Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as real-life King Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Katherine Parr, in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand trailer.
The film, based on true 16th-century events, follows Parr’s pursuit of survival in her marriage to the king, after the first five of his wives met untimely ends — divorced, beheaded, died, divorced and beheaded again.
“Katherine’s fate was to change the kingdom, forever,” the trailer’s narrator muses.
“When Henry appoints [Katherine] as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her,” the Firebrand synopsis reads. “Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King.”
When the king returns, his courtiers convince...
The film, based on true 16th-century events, follows Parr’s pursuit of survival in her marriage to the king, after the first five of his wives met untimely ends — divorced, beheaded, died, divorced and beheaded again.
“Katherine’s fate was to change the kingdom, forever,” the trailer’s narrator muses.
“When Henry appoints [Katherine] as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her,” the Firebrand synopsis reads. “Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King.”
When the king returns, his courtiers convince...
- 5/8/2024
- by Zoe G Phillips
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Fireband” is a new Brit-produced historical drama feature, directed by Karim Aïnouz, recounting the life of ‘Katherine Parr’, the last wife of ‘Henry VIII’, starring Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Eddie Marsan, Ruby Bentall, Bryony Hannah, Sam Riley, and Maia Jemmett, releasing June 14, 2024 in theaters:
“..in ‘Tudor England’, twice married, accomplished, and educated ‘Katherine Parr’ (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical ‘King Henry VIII’ (Law).
“Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as ‘Regent’, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her.
“Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical ‘Protestant’ beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King.
“..in ‘Tudor England’, twice married, accomplished, and educated ‘Katherine Parr’ (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical ‘King Henry VIII’ (Law).
“Her consent to marry him carries great personal risk, given that her predecessors are either vanquished, beheaded, or dead. When Henry appoints her as ‘Regent’, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas, he lays a dangerous path for her.
“Henry’s courtiers, suspecting she’s sympathetic to radical ‘Protestant’ beliefs that have taken root in the kingdom and are a threat to their power, scheme against her and cast doubts upon her fidelity to the increasingly ailing and paranoid King.
- 5/8/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
"Do you believe in Hell? I think we're both bound for it." Roadside Attractions has revealed the first official trailer for Firebrand, the latest from Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz. This first premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, which is why they're debuting the trailer now just before Cannes 2024 kicks off soon. In a rotten, blood soaked island kingdom, there once was a queen by the name of Katherine Parr. The sixth wife of the vengeful King Henry VIII - and the only one to survive. This true story is about Queen Katherine Parr & Henry VIII's marriage. Adapted from the novel "Queen's Gambit" by Elizabeth Fremantle. With the hope for a future free of tyranny at risk, will Katherine submit to the inevitable for the sake of King and country? Alicia Vikander stars as Katherine Parr, Jude Law as Henry VIII, plus Eddie Marsan, Amr Waked, Sam Riley, Ruby Bentall,...
- 5/8/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Lost a bit in last year’s Cannes shuffle was Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, a period piece starring (who else to put their superb skills into costume dramas) Alicia Vikander and Jude Law. With Roadside Attractions handling distribution, it arrives on June 14 and there’s now a trailer.
We were mixed-positive on Aïnouz’s film out of Cannes. As Savina Petkova said, “Even if Firebrand prefers to stay on the safe side of period cinema about the British monarchy––unlike Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite or Pablo Larraín’s Spencer––Karim Aïnouz doesn’t fail his audiences. Maybe the ones who’d expect something more of his auteur touch would face some disappointment, but the general audience wouldn’t mind an exciting, superbly acted tale of emancipation and revenge.”
Find the preview below:
In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth...
We were mixed-positive on Aïnouz’s film out of Cannes. As Savina Petkova said, “Even if Firebrand prefers to stay on the safe side of period cinema about the British monarchy––unlike Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite or Pablo Larraín’s Spencer––Karim Aïnouz doesn’t fail his audiences. Maybe the ones who’d expect something more of his auteur touch would face some disappointment, but the general audience wouldn’t mind an exciting, superbly acted tale of emancipation and revenge.”
Find the preview below:
In blood-soaked Tudor England, twice married, accomplished, and educated Katherine Parr (Vikander), reluctantly agrees to become the sixth...
- 5/8/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Sometimes, there are films that feature actors that are too good to pass up. “Firebrand,” which stars Alicia Vikander and Jude Law, is one of those movies. No matter the subject, just knowing they’re in the film is enough for us to pay attention.
Read More: ‘Firebrand’ Review: Karim Aïnouz Paints A Dull Version Of History In Handsome Period Drama [Cannes]
And as seen in the trailer for “Firebrand,” Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star in a period drama inspired by the lives of King Henry VIII and Katherine Parr.
Continue reading ‘Firebrand’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander & Jude Law Star In Period Drama About Henry VIII at The Playlist.
Read More: ‘Firebrand’ Review: Karim Aïnouz Paints A Dull Version Of History In Handsome Period Drama [Cannes]
And as seen in the trailer for “Firebrand,” Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star in a period drama inspired by the lives of King Henry VIII and Katherine Parr.
Continue reading ‘Firebrand’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander & Jude Law Star In Period Drama About Henry VIII at The Playlist.
- 5/8/2024
- by Martin Miller
- The Playlist
Alicia Vikander is unleashing all the fire and the fury as Queen Katherine opposite Jude Law’s King Henry VIII.
The two star in “Firebrand,” which debuted at Cannes 2023 and marked director Karim Aïnouz’s English-language debut film. During war-torn Tudor England, Katherine Parr (Vikander) reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Law). Katherine hopes that her fate is different from her predecessors, the queens who were either vanquished, beheaded, or died of non-murder causes.
After their union, Henry appoints Katherine as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas. Yet that power makes Katherine a target as Henry’s courtiers begin suspecting that she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs. Once Henry returns to England, his courtiers convince him to convict a series of Katherine’s confidantes with treason and burn them at the stake.
Eddie Marsan,...
The two star in “Firebrand,” which debuted at Cannes 2023 and marked director Karim Aïnouz’s English-language debut film. During war-torn Tudor England, Katherine Parr (Vikander) reluctantly agrees to become the sixth wife of the tyrannical King Henry VIII (Law). Katherine hopes that her fate is different from her predecessors, the queens who were either vanquished, beheaded, or died of non-murder causes.
After their union, Henry appoints Katherine as Regent, the nation’s ruler during his absence when he departs to fight overseas. Yet that power makes Katherine a target as Henry’s courtiers begin suspecting that she’s sympathetic to radical Protestant beliefs. Once Henry returns to England, his courtiers convince him to convict a series of Katherine’s confidantes with treason and burn them at the stake.
Eddie Marsan,...
- 5/8/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The world premiere of Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge chronicling the life of the fashion designer will open Tribeca Festival, running June 5-16 in New York.
Some 103 features – including 86 world premieres – from 114 filmmakers in 48 countries were selected from a record 13,016 submissions. Half of the films in competition are directed by women and 35% (36) of the selection hails from Bipoc filmmakers.
