'The Score' Buzz title at EFM

Heist thriller musical 'The Score' heads WestEnd Films' slate, starring former Screen Stars of Tomorrow Johnny Flynn, Naomi Ackie and Will Poulter.

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Simon Bird's 'Days Of The Bagnold Summer' Gets North American Distribution Deal

Greenwich Entertainment has picked up North American distribution rights to comedy feature Days of The Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird.

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CineLife Entertainment Announces A Christmas Carol

This unforgettable, original interpretation of A Christmas Carol takes a familiar story and gives it an innovative treatment. The characters in the film are portrayed by dancers and voiced by an eclectic cast of the world's most recognizable actors. The mix of danced action and spoken narration brings a completely new and exciting dimension to Dickens' characters whilst remaining true to the beauty of his original narrative.

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'The Art of Political Murder' Debuts on Dec 16

THE ART OF POLITICAL MURDER, debuting WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT), based on Francisco Goldman's award-winning book of the same name and executive produced by Oscar(R) winners George Clooney and Grant Heslov, tells the story of the 1998 murder of Guatemalan human rights activist Bishop Juan Gerardi, which stunned a country ravaged by decades of political violence, and the fight for justice that ensued..

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'Never Grow Old' Wins Two IFTA

'Never Grow Old' won two awards from four nominations, for Best Cinematography, awarded to Piers McGrail and Best Production Design, awarded to John Leslie.

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'Archive' Trailer Release

Vertical Entertainment has launched a new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller 'Archive' starring Theo James and Toby Jones. 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife.

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'Archive' Sets Release Date

Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Archive, the sci-fi pic starring Theo James that was to have its world premiere at SXSW before the festival was shuttered due to the coronavirus lockdown. Gavin Rothery wrote and directed the film, which Vertical said Wednesday it is aiming for a July 10 day-and-date release in theaters.

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'Son' Sells to AMC Shudder

On the eve of the EFM in Berlin, Ivan Kavanagh's supernatural horror Son, starring Halloween breakout Andi Matichak alongside Emile Hirsch and Luke David Blumm, has locked North American and UK distribution. AMC Networks-owned genre streamer Shudder has taken all rights for the UK and Ireland, and has also picked up exclusive SVoD rights for North America, partnering with fellow AMC Networks-owned company RLJE which will handle the rest of domestic, encompassing theatrical, transactional VOD and digital, and home video.

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I See You Trailer

I See You trailer: Helen Hunt stars in mind-bending psychological thriller. Saban Films has released the official trailer for I See You, the upcoming psychological thriller starring Oscar winner Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets, Mad About You, The Night Clerk).

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Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan Join 'The Last Bus'"

British stars Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan, last seen on screen together in Mike Leigh's acclaimed 1996 drama Secrets & Lies, have reunited for Hurricane Film's The Last Bus.

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Locarno screen 'Days of the Bagnold Summer'

This year's Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7 -17) lineup includes Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plane thriller 7500, which gets its world premiere at the Swiss showcase.

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Irish Release for 'Never Grow Old'

Wildcard Distribution has announced that they will be working on the Irish release of Never Grow Old, on behalf of Altitude Film Distribution this summer. Written and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Ivan Kavanagh (The Canal), Never Grow Old stars Emile Hirsch (Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Into The Wild), Déborah François (L'Enfant) and John Cusack (High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich) and was filmed in Galway and Luxembourg.

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Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan board 'The Last Bus'

British stars Timothy Spall and Phyllis Logan, last seen on screen together in Mike Leigh's acclaimed 1996 drama Secrets & Lies, have reunited for Hurricane Film's The Last Bus. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon (Hideous Kinky) and produced by Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter (A Prayer Before Dawn, A Quiet Passion), the film — now in production — was written by Joe Ainsworth (Holby City), and centers on widower Tom (Spall). When his wife Mary (Logan) passes away, he uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain, from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fueled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and, to his surprise, on arrival at Land's End he's greeted as a celebrity.

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Independent Board 'Art of Political Murder'

HBO and sales agent Independent have boarded George Clooney-produced political documentary The Art of Political Murder. The premium broadcaster has taken the North American rights to the project via its HBO Documentary Films, while Independent will take it to Cannes. The feature doc, which was previously in development as a series with Amazon, is produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and Rise Film.

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'Moon' Concept Designer Heads Back to Space with 'Archive'

ScreenDaily shares the first look at Theo James in sci-fi Archive, the feature directing debut of Moon concept designer Gavin Rothery. James stars opposite Stacy Martin in the film about a man working in a remote secret facility developing true, human-like artificial intelligence. The film also stars Toby Jones, Rhona Mitra and Peter Ferdinando.

