Disney took another step in the ongoing circle of life for The Lion King today, releasing the first full trailer of director Jon Favreau's remarkably realistic “live action” take on the great 1994 traditionally animated film.
“Life’s not fair, is it, my little friend?,” says that dastardly lion Scar, surely one of…
EXCLUSIVE: Just as his feature directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind makes its Sundance Film Festival debut tonight, Chiwetel Ejiofor has been set by Los Angeles Media Fund to adapt and direct The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, based on the…
“It’s not a dream, Papa,” insists young William Kamkwamba, played by newcomer Maxwell Simba in this new trailer for Netflix’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. “I’m not dreaming.”
And indeed he isn’t – and wasn’t. Based on a true story, the film, directed by and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, chronicles the very real hopes…
The Berlin Film Festival has added movies by Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Hans Petter Moland, Isabel Coixet and Wang Quan’an to its competition programme. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind will play in the Berlinale Special strand. Scroll down for the full list of additions to the…
Harvey Weinstein is returning to the Sundance Film Festival, at least on screen.
A looming and powerful presence at the Robert Redford founded huddle for decades, an Ursula MacFarlane directed documentary about the rise and fall of the now disgraced and much accused producer is one of the premieres at this year's…
Netflix has picked up global rights (excluding Japan, China and UK free TV rights) to Chiwetel Ejiofor’s (12 Year’s A Slave) directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind.
Ejiofor scripted the British film, which is based on the book of the same name by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer. Maxwell Simba stars with…
Just as Maleficent II starts production, it has been confirmed that Robert Lindsay (Wimbledon) is joining the cast, and that Chiwetel Ejiofor is definitely attached. The 12 Years a Slave was previously in talks.
Maleficent II cameras are rolling at the UK Pinewood studios with Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning reprising…
Before the Sundance Film festival premiere of Come Sunday, helmer Joshua Marston, along with stars Condola Rashad and Jason Segel, stopped by Deadline’s Sundance Studio speak tackling the true story of the charismatic Bishop Carlton Pearson, who dared to defy the traditional ideology of Christianity.
Chiwetel Ejiofor…
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in the true-life tale of a renowned pastor in the midst of a crisis of faith in Come Sunday, the new film from Sundance Film Festival alum Joshua Marston that is having its world premiere tonight at the Eccles in the fest’s Premieres section. The Netflix drama bows on the streaming service April…
Chiwetel Ejiofor’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind which marks the actor’s directorial debut has started production in Malawi. Ejiofor will star in the project he also adapted from the book written by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.
Participant Media, BBC Films and BFI, with funds from the National Lottery, are…
Richard Madden, who played Robb Stark on HBO’s Game Of Thrones and also was the prince in Disney’s live-action Cinderella, is joining the cast of the Netflix movie Ibiza. He joins Gillian Jacobs, Phoebe Robinson and Vanessa Bayer in the comedy, which depicts a business trip to Spain that turns into a nightclubbing…
EXCLUSIVE:Martin Sheen is taking on the role of famed Pentecostal televangelist Oral Roberts in Come Sunday, the film based on a true story which stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as a renowned evangelical minister in Tulsa, OK who stirs up controversy with his revelation that there is no hell. The film is being directed by…