This year’s selection includes world premieres of Michael Angarano’s road movie Sacramento starring Michael Cera, Angarano, and Kristen Stewart; Andrew McCarthy’s documentary Brats in which the filmmaker catches up with fellow Brat-Packers Rob Lowe,...
Some 103 features – including 86 world premieres – from 114 filmmakers in 48 countries were selected from a record 13,016 submissions. Half of the films in competition are directed by women and 35% (36) of the selection hails from Bipoc filmmakers.
This year’s selection includes world premieres of Michael Angarano’s road movie Sacramento starring Michael Cera, Angarano, and Kristen Stewart; Andrew McCarthy’s documentary Brats in which the filmmaker catches up with fellow Brat-Packers Rob Lowe,...
- 4/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Tribeca Festival will premiere new fims from Lily Gladstone, Jenna Ortega, Michael Cera, and Andrew McCarthy when it runs in New York from June 5-16.
The event will open with the world premiere of Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge chronicling the life of the fashion designer.
Some 103 features – including 86 world premieres – from 114 filmmakers in 48 countries were selected from a record 13,016 submissions. Half of the films in competition are directed by women and 35% (36) of the selection hails from Bipoc filmmakers.
This year’s selection includes world premieres of Michael Angarano’s road movie Sacramento starring Cera,...
The event will open with the world premiere of Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge chronicling the life of the fashion designer.
Some 103 features – including 86 world premieres – from 114 filmmakers in 48 countries were selected from a record 13,016 submissions. Half of the films in competition are directed by women and 35% (36) of the selection hails from Bipoc filmmakers.
This year’s selection includes world premieres of Michael Angarano’s road movie Sacramento starring Cera,...
- 4/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
Liam Neeson crime thriller In the Land of Saints and Sinners opens on 896 screens this weekend, joined by Sean Penn in Asphalt City — the Godzilla vs. Kong of the specialty market?
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
Neeson reunites with The Marksman director Robert Lorenz as a newly retired assassin in a remote Irish village who finds himself drawn into a lethal game of cat and mouse with a trio of vengeful terrorists. Ciarán Hinds, Kerry Condon, Colm Meaney and Jack Gleeson also star in Land of Saints and Sinners, which premiered at Venice, and was shot in County Donegal, Ireland. Screenplay by Mark Michael McNally and Terry Loane. Samuel Goldwyn Films’ widest release post-pandemic sits at 80% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
Penn stars with Tye Sheridan in Asphalt City, Vertical’s co-release with Roadside Attractions that opens on 297 screens, also with a national footprint. Young paramedic Ollie Cross (Sheridan) is paired with seasoned partner Gene...
- 3/29/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) has been set to star opposite Cate Blanchett in Rumours, a comedy from writer-directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson (The Green Fog), which Bleecker Street has snapped up for release in U.S. theaters this year.
The film follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Also featuring in a top role in the pic, which recently wrapped production in Hungary, is Genie Award winner Roy Dupuis (Shake Hands with the Devil). Additional cast includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin), Rolando Ravello (Perfect Strangers), Takehiro Hira (Gran Turismo), and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).
Hailing from Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg,...
The film follows the seven leaders of the world’s wealthiest liberal democracies at the annual G7 summit after they become lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
Also featuring in a top role in the pic, which recently wrapped production in Hungary, is Genie Award winner Roy Dupuis (Shake Hands with the Devil). Additional cast includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds), Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin), Rolando Ravello (Perfect Strangers), Takehiro Hira (Gran Turismo), and Zlatko Burić (Triangle of Sadness).
Hailing from Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen’s Square Peg,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired U.S. rights to Firebrand, a historical thriller starring Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) and Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley) that world premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film directed by Karim Aïnouz (Invisible Life) is slated for an exclusive theatrical release on June 21, 2024, when it will go up against Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders and an as-yet-undisclosed title from Universal.
Based on the bestselling historical novel Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle, the film follows legendary Queen of England, Katherine Parr (Vikander), and her quest to survive the perilous last months in the life of her ailing and abusive husband, Henry VIII (Law). Eddie Marsan (21 Grams), Sam Riley (Control), Simon Russell Beale (The Death of Stalin) and Erin Doherty (The Crown) co-star.
It’s in blood-soaked Tudor England that the twice married, accomplished and educated Parr reluctantly agrees to become the...
Based on the bestselling historical novel Queen’s Gambit by Elizabeth Fremantle, the film follows legendary Queen of England, Katherine Parr (Vikander), and her quest to survive the perilous last months in the life of her ailing and abusive husband, Henry VIII (Law). Eddie Marsan (21 Grams), Sam Riley (Control), Simon Russell Beale (The Death of Stalin) and Erin Doherty (The Crown) co-star.
It’s in blood-soaked Tudor England that the twice married, accomplished and educated Parr reluctantly agrees to become the...
- 12/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Theatrical release set for June 21, 2024.
Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired US rights to Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes selection Firebrand starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law.
‘Firebrand’: Cannes Review
The historical thriller premiered in Cannes Competition and is based on Elizabeth Fremantle’s 2012 historical novel Queen’s Gambit.
Vikander stars as Katherine Parr, an independent woman with radical friends who attempts to survive as the sixth wife of the notorious Henry VIII during the ailing and abusive monarch’s final months.
The cast includes Eddie Marsan, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale and Erin Doherty. Henrietta Ashworth and Jessica Ashworth...
Roadside Attractions and Vertical have acquired US rights to Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes selection Firebrand starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law.
‘Firebrand’: Cannes Review
The historical thriller premiered in Cannes Competition and is based on Elizabeth Fremantle’s 2012 historical novel Queen’s Gambit.
Vikander stars as Katherine Parr, an independent woman with radical friends who attempts to survive as the sixth wife of the notorious Henry VIII during the ailing and abusive monarch’s final months.
The cast includes Eddie Marsan, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale and Erin Doherty. Henrietta Ashworth and Jessica Ashworth...
- 12/18/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Further Cannes titles to be selected include ’Firebrand’ and ’The Old Oak’.
The first titles in the running for the 2023 European Film Awards have been revealed by the European Academy, including Cannes premieres Anatomy Of A Fall, How To Have Sex, The Old Oak and Firebrand.
Anatomy Of A Fall won the Palme D’Or for French director Justine Triet at Cannes. The Hitchcockian mystery thriller is about a woman, played by Sandra Hüller, accused of murder when her husband dies of suspicious causes. Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion produce.
How To Have Sex won the top Un Certain Regard...
The first titles in the running for the 2023 European Film Awards have been revealed by the European Academy, including Cannes premieres Anatomy Of A Fall, How To Have Sex, The Old Oak and Firebrand.
Anatomy Of A Fall won the Palme D’Or for French director Justine Triet at Cannes. The Hitchcockian mystery thriller is about a woman, played by Sandra Hüller, accused of murder when her husband dies of suspicious causes. Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion produce.
How To Have Sex won the top Un Certain Regard...
- 8/16/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival opened Friday with a spirited musical performance from Russell Crowe, and the energy remained high Saturday evening with actor Ewan McGregor in town to receive the fest’s honorary President’s Award.
