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Since her Sundance hit An Education in 2009, Denmark's Lone Scherfig has become something of an honorary Brit, specializing in prestige adaptations of best-selling English novels (or, in the case of 2014's The Riot Club, critically acclaimed stage plays). Surprisingly, none of these ever quite tipped in the way An Educ…

The 69th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 7, 2019 with the world premiere of Lone Scherfig's drama The Kindness of Strangers, which will also play in competition. The English-language Denmark-Canada co-production charts the interconnected story of a handful of New Yorkers struggling with…

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…

Andrea Riseborough (Death of Stalin), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) will star in writer and director Lone Scherfig's modern-day fairy tale Secrets from the Russian Tea Room. Scherfig was responsible for An Education and Their Finest. The film tells the story of four people in New York City…

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Lone Scherfig's Their Finest is a film that delights in film itself. Starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy, the director's follow-up to 2014's The Riot Club is a WWII comedy, chronicling a British movie crew as they attempt to boost…

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…

Beijing Bona International Cineplex Investment and Management Co, a subsidiary of China's Bona Film Group, has pacted for three more IMAX cinemas to bring its total to four. In 2012, Bona opened its first IMAX theater in Tianjin, China. The new agreement will bring new installations to Wuhan, Beijing and Taiyuan. Bona…

EXCLUSIVE: Lily James (Disney's Cinderella) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games) are circling to star in Lone Scherfig's Their Finest Hour And A Half. James, currently filming Burr Steer's Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, is one of Britain's hottest young actresses and is also attached to the plum role of Natasha in The…