Black lives don't matter in Warwick Thornton's fiercely original outback Western Wolfram, a surprisingly emotional genre piece that simmers with menace and doesn't let up until the bloody finale. Saturated in the heatwave colors of Australia's scorching…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical has acquired North American rights to The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett (Black Bag) and newcomer Aswan Reid, slating the film for release in theaters on May 23. Written and directed by Warwick Thornton, the Australian filmmaker behind titles like Sweet Country and Samson…

THE NEW BOY Section: Gala Presentations Director: Warwick Thornton Writers: Warwick Thornton Logline: Starring Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, this spiritual drama from Warwick Thornton (TIFF '17's Sweet Country) hauntingly evokes Australia's fraught colonial legacy through the story…

Aussie filmmaker Warwick Thornton joked that Cate Blanchett "elbowed" her way into his crafty sixth feature, The New Boy, as he introduced the pic at Deadline's Cannes Studio shortly before its festival premiere. In the pic, which debuted this week at Cannes, Blanchett plays Sister Eileen, a…

Warwick Thornton is a master maker of images. The first frames of The New Boy – a sweep of dusty ground; a flash of a small boy on a policeman's back, strangling him; a pre-war telegraph pole, all drenched in the searing white midday light of the desert – create a collage of inland Australia, a world…

Here's your first look at Cate Blanchett in The New Boy, the latest film from Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton. The pic will debut in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, which will be Thornton's second appearance at the fest, following 2009's Samson & Delilah, for which he won the…

Cate Blanchett's Dirty Films and Scarlett Pictures are partnering to co-produce The New Boy with Blanchett attached to star and Warwick Thornton writing and directing. Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair join Blanchett in the ensemble, which is set to begin filming in October in South Australia. Roadshow Films will…

EXCLUSIVE: Warwick Thornton, one of Australia's most celebrated filmmakers with features including Samson and Delilah and Sweet Country, self-isolated in a beach shack on the north-west coast of Australia in 2019. The Beach, a docuseries whose only subjects are Thornton, three chickens, a dog, and a mud crab, is…

Making Sweet Country, his critically acclaimed Australian Western, Warwick Thornton went in without any preconceptions, wishing to find an organic and unique take on the genre that might fly in the face of what people might expect. “You try and reinvent yourself as a director every time you read a…

Samuel Goldwyn Films acquired North American rights to the Warwick Thornton-directed Sweet Country. Pic stars Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Thomas M. Wright, Ewen Leslie, Natassia Gorey-Furber, Gibson John, Matt Day, Anni Finsterer, Treymayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan and Sam Neill. The film won Special Jury Prize…

UTA has brought on director, screenwriter and cinematographer Warwick Thornton, whose western drama, Sweet Country, starring Sam Neill and Bryan Brown,  nabbed the Platform Prize at the Toronto Film Festival, just after he was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The period film is about an…