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Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan has been tapped to take the lead role of the young-and-in-love violinist Florence in On Chesil Beach, based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
The Oscar-nominated Brooklyn star is on board for Lady Bird, Gerwig’s first solo feature writing and directing effort. Ronan will play a high school senior spending her last year at home in Sacramento.
Here is the complete list of nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, as presented by Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
The British Independent Film Awards, which highlight and reward the best, most innovative and creative independent filmmaking and filmmakers in the UK, were held on Sunday. See the complete list of winners here.
The New York Film Critics Circle have released their list for the best of the year in film, with Weinstein Co.’s Carol coming up big, earning Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography. See the full list of winners here.
Kept under wraps, but follows a young woman’s last year spent in Sacramento.
In the early 1950s, a young woman is torn between her family in Ireland and the American with whom she falls in love.
Sources confirm that Dakota Fanning, Saoirse Ronan, Lili Simmons and Alison Sudol are being eyed to star as Queenie, while Kate Upton, Elizabeth Debicki, and Katherine Waterston are in the running to play Queenie’s older sister, Tina.
Dramatizes the romances and artistic conflicts between four characters: a famed story writer, a young girl, a fading actress, and her playwright son.
A round-up of today’s distribution sales, deals, and awards at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Logline: A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
Logline: After spending 20 years living with a kidnapper, a mentally disabled woman tries to acclimate to being reunited with her real parents.
The film recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and his trusted friend, lobby boy Zero Moustafa.
Offer out to Aniston with interest in Ronan to star.
Logline: Jill Costello, a Cal State rower, is diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer. Despite the dire and worsening prognosis, she pours all her energy into the team, leading them to a 2nd place finish in the national tournament, shortly before her death.
Ronan replaces Rooney Mara.
The film recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and his trusted friend, lobby boy Zero Moustafa.
Technically this is the pre-testing, more like “eying for testing” phase.
Dial those rumor receptors to “Meh…”
Logline: Set 70 years before Harry Potter, follows magizoologist Newt Scamander, who arrives in New York City to find and document magical creatures.
Story follows a troubled 15-year-old New Yorker, sent across the pond to stay with her cousins, who embarks on a harrowing odyssey across the country when a foreign power invades England.
Logline: A cheerleader finds herself torn when her new cheer coach begins giving her the attention and power normally reserved for her best friend, the team’s cheer captain, creating a rift in the team in the lead-up to a regional competition.
Story of a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire as well, forming a family bond of blood, with often lethal results.
Violet and Daisy are two teenage assassins who run into complications when they discover their current hit is not what they expected.
Story of a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire as well, forming a family bond of blood, with often lethal results.
In the near future, Earth has been assimilated by an alien species of benevolent parasites. One such parasite is fused with a dying human in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth.
In the near future, Earth has been assimilated by an alien species of benevolent parasites. One such parasite is fused with a dying human in an attempt to locate the last pocket of surviving humans on Earth.
Story of a mother vampire who turns her own daughter into a vampire as well, forming a family bond of blood, with often lethal results.