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Tamzin Merchant (Carnival Row), Edmund Kingsley (T.I.M.), and Raffiella Chapman (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) have joined the inspired-by-true-events horror The Caged, Deadline reports today.

The Caged begins principal photography next month in the UK.

The film draws from history and follows “a family that is terrorized by a dark presence after they move into a quaint cottage. Uncovering its history, they discover their once dream home lies on the site of a medieval prison set aside for those accused of witchcraft, including England’s most notorious witch, hanged in 1582.”

While that logline doesn’t which witch may have inspired The Caged, the 1582 clue suggests it could, perhaps, draw from Ursula Kemp, a woman who confessed to witchcraft and murder before being hanged. Then again, Essex, England alone is notorious for the daunting volume of witchcraft trials over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There’s no...

Exclusive: Tamzin Merchant (Carnival Row), Edmund Kingsley (Dirty Angels), Raffiella Chapman (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) are set to star in Jeffrey Scott Collins’ new horror feature The Caged.

Film Bridge is launching sales on the movie at the EFM ahead of the start of principal photography in the U.K. in March.

Inspired by true events, The Caged follows a family that is terrorized by a dark presence after they move into a quaint cottage. Uncovering its history, they discover their once dream home lies on the site of a medieval prison set aside for those accused of witchcraft, including England’s most notorious witch, hanged in 1582.

Merchant, Kingsley, Raffiella Chapman are joined in the cast by young big screen debutant Callen Carter.

“Several years ago, I woke up one morning with a random notion that I need to write a horror film that is set in England,...

Tim Burton is an iconic director known for cleverly combining horror and fantasy. His movies have an eerie aesthetic and tell whimsical stories, and the recent success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is testament to just how they enthrall viewers. It’s not the spooky season, but fans looking for a Burton follow-up should take the opportunity to revisit one of his polarizing works from 2016, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Starring Ella Purnell, whose talents have only recently been recognized with shows like Yellowjackets and Fallout, the movie is a streaming hit, ranking in Max’s top 10.

Back in the day, Tim Burton, the visionary director behind classics like The Nightmare Before Christmas, teamed up with then-rising star Ella Purnell, to bring the movie to life. And even if it was an unlikely collaboration, the casting was not what earned Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children its divisive reception.

Based...

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Unstoppable, 9pm, ITV4, Monday, January 23

The runaway train went down the track and she blew...up? Not if Denzel Washington’s genius engineer and his young apprentice (Chris Pine) have anything to do with it, but they really have their work cut out for them in this non-stop adrenaline-fuelled actioner by Tony Scott. While bureaucrats bicker over the potential cost of losing the train, their focus is on trying to avoid lost lives, which proves a lot more complicated aqnd precarious than logic would suggest. There are no big surprises here, but plenty of entertaining stunts.

Vesper, Netflix, Tuesday, January 24

Rising star Raffiella Chapman plays a teenager struggling to support her ailing father in a degraded future world, in this bold new work from Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper. When a crashed vessel from the nearby city provides an unexpected opportunity, Vesper embarks...

Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper’s distinctive-looking film has a compelling narrative as a teenager navigates a mycelium-and-mud world

If you are going to see one post-apocalyptic, low-tech French-Lithuanian-Belgian film in English this year with Eddie Marsan as the heavy, make sure it’s this one. Co-written and directed by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, whose previous collaboration, sci-fi feature Vanishing Waves, was well-received critically but little seen beyond the Baltics and the festival circuit, Vesper plays like a cult film waiting to be discovered. It adeptly fuses a compelling YA-friendly story about a teenage girl’s survival in a hostile environment with dense, thoughtful world-building, the sort required to draw in nerdy-minded viewers. That savvy combination creates a narrative that breathes and expands, like one of the freaky mycelium-like life forms that populate the story.

The title character, played with impressive poise by Raffiella Chapman, lives in a future...

Stars: Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, Rosy McEwen, Melanie Gaydos, Edmund Dehn | Written by Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper, Brian Clark | Directed by Kristina Buozyte, Bruno Samper

Vesper, directed by duo Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper, written by Buozyte, Samper and Brian Clark, follows a young girl as she searches for a way to fix her father’s life support system and eventually replenish the largely diminished food supply on a destroyed Earth.

Since there’ve been examples of just about every world-ending event across every medium, it’s hard to come away with something truly unique in the apocalyptic department. Buozyte, Samper and Clark know this and abide by an acceptable, oft-told story, but add flavour between beats.