McGregor accepted the honor during an overflowing ceremony in the festival’s Grand Hall, where he was joined by his daughter Clara McGregor; his mother; and partner Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
“Thank you so much for being here tonight. It means the world to me,” he said as he picked up the award. “I believe so much in what we do as actors. I’m so fortunate to do what I love and I love what I do.”
The crowd inside the room was lively. Czech audiences are notoriously welcoming to the stars they receive here in Karlovy Vary and McGregor played to the crowd.
“I was gonna say something in Czech...
McGregor accepted the honor during an overflowing ceremony in the festival’s Grand Hall, where he was joined by his daughter Clara McGregor; his mother; and partner Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
“Thank you so much for being here tonight. It means the world to me,” he said as he picked up the award. “I believe so much in what we do as actors. I’m so fortunate to do what I love and I love what I do.”
The crowd inside the room was lively. Czech audiences are notoriously welcoming to the stars they receive here in Karlovy Vary and McGregor played to the crowd.
“I was gonna say something in Czech...
- 7/1/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Opening ceremony featured Johnny Depp trailer, which poked fun at the actor’s 2021 attendance.
Russell Crowe brought rock and roll to the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), playing a 90-minute set having earlier accepted the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema.
Crowe and his band Indoor Garden Party combined their own music – including new single ‘Let Your Light Shine’, the title track from their upcoming album, and ‘Southampton’, about the English city – with covers including Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’, a Crowe-solo...
Russell Crowe brought rock and roll to the opening night of the 57th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), playing a 90-minute set having earlier accepted the Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema.
Crowe and his band Indoor Garden Party combined their own music – including new single ‘Let Your Light Shine’, the title track from their upcoming album, and ‘Southampton’, about the English city – with covers including Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘A Hazy Shade Of Winter’, a Crowe-solo...
- 7/1/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
As tensions rise in Hollywood over an imminent update on SAG-AFTRA’s negotiations with the studios, thousands of miles east, the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary is gearing up for its annual influx of industry insiders, curious film fans, and stars.
Clocking its 57th annual edition, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) opens this evening. The prominent Central European event is one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It was founded in July 1946, a month before Locarno launched its first festival and a few months before the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its first edition in September of that same year.
This year’s edition opens with the Cannes Competition title Firebrand, starring Jude Law and Alicia Vikander. The pic is the fictionalized story of Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the tyrannical English King Henry VIII. Vikander plays Parr in the piece alongside an unrecognizable Jude Law,...
Clocking its 57th annual edition, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) opens this evening. The prominent Central European event is one of the world’s oldest film festivals. It was founded in July 1946, a month before Locarno launched its first festival and a few months before the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its first edition in September of that same year.
This year’s edition opens with the Cannes Competition title Firebrand, starring Jude Law and Alicia Vikander. The pic is the fictionalized story of Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the tyrannical English King Henry VIII. Vikander plays Parr in the piece alongside an unrecognizable Jude Law,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which takes place in an elegant spa resort in the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, is set to get political during its 57th edition, but in a subtle way.
“I am not sure if you can even use the word ‘subtle’ when talking about politics, but it doesn’t always have to be in your face. You can be political by showing the existential struggles of an elderly lady who gets framed by some crooks,” says artistic director Karel Och, mentioning Stephan Komandarev’s “Blaga’s Lessons,” which will vie for the Crystal Globe.
While the main competition features many stories about people trying to return home or simply find their place in the world, he adds, the festival will also celebrate Iran with a separate section “Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now.” “Before our consultant Lorenzo Esposito came up with this name,...
“I am not sure if you can even use the word ‘subtle’ when talking about politics, but it doesn’t always have to be in your face. You can be political by showing the existential struggles of an elderly lady who gets framed by some crooks,” says artistic director Karel Och, mentioning Stephan Komandarev’s “Blaga’s Lessons,” which will vie for the Crystal Globe.
While the main competition features many stories about people trying to return home or simply find their place in the world, he adds, the festival will also celebrate Iran with a separate section “Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now.” “Before our consultant Lorenzo Esposito came up with this name,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Ewan McGregor and Alicia Vikander will be the featured guests during the first weekend of this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where they will both receive the fest’s honorary President’s Award.
Alongside the celebrations, both actors will also present their most recent works. Vikander will bring her Cannes Competition title Firebrand, which will open the festival on June 30, while McGregor will host a screening of You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder.
Vikander began her artistic career training as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm and appeared in several stage productions and Swedish TV series before being cast in her breakthrough debut film role in Lisa Lansgeth’s feature Pure (2010). Since then, she has been best known for performances in pic such as Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Guy Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E, and Alex Garland’s Ex Machina,...
Alongside the celebrations, both actors will also present their most recent works. Vikander will bring her Cannes Competition title Firebrand, which will open the festival on June 30, while McGregor will host a screening of You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder.
Vikander began her artistic career training as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm and appeared in several stage productions and Swedish TV series before being cast in her breakthrough debut film role in Lisa Lansgeth’s feature Pure (2010). Since then, she has been best known for performances in pic such as Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Guy Ritchie’s The Man from U.N.C.L.E, and Alex Garland’s Ex Machina,...
- 6/13/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Czech festival runs from June 30 to July 8.
British historical drama Firebrand is to open the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), which runs from June 30 to July 8.
Firebrand star Alicia Vikander, who plays Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII, in the Karim Aïnouz directed film, will attend the festival where she will be presented with the Kviff President’s Award.
Vikander stars alongside Jude Law who plays an increasingly ailing and paranoid Henry VIII. Firebrand premiered in competition at Cannes last month.
Also receiving a Festival President´s Award this year is Scottish actor Ewan McGregor who will...
British historical drama Firebrand is to open the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff), which runs from June 30 to July 8.
Firebrand star Alicia Vikander, who plays Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII, in the Karim Aïnouz directed film, will attend the festival where she will be presented with the Kviff President’s Award.
Vikander stars alongside Jude Law who plays an increasingly ailing and paranoid Henry VIII. Firebrand premiered in competition at Cannes last month.
Also receiving a Festival President´s Award this year is Scottish actor Ewan McGregor who will...
- 6/13/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Nobody can see everything that screens in competition at the Cannes Film Festival — there were 21 titles in the mix this year — and I certainly didn’t. So, without passing judgment on all of the titles that were recognized with prizes on Saturday, I must say that I am struck by the fact that all five of the eligible English-language titles — Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s Black Flies, Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, Todd Haynes’s May December and Ken Loach’s The Old Oak — were completely passed over by the jury.
Needless to say, it is not the mandate of the Cannes jury — which this year included the likes of Paul Dano, Brie Larson and recent Palme d’Or winners Ruben Östlund (2017’s The Square and 2022’s Triangle of Sadness) and 2021’s Julia Ducournau (Titane) — to try to presage the Oscar race. But it is still noteworthy, to me,...
Needless to say, it is not the mandate of the Cannes jury — which this year included the likes of Paul Dano, Brie Larson and recent Palme d’Or winners Ruben Östlund (2017’s The Square and 2022’s Triangle of Sadness) and 2021’s Julia Ducournau (Titane) — to try to presage the Oscar race. But it is still noteworthy, to me,...
