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Felipe Gálvez’s feature-length debut, The Settlers, takes place in an independent Chile at the end of the 19th century that’s still defined by its period of colonization. Figures of power and influence are all either of European extraction or simply Europeans who’ve sailed over to stake claims to land in a rapidly modernizing country. One such businessman, the real-life Spanish oligarch José Menéndez (Alfredo Castro), hires a small band of surveyors to properly map the outlines of territory that he’s recently acquired in the Tierra del Fuego region. That his tract of land extends into Argentina is the first of many indications that capitalism, with its ignorance of national borders, will simply continue colonialism’s tradition of land theft.

Leading the oligarch’s hired hands is Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley), a Scottish ex-soldier who treats a simple surveying mission as something akin to a military engagement.

Chile on Wednesday named the anti-colonialist Western The Settlers from first-time feature filmmaker Felipe Gálvez as its official entry for Best International Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards.

The film coming off a Fipresci Prize win at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it played in Un Certain Regard, joins a list of entrants that includes Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Estonia), The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany), Concrete Utopia (South Korea) and Thunder (Switzerland), as previously announced.

Following forthcoming screenings at the Toronto Film Festival and the New York Film Festival, the pic will be released theatrically in North America by Mubi, which also holds distribution rights for the UK, Latin America, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, and India, and will unveil further details as to its release plans at a later date.

Written by Gálvez and Antonia Girardi, in collaboration with Mariano Llinás, The Settler is set in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century,...

Mubi has picked The Settlers, the latest pic from Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez for North America, the UK, Latin America, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, and India.

The pic debuted in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section last night. Mubi has said it will release the film theatrically in the U.S., UK, and additional territories with release plans to be announced.

Set in Chile at the beginning of the 20th century, The Settlers follows a wealthy landowner who hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean mestizo, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid.

The deal was negotiated with mk2. Producers include Giancarlo Nasi, Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda, Emily Morgan, Thierry Lenouvel,...

The press conference kicked off in central Paris at 11.10am local time (10.10am BST).

The Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27) is announcing the line-up for its 76th edition.

The festival’s longtime director Thierry Frémaux is revealing the Official Selection at a press conference at the Ugc Normandie theatre in Paris alongside incoming festival president Iris Knobloch.

Two-time Palme d’Or-winning Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund will preside over the jury that will vote on the festival’s top prizes in the international competition.

As previously announced, Maiwenn’s Jeanne du Barry, starring the director opposite Johnny Depp, will open the...

Child actor Brooklynn Prince caught a lot of attention and racked up the award nominations – and took home some of those awards (including a Critics Choice Award win that came along with an acceptance speech that went viral) – for her performance in her second film, The Florida Project, back in 2017. She has earned several more screen credits in the years since, and can be seen in the recent release Cocaine Bear (read our review Here). And now, at just 12 years old, Prince says her “nerd dreams” have come true, as Sumerian Comics, a major publisher of comic books and graphic novels, has picked up her comic book pitch Misfortune’s Eyes!

Written by Prince and Aliz Fernandez, Misfortune’s Eyes will be unveiled at Mega Con in Orlando, Florida next week. Prince will also be speaking on a panel at the convention.

Prince, who is described as being “comic books...

Exclusive: Sugar23 has signed rising star Brooklynn Prince, on the heels of her new film Cocaine Bear‘s opening weekend triumph, with a current worldwide gross of $28M+ at the worldwide box office, against a production budget of roughly $30M.

The R-rated horror-comedy directed for Universal by Elizabeth Banks has broken out as one of the early success stories of 2023, affirming that original features, and those in the comedy arena, can certainly still perform in today’s marketplace. Based loosely on real events that took place in 1985, the film watches as a duffel bag’s worth of cocaine drops from a drug smuggler’s plane and winds up in a Georgia forest, becoming a favorite snack for a hulking black bear. An electric set of unfortunate souls, including Prince, Keri Russell and Christian Convery, are then subject to the animal’s murderous rampage.

