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HBO's critically acclaimed fantasy series Game of Thrones achieved record viewership for the network and has garnered a vast fanbase worldwide. The series aired from 2011 to 2019 across eight seasons, and during that time, the series and ensemble cast were nominated for numerous awards. Most impressively, the series was nominated for 164 Primetime Emmys, winning 59. This series has propelled many of its cast members into the limelight, but who is the most successful?

Looking at award nominations and wins, Peter Dinklage, who portrayed Tyrion Lannister, led the pack with 40 nominations, of which he won seven. He is the only cast member to receive an Emmy for his role in the series. Emilia Clarke, who played Daenerys Targaryen, closely followed with 29 nominations and four wins.

While award wins is one way to gauge success, let's examine cast members whose appearances in Game of Thrones boosted their careers. With such an expansive list of actors,...

Preparing for an upcoming flight isn’t just limited to packing your clothes and toiletries — have you thought about how you’re going to keep yourself entertained? The idealist in all of us might say we’re gonna read that book we’ve been putting off, but depending on the length of your flight, that may be easier said than done. If it’s on the longer side, it can be easy to get distracted and start to really feel the minutes crawling by.

The good news is that in recent years,...

China’s cinema box office trod water in the weekend ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays and an imminent surge of new release titles. These mean that the next few days could add up to the biggest week in Chinese movie history.

Over the latest weekend, though, the nationwide aggregate was a paltry $21.4 million, the lowest weekend this year, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway.

“Fireflies in the Sun,” a Wanda Pictures-backed thriller, said to be a remake of “John Q,” climbed back to first place with a $4.1 million take. It was first released in mid-December and has now built a cumulative of $174 million.

Patriotic pandemic film “Embrace Again” slipped to second place with $3.9 million, giving a running total of $148 million. Comedy, “Another Me” took $2.9 million for a $73 million cumulative since release on Jan. 1, 2022. Chinese crime thriller “G Storm” earned $2.8 million over the weekend for a total...

“The Matrix: Resurrections” fell out of the top five chart positions at the mainland Chinese box office over the latest weekend. The top spots were reclaimed by local, holdover titles.

China Film Co.’s patriotic pandemic drama “Embrace Again” was the top film over the latest Friday to Sunday weekend, with a weekend score of $5.3 million, according to data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway. Since Dec. 31, 2021, the film has accumulated $139 million. The previous weekend, it had taken $6.8 million in second place.

In second place over the latest session was “Fireflies in the Sun,” a Wanda Pictures-backed thriller, said to be a remake of “John Q.” It was first released in mid-December but bubbled back with a $4.4 million weekend, lifting its cumulative to $169 million.

Chinese crime thriller “G Storm” earned $3.4 million over the weekend in third place for a cumulative of $93.2 million since releasing on Dec. 31.

Comedy, “Another Me” earned...

’No Way Home’ is now the biggest film of all time in Mexico.

Worldwide box office January 14-16 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (World) Cume (World) 3-day (Int’l) Cume (Int’) Territories 1. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony) $54.2m $1.63bn $33.4m $926.3m 64 2. Scream (Paramount) $48.6m $48.6m $18m $18m 51 3. Sing 2 (Universal) $16.7m $215.7m $8.4m $96.2m 55 4. The King’s Man (Disney)

$12.5m $92.4m $10.2m $63.8m 45 5. The Matrix Resurrections (WB)

$11.9m $140m $11.1m $104.2m 79 6. Embrace Again (various)

$6.8m $126.5m $6.8m $126.5m 6 7. House Of Gucci (Universal) $4.9m $122.5m $4.2m $71.4m 50 8. G Storm (various) $4.2m $85.8m $4.2m $85.8m 6 9. The 355 (various) $4.1m $13.7m $1.8m $5.3m 25 10. Another Me (various...

Warner Bros.’ “The Matrix Resurrections” opened number one this weekend at the China box office thanks to $7.5 million in sales, according to data from the Artisan Gateway consultancy.

China’s national box office for 2022 is already off to a slow start, and currently sits at 15% below the same period last year. The country is currently struggling to contain the new threat of the omicron Covid-19 variant ahead of the upcoming Beijing Olympic games. As of Sunday, some 14 provinces had reported local omicron cases, including the cities of Beijing and Shanghai. Cinemas in high-risk areas like Tianjin and Xi’an have been closed for days, while those still operating in the country remain at 75% maximum capacity.

That’s bad news for exhibitors, who have been left for weeks without strong Hollywood content to get their turnstiles spinning. The Matrix franchise, like “Star Wars” and unlike the more recent Marvel Comic Universe,...

After a rocky 2021 in China, Hollywood kicked off 2022 with its first revenue-share studio release of the year in Disney’s lush animated movie “Encanto.” The musical family film conjured up $3.22 million in the Middle Kingdom, according to data from the Maoyan platform.

The Colombia-set musical about the boisterous Madrigal family and their magical gifts placed sixth at the box office, behind a slew of holdover local titles.

“Encanto” grossed $43.3 million in theaters over its five-day Thanksgiving weekend stateside back in November before releasing on Disney Plus near the Christmas holiday. It has grossed $92.4 million in the U.S. and $216 million globally since, with the biggest overseas market being France. The Disney Plus platform does not operate in China.

Maoyan currently estimates “Encanto” will gross $6.68 million over the course of its full mainland run, which may feel like a drop in the bucket for the well-received yet expensive film that has...

