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Fremantle has closed a package deal with Spanish streamer Filmin for a slate of premium drama titles, including Swedish filmmaker Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Ingmar Berman’s “Faithless” and BAFTA-winning actress Rebecca Hall’s thriller “The Listeners,” both of which recently screened in competition at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Also included in the deal are Victor Levin’s Golden Globe-nominated “Alice & Jack,” starring Domhnall Gleeson and Adrea Riseborough; Series Mania best script winner “Herrhausen – The Banker and the Bomb”; and Series Mania audience award winner “Little Bird.”

“We’re deeply honored to add such high-quality titles to our eclectic catalog, which blends A-list actors and directors with independent productions of great merit,” said Filmin Head of Content and Editorial Director Jaume Ripoll. “Spanish audiences will be captivated by what’s coming next; these are all destined for success.”

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Mike O’Malley’s Extended Family is no longer.

The comedy has been canceled by NBC after one season. It comes after the network handed third seasons to Night Court and Lopez vs. Lopez and gave Happy’s Place, the comedy starring Reba McEntire, a series order.

Extended Family follows Jim, played by Jon Cryer, and Julia, played by Abigail Spencer, who, after an amicable divorce, continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim when the owner of his favorite sports teams (Donald Faison) enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart.

Its first season ended in March after 13 episodes.

Extended Family is produced by Lionsgate and Universal Television. O’Malley serves as showrunner and exec produces alongside Cryer, Tom Werner, Wyc Grousbeck, Emilia Fazzalari, George Geyer, Victor Levin,...

Creator Victor Levin and star Andrea Riseborough discussed their Masterpiece on PBS miniseries Alice & Jack at Deadline Contenders TV on Saturday. Riseborough plays Alice and Domhnall Gleeson plays Jack in the six-episode show that follows their relationship over 16 years. Riseborough said she often is frustrated that most conventional love stories worry about making the characters likable and perfectly moral.

“I know when I’m in love, I’m a total idiot and have no ability to behave even remotely like a normal human,” she said. “Everyone deserves to be a protagonist in their own love story.”

Riseborough acknowledged that Alice tends to close herself off to Jack’s love.

“I think we do that,” she said. “If you have the courage, you can courageously, truly love someone, you often protect them from yourself in certain ways. She has quite a lot of damage. In the most loving way, although the fallout is very painful,...

Spoiler Alert! This story contains plot points about the season one finale of Extended Family on NBC.

Extended Family — the sitcom from Mike O’Malley that originated as an off-cycle pilot — ended its first season Tuesday after 13 episodes. The series follows Jim (Jon Cryer) and Julia (Abigail Spencer), who, after an amicable divorce, continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them. Navigating the waters of divorce and child-sharing gets more complicated for Jim when the owner of his favorite sports teams (Donald Faison) enters the picture and wins Julia’s heart.

Here, O’Malley talks about why he made the decision to not end the season on a cliffhanger, how he feels about the chances of a pickup, and what he thinks about the contraction going on in Hollywood. O’Malley serves as showrunner and executive producer. Tom Werner, Jon Cryer,...

If you look through some of the boldest, most ambitious works of the past few years, chances are you’ll find Andrea Riseborough on the call sheet.

The English actress has been involved in everything from Alejandro González Iñárritu’s dark comedy “Birdman” and Tom Ford’s neo-noir psychological thriller “Nocturnal Animals” to Panos Cosmatos’ action horror “Mandy” and Will Tracy’s bizarre political dramedy “The Regime.”

All of these memorable performances start with Oscar-nominated Riseborough’s dedication to keeping “an open mind.”

“I have no idea what’s good for me or what I should explore next. But when it’s in front of you, you know it,” Riseborough told TheWrap at the Television Critics Association’s 2024 winter tour. “It’s far better to not to force something into existence, if you know what I mean, because even if it comes to fruition, it lacks authenticity. I think it...

Get ready to meet Alice & Jack.

No, really — ready yourself. Because the “unfiltered” love story heading Stateside via Masterpiece on PBS this Sunday at 10/9c will take your heart on quite a roller coaster ride.

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Created by Mad Men writer Victor Levin and set in modern-day London, Alice & Jack stars Andrea Riseborough (an Academy Award nominee for To Leslie,...