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Nell Tiger Free, the star of Apple TV+’s “Servant” and who appeared in “Game of Thrones,” will star in “First Omen” for 20th Century Studios, a prequel film to the iconic horror franchise “The Omen,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

“First Omen” will mark the directorial debut of Arkasha Stevenson, who will also rewrite the film’s script alongside her writing partner Tim Smith.

David S. Goyer and Keith Levine are producing for their production banner Phantom Four. Gracie Wheelan will oversee the project for Phantom Four.

Plot details for “First Omen” are being kept under wraps.

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Exclusive: Ismael Cruz Cordova (The Undoing) is the latest addition to the cast of Paramount+’s crime thriller, Finestkind. He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Aaron Stanford, Scotty Tovar, Tim Daly, Lolita Davidovich, Clayne Crawford and Meghan Leathers.

Set in America’s biggest commercial fishing port of New Bedford, Massachusetts, Finestkind tells the story of two brothers (Foster and Wallace) from opposite sides of the tracks, who are reunited as adults over one fateful summer. When desperate circumstances force them to strike a deal with a dangerous Boston crime syndicate, a young woman (Ortega) finds herself caught in the middle. Along the way, sacrifices must be made, and bonds between brothers, friends, and a father (Jones) and his son are put to the test. Cordova will play Costa, a fisherman, dad and Tom’s (Foster) best friend.

Dubai-based broadcaster and streamer Mbc is ramping up production with several new high-end shows.

These include “Rise of The Witches,” being touted as the biggest-budget Saudi Arabian TV series to date, “The Devil’s Promise,” created by U.K. writer Tony Jordan, and crime thriller “1001 Nights.”

Mbc Group CEO Sam Barnett in an interview said Mbc Studios now has 65 projects in various stages and reiterated the the Saudi-owned company is committed to serve as a driver to help kickstart the kingdom’s nascent industry.

“Rise of The Witches” is based on a Saudi novel described by Barnett as “a fantasy novel set 1,500 years ago in a time of witches” with a strong female empowerment theme.

The storyline of the show, written by British actor and writer Charlie Higson (the “Young Bond” novel series), who worked in tandem with two female Saudi writers on “Witches,” tracks the rise of two...

Beyond Rights and Insight TV Team Up for New Branded Block

Beyond Rights and top millennial-targeted digital channels provider Insight TV have struck a new alliance, which will see the launch of Beyond branded blocks on Insight TV’s science and technology-centered InWonder channel. The Beyond branded blocks will initially play on primetime weekends in North America, drawing from Beyond Rights’s extensive catalogue of science and engineering programming with such titles as “How Hacks Work” and “Wicked Inventions.” “We will work closely together over the coming months to measure the audience response, looking to build towards a range of branded Fast channels,” said David Smyth, CEO of Beyond Rights.

Prime Entertainment Group Boosts Docu Slate with Zona Mixta Acquisitions

Paris-based documentary producer and distributor Prime Entertainment Group has picked up some historical documentaries from Spanish production shingle Zona Mixta in a bid to diversify its catalog of high-end documentaries.

Hey everyone! While Valentine’s Day is almost over, we’re sure you’ll still have a lot of love for this week’s horror and science fiction home media releases. One of this writer's favorite films of all time, Joe Dante’s The Howling, is getting the 4K treatment from Scream Factory in a brand new release, and if you’re into time-bending sci-fi/action thrillers, you’ll definitely want to pick up the 4K release of Rian Johnson’s Looper as well.

Other releases for February 15th include Ghostriders, Cosmic Dawn, Settlers, Nezura 1964, Apparitions, The Devil Came Home, and The Skulls Trilogy on Blu-ray.

Cosmic Dawn

After witnessing the alien abduction of her mother as a child, Aurora (Camille Rowe) joins the UFO cult “The Cosmic Dawn.” At the cult’s remote compound Aurora experiences miraculous revelations and consciousness-expanding flowers, but all isn’t as it seems with the cult’s leader,...