- 5/27/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A mainstay in the Un Certain Regard section (with a whopping four films as director/writer) and has sprinkled his films in Venice and Berlinale as well, Brazilian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz finally graduated to the competition section with a film that is very far removed from his native country. Firebrand follows the likes of Madame Satã (2002), O Céu de Suely (2006), and section winner A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão. He was also included as a Special Screening status for Mariner Of The Mountains in 2021.
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr (originally the role was assigned to Michelle Williams), the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas.…...
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr (originally the role was assigned to Michelle Williams), the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas.…...
- 5/24/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Jude Law wore a perfume of "blood and faecal matter" to smell like Henry VIII on the set of 'Firebrand'.The 50-year-old actor portrays the Tudor monarch in the historical drama that centres on Henry's sixth and final wife Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander) and came up with the revolting concoction to capture the odour of the king.Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday (22.05.23), Jude said: "I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was rotting so badly. He hid it with rose oil."I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful."The 'Peter Pan and Wendy' star found a perfume specialist to create the disgusting blend of smells so he could authentically recreate the Tudor – who suffered from swollen ankles and leg ulcers in his later years.Jude explained: "She makes wonderful scents, and she also makes awful scents.
- 5/23/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Jude Law caused quite a stink on the set of his upcoming film Firebrand by wearing a custom poop-scented perfume to recreate Henry VIII’s supposed stench.
“I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was rotting so badly,” Law said during a press conference for the movie at Cannes Film Festival (via Variety). “He hid it with rose oil. I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
For the sake of authenticity, Law sought out a perfume specialist and tried to reproduce the former King of England’s odor, which partially emanated from the leg ulcers he suffered in his final years. “She makes wonderful scents, and she also makes awful scents. She somehow came up with this extraordinary variety of blood, fecal matter, and sweat.”
Though Law initially “used it very subtly,” he eventually went overboard, and “it became a spray-fest.
“I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was rotting so badly,” Law said during a press conference for the movie at Cannes Film Festival (via Variety). “He hid it with rose oil. I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
For the sake of authenticity, Law sought out a perfume specialist and tried to reproduce the former King of England’s odor, which partially emanated from the leg ulcers he suffered in his final years. “She makes wonderful scents, and she also makes awful scents. She somehow came up with this extraordinary variety of blood, fecal matter, and sweat.”
Though Law initially “used it very subtly,” he eventually went overboard, and “it became a spray-fest.
- 5/22/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Film News
When his agent first suggested that Karim Aïnouz direct an adaptation of Elizabeth Fremantle’s “Queen’s Gambit,” a historical novel about Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, he thought she was joking. The Brazilian director of “The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão” wasn’t a natural choice to bring 16th century England to life on screen. For one thing, Aïnouz didn’t really know anything about the oft-married monarch.
“I could barely identify who Henry VIII was, and I’m not into the monarchy,” he says on the eve of the Cannes premiere of “Firebrand,” the movie he made from Fremantle’s book. “I’m not into British history. I was very puzzled.”
But he started to read up on Tudor history and on Parr and he became captivated by the queen who outmaneuvered her husband to survive his tumultuous final days on the throne.
“I could barely identify who Henry VIII was, and I’m not into the monarchy,” he says on the eve of the Cannes premiere of “Firebrand,” the movie he made from Fremantle’s book. “I’m not into British history. I was very puzzled.”
But he started to read up on Tudor history and on Parr and he became captivated by the queen who outmaneuvered her husband to survive his tumultuous final days on the throne.
- 5/22/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Jude Law took Method acting to the next sensory level.
The star of “Firebrand,” who plays King Henry VIII at the end of the royal’s life, revealed during the Cannes press conference that he commissioned a custom “awful” fragrance to get into character. Law had no problem smelling like “puss, blood, fecal matter, and sweat” opposite co-star Alicia Vikander, who plays Queen Katherine Parr, in Karim Aïnouz’s period piece.
“I read these several interesting accounts that at this period, you could smell Henry three rooms away because his leg was rotten so badly. He hid it with rose oil,” Law told the press corps (check out a clip courtesy of Variety below). “So I just thought it would have a great impact if I smelled awful. I went to this brilliant perfumier. She makes wonderful scents. But she also makes awful scents. And she somehow managed to come...
The star of “Firebrand,” who plays King Henry VIII at the end of the royal’s life, revealed during the Cannes press conference that he commissioned a custom “awful” fragrance to get into character. Law had no problem smelling like “puss, blood, fecal matter, and sweat” opposite co-star Alicia Vikander, who plays Queen Katherine Parr, in Karim Aïnouz’s period piece.
“I read these several interesting accounts that at this period, you could smell Henry three rooms away because his leg was rotten so badly. He hid it with rose oil,” Law told the press corps (check out a clip courtesy of Variety below). “So I just thought it would have a great impact if I smelled awful. I went to this brilliant perfumier. She makes wonderful scents. But she also makes awful scents. And she somehow managed to come...
- 5/22/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ scored a 3 average while ‘Firebrand’ also landed on the grid on 1.8
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall has joined May December in first place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, after receiving an average score of 3 from the critics.
The French filmmaker’s latest Cannes entry received four stars from LA Times’ Justin Chang; The Telegraph’s Tim Robey and Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. This was followed by six threes and three twos, the latter of which came from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee; Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus andTime Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall has joined May December in first place on Screen’s Cannes jury grid, after receiving an average score of 3 from the critics.
The French filmmaker’s latest Cannes entry received four stars from LA Times’ Justin Chang; The Telegraph’s Tim Robey and Le Monde’s Clarisse Fabre. This was followed by six threes and three twos, the latter of which came from Bangkok Post’s Kong Rithdee; Die Zeit’s Katja Nicodemus andTime Magazine’s Stephanie Zacharek.
- 5/22/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Specially-made scent was constructed of ”puss, blood, faecal matter and sweat” said the actor.
Jude Law wore a special perfume made of “puss, blood, faecal matter and sweat” while playing Henry VIII in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand.
“I heard stories that you could smell Henry VIII rooms away because his leg was rotting,” said the actor at the Cannes press conference for Aïnouz’s Competition title, which premiered last night. “They used rose oil to cover the smell. I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
He initially used the perfume “very subtly”, before it became...
Jude Law wore a special perfume made of “puss, blood, faecal matter and sweat” while playing Henry VIII in Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand.
“I heard stories that you could smell Henry VIII rooms away because his leg was rotting,” said the actor at the Cannes press conference for Aïnouz’s Competition title, which premiered last night. “They used rose oil to cover the smell. I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
He initially used the perfume “very subtly”, before it became...
- 5/22/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Jude Law wore a horrifying concoction of scents, a pungent blend of “blood, fecal matter and sweat,” to play Henry VIII in “Firebrand,” a historical thriller about the final days of the king and his sixth and last wife Katherine Parr.