Masterpiece has dropped the first trailer for Alice & Jack, the UK TV series starring Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient) on March 17.

Created and written by Victor Levin, Alice & Jack features Riseborough and Gleeson as the titular characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”

“We unite in yearning to see evidence of real love, and, too, are soothed to share with one another the ache of its inevitable imperfection,” said Riseborough in a statement. “This story is for anyone who could or couldn’t make the sacrifice that love demanded,...

Masterpiece will premiere Alice & Jack, the U.K. TV series starring Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie) and Domhnall Gleeson (The Patient) on March 17.

Created and written by Victor Levin, Alice & Jack features Riseborough and Gleeson as the titular characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”

Alice & Jack premiered at TIFF in September. Masterpiece exec Susanne Simpson described the show as an “exceptionally beautiful and profound series that we are proud to add to our lineup.”

Alice & Jack brings together major production companies in Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions, the BAFTA-winning Me + You Productions,...

Jon Cryer and Donald Faison return to the world of sitcoms with NBC’s Extended Family, created by Mike O’Malley. The half-hour relationship comedy premieres on Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 8pm Et/Pt, and then moves to its regular Tuesdays at 8:30pm time slot on January 2, 2024.

Two-time Primetime Emmy winner Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) executive produces and stars as Jim, Abigail Spencer stars as Julia, and Donald Faison (Scrubs) plays Trey. The season one cast also includes Sofia Capanna as Grace and Finn Sweeney as Jimmy Jr.

O’Malley is the showrunner and executive produces along with Tom Werner, Wyc Grousbeck, Emilia Fazzalari, George Geyer, Victor Levin, Victoria Morrow, and James Widdoes.

“Jim and Julia, after an amicable divorce, decide to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them,” reads NBC’s official synopsis. “Navigating the waters...

Jon Cryer is returning to comedy in NBC’s Extended Family alongside Abigail Spencer and Donald Faison.

The peacock network just dropped a first look at the sitcom where the cast talks about their experience working together.

“It’s a throuple but not in the naughty way,” Spencer says in the featurette of the premise of the show.

Spencer also notes that she had “been admiring and watching Jon Cryer’s work for many, many a year and to actually be able to be in the scenes with him is really unbelievable.” Faison echoed Spencer’s sentiment about working opposite the Two and a Half Men alum saying “Is a dream come true.”

The show created by Mike O’Malley follows Jim (Cryer) and Julia (Spencer) after an amicable divorce, deciding to continue to raise their kids at the family home while taking turns on who gets to stay with them.

NBC, the only broadcast network to have original, homegrown scripted series on the fall schedule with The Irrational and Found, will also launch most of its strike-impacted scripted slate the fastest.

The network has announced its midseason premiere dates, which include mid-January returns for Wolf Entertainment’s three One Chicago and three Law & Order dramas on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.

That is a month before dramas on the other major broadcast networks are set to return with new episodes and a couple of weeks before any scripted series elsewhere come back. It is a testament to the well oiled machine that Wolf Entertainment is. As Deadline has reported, the company is capable to start delivering new episodes after as little as two months if starting from scratch with no banked scripts.

Had the SAG-AFTRA strike ended sooner after the WGA work stoppage, that may have happened; the Wolf Entertainment...

“It felt like we were reconnecting after a long time,” To Leslie star Andrea Riseborough said today of working with Domhnall Gleeson on Alice & Jack, Channel 4 & PBS Masterpiece’s upcoming romantic drama that premiered at Mipcom Cannes.

Riseborough and Gleeson have worked plenty together down the years including on Never Let Me Go and Shadow Dancer, but hadn’t partnered on a project for some years until the series.

During an Alice & Jack Q&a this evening at Mipcom Cannes, chaired by Deadline’s Joe Utichi, Riseborough said it “felt like were reconnecting after a long time” and this had been obvious from the first scene that the pair did together.

“It was so catapulted and so real,” she added. “It’s strange to be both young and old with someone but I’ve done that with Domhnall and our relationship kind of reflects Alice and Jack’s meeting.

Andrea Riseborough takes on the pleasure and pain of love in Channel 4 series “Alice & Jack,” created by Victor Levin.

