Francesca Annis

Date of Birth

1945-05-14

Place of Birth

Kensington, London, England, UK

Known for

Dune, Krull, Revolver, Shifty, Macbeth

Most Popular Stories

WTF Happened to David Lynch’s Dune?

Posted 6 years ago

WTF Happened To This Movie? – The JoBlo series that looks at TROUBLED movie productions! Box-office smashes and flops, fan-favorites or creative failures, these movies endured numerous problems behind-the-scenes. In the 1980s when studios were all desperately chasing “the next...

The UnPopular Opinion: David Lynch’s Dune

Posted 6 years ago

THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column will...

The Best Movie You Never Saw: Krull

Posted 6 years ago

Welcome to The Best Movie You NEVER Saw, a column dedicated to examining films that have flown under the radar or gained traction throughout the years, earning them a place as a cult classic or underrated gem that was either...

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Legendary acquires film and TV rights for the sci-fi epic Dune

Posted 10 years ago

Legendary Pictures is plenty busy these days bringing giant monsters to life in films like KONG: SKULL ISLAND and PACIFIC RIM: MAELSTROM, but it looks like they're going to bring the epic in more ways than one. As Deadline reports,...

One of Denis Villeneuve’s longstanding dreams is to adapt Dune

Posted 10 years ago

It's no secret that I have become a big fan of Denis Villeneuve over the years; INCENDIES, PRISONERS, ENEMY and SICARIO, one after another they became some my favourite movies of the year, and now that he's putting his stamp...

VHS Retro Art Round-up: Dune, Mr. Boogedy, Star Crash and more

Posted 11 years ago

Alex Every child of the 80s will remember going to the video store and trying to find a movie to rent. Back before the days of Blu-ray and On Demand, selecting a movie usually meant finding the flick with the...

Learn about the best movie never made in the trailer for Jodorowsky’s Dune

Posted 13 years ago

The casual movie fan has likely never heard of Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Chilean-French director is well known to students of film for his surreal and bizarre films FANDO Y LIS, EL TOPO, SANTA SANGRE, and HOLY MOUNTAIN. With fans like...

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Kill of the Day: Krull (1983)

Posted 13 years ago

There’s nothing like a good old fashioned sci-fi flick, am I right? A flick that pretty much hits the nail on the head in that regard is the 1983 classic KRULL. Just the name of the flick screams all kinds...