From Antarctica to Nextflix

Well, good afternoon to you, Gareth.

Where are we starting?

We're going to start with Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman, who are going to open this year's BFI London Film Festival.

They'll be hosting the European premiere of their film, Elsinore.

Now, the film's going to be playing actually in the Toronto Film Festival.

This is the European Film Festival.

Now, it's a feature from Simon Stone.

He would have been the director of The Dig, and it's written by BAFTA winner Stephen Beresford, who would have written Pride.

Now, this film is based on the life of Ian Charleston, and it follows the actor's final weeks before his death, playing Hamlet at London's National Theatre in the 1980s.

It's a powerful, deeply moving, inspiring story of an actor who, who faced incredible odds while preparing to give, I suppose, the performance of his life.

The cast in the film, you also have the likes of Billy Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, Peter Mullen, Joe Locke.

They're all expected to attend the premiere as well.

Andrew Scott's a producer on the film.

Yeah, and the release dates for the film.

So Studio Canal are going to be releasing it in January, end of January.

Meanwhile, Focus have acquired it for a US release.

So they're going to release it in select cinemas on November 20th.

So that to me signals that they're potentially looking at an awards run for the film and a bit of buzz around it.

All those release dates kind of line up with it.

And a premiere in Toronto as well does do that.

So the BFI London Film Festival run from October 7th to the 18th.

We look forward to hearing more about that film.

We do.

I

like the sound of Andrew Scott on that.