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South African actor Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries have joined the Idris Elba Universal-Will Packer movie Beast, which started production in South Africa. Elba stars as Dr. Nate Samuels, a recently widowed husband who returns to South Africa, where he first met his wife, on a long-planned trip…

Universal will be releasing the Baltasar Kormákur directed thriller Beast starring Idris Elba on Aug. 19, 2022. There are no other major studio wide releases currently scheduled for that date.  Elba plays widowed husband and father, Dr Nate Samuels, who with his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a…

BREAKING: Idris Elba will star in Universal Pictures' Beast, a thriller based on an original idea by Jaime Primak-Sullivan. Baltasar Kormakur will direct. Rampage scribe Ryan Engle wrote the script. Will Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions. Kormakur will produce through his RVK…

Rakuten and The H Collective have set Deadpool and Homeland star Morena Baccarin to lead survival thriller Beast for Oscar nominated Kon-Tiki co-director Espen Sandberg. Beast is the first film under the Rakuten H Collective Studio joint venture that was launched last August. Principal photography will begin in late…

EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Bell is set to star in World War II thriller Dynamite Room from the producers of Beast and Under The Shadow. Fresh off acclaimed performances in Toronto drama Skin (which will be released in U.S. later this year) and Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool and ahead of a key role in Elton John biopic Rocketm…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Venice Special Grand Jury Prize winner The Favourite leads nominations for this year’s British Independent Film Awards with 13 in its court. The twisted take on the British monarchy and period cinema, which Fox Searchlight releases November 23 in North America, has nods for Venice Best Actress…

A dozen new specialty titles packed theaters this weekend. Sony Classics' The Seagull and Roadside Attractions/30WEST's Beast edged out the competition, grossing $80,607 in six locations ($13,434 average) and $52,078 in four theaters ($13,020 average) respectively. The big screen version of Russian dramatist Anton…

Toronto Film Festival buzz film Beast has unleashed its trailer in anticipation of its May 11 theatrical release. Roadside Attractions is teaming with 30WEST on Michael Pearce's psychological drama, which made its U.S. premiere in the Spotlight section this year at the Sundance Film Festival. Beast was one of several…

Roadside Attractions is teaming with 30WEST on the theatrical release of Beast, Michael Pearce’s psychological drama that bowed to buzz at this fall’s Toronto Film Festival. A spring 2018 release is now in the works after the pic makes its U.S. premiere in the Spotlight section at Sundance. Beast was one of several…

British director Michael Pearce's debut Beast was one of the indie success stories of this year's Toronto film festival, selling to 30WEST for a seven-figure sum. Starring newcomer Jessie Buckley in her first film lead, Beast is a psychological thriller in which a young girl with a tortured past meets a dangerous…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director Michael Pearce’s romantic thriller Beast is heading to the Toronto Film Festival for its world premiere Saturday. Before that, here is an exclusive clip from the film about a troubled young woman who falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape her oppressive family. When he…

EXCLUSIVE: Highly rated director Michael Pearce is assembling a cast of up-and-coming talent for his feature directorial debut Beast. Johnny Flynn and Jessie Buckley are in advanced talks to star in the project. Beast is a love story trapped within a horror film; a dark fairytale about an emotionally isolated woman…