‘Spider-Man’ sequel shoots up all-time box office rankings with $1.37bn, whilst ’Sing 2’ hits high notes with $37m session.

Worldwide box office December 31-January 2 Rank Film (distributor) 3-day (World) Cume (World) 3-day (Int’l) Cume (Int’) Territories 1. Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony) $131m $1.37bn $78.3m $759m 62 2. Embrace Again (various) $83.9m $83.9m $83.9m $83.9m 3 3. G Storm (various) $55.5m $55.5m $55.5m $55.5m 6 4. Sing 2 (Universal) $36.8m $144.5m $17.2m $54.8m 49 5. Another Me (various) $27.6m $27.6m $27.6m $27.6m 1 6. The King’s Man (Disney) $18.6m $47.8m $14.1m $28.3m 23 7. The Matrix Resurrections (WB) $17.5m $106m $13.7m $75.1m 77 8. Fireflies In The Sun (various) $12.6m $90.3m $12.6m $90.3m 1 9. Encanto (Disney...

Opening on August 24 is director Isabel Coixet’s The Bookshop. The film will debut in St. Louis on August 31.

England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy).

As Florence’s obstacles amass and bear suspicious signs of a local power struggle, she is forced to ask: is there a place for a bookshop in a town that may not want one?

Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s acclaimed novel and directed by Isabel Coixet (Learning to Drive), The Bookshop is an elegant yet incisive rendering of personal resolve, tested in the battle for the soul of a community.

Tagline: "We See You." The Gothic supernatural horror The Lodgers is set to release this February. The film was developed by award winning director Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey, 2014). In the film, a brother and sister are trapped on an ageing estate. They must follow three rules, or face a supernatural confrontation. The Lodgers premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, in 2017. The film stars: Charlotte Vega (Another Me, 2013), Bill Milner, Eugene Simon and David Bradley. A premiere of the film's United States' theatrical premiere is hosted here. The Lodgers is set in 1920s rural Ireland. Here, Rachel (Vega) and Edward (Milner) are ensnared by the lodgers, who emerge at midnight. When Rachel breaks three cursed rules, she sets in motion a showdown with the mansion's supernatural jailers. The film was partially developed by Epic Pictures Group. The Lodgers has already won several awards. It won "Best Special Effects" and...

Exclusive: Me And Orson Welles star to co-direct with Ben Hecking.

British actor Christian McKay, perhaps best known for his eponymous role in Me And Orson Welles, is to co-direct intense relationship drama Provenance with cinematographer Ben Hecking.

The independent British feature, which is in pre-production, marks the directorial debut for both McKay and Hecking and is based on an original story developed by the duo.

McKay, also known for roles in Rush, The Theory Of Everything and the upcoming Florence Foster Jenkins, will also star alongside Spanish actress Charlotte Vega (Another Me, The Refugees, El club de los incomprendidos) in her first leading English-language role and Harry Macqueen.

Macqueen is the writer, director and star of British drama Hinterland, on which Hecking served as cinematographer. He also had a small role in Me And Orson Welles.

Provenance is produced by White Horse Films and is fully funded. Shooting will begin in the south of France in April...

British schoolgirl Fay’s father is dying, so getting the role of Lady Macbeth in the school play is a welcome diversion. Then she becomes aware that someone is following her every move. Who could be so cruel as to taunt her at this sad time? Soon evidence suggests she is being haunted by the dead twin she barely knew existed in a hard-hitting and affecting mystery dealing with apparitions, doppelgangers and mind games.

With Another Me set to have its UK Premiere this weekend at Frightfest, Nerdly writer and host of the Britflicks podcast, Stuart Wright, speaks with Isabel Coixet – the writer/director of this adaptation of the Cathy MacPhail novel.

Another Me screens at Frightfest on Saturday 29th August at 4.15pm in Discovery Screen 2.

I recently sat down with director Isabel Coixet, and actors Patricia Clarkson and Sarita Choudhury at the Crosby Hotel in New York City, to discuss their new film "Learning to Drive." The film, written by Sarah Kernochan, is based on the autobiographical New Yorker short story by Katha Pollit, a long-time political columnist for the Nation.

Wendy is a fiery Manhattan author whose husband has just left her for a younger woman; Darwan is a soft-spoken taxi driver from India on the verge of an arranged marriage. As Wendy sets out to reclaim her independence, she runs into a barrier common to many lifelong New Yorkers: she’s never learned to drive. When Wendy hires Darwan to teach her, her unraveling life and his calm restraint seem like an awkward fit. But as he shows her how to take control of the wheel, and she coaches him on how to impress a woman, their unlikely friendship awakens them to the joy, humor, and love in starting life anew.

My conversation began with Isabel Coixet and Sarita Choudhury

Isabel Coixet’s award-winning film credits include "Demaisiado viejo para morir joven," "Things I Never Told You,""My Life Without Me," "The Secret Life of Words," "Paris, je t’aime," "Elegy," "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo," "Yesterday Never Ends," "Another Me," "Nobody Wants the Night," as well as documentaries, including "Invisibles."

Currently, Sarita Choudhury can be seen on Showtime’s "Homeland." Her film credits include "Admission," "Gayby," "Midnight’s Children," "Generation Um…," "Entre Nos," "The Accidental Husband," "Lady in the Water," "The War Within," "Mississippi Masala," "Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love," "She Hate Me," "Just a Kiss," "Wild West," "High Art," "The House of the Spirits," "Gloria," and "A Perfect Murder."