An opening crawl informs us that the world has been torn asunder by efforts to fix it; genetically engineered food, organisms and viruses wreaked havoc on the population except for those that live in “citadels,...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #299: “Vesper” – the hustle behind making an epic sci-fi...

Imax is out this Sunday with Brandi Carlile: In The Canyon Haze – Live from Laurel Canyon on 31 screens nationwide, an encore of a live event that reps a milestone for the large format exhibitor.

The concert was broadcast Thursday from LA’s storied Laurel Canyon neighborhood to 87 Imax theaters (there would have been a few more if Hurricane Ian hadn’t taken out Florida locations). More than three dozen sold out for what is the company’s top-grossing live event. It featured Carlile and her band — no live audience — performing reimagined versions of songs from her new deluxe album “In The Canyon Haze”. Filmed for Imax using Imax digital cameras, it’s the first event of its kind Imax has staged.

Early this year, the company grossed 300k from its live stream of Kanye West’s Donda 2 concert event in Miami — the closest thing to date. (It released the...

Set in “the new dark ages” — a ruined tomorrow in which the engineered viruses and organisms that humanity created in order to stem the planet’s ecological crisis have escaped into the wild and remade life on Earth into a dreary (but awesome) Cronenbergian wasteland full of fleshy droids, bioluminescent critters, and trees whose spores try to suck out your internal tissue while you sleep — Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s “Vesper” has already drawn several comparisons to the likes of “Stalker” and the Andrei Tarkovsky-inspired “Annihilation.” It’s easy to see why.

Told at the somnambulant of a European art film but plotted with the simplicity of a fairy tale, the filmmaking duo’s first feature since 2012’s “Vanishing Waves” offers .

Instead of using a variety of unique details to flesh out its familiar dystopian premise about the tension between a rich society of elites — who’ve barricaded...

It’s the New Dark Ages and the world has devolved to mimic a YA novel’s class system with the poor left to fend for themselves in desolate wastelands while the rich remain protected in Citadels sprinkled throughout their expanse. Animals are dead. Plants are dead. Most humans are dead. To survive means scraping by with what few seeds you purchase from the cities, each lasting only one season. The cost is the blood of children and why those with power in the swamps procreate as an occupation. Jonas (Eddie Marsan) is one such man, lording over a farm of his own deformed children wielded as blood banks and babymakers. It’s why his brother Darius (Richard Brake) left to raise his daughter Vesper (Raffiella Chapman) in the woods alone.

Unfortunately for them, however, life proves even harder. Vesper’s mother has left to join the so-called Pilgrims—mute...

Plot: After the collapse of Earth’s ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.

Review: From the moment I saw the trailer for Vesper, I was entranced. Echoing the dreamlike films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Luc Besson, Vesper stuck out thanks to a distinct looking visual style that made use of physical sets, locations, and special effects rather than green screen and CGI. The tangible quality of the film comes through in the well-acted production that builds a massive fictional world and remains engaging for audiences of all ages and across all languages. Vesper is a beautiful and solemn movie that stands out because it looks more real than most big-budget movies while delivering a story that resonates more deeply as well.

Raffiella Chapman as Vesper Photo: Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films release

A standout at this year’s genre festivals and now part of the Fantastic Fest line-up, Vesper is a vision of the future which is at once bleak and full of hope. It follows its young heroine (played by Raffiella Chapman) through a collapsed and dramatically altered world where power is concentrated in remote citadels and ordinary people have to scrape by as best they can – until a chance discovery enables her to pursue her longstanding ambitions, and plunges her into an unexpected new role. I was glad of the chance to meet the film’s two writers/directors, Lithuanian Kristina Buozyte and Frenchman Bruno Samper. We had only a short time to speak, plus the challenge of them both doing so in English – the language of the film – but they both had a lot to say.

Vesper Trailer 2 — IFC Films has released the second movie trailer for Vesper (2022). View here the Vesper teaser trailer. Crew Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper‘s Vesper stars Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, and Edmund Dehn. Kristina Buozyte, Brian Clark, and Bruno Samper wrote the screenplay for Vesper. [...]

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What best describes Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper‘s latest film, “Vesper“? Earth is no longer sustainable; society has collapsed, and humanity is forced to rely on its survival skills. Add in a father-daughter dynamic and an outside chance of an alternative future, and that’s the gist.