“I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was rotting so badly. He hid it with rose oil,” Law said at Monday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference for “Firebrand,” which debuted at the Palais a day prior. “I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
So, he found a perfume specialist to create a custom, revolting blend of smells to capture the odor of the king, who suffered from swollen ankles and leg ulcers in his final years. “She makes wonderful scents, and she also makes awful scents. She somehow came up with this extraordinary variety of blood,...
“I read several interesting accounts that you could smell Henry three rooms away. His leg was rotting so badly. He hid it with rose oil,” Law said at Monday’s Cannes Film Festival press conference for “Firebrand,” which debuted at the Palais a day prior. “I thought it would have a great impact if I smelt awful.”
So, he found a perfume specialist to create a custom, revolting blend of smells to capture the odor of the king, who suffered from swollen ankles and leg ulcers in his final years. “She makes wonderful scents, and she also makes awful scents. She somehow came up with this extraordinary variety of blood,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Like a beloved monarch, Alicia Vikander was greeted with an eight-minute standing ovation at the May 21 Cannes premiere of director Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand,” from a crowd that included best actress Oscar winners Michelle Yeoh and Marion Cotillard.
With her husband Michael Fassbender beaming on from the row behind, Vikander motioned for the cheering audience to stop or she would cry. But then she gave into the adulation and blew kisses to the upper balconies.
Vikander’s co-star Jude Law, who plays a cruel and merciless King Henry VIII, and Brazilian helmer Aïnouz also got huge applause from the crowd at the Palais. Vikander joins a group of Cannes leading ladies including Lily Gladstone, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore who have turned in show-stopping performances.
Oscar-winner Vikander stars in “Firebrand” as Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the brutal king, as she tries to outmaneuver and outlast the barely recognizable Law.
With her husband Michael Fassbender beaming on from the row behind, Vikander motioned for the cheering audience to stop or she would cry. But then she gave into the adulation and blew kisses to the upper balconies.
Vikander’s co-star Jude Law, who plays a cruel and merciless King Henry VIII, and Brazilian helmer Aïnouz also got huge applause from the crowd at the Palais. Vikander joins a group of Cannes leading ladies including Lily Gladstone, Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore who have turned in show-stopping performances.
Oscar-winner Vikander stars in “Firebrand” as Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the brutal king, as she tries to outmaneuver and outlast the barely recognizable Law.
- 5/21/2023
- by Tatiana Siegel and Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Tudor, or not Tudor. That is the question in “Firebrand,” a revisionist royal portrait of Henry VIII’s last wife, Katherine Parr (played here by Alicia Vikander), that features all the pageantry you’d expect from a lavish costume drama, while showing the ahistorical audacity to call “Time’s Up” on the gluttonous king (Jude Law). Never mind that Henry VIII died — of very different causes than the movie depicts — all of 476 years ago. When it comes to art, there’s no statute of limitations on taking toxic masculinity to task, which can be both encouraging (since history has excused no shortage of monsters) and frustrating.
There’s a big difference between exposing the truth and rewriting what came before to suit a contemporary political agenda, the way “Firebrand” does. Liberally adapted from Elizabeth Fremantle’s fast-and-loose historical fiction “The Queen’s Gambit,” director Karim Aïnouz’s tony yet dull British...
There’s a big difference between exposing the truth and rewriting what came before to suit a contemporary political agenda, the way “Firebrand” does. Liberally adapted from Elizabeth Fremantle’s fast-and-loose historical fiction “The Queen’s Gambit,” director Karim Aïnouz’s tony yet dull British...
- 5/21/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Most movies about England’s King Henry VIII like to focus on the mercurial monarch’s failed marriages. His six wives have been collectively described as divorced, died, beheaded, divorced, beheaded, survived. That last one, the little talked-about Katherine Parr, had the distinction of outlasting Henry — their marriage was about four years as he started to succumb to the result of hard living. She was there during that time, but also a wife who if she weren’t so connected to the King easily could have qualified as a feminist. She not only was the first English woman to have a book published, was privately a radical Protestant in an England that had been staunchly Catholic, but also a sharply intelligent woman who had a head on her shoulders and was determined to keep it there.
The new movie from Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, Firebrand premiered in competition Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
The new movie from Brazilian-Algerian filmmaker Karim Aïnouz, Firebrand premiered in competition Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival.
- 5/21/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
There have been any number of films about Henry VIII and how the English king’s various wives kept losing their heads, but precious few have focused on the one queen who managed to outlive him; Katherine Parr has been a bit player in the likes of 1953’s “Young Bess”, but Karim Aïnouz’s “Firebrand” puts this radically progressive woman of the people at the center of the story in a way that has never been done before.
And yet, despite its righteous attempt to reframe history — an effort supported by the natural steeliness of Alicia Vikander’s performance as a social activist who’s trying to reshape her country without screwing up her marriage to its tyrannical sovereign — this bland period drama can’t help but feel like a familiar tale of court intrigue. Not even Jude Law, whose riveting and revoltingly bellicose take on Henry VIII is equal...
And yet, despite its righteous attempt to reframe history — an effort supported by the natural steeliness of Alicia Vikander’s performance as a social activist who’s trying to reshape her country without screwing up her marriage to its tyrannical sovereign — this bland period drama can’t help but feel like a familiar tale of court intrigue. Not even Jude Law, whose riveting and revoltingly bellicose take on Henry VIII is equal...
- 5/21/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It’s a solemn command from Firebrand’s first assistant director Lydia Currie: “When you bow to the king, bow straight down,” she announces. “Don’t look at him; you’ll get your head cut off.” The fearsome monarch Currie is referring to is Henry VIII, and on this particular day, Jude Law’s king is in an ax-swinging mood. The background artists on Karim Aïnouz’s set comply to orders and stare down at their toes. Before them, seated on thrones arranged on a raised plinth, is the potentate in question, and Katherine Parr, his queen.
Henry’s had a few wives. Katherine is his sixth and every time she opens her mouth, she’s in mortal danger. How does she survive? That’s the burning question asked by Firebrand, which Aïnouz describes as a “psychological thriller”. History tells us that Parr outlived her husband, but little is known about Parr after that,...
Henry’s had a few wives. Katherine is his sixth and every time she opens her mouth, she’s in mortal danger. How does she survive? That’s the burning question asked by Firebrand, which Aïnouz describes as a “psychological thriller”. History tells us that Parr outlived her husband, but little is known about Parr after that,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
In Britain, schoolchildren learning about Tudor history are taught a handy rhyme to remember the order of King Henry VIII’s six wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.”
Hollywood has for decades been transfixed by the “beheaded” and “died” bits — essentially, the stories about women suffering — but what moviegoers are rarely reminded of is the wife who outlived Henry. In Karim Aïnouz’s hotly anticipated “Firebrand,” it’s the notorious Tudor king’s final companion, Katherine Parr, who finally takes center stage.
“What’s mostly been dramatized are the wives who didn’t make it,” says Swedish star Alicia Vikander, who plays the surviving queen opposite Jude Law’s ailing monarch. “[When I read the script] I immediately thought, ‘Huh, isn’t it interesting that most people know more about the other wives.’ It’s almost like people are drawn to quite grim stories.”
The more Vikander, an Oscar-winner for “The Danish Girl,” read...