“This frustration of really appreciating someone and also not being able to understand them or be understood, that’s such a common connection we have in life,” she tells Variety ahead of the show’s MipCom premiere. She also serves as an executive producer.

“Also, it’s not just frustration – there is excitement as well. It can take you to your highest highs, it’s the most elated feeling in the world and it’s also brutally hard. There is nothing harder than true love.”

That’s what Alice and Jack (Domhnall Gleeson) are about to find out, as following a supposed one-night stand they realize they can’t be together. They also can’t be apart.

“When Vic sent me that first episode, it felt so… Awkwardly, heartbreakingly,...

Ah, love. Is there anything it fails to overcome? In reality, the answer is a resounding, “yes, obviously, so many things” — ranging from physical separation and infidelity to your partner’s sudden preoccupation with Aaron Rodgers or their repeated mispronunciation of “picture” as “pitcher.” But if you’re a head-in-the-clouds romantic, nothing so trivial could tear apart two people whose destiny is written in the stars. Logic and practicality don’t apply, the heart wants what it wants, yada yada yada. Love is thee reason for being, and thus it can be a reason to justify almost anything — all sorts of behavior, be it swooning or sordid, can be overlooked in the name of love.

“Alice & Jack” appears over-reliant on this type of romanticism. The Channel 4 (UK) and PBS Masterpiece (US) series, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, follows Domhnall Gleeson’s Jack and Andrea Riseborough...

Exclusive: Creatives behind Alice & Jack, which stars Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in the latter’s first role since the To Leslie controversy, have spotlighted how they wanted the Channel 4/Masterpiece TV series to feel like an indie film.

Speaking before Alice & Jack‘s TIFF premiere, Cannes Grand Prix-winning director Juho Kuosmanen and EP Richard Yee explained that the team behind the show, which is penned by Mad Men’s Victor Levin, virtually all came from the world of independent cinema.

The idea for the series was Levin’s and was a passion project of his for years. He developed it with Michael London (Groundswell Productions). Andrea and Domhnall came on board after the pilot script and last episode were written – it was at this point that they met with Levin to discuss the scripts and help develop the characters during the production.

“It was key to...

Exclusive: Masterpiece has boarded Alice & Jack, the Channel 4 TV series starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson.

The PBS strand will air the show from Mad Men’s Victor Levin next year following a deal struck with distributor Fremantle. Lisa Honig and Lorenzo De Maio helped strike the deal.

Alice & Jack stars Riseborough and Gleeson as the titular characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”

Alice & Jack has been in the offing for years but was only announced last month, and it will premiere at TIFF tomorrow.

Upon its announcement, Gleeson said “the only work I...

The Toronto International Film Festival unveiled its Primetime program on Monday, which includes nine TV series that will be screening at the festival including new shows from filmmakers Lulu Wang, Shawn Levy and Steven Knight.

The Netflix limited series “All the Light We Cannot See,” directed and executive produced by Levy and written by Steven Knight based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, will have its world premiere at TIFF. The festival will also host the world premiere of “The Farewell” filmmaker Lulu Wang’s new original series “Expats,” which is set to debut on Prime Video.

“This year’s Primetime programme is bigger than ever and gives audiences the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen,” Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer, said in a statement. “TIFF audiences will be the first to see the Prime Video series Expats...

The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled its Primetime programme for 2023 which includes the world premieres of Bad Boy and All the Light We Cannot See.

“This year’s Primetime programme is bigger than ever and gives audiences the exclusive and unmatched opportunity to celebrate the best new international series together, in cinema, on the big screen,” says Anita Lee, TIFF Chief Programming Officer.

“TIFF audiences will be the first to see the Prime Video series Expats – Lulu Wang’s highly anticipated follow up to The Farewell, starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue and Ji-young Yo., a Pulitzer-Prize winning adaptation from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight, a high-octane Korean thriller, a brand new vision from the creator of Euphoria, an atypical love story between Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough, a contemporary Scandinavian tragedy, and three powerful Canadian series, all spotlighting underrepresented voices from an exciting new wave of storytellers.”

Primetime Programme Alice & Jack

Victor Levin,...

