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Thomasin McKenzie & Sian Clifford To Lead Cast For BBC Adaptation Of Kate Atkinson’s ‘Life After Life’

admin | Apr 28, 2021

The BBC has set the cast for its four-part adaptation of Kate Atkinson’s best-selling and award-winning novel Life After Life.

Produced by Brexit: The Uncivil War producer House Productions, the series will feature fast-rising actress Thomasin McKenzie, star of Jojo Rabbit and Leave No Trace, and BAFTA-winning Fleabag star Sian Clifford.

James McArdle (Man in an Orange Shirt), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), and Jessica Hynes (Years and Years) will also feature, alongside Patsy Ferran (Black Narcissus), Harry Michell (Yesterday), Laurie Kynaston (The Trouble with Maggie Cole) Joshua Hill (Small Axe), and Maria Laird (Derry Girls).

Outlaw King and Traitors writer Bash Doran has adapted the novel, while John Crowley, the two-time BAFTA-winning director who helmed Saoirse Ronan starrer Brooklyn, directs.

Life After Life tells the vivid story of the alternate lives of Ursula Todd (McKenzie), who dies one night in 1910, only to be born and survive on the same night. She finds herself time and again, living and dying in different circumstances only to be reborn into a new, alternative iteration of life once more. Her journey spans two World Wars and an encounter with Hitler.

Doran and Crowley executive produce, as does Atkinson. Ross and Howell are executive producers for House Productions, and Lucy Richer and Ayela Butt for the BBC. The producer is Kate Ogborn (The North Water). BBC Studios is selling the show internationally.

McKenzie said: “I’m drawn to Life After Life because it makes me laugh, cry, clench my fists in anger or whoop with empowerment. Bash has done a stunning job at adapting Kate Atkinson’s masterpiece, and working with John has already taught me a great deal – reinforcing my love for collaborating and creating.”

Source: Deadline.com

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Advice industry urged to get fit to raise funds for vulnerable girls in Africa

admin | Feb 06, 2021

Wealth and advice professionals are being called on to take part in a sponsored fitness challenge in March to help combat FGC and child marriage in Kenya.

International charity So They Can, the not-for-profit partner of Momentum Media’s Women in Finance Awards, has launched a fundraising initiative aimed at combating Female Genital Cutting (FGC) and child marriage in Kenya.

The charity, which delivers education and empowerment programs in some of the most vulnerable communities in East Africa, has launched a new initiative designed to raise awareness of the bleak future faced by vulnerable girls in some parts of Africa, and raise essential funds to deliver the education needed to help protect them from forced marriage and FGC.

1HumanRace calls on participants to run, walk, swim, cycle, or ‘simply move’ 85 kilometres in March to help So They Can reach its sponsorship target of $85,000.

Momentum Media directors Alex Whitlock and Jim Hall have signed up to the challenge and are encouraging wealth and financial advice professionals to challenge themselves to get fit, keep moving and improve their wellbeing while helping raise much needed funds.

“It’s been a tough year for a lot of people in the wealth and finance industry,” Mr Whitlock said.

“There’s been an impact for so many people on their physical and mental wellbeing due to the COVID restrictions. What better way to kickstart a healthier 2021 and raise essential funds and awareness to help prevent terrible suffering for young women in East Africa?”

Working in Kenya and Tanzania, So They Can partners with local governments and communities to deliver education and empowerment projects that create lasting change.

According to sector research by ActionAid, 85 per cent of girls aged 9-13 years old in Pokot, Kenya, are subjected to FGC and child marriage. In East Pokot, where So They Can works, an uneducated girl is seen as the property of her father and brothers, while an educated girl is seen as a person with human rights.

Through So They Can’s Keeping Girls in School project, the organisation works with the whole community to build understanding of the risks of FGC and the importance of girls’ education.

So They Can’s co-founder and CEO, Cassandra Treadwell, commented, “Last year, I spoke to a group of young girls in East Pokot. Each one had been forcibly circumcised, each one had run away from a child marriage and some had made the heart-breaking decision to leave behind their own children to escape physical abuse and save their own lives.

“The girls asked me to share their story and 1HumanRace is our platform to do just that. We’re hoping as many people as possible will join us.”

Ms Treadwell will also be participating in the challenge as will several high-profile supporters, including Jojo Rabbit actress Thomasin McKenzie, who is participating with her mother, fellow actress and So They Can ambassador, Miranda Harcourt.

Ms Harcourt said, “I am so proud to be an ambassador for So They Can, to be part of their 1HumanRace challenge and to be the voice for the 85 per cent of courageous girls living in the rural region of Pokot, Kenya.

“I’m encouraging all of my friends and family to accept the challenge to raise awareness and funds to support these girls. Together we can be a voice for these girls and support education and freedom for all girls and women.”

To find out more and join the movement, visit sotheycan.org/1humanrace.

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Thomasin McKenzie To Play American Ballet Dancer Joy Womack In ‘Joika’

admin | Jun 14, 2020

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Fast-rising actress Thomasin McKenzie, star of Jojo Rabbit and Leave No Trace, is to play American ballet dancer Joy Womack in biopic Joika.