Being the first to pioneer a new, unfamiliar frontier can ultimately prove to be a challenge for even the strongest people, as seen in the sci-fi thriller, ‘Settlers.’ First-time feature film writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller crafted an intimate, character-driven drama that explores how a small, close-knit family must conquer the daunting wilderness on their own without […]

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Mankind's earliest settlers on the Martian frontier, llsa (Sofia Boutella) and Reza (Johnny Lee Miller) inhabit a desolate farmstead with their child Remmy (Brooklynn Prince and Nell Tiger Free). They work the land and shield their daughter from the dangers of the harsh surroundings. When hostile intruders threaten to expel them from the compound the family is forced to fight to survive in this science-fiction thrill ride. Rlje Films, a part of AMC Networks, will release Wyatt Rockefeller's sci-fi film Settlers on DVD and Blu-ray on February 15th. Screen Anarchy has two (2) copies to give away to our readers in the U.S. Settlers is written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller (shorts “Groomed” and “Entropy”), and stars Sofia Boutella (Kingsman: The Secret Service,...

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Could Dakota Johnson be adding a Spider-Man spin-off to her web of work? Maaaaaaybe. E! News has learned she's in talks to play the main character in Madame Web. According to The Hollywood Reporter, S.J. Clarkson—who's worked on Jessica Jones, The Defenders, Life on Mars and other series—is set to direct the film, and Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, who penned the screenplay for Marvel's Morbius, wrote the script. Madame Web, otherwise known as Cassandra Webb, first appeared in issue 210 of Denny O'Neil and John Romita Jr.'s The Amazing Spider-Man. Though she is blind and has been diagnosed with myasthenia gravis, a "chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disorder,"...

A new trailer for the upcoming series ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ starring David Tennant has been unveiled by Masterpiece PBS.

Tennant fronts the hour-long 8 episode drama that follows an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.

Joining Tennant to complete the valiant trio are rising French star, Ibrahim Koma, who takes on the role of the mercurial Passepartout; an irrepressible chancer who falls into the role of Fogg’s ‘valet’, little knowing it will change his life forever; and Leonie Benesch playing Abigail Fix, the young journalist determined to make her mark in a man’s world and emerge from the long shadow of her British establishment father.

The series, which is adapted by Ashley Pharoah and Caleb Ranson, stars...

David Tennant’s upcoming series “Around the World in 80 Days” hasn’t yet hit screens but producers are so confident in the show they’ve already greenlit a second season, with Ashley Pharoah (“Life on Mars”) returning as showrunner.

Variety also hears Tennant is almost certain to reprise his role as adventurer Phileas Fogg for season 2. He stars alongside Ibrahim Koma (“As Far as I Can Walk”) as Passepartout and Leonie Benesch (“The Swarm”) as Abigail.

Production companies Slim Film + Television and Federation Entertainment confirmed the series will return for another season as well as unveiling another Jules Verne adaptation, “Journey to the Centre of the Earth,” with Pharoah also on board as showrunner.

“Journey to the Centre of the Earth” tells the story of geology professor Professor Lidenbrock who mounts an expedition to the earth’s core in a bid to unlock the secrets of humanity and its future.

Mick Rock, whose photos of rock music luminaries like David Bowie, the Sex Pistols, and Queen graced numerous major publications, died tonight at age 72. His family confirmed his death on social media, but did not give a cause.

“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side. Those who had the pleasure of existing in his orbit, know that Mick was always so much more than ’The Man Who Shot The 70s.’ He was a photographic poet — a true force of nature who spent his days doing exactly what he loved, always in his own delightfully outrageous way,” the statement read.

“Let us not mourn the loss, but instead celebrate the fabulous life and extraordinary career of Michael David Rock. While you do so in your own way, we must ask that the privacy...

Legendary photographer Mick Rock, known as “The Man Who Shot the Seventies,” has died. A statement on his official Twitter page confirmed the news. He was 72.

“It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share our beloved psychedelic renegade Mick Rock has made the Jungian journey to the other side,” the statement read. “Those who had the pleasure of existing in his orbit, know that Mick was always so much more than ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s.’ He was a photographic poet — a true force of nature who...