Selections include Fremantle sales title Alice & Jack with Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson; Netflix series All The Light We Cannot See from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight.

TIFF brass have announced the Primetime section, a nine-strong roster of series which includes Expats, Lulu Wang’s follow-up to The Farewell for Prime Video starring Nicole Kidman in the saga of a close-knit group of Hong Kong expatriates.

The selection includes Fremantle sales title Alice & Jack (UK) a Channel 4 romance from Victor Levin starring Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson; and All The Light We Cannot See (USA) from Shawn Levy and Steven Knight,...

Andrea Riseborough and Domnhall Gleeson are to star in a Channel 4 drama series created by Mad Men’s Victor Levin.

The duo are leading Alice & Jack, the first major casting for Riseborough since the To Leslie Oscar controversy earlier this year.

The pair play the title characters in what distributor Fremantle described as a “love story for the ages.” Logline adds: “When they first meet they’re bound by a connection so powerful it seems nothing can break it, but will their path lead them to a place of happiness and togetherness? Or will life and their own emotional complexities get in the way.”

Alice & Jack brings together major production companies in Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions, De Maio Entertainment, I Am Ruth maker Me + You Productions and Fremantle. Fremantle is also handling global sales.

“The only work I’ve wanted to watch and do since the pandemic is work about connection and love,...

Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson are set to star in the romantic drama “Alice & Jack” for U.K. broadcaster Channel 4.

The series is lead directed by Juho Kuosmanen, helmer of the Golden Globe-nominated Cannes title “Compartment Number 6,” with a second block directed by BAFTA-nominated “Lilting” helmer Hong Khaou. The show is written by “Mad Men” scribe Victor Levin. It is a Fremantle production in partnership with BAFTA- and Emmy-winning Me + You Productions (“I Am Ruth”), Academy Award-nominated Groundswell Productions (“The Visitor”) and De Maio Entertainment. Fremantle is handling global sales on the project.

Rounding out the cast are Aisling Bea (“Greatest Days”), Aimee Lou Wood (“Sex Education”) and Sunil Patel (“This Time with Alan Partridge”).

Created and written by Levin, “Alice & Jack” is billed as “a love story for the ages.” An official synopsis for the show reads: When Alice (Riseborough) and Jack (Gleeson) first meet, they...

Excusive: Jeffrey Scott Collins, director, writer and producer of the romantic comedy Poor Greg Drowning, has signed with Stride Management for representation.

Poor Greg Drowning was acquired and released by Comedy Dynamics after it played at 26 festivals, garnering 13 awards including Best Picture, Best Comedy, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Director. The film, narrated by Cedric the Entertainer, is about a love addict named Greg, played by Graham Sibley, whose girlfriend left him for their couples therapist.

In addition to developing his slate of film and TV projects, Collins is also working on his follow-up feature, a dark heist noir comedy set in Los Angeles. Collins co-wrote the script, and will also be directing and producing the film through his This Seems Reel Entertainment banner.

Prior to Poor Greg Drowning, Collins wrote, directed and produced two 30-minute short films, 10 Years Later (2012) and Let It Bleed (2010).

Collins began his film and TV career in finance,...

Exclusive: French actress Bérénice Marlohe has inked with Buchwald.

She first came to international attention in the James Bond film Skyfall opposite Daniel Craig, as the enigmatic Bond Girl, Severine. The movie remains the highest grossing 007 feature of all-time with over $1.1 billion worldwide and was nominated for five Oscars, winning two, in particular the first Academy Award win ever for a Bond title song, Adele and Paul Epworth’s “Skyfall.”

Marlohe can next be seen in Lech Majewski’s surrealist drama Valley of the Gods opposite Josh Hartnett and John Malkovich from Well Go USA Entertainment. The film is set to debut on digital platforms and available on Blu-ray and DVD on Aug. 11.

Marlohe appears in the all-star cast of Terrence Malick’s Song to Song alongside Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman, as well as in Joe Miale’s sci-fi thriller Revolt opposite Lee Pace.

ITV will not be commissioning a second series of Bend It Like Beckham filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s lavish period drama Beecham House.

The six-part series, produced by Chadha’s Bend It TV, only managed to pull in an audience of 3.3M in a prestige Sunday night slot. It could not compete with other dramas in the same ITV slot, such as Victoria.