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'Never Grow Old' sells to multiple international territories

ScreenDaily is reporting that Ivan Kavanagh's Irish Western Never Grow Old has sold to a number of international territories, including to the U.K. with Altitude Film Distribution.

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Stacy Martin Joins Gavin Rothery's Sci-Fi Movie 'Archive'

Stacy Martin will star in "Archive," the sci-fi movie from Gavin Rothery, the concept designer on Duncan Jones' film "Moon."

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Voice Cast Announced on 'A Christmas Carol'

Saboteur Media has boarded worldwide rights heading into the AFM on a radical retelling of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol featuring a voice cast led by UK luminaries Carey Mulligan, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Serkis, and Martin Freeman.

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First-look image released for Simon Bird's Days of the Bagnold Summer

A first-look image has been released for Days of the Bagnold Summer, the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners). Starring Monica Dolan (Eye in the Sky), Earl Cave (The End of the F***ing World), Rob Brydon (The Trip), Alice Lowe (Prevenge), Tamsin Greig (Tamara Drewe) and Elliot Speller-Gillot (Uncle), Days of the Bagnold Summer is set to be released in 2019 by Altitude Films.

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Grand Theft Auto documentary in the works from Salon Pictures, Independent

Breaking Habits director Rob Ryan is now filming the feature project

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Belle and Sebastian to Score New Film 'Days of the Bagnold Summer'

Scottish indie pop group Belle and Sebastian have been tapped to score the forthcoming film, Days of the Bagnold Summer. Directed by actor-comedian Simon Bird, Days of the Bagnold Summer wrapped shooting last week and is slated to be released in the UK next year.

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Judi Dench to Receive the Golden Icon Award

Academy Award-® winning actress Judi Dench will receive the Golden Icon Award on October 3. The Zurich Film Festival announced today that Judi Dench will be honored with the Golden Icon Award at this year's festival..

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Oscar race heats up as star-studded Toronto film festival begins

In one of the festival's stronger lineups in recent years, there will be 138 world premieres featuring a long list of stars, including Judi Dench, Julia Roberts, Steve Carell, Colin Farrell, Robert Pattinson, Viola Davis and Kristen Stewart.

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Rising British Star Lily Newmark

Just two years after graduating from drama school, the 24-year-old has amassed an enviable — and impressively eclectic — array of titles on her resume, including a certain trip to a galaxy far, far away.

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Alice Lowe, Rob Brydon And Monica Dolan Join Days Of The Bagnold Summer

Last year, we learned that The Inbetweeners' Simon Bird was in the process of setting up his directorial debut, called Days Of The Bagnold Summer. He's tracked down the cast he needs, with Alice Lowe, Rob Brydon, Tamsin Greig, Monica Dolan, Elliot Speller-Gillot and Earl Cave all making deals to join the comedy.

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First Shot From I See You

ScreenDaily shared a first look at Zodiac Features' I See You, which Bankside Films is handling at Cannes. The first ever photo shows Helen Hunt, who I will always remember for her role in the disaster epic Twister and Charles Band's awesome Trancers, giving an intense look.

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay join Gemma Arterton in 'Summerland'

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Belle), Tom Courtenay (45 Years) and Penelope Wilton (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) have boarded second world war-era drama Summerland which is set to star and be executive produced by Gemma Arterton.

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First look at Jay Pharoah in 'How To Sell A War'

In the film, Pharoah plays vain and arrogant rock star Harry Hope who is due to lead a global charity concert in a warzone.

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First Image for A Good Woman

Bloody Disgusting has the first ever image from Road Games director Abner Pastoll's next feature, which was filmed last year in Northern Ireland and Belgium with the production company behind Raw!

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Lily Newmark Profile

Lily Newmark might only be 23 but don't call her an up and-coming actress. "I can't stand being coined as 'aspiring," she says, gracefully arranging her red hair as we sit down in a booth at The Ivy Kensington. "I'm a working actress, I made seven films last year." Among her projects are Solo: A Star Wars Story and a campaign for Chanel's Chance perfume.

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Red Joan And Red Sparrow—The Politics Of Cold War Cinema

The new Judi Dench film Red Joan is a contribution to the recent uptick of Russian-oriented thrillers, but one that promises a little more depth.

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Saban Films Saddles Up for Western 'Never Grow Old' in North America

Saban Films has taken North American rights to Ivan Kavanagh's Western "Never Grow Old," from Metro Intl. Entertainment. The U.S. distributor is planning a theatrical release for the film, which is currently in post-production, in the last quarter of the year.

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Moe Dunford Profile

His four-year stint on Vikings has just come to an end, but with six movie releases this year alone, an IFTA nomination and his latest role as Amy Huberman's love interest in Striking Out, Moe Dunford is about to become a household name, writes Esther McCarthy

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Rudolph Herzog's How To Sell a War to start production in March

Dublin-based production company Film and Music Entertainment, along with Bankside Films and Quickfire have announced a start of shoot date on Rudolph Herzog's How To Sell a War. The feature, which is financed by Quickfire, Creative England, GNFC and IPR.VC is slated to start filming in Dublin and Georgia on March 16th.

