Wim Wenders’s ‘Submergence’ Starring Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy sold to 30+ Territories
Major international distributors have embarked on Wim Wenders’ buzzed-about epic romance “Submergence,” which is currently shooting with Oscar winner Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy. Read more here.
Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ Producers Developing Jonathan Lee’s High Dive
Pulse Films and Addictive Pictures have acquired the film rights to the Margaret Thatcher assassination thriller
Wim Wenders starts ‘Submergence’ shoot in Berlin with James McAvoy & Alicia Vikander
Newly-awarded and much in demand, Alicia Vikander’s first post-Oscars move has been to team up with James McAvoy for Wim Wenders’ adaptation of J.M. Ledgard’s Submergence.
Sara Baume talks dogs, art and Spill Simmer Falter Wither
Before she was a writer, Sara Baume set out to be a visual artist. “First and foremost I see; I see the world and then I describe it …” she says. “I don’t know another way to write. I always anchor everything in an image.” Baume’s process works — a review in The Irish Times called her debut […]
Harry Parker: ‘Losing my legs in Afghanistan was like losing a loved one’
Harry Parker: ‘Losing my legs in Afghanistan was like losing a loved one’ ‘It was on July 18 2009, when Harry Parker was returning from a night patrol with some 50 men, that he made a mistake – deciding to take a line of soldiers on a short cut through a field rather than follow the […]
The Real-life Jumpin’ Jack Flash: How David Litvinoff Shook The 60s
He inspired Mick Jagger, fought with Lucian Freud and shared lovers with Ronnie Kray. But David Litvinoff’s taste for danger would take him into the darkest corners of swinging London. Jon Savage on a new book by Keiron Pim which tells the story of this brilliant enigma. Read more at The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/19/the-real-life-jumpin-jack-flash-how-david-litvinoff-shook-the-60s […]
Harry Parker featured in the Observer’s New Faces of Fiction 2016
Ex-soldier Harry Parker, who lost his legs in Afghanistan, has written a war novel with a difference “It’s quite a weird book, isn’t it?” suggests Harry Parker in his publisher’s office on a grey Tuesday morning. “Weird” may be overstating things, but Anatomy of a Soldier feels like a new take on the war novel. Following […]
The film adaptation of Submergence by Jonathan Ledgard to be directed by Wim Wenders
Hollywood’s red-hot star Alicia Vikander is in advanced negotiations to topline Wim Wenders’ romantic thriller “Submergence” opposite James McAvoy. The film is based on J.M. Ledgard’s novel of the same name that ranked second in New York Magazine’s list of the 10 Best Books of 2013. Penned by Erin Dignam (“The Last Face”), “Submergence” centers […]
‘In the Act of Falling’ by Danielle McLaughlin
Read the full story and Q & A with the author published in the New Yorker
The Subversive Brilliance of A Little Life
Jon Michaud reviews Hanya Yanagihara’s second novel for the New Yorker