{"id":2806,"date":"2016-11-09T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2016-11-09T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T09:20:06","slug":"production-begins-on-darkest-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2016\/11\/09\/production-begins-on-darkest-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Production Begins On Darkest Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill for director Joe Wright; Filmmaking team set.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill for director Joe Wright in Darkest Hour, which has begun production in the U.K. Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the Working Title Films production as part of the company\u2019s renewed global initiative. Focus will release Darkest Hour domestically on November 24th, 2017 in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International (UPI) will distribute the film globally, beginning with the U.K. on December 29th, 2017.<\/p>\n

\"Winston<\/p>\n

The original screenplay of Darkest Hour is by Anthony McCarten, an Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award winner as screenwriter of Focus and Working Title\u2019s Best Picture Oscar nominee The Theory of Everything. Mr. McCarten and Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award winner Lisa Bruce (The Theory of Everything) are producing Darkest Hour with Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and BAFTA Award winner Douglas Urbanski (Nil by Mouth), reteaming with Focus and Working Title following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, for which Mr. Oldman was a Best Actor Oscar nominee.<\/p>\n

The filmmaking team includes costume designer Jacqueline Durran, an Academy Award winner for her work on Mr. Wright\u2019s Anna Karenina for Focus and Working Title; production designer Sarah Greenwood, who has received Academy Award nominations for three previous movies directed by Mr. Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Pride & Prejudice) for Focus and Working Title; composer Dario Marianelli, an Academy Award winner for scoring Mr. Wright\u2019s Atonement for Focus and Working Title; director of photography Bruno Delbonnel, a four-time Academy Award nominee; editor Valerio Bonelli (Florence Foster Jenkins); make-up and hair designer Ivana Primorac, who has collaborated with Mr. Wright on four previous movies including Focus\u2019 Hanna; and two-time Academy Award nominee Kazuhiro Tsuji, who will be prosthetics designer on Darkest Hour.<\/p>\n

Within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight\u00a0for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.<\/p>\n

Joining Mr. Oldman in the cast are Stephen Dillane, John Hurt, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, and Kristin Scott Thomas.<\/p>\n

Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner have been co-chairs of Working Title Films, one of the world\u2019s leading film production companies, since 1992. Working Title has made more than 100 films that have grossed over $6 billion worldwide, including over $1 billion at the U.K. box office.\u00a0Its films have won 12 Academy Awards\u00a0(for Tom Hooper\u2019s\u00a0Les Mis\u00e9rables and The Danish Girl; James Marsh\u2019s\u00a0The Theory of Everything; Tim Robbins\u2019 Dead Man Walking; Joel and Ethan Coen\u2019s Fargo; Shekhar Kapur\u2019s Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age; and Joe Wright\u2019s Atonement and Anna Karenina), 39 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards, and prizes at the Cannes and Berlin International Film Festivals.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bevan and Mr. Fellner have been honored with\u00a0the Producers Guild of America\u2019s David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, the PGA\u2019s highest honor for motion picture producers. They have been accorded\u00a0two of the highest film awards given to British filmmakers: the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award at the BAFTA Awards, and the Alexander Walker Film Award at the Evening Standard British Film Awards.\u00a0 They have also both been honored with CBEs (Commanders of the Order of the British Empire).<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s commercial and critical hits include The Interpreter, About a Boy, Notting Hill, Elizabeth, Fargo, Dead Man Walking, Bean, High Fidelity, Johnny English, Billy Elliot, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Love Actually, Shaun of the Dead, Pride & Prejudice, Nanny McPhee, United 93, Mr. Bean\u2019s Holiday, Hot Fuzz, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Burn After Reading, Frost\/Nixon, Atonement, Senna, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Anna Karenina, Les Mis\u00e9rables, I Give It A Year, About Time, Rush, The Two Faces of January, Trash, The Theory of Everything, Legend, Everest, The Program, The Danish Girl, Grimsby, and Hail, Caesar!<\/p>\n

Working Title\u2019s slate includes Bridget Jones\u2019s Baby, directed by Sharon Maguire and starring Ren\u00e9e Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Patrick Dempsey; The Snowman, directed by Tomas Alfredson and starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, and Val Kilmer; Baby Driver, directed by Edgar Wright and starring Lily James, Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, and Jamie Foxx; and Victoria and Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n

In addition to Victoria and Abdul and Darkest Hour, current and upcoming domestic releases from Focus include\u00a0Kubo and the Two Strings, the new family event movie from animation studio LAIKA, directed by Travis Knight with a voice cast that includes Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Brenda Vaccaro, and Matthew McConaughey; Tom Ford\u2019s romantic thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival; the real-life story of heroism\u00a0The Zookeeper\u2019s Wife, directed by Niki Caro and starring Jessica Chastain; Colin Trevorrow\u2019s The Book of Henry, starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, and Jacob Tremblay; Sofia Coppola\u2019s The Beguiled, starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning; the action spy thriller The Coldest City, directed by David Leitch and starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy; the untitled new film from Paul Thomas Anderson starring Daniel Day-Lewis; J.A. Bayona\u2019s visually spectacular drama\u00a0A Monster Calls, starring Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Lewis MacDougall, and<\/p>\n

Liam Neeson, which world-premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival; and Jeff Nichols\u2019\u00a0Loving, based on the love story of Richard and Mildred Loving, portrayed by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, which world-premiered at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

Focus Features, Universal Pictures International, and Working Title Films are part of NBCUniversal, one of the world\u2019s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, and world-renowned theme parks. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill for director Joe Wright; Filmmaking team set. Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill for director Joe Wright in Darkest Hour, which has begun production in the U.K. Focus Features holds worldwide rights to the Working Title Films production as part of the company\u2019s renewed global initiative. Focus will release… Continue reading Production Begins On Darkest Hour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}