Susan Kouguell: Tell me about the process of how "Learning to Drive" came about.

Isabel Coixet: We started talking about making this film with Patricia and Ben Kingsley when we were making "Elegy" (directed by Coixet, starring Clarkson and Kingsley) and we got along very well and we wanted to make another film together. Patricia discovered the short story by Katha Pollit, and she gave it to me and I thought it was wonderful. And then we got the screenwriter Sarah Kernocha involved. The film is a comedy but not a classical comedy. It was a very difficult film to pitch because you know financiers and producers want something they can put in one box and you can’t with this film. It was a long process. It took nine years.

Some Words Unspoken and the Intimacy of the Camera

Isabel Coixet: There is always this romantic feeling underneath [subtext], I think there is that possibility. You have to be true to your words. If they are true, you will have to stick to your words.

Sarita Choudhury: That’s what happens with people you meet. No you were my inspiration don’t make me your inspiration.

Isabel Coixet: I love Henry James. There is a possibility of romance in the air. My romantic side is always excited when I see something like this.

Sarita Choudhury: I had so few words in the film. In a way, I kept the words because I had to know not to say them. For us the script -- the situational was also in the script; the languidness. It was because Isabel holds the camera. There was a pace created to it. When you’re acting you can feel where the camera is, but when the camera is at the end of Isabel’s hand and she’s moving it, it almost creates an intimacy between you and the camera, and you and the actor. There’s a pace you normally don’t get in film. You didn’t know when she was on your face; you had to keep acting like acting in the theatre.

On The Lack of Women Directors

Isabel Coixet: There are so many articles about it. I’m always afraid to play the victim, to complain too much. I know there is an inequity with men and women directors. This is an issue in the world. I always say, (Coixet smiles) we have to ask for more salary to make up for all these years and maybe if we ask for more they’ll give us the same as a man.

I want to put my words where my mouth is by producing female directors; they are amazing talented people. I’m producing three short films and a feature documentary. That’s what I do.

Sarita Choudhury: I just did a young woman’s short film; there is something about her that’s brilliant. I’ve done two short films. I can’t change the caste system and I can’t do the voluntary work I need to be doing. Film is no different from the world, like Isabel said. That’s our work, to get every woman involved. And if a man is brilliant, let him in too.

I then asked Patricia Clarkson about her involvement with "Learning to Drive."

Academy Award® nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, Patricia Clarkson, has worked extensively in independent films. The National Board of Review and the National Society of Film Critics named her Best Supporting Actress of the Year for "Pieces of April" and "The Station Agent." Her many film credits include "The Maze Runner," "Last Weekend," "Friends With Benefits," "One Day," "Easy A," "Shutter Island," "Vicky Christina Barcelona," "Elegy," "No Reservations," "All the Kings’ Men," "Lars and the Real Girl, and "Good Night, and Good Luck."

Susan Kouguell: What attracted you to the project?

Patricia Clarkson: I loved the Katha Pollit story in The New Yorker; it serendipitously came to me. I love Wendy, I love this character. I was nine years younger at the time, but I still felt I knew her. I was relentless trying to get this film made with producer Dana Friedman. I found it an equal dose of funny and tragic. I liked the almost commedia dell'arte aspect; this absurd situation and finding the tragic comedy. A woman who is brilliant who lives a great life -- she has everything, but “forgets to look up,” and then meets a man who has experienced tragic loss. They have disparate worlds. I found it a quintessential New York story, but it’s also universal. It’s an independent film, but it’s not independently-minded.

Some Final Words

The disparate worlds about which Clarkson refers to in regard to her character, Wendy’s relationship with Darwan [Ben Kingsley] -- the life of a financially successful New Yorker compared to the immigrant’s struggle, was a thematic element that I further discussed with Coixet and Choudhury. As Choudhury said to me, Coixet’s visual choices of her character, such as the moment when she watches feet walk by her basement apartment window, feeling trapped, underscore the poignancy of this fish-out-of-water situation. Coixet captures these elements with a delicate balance of both drama and comedy.

It was an inspiring morning to speak with these three powerful and talented women, who are committed to sharing their knowledge with the next generation of female filmmakers.

Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, Susan Kouguell teaches screenwriting at Purchase College Suny, and presents international seminars on screenwriting and film. Author of Savvy Characters Sell Screenplays! and The Savvy Screenwriter, she is chairperson of Su-City Pictures East, LLC, a consulting company founded in 1990 where she works with writers, filmmakers, and executives worldwide. www.su-city-pictures.com, http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog...

After the announcement of the Fightfest’s opening and closing films a week ago, the UK’s premiere horror festival has announced its complete line-up… And they’re not making it easy for us to bring you reviews of the majority of the films screening this year!

Yes, not only is Frightfest taking over the Vue cinema on Leicester Square again this year but they’re also taking over an extra screen, Screen 1, at the old home of Frightfest, The Prince Charles Cinema – which will be the location of Another “Discovery” screen strand.

From the press release:

Bigger, bolder, bloodier…Film4 FrightFest 2015 marks its 16th year with its largest line-up ever. From Thurs 27 August to Mon 31 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will return to the Vue West End, Leicester Square to present seventy-six films across five screens, plus a host of special events. There are eighteen...

The 16th edition of genre film festival unveils full line-up.

Film4 FrightFest will mark its 16th edition with its largest line-up ever, showcasing 76 films across five screens at the Vue West End in Leicester Square from Aug 27-31.