Beecham House will air on PBS in March next year. ITV said Chadha is still hoping to keep the drama going beyond series one through a deal with another international broadcaster.

The drama takes place on the cusp of 19th century in Delhi, following the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. It was written by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Shahrukh Husain and Victor Levin (Mad Men).

The ensemble cast includes Lesley Nicol (Downton Abbey), Gregory Fitoussi, Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Pallavi Sharda (Lion...

PBS remains committed to co-producing and acquiring British drama despite increased competition from digital rivals including BritBox and Acorn TV.

The public broadcaster has long been the home of scripted series from the other side of the pond but has found itself competing with more rivals in recent years, including Svod platforms and cable networks, which are increasingly co-producing series with UK networks.

But Paula Kerger, President and CEO of PBS, said that it would not back down in pursuit of the best shows from Britain. She highlighted the fact that PBS was free compared to other services.

“Drama is very important to our audience and stations. But remember, we’re free and we’re available to everyone. We feel that drama and our partnership with British drama is important. Yes, it has become more competitive and we’re working much further [ahead]… it is harder to close some of those...

To celebrate the DVD release of Destination Wedding which is available on DVD and Digital now, we have a copy of the DVD up for grabs, courtesy of Vertigo Releasing!

Fresh from their incredible successes in the John Wick films and Stranger Things respectively, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, previously seen together onscreen in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, among others, team up for a razor-sharp romantic comedy that will delight fans of these iconic, much-loved stars. The directorial debut of Emmy-nominated writer Victor Levin, Destination Wedding sees Reeves and Ryder (in their fourth screen pairing) meeting on the way to a wedding and discovering they have plenty to talk about – mainly their hatred of weddings and each other. Squabbling and bickering ensue before they even reach the wedding when things take an unexpected turn.

This is a wickedly quotable screwball comedy – imagine Before Sunrise directed by Woody Allen – with lashings of dry wit,...

A smart meet-cute can be the making of a rom-com. Something memorable and quirky to endear the future couple to us and to emblazon them on the minds of one another so the will they/won’t they/do they/don’t they panto can begin.

Destination Wedding begins with a peculiar subversion of the trope – a meet-acutely awkward. Frank (Keanu Reeve) and Lindsay (Winona Ryder) form a bond of mutual dislike as they jostle for prime position in a non-existent queue at an airport gate. Quite why their dislike is so strong, and the character assassinations so intense from the outset, is unclear. It sets an unsettling and unrealistic tone which the film sadly never shakes.

Writer/director Victor Levin made the decision to have Lindsay and Frank meet as strangers and yet he appears to have failed to communicate this to his editor and cinematographer. Mat Maddox’s...

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach, Ted Dubost, Greg Lucey, D. Rosh Wright, Donna Lynn Jones, Curt Dubost, Michael Mogull | Written and Directed by Victor Levin

[Note: With the film finally getying a UK release, 9(!) months since its Us debut, here’s a reposting of our review of the Keanu Reeves/Winona Ryder film Destination Wedding]

Destination Wedding reunites Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, as the socially awkward Frank and Lindsay. When they meet on their way to a destination wedding, they soon discover they have a lot in common: they both hate the bride, the groom, the wedding, themselves, and most especially each other. As the weekend’s events continually force them together – and their cheerlessness immediately isolates them from the other guests – Frank and Lindsay find that if you verbally spar with someone long enough, anything can happen. When debate gives way to desire, they must decide which is stronger: their hearts or their common sense.

90′s sweethearts and icons of cinematic pop culture Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder team up for the first time...

Netflix movies may still be question mark in terms of being allowed in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival in May, but the streaming giant will be present at Cannes Series. The Cannes television festival will mark its second year next month with Netflix going up against rival Amazon in the competition section. The full lineup includes series from Israel, Norway, Spain, and Belgium.

Netflix’s competition entry is the German series “How to Sell Drugs Online Fast,” from writers Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. Amazon is heading to Cannes Series with “The Feed,” a London-set drama created by Channing Powell and based on the novel Nick Clark Windo. “The Feed” stars “Game of Thrones” favorite Michelle Fairley opposite David Thewlis in a story about a piece of technology that allows people to instantly share thoughts and emotions. The tech falls into the wrong hands and becomes a murderous weapon.