Read More: ‘Vesper’ Trailer: Survival Is Everything For New Drama Premiering At Karlovy Vary Starring Eddie Marsan & Raffiella Chapman

“Vesper” follows a 13-year-old girl played by “His Dark Materials” actress Raffiella Chapman, who, along with her father played by “The Mandalorian” star Richard Brake, uncover remnants of a strange and dangerous world.

Continue reading ‘Vesper’ Trailer: Humanity’s Future Hangs In The Balance In Post-Collapse Adventure Coming September 30 at The Playlist.

"Pilgrims, drifters, bandits. You have to be really careful who you trust." IFC Films has debuted the full-length official trailer for the sci-fi film titled Vesper, formerly known as Vesper Seeds, in theaters this September. It just premiered at the 20221 Karlovy Vary Film Festival last month, where I saw it at the world premiere and gave it a mostly positive review. After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper (played by Raffiella Chapman), a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future. This has some crazy cool style, and a strange hybrid-organic future that kind of mashes up 12 Monkeys and Avatar and The Road. It also has a few smart ideas of its own. Vesper features Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake,...

If Hollywood’s sci-fi outings have left one a bit disappointed in terms of a lack of imagination, a more grounded genre outing looks to hit the mark. Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte’s new feature Vesper, which world premiered at Karlovy Vary, stars Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, and Richard Brake in a tale of survival set after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem. Ahead of a September 30 release from IFC Films, the new trailer has now arrived.

Scripted by Bruno Samper, Brian Clark and Kristina Buozyte, the film follows Vesper (Chapman), a headstrong 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the...

Aglow in earth tones and abundant with retro-futurist designs, the sci-fi drama “Vesper” certainly feels like a throwback. But a throwback to what? While the postapocalyptic tale reflects sci-fi strands both East and West, echoing cerebral fare from the Soviet bloc as much as grimy Hollywood spectacles, filmmakers Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper have woven those older threads into something wholly unique — at once modern and timeless, nostalgic for a genre only just created, already pining for images freshly cast up on screen.

Making its world premiere in competition at the 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, this wistful, bio-punk fairy tale builds around the broad contours of modern young-adult fiction and shades them with the unhurried, observational rhythms of the European art-house. From the rebellious young prodigy to the focus on class division to the expository wall of title cards that introduce this particular dystopia, the film plays with many...

Should the apocalypse strike and any of us happen to survive it, you can’t accuse the movies of leaving us unprepared. Dystopian futures are a dime a dozen in science-fiction cinema these days, with a generally shared aesthetic that leads us to expect, for better or (probably) worse, a lot of damp, ashy slurry and unflattering sackcloth. In some ways “Vesper,” with its drenched khaki palette and all-encompassing air of ruin, conforms to this forecast. In others, Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper’s solemn, elegant fantasy surprises with its textured, sometimes iridescent world-building: There’s beauty to be found in this vision of Earth in a state of ecosystemic collapse, even if it’s hard-won and harder still to nurture.

Premiering in the main competition strand of this year’s Karlovy Vary festival, “Vesper” marks a long-awaited return to feature filmmaking for Lithuanian director Buozyte and her French writing partner Samper,...

Sci-fi and fantasy fans can soon rejoice in another intrepid YA heroine as “Vesper,” the Lithuania-France-Belgium co-production from directors-writers Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper, makes its world premiere in competition at Karlovy Vary Film Festival on Saturday. The Czech debut marks a busy start to the month for the filmmakers. They will also present the film at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in Korea and the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland.

The sci-fi-fantasy thriller, which takes place after the collapse of the earth’s eco-system and centers on a 13-year-old girl caring for her paralyzed father, who must use her wits and bio-hacking abilities to fight for survival and the possibility of a future, has proved a popular item for sales agent Anton. They have announced distribution deals in the U.S. (IFC Films), UK (Signature Entertainment), Germany (Koch Media), Italy (Leone Film) and Japan (Klockworx). IFC...

“Our desire was to make a movie about hope.”

Lithuania’s Kristina Buožytė and France’s Bruno Samper’s Vesper is world premiering this weeked in the Crystal Globe Competition at the Karlovy Vary International FIlm Festival.

The film is a dystopian sci-fi in which 13-year-old Vesper, played by Raffiella Chapman, tries to eke out an existence on an ecologically ravaged Earth. Caring for her paralysed father, Vesper comes across a mysterious girl (Rosie McEwen) who originates from the Citadel – the place where the rich and powerful dwell. UK actor Eddie Marsan co-stars.

Vesper marks a return to the festival...