Hollywood has for decades been transfixed by the “beheaded” and “died” bits — essentially, the stories about women suffering — but what moviegoers are rarely reminded of is the wife who outlived Henry. In Karim Aïnouz’s hotly anticipated “Firebrand,” it’s the notorious Tudor king’s final companion, Katherine Parr, who finally takes center stage.
“What’s mostly been dramatized are the wives who didn’t make it,” says Swedish star Alicia Vikander, who plays the surviving queen opposite Jude Law’s ailing monarch. “[When I read the script] I immediately thought, ‘Huh, isn’t it interesting that most people know more about the other wives.’ It’s almost like people are drawn to quite grim stories.”
The more Vikander, an Oscar-winner for “The Danish Girl,” read...
- 5/21/2023
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
That Harrison Ford sure has some stamina for someone in their 81st year.
What’s the secret I ask him?
“You know what the secret is,” he responded.
“Rock ‘n’ roll and the other two things.”
What two other things?
“Sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. That’s the secret but now it’s not a secret,” a bad-boy twinkle in his eye as he spoke.
Ford and Calista Flockhart were guests at Charles Finch’s A Rabbit’s Foot annual Filmmakers Dinner in Cannes on Friday night.
Related: Cannes Film Festival 2023 In Photos
For as long as I can remember the event had been held at Eden Roc, but this year Finch and his partners switched to Fred L’écailler seafood restaurant, out on the eastern peninsula, past the Palm Beach. Always cracks me up when chef patron Fred Garbellini describes himself as “just a humble fisherman.”
Strictly speaking I guess he is.
What’s the secret I ask him?
“You know what the secret is,” he responded.
“Rock ‘n’ roll and the other two things.”
What two other things?
“Sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. That’s the secret but now it’s not a secret,” a bad-boy twinkle in his eye as he spoke.
Ford and Calista Flockhart were guests at Charles Finch’s A Rabbit’s Foot annual Filmmakers Dinner in Cannes on Friday night.
Related: Cannes Film Festival 2023 In Photos
For as long as I can remember the event had been held at Eden Roc, but this year Finch and his partners switched to Fred L’écailler seafood restaurant, out on the eastern peninsula, past the Palm Beach. Always cracks me up when chef patron Fred Garbellini describes himself as “just a humble fisherman.”
Strictly speaking I guess he is.
- 5/20/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Hot Cannes title “Firebrand,” a period drama about Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, has sold out internationally ahead of its world premiere on Sunday.
Sources tell Variety that the film has sold into STXInternational for the U.K. and to Sony Pictures for most other overseas markets. FilmNation has sold remaining international markets to independent international distributors.
In the U.K., Variety understands that Prime Video is in the process of buying the film from STX. This could mean that STX is handling a theatrical release, while Prime Video takes the film for streaming, or that the streamer will also handle theatrical in the territory. Sources indicate that Prime Video is also picking up streaming rights in a number of other international markets.
“Firebrand” is being shopped internationally by FilmNation while CAA is handling domestic sales. The film is still available for the U.S.
Sources tell Variety that the film has sold into STXInternational for the U.K. and to Sony Pictures for most other overseas markets. FilmNation has sold remaining international markets to independent international distributors.
In the U.K., Variety understands that Prime Video is in the process of buying the film from STX. This could mean that STX is handling a theatrical release, while Prime Video takes the film for streaming, or that the streamer will also handle theatrical in the territory. Sources indicate that Prime Video is also picking up streaming rights in a number of other international markets.
“Firebrand” is being shopped internationally by FilmNation while CAA is handling domestic sales. The film is still available for the U.S.
- 5/18/2023
- by Manori Ravindran, Elsa Keslassy and Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes is ready to party again with the likes of Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett all set for a Côte d’Azur hoedown. Here’s a (non-exhaustive) look at some of festival festivities on deck at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off Tuesday and runs through May 27.
The return of the Carlton Hotel following a whopping $380 million renovation is perhaps symbolic of the reemergence of shindigs at the festival following the pandemic. ”We were closed for 26 months,” sighed the Carlton’s general manager Carlo Stragiotto as he welcomed us in the opulent lobby.
“We have created new spaces and renovated old ones,” Stragiotto proclaimed, then boasted that the hotel has space enough “to host four or five parties at the same time each night, if needed.”
The A-list after-party on Tuesday for Cannes’ opening-night film Jeanne du Barry, a period costume drama starring Depp,...
The return of the Carlton Hotel following a whopping $380 million renovation is perhaps symbolic of the reemergence of shindigs at the festival following the pandemic. ”We were closed for 26 months,” sighed the Carlton’s general manager Carlo Stragiotto as he welcomed us in the opulent lobby.
“We have created new spaces and renovated old ones,” Stragiotto proclaimed, then boasted that the hotel has space enough “to host four or five parties at the same time each night, if needed.”
The A-list after-party on Tuesday for Cannes’ opening-night film Jeanne du Barry, a period costume drama starring Depp,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Cannes Film Festival isn’t just a hub of red carpet premieres, champagne-drenched parties, and stars, stars, stars. It’s also a vibrant locus of dealmaking, with studio executives, agents and filmmakers descending on the Riviera to secure financing for their upcoming projects or to find a distributor for their latest movies. The 2023 edition is playing host to several compelling packages and potential awards contenders that could spark heated bidding wars. Here are 11 films that could leave buyers reaching for the espresso instead of the rosé as they engage in all-night battles to land the next big thing.
Black Flies
Cast: Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt, Mike Tyson
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Agency: CAA, WME
Why Buyers Care: Penn and Sheridan have crackling chemistry as disgruntled mentor and doe-eyed mentee in the edge-of-your-seat thriller, which takes audiences into the often harrowing, always intense reality for paramedics in New York City.
Black Flies
Cast: Sean Penn, Tye Sheridan, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt, Mike Tyson
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Agency: CAA, WME
Why Buyers Care: Penn and Sheridan have crackling chemistry as disgruntled mentor and doe-eyed mentee in the edge-of-your-seat thriller, which takes audiences into the often harrowing, always intense reality for paramedics in New York City.
- 5/16/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin, Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
For most of the 75-year history of the Cannes Film Festival preceding this year’s edition, which kicks off Tuesday, relatively few films that premiered at Cannes went on to Academy Award recognition outside of the Oscar category that we now call best international feature. Indeed, only twice has the winner of Cannes’ top prize, the Palme d’Or, and the winner of the Academy’s top prize, the best picture Oscar, been the same film: 1955’s Marty and 2019’s Parasite.
Cannes was a place for art house films in a wide variety of languages, while the Academy Awards celebrated English-language films from America or the UK. But in recent years, that gap has begun to close — Cannes has occasionally screened more mainstream fare, and Oscar voters have increasingly embraced artier pics, not least because the Academy, once largely a club of Hollywood-based members, has deliberately become a much more international organization.
Cannes was a place for art house films in a wide variety of languages, while the Academy Awards celebrated English-language films from America or the UK. But in recent years, that gap has begun to close — Cannes has occasionally screened more mainstream fare, and Oscar voters have increasingly embraced artier pics, not least because the Academy, once largely a club of Hollywood-based members, has deliberately become a much more international organization.
