A cuckoo bird is known for laying her eggs in other birds’ nests and letting the host raise her babies instead. Quite similar to a cuckoo bird, Sian, a middle-aged woman, invades the house of a couple, believing their children to be her own, in this British thriller. et in County Cumbria, The Cuckoo tells the story of a family of three who have recently moved to the countryside from London after the husband, Nick Hayes, loses his job and is caught cheating with someone else. His wife, Jessica, has given him a second chance, but since then, their marriage has been falling apart. Their teenage daughter, Alice, has become distant following their move to this rural region from the big city. Facing a significant money crunch, the Hayes decide to rent out one of their spare rooms to possible tenants for a bit of income. That is when they come across Sian.
- 4/13/2024
- by Shrey Ashley Philip
- Film Fugitives
Leading New Zealand film executive Jasmine McSweeney is joining Australian producer- distributor -streaming platform Umbrella Entertainment, as its first New Zealand-based head of sales and acquisitions, as part of the company’s ambitious expansion plans.
Umbrella had a hit with its Australian and New Zealand release of local horror title Talk To Me in 2023, released with Maslow Entertainment.
McSweeney has been head of marketing at the New Zealand Film Commission for a decade and oversaw its digitisation program and the launch of a transactional video on demand platform. She will start her new role on February 5.
Umbrella general manager Ari Harrison...
Umbrella had a hit with its Australian and New Zealand release of local horror title Talk To Me in 2023, released with Maslow Entertainment.
McSweeney has been head of marketing at the New Zealand Film Commission for a decade and oversaw its digitisation program and the launch of a transactional video on demand platform. She will start her new role on February 5.
Umbrella general manager Ari Harrison...
- 1/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Mark Lawrence’s fantasy novel trilogy One Word Kill is the latest YA book series to be adapted for television.
Holly Phillips, who created and served as showrunner for BBC/Netflix teen series Get Even, is adapting the books for The Cry producer Synchronicity Films and Wild Sheep, the production company set up by former Netflix exec Erik Barmack.
The two companies will co-produce the adaptation.
One Word Kill, otherwise known as Impossible Times, was first published in May 2019 followed by Limited Wish and Dispel Illusion later that year.
The books have been described as Ready Player One meets Stranger Things and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin said that he “enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill”.
One Word Kill begins when fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and...
Holly Phillips, who created and served as showrunner for BBC/Netflix teen series Get Even, is adapting the books for The Cry producer Synchronicity Films and Wild Sheep, the production company set up by former Netflix exec Erik Barmack.
The two companies will co-produce the adaptation.
One Word Kill, otherwise known as Impossible Times, was first published in May 2019 followed by Limited Wish and Dispel Illusion later that year.
The books have been described as Ready Player One meets Stranger Things and Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin said that he “enjoyed the hell out of One Word Kill”.
One Word Kill begins when fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week. Nick and...
- 8/3/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
(L-r) Adrianne Pecotic, Dendy’s Nick Hayes and Scott Seddon.
Netflix and other streaming services won’t kill the cinema industry and are in fact complementing rather than competing with the theatrical business.
That was the message from Independent Cinemas Australia president Scott Seddon in his opening address at Ica’s annual conference, Brilliant Entertainment – Better Bottom Line, at Palace Cinemas Como today.
Seddon called on exhibition companies’ directors, staff, patrons, friends, family and the media to emphasize the cinema experience is a social need which is growing, not shrinking.
“I want to reinforce the point that there is a misconception in the community in Australia and in most of the world that Netflix will lead to the demise of the theatrical cinema and that is crap. It’s not true,” he said.
Seddon recalled that when he and Ica CEO Adrianne Pecotic attended the CinemaCon convention in 2017 it was...
Netflix and other streaming services won’t kill the cinema industry and are in fact complementing rather than competing with the theatrical business.
That was the message from Independent Cinemas Australia president Scott Seddon in his opening address at Ica’s annual conference, Brilliant Entertainment – Better Bottom Line, at Palace Cinemas Como today.
Seddon called on exhibition companies’ directors, staff, patrons, friends, family and the media to emphasize the cinema experience is a social need which is growing, not shrinking.
“I want to reinforce the point that there is a misconception in the community in Australia and in most of the world that Netflix will lead to the demise of the theatrical cinema and that is crap. It’s not true,” he said.
Seddon recalled that when he and Ica CEO Adrianne Pecotic attended the CinemaCon convention in 2017 it was...
- 4/30/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Thousands upon thousands of people all asked the same question…
“When is the next episode of Indie Beat?”
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Now.
We spoke to filmmaker Nick Hayes, a director/producer/cinematographer based in Detroit, Michigan. While his day job is in the commercial world, his personal work has been focused on left-leaning activism. He’s done most of the video work for the podcast Street Fight Radio (a really fun show done by anarchist comedians Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby) and captured a number of demonstrations around the Detroit area (here is coverage of the Affordable Care Act repeal protest and here’s another centered around deportation).
Continue reading Indie Beat With Filmmaker Nick Hayes [Podcast] at The Playlist.
“When is the next episode of Indie Beat?”
We are proud to present the answer to this inquiry:
Now.
We spoke to filmmaker Nick Hayes, a director/producer/cinematographer based in Detroit, Michigan. While his day job is in the commercial world, his personal work has been focused on left-leaning activism. He’s done most of the video work for the podcast Street Fight Radio (a really fun show done by anarchist comedians Brett Payne and Bryan Quinby) and captured a number of demonstrations around the Detroit area (here is coverage of the Affordable Care Act repeal protest and here’s another centered around deportation).
Continue reading Indie Beat With Filmmaker Nick Hayes [Podcast] at The Playlist.
- 1/22/2018
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
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