Oscar winner Viola Davis, Mudbound star Rob Morgan and The Nightingale breakout Aisling Franciosi have joined the cast of Sandra Bullock's new Netflix movie based on the British miniseries Unforgiven, Collider has learned. Nora Fingscheidt, who made her directorial debut with Germany's current Oscar entrant System Crasher, will direct the untitled feature, which was written by Oscar winner Christopher McQuarrie. Graham King is producing under his GK Films banner, while Bullock will produce via Fortis Films, and Veronica Ferres will produce via Construction Film. Executive producers include Nan Morales, Nicola Shindler, Sally Wainwright and Colin Vaines. Bullock will …

Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week’s episode, we welcome special guest Jennifer Kent, director of The Babadook and her haunting new historical revenge drama The Nightingale. The filmmaker talked about her journey from a theatrically trained actress to a film writer and director, the challenges of making a film as emotionally and physically demanding as The Nightingale, her thoughts on the state of streaming and theatrical distribution, and a whole lot more. Listen to the …

Jennifer Kent made an incredible feature debut with 2014's The Babadook, an assured and absolutely chilling horror movie rooted in dark psychological drama and everyone's primal fear of childhood monsters. For her sophomore feature, the director turns to human monsters with her brutal revenge tale The Nightingale. Set in 1800s Australia, the film follows Aisling Franciosi as a young woman dead set on retribution after a soldier commits horrifying acts of violence against her family. Perri caught The Nightingale at Sundance and called it "a film that both shines and horrifies due to Kent’s attention to detail …

Do you remember rising star Aisling Franciosi in Game of Thrones? You won’t forget her in The Nightingale. Two other European women are shooting to stardom as well in the Berlinale’s Shooting Stars programme. Each year the Berlin Film Festival’s Shooting Stars programme highlights major upcoming European acting talent and one would have to say that Irish actress Ailing Franciosi’s star is truly on the rise. Norway’s Ine Marie Wilmann, who played Norwegian ice skater and 1930s Hollywood star Sonja Henie in Sundance entry Sonja: The White Swan, is also on a career high, while …

Jennifer Kent quickly skyrocketed to being one of my favorite filmmakers in the industry after her feature directorial debut The Babadook, and now I’m thrilled to tell you that that title stands after having seeing her second film, The Nightingale. And also after getting the opportunity to talk to Kent about making that film and her priorities as a director in general. As one can imagine, The Babadook opened doors for Kent and those doors could have led to studio level projects and big paychecks, but Kent opted to go for something that’s quite challenging and not necessarily …

It feels like we’ve been waiting forever for Jennifer Kent’s follow-up to The Babadook, which hit theaters back in 2014. It’s tough to say her second directorial effort, The Nightingale, is worth the wait for Babadook fans because this new film is quite different and tackles some extremely challenging and often unpleasant subject matter, but perhaps that makes it even more remarkable as it’s a sure sign Kent is telling the story she wants her way with great skill and precision, despite possible pressure to deliver more of the same. The Nightingale features a phenomenal …