- 5/16/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cannes Film Festival attendees are cordially invited to a free special event — presented by The Hollywood Reporter and Campari — on Saturday, May 20, at 1:30pm Cannes time, in the Campari Lounge of the Palais: a live hourlong recording of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast, followed by a cocktail reception, with the Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander.
There is limited space at this event. Anyone wishing to attend must RSVP via this link by 11am on Friday, May 19.
During the podcast recording, the 34-year-old Swede will be interviewed by yours truly about her life, career and the film that brings her to the Croisette this year: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, in which she portrays Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII (Jude Law).
Vikander is best known for her performances on film in 2010’s Pure, 2012’s Anna Karenina and A Royal Affair; 2013’s The Fifth Estate, 2014’s Testament of Youth...
There is limited space at this event. Anyone wishing to attend must RSVP via this link by 11am on Friday, May 19.
During the podcast recording, the 34-year-old Swede will be interviewed by yours truly about her life, career and the film that brings her to the Croisette this year: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand, in which she portrays Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII (Jude Law).
Vikander is best known for her performances on film in 2010’s Pure, 2012’s Anna Karenina and A Royal Affair; 2013’s The Fifth Estate, 2014’s Testament of Youth...
- 5/16/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival looms, a cavalcade of previews for films in competition for the coveted Palme d’Or arrives. Here’s one from the first wave of titles: Karim Aïnouz‘s “Firebrand,” which stars Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of England’s King Henry VIII.
Jude Law joins Vikander as Henry VIII in Aïnouz’s film, about the end of the King’s reign and the battles of will, gender, and belief that reverberate between their marriage.
Here’s an official synopsis for “Firebrand”:
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas.
Continue reading ‘Firebrand’ First Look: Alicia Vikander & Jude Law Star In Karim Aïnouz’s English-Language Debut, In Competition At Cannes 2023 at The Playlist.
Jude Law joins Vikander as Henry VIII in Aïnouz’s film, about the end of the King’s reign and the battles of will, gender, and belief that reverberate between their marriage.
Here’s an official synopsis for “Firebrand”:
In blood-soaked Tudor England, Katherine Parr, the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII, is named Regent while tyrant Henry is fighting overseas.
Continue reading ‘Firebrand’ First Look: Alicia Vikander & Jude Law Star In Karim Aïnouz’s English-Language Debut, In Competition At Cannes 2023 at The Playlist.
- 4/27/2023
- by Ned Booth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Here’s a first look at Alicia Vikander’s turn as Katherine Parr in the Cannes-bound Firebrand.
Gabrielle Tana’s Brouhaha Entertainment has released the first-look photo of the Ex Machina star in costume for Brazilian helmer Karim Ainouz’s first English-language film. See it below.
Alicia Vikander plays opposite Jude Law, who plays a scheming Henry VIII. Our exclusive photo shows Vikander with the ladies of her bedchamber, who are played by Ruby Bentall (Poldark), Bryony Hannah (Call The Midwife) and Maia Jemmett.
Images of Law as the much-married Tudor king are being kept under wraps at Ainouz’s behest until the movie has screened in competition in Cannes.
A screening date hasn’t been officially set yet but it’s strongly rumoured that Firebrand will premiere at the Palais des Festivals on Sunday, May 21. FilmNation will be shopping on the Croisette.
Gabrielle Tana’s Brouhaha Entertainment has released the first-look photo of the Ex Machina star in costume for Brazilian helmer Karim Ainouz’s first English-language film. See it below.
Alicia Vikander plays opposite Jude Law, who plays a scheming Henry VIII. Our exclusive photo shows Vikander with the ladies of her bedchamber, who are played by Ruby Bentall (Poldark), Bryony Hannah (Call The Midwife) and Maia Jemmett.
Images of Law as the much-married Tudor king are being kept under wraps at Ainouz’s behest until the movie has screened in competition in Cannes.
A screening date hasn’t been officially set yet but it’s strongly rumoured that Firebrand will premiere at the Palais des Festivals on Sunday, May 21. FilmNation will be shopping on the Croisette.
- 4/27/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated:
“Squid Game” star Hoyeon is now set to star in Na Hong-jin’s upcoming film “Hope,” joining Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Deadline reported her casting the same day that the film itself was announced.
The movie will be Hoyeon’s first feature, after she earned an Emmy nomination for her acting debut in Netflix’s 2021 series “Squid Game.” Prior to that series, she was known primarily for her work as a model. Hoyeon will next star in Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer,” and is also attached to Joe Talbot’s film “The Governesses,” which also stars Lily-Rose Depp and Renate Reinsve. She is represented by CAA and Sloane, Offer.
Original Story Follows:
Seven years after his last film “The Wailing” premiered at Cannes, Na Hong-jin is gearing up for his fourth feature. The South Korean filmmaker has set up his upcoming film, currently under the working title of “Hope,...
“Squid Game” star Hoyeon is now set to star in Na Hong-jin’s upcoming film “Hope,” joining Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. Deadline reported her casting the same day that the film itself was announced.
The movie will be Hoyeon’s first feature, after she earned an Emmy nomination for her acting debut in Netflix’s 2021 series “Squid Game.” Prior to that series, she was known primarily for her work as a model. Hoyeon will next star in Alfonso Cuarón’s Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer,” and is also attached to Joe Talbot’s film “The Governesses,” which also stars Lily-Rose Depp and Renate Reinsve. She is represented by CAA and Sloane, Offer.
Original Story Follows:
Seven years after his last film “The Wailing” premiered at Cannes, Na Hong-jin is gearing up for his fourth feature. The South Korean filmmaker has set up his upcoming film, currently under the working title of “Hope,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave) have been set for key roles in feature Hope, the first project from acclaimed Korean director Na Hong-Jin since 2016 hit The Wailing.
The largely Korean-language film will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.
Additional casting and pre-production is underway for a shoot later this year in Korea. We understand husband and wife Fassbender and Vikander will speak English in the film and wanted to take part after being impressed by the director’s previous work. It will mark the second time they’ve appeared together in the same film after The Light Between Oceans.
Korean producer-distributor Plus M Entertainment, owned by multiplex chain Megabox,...
The largely Korean-language film will follow the residents of Hopo Port, where a mysterious discovery is made on the outskirts of the remote harbor town. Before long, the residents find themselves in a desperate fight for survival against something they have never encountered before.
Additional casting and pre-production is underway for a shoot later this year in Korea. We understand husband and wife Fassbender and Vikander will speak English in the film and wanted to take part after being impressed by the director’s previous work. It will mark the second time they’ve appeared together in the same film after The Light Between Oceans.
Korean producer-distributor Plus M Entertainment, owned by multiplex chain Megabox,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
With the New Year upon us, it’s time for our annual tradition of looking at the cinematic horizon. Having highlighted 30 films we guarantee are worth seeing this year and films we hope get U.S. distribution, we now venture into the unknown. We dug deep to chart the 100 films we’re most looking forward to, from debuts to documentaries to the return of some of our most-beloved auteurs, along with a small batch of studio films worth giving attention.
