Still Alice, Boys Don’t Cry and I’m Not There.
There will also be a panel discussion about the future of the Scottish film industry. The speakers include BBC head of film Joe Oppenheimer, Film4 head of production Tracey Josephs, senior production and development executive at the BFI Film Fund Lizzie Francke, and director, screen at Creative Scotland Natalie Usher.
Other highlights include:
Scottish film and TV producer Chris Young will discuss the Young Films Foundation; a programme to provide guidance to young UK screenwriters.Round table sessions for filmmakers with funders, distributors and sales...
The full programme has been announced for the Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Focus strand, which runs 21-24 February 2017.
Powerhouse independent film producer Christine Vachon will discuss her career at an In Conversation event. She’s produced more than 100 films, including Carol, Still Alice, Boys Don’t Cry and I’m Not There.
There will also be a panel discussion about the future of the Scottish film industry. The speakers include BBC head of film Joe Oppenheimer, Film4 head of production Tracey Josephs, senior production and development executive at the BFI Film Fund Lizzie Francke, and director, screen at Creative Scotland Natalie Usher.
Other highlights include:
Scottish film and TV producer Chris Young will discuss the Young Films Foundation; a programme to provide guidance to young UK screenwriters.Round table sessions for filmmakers with funders, distributors and sales...
- 1/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
David Tennant will attend the world premiere of Mad To Be Normal in Glasgow Glasgow Film Festival has announced it will open with the European premiere of coming-of-age story Handsome Devil on February 15 and close with the world premiere of Mad To Be Normal on February 26, attended by star David Tennant.
John Butler's Handsome Devil stars Andrew Scott alongside rising stars Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine in the story of 16-year-old Ned, an artistic lad who faces his own hell on earth when he is sent to an all-boys Irish boarding school where the manly pursuit of rugby is virtually a religion. He steels himself for the loneliness, ridicule and constant insinuations about his sexuality. Everything changes with the arrival of his new roommate Conor ( Galitzine), a star player in the rugby team, and inspirational English teacher Dan Sherry (Scott). Ned and Conor bond over a mutual appreciation...
John Butler's Handsome Devil stars Andrew Scott alongside rising stars Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine in the story of 16-year-old Ned, an artistic lad who faces his own hell on earth when he is sent to an all-boys Irish boarding school where the manly pursuit of rugby is virtually a religion. He steels himself for the loneliness, ridicule and constant insinuations about his sexuality. Everything changes with the arrival of his new roommate Conor ( Galitzine), a star player in the rugby team, and inspirational English teacher Dan Sherry (Scott). Ned and Conor bond over a mutual appreciation...
- 1/5/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Mad To Be Normal, the biopic of famed "high priest of anti-psychiatry" R.D. Laing, is set to close this year's Glasgow Film Festival, having its world premiere in the Scottish city on Feb. 26.
The film, directed by Robert Mullan and starring David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon and Gabriel Byrne, will examine the dark events that took place in Kingsley Hall, set up in East London by Laing in the 1960s as a medication-free community for those seriously effected by schizophrenia.
Also announced Thursday, the festival is set to kick off proceedings on Feb. 15 with the European premiere of coming-of-age drama Handsome Devil. Directed by John Butler (BBC comedy The...
The film, directed by Robert Mullan and starring David Tennant, Elisabeth Moss, Michael Gambon and Gabriel Byrne, will examine the dark events that took place in Kingsley Hall, set up in East London by Laing in the 1960s as a medication-free community for those seriously effected by schizophrenia.
Also announced Thursday, the festival is set to kick off proceedings on Feb. 15 with the European premiere of coming-of-age drama Handsome Devil. Directed by John Butler (BBC comedy The...
- 1/5/2017
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Handsome Devil to kick-off the event, Mad To Be Normal picked as Closing Film Gala.
The opening and closing night films of the Glasgow Film Festival (15-26 February) have been announced.
The European premiere of Handsome Devil, a coming-of-age story staring Sherlock and Spectre star Andrew Scott, will be the Opening Gala on 15 February. Scott stars alongside Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine and John Butler (The Stag) directs. Radiant Films International is handling international sales for this title.
The world premiere of Mad To Be Normal (pictured below) will close the festival on festival on 26 February. David Tennant plays renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, with the Doctor Who star confirmed to attend the event.
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Michael Gambon (the Harry Potter series) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) co-star, with Robert Mullan (We Will Sing) directing.
The festival will also host the Scottish premiere of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger...
The opening and closing night films of the Glasgow Film Festival (15-26 February) have been announced.
The European premiere of Handsome Devil, a coming-of-age story staring Sherlock and Spectre star Andrew Scott, will be the Opening Gala on 15 February. Scott stars alongside Fionn O’Shea and Nicholas Galitzine and John Butler (The Stag) directs. Radiant Films International is handling international sales for this title.
The world premiere of Mad To Be Normal (pictured below) will close the festival on festival on 26 February. David Tennant plays renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, with the Doctor Who star confirmed to attend the event.
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men), Michael Gambon (the Harry Potter series) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects) co-star, with Robert Mullan (We Will Sing) directing.
The festival will also host the Scottish premiere of The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger...
- 1/5/2017
- ScreenDaily
John Butler's Handsome Devil has been set to close the Audi Dublin International Film Festival, on February 26, 2017. It will mark the Irish premiere of the comedy-drama. The festival is kicking off next year’s edition in Ireland’s capital on February 16. Additionally, the fest has added Neasa Ni Chianáin's documentary In Loco Parentis to its line-up. The film, which has been selected as one of the 12 docs to screen in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at the…...
- 12/16/2016
- Deadline
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- 9/28/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
John Butler’s follow-up to his previous endeavour The Stag (otherwise known as The Bachelor Weekend) is Handsome Devil, a film that abides affectionately by convention; ticking boxes – all the way through to a predictable, sporting finale – and yet complete with a certain comfortability and indelible charm, proving that every so often a film […]
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- 9/20/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Nathaniel R reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival
Despite the buzz from festivals usually circling around pre-sold films and major Oscar hopefuls, there are always minor gems to be found amongst the clutter which are still seeking distribution. Here are two I hope get picked up, a very accessible Irish boarding school drama (without the benefit of any big name to sell it) and an American indie starring Oscar winner Holly Hunter.
Strange Weather
(Dir. Katherine Dieckmann, Us)
Take a look at that still above. Now look way to your out of focus far right. See the girl in pink tank and jean shorts? That's Carrie Coon (Gone Girl, The Leftovers), one of the best actresses working who is still not a household name or an Emmy or Oscar nominee! But, yes, movie still providers to festival guides, Holly Hunter is the draw here. She plays Darcy Baylor, a...
Despite the buzz from festivals usually circling around pre-sold films and major Oscar hopefuls, there are always minor gems to be found amongst the clutter which are still seeking distribution. Here are two I hope get picked up, a very accessible Irish boarding school drama (without the benefit of any big name to sell it) and an American indie starring Oscar winner Holly Hunter.
Strange Weather
(Dir. Katherine Dieckmann, Us)
Take a look at that still above. Now look way to your out of focus far right. See the girl in pink tank and jean shorts? That's Carrie Coon (Gone Girl, The Leftovers), one of the best actresses working who is still not a household name or an Emmy or Oscar nominee! But, yes, movie still providers to festival guides, Holly Hunter is the draw here. She plays Darcy Baylor, a...
- 9/18/2016
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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