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AMC has given a second season renewal to its episodic anthology “Soulmates” ahead of its series premiere in October.

“Soulmates” explores the nature of romantic love, coming from AMC Studios and written by Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein. The series is described as taking place 15 years in the future “when science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is.”

The cast includes Malin Akerman (“Billions”) Charlie Heaton (“Stranger Things”) Betsy Brandt (“Breaking Bad”), JJ Feild (“Turn”), Sarah Snook (“Succession”), David Costabile (“Breaking Bad”) and Sonya Cassidy (“Lodge 49”).

“We are so delighted to have the opportunity to continue working with the incredible team at AMC to tell more of our romantically unromantic love stories and can’t wait to get back into the world they helped us create,” Bridges and Goldstein said.

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AMC is making some scheduling changes for its upcoming series. The network has pushed the Season 2 premiere date for supernatural horror series NOS4A2. The 10-episode second season, initially set to premiere on June 1, will now debut on Sunday, June 21 at 9 pm Et/8c The full season will still simulcast on BBC America.

Additionally, Season 1 of Creepshow, the popular horror anthology series currently available on Shudder, now will air over six weeks on AMC instead of three. It will premiere at 10 p.m. Monday, May 4, and run on consecutive Mondays through June 8. It was originally scheduled to run back-to-back episodes from May 4-18.

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AMC announced today casting and the start of production for its upcoming, untitled episodic anthology series that wryly examines the nature of romantic love, written by Emmy® Award-winner Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein (Superbob, Adult Life Skills). Currently shooting in Madrid, Spain, the series will star Sarah Snook (Succession, The Dressmaker, Steve Jobs), David Costabile (Breaking Bad, Billions) and Sonya Cassidy (Lodge 49, Humans, The Woman in White), among others. From AMC Studios, the Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project is set fifteen years into the future, when science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is. In the first-ever format for AMC, each of the six episodes features a different cast and explores an entirely new story around discovering (or opting not to discover) the results of this new test and the impact of those results on a myriad of relationships.

AMC has announced the cast for its anthology drama series about the intersection of love and science, from Emmy-winning writer Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein.

Succession actress Sarah Snook, Billions star David Costabile and Sonya Cassidy are among the cast for the untitled project, which is made by Banijay’s Fearless Minds and AMC Studios. It is currently shooting in Madrid, Spain.

The six-part series takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – giving people a way to find their soulmate. Each of the six episodes features a different cast and explores an entirely new story based on the discovery.

Snook plays Nikki in the first episode, a suburban mother who becomes tortured by the knowledge that her soulmate is not her husband of 15 years.

AMC announced today that it has greenlit a new, yet-to-be-titled original episodic anthology drama created by Emmy-Award winning writer Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein. Bridges and Goldstein will executive produce with Jolyon Symonds through Fearless Minds, a Banijay Group company. The Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project, produced by AMC Studios, will consist of six, hour-long episodes, and is slated for a 2020 debut on AMC.

Each episode of the Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project will feature an entirely new story and a different cast, a first-time format for AMC. The series takes place 15 years from now when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a way to find your soul mate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships. Bridges and Goldstein previously created the short film “For Life,...

AMC has ordered six hourlong episodes of an anthology drama series about the intersection of love and science, from Emmy-winning writer Will Bridges and Brett Goldstein, Fearless Minds, a Banijay Group company, and AMC Studios. The Untitled Bridges/Goldstein Project, based on the duo’s short film For Life, is slated for a 2020 premiere on AMC.

Co-created by Bridges and Goldstein, each episode will feature an entirely new story and different cast, a first-time format for AMC. The series takes place 15 years from now, when science makes a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a way to find your soulmate. The series uses the sci-fi conceit to tell six provocative stories about the cost of finding true love, all different in tone and featuring a spectrum of people and relationships.

Bridges and Goldstein executive produce with Jolyon Symonds via Fearless Minds.

With April wrapping up, we can once again look back. We’ve officially finished up with the first third of the calendar. As such, I wanted to once again highlight the best of the year so far, consisting of my top ten and various awards for 2019 to date. Much like last time around, when I did the first quarter of the year at the start of April, I’m mostly limiting it to things that have already hit theaters. My only exception in the past has been that I’d include eligible titles from the currently ongoing Tribeca Film Festival, but since that’s still in progress, I’ll hold off. There are some others from the year that I’m fond of and might have otherwise included, but I didn’t want to cheat, so they’re on hold and will be given a special citation. Basically, it’s an arbitrary decision,...

Screen Media, the indie distributor that recently acquired Terry Gilliam’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” has added veterans Michael Messina and Lisa Burgueno to its distribution team, the company announced on Thursday. Both executives previously worked in the distribution wing of Starz.

