CBS Studios and the BBC’s period drama series “King & Conqueror” has revealed additional cast members, including “The Crown’s” Luther Ford and “Game of Thrones” actor Joseph Mawle, as it begins production in Iceland.
According to its official plot description, “King & Conqueror” is “the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.”
Additional cast members include Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson, Jean-Marc Barr, Geoff Bell, Elliot Cowan,...
According to its official plot description, “King & Conqueror” is “the story of a clash that defined the future of a country – and a continent – for a thousand years, the roots of which stretch back decades and extend out through a pair of interconnected family dynasties, struggling for power across two countries and a raging sea. Harold of Wessex and William of Normandy were two men destined to meet at the Battle of Hastings in 1066; two allies with no design on the British throne, who found themselves forced by circumstance and personal obsession into a war for possession of its crown.”
Additional cast members include Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson, Jean-Marc Barr, Geoff Bell, Elliot Cowan,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Ellise Shafer and K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Edelweiss Film Productions, the one-year old company launched by Victoria Lacoste, the actress-turned-producer and heiress of the well-known Lacoste brand, is producing “The Fourth Wall,” a Paris-set short film starring Lizzie Brocheré (American Horror Story) and Roby Schinasi (Gossip Girl).
Directed by Kelsey Bollig, “The Fourth Wall” shot last month at the Palais des Glaces in Paris and revolves around a washed-up actress battling her inner darkness and fights for the spotlight amongst self-serving newcomers during a performance of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.”
Lacoste’s banner is also developing several feature film projects, including “Nothing But Love,” an English-language project that will be directed by Pascal Arnold (“American Translation”) and will unfold in a small town in Savannah where the arrival of a new doctor provokes changes and leads the unveiling of deep-buried secrets. “Nothing But Love” is being produced with Toloda, the banner headed by Jean-Marc Barr, Teddy Vermeulin and Arnold.
Directed by Kelsey Bollig, “The Fourth Wall” shot last month at the Palais des Glaces in Paris and revolves around a washed-up actress battling her inner darkness and fights for the spotlight amongst self-serving newcomers during a performance of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.”
Lacoste’s banner is also developing several feature film projects, including “Nothing But Love,” an English-language project that will be directed by Pascal Arnold (“American Translation”) and will unfold in a small town in Savannah where the arrival of a new doctor provokes changes and leads the unveiling of deep-buried secrets. “Nothing But Love” is being produced with Toloda, the banner headed by Jean-Marc Barr, Teddy Vermeulin and Arnold.
- 12/9/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Miami Dade College’s (Mdc) Miami Film Festival (Mff) is importing film artists Jean-Marc Barr and Mateo Gil to accompany two Marquee events at the international festival’s upcoming 35th anniversary edition (March 9 – 18). The Miami Film Festival, under director Jaie Laplante, showcases Ibero-American cinema — and rising talent –and provides a North American launch pad for new international and documentary films.
In the last five years, the Festival has screened films from more than 60 countries, including 300 World, International, North American, U.S. and East Coast Premieres, and attracted more than 60,000 attendees, including 400 filmmakers and industry professionals.
The Festival’s Marquee series features screenings along with in-depth conversations with contemporary film personalities. Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil will present the World premiere of his latest film, “The Laws of Thermodynamics” (“Las leyes de la termodinámica”), a romantic comedy starring Vito Sanz (“Maria (and the Others)”) as a Sciences graduate student who blames his disastrous...
In the last five years, the Festival has screened films from more than 60 countries, including 300 World, International, North American, U.S. and East Coast Premieres, and attracted more than 60,000 attendees, including 400 filmmakers and industry professionals.
The Festival’s Marquee series features screenings along with in-depth conversations with contemporary film personalities. Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil will present the World premiere of his latest film, “The Laws of Thermodynamics” (“Las leyes de la termodinámica”), a romantic comedy starring Vito Sanz (“Maria (and the Others)”) as a Sciences graduate student who blames his disastrous...