Exclusive: After signing his new overall deal with Netflix, Zack Snyder is moving fast to get that first film under the deal in front of cameras, as sources tell Deadline he has set Sofia Boutella to star in Rebel Moon. Snyder is directing the film as well as co-writing it with Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad, based on a story by Snyder and Johnstad. Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller and Snyder will produce for The Stone Quarry along with Eric Newman for Grand Electric.

Following the success of his first film with the streamer, Army of the Dead, Zack and Deborah Snyder’s The Stone Quarry signed a first-look deal with the studio and soon after named Rebel Moon as Snyder’s next big feature. The 300 director has been meeting with talent for months for the lead role and recently cut it down to a small group of actresses, which included Boutella,...

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Red Arrow International has sold documentary “Controlling Britney Spears” to a raft of territories. The 75-minute documentary contains new allegations from insiders with intimate knowledge of the pop icon’s daily life under her controversial conservatorship.

The documentary has been sold to Sky (U.K.), Nine (Australia), Crave (Canada), Three (New Zealand), Talpa TV (the Netherlands), Vgtv (Norway), TV2 (Denmark), TV4, MTV and Cmore (Sweden and Finland), Discovery (Italy and Philippines), Originals Factory (French and German-speaking Europe), HOT8 (Israel), yes-Dbs (Israel), TV Nova’s streamer Voyo (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Pro Plus (Slovenia), Globo for its GloboPlay streaming service (Brazil), and Tvn Grupa Discovery (Poland) including for its streaming platform Player.

“Controlling Britney Spears” is a follow-up to “Framing Britney Spears” and was produced in partnership by The New York Times and Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company. It premiered last month on FX and Hulu in the U.

Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer, John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella are headlining the Neon horror feature Cuckoo, which Tilman Singer will write and direct. Neon is also financing the project with an eye to shoot in April.

Cuckoo is Tilman’s second movie following his supernatural horror film Luz, which debuted at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Best Horror Film at Fantastic Fest and Best Film at the Milan Film Festival. He’s bringing his Luz team back together for Cuckoo including Dp Paul Faltz, composer Simon Waskow and production designer Dario Mendez Acosta.

Jan Bluthardt, Zita Hanrot, and Proschat Madani round out the cast. Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment are producing along with Markus Halberschmidt and Maria Tsigka of Fiction Park, and Thor Bradwell.

Schafer made her acting debut portraying Jules in the HBO Emmy-winning series Euphoria. She also...

Hunter Schafer, John Malkovich, Gemma Chan and Sofia Boutella are set to star in a new horror film from Neon called “Cuckoo,” the distributor said Tuesday.

“Cuckoo” is the latest film from “Luz” director Tilman Singer, who will write and direct the new horror film and hopes to begin principal photography in April 2022. Neon is fully financing the film.

Plot details are being kept under wraps.

Jan Bluthardt, Zita Hanrot, and Proschat Madani round out the cast of “Cuckoo.” Ken Kao and Josh Rosenbaum of Waypoint Entertainment are producing along with Markus Halberschmidt and Maria Tsigka of Fiction Park, as well as Thor Bradwell.

Tilman’s “Luz” debuted at Berlin in 2018 and won a Special Jury Prize for Best Horror Film at Fantastic Fest, and also Best Film at the Milan Film Festival. Tilman will also reunite with his creative team from “Luz” on “Cuckoo,” including Paul Faltz as cinematographer,...

Film producer and director Wyatt Rockefeller spoke about his experience in filming his new movie, Settlers, in his new uInterview. “It’s about a young girl and her parents living on the remote outskirts of the martian frontier on a homestead and just really getting by,” Rockefeller told uInterview Founder Erik Meers. “They’ve got each other and they’re […]

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Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmakers Podcast #232: How to make an epic Sci-Fi Drama Feature with...