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Hollywood star rides into Connemara

John Cusack, the Hollywood actor, has joined the cast of a western being filmed in Galway. The star will play a villain called Dutch Albert in Never Grow Old, which is directed by Ivan Kavanagh from Dublin. Emile Hirsch stars in the lead role of the Irish immigrant Patrick Tate. The project has been funded by Ripple World Pictures with the assistance of the Irish Film Board.

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Last day of filming for Red Joan takes place at Newnham College

Kingsman star Sophie Cookson and a crew led by director Sir Trevor Nunn have been in the city filming scenes for Red Joan, a new film based on the life of Melita Norwood, the KGB's longest-serving British spy. A statement released by the college said: "Scenes were shot in Old Hall, the Pfeiffer arch, Newnham's gardens and inside our Kennedy building. The film is expected to be released in autumn 2018."

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John Cusack joins Irish western 'Never Grow Old'

Being John Malkovich actor Cusack co-stars as malevolent villain Dutch Albert with Hirsch (Lone Survivor) in the lead role as the reluctant hero Patrick Tate. Shoot has been underway in Ireland since November 6.

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A Good Woman features Sarah Bolger and Andrew Simpson

"Once Upon a Time" actress Sarah Bolger has joined Abner Pastoll's crime-thriller "A Good Woman Is Hard to Find" alongside Edward Hogg ("Taboo") and Andrew Simpson ("Notes on a Scandal").

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Good Favour Sells to the US

Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired the U.S. rights to Rebecca Daly's third feature, Good Favour, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year.

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Judi Dench's 'Red Joan' Biopic Sells Internationally

Red Joan — starring Oscar winner Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) and Tom Hughes (Victoria) and telling the real-life story of a grandmother exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy — has scored a raft of international deals.

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Irish black comedy 'Dark Lies The Island' reveals first look, sales deal

Principal photography has wrapped on black comedy Dark Lies the Island, written by Irish writer Kevin Barry (City Of Bohane). Based on characters from Barry's short story collection of the same name, Dark Lies The Island follows a long-standing family feud in a small Irish town.

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Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson to star in Trevor Nunn's 'Red Joan'

Oscar-winner Judi Dench and rising talent Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service) will lead Red Joan for director Trevor Nunn. Lindsay Shapiro has penned the script, an adaptation of Jennie Rooney's eponymous 2014 novel which itself took its inspiration from the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman unmasked at age 87 as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.

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Good Favour Selected for TIFF

Rebecca Daly's fiction film Good Favour will premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (taking place from the 7th – 17th September).

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Interview with Billy O'Brien

In his latest podcast/interview, Nerdly writer and Britflicks host Stuart Wright talks to Billy O'Brien (pictured above), the writer/director of I Am Not A Serial Killer. A dazzlingly original, darkly funny and disturbing gem with a genre-bending twist, I Am Not A Serial Killer follows a small town teenager in the US, obsessed with serial killers, who unwittingly discovers the identity of the killer who has been slaughtering residents for body parts.

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Three BIFA Nominations for 'Serial Killer'

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.

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'Level Up' Gets Theatrical Release

FilmBuff has licensed U.S. distribution rights to Adam Randall's feature debut, the action thriller LEVEL UP. The New York-based distribution company, whose titles include Banksy's EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP and Benson+Moorhead's SPRING, have set an August 26 theatrical release for the film, and will release it on Video-on-Demand September 26th.

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Max Records & Christopher Lloyd Get Creepy In First Trailer For 'I Am Not A Serial Killer'

This is the kind of trailer I absolutely love: moody and bleak enough to make an impression, but one that also doesn't dispel too much information in the process. It's a nice balance of eerie and morbidly inviting, which helps instantly get you into the twisted mindset of its central protagonist. Although we missed it at SXSW this year, reviews praised the film, particularly Records' performance and O'Brien's unconventional approach.

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Fantasia lineup includes 'I Am Not a Serial Killer'

Beloved genre festival Fantasia has completed announcing its very, very full final lineup for its twentieth edition. Highlights include Fede Alvarez's "Don't Breathe," the Mel Gibson-starring thriller "Blood Father," the world premiere of "The Top Secret: Murder in Mind," Billy O'Brien's "I Am Not a Serial Killer," a screening of "Train to Busan," a heart-stopping series of documentaries ("Beware The Slenderman"!), an action-centric series that includes the world premiere of "Kickboxer: Vengeance" and so very much more.

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'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' opens second on DVD chart

Universal Pictures' "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2," a belated sequel to the 2002 comedy about a young Greek woman who falls in love with a non-Greek, debuted at No. 2 on both the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart and the Blu-ray Disc-only sales chart.

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Box Office: 'Batman V Superman' Tops, But 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' Nabs Strong $18M Weekend

Batman v Superman didn't stop My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 from taking its own bite out of the weekend box office. Nia Vardalos's sequel to her 2002 sleeper sensation earned 3,032% more on its opening weekend compared to the original! Yes, that's a record for that particular statistic. And now, with an $18.116 million debut, it's on track to make as much as $7.3 billion at the domestic box office! Okay, probably closer to $60m domestic, but let me have my fun for a moment.

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More excited for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 than Batman v Superman? You're not alone

Zack Snyder's superhero blockbuster and rom-com sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 will go head to head at the box office this weekend

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Greek Wedding Sequel one of 2016 most anticipated

We get back with the Portokalos clan in this sequel 14 years in the making. (Better My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 than My Big Fat Greek Divorce!)

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Pitch Perfect 2 opens top of disc chart

Universal Pictures is on a roll, with Pitch Perfect 2 debuting at No. 1 on both national home video sales charts the week ended Sept. 27, a week after Furious 7 achieved the same feat..

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Pitch Perfect 2 hits $260m Worldwide

Pitch Perfect 2 took over £167m ($260m) worldwide in just one month and beat Mad Max: Fury Road in its opening weekend at the UK box office.

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Pitch Perfect 2 Surpasses $100m

Pitch Perfect 2 will cross the $100 million mark at the U.S. box office on Saturday.

This is yet another high note for the Universal comedy as it looks likely to edge out big-budget tentpole Tomorrowland at the Memorial Day weekend box office, with just north of $41 million. The Pitch Perfect sequel has an estimated $29 million pricetag, while Diseny's Tomorrowland reportedly cost $180 million to produce.

Pitch Perfect 2 will surpass $125 million by the end of the four-day weekend.

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Pitch Perfect 2 Opens in the US

Tom Hardy, George Miller, and Mad Max: Fury Road were run over by Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks and the young harmonizers of Pitch Perfect 2 in a game of chicken between two sequels with equally passionate fan-bases.

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I Am Not a Serial Killer Shoots

Shoot is underway in Minnesota, US, on Irish writer-director Billy O'Brien's adaptation of novelist Dan Wells' supernatural-thriller I Am Not a Serial Killer.

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Level Up Starts Shoot

Principal photography is underway in London on UK thriller Level Up, starring Josh Bowman and Neil Maskell (Kill List). British actor Bowman is best known for his long-running role as Daniel Grayson in US drama series Revenge, which he left earlier this year after four seasons on the show in a dramatic exit.

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Jack O'Connell nominated BAFTA Rising Star

Actor Jack O'Connell is among five young actors nominated for this year's EE Bafta Rising Star award.

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Starred Up Awards at NBR

Starred Up was awarded by the National Board of Review in the categories: Best Breakthrough Performance for Jack O'Connell and Top 10 Independent Films.

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Starred Up Awards at BAFTA Scotland

[...] One of the night's biggest winners was Starred Up, winning three of the four categories in which it was nominated. The hard-hitting prison drama finished ahead of Filth and Sunshine on Leith to win the Feature Film award. For his work on the film, David Mackenzie took home the Director Film/Television award while Jonathan Asser picked up the Writer Film/Television trophy.

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Young Ones review

Those intimate shots, paired with vast panoramas of barren wasteland make Young Ones a haunting visual experience. And the performances by Shannon and a talented cast of young actors push this film towards greatness: tragic greatness.

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Young Ones wins best screenplay at Sitges

The award for best screenplay went to Young Ones, by Jake Paltrow

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Starred Up up for best poster and trailer at Screen Awards

Starred Up, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Frank each received double nominations.

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Jonathan Asser on Starred Up

Jonathan Asser used to struggle with his extreme rage until he learned to master it - and discovered a skill for calming violent prisoners. His experience led to a film and best-newcomer award at the London Film Festival.

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Young Ones Review

Jake Paltrow's Young Ones is easily one of the most ambitious films to be unveiled at this year's Sundance Film Festival. It takes a page not only from post-apocalyptic actioners like Mad Max, but also Dust-Bowl era literature and films - especially John Ford's big-screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath -all mixed in with a certain punk rock aesthetic and Tarantino-style chapter breaks

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Shannon and Hoult Shine in Young Ones

A hot young cast, a dystopian future and a sci-fi angle may be the selling points of Jake Paltrow's pioneering epic, but the new Hunger Games this isn't. Instead, Paltrow's feature, shot in the sweltering mountainous heat of South Africa is a Western in the tradition of the old style of treacherous landscapes, child brides and violent men.

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