EXCLUSIVE: Sundance and Berlin 2020 drama Surge, starring Ben Whishaw, has sold to FilmRise for North America.
Skyfall and A Very English Scandal star Whishaw leads the UK drama about a security guard at Stansted Airport crumbling under the strain of his job and the pressures of a dysfunctional family. A series of…
Showtime has secured the right to Surge, a documentary that will play on the premium cabler’s newly established a co-branded multiplex channel SHOxBET on September 8. Co-directed by Hannah Rosenzweig and Wendy Sachs, the film details the historic 2018 midterm elections where a record number of first-time female…
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has inked filmmaker Aneil Karia, who was recently directed and co-wrote the Protagonist Pictures thriller Surgewhich made its world premiere in the competition slot at the Sundance Film Festival.
The movie, starring 007 Q actor Ben Whishaw, is set over 24 hours in London, and follows a man who goes on…
For Ben Whishaw, the star of Aneil Karia's Surge, the film was one that he could approach only based on instinct.
"In a strange way, it was something you just had to give yourself over to. It was not really something you could prepare very much for, except to understand, as much as possible, the kind of state that we…
Sundance drama-thriller Surge, starring Ben Whishaw, marks the feature debut of Brit filmmaker Aneil Karia. We sat down with the director to discuss his first movie, which he says “ebbed and flowed in early development for around five years”.
In Surge, Whishaw stars as a man trapped in a soulless job, living a life…
EXCLUSIVE: Protagonist Pictures has boarded world sales on Sundance-bound drama-thriller Surge, starring Ben Whishaw. Here’s a first look at the buzzed-about UK film.
Whishaw stars as a man trapped in a soulless job, living a life devoid of emotion and meaning. After an impulsive act of rebellion, he unleashes a…