Messina, who served as a consultant to Screen last year, has been hired as Evp of distribution and will oversee the domestic distribution, sales, and marketing of the company’s slate. Burgueno has been hired as VP of digital distribution and will handle transactional partnerships and media planning across digital and on-demand services. The duo joins Seth Needle, Svp of worldwide acquisitions and Abbey Warner, director of marketing on the ground at the Sundance Film Festival beginning this weekend.

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Indie film distributor Screen Media has hired Michael Messina as Evp Distribution and Lisa Burgueno as VP Digital Distribution. The moves from the company, acquired in 2017 by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, comes at it plans to increase its release slate to 20 films or more per year.

Both execs are on the ground in Park City with the Sundance Film Festival kicking off today.

Messina, most recently VP Global Distribution & Acquisitions in Starz’s digital distribution division, has been consulting with Screen Media and now takes on oversight of domestic distribution, sales and marketing. Burgueno, previously at Lionsgate/Starz Digital and before that in distribution positions at Cinedigm and Microsoft Movies & TV, will manage Screen Media’s transactional partnerships and media planning across digital and on-demand services.

They will join Screen Media Svp Worldwide Acquisitions Seth Needle and Director of Marketing Abbey Warner at Sundance.

“Screen Media has been...

New arrivals join svp worldwide acquisitions Seth Needle, marketing director Abbey Warner in Sundance.

Heading into Sundance Screen Media on Thursday (24) announced the hire of Michael Messina as executive vice-president, distribution and Lisa Burgueno as vice-president, digital distribution.

Messina has consulted for Screen Media since early 2018 and will now oversee Us distribution, sales, and marketing for the company’s slate of films and series. Burgueno will oversee transactional partnerships and media planning across digital and on-demand platforms.

They join Seth Needle, senior vice-president of worldwide acquisitions, and Abbey Warner, director of marketing, on the ground in Park City.

Last year...

New arrivals join svp worldwide acquisitions Seth Needle, marketing director Abbey Warner in Sundance.

Heading into Sundance Screen Media on Thursday (24) announced the hire of Michael Messina as executive vice-president, distribution and Lisa Burgueno as vice-president, digital distribution.

Messina has consulted for Screen Media since early 2018 and will now oversee Us distribution, sales, and marketing for the company’s slate of films and series. Burgueno will oversee transactional partnerships and media planning across digital and on-demand platforms.

They join Seth Needle, senior vice-president of worldwide acquisitions, and Abbey Warner, director of marketing, on the ground in Park City.

Last year...

Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and James McAvoy take center stage in this weekend’s main attraction, Glass, which will be on the big screen starting Friday. In addition to seeing the latest part of Shyamalan's superhero trilogy, theatergoers can also catch other movies like the quirky Adult Life Skills and the political thriller An Acceptable Loss. Read on to see what critics for The Hollywood Reporter thought about this week’s lineup.

Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis and James McAvoy take center stage in this weekend’s main attraction, Glass, which will be on the big screen starting Friday. In addition to seeing the latest part of Shyamalan's superhero trilogy, theatergoers can also catch other movies like the quirky Adult Life Skills and the political thriller An Acceptable Loss. Read on to see what critics for The Hollywood Reporter thought about this week’s lineup.

January continues its slow roll on the Specialty side this weekend with very few anticipated limited releases. IFC Films has the headliner of the weekend with political thriller An Acceptable Loss starring Tika Sumpter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Chicago Fire director Joe Chappelle wrote and directed the title after finding inspiration from two documentaries by Errol Morris. Brooklyn-based Distrib Films believes it found an under-the-radar gem in last year’s Berlin Film Festival with The Heiresses, which took two Silver Bears at the event in the German capital.

Other openers this weekend include Screen Media’s 2016 Tribeca Nora Ephron prize-winner Adult Life Skills, as well as Freestyle Digital Media’s I Hate The Kids and Rlj Entertainment’s The Standoff at Sparrow Creek.

An Acceptable Loss

Director-writer: Joe Chappelle

Cast: Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Tavassoli, Jeff Hephner

Distributor: IFC Films

Veteran TV director Joe Chappelle had the idea...

