As the weeks go by and the pandemic begins to lift at a very, very glacial pace we are hearing some more coins drop into the bank of the specialty box office space.
Edward Hall’s adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Blithe Spiritis one of a handful of films that made its way to theaters and digital this weekend. The IFC…
Looking for a few laughs as this endless pandemic drags on? The latest take on Noel Coward’s sophisticated and supremely silly Blithe Spirit provides them. It also presents Dame Judi Dench with a role she was born to play.
If you look it up you will quickly find out that filmmakers have taken a few whacks at Coward’s…
EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Blithe Spirit starring Leslie Mann (This is 40, The Other Woman), Dan Stevens (Beauty and the Beast, Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum, Confessions of a Shopaholic) and Judi Dench (Philomena, Skyfall).
Edward Hall (Downton Abbey, Restless) directs a…
EXCLUSIVE: After 15 years as co-CEO of international production group Umedia, Adrian Politowski has stepped down to launch LA-based production and finance outfit Align. The new company, co-founded by Umedia’s Nadia Khamlichi, intends to deploy $150M from now through 2022, focusing on three-five English-language…
Principal photography is under way in UK on comedy feature Blithe Spirit, starring Dan Stevens (Beauty And The Beast), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Outlander) and Judi Dench (Skyfall). As we revealed yesterday, Leslie Mann…