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Pixie: Olivia Cooke, Alec Baldwin Comedy Thriller Lands at Saban Films

Saban Films is closing on North American distribution rights to Pixie starring Olivia Cooke (Ready Player One, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and Emmy and Golden Globe winner and Academy Award nominee Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible franchise, Still Alice).

The film centers on Pixie (Cooke), who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist. Her plans go awry and she finds herself on the run across the wild Irish countryside with two young men (Hardy, McCormack) who are way out of their depth and being chased by a psychotic hitman and a gang of gun-toting priests. She has to pit her wits against everyone, taking on the patriarchy to claim the right to shape her own life.

Pixie also stars Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody, X-Men: Apocalypse), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), and Golden Globe nominee Colm Meaney (The Banker, Layer Cake).

Barnaby Thompson (St. Trinians) directed and produced the comedic thriller from a script by Preston Thompson (Kids in Love). James Clayton (My Generation, Pride) also produced with Ingenious Media’s Peter Touche (Unhinged, Military Wives, Blinded by the Light) and Samantha Allwinton as executive producers.

Jonathan Saba and Bill Bromiley negotiated the deal for Saban Films along with Endeavor Content on behalf of the filmmakers. Endeavor Content is also handling international sales. Paramount Pictures is releasing in the UK and Ireland. The film was funded by Ingenious Media and Fragile Films with support from Northern Ireland Screen and filmed on location in Northern Ireland.

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Harry Styles to Replace Shia LaBeouf in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling

Harry Styles to Replace Shia LaBeouf in Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling

Harry Styles to replace Shia LaBeouf in Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling

According to Deadline, award-winning singer-songwriter Harry Styles has officially signed on for one of the leading roles in actress-director Olivia Wilde’s forthcoming period thriller film Don’t Worry, Darling. The “Adore You” singer will be replacing Honey Boy star Shia LaBeouf, who has decided to exit the project because of scheduling conflicts. This marks Styles’ second high project after over three years since his appearance in Christopher Nolan’s 2017 war film Dunkirk.

Originally written by Carey and Shane Van Dyke, Don’t Worry, Darling is a psychological thriller about a 1950’s housewife who uncovers a disturbing truth to her perfect life. It’s also described as a pertinent story for the Time’s Up era and Wilde’s producing and writing collaborator Katie Silberman will rewrite the script and produce the film alongside Wilde and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee.

The film will also star Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (Midsommar), Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman), and Wilde in a key supporting role. Dakota Johnson (Peanut Butter Falcon) was previously in talks to join the film.

New Line Cinema was eager to work with Wilde following her directorial debut Booksmart. Wilde will also star in and produce the film, alongside Silbermann and Roy Lee of Vertigo Entertainment. The film will also be executive produced by Catherine Hardwicke, Shane Van Dyke and Carey Van Dyke with Daria Cercek and Celia Khong set to oversee the project on behalf of New Line.

Part of the deal includes an asking budget around $20 million, fees for acting, directing, for Silberman’s rewrite, and the “rare” backend. The outlet reports that the filmmakers and producers of Don’t Worry, Darling stand to receive 50 percent in profit participation once the movie breaks even. The last time a deal was made like this was between Warner Bros. and Todd Phillips’ The Hangover.

(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

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Chris Hemsworth Confirms Thor: Love and Thunder Won’t Be His Last MCU Appearance

Chris Hemsworth confirms Thor: Love and Thunder won’t be his last MCU appearance

Following Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans’ MCU retirement in Avengers: Endgame, many fans are speculating if the other four original Avengers’ time in the MCU will also be coming to an end or not, especially when their upcoming individual projects are about the introduction of a new character that might reportedly takeover their superhero personas. Although Scarlett Johannsson’ Black Widow died in Endgame, fans are still waiting to see if her long-awaited solo film will definitely be her last stint as Natasha Romanoff or not.

Meanwhile, during a recent interview with Elle Man, Chris Hemsworth finally opened up about his future in the MCU when he was asked about his rumored Thor retirement. The 37-year-old Australian actor immediately denied the rumor by clearly expressing his willingness to continue playing the God of Thunder even after Taika Waititi’s highly-anticipated Thor: Love and Thunder.