Vesper Trailer — Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper‘s Vesper (2022) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Vesper trailer stars Raffiella Chapman, Rosy McEwen, Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, and Edmund Dehn. Crew Kristina Buozyte, Brian Clark, and Bruno Samper wrote the screenplay for Vesper. Dan Levy created the music for the film. [...]

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"Vesper - you can change everything..." IFC Films has revealed the first teaser trailer for an indie sci-fi film titled Vesper, formerly known as Vesper Seeds, arriving in theaters in September later this year. The film is premiering at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in Czechia this July, then play at a few other festivals before release. After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper (Raffiella Chapman), a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future. This has some crazy cool style, and a strange hybrid-organic future that kind of mashes up 12 Monkeys and Avatar and The Road. Vesper features Raffiella Chapman, with Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, Richard Brake, Melanie Gaydos, and Edmund Dehn. "By blending their vision of future technology, nature and hope,...

If Hollywood’s sci-fi outings have left one a bit disappointed in terms of a lack of imagination, a more grounded genre outing looks to hit the mark. Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte new feature Vesper, set to world premiere at Karlovy Vary, stars Raffiella Chapman, Eddie Marsan, Rosy McEwen, and Richard Brake in a tale of survival set after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem. Ahead of a September 30 release from IFC Films, the first teaser trailer has now arrived.

Scripted by Bruno Samper, Brian Clark and Kristina Buozyte, the film follows Vesper (Chapman), a headstrong 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to...

What will you do to survive? The new film “Vesper” presents a scenario steeped in survival at all costs. Vesper, a 13-year-old girl navigating an uncertain future, is at the story’s center. This adventure — taking place on Earth post-ecosystem collapse — sees the heroine defying the odds to keep her ill father safe. Everything changes thanks to a mysterious stranger, their devious neighbor, and a thrilling search for the truth.

Continue reading ‘Vesper’ Trailer: Survival Is Everything For New Drama Premiering At Karlovy Vary Starring Eddie Marsan & Raffiella Chapman at The Playlist.

Exclusive: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to sci-fi thriller Vesper (formerly known as Vesper Seeds) directed by Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and France’s Bruno Samper.

The film will premiere next month in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Cast includes Raffiella Chapman (The Theory Of Everything), Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist) and Richard Brake (Game Of Thrones).

Set after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem, the film follows Vesper (Chapman), a headstrong 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the remnants of a strange and dangerous world with her ailing father, Darius (Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (McEwen), alone and disoriented after an aerial crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for safe passage to the Citadel – the dark central hub where oligarchs live in comfort thanks to state-of-the-art biotechnology.

Homebound Review — Homebound (2021) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Sebastian Godwin and starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Aisling Loftus, Raffiella Chapman, Hattie Gotobed and Lukas Rolfe. Sebastian Godwin’s new horror picture, Homebound, saves a lot of its energy for the last scenes of the film. This picture spends a lot of time on [...]

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UK, Germany, Italy and Japan among distributors to have taken dystopian drama.

Anglo-French outfit Anton has secured key theatrical deals on sci-fi drama Vesper, directed by Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and France’s Bruno Samper.

The title has signed to Signature (UK), Koch Films (Germany), Leone (Italy), Klockworx (Japan), MovieCloud (Taiwan), Chantier (Turkey), Pris AudioVisuais (Portugal), Filmfinity (South Africa), Shaw Renters (Singapore), T&b Media Global, McF (ex-Yugoslavia), and Top Films (Cis).

The dystopian drama follows a 13-year-old girl who must use her survival skills to make sure she and her ailing father remain alive after the collapse of the world’s ecosystem.

UK, Germany, Italy and Japan among distributors to have taken dystopian drama.

Anglo-French outfit Anton has finalised key theatrical deals on completed dystopian drama Vesper, directed by Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and France’s Bruno Samper and starring Eddie Marsan and Raffiella Chapman.

The film has gone to Signature (UK), Koch Films (Germany), Leone (Italy), Klockworx (Japan), MovieCloud (Taiwan), Chantier (Turkey), Pris AudioVisuais (Portugal), Filmfinity (South Africa), Shaw Renters (Singapore), T&b Media Global, McF (ex-Yugoslavia), and Top Films (Cis).

Vesper follows a 13-year-old girl who must use her survival skills to keep herself and her father alive when the world’s ecosystem collapses.