This year’s line-up features 20 world premieres, a record-breaking 16 European premieres and 26 UK premieres, with 18 countries represented. In addition, there will be a further ‘Discovery’ strand at The Prince Charles Cinema, marking a return to the festival’s original home.

As previously announced, the European premieres of Cherry Tree and Tales of Halloween will bookend this year’s edition.

World premieres at this year’s FrightFest include Paul Hyett’s creature feature Howl, anthology A Christmas Horror Story, Steve Oram’s comedy Aaaaaaaah! and Liam Regan’s revenge thriller Banjo, while European premieres include Ben Cresciman’s Sun Choke, Paz Brothers’ Jeruzalem and Adam Mason’s Hangman.

Bernard Rose’s Frankenstein, Ted Geoghegan’s haunted house throwback We Are Still Here, [link...

Shadow people, sharp-fanged co-workers, and insistent sinister spirits will just be a few of the monsters haunting the theaters at this year's Film4 FrightFest. The full lineup for the upcoming event is packed with 76 films aimed to unforgettably frighten audiences.

Press Release: "Film news (UK): Film4 FrightFest serves up a fearsome feast with a record 76 films, embracing 20 world and 42 UK & European premieres

Bigger, bolder, bloodier…Film4 FrightFest 2015 marks its 16th year with its largest line-up ever. From Thurs 27 August to Mon 31 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will return to the Vue West End, Leicester Square to present seventy-six films across five screens, plus a host of special events. There are eighteen countries representing five continents with a record-breaking sixteen European premieres and twenty-six UK premieres. In addition, there is a further ‘Discovery’ strand at The Prince Charles Cinema, signalling a welcome return to FrightFest’s spiritual home.

The Berlin International Film Festival announced early Friday morning that "Nobody Wants the Night," the most recent work by Spanish director Isabel Coixet, will open the festival as well as play in the international competition. Previous fest kick-offs included "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "The Grandmaster." We’re sure "Nobody Wants the Night" is quite grand in its own right, even if it doesn’t flaunt it in the title. Based on true events, "Nobody Wants the Night" follows Josephine Peary (Academy Award-winner Juliette Binoche), a "mature, proud, determined and naive woman" living in Greenland circa 1909 and in love with celebrated Arctic adventurer Robert Peary (Gabriel Byrne), "a man who prefers glory and ice to the comforts of an upper-class home." Another woman, the "young but wise, brave and humble" Allaka (Academy Award-nominated Rinko Kikuchi), is in love with the same man… and pregnant with his child. As Coixet’s...

On Demand DVD New Releases Oct. 13-19 Another Me A gripping psychological thriller about a teenage girl whose once seemingly perfect life is upended when her father becomes ill and a mysterious double begins inserting itself in her life. Rhys Ifans, Sophie Turner (Pg-13, 1:23) 10/14 Life After Beth Beth returns from the grave as a zombie, but that doesn’t mean she and her boyfriend can’t stay together, does it? Life as a couple has some challenges, including Beth’s urge to literally eat her boyfriend. Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly (R, 1:29) 10/14 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (3-D) The smartest guy … Continue reading →

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Universal Pictures on board film adaptation of classic British series; cast to include Billy Nighy, Catherine Zeta Jones and Toby Jones

The cast of a long-rumoured film based on classic British comedy series Dad’s Army has been revealed.

Toby Jones, best known for roles in The Hunger Games and Harry Potter franchises, will take the leading role of Captain Mainwaring, a stiff-upper-lipped veteran who oversees the Home Guard in a small village toward the end of the Second World War.

His right-hand man, Wilson, will be played by Bill Nighy, known to international audiences for his roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Love Actually.

Both were previously rumoured to be attached to the project, an adaptation of a BBC comedy series than ran from 1968-77, but Catherine Zeta Jones is newly attached to the film as journalist Rose Winters.

The all-star British cast will also include Tom Courtenay as Corporal Jones, Harry Potter...

There’s very little mystery in Isabel Coixet’s adaptation of Cathy MacPhail’s young-adult novel Another Me, a ghost story often praised for its ambiguity. Fay Delussy (Sophie Turner) is haunted by dreams of a fetch, a spooky double whose appearance portends death. This spectral figure could be an expression of Fay’s adolescent fears and anxieties, but writer-director Coixet manifests her with Turner’s menacing second-person narration (“You’ve always had bad dreams”). For a few brief, intriguing moments it seems as if Another Me will unfold from the perspective of this otherworldly stalker. Unfortunately, what follows is both muddled and conventional. Fay desperately tries to find an explanation for the eerie...

If you can’t wait until the next season of Game of Thrones for your Sansa fix, Sophie Turner has a solution for you. (Or perhaps two). Her first film, Another Me, based on the book by Catherine MacPhail, features the actress in multiple roles, as a teenage girl named Fay who feels like she’s being stalked by someone who looks just like her, and who is slowly taking over her life. Neighbors spot this other girl in the stairwell — even though Fay only takes the elevator. Teachers and fellow students say they interacted with her on the day Fay stays home sick. Could the look-alike be Fay’s mean-girl rival who is her understudy in the school play? Or someone more sinister? It’s enough to make someone go a little crazy — prompting a moment where Fay chops off her long locks just so people can tell the two of them apart.