“Are you crazy?! I’m not going into any retirement period (laughs). Thor is way too young for that. I’m only 1500 years old! It is definitely not a film that I say goodbye to this brand. At least I hope so,” Hemsworth said.

He also went to share his excitement for Waititi’s Love and Thunder script: “After reading the script, I can say that I am very excited. For sure there will be a lot of love and a lot of lightning in this production (laughs). I’m glad that after all that happened in Avengers: Endgame, I’m still part of the Marvel Universe and we can continue the story of Thor. Of course, I can’t tell you anything about the plot, but to satisfy your curiosity, I’ll say that I had a lot more fun reading the script than on Thor Ragnarok, and that proves something, because this movie was brilliant.”

Thor: Love and Thunder will be directed by Waititi (Jojo Rabbit) on a script co-written by him and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson (Someone Great), which will be the followup to Waititi’s wildly successful 2017 sequel Thor: Ragnarok. Oscar-winner Natalie Portman is set to return as Jane and will now be wielding the mighty Mjolnir. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson will also return as Thor and Valkyrie, respectively. Academy Award winner Christian Bale (The Dark Knight trilogy) will portray the main antagonist in the film. The female Thor storyline is based on Jason Aaron’s run on “The Mighty Thor” in which a cancer-stricken Jane Foster takes up the mantle and powers of Thor.

Thor and Valkyrie were last seen in this year’s highest-grossing film of all time Avengers: Endgame, with the god of thunder entrusting his responsibilities as the King of Asgard to Valkyrie as he joins the Guardians of the Galaxy on their next mission. According to Vin Diesel, the Guardians might also make an appearance in the fourth Thor film.

Originally set to debut on November 2021, Thor: Love and Thunder will now be arriving in theaters on March 25, 2022.

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CS Interview: Hugo Weaving Talks Measure for Measure

To celebrate the release of Paul Ireland’s gritty adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, ComingSoon.net had the opportunity to speak with the film’s star Hugo Weaving (The Lord of the Rings franchise, The Matrix franchise, V for Vendetta). The actor discussed his role in the flick and also went into great detail about all things Shakespeare and acting. You can purchase or rent the new film here!

Here’s the official synopsis for Measure for Measure: “An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne’s most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.”

ComingSoon.net: How did you get involved with Measure for Measure?

Hugo Weaving: I saw a film that Paul Ireland and Damian Hill had made together. And Damian acted in it, Paul directed it, a film called Pawno, which I absolutely loved. It was set in contemporary Melbourne, a suburb, and saw it about three years before we worked on Measure for Measure. And I met them then and I just was really interested in working with them because I knew that they’d made that with a lot of determination and good humor and good fellowship and with a minimum budget. And they’d done a fantastic job, so I was just interested in working with them, to be honest. And we talked about a few projects and one of them was this Measure for Measure, was then called M for M. And Damian had written a screenplay for it, which I then read and we talked about over a couple of years’ period, various drafts. And they got their funding and they wanted me to play Duke, and I was really taken with actually the character of Duke.

I thought he was very well-written. I think there were all sorts of other issues with the script that we were continuing to work on, but I was sort of committed to working with them, and I was committed to playing this particular role. I was just interested in all the complexities within that character so I could go figure if you like, he’s like a King Lear character. He’s stepping down. He’s very aware of his own mortality. And even though he’s a crime figure, he’s a crime boss, he’s actually a man of moderation, a certain amount of wisdom that had come through living through so much, a great deal of guilt, perhaps for certain things he’s done, a great deal of grief. Lost his wife and child and a great deal of empathy for other characters within the film. And he has a certain code, his sort of moral and ethical code. You know, he’s an old school kind of gangster, if you like. And it wasn’t so much the underworld that I was interested in, but I was interested in that concept, that idea of relinquishing power and sensing your own decline, which is all inside that character. So that’s really why I was interested in doing it.

CS: Well, so how familiar were you with the original Shakespeare play?

