Bankside Films has boarded Calum Macdiarmid’s prison thriller Wasteman starring 2023 Screen Star of Tomorrow David Jonsson and Tom Blyth and has struck an early deal with Lionsgate for UK & Ireland rights.
Macdiarmid’s feature debut follows parolee Taylor, whose hopes of a fresh start are jeopardised by the arrival of dominant cellmate Dee, played by Blyth, who recently played the young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes.
As Taylor finds solace and protection in Dee’s shadow, their bond is tested when Dee becomes the target of a vicious attack, leading to an...
Macdiarmid’s feature debut follows parolee Taylor, whose hopes of a fresh start are jeopardised by the arrival of dominant cellmate Dee, played by Blyth, who recently played the young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes.
As Taylor finds solace and protection in Dee’s shadow, their bond is tested when Dee becomes the target of a vicious attack, leading to an...
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Heading into Cannes, where it has four films in official selection and three projects participating in the Great 8 showcase, BBC Film has unveiled further details about its upcoming slate.
Among new projects in advanced development is Remi Weekes’ follow-up to His House, which is being produced by Tanya Segatchian and John Woodward’s Bright Star. Details for the untitled feature are being kept under wraps but BBC Film director Eva Yates told Screen: “It’s not a horror.”
Also in advanced development is Raine Allen-Miller’s second feature after Rye Lane, a south London-set heist comedy that she has also written.
Among new projects in advanced development is Remi Weekes’ follow-up to His House, which is being produced by Tanya Segatchian and John Woodward’s Bright Star. Details for the untitled feature are being kept under wraps but BBC Film director Eva Yates told Screen: “It’s not a horror.”
Also in advanced development is Raine Allen-Miller’s second feature after Rye Lane, a south London-set heist comedy that she has also written.
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Industry and Rye Lane star David Jonsson is writing his first television drama series.
Deadline can reveal that Jonsson is working with Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films on Hype (working title), a comedy-drama series about four friends in East London who attempt to enter the world of fashion retail.
Plot details are under wraps but we hear the project will explore Black culture’s influence on British fashion through the lives of the friends, who embody a a culture of hustle.
Jonsson is set to write, executive produce and star in the series. He has been working with senior execs at Somewhere Boy and The End of the F***ing World producer Clerkenwell to shape the scripts. Petra Fried and Rachelle Constant are executive producers for the BBC Studios-owned indie.
“It’s important to me to put a lens on interesting stories, stories that represent where I’m from and what I seem,...
Deadline can reveal that Jonsson is working with Baby Reindeer producer Clerkenwell Films on Hype (working title), a comedy-drama series about four friends in East London who attempt to enter the world of fashion retail.
Plot details are under wraps but we hear the project will explore Black culture’s influence on British fashion through the lives of the friends, who embody a a culture of hustle.
Jonsson is set to write, executive produce and star in the series. He has been working with senior execs at Somewhere Boy and The End of the F***ing World producer Clerkenwell to shape the scripts. Petra Fried and Rachelle Constant are executive producers for the BBC Studios-owned indie.
“It’s important to me to put a lens on interesting stories, stories that represent where I’m from and what I seem,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Vivian Oparah wants to play The Joker.The 27-year-old star – who was nominated for the Leading Actress BAFTA for her work on ‘Rye Lane’ – has always been “obsessed” with the late Heath Ledger’s depiction of the DC villain in ‘The Dark Knight’ and thinks she’d enjoy the “challenge” of taking on the iconic role.She told Rolling Stone UK: “I’m obsessed with Heath Ledger’s performance.“But I feel like playing a heightened comic book villain who somehow still feels normal, but has the weirdest physicality, would be a real challenge.“I’m often described as ‘the Trickster’, like, that’s my archetype. So, I think I could slip into it really well.”And the ‘Dead Hot’ actress is also keen to take on more “fantastical” roles or a sci-fi project.She said: “I can definitely see myself stepping into more fantastical worlds like the ones Yorgo Lanthimos creates.
- 4/6/2024
- by Lizzie Baker
- Bang Showbiz
A Real Pain – written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg – proved to be one of the biggest hits of the Sundance Film Festival and has now been slated for release.
Coming out of the Sundance Film Festival this year, perhaps the most buzz was focused on Jesse Eisenberg's directorial folllow-up to 2022’s When You Finish Saving The World.
His second directorial outing is called A Real Pain and follows cousins who travel to their grandmother’s native Poland to partake in a Holocaust tour. Succession's Kieran Culkin stars alongside Eisenberg in the film which proved to be the first major acquisition of the festival when Searchlight stepped in to acquire the movie for $10m.
While it certainly doesn’t grab as many headlines as the woes faced by other Disney-owned subsidiaries, Searchlight has proved to be one of the House of Mouse’s successes of the past few years, exhibiting excellent...
Coming out of the Sundance Film Festival this year, perhaps the most buzz was focused on Jesse Eisenberg's directorial folllow-up to 2022’s When You Finish Saving The World.
His second directorial outing is called A Real Pain and follows cousins who travel to their grandmother’s native Poland to partake in a Holocaust tour. Succession's Kieran Culkin stars alongside Eisenberg in the film which proved to be the first major acquisition of the festival when Searchlight stepped in to acquire the movie for $10m.
While it certainly doesn’t grab as many headlines as the woes faced by other Disney-owned subsidiaries, Searchlight has proved to be one of the House of Mouse’s successes of the past few years, exhibiting excellent...
- 4/3/2024
- by Dan Cooper
- Film Stories
HBO's series about the young and pretty people who execute complex financial trades during the day and get into even more complex adventures after hours has thrilled audiences since its debut in 2020.
Industry, created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, follows the action at Pierpoint & Co., an investment bank based in London. The show features a large cast led by Yasmin (Marisa Abela) and Harper (Myha'la Herrold), with Ken Leong as Eric, their boss.
The show, produced by Bad Wolf Productions and which HBO and the BBC share, draws its tensions from dramatic moments of trading machinations and the characters' often messy personal lives.
Has Industry Been Renewed?
Yes. HBO announced the renewal of Industry for a third season in October of 2022, after the completion of its second season.
"Industry reached new heights in season two, cementing its status as a buzzy hit with addictive storytelling, layered characters, a breakneck pace,...
Industry, created by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, follows the action at Pierpoint & Co., an investment bank based in London. The show features a large cast led by Yasmin (Marisa Abela) and Harper (Myha'la Herrold), with Ken Leong as Eric, their boss.
The show, produced by Bad Wolf Productions and which HBO and the BBC share, draws its tensions from dramatic moments of trading machinations and the characters' often messy personal lives.
Has Industry Been Renewed?
Yes. HBO announced the renewal of Industry for a third season in October of 2022, after the completion of its second season.
"Industry reached new heights in season two, cementing its status as a buzzy hit with addictive storytelling, layered characters, a breakneck pace,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Stephen Silver
- TVfanatic
Former senior BFI executive Lizzie Francke will replace Tricia Tuttle as head of the directing fiction department at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
Francke will take the helm from April 1, when Tuttle officially begins her new role as director of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Formerly editor-at-large at the then-BFI Film Fund, Francke helped develop and produce many notable films including Aftersun, Triangle Of Sadness and Rye Lane. She departed the organisation in March last year along with fellow executives Fiona Morham and Natascha Wharton.
Her extensive career also includes a stint as artistic director of...
Francke will take the helm from April 1, when Tuttle officially begins her new role as director of the Berlin International Film Festival.
Formerly editor-at-large at the then-BFI Film Fund, Francke helped develop and produce many notable films including Aftersun, Triangle Of Sadness and Rye Lane. She departed the organisation in March last year along with fellow executives Fiona Morham and Natascha Wharton.
Her extensive career also includes a stint as artistic director of...
- 2/29/2024
- ScreenDaily
With his debut feature Last Swim, an ambitious and quietly radical portrait of young life in London, Sasha Nathwani has achieved one of the most difficult tasks for a new filmmaker: cutting through with a festival audience.
Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened the festival’s Generation sidebar. The pic has been one of the more buzzy titles here on the ground in the German capital and is considered a frontrunner to pick up some gold when awards are announced this weekend.
Set over a sweltering exam results day in London, the pic follows Ziba, a promising British-Iranian teen, as she leads her friends on an eventful journey across the city. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, Ziba struggles to retain her characteristic optimism as she finds herself battling the fears and secrets she’s been hiding from her friends. As day turns to night,...
Last Swim debuted last week at the Berlin Film Festival, where it opened the festival’s Generation sidebar. The pic has been one of the more buzzy titles here on the ground in the German capital and is considered a frontrunner to pick up some gold when awards are announced this weekend.
Set over a sweltering exam results day in London, the pic follows Ziba, a promising British-Iranian teen, as she leads her friends on an eventful journey across the city. Despite the celebratory atmosphere, Ziba struggles to retain her characteristic optimism as she finds herself battling the fears and secrets she’s been hiding from her friends. As day turns to night,...
- 2/23/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Raine Allen Miller’s debut feature Rye Lane, Adjani Salmon’s Dreaming Whilst Black, and Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical were among the top winners at the sixth edition of the CDG Casting Awards. Scross down for the full list of winners.
Kharmel Cochrane picked up the Best Casting in an Independent Film award for her work on Rye Lane. Dreaming Whilst Black landed the Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series award for Heather Basten, Peter Noden, and Fran Cattaneo, and Louise Kiely won Best Casting in a Film for The Banshees of Inisherin.
