Daisy Ridley is back on the big screen with one of her finest works to date in Young Woman and the Sea. Directed by Joachim Rønning, the biographical drama about legendary swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle is the highest testing film of Jerry Bruckheimer’s storied producorial career that includes the likes of Top Gun: Maverick, Beverly Hills Cop and Flashdance. Originally slated for a Disney+ exclusive release, Ridley and co. were rewarded with a limited theatrical run that begins on May 31. Such upgrades don’t come easy given the costs associated with theatrical exhibition, but as Rønning put it, Bruckheimer was “relentless” in his successful pursuit.
The film’s road to theatrical, in a way, parallels the underdog story that Young Woman and the Sea is telling involving Trudy, and Ridley considers this hard-earned achievement to be as rewarding as anything she’s done to date.
“It certainly felt like...
The film’s road to theatrical, in a way, parallels the underdog story that Young Woman and the Sea is telling involving Trudy, and Ridley considers this hard-earned achievement to be as rewarding as anything she’s done to date.
“It certainly felt like...
- 5/28/2024
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Signature Entertainment has swept up UK and Ireland for Sam Yates’s neo-noir thriller Magpie from The Veterans, starring Daisy Ridley.
The SXSW premiere follows a couple who find their lives turned upside down when their daughter is cast in a film alongside a controversial major star.
The cast also includes Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Shazad Latif, Alistair Petrie and Pippa Bennett-Warner.
The feature is produced out of the UK by Ridley, Tom Bateman, Camilla Bray and Kate Solomon, plus Nadia Khamlichi and Sierra Garcia of LA-based Align. Bateman also wrote the script.
Signature’s chief commercial officer Elizabeth Williams...
The SXSW premiere follows a couple who find their lives turned upside down when their daughter is cast in a film alongside a controversial major star.
The cast also includes Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Shazad Latif, Alistair Petrie and Pippa Bennett-Warner.
The feature is produced out of the UK by Ridley, Tom Bateman, Camilla Bray and Kate Solomon, plus Nadia Khamlichi and Sierra Garcia of LA-based Align. Bateman also wrote the script.
Signature’s chief commercial officer Elizabeth Williams...
- 5/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
One of the breakout hits of SXSW 2024 was “Magpie,” a tense thriller that stars Daisy Ridley as a woman who begins to spiral after her young daughter is cast in a movie, and her husband becomes enamored with the actress playing her onscreen mother.
The neo-noir was a passion project for the actress and producer, who conceived the idea after forming a close bond with a child star playing her own onscreen daughter and began to imagine how a similar relationship could drive a wedge between a family. She took the idea to her husband Tom Bateman, who wrote the script that ultimately became “Magpie.” Hours after the film’s SXSW premiere, Ridley and her collaborators sat down with IndieWire to discuss crafting the film that gave her one of the meatiest roles of her career.
“I was on set for ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter,’ and I had a little girl in it.
The neo-noir was a passion project for the actress and producer, who conceived the idea after forming a close bond with a child star playing her own onscreen daughter and began to imagine how a similar relationship could drive a wedge between a family. She took the idea to her husband Tom Bateman, who wrote the script that ultimately became “Magpie.” Hours after the film’s SXSW premiere, Ridley and her collaborators sat down with IndieWire to discuss crafting the film that gave her one of the meatiest roles of her career.
“I was on set for ‘The Marsh King’s Daughter,’ and I had a little girl in it.
- 3/15/2024
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Daisy Ridley stepped out to celebrate the premiere of her new movie Magpie at South By Southwest film festival!
The 31-year-old Star Wars actress was joined by co-stars Shazad Latif and Matilda Lutz at the event held on Saturday (March 9) in Austin, Texas.
Writer Tom Bateman and director Sam Yates were also in attendance.
The stars posed for some photos and spoke on stage to promote the film.
A synopsis for Magpie reads: “A couple find their lives turned upside down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star,” per IMDb.
If you missed it, Daisy Ridley revealed which Star Wars props she kept!
See all the latest news and photos from SXSW film festival!
Browse through the gallery for more photos from the Magpie premiere at SXSW…...