"You need to lighten up!" Screen Media Films has debuted an official Us trailer for an indie comedy titled Adult Life Skills, a coming-of-age about an almost-30 woman who needs to grow up and move out of her mum's shed in the backyard. This film originally premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival back in 2016, and also opened in the UK also in 2016. It's somehow just now getting a Us release this January, almost three years later. Jodie Whittaker stars as Anna, a woman comfortable living in her mom's garden shed making funny videos all day with her thumbs, but as she approaches 30, she starts feeling the pressure to move on and "grow up" without compromising her youthful spirit. How quaint. In addition to Whittaker, the film's cast includes Edward Hogg, Lorraine Ashbourne, Brett Goldstein, Eileen Davies, Alice Lowe, and Ozzy Myers. Not really sure this is going to be that...

Film fans have no doubt seen the premise of an adult living in their parents’ basement, unable to cope with the outside world and mature into a responsible human before. But this time, the story stars Jodie Whittaker, who makes little movies with her thumbs, and doesn’t live in her mom’s basement, instead choosing a shed in the backyard, in the film “Adult Life Skills.”

In the trailer for the film, we meet Anna, an adult living in her mom’s shed that is desperately trying to avoid life after the death of her brother.

Continue reading ‘Adult Life Skills’ Trailer: ‘Doctor Who’ Star Jodie Whittaker Attempts To Grow Up & Stop Making Thumb Videos at The Playlist.

Official Competition Jury: Alexander Payne, Bet Rourich, Agnes Johansen, Francesca Cima, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Rossy de Palma Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival Downsizing director Alexander Payne has been announced as the jury president for the 66th San Sebastian Film Festival.

The helmer of films including Sideways and Nebraska will be joined on the Official Competition jury by 42 Beats actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown star Rossy de Palma, alongside Adult Life Skills and Songbird cinemtographer Bet Rourich. Producers Francesca Cima (The Great Beauty) and Agnes Johansen (Jar City) will also take part, with a seventh juror still to be named.

In a refreshing change from many festivals, female talent also dominates the New Directors award jury, with Thelma producer Katrin Pors named president, alongside Refugiado director Diego Lerman, artist Imma Merino, scriptwriter Léa Mysius (Ismael's Ghosts) and Sydney Film Festival director Nashen Moodley.

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Jodie Whittaker is a luminous lead in middling new four-part BBC medical thriller, Trust Me…

This review contains spoilers.

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In February this year, a Florida teenager was in court for setting up shop as a doctor and treating patients without a medical licence. In 2015 a UK woman forged qualifications to sign up with an agency that found her locum positions at Gp surgeries, prison hospitals and healthcare centres. In 2009, a German man was discovered to have faked documents that enabled him to pose as a surgeon and take part in almost two hundred operations. Next April, a Chicago man in his eighties is due for release from a Pennsylvania prison after serving a sentence for posing as a doctor for over twenty-five years.

Google any of the cases above and it’s not long before the...

Author: Jon Lyus

Just over a week ago The BBC announced the new Doctor Who. Jodie Whittaker, whose turns in Black Mirror and Broadchurch (as well as the wonderful 2017 film Adult Life Skills) attest, is more than capable of taking the iconic sci-fi character to new places. She will appear in the final moments of the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas Special – entitled Twice Upon a Time. The first trailer for this final episode for the Twelfth Doctor has arrived, with one or two familiar faces.

At this weekend’s San Diego Comic Con the outgoing Doctor, Peter Capaldi, spoke about his replacement and gave the following statement of encouragement,

“I think Jodie is going to be amazing. I spoke to her the other day and she’s so full of excitement and passion about the show. It’s thrilling to know it’s in the hands of someone who cares for...

Mark Harrison Jul 17, 2017

Jodie Whittaker's casting as the 13th Doctor in Doctor Who builds on an already-impressive body of work...

This article includes very mild spoilers for Broadchurch.

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Jodie Whittaker is the 13th Doctor. This Christmas, for the first time in over 50 years of Doctor Who, the Time Lord will become a Time Lady, and arguably, it's about time. There are those who will have been waiting for this for a very long time, and those who are (let's charitably say) trepidatious about the casting decision, but anyone who's familiar with Whittaker's work should be thrilled.

She will first appear in this year's Christmas special, when Peter Capaldi regenerates, and will make her full-time debut in next year's series. She's worked with new executive producer Chris Chibnall before, playing grieving...

2017-07-16T09:57:56-07:00'Doctor Who' Casts First Female Doctor

The BBC on Sunday revealed Jodie Whittaker as the13th Doctor for hit series Doctor Who.

She will be the first female lead for the sci-fi series on the U.K. public broadcaster. Current lead Peter Capaldi will leave his role after this year's Christmas special.

Whittaker, 34, is from Yorkshire, England and has appeared on such shows as Broadchurch and in comedy film Adult Life Skills, which she also executive produced and which got several British Independent Film Awards nominations.