PBS has picked up its latest British drama – Gurinder Chadha’s Beecham House. The India-set series was produced by Bend It TV for ITV and will now air on the PBS Masterpiece block in the U.S.

The six-part series takes place on the cusp of 19th century in Delhi, following the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. Written by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Shahrukh Husain and Victor Levin (Mad Men).

The story begins as handsome and soulful former soldier, John Beecham, has acquired the house to start a new life for his family and a business as a trader. Wealthy and distinguished, John has witnessed profiteering and exploitation during his time with the controlling East India Company and appears haunted by his past. Determined to escape that life, he sets his sights on becoming an honorable member of the region’s trading community.

But in the glorious setting of Beecham House,...

Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach, Ted Dubost, Greg Lucey, D. Rosh Wright, Donna Lynn Jones, Curt Dubost, Michael Mogull | Written and Directed by Victor Levin

Destination Wedding reunites Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, as the socially awkward Frank and Lindsay. When they meet on their way to a destination wedding, they soon discover they have a lot in common: they both hate the bride, the groom, the wedding, themselves, and most especially each other. As the weekend’s events continually force them together – and their cheerlessness immediately isolates them from the other guests – Frank and Lindsay find that if you verbally spar with someone long enough, anything can happen. When debate gives way to desire, they must decide which is stronger: their hearts or their common sense.

90′s sweethearts and icons of cinematic pop culture Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder team up for the first time since Francis Ford Coppola...

At one point in what may be the most un-festive comedy ever to revolve around a wedding, Keanu Reeves, playing the groom’s brother, has this to say says about his fellow humans: “We’re all tired, trite, trivial, tiresome, tone-deaf narcissists.” A fair description of the company you’ll be keeping at Destination Wedding.

Writer-director Victor Levin (5 to 7) only gives us two characters in this one-act play disguised as a movie. There’s Reeves as Frank, the walking definition of a mopey misanthrope. And Winona Ryder as Lindsay, who also thinks life sucks.

Victor Levin’s “Destination Wedding,” the third pairing of slacker-era stars Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, is a romantic comedy with the romance desaturated to a brutalist black. Misanthropes Frank (Reeves) and Lindsay (Ryder) collide en route to the nuptials of a groom both loathe — it’s his estranged brother and her ex-fiancé — and they truly suffer through each of the predictable beats: a cantankerous meet-cute, a string of coincidences, and even a stirring of the loins. Unbuckling his pants to shag in a sun-dappled winery, Reeves groans understandably, “Let’s get it over with.”

“Destination Wedding” is a curio, a film made as much for the inevitable GIFs of Ryder rolling her eyes as for any penetrating insights into the mating behavior of narcissists. Frank is a hard-hearted cynic who steals hotel-room shoehorns and blames his celibacy on his mother’s multiple divorces. Lindsay’s a babbling neurotic who...

There are other characters in Victor Levin’s “Destination Wedding” beyond Frank (Keanu Reeves) and Lindsay (Winona Ryder), but none of them matter or get a moment of screen time beyond filling space in a wide shot. Not the dim bride, or the thoughtless groom, or the cold mother-in-law; the only people who matter are Frank and Lindsay, and so it’s only fitting that when “Destination Wedding” opens, it comes with an amusing subtitle: “A Narcissist Can’t Die Because Then the Entire World Would End.” And, yes, this is a romantic comedy.

Levin’s film, his first since the 2014 Anton Yelchin romantic drama “5 to 7,” will feel familiar to rom-com fans, though the filmmaker lets Reeves and Ryder rip into characters who would be pushed to the side in fluffier films. Most of all, “Destination Wedding” makes the case that the two-hander isn’t dead, even if...

Winona Ryder has worked with Keanu Reeves before in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and A Scanner Darkly, and now the pair team up for the romantic comedy Destination Wedding. The picture is directed by Victor Levin, the writer/filmmaker behind the underrated romantic drama 5 to 7.

Ryder, who has received raves for her work on Netflix’s Stranger [...]

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The historical series is set in 19th century Delhi.