Womack, who is only the second American to graduate from Moscow’s infamously tough Bolshoi Ballet Academy, is personally overseeing McKenzie’s training and will act as the actress’s double for more demanding sequences.

The film will chart the dancer’s intense training, which tested the limits of her dedication, determination, sacrifice and virtuosity, and how she was spurred on by the passions of first love. Womack, now 26, went on to become the principal dancer with the Universal Ballet in Korea then returned to America where she dances with the Boston Ballet. ‘Joika’ was the name Womack was given in Russia.

Set to shoot in pandemic-free New Zealand in early 2021, writer-director James Napier Robertson, producing partner Tom Hern and fellow Kiwi McKenzie are already prepping the film and “will utilize innovative digital technology to navigate ongoing coronavirus restrictions”.

New Zealand-based Robertson and Hern are best known for acclaimed 2014 biopic The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, and their outfit Four Knights Film has Chloe Grace Moretz horror Shadow In The Cloud in post production.

Also producing are Anonymous Content’s Paul Green (The Loft), Paula Munoz Vega and Laurie Ross. Luke Rivett will be an executive producer.

Embankment Films are executive producers and have launched worldwide sales and co-rep U.S. rights with UTA Independent Film Group. The project will be on sale during the Cannes virtual market.

Next out for McKenzie are new movies from Edgar Wright and Jane Campion and she is also due to star in the new M Night Shyamalan Universal movie.

Producer Tom Hern said: “We are delighted New Zealand is leading the way back to set during these challenging and extraordinary new times – and are even more pleased that Joika will be part of this first wave of greenlit films, post-crisis.”

Embankment’s Tim Haslam commented: “Joika is about unearthing and encouraging talent, and the sacrifices made to fulfill dreams. Put into Thomasin’s inspirational shoes, audience’s will experience every step of her journey to perfection”.

McKenzie is managed by Alissa Vradenburg at Untitled Entertainment and represented by Danie Streisand and Theresa Peters at United Talent Agency.

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admin | Jun 11, 2020

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Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho gets pushed back to April 2021

admin | May 28, 2020

Psychological horror film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, and Matt Smith.

Director Edgar Wright has announced on Twitter that his new movie, Last Night in Soho, will now be released on April 23, 2021. The film was previously set for release in September of this year.

“Haunted by someone else’s past, but we’ll see you in the future…” Wright wrote. “It’s true, Last Night in Soho is not quite finished yet due to Covid-19. But, I’m excited for you all to experience it, at a big screen near you, on April 23, 2021.”

Wright’s follow-up to his 2017 hit heist movie Baby Driver is a psychological horror film which stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Thomasin McKenzie, Matt Smith, Michael Ajao, Synnøve Karlsen, Diana Rigg, Terence Stamp, and Rita Tushingham. Wright wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.

Wright announced on Twitter last week that his 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World would be returning to cinemas when it was safe for the film to be seen. The director revealed that “we were going to do this in August, but make no mistake, this will happen soon. #ScottPilgrim back on the big screen thanks to @DolbyCinema & @UniversalPics. Can’t wait.”

SOURCE: ew.com

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M. Night Shyamalan Sets Ensemble Cast for Next Movie

admin | May 12, 2020

M. Night Shyamalan has rounded out the cast for his next movie. Eliza Scanlen, Thomasin McKenzie, Aaron Pierre, Alex Wolff and Vicky Krieps are in negotiations to star in the top-secret project.

Shyamalan will write, produce and direct the untitled film, which will be released by Universal Picture. Like most Shyamalan movies, plot details are shrouded in secrecy and can become interconnected to his other films.

Representatives for Universal and Shyamalan had no comment.

The film currently remains without release date as Universal continues to figure out its calendar as the coronavirus pandemic caused movie theaters to close. It’s also unclear when production will begin given stay-at-home measures, but the hope is to start rolling cameras by the end of the year.

Shyamalan independently financed “Glass,” “Split” and “The Visit” with a combined production budget of $35 million. Those films went on to cumulatively gross more than $600 million worldwide. He will similarly finance his next two films.

Shyamalan recently executive produced “Servant,” a horror fiction series for Apple TV Plus. The show’s second season recently wrapped production.

Krieps’ breakout role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s romance drama “Phantom Thread” launched her career, having later appeared in “The Last Vermeer” and “The Girl in the Spider’s Web.”

After Scanlen starred alongside Amy Adams in the HBO miniseries “Sharp Objects,” she portrayed Beth March in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of “Little Women.” She was recently in the film “Babyteeth.”

McKenzie, who starred in Taika Waititi’s Oscar winner “Jojo Rabbit,” was most recently in “The True History of the Kelly Gang.”

Wolff is best-known for Ari Aster’s horror film “Hereditary” and later acted in “Jumanji: The Next Level” and “Bad Education.”

Pierre’s credits include CW show “Krypton” and Barry Jenkins’ limited series “The Underground Railroad.”

Wolff’s casting was first reported by Collider.

Source: Varierty.com

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admin | Feb 26, 2020

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