Whittaker recently finished shooting Journeyman, written and directed by Paddy Considine, as well as playing the lead in new BBC drama series Trust Me.

Read the rest of this article at The Hollywood Reporter.

Peter Capaldi replaced Matt Smith as the Doctor, and Smith replaced David Tenant.

Author: Scott Davis

In news that millions of fans have been waiting for, the BBC has today announced the new Doctor Who for the next series of the show – Adult Life Skills and Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker.

Whittaker will take over the mantle from the departing Peter Capaldi and becomes the Thirteenth Time Lord with her debut on the show coming this Christmas.

On her casting, Whittaker said:

“I’m beyond excited to begin this epic journey – with Chris and with every Whovian on this planet. It’s more than an honour to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can’t wait.”

New head writer and executive producer Chris Chibnall, who takes over from original showrunner Steven Moffat, was the man who made the decision to cast Whittaker and said:

“After months of lists,...

Broadchurch star becomes 13th actor to lead BBC series.

Jodie Whittaker has been named the 13th actor to play UK television icon Doctor Who.

Whittaker replaces the outgoing Peter Capaldi, and in the process becomes the first woman to lead the long-running BBC series.

First airing in 1964, Doctor Who follows its titular protagonist as he explores the universe in his time-travelling spaceship known as the Tardis.

Other actors to have played the part include David Tennant, Matt Smith, Tom Baker and Christopher Eccleston.

Broadchurch and Adult Life Skills star Whittaker will next be seen in Paddy Considine’s boxing drama Journeyman.

Exclusive: Former Des Hamilton exec launches film and TV outfit Lara Manwaring Casting.

UK casting director Lara Manwaring, who has worked on projects including Nymphomaniac, Adult Life Skills and War Machine, has launched new film and TV casting outfit Lara Manwaring Casting.

The first film of the gate for the company will be Nicolas Cage action-thriller Mandy, currently in pre-production and set to shoot this summer in Belgium.

The film is produced by Elijah Wood’s SpectreVision, Xyz Films’ Nate Bolotin and Umedia’s Adrian Politowski with finance from Umedia and Piccadilly Pictures.

Manwaring has been at Des Hamilton Casting since 2009, working on projects including Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur, Channel 4’s Top Boy and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights.

She served as casting associate on Netflix’s upcoming Brad Pitt satire War Machine and the recent BBC 1 three-part drama Gunpowder.

As casting...

Exclusive: Paul Ashton to lead film department at UK creative industries outfit.

Creative England has appointed Paul Ashton to the role of head of film.

Ashton, who has recently served as acting head of film following the departure of Brek Taylor in January, becomes the outfit’s third head of film in the last 12 months.

Ashton’s executive producer credits at Creative England include Rachel Tunnard’s Bifa-winning feature debut Adult Life Skills, Justin Edgar’s upcoming feature The Marker and upcoming Jack Lowden-Martin McCann thriller Calibre.

Since joining the agency in 2013, he has also worked on a host of successful shorts such as Emotional Fusebox, Real Gods Require Blood and Ernestine And Kit.

Prior to joining Creative England, he was a development producer at the BBC where he worked on Riz Ahmed drama Shifty and shorts including Wish 143 and Turning.

Ashton told Screen: “I’ve been working for nearly four years as part...

Exclusive: Trio of projects going into production in 2017.

Creative England has announced the latest recipients of its Production Fund, which supports filmmaking in the English regions using lottery funds via the BFI.

The three films are:

White Riot (working title) - dirs: Rubika Shah and Ed GibbsDawn Of The Dark Fox - dirs: Michael Smith and Tom StubbsSnodgrass – writer: David Quantick

The debut features are going into production in 2017 and were supported in development through Creative England’s lottery funded emerging talent strand as part of the BFI Network. The films are looking to close finance following the Cannes market.

Films that recently received Creative England lottery production funding include the Bifa-winning Adult Life Skills, Sundance winner God’s Own Country and Notes On Blindness. Critical hit Lady Macbeth was backed by Creative England through its iFeatures scheme.

Caroline Norbury, CEO of Creative England said: “These films, alongside our recent iFeatures greenlight projects, represent a ringing...

Exclusive: Bird Box Finance will look to invest up to £20m in next six months.

London-based film financing outfit Goldfinch Entertainment is launching Bird Box Finance (Bbf), a debt financing company that will target the UK’s film, television, animation and gaming industries.

Bird Box will aim to loan £15-20m in its first six months of operation, backed by a London-based bank and private investors.

The company will provide gap and super-gap loans for productions looking to raise the final 5-20% of budgets. It will also provide short-term loans collateralised by the UK’s film tax credit or discountable distribution contracts and pre-sales.