Movies don’t need to contain oozing blood and gore to be considered horror fare. Psychological horror is a subgenre which can be quite effective at causing terror. Writer/director Sebastian Godwin’s first feature film Homebound is a good example of psychological horror that mostly relies on actors’ reactions to events, which take place off-screen, to scare the audience.

Homebound follows Holly, played by Aisling Loftus (A Discovery of Witches), and Richard, played by Tom Goodman-Hill, newlyweds traveling to the country to meet Richard’s family for the first time. Holly is concerned when they arrive to an empty house, but Richard shrugs it off. Apparently, it’s normal for his ex-wife Nina to refuse to talk to him, but at least she sent him a text apologizing for not being there. Eventually, Richard’s children show up one by one and none of them seem particularly happy to see their father.

A newlywed is forced to fight for her life when she discovers her husband's children are harboring some sinister secrets in the official trailer for Homebound, coming to select theaters and On Demand on May 13th via Brainstorm Media.

Written and directed by Sebastian Godwin, Homebound stars Aisling Loftus, Tom Goodman-Hill, Hattie Gotobed, Raffiella Chapman, and Lukas Rolfe.

You can check out the trailer for Homebound below, and go Here to catch up on our Indie Horror Month 2022 features!

Synopsis: A twisted psychological thriller, Homebound follows Holly (Aisling Loftus), a young woman who travels with her new husband (Tom Goodman-Hill) to meet his estranged family, only to find his ex-wife is missing and the children behaving in strange ways.



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Homebound Trailer — Sebastian Godwin‘s Homebound (2022) movie trailer has been released by Brainstorm Media. The Homebound trailer stars Aisling Loftus, Tom Goodman-Hill, Raffiella Chapman, Hattie Gotobed, and Lukas Rolfe.. Crew Sebastian Godwin wrote the screenplay for Homebound. Jeremy Warmsley created the music for the film. Sergi Vilanova Claudín crafted the cinematography for the film. Plot Synopsis Homebound‘s [...]

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"Under your skin, insidious horror." This looks creepy! Brainstorm Media has unveiled an official trailer for Godwin's Homebound, which first premiered at Fantastic Fest and Beyond Fest last year. "The kids aren't ok in Sebastian Godwin’s domestic thriller Homebound." Holly travels with her new fiance Richard to meet his estranged family in the English countryside, only to find his ex-wife is missing and the children behaving in strange ways. It looks especially creepy and unsettling, with reviews calling it "a slight but tension-filled domestic thriller." The indie horror stars Aisling Loftus as Holly, with Tom Goodman-Hill, Raffiella Chapman, Hattie Gotobed, and Lukas Rolfe. Oh those crazy kids. This looks unexpectedly good, with a few seriously unsettling moments with the kids seemingly leading to an intense showdown. It's worth a look. Here's the official trailer (+ two posters) for Sebastian Godwin's Homebound, direct from YouTube: Holly is (Aisling Loftus) excited...

Homebound is a dark, compelling thriller that keeps the audience feeling uneasy throughout. To mark its release we had the pleasure of speaking to one of its stars, Raffiella Chapman (Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children), who was just ten years of age when shooting this production. Needless to say we asked what that experience was like, and just how much she was privy to at the time, in terms of providing context and understanding for her performance, given the dark themes at play.

We also discuss her career aspirations, and whether she wishes to pursue acting as she grows older. Thankfully, given her impressive performances to date, it seems she much intends to. On that note, we look ahead to a very exciting role, her first lead no less, in Vespers – as she tells us a little about that project too.

Watch the full interview with Raffiella here:...

“The Alienist’s” Rosy McEwen has boarded Georgia Oakley’s upcoming feature “Blue Jean” in the lead role.

McEwen, who was named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch 2020, will play the eponymous Jean, a teacher who finds herself grappling with her identity during the tail-end of the 1980s.

Oakley, whose debut short film “Little Bird” was nominated for best narrative short film at Tribeca Film Festival, is directing the film from her original screenplay.

“Jean is a woman forced to wear multiple masks in the different areas of her life, and as such she has this sort of taut, cloistered energy that Rosy has absolutely mastered,” Oakley said in a statement. “I think it takes an actor such as Rosy, with such intelligence and poise to communicate these kinds of complex emotions; I can’t wait to work with her to bring Jean to life.”

McEwen said of the...

