Magnus Martens' (Jackpot) under-the-radar action-thriller SAS: Red Notice has wrapped production in London, Paris and Budapest with cast including Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Tom Wilkinson and Sam Heughan. Here’s a first look at Rose and Heughan (Outlander).
Based on the book by former UK soldier turned popular author…
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in talks to star in Altitude, a thriller set on on a runaway hot-air balloon in the works from writer-director Marc Fienberg. The pic is in preproduction and shooting is scheduled to start in January in South Africa. 13 Films is repping international rights to the project and is presenting it…
EXCLUSIVE: Scottish indie band Belle and Sebastian will score Simon Bird’s (The Inbetweeners) feature directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer, which wrapped shoot last Friday.
Here’s a first look image of protagonists Monica Dolan (Eye In The Sky) and Earl Cave (The True History Of The Kelly Gang) in the…
The BFI’s annual report for 2017-18 details the organization’s biggest film investments, strategic priorities and senior salaries.
Income for the year to March 2018 was £96.9M – an increase of £1.2M from that of 2016-17, with a net increase of funds of £13.1M. The uptick was put down to property revaluations and a…
EXCLUSIVE: Simon Bird, star of hit UK comedy franchise The Inbetweeners, has set cast for his feature directorial debut Days Of The Bagnold Summer.
Monica Dolan (Eye in the Sky), Rob Brydon (The Trip), Tamsin Greig (Second Best Marigold Hotel), Alice Lowe (Prevenge), Elliot Speller-Gillot (Uncle) and Earl Cave (The Tru…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first trailer for Edinburgh Film Festival-bound black-comedy Dead In A Week (Or Your Money Back), starring rising UK actor Aneurin Barnard (Dunkirk) and Oscar-nominee Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton).
Barnard plays a young man who, after nine unsuccessful attempts, outsources his suicide to an…
Altitude has come aboard to handle international sales on The Mystery Of DB Cooper, helmed by John Dower (My Scientology Movie, Live Forever, Thriller In Manila) and based on a true story. On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper, wearing a black suit and raincoat, carrying only a briefcase, walked up to…
Prolific British screenwriter and producer Peter Morgan is being awarded the BFI Fellowship, the org’s highest honor, for his contribution to the industry. With more than 30 awards to his name, Morgan is one of the UK's most influential screenwriters, who often uses the British establishment — its leadership and…
Altitude Film Distribution has picked up UK rights to Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, the feature documentary based on James Baldwin's notes for an unfinished novel Remember This House. The book is considered one of the great incomplete works of American literature, where Baldwin attempts to recount the lives and…
Will Clarke’s Altitude Film Distribution has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Simon Dixon’s Tiger Raid. Bankside is handling international sales. The film, which stars Brian Gleeson (Assassin's Creed), Damien Molony (Kill Your Friends) and Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: Secret Service), tells the story of Joe and Paddy…
Saban Films is closing a domestic deal for Colm McCarthy’s The Girl with All the Gifts. Adapted by M.R. Carey from his own novel of the same title, the post-apocalyptic thriller stars Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans), Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum), Glenn Close (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Sennia…
Lionsgate has acquired UK rights to Ghost Stories, based on the Olivier-nominated supernatural stage production. The project stars Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), and is co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, who also reprises his role as Professor Goodman.
Will Clarke’s Altitude is handling sales…