One of the benefits of being discovered on a hit TV show is that a chance at a significant movie career is usually in the cards. Actually, it usually only occurs with talent on show that hits the pop culture lexicon.  In this case, "Game of Thrones." Sophie Turner has spent the last four years on "GoT" playing Sansa Stark and as any loyal viewer can tell you, she's been put through the ringer.  She's seen her father beheaded (poor Ned), been engaged to a mad king against her will, was almost raped and then forced to marry the show's most popular character, Lord Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), who doesn't happen to be that popular in King's Landing. Those key dramatic moments, among others, is just one reason Turner has come to the attention of casting directors, producers, international financiers and movie directors. She's got talent that's ready to be explored in other projects.

There's already been two thrillers focusing on the arrival of doppelganger's in the lives of characters in both The Enemy starring Jake Gyllenhaal and The Double starring Jesse Eisenberg. Now one more will enter the mix late this summer, and it gives "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark) a chance to show her acting chops outside the hit HBO series. Judging by the trailer for Another Me, this looks much more supernatural as the story follows a teenager named Fay who has her world thrown into chaos when she’s stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who wants nothing more than to take over her whole life. Watch it! Here's the first trailer for Isabel Coixet's Another Me, originally from Vulture: Another Me is written and directed by Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, The Secret Life of Word), based on Cathy MacPhail's novel of the same name.

With “Breaking Bad” over for almost a year and “Mad Men” winding down, “Game of Thrones” has officially clinched the title of “Everyone’s Favorite Show That No One WIll Stop Talking About,” though it could be said the show took the lead in the wake of the infamous “The Rains of Castamere” episode. The fantasy epic's popularity has afforded some members of the large ensemble opportunities to stretch their legs outside of Westeros. The latest to venture outside that brutal land? None other than Sansa Stark, Sophie Turner, courtesy of a new trailer indicating her new project. Following this year’s “Enemy” and “The Double” comes “Elegy” director Isabel Coixet’s “Another Me.” The new film follows Turner as the teenaged Fay, whose perfect life is upended when she’s stalked by a mysterious doppelganger who has her eyes set on assuming Fay’s identity. The trailer involves more...

Sansa Stark won't be “a vulnerable young girl” when “Game of Thrones” returns for its fifth season next year. Sophie Turner, the actress who plays the character on the hit HBO fantasy series, stopped by TheWrap‘s Comic-Con video lounge inside the “Walking Dead Escape” at Petco Park and talked about what fans should expect from Sansa since she lied for Lord Baelish after he killed her aunt. See video: ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Sophie Turner Faces Herself in Creepy ‘Another Me’ Trailer “Now she's kind of in the position where Baelish isn't overly sure what Sansa is about. He...

Sophie Turner is stalked by a dangerous doppelgänger in the new thriller Another Me.

The Game of Thrones actress portrays Fay, a teenager who has the sneaking suspicion that she is being followed by a dark force.

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Fay's school classes, photography trips and rendezvous with her boyfriend (Gregg Sulkin) all seem to be observed by someone who looks exactly like her.

Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Claire Forlani all have supporting roles in director Isabel Coixet's thriller.

Coixet is an acclaimed Spanish filmmaker who has previously found international success with Elegy and The Secret Life of Words.

Another Me is expected to open later this year.

“Game of Thrones” churns through new characters every season, a byproduct of its bloody nature. “My reputation for killing is exaggerated,” author George R.R. Martin said during the show's panel Friday, arguing that showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are far bloodier. “I may only be the second ranked murderer on the panel.” Also read: ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Sophie Turner Faces Herself in Creepy ‘Another Me’ Trailer (Video) The show will welcome nine new characters for season five: Alexander Siddig as Doran Martell, the ruling lord of Dorne and brother to Prince Oberyn Martell, who was killed at the end of season four.

Sophie Turner discovers her doppelgänger in the first trailer for Isabel Coixet‘s “Another Me.” “She’s here. She’s always been here in the shadows. But as long as you don’t look at her, she can’t hurt you,” a man (presumably Rhys Ifans) warns the “Game of Thrones” star in the trailer. Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Cathy MacPhail, “Another Me” centers on a teenage girl named Fay (played by Turner), who discovers a doppelgänger that somehow happens to excel in everything that Fay lacks in. In the trailer, we see Fay discover her mysterious twin after [...]

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The gorgeous 'Game of Thrones' star Sophie Turner (below) plays the lead in upcoming British horror 'Another Me'. The Isabel Coixet helmed project is based on the novel by Cathy MacPhail and is set to open on 22 August. The psychological thriller finds the 18-year old, who plays Sansa Stark on the hit HBO fantasy show, taking on the role of Fay a teenage photography enthusiast who finds herself beginning to see her very own doppelganger following her around. A new trailer for the movie has been released featuring plenty of mystery and chills and you can check it out below. The talented supporting cast consists of Jonathan Rhys Meyers ('The Tudors'), Claire Forlani, Rhys Ifans ('The Amazing Spider-Man') and Gregg Sulkin....

“Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner has been tormented on television throughout four seasons of the hit HBO fantasy drama, and now she's about to get tormented in a psychological horror movie called “Another Me.” An international trailer (above) for the thriller clues curious audiences into the creepy premise: A girl who likes taking photographs discovers another version of herself in one of them, and then starts being haunted by this ghostly entity. Or person? Or … imaginary friend? Also read: ‘Game of Thrones’ Star Maisie Williams Lashes Out at British Airways: ‘Sort Your Sh-t Out’ The mystery of who Sansa Stark's doppelgänger is,...

As Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones, Sophie Turner has to deal with more than her fair share of miscreants and monsters, but in the new movie Another Me, Turner may face her most dangerous foe yet … herself. Isabel Coixet directs this psychological thriller, which casts Turner as Fay, a normal teenage girl who starts to fear she's being followed by someone who shares her face. And as you'll see in this exclusive trailer, Fay's dopplegänger isn't interested in becoming BFFs — instead, she'd rather steal Fay's life entirely. (And you thought Joffrey was bad!) Costarring Rhys Ifans, Gregg Sulkin, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Another Me opens August 22; press play below to preview the intense Sansa-on-Sansa action.

Fortissimo Films will work with Fox International Productions (Fip) to oversee sales of select international rights on Isabel Coixet’s Another Me.

Also written by Coixet, the film was produced by Fip, Rainy Day Films and Tornasol Films. It premiered in competition at last November’s Rome International Film Festival and will be released by Fox in the Us, Spain, Germany and other select international territories this summer.

Fortissimo will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Hong Kong Filmart (March 24-27).

Based on the book Panda Eyes by Catherine MacPhail, the film is a psychological thriller about a teenage girl whose once seemingly perfect life slowly begins to unravel when she suspects that she’s being stalked by a mysterious “double” who is out to steal not just her identity, but also her life.

The cast includes Sophie Turner (Game Of Thrones), Rhys Ifans, Claire Forlani, Gregg Sulkin, Leonor Watling, [link...

Fortissimo Films will work with Fox International Productions (Fip) to oversee sales of select international rights on Isabel Coixet’s Another Me.

Also written by Coixet, the film was produced by Fip, Rainy Day Films and Tornasol Films. It premiered in competition at last November’s Rome International Film Festival and will be released by Fox in the Us, Spain, Germany and other select international territories this summer.

Fortissimo will introduce the film to buyers at the upcoming Hong Kong Filmart (March 24-27).

Based on the book Panda Eyes by Catherine MacPhail, the film is a psychological thriller about a teenage girl whose once seemingly perfect life slowly begins to unravel when she suspects that she’s being stalked by a mysterious “double” who is out to steal not just her identity, but also her life.

The cast includes Sophie Turner (Game Of Thrones), Rhys Ifans, Claire Forlani, Gregg Sulkin, Leonor Watling, [link...

It's a rather busy MPAA bulletin today beginning with the already announced R-rated cut of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, which will be hitting limited theaters for one week this weekend followed by a March 11 Blu-ray release and then moving to Blood Ties from Guillaume Canet, which was cut down from the version I saw in Cannes last year (which I actually suggested in my review). Then we have the James McAvoy starrer Filth, which Magnolia is bringing to theaters on May 30 as well as another May release from Magnolia in Richard Ayodae's The Double starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska. The PG-13 young adult adaptation Divergent is now rated and ready for its March 21 release as is the 2 hour and 23 minute blood-and-the-dance-floor sequel The Raid Berandal accompanied by a hard-r rating. Finally we have Roger Donaldson's November Man, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko along with the...

Continuing with her prolific career Spanish director Isabel Coixet has recently just wrapped up production on her film Learning to Drive starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, all before the release of her psychological thriller Another Me this fall via Fox International and starring Sophie Turner and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. As if that wasn't enough, the director is getting ready to start yet another project titled Nobody Wants the Night, which stars acting giants like Willem Dafoe and Juliette Binoche, and young Rinko Kikuchi.

Coixet is one of a kind, as a woman director she is one of the very few that has also served as camera operator in several of her films, her distinct style and never-ending desire to create new work have earned her a distinct place in international cinema. Her body of work spans to ten films in both the narrative and documentary realms making her one of the most prolific directors workign today. She has premiered her films at the most important film festivals including Cannes’ Official Section, Berlin and Venice, and has worked with many of the most respected actors worldwide

2013 was a very busy year for Coixet, finishing Learning to Drive, which is based on Katha Pollitt’s essay and tells the story of a self-absorbed book critic (played by Clarkson) who, after a recent breakup, signs up for driving lessons as part of an effort to move on with her life. Her instructor is a Sikh man living in Queens (played by Kingsley), and together they will help each other to move forward with their lives. Now awaiting the release of Another Me, based on Cathy MacPhail’s young adult novel of the same name about identity anxiety in a teenage girl, played by Game of Thrones’ star Turner in her film debut, the director is also getting ready to start shooting Nobody Wants the Night early next year in Norway.

Her latest project is the story of two women, from two different worlds, and their struggle to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Josephine (to be played by Binoche) is a proud yet naive woman in love with a man who prefers glory and ice to the comforts of an upper-class home. Allaka (to be played by Kikuchi), a young but wise Inuit woman, is in love with the same man with whom she’s expecting a child. Set against the backdrop of a relentless icy landscape, the film chronicles their long, tense wait for the same man they love in such distinct ways.

In 1996 Coixet she made her first English-language film, Things I Never Told You, a moving drama starring Lili Taylor and Andrew McCarthy. International success arrived with the 2003 intimate drama My Life Without Me, based on Nancy Kincaid’s short story, in which Sarah Polley plays Ann, a young mother who decides to hide to her family she has a terminal cancer. This Spanish-Canadian coproduction was a hit at the Berlin Film Festival, from that point on the director's career has grown exponentially and it seems there is no stopping her any time soon.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Seventh Code and Takashi Miike’s The Mole Song added to the competition titles.

