Timur Bekmambetov Thriller ‘Profile’ Seen Entirely Through Computer Screen Goes to Focus Features

Queen Elizabeth II may be Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, but her husband, Prince Philip, was also there every step of the way. The royal served as the oldest male member and longest-serving consort of a British sovereign in history.

Focus Features has picked up Silent Twins, starring Black Panther break-out Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance. The feature is the English language debut of Agnieszka Smoczynska and is based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins who grew up in Wales, as the only Black family in a small town.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFocus Features has landed rights to “Silent Twins,” a thriller starring Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance.Based on the book by Marjorie Wallace, the film marks the English language debut of director Agnieszka Smoczynska (“The Lure”). Andrea Seigel wrote the screenplay.Set in the 1970s and ’80s, the story follows June and Jennifer Gibbons, twins from the only Black family in a small town in Wales.

Focus Features has acquired worldwide rights to feature Silent Twins, which marks the English language debut of director Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure).

British actor Paul Ritter, who was most recently seen in the hit HBO series Chernobyl, passed away on 6 April. The 54-year-old actor was battling brain tumor and succumbed to the same.

Gone too soon. British actor Paul Ritter, known for his performances in the Harry Potter and James Bond franchises, has died at age 54 after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

The profile may be fake but the threat is real in “Profile”, the latest film to play out entirely via computer screen.

The new movie Profile looks like it’s going to be a nail-biting thriller based on the suspenseful trailer that was just released!

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Focus Features has taken the worldwide rights for Timur Bekmambetov's Profile, setting a May 14 release. It's the filmmaker's latest movie in the "screenlife" format— a feature that looks as if it plays out entirely on a computer screen.Profile follows an undercover British journalist in her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media while trying not to be sucked in by her recruiter and lured into becoming a militant extremist herself.

Focus Features has taken global rights to Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller Profile which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in 2018 and won the Audience Award. A theatrical release date of May 14 has been set. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, excluding CIS/Russia.

Line of Duty returned for its sixth season on Sunday night with a bang. Viewers were left guessing with every twist and turn of what was coming next.

Louis Theroux profiled Joe Exotic before he became the self-styled Tiger King of world renown — and now the British documentarian is returning to Oklahoma to investigate how Joseph Maldonado-Passage became a media phenomenon after his Netflix series.

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