Bbf will also lend against other UK Creative Industry Tax Credits (TV, animation, games), and other tax credits in similar markets, such as the Us, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The new outfit will be looking to hire at least two new people in the next six months as it ramps up activity...

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As Broadchurch series 3 comes out on DVD, we chatted to Jodie Whittaker, the actor behind Beth Latimer. Spoilers...

Warning: contains Broadchurch series 1-3 spoilers.

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David Tennant and Olivia Colman may have been Broadchurch’s leads, but Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan were its heart. As bereaved parents Beth and Mark Latimer, those two formed the drama’s emotional spine. Their poignant performances were a constant across three series telling a long-form story about grief and resilience.

With Broadchurch series three out now on DVD, I spoke to Jodie Whittaker about the role of Beth, different responses to grief, the importance of female friendship and the hope contained in the Latimers’ final scenes…

Would you say Beth’s story—which shows that humans can...

Exclusive: East End festival moves to spring dates for 2018.

London’s East End festival (Eeff) is to introduce a £10k cash prize for directors in development on their second films.

The inaugural prize will be awarded during the 2018 edition of the festival, which will take place during the spring. Submissions will open during Eeff 2017 in June.

The festival’s inaugural Mind The Gap Transit Film Award will be given to a project that “resonates with Eeff’s ethos and dedication to supporting fresh and challenging voices in cinema”.

The award was created in partnership with director John Jencks, whose second feature The Hippopotamus will have its European premiere as the opening night film of Loco London Comedy Film Festival in May 2017.

Jencks will donate all future profits he earns as director of The Hippopotamus to the on-going fund.

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Simon Brew Mar 23, 2017

As DVD and Blu-ray sales fall, it's no longer certain that films will get a disc release. So what's happening?

Let’s start with a statistic.

In 2013, Hotel Transylvania shifted 1,029,614 copies on Blu-ray disc in the Us alone. A hefty number, yet the animated hit – which has thus far spawned one sequel, with another on the way – was only the 23rd best-selling Blu-ray release of the year in America that year, just trailing titles such as Turbo, Rise Of The Guardians, Django Unchained and Life Of Pi.

2013 was arguably the peak year for Blu-ray sales, with 23 individual titles selling a million copies or more in the Us. The best-selling of all, Despicable Me 2, shifted 4.6m copies alone, and many more overseas. On the DVD format, meanwhile, 45 different films sold a million units in America in 2013, including another 2.7m copies of Hotel Transylvania.

In recent years, however,...

Playwright Stoppard wins outstanding contribution award.

Tom Stoppard was presented with the outstanding contribution to writing award at the 2017 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards.

Stoppard accepted the honour from fellow playwright David Edgar at the ceremony on Monday (January 23), held at the Royal College of Physicians.

He said: “For a writer, no award can compare to an award from other writers. The Writers’ Guild is a bright spot in a dark world and I feel very grateful to it.”

Stoppard has written extensively for the stage, TV and film. His plays Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and The Real Thing all won Tony Awards.

He also co-wrote Shakespeare In Love (which won him an Oscar) and Brazil.

Presenting him the award, Edgar said: “Like the BBC, he [Stoppard] has educated and entertained. Like no one else, he has challenged, dazzled, and amazed.”

The event’s best first screenplay award went to Rachel Tunnard for Adult Life Skills while...

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Over the years, we’ve heard from our readers that one of the most important things we can do is to help you discover movies that may have slipped by mainstream audiences. And often just as important, our readers ask that we highlight voices that are in the minority in Hollywood. While we’re known for not taking ourselves very seriously, we take this part of our work seriously. Because as many studies have shown, there are some voices that aren’t as well-represented as others. Them’s the facts.

Beyond that, our team has a passion for seeking out and celebrating films directed by women. This is where we often find, as you’re about to see in this list, some of the most unique and interesting stories in the whole of cinema. Another thing we hear often from readers is...

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Viola Davis, John Goodman, Bryce Dallas Howard and more, in our rundown of 2016's underrated movie acting work.

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Nobody is likely to look back on 2016 fondly, whether because of global political instability, celebrity deaths or the rejection of Boaty McBoatface as a suitable name for a research vessel. In the world of film, we note that a lot of the contenders in this year's awards season haven't even been released in UK cinemas yet, and it was hardly a banner year for blockbuster cinema either.

On the plus side, there were some exemplary smaller films, of the kind that awards bodies tend to overlook, released in the last 12 months. Without any apparent genre contenders, like The Martian or Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015, this is a year in which performers are more likely...