The Rome Film Festival has revealed its line-up of features, including 12 world premieres among 18 competition titles.

The festival, which runs from Nov 8-17, will include 71 features in the official selection as well 11 medium-length films and 19 shorts.

A total of 1,542 features and 1,078 short films were submitted from 76 countries, according to the festival.

The competition (‘Concorso’) films include:

Wp = World Premiere

IP = International Premiere

ItP = Italian Premiere

Another Me, Isabel Coixet (Spain-uk) Wpi Am Not Him, Tayfun Pirselimoglu (Tur-Fra-Gre-Ger) WPForeign Bodies, Mirko Locatelli (Italy) WPDallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée (Us) ItPSheep’s Clothing, Paulo Morelli (Brazil) IPAcrid, Kiarash Asadizadeh (Iran) WPHer, Spike Jonze (Us) IPBlue Sky Bones, Jian Cui (China) WPManto Acuífero, Michael Rowe (Mexico) IPThe Mole Song, Takashi Miike (Japan) WPOut Of The Furnace, Scott Cooper (Us-uk) IPQuod Erat Demonstrandum, Andrei Gruzsniczki (Romania) WPSeventh Code, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan...

17 year old Sophie Turner, who shot to fame when cast as Sansa Stark in HBO's Game of Thrones, is to star alongside American starlet Hailee Steinfield, in a new indie action-comedy feature Barely Lethal.

The film follows a 16-year-old international assassin (played by Steinfield) yearning for a “normal” adolescence who fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. Samuel L. Jackson will play her mentor who trains her in the program.

Sophie (represented by Independent Talent) will play an undercover agent who enrolls in the high school to help capture the teen assassin.

Sophie will next be seen in her feature film debut starring in Isabel Coixet’s supernatural thriller Another Me (previously known as Panda Eyes) alongside fellow Brit Gregg Sulkin, which premieres at the Rome Film Festival.

Directed by Kyle Newman, Barely Lethal is due to start shooting in November.

"Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner is the latest name to join the cast of Kyle Newman's Barely Lethal . Deadline reports that the actress is set to join Hailee Steinfeld, Jessica Alba and Samuel L. Jackson in the action comedy. Barely Lethal follows a 16-year-old international assassin (Steinfeld) yearning for "normal" adolescence who fakes her own death and enrolls in a suburban high school. When her former-employer (Jackson) comes calling, it becomes more extracurriculars than any teenager can handle. Although "Game of Thrones" marked Turner's debut as an actress, she's soon set to hit the big screen opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers in writer-director Isabel Coixet's Another Me . Barely Lethal will be produced by Brett Ratner, Rko and...

Films include Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey, and Spike Jonze’s Her.

The Rome Film Festival (Nov 8-17) has announced the first four English-language films in its Competition line up.

The titles include Isabel Coixet’s Another Me; Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club; Spike Jonze’s Her; and Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace.

Another Me (aka Panda Eyes) is a supernatural thriller that stars Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors). The film will be distributed internationally by Fox International Productions.

Dallas Buyers Club stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, who sought alternative treatments after being diagnosed as HIV-positive. Inspired by a true story, the film debuted at Toronto earlier this month. The film will be distributed internationally by Focus Features.

Her is the story of a lonely writer, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who begins an unlikely relationship with his new computer, voiced by [link...

Rome – The International Rome Film Festival on Monday announced the first four competition titles for its upcoming eighth edition, including Spike Jonze's Her and Out of the Furnace from Scott Cooper. Also on tap for the Nov. 8-17 festival: Dallas Buyers Club, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee and starring Matthew McConaughey as an HIV-infected man who locks horns with the medical establishment over treatment, and Another Me, a mystery thriller from Isabel Coixet starring Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones). The film was originally rumored to be headed to Cannes under the title Panda Eyes. Her, meanwhile, stars Joaquin

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers to star in Star Wars: Episode VII? Jonathan Rhys Meyers is "in talks" to star in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII, according to Latino Review. Best known for his role as King Henry VIII in the Showtime series The Tudors, which also features upcoming Man of Steel Henry Cavill, Rhys Meyers has already been featured in one Abrams movie: Mission: Impossible III (2003), in which he supported Tom Cruise. (Photo: Jonathan Rhys Meyers in The Tudors.) At this stage, it’s unclear which role Jonathan Rhys Meyers would play in Star Wars: Episode VII, now a Walt Disney Studios production. The next installment in the highly popular franchise is reportedly to continue the Star Wars saga where Return of the Jedi left off. Having said that, in case Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, and Anthony Daniels (perhaps a little rustier?) are indeed returning to the Star Wars fold,...

#99. Isabel Coixet’s Panda Eyes

Gist: Based on Cathy MacPhail’s young adult novel, Another Me, Coixet’s adaptation, which the director states takes its inspiration from The Ring, concerns identity anxiety in a teenage girl, featuring “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner in her film debut. Coixet, best known for her melancholy dramas like My Life Without Me (2001) and Elegy (2008), appears to be trying something new with her latest, which also features Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Claire Forlani, and Geraldine Chaplin.

Prediction: With a majority of her work premiering in Berlin or Venice, her last title, 2009’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo premiered in the Main Competition. While her latest title, a mystery thriller, will most likely not be considered in the same category this time around, her considerable fest cred (not to mention the constant criticism of the lack of female directors in and out of the Cannes...

