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On the heels of her first Oscar nomination for Spencer, Kristen Stewart has signed on to star in the A24 film Love Lies Bleeding from director Rose Glass (Saint Maud), Deadline has confirmed.

Zack Sharf The curtain has finally been pulled back on Amazon’s “Lord of the Rings” series, officially titled “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.” Vanity Fair has debuted first-look images and story details from the series, the first season of which cost a whopping $462 million to produce. While fans knew “The Rings of Power” was set during the Second Age of Middle Earth, now comes confirmation that original “Lord of the Rings” trilogy characters Galadriel and Elrond will appear.“Saint Maud” actress Morfydd Clark is taking on the role of young Galadriel, played in Peter Jackson’s film trilogy by Cate Blanchett.

The Crown star Matt Smith and Saint Maud’s Morfydd Clark are to lead supernatural horror film Starve Acre from BAFTA-nominated Apostasy creator Daniel Kokotajlo. Cornerstone is handling world sales and will launch at next month’s European Film Market.

Let it be known that this was a particularly fascinating year for horror. As always, we saw our fair share of low-budget and arthouse horror titles, but 2021 was also a year where horror went mainstream in several unexpected places.

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Jamie Lang WestEnd Films has launched a global sales campaign for Guillem Morales’ (“The Miniaturist”) revenge thriller “The Duchess of Malfi,” produced by Miriam Segal’s Good Films Collective (“Postcard Killings”).

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off wrapping season one of Amazon’s mega-budget The Lord Of The Rings series, Saint Maud star Morfydd Clark has signed to star alongside Sam Riley (Control) and Dominic Cooper (Preacher) in revenge thriller The Duchess Of Malfi.

Look, thanks to that godforsaken pandemic, which messed up the Oscars and the entire calendar year, it’s kind of hard to make the Best Films Of The Year, So Far feature because so many films were kind of released in 2020 — to qualify early for the Oscars — and or many were just released in a quiet limited release in December 2020.

The British Academy has revealed its 2021 crop of nominees for the Rising Star Award for up-and-coming talent, the only honor at the BAFTA film awards to be voted for by the public.

BAFTA has named the five contenders for its Rising Star award this year: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Conrad Khan, Bukky Bakray, Sope Dirisu, and Morfydd Clark.

Carole Horst Rose Glass’ genre-bending drama “Saint Maud” stars Morfydd Clark, whose portrayal of a nurse spiraling down into a whirlpool of ecstatic faith after the death of a patient under her care has mesmerized audiences and critics. It’s a star-making vehicle for Clark, who’s in New Zealand, shooting “The Lords of the Rings” series for Amazon.

Who knew that you could give arthouse horror a kick in the pants by substituting ominous Christian iconography for ominous Jewish iconography? Crosses, crucifixes, crowns of thorns, tormented priests and the like have been staples of the horror genre as far back as the beginning of cinema, if not, at least, Mario Bava’s “Black Sunday” and “The Exorcist,” and have remained in vogue in the form of everything from the uber-popular “Conjuring” franchise to the recent, terrific “Saint Maud.” READ

Sarah Gavron’s Rocks and Remi Weekes’ His House scooped five and four awards respectively, while Anthony Hopkins won Best Actor for The Father, at tonight’s British Independent Film Awards, held virtually this year. Scroll down for the full list of winners.

Chloé Zhao’s road movie Nomadland won three honors, including Film of the Year, at the 41st London Critics‘ Circle Film Awards, which were held in a virtual ceremony on Sunday night.

Harry Macqueen’s drama Supernova is one of many films this weekend that will open in theaters before hitting a digital platform — this seems to be a new trend.

The COVID-19 crisis has seen numerous big breaks put on ice as many cinemas have remained closed and release dates have been pushed further back. But few can match the potentially career-changing hiatus experienced by Morfydd Clark.

Before the pandemic shut theaters down last March, if you went to watch a film on the big screen, odds are you saw the disturbing trailer for “Saint Maud.” Unfortunately, when COVID-19 began to wreak havoc in the US, A24’s planned release kept getting delayed. Now, a year later, the horror-thriller is arriving in select theaters and on EPIX.

BIFA CRAFT Winners The first batch of winners have been announced from this year’s British Independent Film Awards, with nine of the craft categories unveiled. Remi Weekes’ His House, which is nominated for 16 BIFAs in total, won two prizes: Best Effects and Best Production Design.

Every year is a good year to stan female directors, but 2021 has cooked us up a real feast. Acting veterans like Rebecca Hall, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, and Halle Berry are finally claiming their director’s chairs on feature films, while arthouse icon Jane Campion is returning to hers after 12 years.

Psychological horror Saint Maud leads the nominees for the 2021 London Critics' Circle Film Awards, announced Tuesday by Darci Shaw and Henry Lloyd-Hughes. The debut feature from Rose Glass, which was released in the U.K.

The deck for 2021 film releases was shuffled yet again late last year, adding yet another wrinkle to what has undoubtedly been one of, if not the most tumultuous yearlong period for domestic film distribution in history.

Animated feature Kensuke’s Kingdom, based on the Michael Morpurgo novel, Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon biopic Benediction and the Studiocanal-released Saint Maud were among the films to receive the highest level of support from the British Film Institute’s production and distribution funds this year.

The precursor season is underway folks, with today bringing the nominees for the British Independent Film Awards. The BIFAs, as they’re known, went hard for Saint Maud, which led the field, scoring 17 nominations for Rose Glass’ movie.

Psychological horror Saint Maudis a nose ahead of a tight-knit pack of lead nominees for the 2020 British Independent Film Awards, unveiled Wednesday morning by Holliday Grainger and Micheal Ward. The Film4-backed debut feature from Rose Glass, which released earlier this year in the U.K.

We have, it’s safe to say, had a whole lot less to look at this year when it comes to the world of cinema. So many parts of our traditional filmgoing experience have been snatched away, for now, while so many of us wait at home for the whole thing to be done.

Reflecting on the best trailers released in 2020 feels at once vital and torturous – would we have reacted differently upon first viewing, had we known we might not actually see these films for months, or even years in some cases? The film industry soldiers on and rides with the blows, so we sit tight at home while we wait to enjoy so many movies on the big screen. Then, all we have are the morsels of footage strung together to whet our appetites months and months ago.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped in Scotland on under-the-radar UK horror The Origin, starring Chuku Modu (The 100, The Good Doctor), Kit Young (star of Netflix’s upcoming fantasy series Shadow And Bone), Iola Evans (The 100), newcomer Safia Oakley-Green, Arno Lüning and Luna Mwezi (Platzspittzbaby).

There is much about Rose Glass’ “Saint Maud” that’s horrifying and unimaginable, so let’s begin with its most poignant, relatable moment: the title character sitting in a bar, alone, just trying to be a person. She nurses a beer and glances around the room; she tries to make connections, trading flirty looks with a handsome young guy, trying to laugh along with a table of contemporaries nearby.

Now that we definitely, for realsies have a release date for “Tenet,” it’s time to re-focus all our attention to the other cinematic gems that don’t yet have a release date for this year. It just so happens that two of those films, “The Green Knight” and “Saint Maud” are being held hostage by A24, without any ransom letter or list of conditions for their release.

A new trailer has arrived online for the upcoming Saint Maud, a film that has played some of the big film festivals all over the world. The movie comes to cinemas later in the year – all I’ve heard are very good things. The film is the directorial debut of Rose Glass and features a cast that includes Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle.