Further new releases include ’Good Luck To You Leo Grande’ and ‘Pleasure’.
Lightyear will be hoping to blast to the top of the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, with Disney releasing the animation at 654 locations.
Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear origin story has had a lukewarm reception from critics, but the Angus MacLane-directed title will hope to capitalise on the enduring influence of the Toy Story franchise. When Toy Story 4 was released in 2019, it broke a record for the highest ever three-day opening for an animated title in the UK, opening in 668 venues, and taking £13.3m.
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Lightyear will be hoping to blast to the top of the UK-Ireland box office this weekend, with Disney releasing the animation at 654 locations.
Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear origin story has had a lukewarm reception from critics, but the Angus MacLane-directed title will hope to capitalise on the enduring influence of the Toy Story franchise. When Toy Story 4 was released in 2019, it broke a record for the highest ever three-day opening for an animated title in the UK, opening in 668 venues, and taking £13.3m.
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- 6/17/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Actress and filmmaker Livia de Paolis takes on the classic childhood story of Peter Pan in her adaptation of Laurie Fox’s novel “The Lost Girls,” a book that imagines what it would have been like for Peter to continue to visit Wendy Darling’s family as promised.
The result is a strange mix of the modern and the magical, and the attempt to bring this fantastical tale into the contemporary world doesn’t work as intended, as least as executed by de Paolis, who directed, wrote the screenplay, and stars in the film.
De Paolis, whose grandfather founded an Italian movie studio in 1938, plays Wendy Darling, the granddaughter of the original Wendy (Vanessa Redgrave), whom Peter first visited and taught to fly. Nana Wendy’s daughter Jane (Joely Richardson) is young Wendy’s mother, though she’s been long missing, and the young girl has been raised by her loving father Clayton.
The result is a strange mix of the modern and the magical, and the attempt to bring this fantastical tale into the contemporary world doesn’t work as intended, as least as executed by de Paolis, who directed, wrote the screenplay, and stars in the film.
De Paolis, whose grandfather founded an Italian movie studio in 1938, plays Wendy Darling, the granddaughter of the original Wendy (Vanessa Redgrave), whom Peter first visited and taught to fly. Nana Wendy’s daughter Jane (Joely Richardson) is young Wendy’s mother, though she’s been long missing, and the young girl has been raised by her loving father Clayton.
- 6/16/2022
- by Katie Walsh
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Louis Partridge, the British actor who garnered international recognition for his turn as Viscount Tewkesbury in Enola Holmes, has signed with WME for representation in all areas.
Harry Bradbeer’s film based on the YA books of the same name by Nancy Springer centers on Sherlock Holmes’ teen sister Enola (Millie Bobby Brown), who sets off to find her mother when she discovers that she’s missing, and becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord. Following its debut on Netflix in September of 2020, it became one of the streamer’s most-watched original films ever, with an estimated 76 million households taking it in, over the course of its first four weeks of release. The success of the film has spurred a sequel that is currently in production, which will see Partridge reprise his role opposite Brown and Henry Cavill.
Harry Bradbeer’s film based on the YA books of the same name by Nancy Springer centers on Sherlock Holmes’ teen sister Enola (Millie Bobby Brown), who sets off to find her mother when she discovers that she’s missing, and becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord. Following its debut on Netflix in September of 2020, it became one of the streamer’s most-watched original films ever, with an estimated 76 million households taking it in, over the course of its first four weeks of release. The success of the film has spurred a sequel that is currently in production, which will see Partridge reprise his role opposite Brown and Henry Cavill.
- 1/31/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Distributor sets June day-and-date release.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired US rights from UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad Pictures to Livia De Paolis’s Peter Pan-inspired fantasy The Lost Girls heading into the online EFM.
Myriad Pictures will represent international rights on the film at the market. Vertical plans a day-and-date US release on June 17. Photon Films will release the film in Canada and Altitude is releasing in the UK.
Paolis wrote and directed the film based on the novel by Laurie Fox. De Paolis stars alongside Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith and Iain Glen.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired US rights from UTA Independent Film Group and Myriad Pictures to Livia De Paolis’s Peter Pan-inspired fantasy The Lost Girls heading into the online EFM.
Myriad Pictures will represent international rights on the film at the market. Vertical plans a day-and-date US release on June 17. Photon Films will release the film in Canada and Altitude is releasing in the UK.
Paolis wrote and directed the film based on the novel by Laurie Fox. De Paolis stars alongside Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Ovenden, Parker Sawyers, Emily Carey, Louis Partridge, Ella Rae Smith and Iain Glen.
- 1/27/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to drama The Lost Girls directed by Livia De Paolis.
The film is inspired by J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan and is based on the novel by Laurie Fox. Vertical is planning a day-and-date release in the U.S. on June 17, 2022.
The film is written and directed by De Paolis (Emoticon ;)), who also stars in the film along an ensemble cast including Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement), Julian Ovenden (The Crown), Parker Sawyers (Southside with You), Emily Carey (Wonder Woman), Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes), Ella Rae Smith (Séance) and Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) as Hook.
Myriad Pictures is handling international sales and will continue to drum up business at the upcoming virtual European Film Market (EFM). Myriad and UTA co-repped the film for the U.S. with UTA Independent Film Group taking the lead on the sale.
The film is inspired by J.M. Barrie’s classic Peter Pan and is based on the novel by Laurie Fox. Vertical is planning a day-and-date release in the U.S. on June 17, 2022.
The film is written and directed by De Paolis (Emoticon ;)), who also stars in the film along an ensemble cast including Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck), Vanessa Redgrave (Atonement), Julian Ovenden (The Crown), Parker Sawyers (Southside with You), Emily Carey (Wonder Woman), Louis Partridge (Enola Holmes), Ella Rae Smith (Séance) and Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) as Hook.
Myriad Pictures is handling international sales and will continue to drum up business at the upcoming virtual European Film Market (EFM). Myriad and UTA co-repped the film for the U.S. with UTA Independent Film Group taking the lead on the sale.
- 1/27/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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