The Bookshop, which played in Berlin and was the winner of three Goya awards in Spain, was just acquired for U.S. distribution by Greenwich Entertainment. Written and directed by Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive) and based on a Man Booker Prize short-listed novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, the film…
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy (Love Actually), Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri) and Jay Baruchel (Goon) are joining the cast of Lone Scherfig’s latest movie, I can reveal. The movie is now underway in Toronto and will soon head to Copenhagen and New York.
As previously announced, Andrea…
Annette Bening and Bill Nighy are teaming to star in Hope Gap, the new movie from Oscar-nominated Gladiator and Shadowlands scribe William Nicholson, who penned the script for the family drama and is directing. The pic, a “nuanced and tender take on familial disbandment,” is in pre-production with an eye on a summer…
Bill Nighy and Jack Lowden (Mary Queen of Scots, Dunkirk) are now attached to James D'Arcy's feature screenplay and directorial debut Made In Italy. The comedy, set in Tuscany, is about a bohemian London artist Robert (Nighy), who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Lowden) to make a quick sale of the house…
Ordeal By Innocence is the first Agatha Christie adaptation under a 2016 deal struck between BBC One and Agatha Christie Productions for seven dramas based on the author’s works. With filming starting in Scotland this month, the three-part mini has set its ensemble cast led by Bill Nighy, Catherine Keener and Matthew G…
The Limehouse Golem, produced by Stephen Woolley and starring Billy Nighy and Olivia Cooke, has been picked up for U.S. theatrical release by RLJ Entertainment. The thriller, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year, will be released into theaters and on VOD Sept. 8.
Based on the novel Dan Leno and the Li…
Juan Carlos Medina’s The Limehouse Golem received a rollicking Ryerson roll-out this week, injecting much-needed genre thrills into the Toronto Film Festival program, outside the Midnight Madness section. Based on Peter Ackroyd’s 1994 book, the story is a fictionalized account of a Jack the Ripper-esque serial killer…
Danish director Lone Scherfig continues her path to British citizenship with Their Finest, which took its world premiere bow at the Toronto Film Festival this past weekend. It’s her fourth British film in a row, after An Education, One Day and The Riot Club, and follows a group of characters in wartime London as they…
EXCLUSIVE: The Limehouse Golem, from Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's Number 9 Films, has its world premiere on Saturday as a Special Presentation in Toronto. The gothic murder mystery is written by Jane Goldman based on Peter Ackroyd's 1994 novel Dan Leno And The Limeshouse Golem. It’s set in an atmospheric…
Following a pattern set by the original 1996 production and last spring’s West End revival, David Hare’s Skylight has paid off its Broadway capitalization costs in under two months. The producers, led by Robert Fox and Scott Rudin, declined to reveal how much they had raised to transfer the drama, starring Bill Nighy…
EXCLUSIVE: Gemma Arterton (Quantum Of Solace), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Bill Nighy (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are set to star in Their Finest Hour And A Half, with Lone Scherfig (An Education) directing.
BBC Films developed and co-finances the film, which is being produced by…