Weaving: I’ve never been in a production of Measure for Measure, but I’ve seen I think four or five productions, actually, unusually. Yeah, probably about four or five. And always been fascinated by elements within it and thought other elements within the play incredibly tricky, which I don’t think I’m the first person to say that. I mean, they’re problem plays of Shakespeare’s, but not because they’re problematic to do, but I think they are. I think Measure for Measure is an incredibly dark play. And there are certain aspects of the morality tale, which are very hard for us to take these days. There’s certain aspects of it which are very difficult to take. But there are other aspects of Measure for Measure, which seem very, very present, actually.

So yeah, I knew the play, but had never investigated it as a performer, never been involved in a production of it. But Damian had and was really keen to set it in contemporary Melbourne in Council Flats in Melbourne. So and I thought that was a pretty wonderfully brave and interesting idea. There were all sorts of issues with how do you make that reality, the morality of the original play work in contemporary Australia? And there’s something that they’ve found with the Jaiwara, Karima and Farouk characters, the intense religious sort of hold that the brother, the Farouk character has on his sister. It’s both familial and there’s a male/female domination. There’s a religious dictate and there’s also that their father figure has gone.

So I think some of his extreme morality plays well into this. And then, you’ve also got sort of the code and the chaos of the younger generation coming through, wanting to sell crack cocaine on the streets and make money that way. And so, there was quite an extreme sense of darkness and light and of chaos and balance, I suppose, within the piece that I thought could be perhaps contained in a screenplay. You know, I don’t know if you know that Damian Hill died the day before we shot the film. He was going to play Angelo and had written the piece and would’ve been co-directing and producing it. So this project’s really, there’s a lot of tragedy both in the piece itself, but much more for the people making the film. And it was – yeah. So that has informed the experience for all of us hugely.

CS: It’s interesting how you describe the play as being dark when it is typically referred to as a comedy.

Weaving: Yeah, that’s right.

CS: So when you guys approached it, did you approach it as a dark comedy?

Weaving: Yeah, no, well, we did talk about certain comic elements, but no, we didn’t look at it as a comedy. And I think all of — look, I think all great Shakespeare plays have great, fabulous comedy in them. I mean, Hamlet’s a case in point. You move from a clown grave digger talking to another clown grave digger into a scene where the body of a beautiful woman arrives and she goes into the grave and another man leaps into the grave declaring his love for her. And then, her brother drags him out and they start fighting. It’s like intense life and death mixed up with comedy and philosophy about life and death. So I think Shakespeare’s, that’s why he’s so great, is that even in the darkest moments, there are ways of looking at life that make you laugh, yeah.

CS: Okay, so I watched online you performed a soliloquy of Hamlet.

Weaving: Right, yeah.

CS: And I just got to know, how difficult is Shakespeare to pull off?

Weaving: I think it’s interesting because, yeah, the Sydney Theatre Company, basically because they haven’t been putting on plays this year, although I’m now rehearsing one with them. We’re about to open in about three weeks in a sort of social distancing theater. But yeah, they were basically trying to ask people to do things to help raise money for them because they weren’t doing any shows, you know? So I’ve been working with them since I was about 21, and one of the characters that I never got to play was Hamlet. And Tim Minchin, the musician/writer/composer/actor, who you may or may not know of, wonderful character, he did a soliloquy of Hamlet. And I had been thinking the same thing, although I was looking at all sorts of other things. I was looking at all sorts of plague things from The Decameron to The Diary of the Plague Year. I was trying — or Camus’ The Plague, reading sections from that. And then — well, look “to be or not to be” has just been going around in my head forever, ever since I was 18, 17, you know. I’m also interested in the idea of actually doing a production of Hamlet with every actor, everyone in it has to be over 65, so you get all the wonderful old actors, male-female to play, not necessarily play — just get all this fantastic experience so you hear the language and you hear the words, you hear the text, you hear what’s being said. His words are so extraordinary. And if you really understand, I don’t know.

