‘Sing Street’ & ‘Ida’ Producers Set Cast For Adaptation Of Italian Hit ‘Mid-August Lunch’, Filming Underway In Dublin

Overturned scrap metal lorry sheds its load A scrap metal lorry overturned and shed its load near the Rocket flyover early this morning (Saturday). The driver escaped with cuts and bruises after the incident at around 5. 20am today.

Christopher Vourlias Since co-founding Moscow-based production house Hype Film in 2011, Ilya Stewart and partner Murad Osmann – Variety Producers to Watch in 2018 – have grown the company from an award-winning commercial and music video producer into one of the most successful film production outfits in the country, thanks in no small part to their partnership with arthouse director and provocateur Kirill Serebrennikov.After collaborating on his 2016 Un Certain Regard prize winner “The Student,” Serebrennikov and Stewart teamed up again on “Leto,” a rock drama which played in competition on the Croisette in 2018. Last year they competed again with “Petrov’s Flu,” a hallucinatory romp through a post-Soviet Russia in the grips of a mysterious flu pandemic.

Sophie Turner has said she “developed a coping mechanism” so she wouldn’t get “traumatised” while filming Game of Thrones. The 26-year-old actor reflected on shooting the show’s most disturbing scenes when she was still very young, in a new interview with Jessica Chastain for The Cut magazine, which was published on 10 May.

K.J. Yossman “Old” star Rufus Sewell and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s” Shirley Henderson are set to lead dark comedy “The Trouble With Jessica.”Sewell will also be reunited with his “A Knight’s Tale” co-star Alan Tudyk in the film.

Manori Ravindran International EditorIn another major M&A coup, Fremantle has taken a majority stake in Irish production company Element Pictures, the producers of “Normal People,” “Conversations With Friends” and “The Favourite.”Element Pictures has grown to become one of Europe’s top drama producers, and is managed by co-founders Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, with offices in Dublin, London and Belfast.The deal was spearheaded by Fremantle group COO and continental Europe CEO Andrea Scrosati and Lorenzo De Maio, of De Maio Entertainment. The deal represents continued investment in European drama from Fremantle, which is owned by Germany’s RTL Group.

In another mega M&A deal, Fremantle has taken a majority stake in Irish The Favourite, Room and Conversations with Friends producer Element Pictures.

Rising Irish singer-songwriter Lucy McWilliams has released a new song titled The Woman In Me (demo) to coincide with a duo of performances at The Great Escape festival this week. 

Kristen Stewart and Léa Seydoux star in David Cronenberg’s new body horror Crimes of the Future – check out the trailer below.The film marks Cronenberg’s first horror and sci-fi project since his 1999 film eXistenZ, and will premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.Crimes of the Future will compete for the Palme d’Or in this year’s Official Selection in Cannes.Watch the new trailer here:An official synopsis for Crimes of the Future reads: “As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations.“With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.“Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed… Their mission – to use Saul’s notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.”Meanwhile, Avril Lavigne recently said she wants Kristen Stewart to play her in a biopic.While on the red carpet at the 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards, the singer was asked about who she’d want to play her in a movie about her life. After a pause, Lavigne said: “Like Kristen Stewart would be cool to play me in a film.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilms Boutique (“Lunana, a Yak in the Classroom”) has acquired four films set to world premiere at Cannes, including Albert Serra (“The Death of Louis XIV”)’s “Pacifiction” which will compete in the 75th edition’s Official Selection. The Berlin-based international sales banner has also acquired rising Morrocan helmer Maryam Touzani (“Adam”)’s “The Blue Caftan” and Costa Rican director Ariel Escalante Meza’s “Domingo and the Mist” which will both play in Un Certain Regard; as well as Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues (“The Ornithologist”)’s “Will-O’-The-Wisp,” set for Directors’ Fortnight.“Pacifiction” stars Cesar-winning French actor Benoit Magimel (“Peaceful”) as a calculating French government official working in the French Polynesian island of Tahiti.

Ian Evatt believes Bolton Wanderers have improved in terms of sharing the goals around the team since Eoin Doyle's departure but wants more to chip in to help improve this evening further next season.

Alison Hammond and her new co-host Craig Doyle have been exchanging sweet messages on social media after delighting fans with their This Morning appearance. Fans of the ITV daytime show were treated to a new face on the Bank Holiday Monday show.

Jadon Sancho's form at Manchester United has been used as a warning to English players who choose to move abroad.

Two of boxing's hottest properties will do battle this weekend at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with Oscar Valdez facing off against Shakur Stevenson for the WBO and WBC super-featherweight titles. But someone's perfect record has to go, with both fighters undefeated during their professional careers.