Here's the full list of winners of the London Film Critics' Circle. Winners will be announced on January 22:

The full list of nominees is below:

Film Of The Year

American Honey

Fire at Sea

I, Daniel Blake

La La Land

Love & Friendship

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Nocturnal Animals

Son of Saul

Toni Erdmann

Foreign-language Film Of The Year

Fire at Sea

Son of Saul

Things to Come

Toni Erdmann

Victoria

Documentary Of The Year

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week . The Touring Years

Cameraperson

The Eagle Huntress

Fire at Sea

Life, Animated

British/Irish Film Of The Year

American Honey

High-Rise

I, Daniel Blake

Love & Friendship

Sing Street

Actor Of The Year

Casey Affleck . Manchester by the Sea

Adam Driver . Paterson

Andrew Garfield . Hacksaw Ridge

Jake Gyllenhaal . Nocturnal Animals

Peter Simonischek . Toni Erdmann

Actress Of The Year

Amy Adams . Arrival

Kate Beckinsale . Love & Friendship

Sandra Hüller . Toni Erdmann...

Here's the full list of winners at the British Independent Film Awards:

Best British Independent Film

American Honey, dir: Andrea Arnold

Best Director

Andrea Arnold, American Honey

Best Actor

Dave Johns, I, Daniel Blake

Best Actress

Sasha Lane, American Honey

Best Screenplay

Babak Anvari, Under The Shadow

Best Documentary

Notes On Blindness, dir: Peter Middleton

Best Supporting Actress

Avin Manshadi, Under The Shadow

Best Supporting Actor

Brett Goldstein, Adult Life Skills

Discovery Award

The Greasy Strangler: Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C Waller, Elijah Wood

Best Debut Screenwriter

Rachel Tunnard, Adult Life Skills

Best International Independent Film

Moonlight, dir: Barry Jenkins

The Douglas Hickox Award (Debut Director)

Babak Anvari, Under The Shadow

Outstanding Achievement in Craft

Robbie Ryan: Cinematography, American Honey

Breakthrough Producer

Camille Gatin: The Girl With All The Gifts

Most Promising Newcomer

Hayley Squires: I, Daniel Blake

Best...

“American Honey” took the top prize at the 2016 British Independent Film Awards, which was held on Sunday at London’s Old Billingsgate.

“American Honey” was named Best British Independent Film, and also scored three additional awards (including Best Director for Andrea Arnold). Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” was the night’s only non-uk winner, picking up honors for Best International Independent Film.

The 19th annual Bifa ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, also presented Clare Binns with the Special Jury Prize for her “unstinting efforts in bringing independent film to new audiences.”

Naomie Harris was also presented the Variety Award by Danny Boyle, in recognition of the global impact she made this year in helping to focus the international film spotlight on the UK.

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Andrea Arnold’s epic travelogue won four awards including best independent British film.

Andrea Arnold’s American Honey was the big winner at the 2016 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), taking four prizes from six nominations.

The film, which follows a group of young people travelling around the Us, scooped the night’s top prize, best independent British film, as well as best director for Arnold, who danced on the stage accepting her award.

BIFAs 2016: complete list of winners

Breakthrough star Sasha Lane won best actress, while cinematographer Robbie Ryan was presented with the outstanding achievement in craft prize.

Accepting the award on behalf of the absent Lane, Arnold read a text from the actress saying: “[American Honey] completely changed my life. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

Accepting his award, Ryan joked “A very strange category, I don’t quite understand it. Here’s to all the people who are crafty.”

Ken Loach’s much-fancied...

Andrea Arnold’s raucous travelogue “American Honey” has been named the best independent British film of 2016 at the British Independent Film Awards, which took place on Sunday night in London. Arnold was also named best director for the film. Acting winners included Dave Johns for “I, Daniel Blake,” Sasha Lane for “American Honey,” Brett Goldstein for “Adult Life Skills” and 10-year-old Avin Manshadi for “Under the Shadow.” Hayley Squires beat her “I, Daniel Blake” castmate Johns to win the award as most promising newcomer, while “American Honey” cinematographer Robbie Ryan won in a crafts category that also included a casting director,...

Exclusive: 12 projects selected for the Film London scheme, which in the past has produced films starring Riz Ahmed (pictured) and Ben Drew.

Film London has announced the 12 entries shortlisted for Microwave - the scheme to help emerging filmmakers from the capital with their first projects.

