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Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions today unveiled the trailer for their thriller The Forgiven, starring Jessica Chastain (Armageddon Time) and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu), which is slated for release in theaters on July 1st. The film written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (The Calvary) is based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Abbey Lee (The Neon Demon, Lovecraft Country) and Christopher Abbott (Black Bear, Catch-22) are attached to lead Fear is the Rider, a chase thriller from BAFTA-nominated director John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary, The Forgiven) that The Exchange is introducing to international buyers at the 2022…

EXCLUSIVE: Roadside Attractions and Vertical Entertainment have co-acquired North American rights to The Forgiven, a starry thriller written and directed by John Michael McDonagh (The Guard, Calvary), which premiered at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival. Roadside will release the film in theaters next spring, with…

For John Michael McDonagh's film adaption of The Forgiven, it was important to highlight the main themes of the Lawrence Osborne novel. "It's about the blindness, and the privilege, and the things you're not seeing," he says. Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes star as Jo and David, a wealthy couple on the verge of…

John Michael McDonagh's The Forgiven has paused shooting in Morocco and crew have been flown home as a precaution against the coronavirus spread. Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Caleb Landry Jones and Saïd Taghmaoui are among the cast of the drama, which we originally revealed back in 2018. It is based on the novel…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director John Michael McDonagh and his House of Un-American Activities, which he runs with producing partner Elizabeth Eves, has signed with CAA. He is perhaps best known for his 2014 film Calvary, which garnered McDonagh the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival, and four more British…

Saban Films is closing in on a deal for North American distribution rights to John Michael McDonagh’s War on Everyone. The action comedy had its world premiere in Berlin and stars Michael Peña (The Martian), Alexander Skarsgård (The Legend of Tarzan), Theo James (Divergent) and Tessa Thompson (Creed). War on Everyone…

The Berlin Film Festival will ultimately line up 50 narrative and documentary features for its Panorama section that showcases innovative mainstream and radical alternative films. Today, it’s offered up the first 19 titles. Included among them are Michel Gondry‘s Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?, John Michael McDonagh’s C…

Protagonist Pictures has taken on international sales for Reprisal Films' Calvary from The Guard director John Michael McDonagh. McDonagh also wrote the screenplay for the blackly comic drama about a good priest tormented by his community. The director reteams here with his Guard star Brendan Gleeson along with Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics has closed a 7-figure deal for U.S. and Latin American distribution rights to The Guard, the Irish action comedy written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. The film premiered last Thursday and multiple distributors have been circling since. Brendan Gleeson plays a local cop who…

On the second day of Sundance, buyers were beginning to get antsy. The first screenings generated moderate interest, but buyers haven’t loved anything and only liked a few films. So far, the consensus is that the unveiled crop of films can’t be released on a high screen count. Deals will be made on these initial…