The 31-year-old Star Wars actress was joined by co-stars Shazad Latif and Matilda Lutz at the event held on Saturday (March 9) in Austin, Texas.
Writer Tom Bateman and director Sam Yates were also in attendance.
The stars posed for some photos and spoke on stage to promote the film.
A synopsis for Magpie reads: “A couple find their lives turned upside down when their daughter is cast alongside a controversial major star,” per IMDb.
If you missed it, Daisy Ridley revealed which Star Wars props she kept!
See all the latest news and photos from SXSW film festival!
Browse through the gallery for more photos from the Magpie premiere at SXSW…...
- 3/10/2024
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Daisy Ridley took a moment during the post-premiere Q&a for her indie thriller “Magpie” at SXSW on Saturday night to reflect on the journey of bringing the film to life.
“I remember the first day on set when I saw the trailers saying ‘Oh my god, we’re making a film.’ Now, I feel like, ‘Oh my god, we’re here,’ ” Ridley said after “Magpie” had its world premeire at the State Theater in Austin, Texas. “Magpie” hails from Bateman’s Werewolf Films, 55 Films and Align.
Ridley conceived the premise that drives “Magpie” and she produced the movie in addition to limning the central role. Ridley plays Annette, a tightly wound woman with two young children who struggles while watching her creepy husband (Shazad Latif) descend into an affair with an actress (Matilda Lutz) after the couple’s daughter is cast in a movie.
Ridley was working on...
“I remember the first day on set when I saw the trailers saying ‘Oh my god, we’re making a film.’ Now, I feel like, ‘Oh my god, we’re here,’ ” Ridley said after “Magpie” had its world premeire at the State Theater in Austin, Texas. “Magpie” hails from Bateman’s Werewolf Films, 55 Films and Align.
Ridley conceived the premise that drives “Magpie” and she produced the movie in addition to limning the central role. Ridley plays Annette, a tightly wound woman with two young children who struggles while watching her creepy husband (Shazad Latif) descend into an affair with an actress (Matilda Lutz) after the couple’s daughter is cast in a movie.
Ridley was working on...
- 3/10/2024
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
In “Magpie,” revenge is served with a grim smile and dead eyes. In her role as Anette, a former publishing agent now trapped in a modernist glass box in the English countryside with a screaming baby and a useless husband, Daisy Ridley keeps her angular jawline clenched tight in a reflection of her character’s beleaguered state. Early on in this twisty, wicked little thriller, she puts her hand on a mirror and leans on it so hard it cracks. That part’s a bit on the nose, but there are surprises yet to unfold.
There are films where Anette would break under the pressure of living with a man who can’t be bothered to parent his own children, but “Magpie” isn’t one of them. Its composure is very posh and very British, like its characters and their world. Its sense of humor is similarly dry and dark,...
There are films where Anette would break under the pressure of living with a man who can’t be bothered to parent his own children, but “Magpie” isn’t one of them. Its composure is very posh and very British, like its characters and their world. Its sense of humor is similarly dry and dark,...
- 3/10/2024
- by Katie Rife
- Indiewire
How distraught is Annette, the severely troubled British mother of two played by Daisy Ridley in “Magpie?” She has gotten a short angular haircut, one that might, in another context, be the height of chic (very Isabella Rossellini). Except that the movie uses it as a symbolic expression of her trauma, like Mia Farrow’s iconic Vidal Sassoon cut in “Rosemary’s Baby.” Annette, who’s on some serious medication, looks at a mirror until it breaks. Does she have telekinetic powers? No, she broke it with her hand (which bleeds into the sink), but the force of her repressed rage is palpable. Ben (Shazad Latif), her British Indian husband, is a noted author, and every comment she makes about his work is a sly dig. She speaks in brief, clipped “civilized” phrases. At one point a bird crashes into the window of her home. The whole atmosphere of the film...
- 3/10/2024
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Andrew Scott, the hot priest in Fleabag and Bond villain in Spectre, will dominate the West End in the fall by playing all the roles in Vanya, a new adaptation of Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya.