High-profile titles that missed out on honors include Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which was nominated for Best Casting in a Film alongside Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn. Kharmel Cochrane cast Saltburn and also popped in the noms for Best Casting in a Commercial for her work on Vanish ‘Me, My Autism & I.
The awards were...
Kharmel Cochrane picked up the Best Casting in an Independent Film award for her work on Rye Lane. Dreaming Whilst Black landed the Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series award for Heather Basten, Peter Noden, and Fran Cattaneo, and Louise Kiely won Best Casting in a Film for The Banshees of Inisherin.
High-profile titles that missed out on honors include Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which was nominated for Best Casting in a Film alongside Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn. Kharmel Cochrane cast Saltburn and also popped in the noms for Best Casting in a Commercial for her work on Vanish ‘Me, My Autism & I.
The awards were...
- 2/22/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The heads of UK financiers Film4 and BBC Film voiced concern this morning for the future of the indigenous UK film sector, which has seen its market share dwindle in the shadow of big U.S. inward investment and budgets stall at the big UK funding bodies.
Ollie Madden, Director, Film4, and Eva Yates, Director, BBC Film, were interviewed by UK politicians as part of the ongoing British Film & High-End TV Inquiry, which is gathering intelligence from key stakeholders in a bid to boost the sectors.
Yates, whose publicly funded BBC Film has recently backed movies including Aftersun and Rye Lane, told the committee: “I hope we can get to a better place of resilience. We have an incredibly successful inward investment sector, which is vital and valuable. It’s generating a lot of content. At the other end of the industry, there isn’t a lot of funding and...
Ollie Madden, Director, Film4, and Eva Yates, Director, BBC Film, were interviewed by UK politicians as part of the ongoing British Film & High-End TV Inquiry, which is gathering intelligence from key stakeholders in a bid to boost the sectors.
Yates, whose publicly funded BBC Film has recently backed movies including Aftersun and Rye Lane, told the committee: “I hope we can get to a better place of resilience. We have an incredibly successful inward investment sector, which is vital and valuable. It’s generating a lot of content. At the other end of the industry, there isn’t a lot of funding and...
- 2/21/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Emma Stone won her second Best Actress BAFTA award on Sunday for Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things,” which she also produced. Having previously prevailed for “La La Land” in 2017, she claimed this bookend by edging out rival nominees Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), b Robbie (“Barbie”), Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”), and Vivian Oparah (“Rye Lane”).
Gold Derby caught up with Stone backstage after she’d delivered a breezy, funny, light-hearted acceptance speech on stage at the Royal Festival Hall. She readily admitted that the excitement of winning awards does not wear off. “You put a lot of your heart and soul into making a film. A lot of people are away from their families for months at a time and you bond with this group of people and the excitement of it being received or loved by people is immensely meaningful.”
Stone continued: “You don’t...
Gold Derby caught up with Stone backstage after she’d delivered a breezy, funny, light-hearted acceptance speech on stage at the Royal Festival Hall. She readily admitted that the excitement of winning awards does not wear off. “You put a lot of your heart and soul into making a film. A lot of people are away from their families for months at a time and you bond with this group of people and the excitement of it being received or loved by people is immensely meaningful.”
Stone continued: “You don’t...
- 2/19/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Emma Stone thanked her mother for giving her life and her “Poor Things” screenwriter Tony McNamara for the line “I must go punch that baby” when she accepted her leading actress BAFTA award on Sunday evening.
“Tony, thank you for the line ‘I must go punch that baby.’ It was life-changing for me,” Stone said on stage, while also thanking director Yorgos Lanthimos, her fellow cast and crew and her dialect coach Neil Swain.
“I was playing a British person in this movie and [Neil] did not laugh at me when he taught me how to say ‘wart-ter,’ even though as an American I say ‘wahter,'” Stone quipped. “So thank you England for accepting me.”
The actor also made sure to thank her mother. “Because she’s the best person I know in the whole world and she inspires me every single day. She’s always made me believe this...
“Tony, thank you for the line ‘I must go punch that baby.’ It was life-changing for me,” Stone said on stage, while also thanking director Yorgos Lanthimos, her fellow cast and crew and her dialect coach Neil Swain.
“I was playing a British person in this movie and [Neil] did not laugh at me when he taught me how to say ‘wart-ter,’ even though as an American I say ‘wahter,'” Stone quipped. “So thank you England for accepting me.”
The actor also made sure to thank her mother. “Because she’s the best person I know in the whole world and she inspires me every single day. She’s always made me believe this...
- 2/18/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The stars and artists behind the biggest films of 2023 descended on London this weekend for the BAFTA Film Awards. British film’s biggest night is often seen as the best predictor of Oscar momentum before the Academy Awards and the results often mirror each other.
If that’s the case this year, it will be all “Oppenheimer” all the time. Universal’s Christopher Nolan epic took home many of the night’s biggest categories, winning the top prize of Best Film along with Best Director for Nolan, Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. The film also picked up major craft wins for Cinematography, Editing, and Original Score.
While the dominant showing makes an “Oppenheimer” Oscar sweep seem even more likely, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” won for Costume Design, Makeup & Hair, Production Design, and Visual Effects, and star Emma Stone won Leading Actress for her...
If that’s the case this year, it will be all “Oppenheimer” all the time. Universal’s Christopher Nolan epic took home many of the night’s biggest categories, winning the top prize of Best Film along with Best Director for Nolan, Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy, and Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. The film also picked up major craft wins for Cinematography, Editing, and Original Score.
While the dominant showing makes an “Oppenheimer” Oscar sweep seem even more likely, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” won for Costume Design, Makeup & Hair, Production Design, and Visual Effects, and star Emma Stone won Leading Actress for her...
- 2/18/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
The BAFTA Awards were presented on February 18 by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). So who prevailed? Scroll down for the complete 2024 BAFTA Awards winners list in all categories.
BAFTA is an independent arts charity that comprises thousands of industry insiders, much like the American motion picture academy. The BAFTAs could well give us a preview of what the Oscars might do in three weeks time on March 10. And with voting for the Oscars kicking off on February 22, this precursor could have an outsized influence.
Until 2013, the entire BAFTA membership decided the nominees in a complicated two-part process that involved a lot of longlists with the general membership deciding the semi-finalists and the branches making the final determination of the nominees. This was replaced in 2013 by a system more akin to the Oscars where nominations were determined by each branch (except for Best Picture). Two years ago,...
BAFTA is an independent arts charity that comprises thousands of industry insiders, much like the American motion picture academy. The BAFTAs could well give us a preview of what the Oscars might do in three weeks time on March 10. And with voting for the Oscars kicking off on February 22, this precursor could have an outsized influence.
Until 2013, the entire BAFTA membership decided the nominees in a complicated two-part process that involved a lot of longlists with the general membership deciding the semi-finalists and the branches making the final determination of the nominees. This was replaced in 2013 by a system more akin to the Oscars where nominations were determined by each branch (except for Best Picture). Two years ago,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
“Oppenheimer” swept the BAFTAs on Sunday night, winning awards for director Christopher Nolan and actor Cillian Murphy as well as taking home the prize for best film.
Overall, the movie took home seven golden BAFTA masks, with “Poor Things” coming in second place with five wins.
BAFTA chair Sarah Putt opened the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday night by welcoming the star-studded audience, which included Prince William, who arrived solo as his wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales, continues to recuperate at home following an operation. William, who is president of BAFTA, did not give a speech, no doubt in part because of renewed interest in his personal life following his father King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis last month.
In her speech, Putt said she was sending Catherine and the King “our very best wishes” before handing over to the night’s host, “Doctor Who” star David Tennant.
Overall, the movie took home seven golden BAFTA masks, with “Poor Things” coming in second place with five wins.
BAFTA chair Sarah Putt opened the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday night by welcoming the star-studded audience, which included Prince William, who arrived solo as his wife, Catherine, Princess of Wales, continues to recuperate at home following an operation. William, who is president of BAFTA, did not give a speech, no doubt in part because of renewed interest in his personal life following his father King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis last month.
In her speech, Putt said she was sending Catherine and the King “our very best wishes” before handing over to the night’s host, “Doctor Who” star David Tennant.
- 2/18/2024
- by K.J. Yossman and Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
In the history of Black leading actresses at prestigious award shows, Halle Berry’s triumph for “Monster’s Ball” at the Oscars stands prominently, while the BAFTAs lack a similar honoree, and the upcoming Sunday ceremony seems unlikely to change that.
This year’s roster of lead actress nominees boasts a diverse array of talents. Vivian Oparah garnered attention for her breakthrough role in the romantic drama “Rye Lane,” alongside Fantasia Barrino’s captivating performance in the musical adaptation of “The Color Purple.” Also vying for the coveted title are Oscar nominated actresses Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) and Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), with Margot Robbie (“Barbie”), who’s recognized in the best picture category as a producer. Speculation abounds among pundits and prognosticators, all anticipating a win for one of the three Oscar-nominated women, setting the stage for another year where Black actresses may find themselves overlooked.
