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Naman Ramachandran “A Head Full of Ghosts,” an adaptation of Paul Tremblay’s Bram Stoker Award-winning novel, will be directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. The horror feature will be adapted and directed by Franz and Fiala, the filmmaking duo best known for horror-thriller hit, “Goodnight Mommy,” which was selected as Austria’s 2014 Oscar entry, and the Riley Keough-led “The Lodge,” which premiered at Sundance and was acquired by Neon in 2019. Their next film, “The Devil’s Bath,” is competing for the Golden Bear at the ongoing Berlin Film Festival.
The film is produced by Team Downey and The Allegiance Theater. Fifth Season is financing development and production. Producers are Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine from The Allegiance Theater, Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr.
for Team Downey, and David Gambino. The story follows the Barretts, whose normal suburban New England life is torn apart when their teenage daughter shows signs of acute schizophrenia, reluctantly leading them to be the subjects of a reality show, “The Possession.” Some 15 years later, Merry faces her family’s haunting past when a journalist is assigned to help tell her side of the story and uncovers the very nature of evil. The novel was published by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2015.
In addition to the Bram Stoker Award, Tremblay has won the British Fantasy Award and Massachusetts Book Award. Tremblay’s other books include the bestselling “The Cabin at the End of the World,” which was adapted by M. Night Shyamalan in 2023 as “Knock at the Cabin”; “The Pallbearers Club”; “Survivor Song”; “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock”; “The Little Sleep”; “No Sleep Till Wonderland”; and the short story collections “Growing Things and
.You blink - and it's March already. With spring just around the corner, it's a time to celebrate new beginnings - and, on our streaming services, a fresh batch of TV shows and films.
Kate Winslet claims that she gets stopped more often for her 2006 rom-com “The Holiday” rather than the 1997 drama that made her famous, “Titanic.”“People come up to me in the streets more about ‘The Holiday’ and the episode of ‘Extras’ that I did than ‘Titanic,’” she said during “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday.The British actress appeared on an episode of the sitcom “Extras” in 2005, where she played a fictionalized version of herself. Years earlier, she starred as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the James Cameron-directed drama, alongside a young Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson.After becoming a household name, Winslet went on to major success — and joined “The Holiday” in 2006.
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor After a year hit with Hollywood strikes and an early buzz positioning Christopher Nolan’s drama about the creation of the atomic bomb as a frontrunner, sentiments from more than a dozen Oscar voters on the first day of final voting revealed a strong backing for Nolan. “Nolan fucking deserves it,” an anonymous voter emphasizes to Variety, highlighting the widespread acclaim for Nolan’s direction and billion-dollar blockbuster.
“Please make me a good wife to Wolf,” murmurs Agnes (Anja Plaschg) on her marriage night, head bowed in front of the crucifix she has already set up in the conjugal bedroom of the tumbledown stone farmhouse where she will live from now on. Wolf (David Scheid) is meanwhile carousing with his fellow villagers at the wedding celebration, in no hurry to join her. We are deep in the Austrian forest in the 1750s, where life is governed by the cruelties of each season and everything has its place. The point of a woman is to work and have children; anyone who fails in these conjoined vocations is simply a dead weight. Agnes will do her best, but her airy spirits are soon sinking.
Jessica Kiang Although it comes from the filmmaking duo behind “Goodnight Mommy” and “The Lodge,” Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala‘s “The Devil’s Bath” is not a horror movie. Its sinister, woodsy atmospherics, where wet leaves mingle with mud and fishscales and menstrual blood, may suggest witchcraft or devil worship.
Michelle Keegan has made an admission about her latest glamourous appearance as her fans brand her 'perfection'. The actress was among the famous faces attending the BAFTA Film Awards over the weekend.
Don't Worry Darling star Florence Pugh has sparked dating rumours with Paul Mescal, as the duo partied into the night together after attending the BAFTA Awards at the weekend.The Royal Festival Hall in London played host to the iconic BAFTA awards on Sunday night, which brought out some of the biggest celebs of British television and film. Florence, 28, left one party at Nomad hotel in Covent Garden at 1am before heading to another party at the Chiltern Firehouse for the remainder of the evening, or should we say, morning.
Michael J. Fox left no dry eyes in the room at the 2024 BAFTAs.
