Evan Rachel Wood is opening up in a new documentary.
03.02.2022 - 17:58 / variety.com
Manori Ravindran International EditorEvan Rachel Wood, Eliza Scanlen, Rufus Sewell and Vanessa Redgrave are set to lead an adaptation of World War II-era book “All That I Am,” Variety can reveal.AGC Studios is fully financing the film, which will be shot in Berlin and Sydney in late summer. The studio, led by Stuart Ford, introduced the project to buyers this week as part of the virtual European Film Market, which generally runs alongside the Berlin Film Festival.
(A number of projects have been introduced early to buyers this year, leading to an elongated market period.)Written by Australian author Anna Funder, the 2012 international bestseller brings to light a heroic true story about four German-Jewish literati-turned-anti-Nazi activists who are forced to flee to London following the rise of Adolf Hitler’s regime in Germany. Sixty years later, one of the group members, Ruth Wesemann, is living in Sydney, Australia, and is the sole survivor of the four.
One day she receives a package containing the posthumous memoirs of her old friend Ernst Toller and is drawn back into her memories, and the years in which the four emigrés smuggled highly classified documents from Hermann Goering’s office into the hands of Winston Churchill.The film has set Kate Dennis (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Glow”) as director, while Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet — who co-wrote the Reese Witherspoon-led “Vanity Fair” adaptation — are to write the screenplay, based on Funder’s book.Scanlen is Ruth while Wood will play Dora Fabian. Redgrave will play the older Ruth, in Australia, while Sewell is Ernst.Producers include Troy Lum (“The Water Diviner,” “Saving Mr.
Evan Rachel Wood is opening up in a new documentary.
Phoenix Rising have been announced by HBO. Watch the trailer below.The film, which documents Wood’s decision to name Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser, has two parts, titled Don’t Fall and Stand Up.
Evan Rachel Wood is rising from the ashes.
In the last several years, following terrific docs like “An Open Secret” “Prophet’s Prey,” and “West Of Memphis,” filmmaker Amy Berg has quickly become one of the premier documentarians in the field of abuse cases and injustices, often centering around stories of female exploitation and abuse. Her latest is HBO’s “Phoenix Rising,” a two-part documentary produced and directed by Amy Berg (“The Case Against Adnan Syed”), follows actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”) as she takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational wounds, and reclaim her story.
Zack Sharf “I’m here today to talk about Brian Werner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson,” Evan Rachel Wood says in the official trailer for Amy Berg’s two-part HBO documentary “Rising Phoenix.” The movie, which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month, finds Wood reflecting on her abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson and connecting with other women who came forward with stories against the singer.HBO’s official synopsis for “Phoenix Rising” reads: “The documentary follows actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood as she takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational wounds and reclaim her story. Almost a decade after escaping a dangerous relationship, Wood co-authors and successfully lobbies for passage of The Phoenix Act, legislation that extends the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases in California.
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Leo Barraclough International Features EditorIrish writer/director Colm Bairéad’s narrative feature debut “The Quiet Girl,” which world premieres at the Berlin Film Festival in the Generation Kplus section, has debuted a clip from the film with Variety. Rosa Bosch Films is handling world sales.The film is a complex and delicate coming-of-age drama that explores questions of family, neglect and grief through the eyes of its young protagonist. Commenting on the film, director Mark Cousins said: “What a tender jewel of a film.
Naman Ramachandran British singer-songwriter George Ezra, best known for hit singles “Shotgun,” “Paradise” and “Budapest,” will star in feature documentary “End to End.”The documentary is from producers Richard Yee (“An Idiot Abroad”), Catherine Miller and Fiona Neilson (“Oasis:Supersonic”) and is directed by Adam Scarborough and Christy Tattershall.Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide sales and will introduce the hot project to buyers at the upcoming European Film Market, while runs alongside the Berlin Film Festival. U.K.
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It took Evan Rachel Wood years to muster the courage to name her abuser. A lot of people knew who he was, divorced from her, because of his job, his public persona, his notorious reputation — controversial, provocative, fundamentally harmful.
Evan Rachel Wood is alleging that Marilyn Manson's «first crime» against her occurred when she starred alongside him in his 2007 «Heart-Shaped Glasses» music video when she was 19 years old. On Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival, part one of the documentary premiered, and according to multiple reports, Wood goes into detail about her prior relationship with Manson, born Brian Warner, and the alleged abuse she endured while with him.Wood recalls filming «Heart-Shaped Glasses,» claiming that she did not consent to having sex with Manson on camera. «It's nothing like I thought it was going to be. We're doing things that were not what was pitched to me,» the 34-year-old actress claims of the music video."...We had discussed a simulated sex scene, but once the cameras were rolling, he started penetrating me for real," she alleges.
Phoenix Rising, which premiered at the on January 23, the actor said that she was “essentially raped on-camera” by Warner when she was 19 years old. "It's nothing like I thought it was going to be," Wood said in the documentary, per . "We're doing things that were not what was pitched to me. ...