This year’s roster of lead actress nominees boasts a diverse array of talents. Vivian Oparah garnered attention for her breakthrough role in the romantic drama “Rye Lane,” alongside Fantasia Barrino’s captivating performance in the musical adaptation of “The Color Purple.” Also vying for the coveted title are Oscar nominated actresses Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) and Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), with Margot Robbie (“Barbie”), who’s recognized in the best picture category as a producer. Speculation abounds among pundits and prognosticators, all anticipating a win for one of the three Oscar-nominated women, setting the stage for another year where Black actresses may find themselves overlooked.
- 2/17/2024
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA weekend has arrived, and with it the kickoff of key celebrations ahead of the BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday night, which will then be followed by a host of glitzy afterparties well into the wee hours of Monday morning. The awards themselves will be handed out beginning at 5pm local time on Sunday at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.
The ceremony, hosted by David Tennant, will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm local, a two-hour delay from the start of the live proceedings. Contrary to last year, the final four categories will not be broadcast in real time. Britbox is airing the Film Awards in the U.S.
In 2022, the Critics Choice Awards were held in Los Angeles on the same night as the BAFTAs, causing some disruption for nominees. Last year, the...
The ceremony, hosted by David Tennant, will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer from 7pm local, a two-hour delay from the start of the live proceedings. Contrary to last year, the final four categories will not be broadcast in real time. Britbox is airing the Film Awards in the U.S.
In 2022, the Critics Choice Awards were held in Los Angeles on the same night as the BAFTAs, causing some disruption for nominees. Last year, the...
- 2/17/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The 77th British Academy Film Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 18, celebrating achievements in British and foreign films in 22 different categories. Scroll down for our official odds with our projected winners highlighted in gold.
Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” and Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things” head into the ceremony with the most nominations — 13 and 11, respectively. Our predictions forecast that they’ll top the winners list too, with the former taking home eight awards including Best Picture and Best Director and the latter picking up five including Best British Film. “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Maestro” and “The Holdovers” will also win at least one BAFTA, while “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Zone of Interest” will all get blanked.
These official odds for the BAFTA Awards are derived from the predictions of our Experts, Editors, Top 24 Users, All-Star Top 24 and all our Users, who make up the largest and often savviest bloc of predictors.
Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” and Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “Poor Things” head into the ceremony with the most nominations — 13 and 11, respectively. Our predictions forecast that they’ll top the winners list too, with the former taking home eight awards including Best Picture and Best Director and the latter picking up five including Best British Film. “Anatomy of a Fall,” “Maestro” and “The Holdovers” will also win at least one BAFTA, while “Barbie,” “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Zone of Interest” will all get blanked.
These official odds for the BAFTA Awards are derived from the predictions of our Experts, Editors, Top 24 Users, All-Star Top 24 and all our Users, who make up the largest and often savviest bloc of predictors.
- 2/15/2024
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
The BBC Writers section of its website now contains a selection of scripts from Doctor Who and beyond.
BBC Writers is a wonderful resource for anybody interested in the mechanics of making scripted television. You can find hundreds of scripts in its archive. From classic drama like Accused and children’s shows like The Story Of Tracy Beaker to feature films like Blue Story, In The Loop and Rye Lane, it provides a fascinating insight into British film and television production.
The BBC has now revealed a new Whoniverse section, which contains not only a selection of Doctor Who scripts from Rose right up to date with The Church On Ruby Road, you can also find scripts for Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Tales Of The Tardis, Class, animated adventures The Infinite Quest and Dreamland, and VR game The Runaway. One of the most intriguing new additions is the Fifteenth...
BBC Writers is a wonderful resource for anybody interested in the mechanics of making scripted television. You can find hundreds of scripts in its archive. From classic drama like Accused and children’s shows like The Story Of Tracy Beaker to feature films like Blue Story, In The Loop and Rye Lane, it provides a fascinating insight into British film and television production.
The BBC has now revealed a new Whoniverse section, which contains not only a selection of Doctor Who scripts from Rose right up to date with The Church On Ruby Road, you can also find scripts for Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Tales Of The Tardis, Class, animated adventures The Infinite Quest and Dreamland, and VR game The Runaway. One of the most intriguing new additions is the Fifteenth...
- 2/15/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
When rising star (and recently minted breakthrough star) Vivian Oparah was nominated for her first BAFTA, in the stacked Best Actress in a Leading Role category, she did what any young, hip, and stunned star might: she took her feelings to Instagram. Upon learning she was nominated for her charming work in Raine Allen-Miller’s rom-com “Rye Lane” — her first leading film role — alongside such heavy-hitters as Fantasia Barrino, Sandra Huller, Carey Mulligan, Margot Robbie, and Emma Stone, Oparah shared a picture of the nominees and simply wrote: “I’ve run out of words. what insane company like wtaf.”
“I wish I could have been more articulate in that moment,” Oparah told IndieWire during a recent interview. “But I literally was like, ‘What the hell?’”
Oparah still remembers when she got the script: it was early days with Covid, and she’d gone on a day trip to the Seven...
“I wish I could have been more articulate in that moment,” Oparah told IndieWire during a recent interview. “But I literally was like, ‘What the hell?’”
Oparah still remembers when she got the script: it was early days with Covid, and she’d gone on a day trip to the Seven...
- 2/14/2024
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Screen’s February 2024 edition looks ahead to the upcoming Berlin film festival, with a guide into the line-up, a preview of the European Film Market, and an in-depth interview with the festival’s outgoing co-heads, Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek.
The issue also looks at how Searchlight Pictures’ UK team helped bring the likes of Rye Lane and All Of Us Strangers to fruition.
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The issue also looks at how Searchlight Pictures’ UK team helped bring the likes of Rye Lane and All Of Us Strangers to fruition.
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- 2/13/2024
- ScreenDaily
“Rye Lane” was one of the standout British indie films of 2023, a lively and delightfully-spun rom-com set in the south of London that helped add a fresh coat of paint to a genre that had been fading for several years.
From first-time director Raine Allen Miller and led by rising stars Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson, both Londoners themselves, the film was hailed by critics at the Sundance Film Festival before being released in March.
But despite the immense love that “Rye Lane” generated, resulting in a record 16 nominations at the British Independent Film Awards in December, few experts would have suggested it had the momentum to plant a flag in BAFTA’s main performance categories, especially given the competition. Neither did Oparah, whose nomination for leading actress alongside the likes of Emma Stone, Sandra Hüller and Margot Robbie was one of the most welcome surprises — at least from within the U.
From first-time director Raine Allen Miller and led by rising stars Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson, both Londoners themselves, the film was hailed by critics at the Sundance Film Festival before being released in March.
But despite the immense love that “Rye Lane” generated, resulting in a record 16 nominations at the British Independent Film Awards in December, few experts would have suggested it had the momentum to plant a flag in BAFTA’s main performance categories, especially given the competition. Neither did Oparah, whose nomination for leading actress alongside the likes of Emma Stone, Sandra Hüller and Margot Robbie was one of the most welcome surprises — at least from within the U.
- 2/9/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Vivian Oparah is aware of the spotlight on her following her BAFTA Film Awards nomination for her breakthrough performance in Searchlight’s romance movie Rye Lane, but she feels it’s imperative that she “stay grounded” because it’s a more disparate path towards stardom for Black actresses.
“For me, this is just the beginning of my career in so many ways, and to be recognized at this level so early on feels super special,” she tells me, “But I still understand that the trajectory of a Black female actor is very different to everyone else’s, so you can’t rest on your laurels because there isn’t a well trodden track that you can just jump on.”
Raine Allen-Miller’s debut feature Rye Lane, a rom-com scripted by Nathan Byron and Tom Melia and set in South London, sees Oparah playing opposite David Jonsson as strangers who have a chance encounter in a gender-neutral toilet and spend the day getting to know each other. Deadline critic Anna Smith called it “a big, energetic bounce forward” for the rom-com genre and called in a “sunny, irreverent take on life and love” that’s at its “most exhilarating when playing out in real time, Before Sunrise-style.” Oparah and Jonsson were lauded for their performances, landing them a Best Joint Lead Performance nomination and Oparah a Breakthrough Performance win at British Independent Film Awards, where the film competed in 16 categories. Then came the BAFTA nom.
“I’m grateful but you also need to stay grounded,” Oparah tells me from Los Angeles, where she’s been meeting her U.S. reps at CAA. She’ll be back in time for the BAFTA ceremony at London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday, February 18.
Yes, the attention that winning the BIFA for Breakthrough Performance and being up for a BAFTA brings is indeed “super special” but Oparah’s mantra is simply: Stay proactive, level-headed “and hard-working.”
I wonder, perhaps somewhat provocatively, whether she felt that a young white female actor in her situation would have had her face splashed all over the British press? Maybe, she answers, but then white female actors “have been working visibly for a lot longer time.”
And, she notes, that “if a moment like this happens in someone [from a traditional acting background]’s career” there’s “a clear path” to their next job. “I feel like for us, because we’ve we’ve only just been let into these spaces, that path hasn’t really been defined yet. It’s just a matter of continuing to work hard and sometimes defining that path for yourself.”
The good news is she is up for the challenge. ”That doesn’t intimidate me,” she says. “It excites me. The playing field still isn’t level and that’s fine. I don’t really internalise it. I just know that I can’t get swept away in the moment.”
David Jonsson,Raine Allen-Miller and Vivian Oprah at Sundance 2023
Oparah’s table at the BIFAs was next to where I was seated, and the stunned surprise on her face when her name was called brightened into the most gorgeous smile. If she initially looked stunned, it’s because, well, she was.
