Ellie Calnan

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Source: Trae Patton / @ A.M.P.A.S / Kevin Payravi, Wikimedia Commons (CC. BY 3.0) Charles Melton and Sophie Thatcher are set to star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell for Neon Pictures. Kristine Froseth, best known for The Bucaneers, and Bottoms starHavana Rose Liu have also been cast in the feature. Neon is co-financing and distributing. Refn and Neon announced the project on social media today (April 23), describing it as “something groovy”.

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Source: Mark Von Holden / The Academy Kevin Macdonald’s action thrillerThe Runner starring Gal Gadot has begun filming in London for Amazon MGM Studios. David Kosse developed and produces the title via his new London-based production company Rockwood Pictures. The Runner marks the company’s first project in production. Kosse was most recently head of international film at Netflix.

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Source: Warner Bros / A24 Warner Bros’ Sinners and A24’s Warfare go head-to-head in UK and Ireland cinemas as the new releases make use of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Ryan Coogler’s supernatural drama Sinners is launching in 614 locations. It is the director’s second-widest release behind 2022’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,which opened in 700 sites, and ahead of 2018’s Black Panther on 588 sites. Those two titles debuted with £12.4m and £10.5m, respectively.

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Producers on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners said shooting the director’s vampire feature in New Orleans “could not have been more difficult” thanks to the extreme weather. Producer Sev Ohanian spoke to Screen at the European premiere in London last night (April 14) and explained why the Louisiana city was chosen. “There’s only a couple of places in America that can really work for [this film],” Ohanian said of the Warner Bros feature, which stars Michael B.

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Argentinian filmmaker Clarisa Navas’ The Prince Of Nanawa was awarded the €21,000 grand jury prize at the Swiss documentary festival Visions du Reel, while Irainian director Bani Koshnoudi’s The Vanishing Point won the top prize in the Burning Lights competition. Navas’ documentary follows a boy living on the Paraguayan border across 10 years. The jury said the film used “confidence and humility” to straddle “autofiction, fiction and non-fiction resisting the master’s narrative”.