"Settlers" is a new science fiction feature, written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, starring Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller, now playing in theaters:

"...following an ecological disaster, a family from Earth eke out an existence on a desolate 'Mars' homestead. 'Reza' (Miller) and his wife 'Ilsa' (Boutella), do their best to protect nine-year-old daughter 'Remmy' (Brooklynn Prince) from the perils of this forbidding landscape.  But when hostile outsiders appear in the surrounding hills, Remmy realizes the disturbing reality her parents have been keeping from her..."

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In a week that saw three theatrical releases debut on Premium VOD, “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” (Lionsgate/$19.99) won the battle. The ensemble action comedy sequel took first place on all four charts we follow, despite competition from “The Forever Purge” (Universal/$19.99) and “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” (Warner Bros./$19.99).

Meanwhile, “Black Widow” (Disney/$29.99) announced an all-digital platform release for August 10. The unusual aspect is it will be offered as a digital download rather than a rental, with extras including additional scenes and bloopers.

More significantly, “Hitman’s” displaced “A Quiet Place Part II” (Paramount/$19.99) after just one week as top film. That’s a bit of a surprise; John Krasinski’s hit grossed as much as “Purge,” Conjuring,” and “Hitman’s” combined, and “Hitman’s” grossed the least with $37 million.

That also may mean that the “Hitman’s” audience wasn’t as thoroughly tapped. The audience demo...

Settlers Review — Settlers (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Wyatt Rockefellar, and starring Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Jonny Lee Miller and Natalie Walsh. Wyatt Rockefellar wrote and directed the new film Settlers and is quite a visionary. The story of human settlers on the Martian frontier [...]

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As our society has watched the likes of billionaire Richard Branson and Amazon mastermind Jeff Bezos proclaim themselves interstellar pioneers with their recent self-funded forays to the edge of space, it’s serendipitous to see a newly released movie about people inhabiting Mars following an ecological disaster on Earth and a story that unfolds where things predictably go awry. Though said effort, entitled “Settlers” and helmed by Wyatt Rockefeller, foregoes the sleek spacecraft Branson & Bezos have both commandeered in favor of a stark, eroded landscape appropriate for the red planet.

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Settlers IFC Midnight Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Wyatt Rockefeller Writer: Wyatt Rockefeller Cast: Sofia Boutella, Ismael Cruz Córdova, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Jonny Lee Miller Screened at: Critics’ link, LA, 7/6/21 Opens: July 23rd, 2021 Our planet is dying, and though some protest that science is all one big conspiracy theory, […]

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Uniquely American, the Western genre has changed radically over the last century, from nationalistic, myth-building propaganda to revisionist self-critique, specifically of the colonialist narrative that centered white Europeans and left indigenous peoples, in the margins at best or primitive, violent savages at worse. Less rectified than simply ignored or set aside as a once dominant genre faded into disuse, the colonialist-imperialist narrative still exists, albeit often transposed to other settings and time periods like writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller’s feature-length debut, Settlers, a deeply unsettling, discomfiting exploration of a simple, if still provocative, thesis: Wherever we go, there we are, bringing our biases, prejudices, and propensity for violence to frontier life even in a far-flung, futuristic Martian settlement. When we first meet Reza (Jonny Lee Miller,...

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Mark Wahlberg strides into theaters this weekend with Joe Bell as the Reinaldo Marcus Green film debuts on 1,093 screens supported by robust advertising and a star-driven social media campaign.

Roadside Attractions is distributing, having snapped up the film from Solstice Studios which acquired it off of a 2020 Toronto Film Festival premiere but was particularly hard hit by the pandemic and let it go. The drama scripted by the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain team of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana is the true story of a rough-edged dad who walks across America to speak to heartland adults and students about the evils of bullying as experienced firsthand by his gay teenage son.

Wahlberg and co-stars Connie Britton and Reid Miller (who plays son Jadin Bell) have all supported it with a robust PR schedule backed by cable and online advertising., “We are seeing gradual improvement with...

Given the fanfare surrounding Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos’ recent forays into space, “Settlers” feels especially timely. Writer-director Wyatt Rockefeller uses his debut film to anticipate the next step after space travel, raising questions about both human sustainability and ownership.

In some ways, the film also calls to mind the current culture wars revolving around America's origins, with an underlying message about not repeating history.