Equally, she calls the BAFTA nomination “insane and disorienting” because the category has so many people on it “that I am inspired by or look up to. I’m just so happy to be there, man, honestly.” It’s indeed top-level competition: Fantasia Barrino for The Color Purple, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall, Carey Mulligan fir Maestro, Margot Robbie for Barbie and Emma Stone for Poor Things.
The movie’s also up for outstanding British Film, and those recognized on the nomination sheet are director Allen-Miller, producers Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo and Damian Jones, and screenwriters Bryon and Melia.
The film was shot the film in 2021 during the Covid pandemic, with additional photography filmed a year later. Oparah laughs when she notes, “And now here we are three years on.”
The film’s available on Disney+ and every now and again I sneak a look at it, not only to marvel at the fact that a romcom featuring a Black, seemingly mismatched, couple of strangers — who meet cute in a lavatory in — got made, but also that the characters aren’t your stereotypical Black drug dealer or single mother with five kids. That’s a theme, by the way, that director Cord Jefferson observes in his brilliant American Fiction.
In Allen-Miller’s feature debut, Oparah’s Yas is a costume designer, who offers David Jonsson’s Dom, an accountant, a shoulder to cry on when she hears him wailing in the loo. Yes, Black people lead normal lives.
Yas is a bit of a live-wire, and Oparah loves that she’s not a measured, strait-laced romantic lead. ”She is messy and chaotic and is unapologetic in her mess, and I loved that they wanted to portray that,” she says, though she confesses it required “a lot of stamina.”
“They’re picking us because they want us“
When her agent at Independent Talent Group suggested she send in a self-tape to audition for Rye Lane — remember this was during lockdown and self-taping was novel — she scoffed at the idea, thinking, ‘No-one’s watching all of this’.”
Lo and behold, a month later she was meeting casting director Kharmel Cochrane, who was telling her to “just act cool” reading for the audition. “I was like, ‘I don’t know what that means… Have you been in my house?,'” she says laughing over our Zoom call.
After the audition, she did a chemistry read and got the part. She’s still shocked she got it.
“I was like, ‘You would want me to be in a romantic comedy?’ Usually, if you have a dark-skinned male lead you might have a light-skinned woman, and we’re both dark-skinned. I was like, ’They’re picking us because they want us.”
She admires Allen-Miller for creating “such a loving set” and because the director “cherry picks people that she thinks are extremely talented” but also has “a ‘no dickhead’ policy,” which was felt during filming as “everyone was so warm and collaborative.” For that reason, Oparah happily refers to the shoot as “my best filming experience.”
Hailing Allen-Miller as the “captain of the ship,” she was cheered to see “so early in my career, an example of someone who’s incredibly talented and unwavering in their kindness,” she says warmly. “Everyday you’re looking forward to be at work and seeing someone crafting something really masterfully.”
Meeting with her CAA agents has given her a boost, she says. “I have a lot of writing aspirations and everything that I thought that I wanted, but didn’t know how to access now seems accessible, and that’s the most exciting part for sure.” She adds, “I really want to actualise these writing projects.”
Writing was her first career arc, she jokes, “when I was literally a kid, when I was ten.” While she was appearing in a junior production of Snow White, gleefully playing the Wicked Witch, she and a friend wrote a book called Roxie and Dynamite, about two girls who were adopted and left to their own devices by the mother. “That was so fun to write,” she says, adding: “And I won a poetry contest when I was in primary school — I was like a book worm.” The tome has been carefully preserved by her mother.
Upcoming is a TV series, a comedy thriller called Dead Hot for Amazon’s Prime Video, directed by Sam Arbor and David Sant, and written by Charlotte Coben. Oparah plays Jess — “a very insecure, grief-stricken girl,” according to the actress. The role follows key parts in television shows that include Intelligence season 2, I May Destroy You and Class, a Doctor Who spin-off series.
I saw her at the Old Vic in Fanny & Alexander, but I really noticed her in Brandon Jacobs Jenkins’s exhilarating An Octoroon at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, my old stomping ground, and when it transferred to the Dorfman at the National Theatre.
She’s definitely up for more theatre. “Something boundary-pushing. I’d be down for that, for sure,” she says.
Out of nowhere, a line she utters in Rye Lane comes into my head [very mild spoiler follows]. It’s where Yas announces that she’s always wanted to own a restaurant called Maggots by Candlelight. I dunno, it’s silly and just makes me smile. I wonder whether some of the lines in Rye Lane will catch on with the public, the way, say, people quote from Notting Hill and Love Actually?
Oparah indulges me, and thinks my point isn’t as daft as it sounds.
“Rye Lane means so much to people in our community and that means the world to me,” she says. “The Black community isn’t a monolith, and we know that, and there are different pockets that this film still manages to resonate with: People from 17 to 60. I hope that it chrysalises in British culture.”
Now this is important: Oparah is a north Londoner, now based in Tottenham, though her early childhood was spent in Highbury. Soccer fans will know where this is headed.
Is she a Tottenham Hotspur supporter? Anticipating the question, Oparah quietly announces that she’s always been a follower of Arsenal. I raise my arms in delight.
“Oh, wow, you too!,” she cries.
Vivian Oparah will go far.
“For me, this is just the beginning of my career in so many ways, and to be recognized at this level so early on feels super special,” she tells me, “But I still understand that the trajectory of a Black female actor is very different to everyone else’s, so you can’t rest on your laurels because there isn’t a well trodden track that you can just jump on.”
Raine Allen-Miller’s debut feature Rye Lane, a rom-com scripted by Nathan Byron and Tom Melia and set in South London, sees Oparah playing opposite David Jonsson as strangers who have a chance encounter in a gender-neutral toilet and spend the day getting to know each other. Deadline critic Anna Smith called it “a big, energetic bounce forward” for the rom-com genre and called in a “sunny, irreverent take on life and love” that’s at its “most exhilarating when playing out in real time, Before Sunrise-style.” Oparah and Jonsson were lauded for their performances, landing them a Best Joint Lead Performance nomination and Oparah a Breakthrough Performance win at British Independent Film Awards, where the film competed in 16 categories. Then came the BAFTA nom.
“I’m grateful but you also need to stay grounded,” Oparah tells me from Los Angeles, where she’s been meeting her U.S. reps at CAA. She’ll be back in time for the BAFTA ceremony at London’s Southbank Centre on Sunday, February 18.
Yes, the attention that winning the BIFA for Breakthrough Performance and being up for a BAFTA brings is indeed “super special” but Oparah’s mantra is simply: Stay proactive, level-headed “and hard-working.”
I wonder, perhaps somewhat provocatively, whether she felt that a young white female actor in her situation would have had her face splashed all over the British press? Maybe, she answers, but then white female actors “have been working visibly for a lot longer time.”
And, she notes, that “if a moment like this happens in someone [from a traditional acting background]’s career” there’s “a clear path” to their next job. “I feel like for us, because we’ve we’ve only just been let into these spaces, that path hasn’t really been defined yet. It’s just a matter of continuing to work hard and sometimes defining that path for yourself.”
The good news is she is up for the challenge. ”That doesn’t intimidate me,” she says. “It excites me. The playing field still isn’t level and that’s fine. I don’t really internalise it. I just know that I can’t get swept away in the moment.”
David Jonsson,Raine Allen-Miller and Vivian Oprah at Sundance 2023
Oparah’s table at the BIFAs was next to where I was seated, and the stunned surprise on her face when her name was called brightened into the most gorgeous smile. If she initially looked stunned, it’s because, well, she was.
Equally, she calls the BAFTA nomination “insane and disorienting” because the category has so many people on it “that I am inspired by or look up to. I’m just so happy to be there, man, honestly.” It’s indeed top-level competition: Fantasia Barrino for The Color Purple, Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall, Carey Mulligan fir Maestro, Margot Robbie for Barbie and Emma Stone for Poor Things.
The movie’s also up for outstanding British Film, and those recognized on the nomination sheet are director Allen-Miller, producers Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo and Damian Jones, and screenwriters Bryon and Melia.
The film was shot the film in 2021 during the Covid pandemic, with additional photography filmed a year later. Oparah laughs when she notes, “And now here we are three years on.”
The film’s available on Disney+ and every now and again I sneak a look at it, not only to marvel at the fact that a romcom featuring a Black, seemingly mismatched, couple of strangers — who meet cute in a lavatory in — got made, but also that the characters aren’t your stereotypical Black drug dealer or single mother with five kids. That’s a theme, by the way, that director Cord Jefferson observes in his brilliant American Fiction.
In Allen-Miller’s feature debut, Oparah’s Yas is a costume designer, who offers David Jonsson’s Dom, an accountant, a shoulder to cry on when she hears him wailing in the loo. Yes, Black people lead normal lives.
Yas is a bit of a live-wire, and Oparah loves that she’s not a measured, strait-laced romantic lead. ”She is messy and chaotic and is unapologetic in her mess, and I loved that they wanted to portray that,” she says, though she confesses it required “a lot of stamina.”
“They’re picking us because they want us“
When her agent at Independent Talent Group suggested she send in a self-tape to audition for Rye Lane — remember this was during lockdown and self-taping was novel — she scoffed at the idea, thinking, ‘No-one’s watching all of this’.”
Lo and behold, a month later she was meeting casting director Kharmel Cochrane, who was telling her to “just act cool” reading for the audition. “I was like, ‘I don’t know what that means… Have you been in my house?,'” she says laughing over our Zoom call.