You can’t ever dig and find the water. You’ve just got to keep on digging, you know, with Shakespeare. You can’t ever quite get there, but you can hope to try and get somewhere near there, but the well will just get deeper and deeper, I think, with him. And so, it’s endlessly challenging and fascinating. So incredibly difficult to make it work, to pull it off, if you were doing a Shakespeare play on film, but wonderful, some fantastic, some of the most extraordinary films. There’s a great Russian Hamlet. There’s all of Akira Kurosawa’s, Throne of Blood — a fantastic take on Macbeth. Orson Welles and [Roman] Polanski’s Macbeth is amazing. So you can do it. And but there are some of them are much more problematic. I think Measure for Measure is challenging and problematic, but it’s challenging and problematic to do on the stage.

CS: And so, do you have a favorite Shakespeare play?

Weaving: Yeah, Macbeth’s my fav, Macbeth and I love Twelfth Night. Macbeth, Twelfth Night. Yeah, and Hamlet. Hamlet, the soliloquies are extraordinary. I did play Macbeth with the Sydney Theatre Company about five years ago, and it was a massive theater and we put all the audience on stage and we performed on the lip of the stage and they were looking past us into an empty auditorium. And we also used the auditorium as well for different scenes. And it was incredibly claustrophobic for them. They were all sitting on the precipitous sort of stage seating. And yeah, smoke and lights and candles and a fantastic play — really, really headlong, dark, nightmare, wonderful. Just a fantastic play. Yeah, love it. But Twelfth Night I love, too. It’s just a beautiful, joyous, yeah, anyway. But you can make such a mess of them all. They can just be awful, but they’re wonderful, you know?

CS: It’s true. It’s like, if you have a great production then you can make something absolutely astounding, but you can screw it up.

Weaving: Very easily.

CS: What is your method of approaching a character?

Weaving: Well, I guess there’s an element of trust there. So you go reading, well, what sort of film is this? What is the style of this piece? How much humor is in this? How much self-deprecation needs to be in here from the point of view of the actors? How serious are these characters or how knowing are they? How innocent are they? And also, the filmmaker, are they really in control of their camera and are they in control of the material? And are the producers and will it be edited in the right way? So you don’t know. You have to trust as an actor. Like actors can look awful, just by their own performances, you know? It doesn’t mean they’re bad, it just means they’ve made a decision and jumped in with something. And maybe their communication between them and the director/producers is all wrong.

And so, actors can end up looking shocking. Similarly, an actor can be made to look amazing when they’re perhaps not amazing. And similarly, an actor can be really made amazing when they are amazing and they can be awful when they are awful. So I think to some extent you’ve got to — well, to a large extent, you’ve got to be able to communicate really, really — feel like you’re all on the same page, but also be prepared to fall on your face and be prepared to hopefully be picked up by someone and say, actually, that’s fantastic and thanks for that offer, but look, I think now we need to do this.

So you need to be looked after, but in order to learn, you need to jump over the cliff every now and then and hope that it’s not too far that you’re going to fall. I think part of — well, you’ve got to do to learn, don’t you? And yeah. You can play it safe and think about your career and play it safe and just look perfect all the time, or you can, you know, challenge and hopefully look pretty good sometimes and other times not so.

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Tenet Coming to Select Drive-In Theaters in Los Angeles Area!

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Tenet coming to select drive-in theaters in Los Angeles Area!

For those in Los Angeles who have been avoiding heading to an indoor theater to see the latest Christopher Nolan blockbuster due to the safety concerns, the wait has paid off as Tenet is coming to select drive-in theaters in the Southern California region, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The decision to screen the film at drive-ins comes on the heels of the revelation at the end of August that Warner Bros. had issued a mandate to exhibitors that it would only be releasing the film in drive-ins in areas in which indoor theaters were also open, therefore if state or local governments were keeping indoor theaters closed, the local drive-ins would not be allowed to show Tenet.

With indoor theaters currently closed in the greater LA area, it’s unclear why WB is reversing their decision on the mandate. It could come from the studio’s hope to make back its money on the film sooner, given it’s Nolan’s most expensive original film to date with a $200 million budget, or just from WB’s desire to bring the film to LA audiences, who are one of the groups that are pretty instrumental in Nolan’s box office hits, but no matter the case this proves to be an exciting revelation for SoCal audiences.

Tenet is an international espionage thriller filmed across seven countries. John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) stars, with a supporting cast that includes Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Dimple Kapadia (Fugly), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Michael Caine (The Dark Knight Rises) and Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk).

Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist (Washington) journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real-time. Not time travel. Inversion.

The director first made an impact in 2001 with his indie film Memento. His next film, Insomnia, was also a modest hit. but it wasn’t until Batman Begins hit theaters in 2005 that Nolan became a box office force in his own right. The Prestige was Nolan’s last movie to gross under $200 million worldwide. His other films include The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk.

Looking to binge-watch some movies? Check out Amazon’s Director’s Collection of Christopher Nolan films here!

Tenet is written by Nolan and will utilize a mixture of IMAX and 70mm film, which is something he’s become famous for. Nolan is the film producer along with his partner Emma Thomas.

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Scream 5 Adds Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette & More to Cast!

Scream 5 adds Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette & more to cast!

As if this morning’s reveal of Neve Campbell returning to the franchise wasn’t already enough, it’s been announced that Mason Gooding (Love, Victor) and Dylan Minnette (13 Reasons Why) have joined the ensemble cast of Scream 5! (Via Deadline)

David Arquette became the first actor from the original franchise to sign on for the fifth film in the series, with Courteney Cox signing on at the end of July for the film and after word coming earlier this year that lead heroine Campbell was in talks to reprise her role of Sidney Prescott, it’s now finally official!

Alongside the returning vets, including Scream 4‘s Marley Shelton, other new cast members for the film include Kyle Gallner (Ghosts of War), Jasmin Savoy Brown (The Leftovers) and Mikey Madison (Better Things), who join previously cast Jack Quaid (The Boys), Melissa Barrera (Vida) and Jenna Ortega (The Babysitter: Killer Queen).

While plot details are currently scarce, it is being reported that the film will follow “a woman returning to her home town to try to find out who has been committing a series of vicious crimes.”

The new film will be produced by Project X Entertainment’s James Vanderbilt (Zodiac), who is also co-writing the screenplay with Guy Busick (Ready or Not), as well as Paul Neinstein and William Sherak for Spyglass, with original screenwriter Kevin Williamson executive producing with Radio Silence’s third member Chad Villella.

The first film, released in 1996, was a surprise smash upon its debut, helping to revive the horror genre for the decade and becoming the highest-grossing slasher movie of all-time until it was dethroned by last year’s Halloween reboot. The first’s success spawned a franchise that includes three sequels, the first of which remained equally as successful as the first while the previous two saw middling box office returns and mixed reviews.

After years of struggling to get another film off the ground, MTV picked up a series adaptation that became a cult hit, with two well-received seasons from fans before it was passed off to VH1 for its rebooted third season, which saw mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and audiences alike, but was a minor improvement in the ratings from the second season.

Set to debut on January 14, 2022, Scream 5 marks the second major horror franchise reboot Spyglass is working on, with the studio developing a remake of the Clive Barker cult horror classic Hellraiser, with David S. Goyer (Terminator: Dark Fate) attached to pen the script.

Neve Campbell (Party of Five, The Craft) has played Sidney Prescott in the original blockbuster hit Scream way back in 1996. Since then, she became the face of the popular slasher franchise as she also starred in three follow-up sequels. The most recent entry, Scream 4, released in 2011 and grossed $97 million worldwide on a $40 million budget. Campbell recently appeared in Netflix’s House of Cards and the film Castle in the Ground.

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Neve Campbell Confirmed to Return for Scream 5!

Neve Campbell confirmed to return for Scream 5!

After months of building up an impressive roster with the returns of David Arquette (Spree) and Courteney Cox (Shining Vale), it’s finally been announced that franchise lead Neve Campbell will return for the highly-anticipated Scream 5! The actress took to Instagram to announce the news, which can be viewed below!

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Arquette became the first actor from the original franchise to sign on for the fifth film in the series, with Cox signing on at the end of July for the film and after word coming earlier this year that lead heroine Campbell was in talks to reprise her role of Sidney Prescott, it’s now finally official!

While plot details are currently scarce, it is being reported that the film will follow “a woman returning to her home town to try to find out who has been committing a series of vicious crimes.”