Though the majority lack a set release—let alone confirmed festival premiere—most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2023. Be sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months (and beyond).
100. El Conde (Pablo Larraín)
Politicians are vampires in El Conde, from Jackie and Spencer director Pablo Larraín. While the plot, in which Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is revealed as a literal bloodsucker,...
Though the majority lack a set release—let alone confirmed festival premiere—most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2023. Be sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months (and beyond).
100. El Conde (Pablo Larraín)
Politicians are vampires in El Conde, from Jackie and Spencer director Pablo Larraín. While the plot, in which Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is revealed as a literal bloodsucker,...
- 1/6/2023
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
“Becoming Elizabeth” creator Anya Reiss doesn’t commonly watch period dramas. In fact, she thought the story of Queen Elizabeth I and her Tudor ancestors had been discussed to death. So why, then, embark on telling the story of an adolescent Elizabeth? It was the discovery of a story she hadn’t heard before: Elizabeth’s relationship at the age of fifteen with her stepmother Katherine Parr’s husband, Thomas Seymour. The relationship is debated among Tudor scholars to this day, many claiming the encounter never happened or that Elizabeth was assaulted by Seymour. For Reiss, who spoke to IndieWire via phone, it was “a grooming story through the eyes of someone [being groomed].”
The Tudors have graced screens, both big and small, since the release of the 1910 silent feature “Henry VIII and Catherine Howard.” Since that time Henry VIII and his six wives have been the focus of narrative features and documentaries,...
The Tudors have graced screens, both big and small, since the release of the 1910 silent feature “Henry VIII and Catherine Howard.” Since that time Henry VIII and his six wives have been the focus of narrative features and documentaries,...
- 6/12/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Karim Aïnouz’s essay on his own family history takes him from Brazil to north Africa to discover his father’s country
Karim Aïnouz, best known for mostly Brazil-set dramatic features such as Invisible Life, Love for Sale and the evocatively titled I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You, is truly an international film-maker. The son of a Brazilian mother and an Algerian father, he lives sometimes in Berlin and sometimes in the US, depending on his latest project.
Mariner of the Mountains, which premiered last year at Cannes, goes back to basics technically and Aïnouz’s own family history to create a thoughtful, often moving essay film about his journey to Algeria, the fatherland he never knew. Narrated throughout in Portuguese by the silky-voiced director, the film comprises a sort of filial love letter to his recently deceased mother, Iracema, who brought him up in Fortaleza,...
Karim Aïnouz, best known for mostly Brazil-set dramatic features such as Invisible Life, Love for Sale and the evocatively titled I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You, is truly an international film-maker. The son of a Brazilian mother and an Algerian father, he lives sometimes in Berlin and sometimes in the US, depending on his latest project.
Mariner of the Mountains, which premiered last year at Cannes, goes back to basics technically and Aïnouz’s own family history to create a thoughtful, often moving essay film about his journey to Algeria, the fatherland he never knew. Narrated throughout in Portuguese by the silky-voiced director, the film comprises a sort of filial love letter to his recently deceased mother, Iracema, who brought him up in Fortaleza,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Alicia Vikander has joined the cast of the psychological Tudor horror ‘Firebrand’ as principal photography gets underway.
Vikander replaces the previously announced Michelle Williams in the role of Henry VIII’s final wife Queen Katherine Parr. Law will play the role of the tyrannical Tudor King Henry the VIII.
The story will focus on Parr and her singular point-of-view of the psychological horror of living with a monster—and the remarkable will to not only survive but thrive. It will follow the last months of Katherine Parr’s survival as Queen of England, consequently the last months of Henry VIII’s life as King.
Having witnessed Henry disposing of his wives through death and divorce, not only did Parr have a secret agenda but had no assurances of a happy marriage; in fact, she had no assurances of surviving the marriage at all.
Also in news – Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu...
Vikander replaces the previously announced Michelle Williams in the role of Henry VIII’s final wife Queen Katherine Parr. Law will play the role of the tyrannical Tudor King Henry the VIII.
The story will focus on Parr and her singular point-of-view of the psychological horror of living with a monster—and the remarkable will to not only survive but thrive. It will follow the last months of Katherine Parr’s survival as Queen of England, consequently the last months of Henry VIII’s life as King.
Having witnessed Henry disposing of his wives through death and divorce, not only did Parr have a secret agenda but had no assurances of a happy marriage; in fact, she had no assurances of surviving the marriage at all.
Also in news – Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu...
- 5/10/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Sam Riley (Maleficent) and Eddie Marsan (Ray Donovan) will portray noble-born brothers Thomas and Edward Seymour in the historical thriller Firebrand, joining already announced Alicia Vikander and Jude Law who are portraying Katharine Parr and Henry VIII in the first English-language film from Brazilian director Karim Ainouz (The Invisible Life of Eurydice Gusmao).
The movie, shooting up in the Derbyshire region of the UK’s Peak District, is based on Elizabeth Fremantle’s bestselling historical novel Queen’s Gambit.
Film follows the marriage of Katherine (the filmmakers have chosen to spell Katherine with a K; some historians use a C) to Henry, his sixth and final wife, and how she fell foul of her husband’s courtiers — namely his key adviser Stephen Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester, a role taken by Simon Russell Beale.
Gardener’s duties included uncovering high-profile heretics. He set his sights on Protestant martyr Anne Askew,...
The movie, shooting up in the Derbyshire region of the UK’s Peak District, is based on Elizabeth Fremantle’s bestselling historical novel Queen’s Gambit.
Film follows the marriage of Katherine (the filmmakers have chosen to spell Katherine with a K; some historians use a C) to Henry, his sixth and final wife, and how she fell foul of her husband’s courtiers — namely his key adviser Stephen Gardiner, the Bishop of Winchester, a role taken by Simon Russell Beale.
Gardener’s duties included uncovering high-profile heretics. He set his sights on Protestant martyr Anne Askew,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Andrew Hooper’s film stars Michael Smiley, Annes Elwy
Great Point Media has sold Welsh crime thriller The Toll to key territories, at last month’s Pre-Cannes Screenings.
It has a deal for UK-Ireland and Australia-New Zealand with Signature, which will release the film in late August in the UK and Ireland.
Further deals include France with Family Films, and the US with Samuel Goldwyn Films.
“This year’s Pre-Cannes set-up allowed buyers the extra time needed to give each film the attention it deserves, which resulted in more thorough negotiation and better-structured deals,” said Toby Melling, VP of sales at Great Point.
Great Point Media has sold Welsh crime thriller The Toll to key territories, at last month’s Pre-Cannes Screenings.
It has a deal for UK-Ireland and Australia-New Zealand with Signature, which will release the film in late August in the UK and Ireland.
Further deals include France with Family Films, and the US with Samuel Goldwyn Films.
“This year’s Pre-Cannes set-up allowed buyers the extra time needed to give each film the attention it deserves, which resulted in more thorough negotiation and better-structured deals,” said Toby Melling, VP of sales at Great Point.
- 7/11/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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