This year’s shortlisted films and crews are:

Beneath the Mind, Ella Bennett (director), Kieran Bourne (writer), Oliver Nlemadim (producer), Hannah Bailey (producer).Bird of Truth, Oninye Egenti (writer-director), Linda Biney (producer).Borderline, Alice Seabright (director), Miles Mantle (writer), Merlin Merton (producer).Divided, Rayna Campbell (writer-director), Sue Caro (producer), Audrey Davenport (producer).Down From London, Douglas Ray (writer-director), Louise Palmqvist (producer)Hackney Marsh, Ryan Vernava (writer-director), Joe Copplestone (writer), Matt Hopper (producer).Mari, Georgia Parris (writer-director), Emma Duffy (producer)Miss Universe, 2016 Screen Star of Tomorrow Kate Herron (writer-director), Briony Redman (writer), Dougie Cox (producer). Outgrown, Jay Choi (director), Clare Sumi (writer), Kyle Blanshard (producer)Smalltown Boy, Alex Winckler (writer-director...

Other winners include Sand Storm, American Honey, Old Stone, Hooligan Sparrow.

The jury of the 27th Stockholm International Film Festival has given the top award, the Bronze Horse, to Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova for Godless.

The film previously won the Golden Leopard in Locarno as well as the New Talent Grant Pix in Copenhagen last week. It tells the story of a young physiotherapist struggling to survive in an economically depressed mountain town in post-Communist Bulgaria, who forms an unlikely bond with one of her elderly patients.

The jury — comprised of producer Annika Rogell, directors Roland Vranik, Wayne Roberts and Frida Kempff, and actress Julia Ragnarsson – said the film was “an astonishing masterpiece. This is filmmaking of the highest order and marks the arrival of a new great within cinema. A film that will forever live in the hearts and minds of viewers. It is a true work of art and, simply put, is...

I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach's Cannes hit I, Daniel Blake, which has been condemned by some politicians but celebrated by others and has sparked a public outcry about the UK's welfare system, has been nominated in seven categories at this year's British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). It's closely followed by Andrea Arnold's American Honey, Peter Middleton and James Spinney Notes On Blindness, Rachel Tunnard's Adult Life Skills and Babak Anvari's Under The Shadow, each of which has six nominations.

The winners will receive their awards at a ceremony in Old Billingsgate, London, on December 4.

Those nominations in full:-

Best British independent film American Honey Couple In A Hole I, Daniel Blake Notes On Blindness Under The Shadow

Best international independent film Hunt For The Wilderpeople Manchester By The Sea Moonlight Mustang Toni Erdmann

Best director Andrea Arnold, American Honey Babak Anvari, Under The Shadow Ben Wheatley,...

Ken Loach’s benefits drama has seven Bifa nominations, with six each for American Honey, Adult Life Skills, Notes on Blindness and Under the Shadow

Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake is up for seven prizes at the British independent film awards, including nominations for best film and best director. American Honey, Adult Life Skills, Notes on Blindness and Under the Shadow received six Bifanominations each.

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This morning Douglas Booth and Ophelia Lovibond announced the nominations for the 2016 British Independent Film Awards, with Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake leading the way with seven nominations. Dave Johns and Hayley Squires, two of the film’s laeds were both nominated as Most Promising Newcomer and Best Actor and Actress respectively. Loach, of course, […]

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American Honey, Notes On Blindness, Adult Life Skills, Under The Shadow also score multiple noms.

Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake leads this year’s British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) nominations, which were announced this morning by British actors Ophelia Lovibond and Douglas Booth in London.

Loach’s timely social drama - which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or earlier this year - was nominated in seven categories including Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.

Co-stars Hayley Squires and Dave Johns are each nominated twice – for Best Actress and Best Actor and will also go head to head in the Most Promising Newcomer category.

The other nominees in the Best British Independent Film category are American Honey (six nominations), Couple in a Hole (two nominations), Notes on Blindness (six nominations) and the Under The Shadow (six nominations).

Other titles with receiving multiple nominations but in other categories included Adult Life Skills (six nominations) and zombie...

The 2016 British Independent Film Award nominations have been announced, with Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or–winning “I, Daniel Blake” leading the pack with seven nominations. Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey,” Babak Anvari’s “Under the Shadow” and Rachel Tunnard’s “Adult Life Skills” all landed six nods apiece. More than 130 British films were submitted for consideration, and 32 British features have been nominated. Full list:

Best British Independent Film

“American Honey”

“Couple in a Hole”

“I, Daniel Blake”

“Notes on Blindness”

“Under the Shadow”

Best International Independent Film

“Hunt for the Wilderpeople”

“Manchester by the Sea”

“Moonlight”

“Mustang”

“Toni Erdmann”

Best Director

Andrea Arnold, “American Honey”

Babak Anvari, “Under the Shadow”

Ben Wheatley, “Free Fire”

Ken Loach, “I, Daniel Blake”

Peter Middleton and James Spinney, “Notes on Blindness”

Best Screenplay

Andrea Arnold, “American Honey”

Babak Anvari, “Under the Shadow”

Billy O’Brien and Christopher Hyde, “I Am Not a Serial Killer”

Paul Laverty,...