After the audition, she did a chemistry read and got the part. She’s still shocked she got it.
“I was like, ‘You would want me to be in a romantic comedy?’ Usually, if you have a dark-skinned male lead you might have a light-skinned woman, and we’re both dark-skinned. I was like, ’They’re picking us because they want us.”
She admires Allen-Miller for creating “such a loving set” and because the director “cherry picks people that she thinks are extremely talented” but also has “a ‘no dickhead’ policy,” which was felt during filming as “everyone was so warm and collaborative.” For that reason, Oparah happily refers to the shoot as “my best filming experience.”
Hailing Allen-Miller as the “captain of the ship,” she was cheered to see “so early in my career, an example of someone who’s incredibly talented and unwavering in their kindness,” she says warmly. “Everyday you’re looking forward to be at work and seeing someone crafting something really masterfully.”
Meeting with her CAA agents has given her a boost, she says. “I have a lot of writing aspirations and everything that I thought that I wanted, but didn’t know how to access now seems accessible, and that’s the most exciting part for sure.” She adds, “I really want to actualise these writing projects.”
Writing was her first career arc, she jokes, “when I was literally a kid, when I was ten.” While she was appearing in a junior production of Snow White, gleefully playing the Wicked Witch, she and a friend wrote a book called Roxie and Dynamite, about two girls who were adopted and left to their own devices by the mother. “That was so fun to write,” she says, adding: “And I won a poetry contest when I was in primary school — I was like a book worm.” The tome has been carefully preserved by her mother.
Upcoming is a TV series, a comedy thriller called Dead Hot for Amazon’s Prime Video, directed by Sam Arbor and David Sant, and written by Charlotte Coben. Oparah plays Jess — “a very insecure, grief-stricken girl,” according to the actress. The role follows key parts in television shows that include Intelligence season 2, I May Destroy You and Class, a Doctor Who spin-off series.
I saw her at the Old Vic in Fanny & Alexander, but I really noticed her in Brandon Jacobs Jenkins’s exhilarating An Octoroon at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, my old stomping ground, and when it transferred to the Dorfman at the National Theatre.
She’s definitely up for more theatre. “Something boundary-pushing. I’d be down for that, for sure,” she says.
Out of nowhere, a line she utters in Rye Lane comes into my head [very mild spoiler follows]. It’s where Yas announces that she’s always wanted to own a restaurant called Maggots by Candlelight. I dunno, it’s silly and just makes me smile. I wonder whether some of the lines in Rye Lane will catch on with the public, the way, say, people quote from Notting Hill and Love Actually?
Oparah indulges me, and thinks my point isn’t as daft as it sounds.
“Rye Lane means so much to people in our community and that means the world to me,” she says. “The Black community isn’t a monolith, and we know that, and there are different pockets that this film still manages to resonate with: People from 17 to 60. I hope that it chrysalises in British culture.”
Now this is important: Oparah is a north Londoner, now based in Tottenham, though her early childhood was spent in Highbury. Soccer fans will know where this is headed.
Is she a Tottenham Hotspur supporter? Anticipating the question, Oparah quietly announces that she’s always been a follower of Arsenal. I raise my arms in delight.
“Oh, wow, you too!,” she cries.
Vivian Oparah will go far.
- 2/9/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Once upon an awards season, Lily Gladstone looked to be the Oscar frontrunner for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Then, she switched categories and was many experts’ tips to win Best Actress instead. Now, however, her status as Oscar favorite has dwindled — with an omission at the BAFTAs contributing to that.
Instead, Emma Stone looks like she might take home her second Best Actress Oscar for “Poor Things” after she won her first in 2017 for “La La Land.” Stone will surely cement that status with a predicted win at the BAFTAs, where she is nominated alongside Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), Vivian Oparah (“Rye Lane”), and Margot Robbie (“Barbie”).
Stone is the overwhelming favorite to win this BAFTA award and she sits top of our BAFTA odds chart for this category with Hüller in second.
Instead, Emma Stone looks like she might take home her second Best Actress Oscar for “Poor Things” after she won her first in 2017 for “La La Land.” Stone will surely cement that status with a predicted win at the BAFTAs, where she is nominated alongside Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), Vivian Oparah (“Rye Lane”), and Margot Robbie (“Barbie”).
Stone is the overwhelming favorite to win this BAFTA award and she sits top of our BAFTA odds chart for this category with Hüller in second.
- 2/7/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
BAFTA threw up plenty of surprises and snobs in their nominations lineups this year with Best Actress one of the most intriguing and head-scratching categories of the year. “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone was snubbed while Annette Bening (“Nyad”) also didn’t make the cut. Both of those performers were nominated at the Oscars, however.
Instead, the BAFTA nominees for Best Actress are Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), Margot Robbie (“Barbie”), Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), and Vivian Oparah (“Rye Lane”). Stone is the obvious frontrunner and the thespian at the top of our BAFTA odds chart for this category but one name in that list sticks out as a potential challenger: Oparah.
The British actress had a breakout year in 2023 with her role in Searchlight Pictures/Disney’s charming”Rye Lane,” which follows Oparah (Yas) and David Jonsson...
Instead, the BAFTA nominees for Best Actress are Fantasia Barrino (“The Color Purple”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”), Margot Robbie (“Barbie”), Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), and Vivian Oparah (“Rye Lane”). Stone is the obvious frontrunner and the thespian at the top of our BAFTA odds chart for this category but one name in that list sticks out as a potential challenger: Oparah.
The British actress had a breakout year in 2023 with her role in Searchlight Pictures/Disney’s charming”Rye Lane,” which follows Oparah (Yas) and David Jonsson...
- 2/6/2024
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Although total UK-Ireland box office revenue increased by 4% in 2023 compared to 2022, revenue for UK-qualifying independent films fell by 49% in the same period, according to statistics from the British Film Institute (BFI) released today (February 1).
The total box office revenue for UK qualifying independent films in 2023 was £37.8m, down from the £74.7m total revenue in 2022. The box office market share of UK-qualifying independent films was 3.8%. This is less than half of the share achieved for the same period in 2022 and is the second-lowest share of the past 20 years.
The Great Escaper was the highest-grossing UK independent release with a total box office of £5.3m.
The total box office revenue for UK qualifying independent films in 2023 was £37.8m, down from the £74.7m total revenue in 2022. The box office market share of UK-qualifying independent films was 3.8%. This is less than half of the share achieved for the same period in 2022 and is the second-lowest share of the past 20 years.
The Great Escaper was the highest-grossing UK independent release with a total box office of £5.3m.
- 2/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Although total UK-Ireland box office revenue increased by 4% in 2023 compared to 2022, revenue for UK-qualifying independent films fell by 49% in the same period, according to statistics from the British Film Insitute (BFI) released today (February 1).
The total box office revenue for UK qualifying independent films in 2023 was £37.8m, down from the £74.7m total revenue in 2022. The box office market share of UK-qualifying independent films was 3.8%. This is less than half of the share achieved for the same period in 2022 and is the second-lowest share of the past 20 years.
The Great Escaper was the highest-grossing UK independent release with a total box office of £5.3m.
The total box office revenue for UK qualifying independent films in 2023 was £37.8m, down from the £74.7m total revenue in 2022. The box office market share of UK-qualifying independent films was 3.8%. This is less than half of the share achieved for the same period in 2022 and is the second-lowest share of the past 20 years.
The Great Escaper was the highest-grossing UK independent release with a total box office of £5.3m.
- 2/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
The film and TV production boom in the U.K. came to a grinding halt in 2023 amid the Hollywood writers and actors strikes.
According to the British Film Institute, the total spend on film and high-end TV production last year reached £4.23 billion ($5.37 billion) from 394 productions, down 35 percent from £6.27 billion ($7.72 billion) in 2022 as previously reported.
U.K. production spend is counted in the statistics for the year in which principal photography starts, which means shoots started in 2023 but then paused because of the strikes are fully attributed to 2023.
Or as the BFI noted: “If a production starts but then pauses, the total spend for the production is incorporated into the period’s spend data at that point, even if production restarts and concludes much later.”
Despite the drop in spend in 2023 following two years of records, the BFI highlighted that “this is the fourth-highest combined film and high-end TV spend reported...
According to the British Film Institute, the total spend on film and high-end TV production last year reached £4.23 billion ($5.37 billion) from 394 productions, down 35 percent from £6.27 billion ($7.72 billion) in 2022 as previously reported.
U.K. production spend is counted in the statistics for the year in which principal photography starts, which means shoots started in 2023 but then paused because of the strikes are fully attributed to 2023.
Or as the BFI noted: “If a production starts but then pauses, the total spend for the production is incorporated into the period’s spend data at that point, even if production restarts and concludes much later.”
Despite the drop in spend in 2023 following two years of records, the BFI highlighted that “this is the fourth-highest combined film and high-end TV spend reported...
- 2/1/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Spend on UK film and high-end TV slid sharply to £4.23B ($5.3B) in the strike-hit 2023, according to the BFI’s latest annual stats.
The figure was 35% down on a record 2022, the BFI said, while floating the silver lining of £4.3B being nearly level with 2019’s pre-Covid spend. There were other green shoots such as a small rise in cinema admissions.