Exclusive: CAA has signed actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on HBO’s Game Of Thrones. That series returns to the air this weekend. Her character, spurned by the inbred King Joffrey (who had her father Ned Stark beheaded), finds an intriguing new role in the kingdom’s dynamic as the show builds intrigue. Turner makes her feature film debut later this year starring in Isabel Coixet’s Panda Eyes from Fox International. That film is a psychological thriller based on the Cathy MacPhail novel Another Me, and Turner plays a young woman haunted by a secret past alongside a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, and Claire Forlani. Turner is co-represented by Jane Epstein at Independent Talent Group in the UK.

Exclusive: CAA has signed actress Sophie Turner, who plays Sansa Stark on HBO’s Game Of Thrones. That series returns to the air this weekend. Her character, spurned by the inbred King Joffrey (who had her father Ned Stark beheaded), finds an intriguing new role in the kingdom’s dynamic as the show builds intrigue. Turner makes her feature film debut later this year starring in Isabel Coixet’s Panda Eyes from Fox International. That film is a psychological thriller based on the Cathy MacPhail novel Another Me, and Turner plays a young woman haunted by a secret past alongside a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, and Claire Forlani. Turner is co-represented by Jane Epstein at Independent Talent Group in the UK.

Gregg Sulkin (Pretty Little Liars) is set to co-star opposite Emma Roberts and Billy Campbell in Delirium, Fox‘s drama pilot from Karyn Usher, 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment. Based on Lauren Oliver’s bestselling book trilogy, it is set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway (Roberts) does the unthinkable: she falls in love. Sulkin will play Julien, the son of wealthy political leader Thomas Fineman (Campbell). While his father supports the use of the brain modification, Julien is conflicted about having to undergo a surgery to remove his feelings and eventually finds a kindred spirit in Lena. Sulkin, repped by UTA, D2 Management and Bloom Hergott, recently wrapped production on the Fox feature Panda Eyes opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers and he will next be seen starring opposite Selena Gomez...

Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional 100 titles we are eagerly looking forward to catching in the new year. From these 200-101 titles, we’re happy to list several projects featuring the extremely busy Isabelle Huppert, include two English language projects, Ned Benson’s split film project The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby His/Hers and the Niels Arden Oplev film, Dead Man Down (and don’t forget her French projects, a starring turn in Serge Bozon’s followup, Tip Top as well as Guillaume Nicloux’s The Religious).

Additionally, the horror genre should be extremely noteworthy in the coming year, with new projects from Neil Marshall (The Descent), Alexandre Aja (High Tension), Fabrice Du Welz (Calvaire), Lucky McKee (May) and directing team Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury (Inside). We’ve got two Australian beauties playing...

Fox International has started production in Spain on Panda Eyes. Directed by Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, The Secret Life Of Words), the film stars Game Of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner, who is making her feature film debut. She’s surrounded by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Claire Forlani, Gregg Sulkin, Leonor Watling, Ivana Baquero, and Geraldine Chaplin. The film is a psychological thriller with Turner playing a woman haunted by a secret past. It is based on the Cathy MacPhail novel Another Me, and Coixet wrote the script. 20th Century Fox will distribute the Fox International film, a UK/Spain co-production that has Rebekah Gilbertson and Nicole Carmen-Davis producing for UK-based Rainy Day Films and Mariela Besuievsky producing for Spain-based Tornasol Films. Film Agency for Wales, Fox International Productions, the British Film Co. and Dsk Ventures are financing the film.

"Wizards of Waverly Place" and "Pretty Little Liars" actor Gregg Sulkin willl star in the teen romance 1990. He'll play Josh, who has to change schools his senior year, and becomes friends with Kami. Both are secretly crushing on each other but the timing is never right for confessions. Jason Priestley from the 90's TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210" (the original) is producing. 

Sulkin is currently filming Panda Eyes, and he's wrapped Affluenza, a modern day retelling of "The Great Gatsby." Additionally, he returned to play Alex' boyfriend in the "Wizards of Waverly Place" TV movie "The Wizards Return: Alex vs Alex."

Source: Variety...

"Wizards of Waverly Place" and "Pretty Little Liars" actor Gregg Sulkin willl star in the teen romance 1990. He'll play Josh, who has to change schools his senior year, and becomes friends with Kami. Both are secretly crushing on each other but the timing is never right for confessions. Jason Priestley from the 90's TV series "Beverly Hills, 90210" (the original) is producing. 

Sulkin is currently filming Panda Eyes, and he's wrapped Affluenza, a modern day retelling of "The Great Gatsby." Additionally, he returned to play Alex' boyfriend in the "Wizards of Waverly Place" TV movie "The Wizards Return: Alex vs Alex."

Source: Variety...

Young British Disney star Gregg Sulkin is currently filming supernatural thriller Panda Eyes in Wales, alongside Game of Thrones star 16 year old Sophie Turner.

Panda Eyes has been adapted from Catherine MacPhail’s novel Another Me, about a teenage girl Fay, with a dysfunctional family, who starts noticing strange things, and believes she is being pursued by her own double.

20 year old Gregg started acting as child when he played the lead role of Bernie Reubens in Sixty Six, directed by Paul Weiland. He plays the love interest of Selena Gomez in Wizards of Waverly Place, and is currently recurring on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars. He has recently filmed a number of indie features including White Frog, and Camilla Dickinson with Adelaide Clemens.

Panda Eyes is directed by Spanish film-maker Isabel Coixet and also stars Jonathan Rhys Myers and Rhys Ifans.