Playwright Simon Stephens, who won major awards for his stage interpretation of Mark Haddon’s best-selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which played in London and New York, was tasked with shaping Vanya by producers Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt of production house Wessex Grove.
Scott will perform the four leading characters: Vanya; his late sister’s husband, Serebryakov, and his new wife, Yelena; and Sonya, who is Serebryakov’s daughter from his first marriage. There are five other roles –three supporting and two smaller featured parts.
Scott told Deadline that he’s “utterly thrilled” to be returning to the theater for the first time since he did Noel Coward...
Playwright Simon Stephens, who won major awards for his stage interpretation of Mark Haddon’s best-selling book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which played in London and New York, was tasked with shaping Vanya by producers Benjamin Lowy and Emily Vaughan-Barratt of production house Wessex Grove.
Scott will perform the four leading characters: Vanya; his late sister’s husband, Serebryakov, and his new wife, Yelena; and Sonya, who is Serebryakov’s daughter from his first marriage. There are five other roles –three supporting and two smaller featured parts.
Scott told Deadline that he’s “utterly thrilled” to be returning to the theater for the first time since he did Noel Coward...
- 6/8/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).
Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).
Refresh the page for latest updates.
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Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh have signed on to star in Lynne Ramsey’s new thriller. The project is based on a short story by Margaret Atwood and is produced by John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar. Amazon are handling domestic rights. Studiocanal and Film4 are in final negotiations to board the project.
Screen is rounding up the key packages launched before and during this year’s Cannes Marche du Film (which runs May 17-25).
Refresh the page for latest updates.
May 18 Stone Mattress
Julianne Moore and Sandra Oh have signed on to star in Lynne Ramsey’s new thriller. The project is based on a short story by Margaret Atwood and is produced by John Lesher and JoAnne Sellar. Amazon are handling domestic rights. Studiocanal and Film4 are in final negotiations to board the project.
- 5/18/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif are set to star in Magpie, a sexy contemporary noir thriller based on an original idea from Ridley that was written by Tom Bateman. Award-winning British theater talent Sam Yates will make his feature directorial debut. Matilda Lutz also stars.
The film follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. It will shoot early next year in London.
The title will launch to buyers for the first time at the Cannes market this month. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights. Magpie is produced by Ridley and Bateman of Werewolf Films and Kate Solomon of 55 Films.
“Our aim with Magpie is to make a Hitchcockian thriller that will take audiences on a genuine ride – fast paced and beautiful to look at with a tension that will build from the start and keep everyone guessing to the very end,...
The film follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. It will shoot early next year in London.
The title will launch to buyers for the first time at the Cannes market this month. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights. Magpie is produced by Ridley and Bateman of Werewolf Films and Kate Solomon of 55 Films.
“Our aim with Magpie is to make a Hitchcockian thriller that will take audiences on a genuine ride – fast paced and beautiful to look at with a tension that will build from the start and keep everyone guessing to the very end,...
- 5/10/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Production anticpated for early 2023 shoot in London.
Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif will star in the thriller Magpie which The Veterans and CAA Media Finance will introduce to Cannes buyers next week.
Matilda Lutz is also cast in the sexy noir based on an original idea from Ridley. Sam Yates, the Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2016 whose theatre directing credits include The Starry Messenger and Glengarry Glen Ross, will make his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Tom Bateman.
Magpie follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. Ridley...
Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif will star in the thriller Magpie which The Veterans and CAA Media Finance will introduce to Cannes buyers next week.
Matilda Lutz is also cast in the sexy noir based on an original idea from Ridley. Sam Yates, the Screen Star Of Tomorrow 2016 whose theatre directing credits include The Starry Messenger and Glengarry Glen Ross, will make his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Tom Bateman.
Magpie follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. Ridley...
- 5/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Wild Bunch Internationaln CAA Media Finance To Launch Sales at Cannes
Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif will star in the thriller Magpie which Wild Bunch International, CAA Media Finance will introduce to Cannes buyers next week.
Matilda Anna Ingrid is also cast in the sexy noir based on an original idea from Ridley. Sam Yates will direct from a screenplay by Tom Bateman.
