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The Hindu
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
‘Peaky Blinders' creator Steven Knight to pen script for next ‘James Bond'
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has been tapped to write the next James Bond film. According to Deadline, Knight secured the job following a recent meeting with director Denis Villeneuve, who is currently filming the third Dune instalment. Knight, 65, brings a varied resume to the iconic spy series. He is best known for creating the acclaimed BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders, as well as writing films such as Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things, Locke, and Spencer. On television, his credits include Taboo, A Thousand Blows, and The Veil. He is also set to write the upcoming Peaky Blinders film, The Immortal Man, and a Netflix period drama titled House of Guinness. While known primarily for gritty drama, Knight has previously hinted at his interest in large-scale cinematic storytelling. Speaking about The Immortal Man last year, he referenced James Bond directly, noting the difference in scale between TV and film: 'You can blow stuff up,' he said. 'Will Tommy be giving James Bond a run for his money? Maybe.' The next Bond film will be the 26th official entry in the long-running franchise and the first since Daniel Craig's swan song, No Time to Die, which grossed over $774 million worldwide. The title character has yet to be cast, but actors Tom Holland, Jacob Elordi, and Harris Dickinson are reportedly being considered. Villeneuve, known for Arrival and Dune, confirmed his involvement earlier this year, saying, 'I intend to honour the tradition and open the path for many new missions to come.' Amazon MGM, which secured creative control of the franchise in a reported $1 billion deal, is backing the project. CEO Andy Jassy called the upcoming film 'a major priority' during a recent earnings call.
News18
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight to pen script for next James Bond film
Los Angeles, Aug 1 (PTI) Steven Knight, the writer and creator of popular Netflix series 'Peaky Blinders", will be penning the script for the new James Bond movie. Hollywood banner Amazon MGM Studios recently roped in filmmaker Denis Villeneuve of 'Dune" fame to direct the latest instalment of the long-running spy franchise. The project will be the first film from Amazon since the banner bought 'MGM Studios' in 2022. Tanya Lapointe, Villeneuve's wife and creative partner, will serve as an executive producer. Amy Pascal and David Heyman will be producing the movie. According to entertainment news outlet The Hollywood Reporter, Knight's hiring marks the end of a chapter for the Bond movies, especially when it comes to the writers. As a writer, Knight has penned some of the most critically-acclaimed titles of recent times — 'Eastern Promises", 'Locke", 'Allied", 'Spencer" and 'Maria". Actor Daniel Craig played James Bond for the last time in 2021's 'No Time To Die", which was also the final Bond film written by longtime writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. They had been working on the series since Pierce Brosnan-led 'The World Is Not Enough" in 1999. With Villeneuve stepping in as director and Steven Knight onboard as writer for the latest chapter in one of cinema's longest-running franchises, anticipation is mounting over who will take on the iconic role of the spy with a licence to kill. Craig portrayed 007 in five films, beginning with 2006's 'Casino Royale", followed by 'Quantum of Solace" (2008), 'Skyfall" (2012), 'Spectre" (2015) and 'No Time To Die". Amazon acquired MGM in 2022 and gained the rights to distribute all future James Bond films. However, progress stalled for some time due to a standoff between Amazon executives and longtime Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. In February this year, Amazon MGM Studios, Wilson and Broccoli formed a new joint venture that allowed them to co-own James Bond intellectual property rights. However, Amazon MGM took the creative control of the franchise. PTI RB RB RB view comments First Published: August 01, 2025, 11:00 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
USA Today
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Amazon MGM Studio's James Bond film names ‘Peaky Blinders' writer
The upcoming James Bond movie now has a writer attached to the project. Steven Knight, who has penned projects like Eastern Promises, Apple TV+'s See, Locke and Netflix's wildly popular Peaky Blinders series, was announced as the script writer on Thursday afternoon. He will join director Denis Villeneuve on the highly-anticipated project. David Heyman and Amy Pascal have signed on to produce the project, the first Bond movie in its new home at Amazon MGM Studios. Amazon acquired MGM in 20212, taking control of the extensive collection of 007 movies. It wasn't until February of 2025, however, that the studio was able to negotiate a deal for the rights to the creative control of the character. There has not been a new James Bond announced yet, but the search is apparently on. That hasn't stopped fans from coming up with their own theories on who could take over the mantle from Daniel Craig. Names like Idris Elba, Damson Idris, Callum Turner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Tom Holland, Jacob Elordi and Harris Dickinson have all been in the online conversation. Craig became Bond in 2006's Casino Royale and went on to star in five total movies as 007. His final outing as the dapper spy was in 2021 with No Time To Die.
Yahoo
25-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
With 76% on RT, Is David Cronenberg's 'The Shrouds' Worth Your Time?