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Hulu Unveils Trailer & TIFF Screening Dates for I Am Greta

Hulu unveils trailer & TIFF screening dates for I Am Greta

After receiving rave reviews from critics at last week’s Venice Film Festival, Hulu has announced new screening dates for the Toronto International Film Festival and the first trailer for the upcoming documentary I Am Greta centered on celebrated young Swedish activist. The trailer can be viewed in the player below!

The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate action outside the Swedish Parliament, Grossman follows Greta – a shy student with Asperger’s – in her rise to prominence, and her galvanizing global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world. The film culminates with her astonishing wind powered voyage across the Atlantic Ocean to speak at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York City.

The film is set to make its North American Premiere on Friday, September 11 at 6 p.m. via Bell PPV followed by Tuesday, September 15 and Thursday, September 17 11 a.m. screenings as part of the TIFF Digital Cinema P&I with another screening on Wednesday, September 16 at 6 p.m. on Bell Digital Cinema.

I Am Greta is set to make its Hulu premiere on November 13.

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Exclusive The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw Trailer!

Exclusive The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw trailer!

Following its world premiere at the virtual Fantasia Fest, ComingSoon.net has exclusively received the first trailer for the acclaimed folklore horror pic The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, which is set to hit select theaters and VOD and digital platforms in early October! Check out the chilling trailer in the player below!

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw explores the disturbed bond between Audrey, an enigmatic young woman, and Agatha, her domineering mother, who live secretly as occultists on the outskirts of a remote Protestant village. Following an ominous encounter between Agatha and a grieving townsman, and a rare sighting of Audrey by a local, Agatha’s authority crumbles as Audrey asserts her dominance. Meanwhile, hysteria mounts within the community as a mysterious pestilence spreads throughout the fields and livestock, yet the Earnshaw farm remains strangely unaffected.

The cast for the film includes Catherine Walker (A Dark Song), Jared Abrahamson (Travelers), Hannah Emily Anderson (The Purge), Geraldine O’Rawe (Seven & Me), Don McKellar (Sensitive Skin), Sean McGinley (The Alienist: Angel of Darkness) and Jessica Reynolds in her feature acting debut in the titular role.

The film is written and directed by Thomas Robert Lee, with Gianna Isabella producing while Lee executive produces alongside Marie-Claude Poulin, James Mahoney, Bill Marks, Diwya Shahani, George Mihalka, Susan Curran, Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson. Nick Thomas acts as cinematographer for the film while Ben Lee Allen is editor and Thilo Schaller and Bryan Buss compose the music for the pic.

“I wanted to tell a story about legacy, and to specifically explore it within the context of a folk horror narrative,” Lee said in a statement. “The community grows increasingly desperate as their given circumstances grow dire. In reality, the pandemic appears to have amplified hatred and xenophobia, or at least the voices of those spewing hate speech. Obviously there is a world of difference between my screenplay and the very real ramifications of the pandemic, but the similarities, however surface-level they may be, have certainly been on my mind these past months.”

The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw is set to hit select theaters on October 2 followed by a VOD and digital platform release on October 6!

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New to Stream: Acorn TV’s October 2020 Lineup

Acorn TV has announced its upcoming lineup for the month of October, including the including the eagerly-awaited return of multiple award-winning Australian crime series Mystery Road, as well as the Scandinavian psychological and character-driven crime thriller Darkness: Those Who Kill.

Monday, October 5, 2020

The Sounds (Acorn TV Original Series, Commissioned) – Episode 7 of 8

In this riveting, twisty psychological thriller, Rachelle Lefevre (Proven Innocent, Under the Dome) and Matt Whelan (The Luminaries, Narcos) star as a married Canadian couple who moves halfway around the world to a small idyllic town in New Zealand to start a new life –to escape the husband’s wealthy, oppressive father and launch his own business venture – a sustainable salmon fishery- that will help revive the local troubled economy, but not everyone in the community welcomes the change. When Tom Cabbott (Whelan) disappears after he goes out kayaking, unsettling facts about him soon come to light, and the search for him brings long-buried wounds
to the surface. As wife Maggie (Lefevre) struggles to navigate the escalating events, it becomes clear that in this small, seemingly close-knit community of Pelorus, nothing and no one are quite what they seem. As it turns out, the couple chose the wrong town for their happy ending. The series is created and written by international bestselling novelist, Sarah-Kate Lynch (Blessed Are the Cheesemakers).

