EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American rights to The Critic, a period thriller starring Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings franchise), which adapts Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call.
Directed by Anand Tucker (Hilary and Jackie) from a script by Academy Award nominee Patrick…
THE CRITICSection: Special Presentations
Director: Anand Tucker
Screenwriter: Patrick Marber
Logline: A savage newspaper theatre critic (Ian McKellen) teams up with an actress (Gemma Arteton) in an attempt to blackmail his editor in 1930s London.
International Sales:…
This critic might want to look for a different job.
The prospect of seeing the great Ian McKellen take on the role of one of London's most august theater critics of the 1930s must have looked tantalizing on paper, but sadly this is a show that deserved…
EXCLUSIVE: Ian McKellen (The Good Liar), Gemma Arterton (Summerland) and Mark Strong (1917) will lead the cast of The Critic, a period thriller based on Anthony Quinn’s classic novel Curtain Call. Oscar nominee Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread), BAFTA nominee Romola Garai (Suffragette), Ben Barnes (Westworld) and…
EXCLUSIVE: Cold War star Tomasz Kot is set to play celebrated inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla in the feature biopic Nikola.
Based on a screenplay by Leap Year director and Girl With a Pearl Earring producer Anand Tucker, the story will focus on Tesla's last big experiment, which was regarded as a failure at the…