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Scott Roxborough
Dealmakers face ongoing uncertainty about theatrical releases thanks to COVID-19.
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Clockwise from top left: After We Fell, Petite Maman, I m Your Man, Best Sellers and Ninjababy.
A year of the coronavirus lockdowns, virtual film markets, online festivals and quarantined sets has left its mark. While virtual Cannes was a blockbuster with monster global deals for $50 million-plus indie packages, including
The Blacksmith (Nick Jonas and Laurence Fishburne),
Ferrari (Hugh Jackman) and
Armageddon Time (Oscar Isaac, Robert De Niro and Cate Blanchett) challenges in financing and producing under COVID-19, a continued uncertainty over theatrical s future and a backlog of finished but unreleased movies has put a damper on presales. AFM in November was marked by caution. A stron
Victoria Gosling and the case of the missing diamond necklace
We caught up with the founder of The Reader Berlin to talk about her novel Before the Ruins and literary life in the pandemic.
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Photo: Gijs Van Koningsveld Victoria Gosling
Berlin/Wiltshire - For the past decade Victoria Gosling has run The Reader Berlin, a platform offering courses and services for the city s large community of English-language writers. Her own debut novel - Before the Ruins - was published by Henry Holt and Co in the US on 12 January, with the UK release planned for May. It s a cracking read with nary a dull sentence in it. A classic murder mystery of a sort, the story includes an English manor house and some missing diamonds - woven into a contemporary tale of heartache and alienation. Victoria spoke to us on the phone from her parents house in Wiltshire, where she s been caring for her poorly mother, just a few miles away from the setting of her novel.
This memoir explores Calidas’s decision to swap city life for a remote Hebridean island. A series of devastating events leads to the breakdown of her marriage, and Calidas finds herself alone and isolated, cast away from the places and people she knows. Ultimately, it is the power of nature and the rhythm of the tides that offer both a healing and an awakening. It’s a book about solitude, resilience and survival.
No list of castaway books would be complete without this 1954 novel, following a group of British schoolboys who become stranded on an uninhabited island. At first, they try to create an organised, civilised and safe place to live, but their attempts quickly descend into unruly chaos. We become witness to the base cruelties that branch from desperation and a hunger for power.
Share It s a credit to how WA has handled COVID that we re able to make this film in such a positive way. and filming down in Bremer Bay is incredible.
Also starring in the film are fellow Australian actresses, Mia Wasikowska and Radha Mitchell and newcomers Ariel Donoghue and Ilsa Fogg.
In the works: Speaking to The West Live, Robert (pictured) revealed that filming for the production is already underway at Bremar Bay in the state s south coast
The film tells the story of Abby (in Tim s novella it s a boy named Abel), who befriends a giant groper [a fish] while diving and becomes an activist.
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