Fact: High Rise director Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire is to close the London Film Festival (LFF). The movie, which sees 2016 Oscar winner Brie Larson play Justine, a young woman who brokers a gun deal in 1970s Massachusetts, will premiere at the LFF's Closing Night gala on 16 October (16). The film also stars Cillian Murphy, Michael Smiley, Sharlto Copley and Armie Hammer.
Fact: Director Ben Wheatley will make movie history in July (13) when his new English Civil War film A Field In England is released simultaneously in cinemas, on Dvd and video-on-demand. It will be the first U.K. film to be released is such a fashion. The black and white film features Reece Shearsmith and Julian Barratt.