Magpie follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. Production is anticpated for an early 2023 shoot in London.
Ridley and Bateman of Werewolf Films are producing with Kate Solomon.
Daisy Ridley and Shazad Latif will star in the thriller Magpie which Wild Bunch International, CAA Media Finance will introduce to Cannes buyers next week.
Matilda Anna Ingrid is also cast in the sexy noir based on an original idea from Ridley. Sam Yates will direct from a screenplay by Tom Bateman.
Magpie follows a couple whose lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star. Production is anticpated for an early 2023 shoot in London.
Ridley and Bateman of Werewolf Films are producing with Kate Solomon.
- 5/10/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Viacom’s Channel 5 has hunted down two more Agatha Christie dramas following the success of last year’s Agatha and the Truth of Murder.
The British broadcaster has commissioned Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (w/t) and Agatha and the Death of X (w/t) from Endemol Shine’s Darlow Smithson Productions (Dsp). The two feature-length crime dramas are part of the network’s ramping up in the scripted genre over the last twelve months.
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, which will air later this year, sees author Agatha Christie travel to the deserts of Iraq in the late 1920s for an archaeological dig where she unravels a series of mysterious murders. Agatha and the Death of X is set in the Blitz in 1940s London, as the author decides she must kill off her most famous creation, and in doing so, becomes a target herself.
The British broadcaster has commissioned Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (w/t) and Agatha and the Death of X (w/t) from Endemol Shine’s Darlow Smithson Productions (Dsp). The two feature-length crime dramas are part of the network’s ramping up in the scripted genre over the last twelve months.
Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, which will air later this year, sees author Agatha Christie travel to the deserts of Iraq in the late 1920s for an archaeological dig where she unravels a series of mysterious murders. Agatha and the Death of X is set in the Blitz in 1940s London, as the author decides she must kill off her most famous creation, and in doing so, becomes a target herself.
- 9/16/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Christian Slater Mr Robot, True Romance, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Robert Glenister Hustle, Spooks, Kris Marshall Death in Paradise, Love Actually, My Family, Stanley Townsend Girl from the North Country, The Nether and Don Warrington Death in Paradise, Rising Damp, are the 'deal chasing' cut-throat sales team in David Mamet's masterpiece, Glengarry Glen Ross, alongside Daniel Ryan as Lingk Linda Green, Posh and Oliver Ryan as Baylen Dr Faustus, As You Like It. This trailblazing modern classic, directed by Sam Yates, runs at the Playhouse Theatre now through 3 February 2018, and BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below...
- 11/6/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
David Mamet's trailblazing modern classic Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Sam Yates, runs at the Playhouse Theatre in London's West End from 26 October to 3 February 2018 for a strictly limited 14-week season. The production starsChristian Slater, Robert Glenister,Kris Marshall, Stanley Townsend and Don Warrington.Book tickets now in our presale - no booking fees...
- 9/7/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Mr. Robot‘s Christian Slater will star in the Sam Yates-directed revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Slater will play the lead role of Ricky Roma (Al Pacino played him in the 1992 film) alongside a cut throat sales team played by Robert Glenister, Kris Marshall Stanley Townsend, and Don Warrington. It’s the first time the play will have been staged on the West End in a decade, and it will run for 14 weeks at the Playhouse Theatre, from October 26 to February 3…...
- 9/5/2017
- Deadline TV
Mr. Robot‘s Christian Slater will star in the Sam Yates-directed revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross. Slater will play the lead role of Ricky Roma (Al Pacino played him in the 1992 film) alongside a cut throat sales team played by Robert Glenister, Kris Marshall Stanley Townsend, and Don Warrington. It’s the first time the play will have been staged on the West End in a decade, and it will run for 14 weeks at the Playhouse Theatre, from October 26 to February 3…...
- 9/5/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: Short stars Scott and Ciarán Hinds as an estranged father and son.
The first trailer for The Hope Rooms, a short film starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Ciarán Hinds (Game Of Thrones), has been released.
Click Here to watch the trailer on mobile devices.
Directed by Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2016 Sam Yates, the film sees Hinds and Scott play an estranged father and son haunted by the past.
