Darkest Hour director sets The Woman in the Window as his next feature

Posted 8 years ago

After helming the Winston Chruchill biopic DARKEST HOUR, the in-demand director, Joe Wright, has announced that he's signed on to bring a big screen adaptation of A.J. Finn's bestselling novel, The Woman in the Window, to theaters. Finn's novel centers on the...

Joel Kinnaman & Mireille Enos to lead TV series based on Joe Wright’s Hanna

Posted 8 years ago

Remember HANNA? The 2011 thriller from Joe Wright starred Saoirse Ronan as a young girl trained as an assassin by her ex-CIA operative father (Eric Bana) in the wilderness of Finland, and although I can remember watching it and recall...

Gary Oldman smoked $20,000 worth of cigars while filming Darkest Hour

Posted 8 years ago

In order to play Winston Churchill in DARKEST HOUR, Gary Oldman underwent an incredible transformation which involved a fat suit, prosthetics, and hours upon hours of study, but one crucial piece of embodying Churchill wound up making the actor sick...

Review: Darkest Hour

Posted 8 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2017 coverage. PLOT: Newly appointed prime minister Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) tries desperately to mobilize parliament against the on-coming Nazi onslaught in the early days of WW2. REVIEW: Joe Wright's DARKEST HOUR and...

Oldman is a tour de force in new Darkest Hour trailer

Posted 9 years ago

Fans of Gary Oldman may rejoice, for this year may finally be the year the acclaimed actor begins to gather the awards he has been denied for years with his stirring performance in DARKEST HOUR. Oldman has been receiving wild...

Casey Affleck to star as a farmer turned academic in Joe Wright’s Stoner

Posted 9 years ago

Earlier today, it was announced that MANCHESTER BY THE SEA award-winning actor Casey Affleck has signed on to star in STONER, a film about a dirt poor farmer-turned-academic who emerges as an unlikely existential hero while making his way through the...

Gary Oldman is Winston Churchill in first Darkest Hour trailer

Posted 9 years ago

Gary Oldman has graced audiences for years by portraying a wide swath of diverse and complex characters. But more often than not he’s the supporting player (HARRY POTTER, THE DARK KNIGHT trilogy), even though we know full well he can...

Joe Wright’s Hanna TV adaptation gets straight-to-series order for Amazon

Posted 9 years ago

Back in March, we reported that Joe Wright's assassination thriller HANNA starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Cate Blanchett was being eyed for a television series adaptation. Today, we've learned that Amazon Studios has granted a straight-to-series order for HANNA...

Joe Wright & Saoirse Ronan’s Hanna is being adapted into a TV series

Posted 9 years ago

Dammit. I could kick myself right now for never having made the time to watch Joe Wright's assassination thriller HANNA starring Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Cate Blanchett. I don't know why I never got around to it, I suppose it...

The UnPopular Opinion: Pan

Posted 9 years ago

Alex 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...

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