- 1/17/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Miami Dade College’s (Mdc) Miami Film Festival (Mff) is importing film artists Jean-Marc Barr and Mateo Gil to accompany two Marquee events at the international festival’s upcoming 35th anniversary edition (March 9 – 18). The Miami Film Festival, under director Jaie Laplante, showcases Ibero-American cinema — and rising talent –and provides a North American launch pad for new international and documentary films.
In the last five years, the Festival has screened films from more than 60 countries, including 300 World, International, North American, U.S. and East Coast Premieres, and attracted more than 60,000 attendees, including 400 filmmakers and industry professionals.
The Festival’s Marquee series features screenings along with in-depth conversations with contemporary film personalities. Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil will present the World premiere of his latest film, “The Laws of Thermodynamics” (“Las leyes de la termodinámica”), a romantic comedy starring Vito Sanz (“Maria (and the Others)”) as a Sciences graduate student who blames his disastrous...
In the last five years, the Festival has screened films from more than 60 countries, including 300 World, International, North American, U.S. and East Coast Premieres, and attracted more than 60,000 attendees, including 400 filmmakers and industry professionals.
The Festival’s Marquee series features screenings along with in-depth conversations with contemporary film personalities. Spanish filmmaker Mateo Gil will present the World premiere of his latest film, “The Laws of Thermodynamics” (“Las leyes de la termodinámica”), a romantic comedy starring Vito Sanz (“Maria (and the Others)”) as a Sciences graduate student who blames his disastrous...
- 1/17/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
F Javier Gutiérrez’s update of the Japanese cult horror flick comes up with a fair mystery and an admirably loopy finale featuring swarming cicadas
Circles within circles. It’s been 15 years since The Ring, Gore Verbinski’s American translation of the cult Japanese horror Ringu, which means an entire generation of westerners might not have been scared or bored to death by the sight of lank-haired spooks emerging from the gogglebox. This update for the era of iPhones and .Mov files has very quickly to acknowledge that the VHS players that perpetuated this curse circa the millennium are now practically occult items, less likely to be found occupying cherished home-cinema space than collecting dust, along with Ouija boards in junkshops.
Related: Ghost in the system: has technology ruined horror films?
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Circles within circles. It’s been 15 years since The Ring, Gore Verbinski’s American translation of the cult Japanese horror Ringu, which means an entire generation of westerners might not have been scared or bored to death by the sight of lank-haired spooks emerging from the gogglebox. This update for the era of iPhones and .Mov files has very quickly to acknowledge that the VHS players that perpetuated this curse circa the millennium are now practically occult items, less likely to be found occupying cherished home-cinema space than collecting dust, along with Ouija boards in junkshops.
Related: Ghost in the system: has technology ruined horror films?
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- 2/3/2017
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Among popular American programming, the series that Gracepoint (and its British precursor, Broadchurch) has been closely linked to is AMC’s The Killing. In its premiere season, that dreary mystery also focused on a tattered relationship between two detectives as they investigated a youth’s death, while also shining a light on a grieving family trying its best to remain strong during a hopeless time. However, The Killing’s first season is most prominently remembered for the fan divisiveness that greeted its finale. One expects a similar wrath and disappointment heading toward creator Chris Chibnall for Gracepoint, albeit from two different crowds.
The first group that could (and should) complain is the viewers who watched Broadchurch and were promised that this American translation would feature a different ending. While there are some changes, many of the concluding notes from its predecessor are here – enough to make one who watched both...
The first group that could (and should) complain is the viewers who watched Broadchurch and were promised that this American translation would feature a different ending. While there are some changes, many of the concluding notes from its predecessor are here – enough to make one who watched both...