Regardless of what might be going on in the world, it's reassuring to know we can still rely on a new David Cronenberg film every few years. The legendary Canadian director essentially birthed the body-horror genre with his third feature, Shivers (1975), and has proceeded over the next five decades to expand and evolve his filmography in a way few filmmakers have. Now, he's back with his 23rd feature, The Shrouds, a classically Cronenbergian tale which tackles complex emotions of grief, surveillance and voyeurism, and, of course, amorous conspiracy theorists. Vincent Cassel stars in his third collaboration with the director following the stellar Russian mob thriller Eastern Promises (2008) and the Sigmund Freud-Carl Jung biopic A Dangerous Method (2011). Here, the actor is styled to look uncannily like Cronenberg, his white quiff and gaunt features so reminiscent that you may for a moment believe Cronenberg has decided to feature himself on the film's poster, but the choice is appropriately thematic rather than eye-narrowingly metatextual. Cassel plays Karsh, an entrepreneur with unlimited financial resources who, four years after the death of his wife, Becca (Diane Kruger), from cancer, has established GraveTech, a cutting-edge business which allows relatives to view the decomposition of their loved ones in real time. As is well documented, Cronenberg lost his wife of 38 years, Carolyn, to cancer in 2017. He's spoken at length about how this film is an exploration of his own grieving process, but crucially not an autobiographical one. It goes without saying that The Shrouds is one of the director's most personal and most haunting works. It's also one of his most subdued and thoughtful, which adds to its otherworldly a brazenly explanatory opening scene, Karsh tells a blind date (an exceptional Jennifer Dale, nearly stealing the picture in two scenes) that when he watched Becca's coffin lowered into the ground, he felt 'an intense, visceral urge to get into the box with her…I couldn't stand it that she was alone in there and that I would never know what was happening to her.' And while it may sound grisly, business is booming. The garden outside of the ritzy restaurant, which Karsh also owns, is dotted with graves affixed with screens which deliver 24/7 video feeds from within the coffins. 'Can I smoke?' Karsh's date deadpans after being shown a live feed of a skeletal, partially mutilated Becca. As Karsh considers where to open the next GraveTech location, a hack of the company's database and the subsequent vandalism of several graves, including Becca's, sends the entrepreneur reeling. At the same time, he begins noticing new, unexplained growths on Becca's corpse. He enlists the help of both Becca's sister, Terry (also played by Kruger), and her ex-husband, a paranoid techie named Maury (Guy Pearce), who coded GraveTech's security and offers to help Karsh determine from where the hack originated. Karsh shares his theories behind the subterfuge with Terry, who finds herself sexually aroused by the mystery. Meanwhile, Karsh begins an affair with Soo-Min (Sandrine Holt), the blind wife of a CEO who's pressuring Karsh to bring GraveTech to Budapest. There's also the matter of Hunny, Karsh's AI assistant who's designed to resemble Becca and is likewise played by Kruger in a third role. The Shrouds is Cronenberg's best film since 2005's A History of Violence, and his most classically Cronenbergian film in decades. Beginning with 1996's Crash and culminating with 2014's Maps to the Stars, Cronenberg left behind the scrungy sci-fi conceits for which he's best known and took on a variety of disparate genres onto which he laid his singular stamp. (The sole outlier in this period was 1997's eXistenZ, which was uber-Cronenberg but is regarded as one of his lesser works.) During this time, Cronenberg made some of his most interesting pictures, including Spider (2002), Cosmopolis (2012), and A History of Violence, which is arguably his masterpiece. He returned to his roots in 2022 with Crimes of the Future, and while it was nice to see Cronenberg back in the body-horror saddle, that film felt very much like a retread of ideas he'd explored more furtively in the past. (It was also, narratively speaking, muddled and not particularly gripping.) Even the title and some key elements, though notably not the main plot, were taken from Cronenberg's 1970 second feature. But The Shrouds is a seminal Cronenberg movie, one brimming with fresh and unexplored pathologies. It's thrilling to see the 82-year-old filmmaker working at such a high level, producing work that's as compelling and groundbreaking as his most revolutionary projects. His latest flirts tangentially, almost teasingly, with the body-horror genre, but Cronenberg rejects any explicit move into that territory. As ever, the director isn't content to rest on his laurels; he's also not concerned about giving audiences what they're expecting, a blessing in this time of pre-packaged is a movie of ideas—it is, almost literally, a movie about theories—and Cronenberg certainly has many he wishes to work out. The Shrouds is about our collective relationship with grief and letting go of lost loves; the current state of digital voyeurism and the moralities thereof; the line between clinical trials and human experiments; and how we deal with the inevitable breakdown of our own bodies. It's also, ultimately, the most demented film ever made about a widower finding another chance at love. The Shrouds is knowingly absurd, but never camp, and it's also very funny in that subtle, macabre way in which Cronenberg so excels. If there's any fault with the film, it's that it is slightly overstuffed with characters and notions. But that's also something to celebrate, because the precise film Cronenberg wished to make is up there on the screen. Even if that leads to occasional