Has it been nearly ten years since writing and directing duo Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper wowed the international genre community with their sci-fi thriller Vanishing Waves? That's far too long in between films. Far too long.    Yesterday, the first image from their new film Vesper Seeds, surfaced over in France so why not share it with you today to get you excited about their new film. It looks like it was pulled right from the portfolio of artist Simon Stålenhag. Very cool.   Eddie Marsan, Richard Brake, Raffiella Chapman and Rosy McEwen star in Vesper Seeds, now in post-production.    Set in a dystopian future after the collapse of the Earth's ecosystem, the film will follow Vesper (Chapman), a strong-willed 13-year-old girl who uses...

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Infinite Trailer — Antoine Fuqua‘s Infinite (2021) movie trailer has been released by Paramount+. The Infinite Trailer stars Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Liz Carr, Toby Jones, Dylan O’Brien, Wallis Day, Tom Hughes, Kae Alexander, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Joana Ribeiro, Lili Rich, and Raffiella Chapman. Crew Ian [...]

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Exclusive: Euro producer and sales firm Anton is heading to the virtual EFM with sci-fi drama Vesper Seeds, starring Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), Raffiella Chapman (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Rosy McEwen (The Alienist), Richard Brake (Game of Thrones) and Melanie Gaydos (Insidious: The Last Key).

Shoot is due to begin in late March in Lithuania.

Set in a dystopian future after the collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem, the film will follow Vesper (Chapman), a strong-willed 13-year-old girl who uses her survival skills to subsist in the decaying remnants of the collapsed world with her ailing father, Darius (Brake). When Vesper finds a mysterious woman, Camellia (McEwen), alone and disoriented after a jet crash, she agrees to help find her missing companion in exchange for being taken to the Citadel — the dark central hub where oligarchs use genetic technologies to rule the world. Vesper soon discovers that her evil neighbor,...

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a stuffy, supernatural period piece that fluctuates between “dull” and “exciting,” the latter description being lost in the former’s grasp. Tim Burton takes a more restrained route when adapting Ransom Riggs’ novel (screenplay by Jane Goldman), which is a breath of fresh air compared to previous endeavors like Alice In Wonderland and Dark Shadows (even Big Eyes to a degree) – but it’s still a tepid affair. What’s essentially X-Men: First Class meets The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (and women) takes entirely too long to uncover excitement, as the production opts for a dusty generational perspective instead of fantastical teen orphan adventure. Macabre fairy-tale-telling through strange character casting and minimal definition – certainly not the spectacle Burton hoped for.

Asa Butterfield stars as Jake Portman, an outcast Floridan whose best friend is his Grandfather, Abe (Terence Stamp). While at work one day,...

20th Century Fox has released the first trailer and poster for Miss Peregrine’S Home For Peculiar Children.

Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp, Rupert Everett, with Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson, check out the trailer for one of the most highly anticipated films of 2016.

From visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon the best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience.

When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

Miss Peregrine’S Home For Peculiar Children hits theaters everywhere September 30, 2016.

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The first images have been released of Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

which stars Asa Butterfield as Jacob Portman and Ella Purnell as Emma Bloom heading up the young cast, alongside Eva Green in the title role.

Here’s the full lineup of the peculiar children, each endowed with unusual skills or powers. “I was a little worried about working with so many kids again,” Burton told Empire Magazine, “but they were all such professionals on set. You would never believe that it was some of these kids’ first big film.”

Pixie Davies plays little Bronwyn Buntley. Georgia Pemberton from London (represented by Bwh) plays Fiona Frauenfeld. Finlay MacMillan (represented by Bwh) plays "Dead Raiser" Enoch O'Connor. Milo Parker (represented by Bwh) plays Hugh Apiston. Lauren McCrostie (represented by United Agents) plays Olive. Raffiella Chapman (represented by Curtis Brown) is Claire Densmore. Cameron King plays Millard,...

Back in November, Screenterrier reported on the casting of Asa Butterfield as lead role Jacob, and Ella Purnell as Peculiar Child Emma Bloom, joining Eva Green in Tim Burton's Peregrine's Home For Peculiars, based upon the best-selling novel 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' by Ransom Riggs.

The unforgettable, thrilling and haunting tale centers on 16-year-old Jacob (played by Asa Butterfield), who follows clues that take him to a mysterious island, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores the abandoned bedrooms and hallways, he discovers that its former occupants were far more than peculiar; they possessed incredible powers. And they may still be alive.

Filming has now commenced and we can meet the young actors making up the rest of the cast of Peculiar Children, who all possess incredible powers.

Eight year old Pixie Davies plays little Bronwyn Buntley,...