Bafta said they are looking into a big security problem after someone who wasn't supposed to be there got onto the stage during the best film speech. A man, who might make videos on YouTube, went up with director Christopher Nolan and the team from the movie Oppenheimer when they were getting their big award at the Bafta ceremony on Sunday night in London.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Playtime has had a busy EFM, where it’s locked a raft of major deals on “The Devil’s Bath,” a period psychological thriller in competition at the Berlin Film Festival. “The Devil’s Bath” is directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the Austrian filmmaking duo behind “Goodnight Mommy.” Set in rural Austria in 1750, “The Devil’s Bath” stars Anja Plaschg, the up-and-coming singer and composer known as Soap & Skin. Plaschg plays Agnes, a young married woman who feels oppressed in her husband’s world, which is devoid of emotions and limited to chores and expectations.
David Beckham upset some of his fans at the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards on Sunday 18 February, where he was giving out the prize for the best new talent in movies. David looked very smart when he came on stage at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday night.
The 2024 BAFTA Film Awards have come to a close, with all the gongs having been handed out during the star-studded ceremony. This year, Doctor Who star David Tennant was chosen to host the ceremony, taking over from last year's hosts Alison Hammond and Richard E.
As we get closer to the Oscars, other awards shows will help us predict who wins the top awards this year and we have the results from the 2024 BAFTAs.
After a few years in limbo, the BAFTAs finally found a host to replace the much-missed Stephen Fry in David Tennant. The Doctor Who actor proved an amiable and funny emcee, although much of his humor would have gone way over the non-Brits in the audience, starting with a lengthy filmed skit riffing on his BBC TV series Staged, co-starring Michael Sheen. It was a night of surprises, not especially pleasant ones for the teams behind Barbie and Killers of the Flower Moon, and there were no egregious upsets. Neither were there any of the usual technical nightmares that have plagued the event in the past.
After winning the best supporting actor BAFTA for his performance in “Oppenheimer,” Robert Downey Jr. took to the stage to reflect on his career and shout out “that dude” Christopher Nolan. “When I was 15, I wanted to be Peter O’Toole.
Ellise Shafer Film’s biggest stars are hitting the red carpet for this year’s BAFTA Film Awards.Taking place at Royal Festival Hall in London, the BAFTA Film Awards will celebrate the year in cinema with host David Tennant.Tennant rocked a green patterned suit on the carpet, while his wife Georgia Moffet opted for a gold gown. Other early looks included “Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy in an all-black outfit and Rising Star nominee Ayo Edebiri in a peach dress and chic fur coat.“Oppenheimer” leads the nominations with 13, followed by “Poor Things” with 11.
K.J. Yossman Prince William is set to attend the BAFTA Awards solo this Sunday as his wife Catherine, Princess of Wales, is still recovering at home after a serious abdominal surgery last month. William has been president of BAFTA – better known as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts – since 2010.
Christopher Nolan has revealed the reason why his longtime collaborator Michael Caine didn’t appear in Oppenheimer.The Oscar-nominated film took the box office by storm last year, and saw Cillian Murphy take on the role of the titular theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear bomb.The project marked Murphy’s sixth time working with the renowned director, and first time taking on the lead role following supporting slots in Batman Begins and Dunkirk.However, Oppenheimer did not feature an appearance from another one of the director’s longtime collaborators: Michael Caine.The London actor has featured in eight of his films including The Dark Knight, Inception, Dunkirk, The Prestige and Interstellar, and speaking at the British Film Institute chairman’s dinner, Nolan shed light on why he didn’t take on a role in the 2023 blockbuster.Accepting the BFI Fellowship, Nolan explained that he was willing to have Caine in the movie, but the actor jokingly turned it down, saying: “OK, enough is enough” (via Variety).Discussing his reaction to Caine sitting Oppenheimer out, Nolan said: “I had to go off on my own. OK, I haven’t got Michael Caine, I’d better get Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Kenneth Branagh, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Cillian Murphy, Tom Conti, and hoped that all those greats would add up to one Michael Caine.”He later added: “So many people have helped me, so many people have been there for me, in so many different ways.
Filmmaking duo Veronika Franz And Severin Fiala, best known Goodnight Mommy, which was Austria’s 2014 entry for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and the Riley Keough-led The Lodge, have signed on to direct the horror feature A Head Full of Ghosts. Production is set to begin later this year.
HBO has several highly anticipated titles premiering on its network and Max in 2024, with “True Detective: Night Country” and “Tokyo Vice” Season 2 already bowing. Kate Winslet in “The Regime” is the next big title to drop next month, but after that comes “The Sympathizer,” Park Chan-wook‘s latest foray into TV.