It will come as little surprise that the figures fell so starkly given that the latter half of the year saw film and high-end TV production severely dented due to the writers and actors strikes across the pond.
Film production in the UK fell to £1.36B in 2023 spend, a 31% drop on 2022’s figure, while high-end TV was down by the larger 38% to £2.9B. As with the past few years, high-end TV made up the brunt of overall production spend at around two-thirds.
Of the total £1.36B spent on 207 film productions,...
The figure was 35% down on a record 2022, the BFI said, while floating the silver lining of £4.3B being nearly level with 2019’s pre-Covid spend. There were other green shoots such as a small rise in cinema admissions.
It will come as little surprise that the figures fell so starkly given that the latter half of the year saw film and high-end TV production severely dented due to the writers and actors strikes across the pond.
Film production in the UK fell to £1.36B in 2023 spend, a 31% drop on 2022’s figure, while high-end TV was down by the larger 38% to £2.9B. As with the past few years, high-end TV made up the brunt of overall production spend at around two-thirds.
Of the total £1.36B spent on 207 film productions,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The U.K.’s film and TV industry took a massive hit following last year’s writers and actors strikes, latest figures show.
While the U.K.’s production industry continues to generate billions, inward investment spend on film and high-end TV dropped to £3.31 billion ($4.22 billion) in 2023, a drop of 39 percent on 2022’s £5.37 billion. According to a new report by the British Film Institute, overall spend for 2023 was £4.23 billion ($5.3 billion), down 32 percent on 2022’s £6.27 billion.
The previous two years had seen record figures thanks to the U.K.’s robust Covid response as well as a concurrent production bottle-neck.
The latest total, published by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit, is on par with pre-pandemic numbers.
Worryingly — but in line with predictions – the majority of that spend (£2.9 billion) came from just 168 high-end TV shows, including fare such as “Slow Horses,” “Doctor Who” and “The Crown.” Last year a total...
While the U.K.’s production industry continues to generate billions, inward investment spend on film and high-end TV dropped to £3.31 billion ($4.22 billion) in 2023, a drop of 39 percent on 2022’s £5.37 billion. According to a new report by the British Film Institute, overall spend for 2023 was £4.23 billion ($5.3 billion), down 32 percent on 2022’s £6.27 billion.
The previous two years had seen record figures thanks to the U.K.’s robust Covid response as well as a concurrent production bottle-neck.
The latest total, published by the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit, is on par with pre-pandemic numbers.
Worryingly — but in line with predictions – the majority of that spend (£2.9 billion) came from just 168 high-end TV shows, including fare such as “Slow Horses,” “Doctor Who” and “The Crown.” Last year a total...
- 2/1/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The 40th edition of the independent film festival saw some multimillion-dollar deals but also had attendees question if there was a drop in quality
The high bar raised by last year’s Sundance film festival had caused many to feel a little underwhelmed by this year’s edition, a commonly tweeted and spoken concern over just whether this year could truly boast a major breakout movie. Twelve months prior, the workplace thriller Fair Play, erotic drama Passages, nifty horror Talk to Me, romcom Rye Lane, timely documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, mother-son music tale Flora and Son and decade-spanning romance Past Lives caused waves that continued for the next year, an unusually robust lineup, fittingly given that it was Sundance’s big in-person comeback.
It was a slightly more muted affair over in Utah this year, some attributing a weaker lineup to 2023’s dual strikes, which prevented many productions from going ahead,...
The high bar raised by last year’s Sundance film festival had caused many to feel a little underwhelmed by this year’s edition, a commonly tweeted and spoken concern over just whether this year could truly boast a major breakout movie. Twelve months prior, the workplace thriller Fair Play, erotic drama Passages, nifty horror Talk to Me, romcom Rye Lane, timely documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, mother-son music tale Flora and Son and decade-spanning romance Past Lives caused waves that continued for the next year, an unusually robust lineup, fittingly given that it was Sundance’s big in-person comeback.
It was a slightly more muted affair over in Utah this year, some attributing a weaker lineup to 2023’s dual strikes, which prevented many productions from going ahead,...
- 1/30/2024
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
From American high school comedies to Oscar winners, plenty of 2023’s biggest and brightest films have skipped the DVD market in the UK.
(Correction: A previous version of this article claimed Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society couldn’t be found on DVD. It actually can. Don’t worry, we have fired the news-goblin responsible for the error.)
As recently as 2021, the idea that the previous year’s Best Picture Oscar winner wouldn’t get a UK physical media release would have been absurd.
In fact, to find a Best Picture winner that isn’t easily available on a UK disc format, you’d have to head all the way back to 1937. Try as we might to watch The Life Of Emile Zola on the secret DVD player at the top of Big Ben (don’t tell anyone), it looks like no one got round to burning it onto a disk...
(Correction: A previous version of this article claimed Nida Manzoor’s Polite Society couldn’t be found on DVD. It actually can. Don’t worry, we have fired the news-goblin responsible for the error.)
As recently as 2021, the idea that the previous year’s Best Picture Oscar winner wouldn’t get a UK physical media release would have been absurd.
In fact, to find a Best Picture winner that isn’t easily available on a UK disc format, you’d have to head all the way back to 1937. Try as we might to watch The Life Of Emile Zola on the secret DVD player at the top of Big Ben (don’t tell anyone), it looks like no one got round to burning it onto a disk...
- 1/30/2024
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
Oscar nominee Colman Domingo picked up three nominations and Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri a pair to lead the motion picture and television categories, respectively, while Victoria Monét (six) and Usher (five) paced the music nominations for the 55th NAACP Image Awards. Domingo’s bids came for Entertainer of the Year and one each for Actor in a Motion Picture (“Rustin”) and Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture (“The Color Purple”), while Edebiri’s came in Supporting Comedy Actress for “The Bear” and Guest Actress in a Comedy for “Abbott Elementary.”
Other major nominees were, for Entertainer of the Year, Domingo, Usher, Fantasia Barrino, Halle Bailey and Keke Palmer and – for Outstanding Motion Picture – “American Fiction,” “Rustin,” Origin,” “The Color Purple” and “They Cloned Tyrone.” Netflix led the pack with 55 total nominations, with Amazon second, tallying 27. RCA Records received the most of any record label in the recording categories with 20.
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Other major nominees were, for Entertainer of the Year, Domingo, Usher, Fantasia Barrino, Halle Bailey and Keke Palmer and – for Outstanding Motion Picture – “American Fiction,” “Rustin,” Origin,” “The Color Purple” and “They Cloned Tyrone.” Netflix led the pack with 55 total nominations, with Amazon second, tallying 27. RCA Records received the most of any record label in the recording categories with 20.
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- 1/26/2024
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Hi, Barbie! Great news: Greta Gerwig’s film based on the iconic Mattel doll leads the 14th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards nominations with three nods – including best song for both Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” and Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken.”
“Barbie’s” third nomination was in best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million. The category recognized the work of music supervisor George Drakoulias, songwriters Eilish and Finneas and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt who penned “I’m Just Ken.”
Other film contenders are the music supervisors from “Maestro,” “Saltburn,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “Past Lives,” “Wonka,” “Air” among others.
Top TV contenders include the music supervisors from “Daisy Jones & The Six,” “The White Lotus,” “Welcome to Chippendales” and “Yellowjackets.”
The Guild of Music Supervisors is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 with the “goal of preserving and promoting the...
“Barbie’s” third nomination was in best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million. The category recognized the work of music supervisor George Drakoulias, songwriters Eilish and Finneas and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt who penned “I’m Just Ken.”
Other film contenders are the music supervisors from “Maestro,” “Saltburn,” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “Past Lives,” “Wonka,” “Air” among others.
Top TV contenders include the music supervisors from “Daisy Jones & The Six,” “The White Lotus,” “Welcome to Chippendales” and “Yellowjackets.”
The Guild of Music Supervisors is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2010 with the “goal of preserving and promoting the...
- 1/22/2024
- by Diego Ramos Bechara
- Variety Film + TV
Barbie is the most nominated film for the 2024 Guild of Music Supervisors Awards, landing three nominations, including two in the best song for film category for “What Was I Made For?” and “I’m Just Ken.”
Barbie is nominated for best music supervision for film budgeted over $25 million and scored two nods for best song written and/or recorded for a film for Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “What Was I Made For?” and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt’s “I’m Just Ken,” performed by Ryan Gosling.
The music supervisors with the most individual nominations are Mike Ladman and Mara Techam, each with five nominations, whose work in advertising includes collaborations with brands like Levis, The New York Times, Hennessy and others.
The 14th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards are set to take place in-person and virtually at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre on Sunday, March 3.
A full list of nominees follows.
Barbie is nominated for best music supervision for film budgeted over $25 million and scored two nods for best song written and/or recorded for a film for Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “What Was I Made For?” and Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt’s “I’m Just Ken,” performed by Ryan Gosling.
The music supervisors with the most individual nominations are Mike Ladman and Mara Techam, each with five nominations, whose work in advertising includes collaborations with brands like Levis, The New York Times, Hennessy and others.
The 14th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards are set to take place in-person and virtually at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre on Sunday, March 3.
A full list of nominees follows.
