{"id":829443,"date":"2026-07-28T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829443\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:50:09","slug":"focus-features-acquires-elsinore-starring-andrew-scott-sets-fall-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/829443\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus Features Acquires &#8216;Elsinore&#8217; Starring Andrew Scott, Sets Fall Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/focus-features\/\" id=\"auto-tag_focus-features\" data-tag=\"focus-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Focus Features<\/a> has taken North America and Latin America on Studiocanal\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/elsinore\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elsinore\" data-tag=\"elsinore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elsinore<\/a>, from director Simon Stone, and starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/andrew-scott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andrew-scott\" data-tag=\"andrew-scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Scott<\/a> for a limited launch on Nov. 20 before expanding over Thanksgiving and throughout December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStudioCanal, which handles global sales, will retain the feature in their markets of UK, France, Italy (Lucky Red), Germany, Poland, Benelux, Australia and New Zealand. CAA Media Finance brokered the deal with Focus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe pic follows the true story of Ian Charleson, a gifted actor whose greatest challenge becomes his greatest triumph. Facing his own mortality with unflinching honesty, wit, and grace, Charleson delivers a courageous performance on stage at London\u2019s National Theatre that becomes a source of healing and inspiration for those around him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tElsinore was penned by Stephen Beresford (Pride),\u00a0also stars Academy Award Winner\u00a0Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Lost Daughter)\u00a0Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, David Dawson, Monica Dolan, Matthew Beard, Joe Locke, Georgie Glen, Sadie Soverall, Adeel Akhtar, Dickie Beau with Juliet Stevenson and Peter Mullan. Pic\u00a0is produced by StudioCanal, LD Entertainment, Lucky Red and Magnolia Mae Films. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStone previously directed The Daughter and The Dig. Producers are Andrea Occhipinti\u00a0of Lucky Red (Il Divo, Everybody Knows), Gabrielle Tana and Carolyn Marks Blackwood of Magnolia Mae Films\u00a0(The Dig, Philomena); Pete Shilaimon and Mickey Liddell of LD Entertainment (Jackie,\u00a0Anthropoid) and Stefano Massenzi and Scott.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn deck for the rest of Focus Features\u2019 year are Robert Eggers\u2019 Christmas Day release,\u00a0Werwulf,\u00a0The Uprising\u00a0from Paul Greengrass; and Georgia Oakley\u2019s highly anticipated new take on Jane Austen\u2019s beloved classic,\u00a0Sense and Sensibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStone is represented by CAA and Stacey Testro International. Beresford is represented by Independent Talent Group.\u00a0Scott is represented by\u00a0United Agents, CAA, Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole. Colman is represented by\u00a0United Agents, Johnson Shapiro Slewett &amp; Kole, and Narrative.\u00a0Piper is represented by UTA and Curtis Brown Group. Flynn is represented by CAA and United Agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Focus Features has taken North America and Latin America on Studiocanal\u2019s\u00a0Elsinore, from director Simon Stone, and starring Andrew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[248081,64,63,402820,134,114396,344],"class_list":["post-829443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-andrew-scott","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-elsinore","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-features","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}