- 12/12/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Kelly Osbourne fell flat on her ass all by her lonesome ... and Kelly is full of crap when she says the paparazzi pushed her to the ground ... so claim the photogs.Osbourne was photographed leaving a restaurant/bar in London Tuesday night with boyfriend Ricki Hall. The photos tell the story ... she ate it big time. Kelly took to Twitter, claiming she got "pushed by paps." But the photogs on the scene tell us … she...
- 7/10/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Over the last couple of years, a burgeoning trend within the Walt Disney Company is their ever-growing willingness to buy every remnant of your childhood. A few years ago, Disney officially bought Pixar Animation Studios, and between then and now, Disney became the owners of Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios. If it’s a cinematic touchstone of your childhood, Disney most likely owns it partially or wholly now. For some people, though, Disney working with and distributing outside animated movies goes well beyond Buzz Lightyear, Dory the tang, and Pixar’s other iconic characters. Though the Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli was cranking out classics before Pixar, it’s through Pixar that Ghibli’s films got an even wider international audience.
This week, Disney’s finally releasing two of Ghibli’s most well-known films on Blu-ray for the first time in North America: My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle.
This week, Disney’s finally releasing two of Ghibli’s most well-known films on Blu-ray for the first time in North America: My Neighbor Totoro and Howl’s Moving Castle.
- 5/24/2013
- by Josh Spiegel
- SoundOnSight
Based on the ground breaking UK series, the critically acclaimed Us remake of Shameless, from award-winning executive producer John Wells (ER, The West Wing) and starring Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy (Fargo) as the notorious Frank Gallagher, is released on DVD from 25th June 2012. To celebrate Chicago’s most dysfunctional family we take a look back at the best British-made TV shows to successfully make their way across the Atlantic.
Steptoe & Son
UK (1962-1974)
This classic British sitcom about a warring father and son who run an unsuccessful rag and bone store in London gave audiences one of the most successful double acts in TV history. Despite in reality only having a 13 year age difference, Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett were convincing as a cynical father and ambitious son, respectively, who constantly bicker over the failing business and their vastly opposing views on social issues.
Us (1972-1977)
The well-loved...
Steptoe & Son
UK (1962-1974)
This classic British sitcom about a warring father and son who run an unsuccessful rag and bone store in London gave audiences one of the most successful double acts in TV history. Despite in reality only having a 13 year age difference, Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett were convincing as a cynical father and ambitious son, respectively, who constantly bicker over the failing business and their vastly opposing views on social issues.
Us (1972-1977)
The well-loved...
- 6/22/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Another week, another Monday. So it’s time for the rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s another packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, May 14th 2012.
Pick(S) Of The Week
The Sitter (DVD/Blu-ray)
When the world’s most irresponsible babysitter takes three of the world’s worst kids on an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of New York City, it’s anyone’s guess who’s going to make it home in one piece. Starring Jonah Hill (Knocked Up, Get Him To The Greek) and Sam Rockwell (Moon & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), The Sitter is a new level of twisted and debauched hilarity from the director of Pineapple Express, David Gordon Green.
Pick(S) Of The Week
The Sitter (DVD/Blu-ray)
When the world’s most irresponsible babysitter takes three of the world’s worst kids on an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of New York City, it’s anyone’s guess who’s going to make it home in one piece. Starring Jonah Hill (Knocked Up, Get Him To The Greek) and Sam Rockwell (Moon & The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), The Sitter is a new level of twisted and debauched hilarity from the director of Pineapple Express, David Gordon Green.
- 5/14/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Mark Ruffalo is a good interview (unless you're the film's publicist trying to keep him from revealing too much). When he was talking about filming The Avengers and doing motion capture as The Hulk, he let this gem drop about the skin tight motion capture suit. "I’m not well-endowed, and those suits don’t really show you off in the most…"
Deadline does a really great roundup on the early pilot season buzz. Two standouts for me were, that while The New Normal is still filming, they don't think any network would turn it down with the auspices it has, and certainly not hit starved NBC. Plus, evidently Partners, the much redone show about the Will & Grace creators personal dynamic is getting great buzz at CBS, which is shocking.
