Before Heading to Space, Doug Liman Made the Ultimate Quarantine Movie With ‘Locked Down’

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Manori Ravindran International EditorGreek filmmaker Christos Nikou marks his directorial debut with “Apples,” an accidentally timely pandemic movie that captured imaginations at the Venice Film Festival, where it opened the respected Orrizonti section, and has since gone on to represent Greece in the international feature film Oscar race.The film wasn’t actually shot during the COVID-19 crisis, but follows a man (Aris Servetalis) struggling to recover his memory amid a pandemic that causes

Ollie Locke recently tied the knot with his husband Gareth Locke in a spectacular ceremony at the National History Museum, in the series finale of Made In Chelsea. But as Ollie enters into a new chapter of his life, we couldn’t help but wonder what ever happened to his series one girlfriend Gabriella Ellis.

One of the first novel concepts introduced in Doug Liman’s tossed-off, super slight, and interminably paced “Locked Down” pandemic-set heist/relationship movie that tells you a little bit about the central couple’s status is the “confession avalanche.” The rather unpleasant Linda (Anne Hathaway) and disagreeable, perhaps vaguely mentally-unwell Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are weeks into the pandemic in London (circa April, at the height of people losing their minds), both are in the throes of

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWhile moviegoers cope with being shut indoors, HBO Max has a film that could have you feeling even more stir-crazy. “Locked Down” sequesters audiences for nearly two hours with an unhappy couple (played by Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor), who vent for a time, before hatching a plan to steal a huge diamond from Harrods.

One of the first novel concepts introduced in Doug Liman’s tossed-off, super slight, and interminably paced “Locked Down” pandemic-set heist/relationship movie that tells you a little bit about the central couple’s status is the “confession avalanche.” The rather unpleasant Linda (Anne Hathaway) and disagreeable, perhaps vaguely mentally-unwell Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are weeks into the pandemic in London (circa April, at the height of people losing their minds), both are in the throes of

“Edge of Tomorrow” is an interesting case-study in box office misfires that find critical acclaim and a second life after they leave the theaters. While the studio probably wasn’t happy with the overall box office performance of “Edge of Tomorrow,” which would go on to be known as “Live Die Repeat,” you can’t argue that the goodwill the film has received from fans and critics has propelled the idea of a sequel into almost getting made a number of times.

Doug Liman's “Locked Down,” one of the first and most ambitious films to be conceived and shot during the pandemic, is, like our own quarantine experiences, erratic, a little absurd and sporadically delightful.Unlike our time in quarantine, it has Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anne Hathaway. This, not a small difference, is crucial in “Locked Down," an energetic romantic comedy-slash-heist movie that makes a game entry into the emerging genre of COVID-19 movies.

In the Doug Liman-directed Locked Down that premieres today on HBO Max, Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play an estranged couple ready to call it quits if not for being shackled to their flat like every other Londoner by Covid. They co-exist uneasily and only find a spark when they hatch a daring plan to heist a diamond from Harrods before it is delivered to an overseas despot.

That’s a lot of cosmos! Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall had quite a successful run. From 1998 to 2004, HBO’s Sex and the City aired 94 episodes over six seasons and the core four raked in the cash. However, they weren’t given the same salaries across the board.

Director Doug Liman was on a call with screenwriter Steven Knight and producer PJ van Sandwijk in July when they started wondering what it would be like to make a movie about the current moment IN the current moment.Liman makes films about characters in extraordinary situations: An assassin with amnesia (“The Bourne Identity”), a military officer caught in a time loop (“Edge of Tomorrow”), an unhappy married couple who are also secret killers (“Mr. and Mrs.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIt was likely, if not downright inevitable, that in the year of our lockdown, somebody would make a drama called “Locked Down,” about a handful of people in lockdown. The director Doug Liman and the screenwriter Steven Knight conceived their movie on July 1, sold it in September and had completed shooting it, in London, by the end of October.

Matt James is getting candid about his past and insecurities on. The 29-year-old emotionally opened up about his absent father on Monday's episode of the ABC dating show, but as he recently told ET's Lauren Zima, there's more vulnerability ahead.

Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem are in talks to secure roles in the upcoming Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz flick, "Being the Ricardos," according to reports.  Kidman, 53, will portray Ball while Bardem, 51, will tackle Arnaz.