A Hundred StreetsDirector: Jim O'Hanlon
Writer: Leon Butler
Starring: Idris Elba, Gemma Arterton, Emma Rigby
Status: Post-productionA Hundred Streets is a London-based drama weaving together a quartet of stories all set within the same square mile of the capital. It’s based on Square Mile: London, a 2012 short co-written by first-time feature writer Leon Butler, and is being sold as a slice-of-life UK picture.
Idris Elba takes the role of a former rugby player estranged from his wife, played by Gemma Arterton, alongside Samantha Barks, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ken Stott and Jamie Foreman. The film marks the feature directorial debut of In The Flesh and A Touch Of Cloth’s Jim O’Hanlon.
Note: This teaser was directed by the official film's music supervisor, James Radford.American HoneyDirector/Writer: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, McCaul Lombardi
Status: Post-ProductionOP Note: This is the movie Shia was filming when he put his head through a window and had to get stitches.Writer-director Andrea Arnold won twenty-two awards, including an Oscar, for her socially realist short Wasp in 2003. Her three follow-up features, Red Road, Fish Tank and a naturalistic adaptation of Wuthering Heights, cemented her deservedly celebrated position in British film.
Arnold is currently working in the US, having directed an episode of Amazon’s acclaimed Transparent and following that up with UK/US co-production American Honey. The film, also written by Arnold, is listed as a comedy drama about a teenage girl who winds up on a chaotic road trip across the Midwest of America. True to form, Arnold has cast a group of young actors largely new to cinema in the film, always an exciting prospect.
No teaser available, sorry!BrotherhoodDirector/Writer: Noel Clark
Starring: Noel Clark, Steven Cree, Tonia Sotiropoulou
Status: FilmingIn 2006, Noel Clarke and Menhaj Huda’s Kidulthood was praised for delivering an unflinching slice of west London life. That film was followed up two years later by Adulthood, a similarly frank account of the so-called “grime generation”, and now, a decade on, the trilogy will be completed with Brotherhood.
Noel Clarke is back directing and writing the third part in his series, which is currently filming and scheduled for release in the autumn. Once again, Clarke will take on the role of Sam Peel, whose release from prison was chronicled in the second film. Co-star Adam Deacon's well-publicised fall-out with Clarke and personal troubles regrettably mean he won't be back to complete the trilogy.
High-RiseDirector: Ben Wheatley
Writers: J.G. Ballard (novel), Amy Jump
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller
Release Date: March 18thAnother from Ben Wheatley, who made his impressive Doctor Who debut last year with Deep Breath and Into The Dalek and now returns to the big screen for this J.G Ballard adaptation. Ballard’s 1975 novel takes place in an affluent modern tower block whose wealthy tenants descend into a primal orgy of violence and destruction.
With a screenplay adapted by Amy Jump - Wheatley’s long-time collaborator and wife - High-Rise features a raft of top UK talent, from Tom Hiddleston to Jeremy Irons, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Sienna Miller and Mad Men and Top Of The Lake’s Elisabeth Moss. Out for general release in March.
Eye in the SkyDirector: Gavin Hood
Writers: Guy Hibbert
Starring: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
Release Date: March 11th April?Alan Rickman alert: the Rickman makes a rare appearance in UK-funded military thriller Eye In The Sky, in which he appears alongside Helen Mirren and Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul.
The film, about a military drone mission to capture a terrorist group in Kenya that enters morally dubious territory when a nine year old civilian enters the target zone, comes directed by Ender’s Game and X-Men Origins: Wolverine’s Gavin Hood. The thriller was filmed in South Africa and release has now been scheduled for April 2016.
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