Unlike Matt Damon’s abandoned scientist in "The Martian," Reza (Jonny Lee Miller) and Ilsa and their daughter Remmy have presumably chosen to dwell in the vast wasteland of the red planet. For nine-year-old Remmy, Earth is merely an idea, a place from which her parents hail. Mars is the only reality she has known, and from the outside looking in, it appears bleak.

Rather than over-the-top echoes of danger, there’s a natural unease to “Settlers” that comes from its stark, dystopian what-if scenarios.

The thing about withholding plot information is that you must generally divulge that which you’ve held back at some point. To simply ignore that your audience is in the dark as far as the big picture is concerned is a sure-fire way to lose interest. Because what’s the point then? What are we really watching if the endgame leaves its characters in the same exact place they were before? I think writer/director Wyatt Rockefeller hopes that his feature debut Settlers will succeed for no other reason than the fact that it attempts to find some semblance of circuitous repetition. When you’re dealing with science fiction colored by the selfishness and greed of humanity, that type of narrative often plays—if it provides something to latch onto.

The lead character Remmy isn’t enough despite being, for all intents and purposes, mankind’s last hope: a precocious...

In Tungaru, two to five players will each take on the task of spreading their own unique culture across the islands of the Tungaru archipelago. To do this, they will navigate their boats between the islands gathering and trading resources such as fish, shells, coconuts and pearls, whilst persuading nomads to join them – adding their own unique abilities. Turn order and special abilities are dictated by a set of five leader cards, whilst individual player mats allow each player to pursue a different strategy by opening slots and abilities in an order to suit them.

Whilst billed as a medium weight euro game, Tungaru feels heavier than most, in my opinion. This is a game that has a lot going on, and it’s one of those euro games that often let’s you “see” what you want to do, but keeps it at arm’s length. A big part...

London-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has inked the key first deals on psychological thriller “John and the Hole,” directed by Pascual Sisto, on the back of the film’s virtual market premiere at Cannes. The film was written by Nicolás Giacobone, an Oscar-winner with “Birdman,” who adapted his short story “El Pozo.”

“John and the Hole” sold in the U.K./Ireland to Vertigo Releasing, in Australia and New Zealand to Rialto Distribution, and in South Korea to the Coup Corporation. As previously reported, IFC Midnight will release the film in the U.S. later this summer.

Following the film’s selection for the Cannes 2020 Label, and on the back of its Sundance 2021 competition selection, a physical market premiere will be staged for international buyers on Sunday in Cannes, with Sisto in attendance.

Described by Variety’s Peter Debruge as “calculated and precise [with] director Pascual Sisto weaving...

With the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival now officially wrapped, after making history for being the first in-person film festival since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, the genre movies it premiered are also noteworthy, particularly for their relatable characters and vital themes. No Man of God, No Running, and Settlers are all remarkable thrillers for their powerful messages of people standing up for, and not backing down from, what they believe in.

No Man of God: Biographical crime thrillers that chronicle the cases of real-life serial killers often sensationalize the criminal’s crime spree in order to shock their audiences. But director Amber Sealey’s new movie No Man of God is a stunning and welcome entry in the genre, as it instead chooses to study the full spectrum of the human condition following the murders committed by notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy.

Written by Kit Lesser and set in the mid-1980s,...

If there’s life on Mars, there must also be death on Mars: That’s the plainest takeaway from “Settlers,” a stark, scorched, occasionally jolting sci-fi slow burn in which relocating to the red planet can’t save humanity from its basest instincts. Tracing the tumultuous household dynamics of four ex-earthlings over the course of a decade, as they attempt to forge a new life on a hostile surface, Wyatt Rockefeller’s polished, confident debut feature succeeds most vividly as a feat of minimalist world-building — constructing an overwhelmingly desolate Martian farmstead in South Africa’s Namaqualand desert, in which avenues of exploration feel infinite, and escape impossible. Rockefeller’s story world might indeed be more richly imagined than his story, which tends to idle after a tensely wound opening. Still, a fine, surprising ensemble lends human heft to this Tribeca premiere, which could springboard its writer-director to more lavish visions.

