Aardman’s celebrated, box office-smashing, stop-motion animated chickens are finally being allowed back into the wild.  Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, the sequel to 2000’s Chicken Run, is due to hatch on Netflix globally on Dec. 15, having had its world premiere at the London Film Festival back in October.  …

Just a few weeks ahead of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, it was unveiled that a new regional distributor and sales operation was launching.  Riyadh-based TwentyOne Entertainment, led by British former Universal and Disney executive Paul Chesney, would be coming to the festival with its first acquisition, …

Ali Kalthami jokingly asserts that Telfaz11, the Saudi Arabia production company he helped co-found more than 10 years ago — long before the country announced it was reopening cinemas for the first time in 35 years — is currently the “hot thing” in the local film industry.  He’s not exactly wrong.  …

It was one of the largest manhunts in history. Having been ousted from power following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, the country’s once all-powerful and ruthless leader, went into hiding as an estimated 150,000 troops scoured the land for the individual known as “High-Value Target Number One.” …

The British Film and Television Academy has announced the 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort, 42 creatives working across film, games and TV from across the U.K., U.S. and India selected to take part in its flagship talent initiative. Held in partnership with Netflix, the BAFTA Breakthrough program — which is also celebrating …

Stephen Graham, one of the most acclaimed actors on U.K. TV and a regular in both major studio titles and smaller indie features, is set to receive the highest honor at this year’s British Independent Film Awards. The Richard Harris Award, named after the late star, recognizes an outstanding contribution …

There are numerous laugh-out-loud moments in Saltburn, Emerald Fennell’s darkly comic and voyeuristic exploration of the British aristocracy being released on Friday. Despite the hugely impressive efforts of Rosamund Pike and Richard E. Grant, however, most don’t belong to the lead cast, but to Paul Rhys.  As Duncan, the imperious …

The 1 percent may be enjoying some serious #lifegoals at the minute, but they’ve been having something of a tough time on screen. Parasite, Triangle of Sadness and The Menu are just a few recent films that have shifted the power dynamics away from the super wealthy and into the …

A good film title can be hard to find. Bad ones are far more plentiful (in 2015, The Hollywood Reporter listed Dude, Where’s My Car, Freddy Got Fingered and Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones among its 50 worst of all time). Which is why, when a …

There are compliments and there are compliments. For a young Italian actress making her big screen debut, being compared to Giulietta Masina — best known for her work in front of the camera of Federico Fellini (who also doubled up as her husband), most notably La Strada and Nights of Cabiria …

Brendan Fraser already had a fair amount of Oscars hype ahead of The Whale’s premiere in Venice in 2022, but it was his reaction afterwards that, for many, laid the path toward his best actor win. While nobody’s taking anything away from Fraser’s powerful performance as a 600-pound recluse, several figures …

Back in the fall of 2003, Femi Oguns — then a working British actor who had appeared in a number of well-known U.K. TV shows — was on the streets of London handing out flyers for his yet-to-open school.  Having felt that his own experience at drama school had been stifled due to his …