narrative wonkiness, it's far more thrilling to have his vision presented unfettered. It's worth reiterating how remarkably rare it is to have an iconic filmmaker of Cronenberg's vintage still producing work which feels as vital and cutting-edge as his earliest works. Cronenberg's films have consistently returned to examinations of the human condition—humanity, mortality, love, the soul's relationship with a corporeal being—through body deterioration, from Shivers and Rabid (1977) to The Fly (1986), Crash, and now The Shrouds. He's not a religious filmmaker, but he's certainly a spiritual one. The Shrouds fits snugly in with the director's preoccupations, and it's an exhilarating escalation of his filmography. Here, he's revisiting past ideas with freshened eyes and interrogating new obsessions with a vibrant curiosity which feels like the work of a much younger and hungrier filmmaker. In the fifth decade of his career, Cronenberg is making his most exciting films yet. Here's hoping we get many 76% on RT, Is David Cronenberg's 'The Shrouds' Worth Your Time? first appeared on Men's Journal on Jul 5, 2025 Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Karlovy Vary Eastern Promises Winners Include ‘Battalion Records,' ‘In Vacuo'
The Eastern Promises industry section and film market of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) handed out its awards Tuesday evening. KVIFF Eastern Promises describes its mission as 'bridging the gap between talented filmmakers and their potential co-production partners, festivals and audiences.' This year, 40 film and series projects competed for awards. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'A Second Life' Review: Agathe Rousselle, Star of Palme d'Or Winner 'Titane,' Carries a Compellingly Off-the-Cuff Paris Movie TikTok Suspends Toronto Film Fest, Junos Sponsorships Ahead of Canadian Operations Closure 'Jimmy Jaguar' Review: An Atypical Hungarian Horror Flick That's More Provocative Than Frightening 'Every country in Central Europe has something unique to showcase, but even experienced filmmakers often struggle to close financing,' said Hugo Rosák, the head of the KVIFF Film Industry Office. 'The support structures here are still relatively fragile. Our hope is that by curating projects in close collaboration with national film institutes, we can offer producers and investors a selection they can trust, and ultimately help unlock co-financing with greater confidence. At the same time, we want to spark more awareness and collaboration between producers in the region. There's a lot of potential for working together, and this format helps make those connections visible.' The 59th edition of KVIFF runs through Saturday, July 12. Check out the Eastern Promises winners 2025 below. Eurimages Co-Production Development Awards The winner gets a 20,000 euros ($23,445) cash prize for further development, sponsored by the Eurimages fund. Battalion Records (Romania), directed and written by Ștefan Bîtu-Tudoran and produced by Diana Caravia. Jury statement: 'We are pleased to award the Co-Production Development Award to a bold debut that confronts the decay of culture. Because sometimes, to make people listen, you must turn things upside down – and this absurdist heist comedy does so with rebellious energy.' Eurimages Special Co-Production Development Award An additional 20,000 euros ($23,445) prize was donated by Eurimages to support a 'particularly promising' Ukrainian project. In Vacuo (Ukraine), directed and written by Yelizaveta Smith and produced by Eugene Rachkovsky. Jury statement: 'We are proud to award this Ukrainian feature debut set in Odessa. The film explores the universal impact of loss and how absence shapes both identities and communities, highlighting the importance of remembering before it's too late.' Midpoint & KVIFF Development Award The winner gets a 10,000 euros ($11,722) cash prize for further development, jointly sponsored by Midpoint, Barrandov Studio and of Illness (Croatia), directed and written by David Gašo and produced by Marta Eva Mećava. Jury statement: 'A film narrative is typically driven by characters, yet it can also take the form of a spatial and temporal fluid — shaped by its own color, form, and tone. We have chosen to highlight a charming film project in which human unease plunges into an absurd labyrinth where anxiety peers out from the corners of humor.' 'History of Illness' Connecting Cottbus Award The winner is granted the opportunity to pitch at Connecting Cottbus, the East-West co-production market, during the Film Festival Cottbus. RadioAmateur (Poland), directed and written by Tomasz Habowski and produced by Marta Szarzyńska . Statement: 'We were really taken with this haunting and unsentimental story of a dinosaur and his broken tools of communication, and we were happy to find out there may still be someone at the other end of the line for him.' 'RadioAmateur' Rotterdam Lab Award The winner gets to participate in the Rotterdam Lab professional training programme for producers, which takes place during the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Ondřej Lukeš, producer of the film Restless (Czech Republic). Statement: 'Considering the right and accurate timing, their career and the potential of their projects in development, as well as the potential for internationalisation of their work, but also the conception of production, ambitions and growth, we invite Ondřej Lukeš to attend Rotterdam Lab 2026.' Marché du Film Producers Network Award The winners get to participate in the Marché du Film and Producers Network during the next Cannes Film Festival. Michelle Brøndum Hauerbach, producer of Soyboy (United Kingdom) and Genovéva Petrovits, producer of Democracy: Work In Progress (Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany) Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
