German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s mesmerizing, mostly English-language “Islands” opens with a scene that for many would mark “rock bottom” — reason to check oneself into rehab — as Sam Riley’s Tom ...

BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - British actor Sam Riley, who shot to fame playing Ian Curtis in 2007's "Control", said he could relate to the feelings of wasted potential that plague his character in ...

Greenwich Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to “Islands,” following the thriller’s premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film was co-written and directed ...

One of the featured debuting in cinemas this week is Islands, a new drama set in the Canary Islands with Sam Riley among the cast of the film, along with Stacy Martin and Jack Farthing. To coincide ...

The establishing scenes of Islands feel like something out of a James M. Cain novel - a wily noir, in this case drenched in ...

Sales, finance and production outfit Protagonist Pictures will handle worldwide sales alongside Augenschein Sales for Jan-Ole Gerster’s thriller “Islands,” starring Sam Riley (“Control,” “Firebrand”), ...

There have been relatively few biopics about choreographers, but it's hard to think of a better one than "John Cranko," about the late South African who made his name in England and Germany. Steering ...

No surprise there. Riley, 45, might have become a well-known actor, but, in his heart, he's always been a rock star. At least that's the career he had planned for himself when he left the National ...

‘Islands,’ Jan-Ole Gerster’s thriller that first bowed in the Berlinale earlier this year to critical acclaim, has secured key distribution deals for Protagonist Pictures and augenschein Sales.