Samuel Goldwyn Takes Norwegian Disaster Film 'The Tunnel' for U.S.

Naman Ramachandran The Irish Film and Television Academy has selected Tom Sullivan’s Irish-language feature “Arracht” as Ireland’s entry for the 2021 Oscars’ best international feature film category.The film is set in 1845 on the eve of the Irish famine. Fisherman Colmán Sharkey takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest.

For those of us old enough to remember, in 1995 the majority of teenagers in the developed world were almost as ignorant and bigoted as their parents about gender and sexual identity — or at least decidedly not the enlightened folk most Gen-Z kids seem to be these days.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerWell Go USA Entertainment has closed a deal for the North American distribution to Arclight Films’ Here Are the Young Men, an Irish teen drama starring Travis Fimmel (Ridley Scott’s HBO MAX series Raised by Wolves, History Channel’s Vikings), Dean-Charles Chapman (Game of Thrones, 1917), Finn Cole (Peaky Blinders, Animal Kingdom), Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen’s Gambit, A24’s The Witch), and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (Sing Street, Vikings).

Abergele are following in the bootsteps of the likes of Vernon Kay, Beverley Callard and AJ Pritchard with a string of challenges.And that means spiders webs and blindfolded eating tests as they learn lessons about reality TV from a series seen by millions of TV viewers.It comes as fans watched the celebrities shriek and squirm in the opening challenge Gates of Hell as the 20th series finally got underway this week.It had of course been relocated from its usual location in Australia due to

horror film that has gone viral on TikTok has issued a new trigger warning after viewers said they were left ‘traumatised’.Megan Is Missing, which is directed by Michael Goi, was originally released to negative reviews, with criticism aimed at its exploitative nature and violence, as well as the over-sexualisation of teenagers.

Megan Is Missing is huge on TikTok.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorNorway has selected Maria Sodhal’s Hope as its submission to the International Feature Film Oscar race. The drama world premiered in the Discovery section of the 2019 Toronto Film Festival and was screened in Panorama at Berlin this year.

Variety reports.There are no reports on the release date yet, but shooting is scheduled to commence in Australia next January.Speaking about the main cast, director Millipied said in a press statement that Paul ‘has so much nuance and consideration in his work.’The Normal People star has wracked up a versatile resume and we can’t wait to see him take on this role.Watch this space!

Fifty years of killer hangovers condensed into two hours, Crock of Gold chronicles the dramatic larger-than-life story of Shane MacGowan, the Anglo-Irish singer-songwriter who achieved international fame in the 1980s as self-destructive frontman of Celtic-punk band The Pogues. Co-produced by MacGowan's friend Johnny Depp, who also makes a brief cameo, this boozy cinematic bromance could have been an indulgent love letter from one swashbuckling celebrity pirate to another.

Oscar-winner Olivia Colman is set to play the lead role in Irish feel-good film Joyride, marking the first dramatic feature from Emmy winner Emer Reynolds (The Farthest, Shameless) and heading to the American Film Market. The film follows train-wreck Joy (Colman) on an adventure, but ready to give away her newborn baby to her best friend.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired U.S., Canada, UK and Ireland rights to BenDavid Grabinski’s Happily, whichwas set to make its world premiere at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival before the pandemic shutdown.The dark comedystars Emmy nominee Joel McHale (Community), Kerry Bishé (Argo), and Emmy nominee Stephen Root (Barry).The film follows Tom (McHale) and Janet (Bishé) who have been happily married for years.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIn “Mortal,” a film plagued by assorted crises and confusions of identity, one stands out at the very beginning: It’s an R-rated superhero movie that assumes its audience doesn’t know the meaning of its title. An introductory chyron helpfully offers the single dictionary definition “a human being,” without going into any of the others.

‘While riding as fast as they can through the night, they fall into a deep ravine and splash into a fast-flowing river.‘The hope of Kevin making it home to his family seems to be fading fast when who should appear but Santa Claus, played by much-loved Irish actor Colm Meaney.‘Can Santa help Kevin finally make it home?‘Of course, he can.’While Meaney may be more used to the bright lights of Hollywood he insists he’s always wanted to play Santa which is why he leaped at the chance to star in this