Yates said: “Pairing Ciarán and Andrew on screen for the first time has been magical and the response from film festivals has been fantastic”.
The film was first shown to audiences at the Cork Film Festival, which featured a new documentary strand including speakers from Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Channel 4 and the British Film Institute.
The Hope Rooms was produced by Bill Kenwright and Daniel-Konrad Cooper.
The first trailer for The Hope Rooms, a short film starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Ciarán Hinds (Game Of Thrones), has been released.
Click Here to watch the trailer on mobile devices.
Directed by Screen International Star of Tomorrow 2016 Sam Yates, the film sees Hinds and Scott play an estranged father and son haunted by the past.
Yates said: “Pairing Ciarán and Andrew on screen for the first time has been magical and the response from film festivals has been fantastic”.
The film was first shown to audiences at the Cork Film Festival, which featured a new documentary strand including speakers from Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Channel 4 and the British Film Institute.
The Hope Rooms was produced by Bill Kenwright and Daniel-Konrad Cooper.
- 11/21/2016
- ScreenDaily
Screen International has revealed its Stars of Tomorrow 2016, spotlighting the hottest up-and-coming actors and filmmakers.
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow hub, including full profiles and digital edition
Now in its 13th edition, the annual showcase highlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
The list of past Stars of Tomorrow includes Oscar-winning The Theory Of Everything actor Eddie Redmayne (2005), Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Twilight actor Robert Pattinson (2005), Selma actor David Oyelowo (2005), Hacksaw Ridge star Andrew Garfield (2007), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Felicity Jones (2007), Slow West director John Maclean (2011) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega (2011).
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the line-up after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors. This year for the first time, the initiative...
Click here to access the Screen Stars of Tomorrow hub, including full profiles and digital edition
Now in its 13th edition, the annual showcase highlights up-and-coming actors, writers, directors and producers who will be making waves in the years to come.
Scroll down for the full list
The list of past Stars of Tomorrow includes Oscar-winning The Theory Of Everything actor Eddie Redmayne (2005), Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch (2004), Twilight actor Robert Pattinson (2005), Selma actor David Oyelowo (2005), Hacksaw Ridge star Andrew Garfield (2007), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Felicity Jones (2007), Slow West director John Maclean (2011) and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star John Boyega (2011).
Stars of Tomorrow editor Fionnuala Halligan curates the line-up after considering hundreds of candidates and consulting with industry experts including casting agents, talent agents, managers, producers and directors. This year for the first time, the initiative...
- 10/3/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Starry short wraps for Bill Kenwright Films ahead of company’s feature push.
Pride star Andrew Scott and Munich actor Ciaran Hinds lead cast in recently wrapped short The Hope Rooms, the filmmaking debut of theatre director Sam Yates.
Daniel Konrad Cooper (Burn Burn Burn) produces for Bill Kenwright Films and under his own banner Rather Good Films. Screenplay is from David Watson.
The high-end short tells the story of estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, who meet up after 15 years in a café in London in order to heal old wounds.
The film also stars Polish actress Agnieszka Grochowska, who joined the film set straight from the premiere of Obce Niebo at the Gdansk Film Festival for which she collected the Best Actress award.
Director Yates is known for his work in theatre with recent productions including East Is East with Jane Horrocks and Ayub Khan Din and The El. Train with Golden...
Pride star Andrew Scott and Munich actor Ciaran Hinds lead cast in recently wrapped short The Hope Rooms, the filmmaking debut of theatre director Sam Yates.
Daniel Konrad Cooper (Burn Burn Burn) produces for Bill Kenwright Films and under his own banner Rather Good Films. Screenplay is from David Watson.
The high-end short tells the story of estranged father, Eamonn, and his son, Sean, who meet up after 15 years in a café in London in order to heal old wounds.
The film also stars Polish actress Agnieszka Grochowska, who joined the film set straight from the premiere of Obce Niebo at the Gdansk Film Festival for which she collected the Best Actress award.
Director Yates is known for his work in theatre with recent productions including East Is East with Jane Horrocks and Ayub Khan Din and The El. Train with Golden...
- 9/25/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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