Further new deals include Cis, Baltics, Middle East.

Paris-based distributor Originals Factory has acquired French rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s sci-fi Settlers from Film Constellation at this week’s online Pre-Cannes Screenings.

Originals Factory will release the film day-and-date in cinemas and on VoD.

Film Constellation has also sealed deals on the film for the Cis and Baltics (VolgaFilm) and the Middle East and North Africa (Falcon Films). They follow previously signed deals for the UK and Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

IFC Midnight will release the film in the US later in the summer.

Chloe Tai, Edward Parodi, Anisha Kasozi and Léo Teste take on new roles.

Film Constellation has promoted four staff to executive level, in a change to the leadership structure at the UK-based production, finance and sales firm.

Chloe Tai becomes director of marketing, general manager, with broadened management responsibilities and a focus on team leadership and corporate impact work. Based in London, Tai will report directly to Film Constellation founder and CEO Fabien Westerhoff, who is based in Amsterdam.

Tai joined Film Constellation in 2017 following a career in marketing at L’Oreal, and has since worked on international distribution campaigns for...

Settlers Trailer — Wyatt Rockefeller‘s Settlers (2021) movie trailer has been released by IFC Midnight. The Settlers trailer stars Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller, Brooklynn Prince, Nell Tiger Free, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Matthew Van Leeve, and Natalie Walsh. Crew Wyatt Rockefeller wrote the screenplay for Settlers. Nitin Sawhney created the music for the film. Willie [...]

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The Tribeca Film Festival is almost wrapped up, but that doesn’t mean a few key titles aren’t playing. Screening Friday night was the sci-fi thriller, “Settlers,” with the strong cast of Sofia Boutella (“Star Trek Beyond“), Ismael Cruz Córdova (HBO‘s “The Undoing“), Brooklynn Prince (“The Florida Project“), Nell Tiger Free (M.

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"Settlers" is a new science fiction feature, written and directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, starring Sofia Boutella and Jonny Lee Miller releasing July 23, 2021:

"...following an ecological disaster, a family from Earth eke out an existence on a desolate 'Mars' homestead. 'Reza' (Miller) and his wife 'Ilsa' (Boutella), do their best to protect nine-year-old daughter 'Remmy' (Brooklynn Prince) from the perils of this forbidding landscape.  But when hostile outsiders appear in the surrounding hills, Remmy realizes the disturbing reality her parents have been keeping from her..."

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"We left because we wanted something more." IFC Midnight has unveiled the first trailer for an intriguing sci-fi western thriller titled Settlers, which is premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival in the next few days. On a remote homestead amongst the Martian frontier, a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, they must deal with the truth about who they really are. Starring Sofia Boutella, Jonny Lee Miller, and Brooklynn Prince as the family, plus Nell Tiger Free, Ismael Cruz Cordova, and Natalie Walsh. Settlers was filmed on location in the isolated desert area of Vioolsdift, situated in the Northern Cape in South Africa. The film is actually producer / filmmaker Wyatt Rockefeller's feature directorial debut, and it's among the NYU Production Lab's supported projects. As a sci-fi geek, I am...

Production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has boarded international sales on psychological thriller “John and the Hole.” The film is directed by Spanish helmer Pascual Sisto, who was selected as one of the top 10 directors to watch by Variety this year, and is written by Oscar winning “Birdman” scribe Nicolás Giacobone, adapted from his short story “El Pozo.”

Following the film’s Cannes 2020 Label and Sundance 2021 competition selection, a virtual market premiere will be orchestrated for international buyers in June, combined with a physical screening in Cannes in July.

“John and the Hole” plays out the unsettling reality of 13 year-old John, who decides to hold his affluent family captive in an underground bunker in the land behind their house. Left without supervision, John experiences newfound independence, exploring the difficult passage from childhood freedom to adult responsibility.

The film stars Emmy-winner Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Charlie Shotwell, BAFTA winner Jennifer Ehle,...

