Olivia Colman Comedy Joyride Acquired By Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions From Embankment (EXCLUSIVE)
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London-based film sales and financing house Embankment Films has closed a major international deal for “Joyride,” starring Olivia Colman, who is Oscar nominated for Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” another of Embankment’s titles. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions has bought “Joyride” for the world, excluding North America and U.K.
The deal comes as Embankment – led by Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar – amps up its pre-sales slate, with the recent addition of Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern to the cast of Zeller’s “The Son,” which sees Zeller reuniting with “The Father” co-writer Christopher Hampton, and news that Helen Mirren will play Israel’s legendary Prime Minister Golda Meir in “Golda,” directed by Oscar winner Guy Nattiv, and produced by BAFTA winner Michael Kuhn (“Florence Foster Jenkins
Oscars 2021: How do you win an Academy Award?
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Even after recent dramas – #OscarsSoWhite controversies and the fiasco when
La La Land was wrongly named best picture – an Academy Award remains the ultimate prize in the movie industry.
It’s a validation of excellence that comes with more than 90 years of history, celebrity and glamour – as emotional as winning an Olympic gold medal for everyone from famous directors and actors to unknown visual effects technicians, make-up artists and the creators of animated shorts.
Part of the cachet is mixing with the movie elite at a ceremony in Los Angeles every February or March (moved to April this year because of the pandemic). But Oscars are also famously hard to win. Some of the world’s greatest filmmakers – Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa – have never won best director. A
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The Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas makes a return to live programming in 2021 with SCCI Stepping Stones – an education-led Fashion and Architecture program for youth.
Running from 23 April-30 June, Stepping Stones will bring architects, designers, curators, artists, writers, academics and cultural leaders together to share their professional work with young audiences. SCCI will also present Fashion and Architecture via intimate, skills-based workshops, guided tours, films, excursions, keynote lectures, panel discussions and more – for upper primary, secondary and tertiary students.
SCCI Founder, Dr Gene Sherman AM says the program has been extensively curated to allow for young minds to learn with the help of industry leaders.
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern to Star in Movie “The Father”
, which shed light on the devastating emotional impact of dementia.
Like “The Father”, the movie is adapted by Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton from one of Zeller’s plays, which is a part of a family drama trilogy that also includes “The Mother”.
A scene from “The Father”
See-Saw Films will produce the movie along with Lain Canning, Emile Sherman, Christophe Spadone, and Zeller.
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“The Son” focuses on adolescent depression, and follows Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with his new partner Emma and baby is unsettled by the arrival of his ex-wife, Kate (Dern), and their troubled and angry teenage son, Nicholas.
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