Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year

Mike Leigh Starts Work on New Film Shooting This Year with Support from Team Behind ‘Hard Truths’
While his reunion with “Secrets & Lies” star Marianne Jean-Baptiste for 2024’s “Hard Truths” may not have yielded the awards glory many were hoping for, Mike Leigh rides on, gearing up to start work on a new project shooting in 2025.
Mike Leigh To Shoot New Film This Year, Re-Teaming With Bleecker Street, Studiocanal, Film4 & Cornerstone Ahead Of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Filming is expected to start later this year on Mike Leigh’s next project, which will see the acclaimed writer-director reuniting with recent collaborators Cornerstone, Bleecker Street, Studiocanal and UK financier Film4.
Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry
Mike Leigh’s Bafta-nominated Hard Truths will make you laugh and cry - 4/5 The British director’s new film features a titanic performance from Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who reunites with him nearly thre
The hard truths of Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s decades-long ‘love fest’
In Mike Leigh’s latest movie, Hard Truths, a London family begins to splinter as an overbearing matriarch releases her unbridled frustrations
Mike Leigh (sort of) unpacks his new film Hard Truths
The legend of British cinema on his unique way of working, Marianne Jean-Baptiste's Bafta-nominated performance and what's next
Mike Leigh to Shoot Next Film This Year
On the day that “Hard Truths” opens in U.K. cinemas, details of the next feature from Mike Leigh — a filmmaker not exactly known for his prolific output — has already emerged. As per usual with the iconoclastic British director,
Mike Leigh already has eyes on his next project
Mike Leigh is getting behind the camera to break your heart all over again sometime this year. The acclaimed director has set ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste In Hard Truths Reminds Us We’re Overlooking Older Black Women’s Mental Health
Baptiste’s performance as Pansy Deacon in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene, her ...
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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’
Jean-Baptiste did this, she says, to “stay honest”. And, well, because it’s the Mike Leigh way. Now, nearly 30 years ...
Bafta-nominated actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I prefer the roles out on the margins’
Thirty years after ‘Secrets & Lies’, she has reunited with director Mike Leigh to play a woman raging at the world ...
Hard Truths review: Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and funny in this fearless drama
Mike Leigh’s uncompromising latest film is harrowing and hilarious, centred around a fearless lead performance by Marianne ...
Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Hard Truths: "Usually, women behaving badly aren't tolerated"
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, 57, was born in south London and trained at Rada. Her breakthrough role was in Mike Leigh’s 1995 film ...
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Film of the week: Companion is an entertaining and thought-provoking thriller
At first glance, Companion (15A) seems to be an inventive and blackly comic thriller about what might happen if humanity allows technology to escape the firm grip of our guiding hand. As Iris (Sophie ...
‘It’s rare to see a middle-aged Black woman in pain this way on screen’
‘We’re not used to seeing – especially in the UK – a middle-aged Black woman in pain on screen in this way. I think there’s ...