- 1/22/2024
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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BAFTA Film Award Noms
Kicking ass and taking noms: After a competitive longlist stage, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer pulled out in front at BAFTA, clocking a leading 13 noms Thursday morning. The film’s haul included Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay. The pic was one nomination away from equaling All Quiet on the Western Front’s record 2023 haul of 14 noms. Trailing Nolan is Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who clocked 11 nominations with his latest black comedy, Poor Things. Lanthimos’ movie’s haul also includes Best Film alongside outstanding British Film, Best Actress for Emma Stone and Adapted Screenplay for Tony McNamara. Greta Gerwig’s box office smash Barbie fell away somewhat, notching up just five noms after being longlisted...
BAFTA Film Award Noms
Kicking ass and taking noms: After a competitive longlist stage, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer pulled out in front at BAFTA, clocking a leading 13 noms Thursday morning. The film’s haul included Best Film, Director and Adapted Screenplay. The pic was one nomination away from equaling All Quiet on the Western Front’s record 2023 haul of 14 noms. Trailing Nolan is Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who clocked 11 nominations with his latest black comedy, Poor Things. Lanthimos’ movie’s haul also includes Best Film alongside outstanding British Film, Best Actress for Emma Stone and Adapted Screenplay for Tony McNamara. Greta Gerwig’s box office smash Barbie fell away somewhat, notching up just five noms after being longlisted...
- 1/19/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
2024 BAFTA Awards Nominations Unveiled ( Photo Credit – IMDb; Facebook )
After the Emmys and Golden Globes, it’s time for the British Academy Film Awards or the BAFTA Awards 2024. The nominations have been unveiled, with Oppenheimer again enjoying multiple nods at the prestigious awards. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo’s Poor Things has also earned numerous nominations.
The streaming giant Lionsgate Play will telecast the event live, and eminent actor David Tennant will host it. The ceremony will take place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The first ceremony was held in 1949 and was telecasted on the BBC. There are over twenty film-related categories. Keep scrolling for more.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has received 13 nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards 2024, followed by 11 nominations by Poor Things and nine nods by Killers of the Flower Moon. Margot Robbie led Barbie, which is lagging and has only five nods.
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After the Emmys and Golden Globes, it’s time for the British Academy Film Awards or the BAFTA Awards 2024. The nominations have been unveiled, with Oppenheimer again enjoying multiple nods at the prestigious awards. Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo’s Poor Things has also earned numerous nominations.
The streaming giant Lionsgate Play will telecast the event live, and eminent actor David Tennant will host it. The ceremony will take place at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The first ceremony was held in 1949 and was telecasted on the BBC. There are over twenty film-related categories. Keep scrolling for more.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer has received 13 nominations at the BAFTA Film Awards 2024, followed by 11 nominations by Poor Things and nine nods by Killers of the Flower Moon. Margot Robbie led Barbie, which is lagging and has only five nods.
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- 1/19/2024
- by Esita Mallik
- KoiMoi
Studios, specialty labels, streamers and indies spread the field of BAFTA Film Awards nominations announced today. Universal’s Oppenheimer leads with 13, followed by Searchlight’s Poor Things at 11 and Apple Original Films’ Killers of the Flower Moon at nine, tying with A24’s The Zone of Interest.
Searchlight was the most nominated distributor with 19 total mentions including Poor Things, All of Us Strangers and Rye Lane. Combined, Searchlight and parent company Disney scored 22 noms. Titles from Universal and Focus landed a total 21, led by Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
The streamers also fared well, with Apple Original Films at 14, led by Killers of the Flower Moon’s nine including Best Film and despite snubs of director Martin Scorsese and stars Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio. This is a bit tricky since Paramount released the movie theatrically in the UK, while Sony handled Napoleon...
Searchlight was the most nominated distributor with 19 total mentions including Poor Things, All of Us Strangers and Rye Lane. Combined, Searchlight and parent company Disney scored 22 noms. Titles from Universal and Focus landed a total 21, led by Christopher Nolan’s epic biographical thriller and Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers.
The streamers also fared well, with Apple Original Films at 14, led by Killers of the Flower Moon’s nine including Best Film and despite snubs of director Martin Scorsese and stars Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio. This is a bit tricky since Paramount released the movie theatrically in the UK, while Sony handled Napoleon...
- 1/18/2024
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2024 BAFTA film awards nominations are in, and Universal’s historical epic Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan, leads the way with 13 nods, followed by Disney-owned Searchlight Pictures’ Poor Things from director Yorgos Lanthimos with 11.
Overall, Disney and Searchlight lead the way with 22 total nominations, according to statistics provided by BAFTA. The haul is driven by the strong outing by Poor Things, as well as six nods for Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers. Also boosting the Disney tally are single noms for Pixar’s Elemental, which is up for best animated film, and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which is up for a special visual effects BAFTA.
Meanwhile, Universal earned 14 nominations on Thursday, including one for Earth Mama which got Savanah Leaf (writer, director, producer), Shirley O’Connor (producer) and Medb Riordan (producer) a nod in the Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer category.
Overall, Disney and Searchlight lead the way with 22 total nominations, according to statistics provided by BAFTA. The haul is driven by the strong outing by Poor Things, as well as six nods for Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers. Also boosting the Disney tally are single noms for Pixar’s Elemental, which is up for best animated film, and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which is up for a special visual effects BAFTA.
Meanwhile, Universal earned 14 nominations on Thursday, including one for Earth Mama which got Savanah Leaf (writer, director, producer), Shirley O’Connor (producer) and Medb Riordan (producer) a nod in the Outstanding Debut by a British writer, director or producer category.
- 1/18/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer continued its commanding awards showing this morning, clocking a leading 13 BAFTA noms. Disappearing from the season’s leading pack, however, was Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, which only clocked five noms after being longlisted in 15 categories.
“You can’t try to play a guessing game about what our nearly 8,000 voters will vote for,” Anna Higgs, BAFTA Film Committee Chair, said of this afternoon’s nominations and high-profile omissions.
Related: BAFTA Scorecards: Nominations By Movie & Distributor
“The field is so competitive. This year, our entries are up, so we’ve had more films to consider, but our members have been watching more hours and more films than ever before. We really are trying to level the playing field and see films on their own merit, so there is a broader range of films in there.”
Since its 2020 review, BAFTA has implemented vast structural changes to its voting regulations,...
“You can’t try to play a guessing game about what our nearly 8,000 voters will vote for,” Anna Higgs, BAFTA Film Committee Chair, said of this afternoon’s nominations and high-profile omissions.
Related: BAFTA Scorecards: Nominations By Movie & Distributor
“The field is so competitive. This year, our entries are up, so we’ve had more films to consider, but our members have been watching more hours and more films than ever before. We really are trying to level the playing field and see films on their own merit, so there is a broader range of films in there.”
Since its 2020 review, BAFTA has implemented vast structural changes to its voting regulations,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Among those films in contention at the Oscars, “Oppenheimer” had the best showing in the BAFTA Awards nominations with 13 including Best Picture. “Poor Things” followed up with 11 bids while two Oscar frontrunners — “The Zone of Interest” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” — followed with nine BAFTA bids apiece. “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” and “Maestro” each earned a lucky seven. “All of Us Strangers” picked up six while both “Barbie” and “Saltburn” snagged five. “Anatomy of a Fall,” “The Holdovers,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Oppenheimer,” and “Poor Things” are the five Best Picture nominees with the likes of “Barbie” and “The Zone of Interest” missing out.
Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” did very well, with some of its 13 bids including Best Director for Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Supporting Actor for Emily Blunt, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was only...
Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” did very well, with some of its 13 bids including Best Director for Nolan, Best Actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., Best Supporting Actor for Emily Blunt, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was only...
- 1/18/2024
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
What happened to “Barbie”?
This is likely to be one of the hot-button questions following the announcement of the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards nominations on Thursday, which saw Greta Gerwig’s cultural phenomenon and box office juggernaut emerge without nods in the best film and director categories.
While the film’s five BAFTA nominations is, of course, still a tally to be very proud of, the figure is likely to have caught many awards-watchers off guard. The film landed 15 places in the BAFTA Longlists earlier this month following the first round of voting, tying for first place alongside “Oppenheimer” (which ultimately earned 13 nominations) and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (nine nods). Given its standing as the biggest film of 2023 and one that has smashed so many significant records along the way, many may have assumed a best film and director nomination were all but guaranteed.
But for BAFTA, it’s simply not the case.
This is likely to be one of the hot-button questions following the announcement of the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards nominations on Thursday, which saw Greta Gerwig’s cultural phenomenon and box office juggernaut emerge without nods in the best film and director categories.
While the film’s five BAFTA nominations is, of course, still a tally to be very proud of, the figure is likely to have caught many awards-watchers off guard. The film landed 15 places in the BAFTA Longlists earlier this month following the first round of voting, tying for first place alongside “Oppenheimer” (which ultimately earned 13 nominations) and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (nine nods). Given its standing as the biggest film of 2023 and one that has smashed so many significant records along the way, many may have assumed a best film and director nomination were all but guaranteed.
But for BAFTA, it’s simply not the case.
- 1/18/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA revealed a lively film nominations list this morning full of talking points.
Among major surprises were the omissions of Killers Of The Flower Moon actress Lily Gladstone, who last week won a Golden Globe for her performance, and Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig and Yorgos Lanthimos from the Best Director category.
Killers Of The Flower Moon still scored an impressive nine nominations — though Leonardo DiCaprio did not make the cut — but Barbie fared less well. After garnering nine Golden Globe noms and converting in two categories, Warner Bros’ box office juggernaut made the cut in only five BAFTA categories today.