The cast for Beecham House, co-created by Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) and Shahrukh Husain (In Custody), has been revealed.

Tom Bateman (Jekyll And Hyde), Lesley Nicol (Downton Abbey), Gregory Fitoussi (Spiral), Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Marc Warren (Mad Dogs), Pallavi Sharda (Lion), Dakota Blue Richards (Skins), Leo Suter (Victoria) and Bessie Carter (Howards End) have signed on for the ITV series.

Set in 19th century Delhi, Bateman stars as a former soldier who is haunted by his past and moves to India to start a new life.

The six-part...

ITV has rounded out cast for its upcoming India-set drama Beecham House from Bend It Like Beckham filmmaker Gurinder Chadha and her Bend It TV. Among the talent joining the epic six-part series are Jekyll & Hyde‘s Tom Bateman, Downton Abbey‘s Lesley Nicol and Mr Selfridge‘s Gregory Fitoussi.

Chadha co-created, co-wrote and will direct three episodes of the drama that begins shooting in India and at Ealing Studios this month. Set on the cusp of the 19th century in Delhi before the era of British rule, Beecham House follows the fortunes of the residents of the titular and imposing mansion.

Also taking up residence are Adil Ray (Citizen Khan), Marc Warren (Safe), Pallavi Sharda (Lion), Dakota Blue Richards (Endeavour), Leo Suter (Victoria) and Bessie Carter (Les Miserables), among others.

Bateman plays John Beecham, a handsome and soulful former soldier who has purchased the magnificent mansion to begin...

Destination Wedding reunites two of Hollywood’s most adored stars, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, as the socially awkward Frank and Lindsay.

Did you know this is the 4th film featuring the two actors? They previously featured in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009).

In their 5th film, when they meet on their way to a destination wedding, they soon discover they have a lot in common: they both hate the bride, the groom, the wedding, themselves, and most especially each other. As the weekend’s events continually force them together – and their cheerlessness immediately isolates them from the other guests – Frank and Lindsay find that if you verbally spar with someone long enough, anything can happen.

When debate gives way to desire, they must decide which is stronger: their hearts or their common sense.

This delightful film is from director Victor Levin...

Destination Wedding Trailer

Victor Levin‘s Destination Wedding (2018) movie trailer stars Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Dj Dallenbach. Destination Wedding‘s plot synopsis: “Destination Wedding tells the story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, both pariahs at this affair, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves. But to act on those feelings would be to trust [...]

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Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are reunited for the fourth time in the brand new trailer for comedy romance, Destination Wedding.

Reeves and Ryder play a pair of guests at a wedding in which both of them feel very awkward. Miserable and unpleasant, both pariahs at this affair, they develop a mutual affection despite themselves.

The film is directed by Victor Levin who told People “As a fan, I have such longstanding love for both of them and for their work, so it feels really good to see them together again,” He went on to say “And as a filmmaker, I have the benefit of their having known each other for so long. They have superb natural chemistry together, which is so important for a love story.”

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The film will have a limited released which is due in August.

"I don't want to be a person you don't know where to stick." Regatta has released the first official trailer for an upcoming comedy titled Destination Wedding, about two depressed wedding guests who fall for each other while attending a destination wedding in San Luis Obispo, California. Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder star, which is one of the best team-ups in a while, as two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, Lindsay and Frank, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves. This is the first time Reeves and Ryder have been together in a film since appearing in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 horror Bram Stoker's Dracula. This looks ridiculously fun, half because it's Reeves & Ryder, and half because it actually looks like one of the funniest wedding comedies since Wedding Crashers and Bridesmaids. You might want to watch. Here's the first official trailer for Victor Levin's Destination Wedding, direct...

No, no, this is not a throwback Thursday post, this is the real deal. Two of the biggest actors from the 90’s, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves are reuniting to star in a new rom-com called Destination Wedding. The first official trailer has been released and posted below and it’s melting our nostalgic hearts.

Ryder and Reeves in a film together? count me in! The two have co-starred in a couple of movies before. 1992’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula and again in 2006 with A Scanner Darkly. Both of these actors have remained relevant in this ever changing film industry. Reeves has currently been seen in the John Wick films and soon to be in a Bill and Ted 3, while Ryder has been losing her mind in Netflix’s Stranger Things series as Joyce Byers.