Ana Katz’s Argentinian drama set for May release.

Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Ana Katz’s midlife drama The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet from Paris-based Luxbox.

The Argentinian feature, which played in competition at Sundance and won the Vpro Big Screen Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), will receive an exclusive release on streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema on May 21.

Shot in black and white, the drama follows a man in his thirties who is devoted to his loyal dog and works in a slew of temporary jobs. As he moves restlessly through adulthood,...

Brooklynn Prince also stars in the film, which is currently in post.

Wyatt Rockefeller’s UK sci-fi Settlers has acquired distribution in key territories through sales agent Film Constellation.

New deals for the film include the UK (Vertigo Releasing), Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy (Koch Films) and Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution). Negotiations for further territories are ongoing; the film sold to IFC Midnight for the US in April, with a release set for this summer.

Sofia Boutella stars as Ilsa, a refugee from Earth who has settled with her husband, daughter Remmy and a domesticated robot on the harsh,...

New Tribeca Online Premieres section will offer new films, shorts, podcasts, 14 VR sections, games.

Tribeca Festival heads on Monday (May 3) announced the virtual hub Tribeca At Home, which will offer exclusive online premieres to viewers within the US who cannot attend the outdoor festival.

The new Tribeca Online Premieres section will offer new films, shorts, podcasts, 14 VR sections, and games and runs alongside the main festival from June 9-20.

The line-up comprises 35 films, of which 24 are features and 11 are shorts. It includes select features from the outdoor festival roster, as well as three previously announced shorts from the Juneteenth programme focusing on music,...

IFC Midnight has acquired North American rights to Wyatt Rockefeller’s “Settlers.”

The film, which marks Rockefeller’s feature narrative debut, stars Sofia Boutella or “Kingsman: The Secret Service” fame, and Brooklynn Prince, who first captured audiences’ hearts in “The Florida Project.” Ismael Cruz Córdova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller round out the cast. IFC Midnight will release the film in summer 2021.

“Settlers” is set a remote homestead on the Martian frontier, where a refugee family from Earth clings to hope for a better life. But when strangers appear in the surrounding hills and attempt to run them off, nine-year-old Remmy (Prince) is faced with the desperate reality her mother (Boutella) and father (Miller) have tried so hard to keep from her.

“We are excited ‘Settlers’ has found a home with IFC Midnight,” Arianna Bocco, president of IFC Films said. “Wyatt Rockefeller is a talented new voice in...

London-based production, finance and sales outfit “Film Constellation” has boarded international sales on dystopian sci-fi thriller “Settlers,” directed by Wyatt Rockefeller, and starring Sofia Boutella, whose credits include “Atomic Blonde,” “The Mummy,” the “Kingsman” franchise and “Star Trek: Beyond.”

Boutella plays Ilsa, a refugee from Earth, who has settled with her husband and daughter on the harsh and arid terrain of a Martian outpost. With nothing but a few crops and a domesticated robot, the family clings to hope for a better life, but everything is turned upside down when a group of armed assailants appear on the surrounding hills. Mother and daughter must then adapt at all cost to survive until it’s time to finally strike back.

The movie, which was shot on the remote border of South Africa and Namibia, is now in post-production.

The cast also includes Brooklynn Prince, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Nell Tiger Free, and Jonny Lee Miller.

Even though I’ve played every single Civilization game, owned every expansion and even religiously explored every spin-off and related title, it wasn’t until Civilization VI came along that I realised just how fundamental the differences between the civilizations are to the gameplay experience. These days it seems obvious – and indeed the very existence of the Frontier Pass expansion (which is almost entirely made up of new races) seems to prove it, but Civilization VI is really all about min-maxing the strengths of your chosen nation to achieve victory.

I’ll be splitting my review of the Frontier Pass across several smallish pieces as each Dlc pack is released, and this first one will focus on Lady Six Sky of the Maya and Simon Bolivar of Gran Colombia. I’ll also mention the new “Secret Societies” feature and “Apocalypse” mode throughout this and the other reviews, since I’ll...