David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star in A United Kingdom, a true story about a couple who faced down the British establishment and the rise of apartheid next door to their home in Botswana, which Fox Searchlight is rolling out this weekend. The title had a robust premiere at the Paris Theater in New York this week…
On the heels of the interracial marriage story Loving comes A United Kingdom, the true story of another mixed marriage threatened by the political climate. Instead of the 1950s and ’60s Deep South of the landmark Richard and Mildred Loving case, this story takes place in 1947 in London and Botswana (or the British…
The marriage of Botswana (then known as Bechuanaland, a British protectorate) royal family member-turned-independence leader Seretse Khama and his wife Ruth Williams Khama is little known in the U.S.. But their relationship, amid increasingly hateful official racism in neighboring South Africa and the burgeoning…
Amma Asante's A United Kingdom took its premiere bow at Toronto on Friday night, starring David Oyelowo as Bechuanaland prince Seretse Khama, exiled from his homeland and prevented from taking his place as king, all for the love of his wife: a white British woman, Ruth Williams, played by Rosamund Pike. Greeted warmly…
A film about a family torn apart when an only daughter becomes a terrorist (American Pastoral), an Oliver Stone movie taking a sympathetic view of a man described by some as an American traitor (Snowden), a movie in which a woman expresses conflicted reactions to a brutal rape (Elle), a controversial movie about a…
Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, will open the 60th BFI London Film Festival. The film tells the true story of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1947 in the face of fierce opposition from their…
Pathe International has scored strong sales for a handful of its titles. Amma Asante’s A United Kingdom, starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike, tells the true story of Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir when he married Ruth Williams, a white woman from London in the 1940's. The…
Mark Addy (Atlantis) and Anna Chancellor (The Hour) have been set to star alongside newcomers Mark Strepan and Ben Tavassoli in BBC One’s upcoming investigative crime drama New Blood. Created and written by Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War, Injustice), the story focuses on two junior investigators from different law…