Should this cat buy these sunglasses?
Nicole Kidman is evidently a front runner to play Grace Kelly in the ultimate real life princess story,...
Deadline does a really great roundup on the early pilot season buzz. Two standouts for me were, that while The New Normal is still filming, they don't think any network would turn it down with the auspices it has, and certainly not hit starved NBC. Plus, evidently Partners, the much redone show about the Will & Grace creators personal dynamic is getting great buzz at CBS, which is shocking.
Should this cat buy these sunglasses?
Nicole Kidman is evidently a front runner to play Grace Kelly in the ultimate real life princess story,...
- 4/8/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
After the phenomenal success of last year’s twenty fifth anniversary celebrations, the BFI London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival returns this coming week for its twenty sixth instalment, with another internationally flavoured and diverse line-up. Last year defied the recession and saw punters turn out to support the ailing festival which was under threat of being scrapped, luckily its back with a ten day slot devoted to the best new, old and experimental queer filmmaking. With a huge line-up of over sixty screenings and handful of talks and debates there is a lot to be seen, so here I am just going to pick some key highlights and a few personal choices.
Obviously the opening and closing night galas are the most hyped and talked about, and this year it would seem, for especially good reasons. Opening the festivities (for a third time) is Canadian-American director Thom Fitzgerald with Cloudburst,...
Obviously the opening and closing night galas are the most hyped and talked about, and this year it would seem, for especially good reasons. Opening the festivities (for a third time) is Canadian-American director Thom Fitzgerald with Cloudburst,...
- 3/19/2012
- by Tom Day
- Obsessed with Film
There are few franchises out there with as beautifully ironic a title as ‘Final Fantasy‘.
Fourteen games in its main series, numerous spin-offs and side sequels, films, novellas and even an anime TV series… if anything the name is one weighted in an overwhelming desire to live on. Not that anyone’s complaining, of course. Because the simple fact is that, whichever way you look at it, there’s just something about this Role-Playing Wunderkind that the gaming community just can’t bear being without. To the table it consistently brings a sense of wonderment and epic scale (who’d have thought you’d need up to four discs to play one console game?), inspiring generation after generation of starry-eyed escapists and Cosplay enthusiasts in equal measure.
But, as with many a tale worth telling (and a great deal of Final Fantasy stories), the magic derives from humble beginnings…
It...
Fourteen games in its main series, numerous spin-offs and side sequels, films, novellas and even an anime TV series… if anything the name is one weighted in an overwhelming desire to live on. Not that anyone’s complaining, of course. Because the simple fact is that, whichever way you look at it, there’s just something about this Role-Playing Wunderkind that the gaming community just can’t bear being without. To the table it consistently brings a sense of wonderment and epic scale (who’d have thought you’d need up to four discs to play one console game?), inspiring generation after generation of starry-eyed escapists and Cosplay enthusiasts in equal measure.
But, as with many a tale worth telling (and a great deal of Final Fantasy stories), the magic derives from humble beginnings…
It...
- 11/21/2011
- by Brad Fear
- Obsessed with Film
Pierre Perrier attends American Translation Paris premiere. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Jean Marc Barr, Pierre Perrier and Lizzie Brochere attend American Translation Paris premiere. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Jean Marc Barr, Pierre Perrier and Lizzie Brochere attend American Translation Paris premiere. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Jean Marc Barr attends American Translation Paris premiere. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. Jean Marc Barr attends American Translation Paris premiere. Photo copyright Pixplanete / PR Photos. 06/07/2011 - Jean Marc Barr - "American Translation" Paris Premiere - Arrivals - Paris - Paris, France © Pixplanete / PR Photos 06/07/2011 - Pierre Perrier and Lizzie Brochere - "American Translation" Paris Premiere -...
- 6/9/2011
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
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