The picture is perhaps slightly less surprising given the context of a push BAFTA has made in recent years to foreground a greater diversity of content, including more British films. The organization has faced criticism from some that its film nominees in recent years have too closely mirrored the Oscars...
Among major surprises were the omissions of Killers Of The Flower Moon actress Lily Gladstone, who last week won a Golden Globe for her performance, and Martin Scorsese, Greta Gerwig and Yorgos Lanthimos from the Best Director category.
Killers Of The Flower Moon still scored an impressive nine nominations — though Leonardo DiCaprio did not make the cut — but Barbie fared less well. After garnering nine Golden Globe noms and converting in two categories, Warner Bros’ box office juggernaut made the cut in only five BAFTA categories today.
The picture is perhaps slightly less surprising given the context of a push BAFTA has made in recent years to foreground a greater diversity of content, including more British films. The organization has faced criticism from some that its film nominees in recent years have too closely mirrored the Oscars...
- 1/18/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Nominations for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards have been unveiled. Scroll down for the full list.
Leading the way this year is Christopher Nolan’s atomic biopic Oppenheimer, which snagged 13 noms, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay. Oppenheimer was one nomination away from equaling All Quiet on the Western Front’s record 2023 haul of 14 noms. Trailing Nolan is Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who clocked 11 nominations with his latest black comedy, Poor Things. Lanthimos’ haul also includes best film alongside outstanding british film and adapted screenplay for Tony McNamara.
Chasing the leading two is Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers Of The Flower, which clocked nine nominations. The 3-hour plus pic pops up in best film, supporting actor for Robert DeNiro, and cinematography for Rodrigo Prieto. However, the film didn’t land noms in either best director or best actress (Lily Gladstone), where it had been longlisted and earmarked as a frontrunner.
Leading the way this year is Christopher Nolan’s atomic biopic Oppenheimer, which snagged 13 noms, including best film, director, and adapted screenplay. Oppenheimer was one nomination away from equaling All Quiet on the Western Front’s record 2023 haul of 14 noms. Trailing Nolan is Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, who clocked 11 nominations with his latest black comedy, Poor Things. Lanthimos’ haul also includes best film alongside outstanding british film and adapted screenplay for Tony McNamara.
Chasing the leading two is Martin Scorsese’s Osage epic Killers Of The Flower, which clocked nine nominations. The 3-hour plus pic pops up in best film, supporting actor for Robert DeNiro, and cinematography for Rodrigo Prieto. However, the film didn’t land noms in either best director or best actress (Lily Gladstone), where it had been longlisted and earmarked as a frontrunner.
- 1/18/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Christopher Nolan’s historical drama Oppenheimer leads the nominations for the Bafta Film Awards 2024 with 13 nominations.
Nolan’s biopic of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer was selected in best film, director and adapted screenplay; as well as leading actor for Cillian Murphy, supporting actress for Emily Blunt, and supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
It continues an excellent awards season for the Universal film, which led the Golden Globes winners earlier this month with five awards, and is expected to prosper in next week’s Oscar nominations.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Golden Lion winner...
Nolan’s biopic of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer was selected in best film, director and adapted screenplay; as well as leading actor for Cillian Murphy, supporting actress for Emily Blunt, and supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr.
Scroll down for the full list of nominations
It continues an excellent awards season for the Universal film, which led the Golden Globes winners earlier this month with five awards, and is expected to prosper in next week’s Oscar nominations.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Golden Lion winner...
- 1/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
The nominees for the 2024 Ee BAFTA Film Awards are set to be revealed on Thursday, with Naomi Ackie and Kingsley Ben-Adir — both former BAFTA Rising Star nominees — making the announcement at 12 p.m. U.K. time (4 a.m. Pt) from the British Academy’s headquarters in London. They will also be livestreamed on BAFTA’s YouTube and X (formerly known as Twitter) channels.
Following the nominations, film critic Ali Plumb and presenter Zainab Jiwa will then host a takeover of BAFTA’s TikTok channel to discuss the selections.
Earlier this month, BAFTA unveiled its longlists from the first round of voting across all categories, with “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” jointly in the lead after being named in 15 categories. The three films were closely followed by “Poor Things” with 14, “Maestro” with “12” and “Saltburn” with 11. “The Zone of Interest” and “All of Us Strangers” were both named in 10 categories,...
Following the nominations, film critic Ali Plumb and presenter Zainab Jiwa will then host a takeover of BAFTA’s TikTok channel to discuss the selections.
Earlier this month, BAFTA unveiled its longlists from the first round of voting across all categories, with “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” jointly in the lead after being named in 15 categories. The three films were closely followed by “Poor Things” with 14, “Maestro” with “12” and “Saltburn” with 11. “The Zone of Interest” and “All of Us Strangers” were both named in 10 categories,...
- 1/18/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Is the rom-com genre in a Renaissance period? Maybe, maybe not, but “Anyone But You” did alright with critics late last year, and so did “No Hard Feelings,” “Rye Lane,” and even “She Came To Me.” So of course Netflix wants in on the action with “Players,” its latest genre entry that’s ready to premiere on Valentine’s Day next month.
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- 1/11/2024
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
London, Jan 5 (Ians) The British Academy, reports ‘Variety’, has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 24 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, “with a perhaps unsurprising trio of films at the top”.
The cultural phenomenon that was ‘Barbenheimer’ has continued to smash its way into the awards season, with both ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ named in 15 categories, including best film and best director, adds ‘Variety’.
But joining the two with 15 slots, making it a three-way tie going into the final nominations, is ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. Last year, only ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ earned 15 longlist places, with the film going on to dominate the awards ceremony (and winning best film), ‘Variety’ notes.
Further down, ‘Poor Things’ was named in 14 categories, ‘Maestro’ in 12 and ‘Saltburn’ in 11, with ‘Saltburn’ missing out on a best film slot. Other UK films fared well, with ‘The Zone of Interest...
The cultural phenomenon that was ‘Barbenheimer’ has continued to smash its way into the awards season, with both ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ named in 15 categories, including best film and best director, adds ‘Variety’.
But joining the two with 15 slots, making it a three-way tie going into the final nominations, is ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. Last year, only ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ earned 15 longlist places, with the film going on to dominate the awards ceremony (and winning best film), ‘Variety’ notes.
Further down, ‘Poor Things’ was named in 14 categories, ‘Maestro’ in 12 and ‘Saltburn’ in 11, with ‘Saltburn’ missing out on a best film slot. Other UK films fared well, with ‘The Zone of Interest...
- 1/5/2024
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
The British Academy has unveiled the results of the first round of voting across all 24 categories for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards, with a perhaps unsurprising trio of films at the top.
The cultural phenomenon that was “Barbenheimer” has continued to smash its way into awards season, with both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” named in 15 categories, including best film and director. But joining the two with 15 slots, making it a three-way tie going into the final nominations, is “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Last year, only “All Quiet on the Western Front” earned 15 longlist places, with the film going on to dominate the awards ceremony (and winning best film).
Further down, “Poor Things” was named in 14 categories, “Maestro” in 12 and “Saltburn” in 11, with “Saltburn” missing out on a best film slot. Other U.K. films fared well, with “The Zone of Interest” and “All of Us Strangers” named in 10 categories (including best film), “Wonka” in eight,...
The cultural phenomenon that was “Barbenheimer” has continued to smash its way into awards season, with both “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” named in 15 categories, including best film and director. But joining the two with 15 slots, making it a three-way tie going into the final nominations, is “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Last year, only “All Quiet on the Western Front” earned 15 longlist places, with the film going on to dominate the awards ceremony (and winning best film).
Further down, “Poor Things” was named in 14 categories, “Maestro” in 12 and “Saltburn” in 11, with “Saltburn” missing out on a best film slot. Other U.K. films fared well, with “The Zone of Interest” and “All of Us Strangers” named in 10 categories (including best film), “Wonka” in eight,...
- 1/5/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
“Barbenheimer” keeps making a splash. The British Academy on Friday unveiled the longlists for its 2024 BAFTA Film Awards in all 24 categories, and Greta Gerwig’s pink juggernaut Barbie, Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic Oppenheimer and Martin Scorsese’s Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon are leading the pack with 15 mentions each. They are followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ black-comedy science fantasy Poor Things with 14.
Meanwhile, Maestro earned 12 longlists mentions, Saltburn 11, while The Zone of Interest and All of Us Strangers got 10 each.
Among the leading actors and actresses featuring on the longlists are such names as Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Sandra Hüller, Lily Gladstone, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Scott, Jeffrey Wright, Cillian Murphy, Paul Giamatti, Colman Domingo and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Hüller, who has drawn serious awards buzz for two movies, proved why on Friday. She features on the BAFTA longlists for leading actress for her work in Anatomy of a Fall,...
Meanwhile, Maestro earned 12 longlists mentions, Saltburn 11, while The Zone of Interest and All of Us Strangers got 10 each.
Among the leading actors and actresses featuring on the longlists are such names as Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Sandra Hüller, Lily Gladstone, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Scott, Jeffrey Wright, Cillian Murphy, Paul Giamatti, Colman Domingo and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Hüller, who has drawn serious awards buzz for two movies, proved why on Friday. She features on the BAFTA longlists for leading actress for her work in Anatomy of a Fall,...
- 1/5/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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