Bloodlines

This television thriller reveals the true story of one of the most evil crimes in New Zealand history. In November 1999, the head of Psychiatry at Otago Hospital, Dr Colin Bouwer (Mark Mitchinson, High Road, Mystery Road), thought he was clever enough to commit the perfect murder, and he almost got away with it. He wanted his wife, Annette (Nathalie Boltt, Riverdale), out of the way and over three months slowly poisoned her with insulin, causing a slow and painful death watched by helpless family and friends. Believing medical authorities and police were not smart enough to ever catch him, this “Dr. Death” almost got away with murder. But he was detected by Andrew Bowers (Craig Hall, A Place To Call Home), a young consultant physician, who never expected that he would stumble upon a murder in process. It was down to Bowers and Detective Brett Roberts (Will Hall, Netherwood), whose dogged pursuit of the truth eventually uncovered Annette Bouwer’s cold-blooded murder by her husband, an evil man with a Mensa IQ who thought he was smarter than anyone else in New Zealand.

The Gulf

This psychological thriller series captures the moral disintegration of Detective Jess Savage (Kate Elliott, Wentworth), who investigates crimes in Waiheke Island, New Zealand. After losing her memory in a car crash that killed her husband, Jess becomes determined to bring the killer to justice. Convinced that someone is trying to kill her because of something she has uncovered in a recent investigation, she in effect begins investigating herself, retracing her steps over the weeks prior. As her colleagues become increasingly uncooperative, Jess suffers from paranoia, while starting to fight an addiction to morphine. As she gets closer to the truth she so desperately seeks, Jess discovers that her world is not so morally black and white. The personal story of Jess and the revelation of it to her and the audience is complex and intriguing, which dovetails seamlessly with three intriguing criminal cases that have a major impact on her career. (6 EPS, 2019)

Tales of Irish Castles

This six part series explores the great stories, legends and characters associated with the most beautiful, notorious and historical castles across Ireland – in Dublin, Trim, Blarney, Limerick, Carrickfergus, Kilkenny, Birr and more. Hosted by Simon Delaney, the series takes the audience on an incredible journey throughout the island of Ireland – where more castles were built than in the rest of the British Isles combined. From the imposing Anglo-Norman strongholds of the 13th and 14th centuries (e.g. Trim, Carrickfergus and King John’s), to the more modest tower houses of the 15th and 16th centuries (e.g. Clonony and Leap) and to the lavish fortified houses of the 17th and 18th centuries (Tullynally, Ashford), Irish castles have provided the backdrop for countless bloody battles, savage sieges, haunting happenings and lavish lifestyles over the years. The series documents these magnificent stone structures and the stories contained within their walls, bringing them to life through specially shot re-enactments, archive footage and contributions from Ireland’s leading historians, archaeologists, castle owners and inhabitants. (6 EPS, 2014)

Monday, October 12, 2020

Mystery Road, Series 2 (Acorn TV Original series) – Episodes 1 and 2 of 6

Aaron Pedersen (Jack Irish, A Place to Call Home) reprises his signature role as Indigenous detective Jay Swan in this beautifully-filmed, acclaimed mystery set in the Australian outback. When a body is found in the mangroves of a coastal town of Gideon, Jay teams up with local constable Fran Davis (Jada Alberts, Wentworth) to investigate the crime. Soon a nearby archaeologist (Sofia Helin, The Bridge) makes a find that could help with the case, but she conceals it for fear of shutting down her dig site. Facing obstruction at every turn and a rising body count, Jay must expose the web of corruption plaguing the town. Voted Most Popular Drama at the 2019 Logie Awards and winner of five AACTA Awards, including Best Television Drama Series, as well as awards from the Australian Directors Guild and the Australian Writers’ Guild.

The Sounds (Acorn TV Original Series, Commissioned) – Episode 8 – SERIES FINALE!