Competition films include Alice Lowe’s Prevenge and John Carney’s Sing Street.

The programme and jury for this year’s Dinard British Film Festival (Sept 28 – Oct 2) – the annual celebration of British cinema hosted on the French coast – has been revealed.

Presiding over the 2016 jury will be Oscar-winning French writer and director Claude Lelouch (A Man And A Woman), who will be joined by actor James d’Arcy (Master And Commander), actress and scriptwriter Victoria Bedos (La Famille Bélier), actress Julie Ferrier (Heartbreaker), distributor and producer Eric Lagesse (Beijing Bicycle), actor and director Jalil Lespert (Human Resources), actress Anne Parillaud (La Femme Nikita), producer Colin Vaines (Coriolanus), actor Phil Davis (Notes On A Scandal), and actress Florence Thomassin (Mesrine).

Among the festival’s industry events will be a round table discussion titled Brexit… What next? Following a screening of documentary Versus, The Life And Films Of Ken Loach, proceedings will be led by regular Ken Loach producer...

Simon Brew Dec 7, 2016

A new trailer for 50 Shades Of Grey follow-up 50 Shades Darker has just been released. See it here...

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Here it is, hot off the saucy press... the latest trailer for 50 Shades Of Grey sequel 50 Shades Darker.

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50 Shades Darker is released in the UK on the 10th of February 2017.

More on the movie as we hear it. But as is traditional with Fifty Shades posts on Den Of Geek, we like to use the fact that you’re here to draw your attention to a great movie that you may have missed. In this case, the very funny, and very 15-rated Adult Life Skills, that’s available now on demand. Take a look…

50 Shades Darker first trailer

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Exclusive: Gimme Danger, Supersonic in-demand for Independent; Thomas Quick doc gets North America deal.

Heading into Toronto, leading indie buyers remain hot for music-themed documentaries with mainstream cross-over appeal, as evidenced by a slew of deals on films sold by UK sales outfit Independent.

After premiering Out of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and locking up an English-language territories deal with Amazon, Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic love letter to Iggy Pop and The Stooges Gimme Danger (screening in Tiff Docs) has sold to Transmission for Australia/New Zealand, Studiocanal for German speaking territories, Le Pacte for France, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Avalon for Spain, Bim for Italy, FilmCoopi for Switzerland, Leopardo for Portugal and Ama Films for Greece.

Poland has sold to Gutek, Cis and Baltic States with A One Films, McF Megacom has Former Yugoslavia, King Records have acquired Japan, Taiwan is with B-Side and Edko has Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, [link...

Exclusive: Gimme Danger, Supersonic sell wide for Independent; Thomas Quick doc gets North America deal.

Heading into Toronto, leading indie buyers remain hot for music-themed documentaries with mainstream cross-over appeal, as evidenced by a slew of deals on films sold by UK sales outfit Independent.

After premiering Out of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and locking up an English-language territories deal with Amazon, Jim Jarmusch’s cinematic love letter to Iggy Pop and The Stooges Gimme Danger (screening in Tiff Docs) has sold to Transmission for Australia/New Zealand, Studiocanal for German speaking territories, Le Pacte for France, Non Stop for Scandinavia, Avalon for Spain, Bim for Italy, FilmCoopi for Switzerland, Leopardo for Portugal and Ama Films for Greece.

Poland has sold to Gutek, Cis and Baltic States with A One Films, McF Megacom has Former Yugoslavia, King Records have acquired Japan, Taiwan is with B-Side and Edko has Hong Kong.

Meanwhile, [link...

Twenty-two emerging producers to receive up to £2.2m; almost 500 applicants.Scroll Down For Recipients

The BFI has announced the recipients of its 2016-18 Vision Awards, comprising 22 investments in up-and-coming UK producers.

The awards, generally spread over two years, are designed to enable producers to build and develop their companies, slates and creative relationships.

The BFI had intended to give 20 awards but increased that allocation to 22 in response to the number of strong applications it received. Almost 500 companies applied for the awards, which are backed by a total commitment from the BFI of £2.2m of National Lottery funding.

Fifteen of the awards are to women producers or partnerships, while eight of the companies are based outside of London, located in Belfast, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and York.

In a bid to foster sustainability, the third iteration of the Vision Awards will include an allowance to cover a producer’s fees and overheads of up to half...