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The one thing you can say on behalf of In the Earth is that it is almost certainly the first dramatic feature film to emerge from the Covid era that is explicitly about the worldwide plague that has sidelined and fractured international filmmaking—not to mention the world at large–as we've always known it. Aside from…

British filmmaker Ben Wheatley made and set his genre movie In the Earth during the pandemic. But Covid is but a minor player — or is it? There are worse things going on in the forest for scientist Dr. Martin Lowry (Joel Fry) and park scout Alma (Ellora Torchia): two so-called rival witches who torture the duo as they…

UK filmmaker Ben Wheatley, whose Rebecca debuted on Netflix last month, has wrapped production on under-the-radar horror pic In The Earth, starring Joel Fry (Yesterday), Ellora Torchia (Midsommar), Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake), and Reece Shearsmith. Neon fully financed and produced the movie and will release…

Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Rebecca, the Ben Wheatley-directed adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Gothic novel that was previously turned into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940. Lily James and Armie Hammer star in the re-make that follows a young newlywed who arrives at her husband's family…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Wheatley has been set to direct MGM’s Tomb Raider sequel, with the studio setting a release date of March 19, 2021. Alicia Vikander is reprising her role as the treasure-hunting action heroine Lara Croft. Amy Jump is writing the sequel script and Graham King is producing through his GK Films banner, and…

Kill List director Ben Wheatley has created a Brexit zombie drama for UK's Channel 4 – his first television project since directing episodes of Doctor Who. The broadcaster has commissioned six-part series Generation Z. It will feature "rapacious" baby boomers and "disaffected" teenagers at each other's…

Bodyguard's Keeley Hawes, The Handmaid's Tale's Ann Dowd, Control's Sam Riley and Game of Thrones' Ben Crompton are to join Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. The actors join Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James and Armie Hammer in the film, which is produced by Working Title for Netflix. Kingsman…

Ben Wheatley's (Free Fire) seventh feature, Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, will air in the UK on BBC Two over Christmas after its London Film Festival (Oct 10-21) world premiere. Following LFF, the comedy-drama will screen around the UK in a limited run of Q&A sessions and will forego a theatrical run in favour of a…

EXCLUSIVE: Armie Hammer will star with Alicia Vikander in the Ben Wheatley-directed Freakshift, the action thriller about a band of misfit cops who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters. She’s the lead female protagonist and Hammer plays her love interest, with production gearing up for August. This marks…

EXCLUSIVE: Alicia Vikander is in talks to star in Ben Wheatley's hotly anticipated project Freakshift, an all-guns-blazing action thriller about a band of misfits who hunt down and kill nocturnal underground monsters. Should the deal make, the much-in-demand Vikander would play the lead female protagonist in the…

John Butler's Handsome Devil has been set to close the Audi Dublin International Film Festival, on February 26, 2017. It will mark the Irish premiere of the comedy-drama. The festival is kicking off next year’s edition in Ireland’s capital on February 16. Additionally, the fest has added Neasa Ni Chianáin's…

UPDATE: Deadline hears that while all the deals have to be made on Hard Boiled, Warner Bros is looking for Ben Wheatley to develop the action film as a potential vehicle for The Avengers and The Night Manager star Tom Hiddleston. We should know soon how all this works out. PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is…