Destination Wedding reunites two of Hollywood’s most adored stars, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder,...

For the first time since 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder have reunited for a new movie called Destination Wedding, and today we have the first trailer to share with you. It looks like quite the charming little romantic comedy.

The film is described by People as a comedy featuring an "unlikely pair of socially awkward wedding guests" and they offer the following synopsis:

Ryder’s Lindsay and Reeves’ Frank arrive at a destination wedding only to discover they’re the guests no one knows where to put, and are therefore stuck together. Though they hate each other at first, the pessimistic duo start to bond throughout the days-long affair.

The movie was written and directed by Victor Levin who had this to say in an interview:

“As a fan, I have such longstanding love for both of them and for their work, so it feels...

First of all, a necessary suspension of disbelief: that no one would want to date Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder. All set? Now it’s time to enjoy the first trailer for “Destination Wedding,” which hinges on that exact premise. In Victor Levin’s upcoming rom-com, Reeves and Ryder star as a pair of finicky guests who meet at a destination wedding in which both of them feel supremely awkward.

Of course, initial friction between the duo, who are forced together by virtue of their awkwardness, eventually gives way to affection, and perhaps something more. The frequent co-stars first teamed up in 1992’s “Dracula,” and have also starred together in “A Scanner Darkly” and “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” and their continued chemistry shines through even in this first trailer.

“As a filmmaker, I have the benefit of their having known each other for so long. They have superb natural chemistry together,...

Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are together again!

The movie stars, who first starred together in 1992’s Dracula, are reuniting on screen for Destination Wedding — a comedy featuring an unlikely pair of socially awkward wedding guests. Director and writer Victor Levin tells People he was just as excited as everyone else to get these two back together.

“As a fan, I have such longstanding love for both of them and for their work, so it feels really good to see them together again,” Levin says. “And as a filmmaker, I have the benefit of their having known each other for so long.

India-set series to shoot autumn 2018.

UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned drama series Beecham House from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha.

The series will be set at the end of the 19th century and will focus on former soldier John Beecham and his family as they move into a mansion in Delhi.

The house’s residents will confront themes of imperialism, family dynamics, and class as they adapt to their new surroundings.

Gurinder Chadha is writing Beecham House with Paul Mayeda Berges (Viceroy’s House), Shahrukh Husain (In Custody) and Victor Levin (Mad Men). The six-part series will be...

ITV has ordered India-set drama Beecham House from Bend It Like Beckham filmmaker Gurinder Chadha and her Bend It TV. The six-part series takes place on the cusp of 19th century in Delhi, following the fortunes of the residents of the titular mansion. Written by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Shahrukh Husain and Victor Levin (Mad Men, Mad About You), it will be filmed in India during the fall of this year for air in 2019. The story begins as handsome and soulful former…...

Exclusive: Upstart distributor Aviron Pictures has landed North American rights to the Keanu Reeves-Winona Ryder romantic comedy Destination Wedding for around $3 million, sources said. The deal came off a five minute sizzle reel that was shown to buyers by Bloom, which is selling offshore rights. Directed by Victor Levin from the script he wrote, the comedy focuses on two unpleasant guests who are grudgingly invited to a wedding and are both repulsed by but drawn to each…...

Here’s an unfinished movie that’s already got my money, guaranteed: a romantic comedy starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder. They’re playing miserable wedding guests in writer-director Victor Levin‘s (5 to 7) Destination Wedding, which has already wrapped shooting. The romantic comedy is the fourth time Reeves and Ryder have done a movie together, following Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula, A Scanner […]

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Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder are set to star together in a new romantic comedy called Destination Wedding. If comes from Mad About You writer and executive producer Victor Levin.

This will be the third film that Reeves and Ryder have starred in together. The first film was Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and second was Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly. It's kind of cool to see them working together again after all these years.

According to Variety, "Reeves and Ryder star as two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests who develop a mutual affection despite themselves over the course of the weekend event." Producer Robert Jones had this to say in a statement:

“When comedy is seated in character and truth it’s both funny and moving, and on that basis Vic’s screenplay is one of the best I’ve read in a long time. Winona Ryder...