Suddenly the James Bond franchise has momentum with Denis Villeneuve getting the director’s job, but is he the right choice to relaunch 007? After years of waiting for tangible news, aside from a change of ownership, we’re suddenly hit with the confirmation that the next iteration of 007 has a director. That man is Denis […]
Sam Mendes’ The Beatles – A Four-Film Cinematic Event sets cast, release dates
A little over a year after it was first announced that filmmaker Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1917) was developing four separate movies based around The Beatles, Sony has now officially announced the release dates for The Beatles — A Four-Film Cinematic Event as well as unveiling the actors who’ll be bringing the Fab Four to […]
Joseph Quinn exits Bret Easton Ellis’ Relapse for George Harrison role in The Beatles biopics
Last year Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn was announced to lead Bret Easton Ellis’ directorial debut Relapse, but now it has been revealed he has exited the project for Sam Mendes’ ambitious Beatles biopics. Ellis, who has written several novels including American Psycho and Less Than Zero, is writing the script for Relapse and is to direct as his feature film debut. […]
Sam Mendes to direct four separate movies about The Beatles
In a move that will make fans scream as loud they did in the Cavern Club circa 1961, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Oscar-winning filmmaker Sam Mendes will team up to bring audiences four separate movies about the iconic music band The Beatles. Mendes (1917, American Beauty) will direct all four films, and each will focus on a […]
Movie Review – Empire of Light (2022)
Empire of Light, 2022. Written and Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, Colin Firth, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Sara Stewart, Mark Ryan, Adrian McLoughlin, Spike Leighton, Mark Field, Monica Dolan, Justin Edwards, George Whitehead, William Chubb, and Ashleigh Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: A love story set in and […]
Movie Review – Empire of Light (2022)
Empire of Light, 2022. Written & Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Toby Jones, and Colin Firth. SYNOPSIS: Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, Empire of Light is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema Sam Mendes is one of the most […]
New trailer for Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light starring Olivia Colman and Michael Ward
Ahead of its theatrical release this December, Searchlight Pictures has shared a new poster and trailer for the 80s-set romantic drama Empire of Light. Written and directed by Sam Mendes (Skyfall, 1917), the film features a cast that includes Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, and Colin […]
Olivia Colman stars in the teaser for Sam Mendes’ ode to cinema Empire of Light
Searchlight Pictures have released the trailer for Sam Mendes’ love letter to cinema, Empire of Light, which reunites the Academy Award winning director with his 1917 cinematographer Roger Deakins, a collaborative duo who both know a fair bit about the power of the projected image. Set in an old cinema located in an English seaside […]
Olivia Colman to star in Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light
Sam Mendes has chosen his first film since 1917 snared 10 Oscar nominations and $314 million at the worldwide box-office, and it looks as though fellow Academy-Award botherer Olivia Colman is set to join him for Empire of Light. Deadline reports that the Skyfall director has teamed with Searchlight Pictures to bring to life a […]
Exclusive Interview – 1917 producer Pippa Harris on the challenges of filming that famous climactic run, praise from Bong Joon-ho and more
Justin Cook chats with 1917 producer Pippa Harris… In hindsight, 1917 seems like a bit of an impossibility. Awards season has come and gone and now that we can look at the Sam Mendes-directed war thriller objectively, separated from its associations with winning the BAFTA or the Golden Globe or being the frontrunner for Best […]
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