The Labours of Erica, Series 1 and 2

In this classic Britcom, Erica (Brenda Blethyn, Vera) realizes that she has so far spent her life only looking after other people. Since the death of her husband on their wedding night, she has divided the time between the needs of her son, Jeremy (Paul Spurrier, Eullenia) and her boss, Dexter (Geoffrey Davies, Doctor in the House) with who she’s been having an unsatisfactory affair for the past 12 years. Now Jeremy is 16 and is a managing director of a successful computer company and Dexter wants love, involvement and passion – like her, but with as many women as possible. Within a few hours, Erica gives up her lover, her job and her chances of marriage. Then she finds her teenage diary containing a list of “Twelve things I am going to do before I am Forty.” The discovery symbolizes all the hopes and dreams she has never achieved and heralds the start of a startling change in Erica’s approach to life. (Series 1- 6 EPS, 1989; Series 2- 6 EPS, 1990)

Monday, October 19, 2020

Darkness: Those Who Kill (Acorn TV Exclusive series, Foreign Language, with English subtitles)

This gripping Danish crime drama, which aired last year on BBC4, centers on a duo of investigators who probe a series of brutal murders combining classical investigation techniques with psychological leads to find the small hidden details that can make them understand the location and motives of the murderer and hopefully rescue their next victim. Six months after the abduction of 17-year-old Julie from the streets of Copenhagen, Detective Jan Michelsen (Kenneth M. Christensen, The Legacy) is the only one who believes she might still be alive. In a desperate attempt to keep the case alive, Jan digs into their cold case archive and comes across a missing girl who vanished under similar circumstances 10 years ago. He quickly discovers fresh evidence that eventually leads the police to retrieving her body from a lake. Jan joins forces with expert profiler Louise Bergstein (Natalie Madueño, Follow the Money) and they discover that the girl in the lake was killed 10 years ago by the same person who abducted Julie a few months back. When another girl, Emma, disappears, the pair are convinced they now have a serial killer on their hands. As Jan and Louise race against the clock to find where Julie and Emma are being held captive, more bodies are discovered across Copenhagen. Patterns of a mysterious mind begin to emerge and Jan and Louise finally start to unravel the mystery. However, all is not as it seems… (8 EPS, 2019)

Mystery Road (Acorn TV Original Series) – Episode 3 of 6

Heavenly Gardens

In this BBC One series, garden aficionado Alexander Armstrong and garden designer Arit Anderson visit six spectacular sacred UK gardens that symbolize beauty, joy and hope: from The Bishop’s Palace in Somerset to Pluscarden Abbey in the Highlands of Scotland; from Cambridge University’s stunning Botanical Gardens to Alnwick Castle’s restored gardens in Northumberland; from Scone Palace’s gardens of kings in Perthshire to Sudeley Castle’s sacred connections in the Cotswolds. Alexander and Arit celebrate the significant inclusion of gardens in the spiritual world and meet the custodians of these glorious gardens to pick up gardening tips, as they get their hands dirty, discovering the very special and surprising significance of plants in each place. (2 EPS, 2020)

Monday, October 26, 2020

How To Murder Your Wife

This melodramatic black comedy is the true story of Alfred Benning (Simon O’Connor, Heavenly Creatures), a seemingly mild-mannered animal welfare inspector who prowled 1970’s Wellington for feral cats and stray dogs before becoming an infamous murderer. In 1977, sixty-five year old Alf Benning decided that life was too short if he had to spend the rest of it with his overbearing wife, Elizabeth (Geraldine Brophy, King Kong) … so he decided to murder her and cut her into bits – six to be exact! A set of outlandish plans and misadventures make Alf the most unlikely murderer you will ever know, and his actions will take you on the most bizarre journey of any true story you’ll ever experience. (Movie, 2015)

Mystery Road (Acorn TV Original Series) – Episode 4 of 6

UPCOMING IN 2020:

The South Westerlies (November 2; Acorn TV Original series, commissioned):

Feel-good Irish comedy drama starring Orla Brady (American Horror Story: 1984, Into the Badlands, Star Trek: Picard, Mistresses) as a single working mom and environmental consultant who goes undercover among protesters to quash objections to a Norwegian-owned wind farm earmarked for a small town (6 EPS, 2020)

Reunions (November 16) –

Light French family drama (6 EPS, with English subtitles)

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