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Pillion (film)
''Pillion'' is a 2025 British drama film, written and directed by Harry Lighton in his directorial debut, based upon the 2020 novel ''Box Hill'' by Adam Mars-Jones. It stars Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård as a young gay man and a biker gang leader, respectively, who enter into a BDSM relationship. The film had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section on 18 May 2025, where it won the Best Screenplay prize, and was nominated for the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm. Cast * Harry Melling as Colin * Alexander Skarsgård as Ray * Douglas Hodge as Pete * Lesley Sharp as Peggy * Jake Shears as Kevin * Paul Tallis as The Human Puppy * Anthony Welsh as Darren Production The film is based on the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. In May 2024, Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård joined the cast of the film, with Harry Lighton directing (making his directorial debut) from a screenplay he wrote. Element Pictures, BBC Film a ...
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Harry Lighton
Harry Lighton (born 20 October 1992) is an English film director and screenwriter, whose feature directorial debut ''Pillion'' premiered in 2025. Originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire, he began making short films while studying literature at the University of Oxford. His most noted short film, ''Wren Boys'' (2017), received a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Short Film at the 71st British Academy Film Awards, and a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best British Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2017. ''Pillion'' premiered in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where Lighton won the award for Best Screenplay in the program.Orlando Parfitt"Chile’s ‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’ wins top Un Certain Regard award at 2025 Cannes Film Festival" ''Screen Daily'', 23 May 2025. Filmography *''Knitlab: XY'' - 2016 *''Sunday Morning Coming Down'' - 2016 *''Look at Me'' - 2017 *''Wren Boys'' - 2017 *''Leash'' ...
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Douglas Hodge
Douglas William Hodge (born 25 February 1960) is an English actor, director and musician. He has had an extensive career in theatre, as well as film and television where he has appeared in ''Robin Hood'' (2010), '' Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return'' and '' Diana'' (both 2013), ''Penny Dreadful'' (2016), '' Catastrophe'' (2018), '' Joker'' and '' Lost in Space'' (both 2019), and '' The Great'' (2020–2023). Early life Hodge was born on 25 February 1960 in Plymouth, Devon. When he was young, his family moved to Wigmore, Gillingham, Kent. He attended Fairview Primary School and The Howard School in Rainham, Kent. He was awarded a position as student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), in London, but was not happy and left before graduating. This never affected his desire to be an actor. Career Theatre Hodge has acted in plays by Harold Pinter, including '' No Man's Land'' at the Comedy Theatre in February 1993; ''Moonlight'' at the Almeida Theatre in September 1993; ...
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2025 Directorial Debut Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 Digit (anatomy), digits on their Limb (anatomy), limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat number, Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not Tessellation, tile the Plane (geometry), plane with copies of itself. It is the ...
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2025 Films
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple ( 3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not tile the plane with copies of itself. It is the largest face any of the five regular three-dimensional regular Platonic solid can have. A conic is determine ...
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Palm Dog Award
The Palm Dog Award is a yearly award presented by the international film critics during the Cannes Film Festival. Begun in 2001 by Toby Rose, it is awarded to the best performance by a canine (live or animated) or group of canines. The award consists of a leather dog collar with the term "PALM DOG". The name of the award is a play on words of the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor. In 2023, Woopets, a leading media company, announced that it had taken over the event from its founder, Toby Rose. Background First reported in June 2002, the Palm Dog has been reported by major news outlets around the world, including '' Financial Times Deutschland'', ''Sydney Morning Herald'', ''The New York Times'', the BBC, the ''Los Angeles Times'', and ABC News. In 2012 the judges for the Palm Dog were ''The Times'' chief film critic Kate Muir, ''The Daily Telegraph'''s Robbie Collin, ''The Guardian'''s Peter Bradshaw and '' Heat Magazine'''s Charles Gant. Award winners 2000s 2010 ...
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Instagram
Instagram is an American photo sharing, photo and Short-form content, short-form video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms. It allows users to upload media that can be edited with Social media camera filter, filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location via Geotagging, geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tags and locations, view trending content, Like button, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal news feed, feed. A Meta-operated image-centric social media platform, it is available on iOS, Android (operating system), Android, Windows 10, and the web. Users can take photos and edit them using built-in filters and other tools, then share them on other social media platforms like Facebook. It supports 32 languages including English language, English, Hindi language, Hindi, Spanish language, Spanish, French language, F ...
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The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. The magazine also sponsors and hosts major industry events. History Foundation and early years ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, t ...
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Cannes Standing Ovation
List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 78th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2025. Longest standing ovations With 22 minutes, ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) holds the record for longest standing ovation. Longest screening runtime * '' The War'' (2007) – 870 minutes, split into four Special Screenings from 22 to 23 May 2007. Longest gap between first time in official selection and first Palme d'Or 42 years – Jean-Luc Godard's first film in official selection was '' How's it going'', screened in the section in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for '' The Image Book'' in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a . Directors with multiple Palme d'Or wins 10 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice. Three of these (‡) have won for consecutive films. Directors with multiple Grand Prix wins Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice. Directors w ...
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Film Festival (; ), until 2003 called the International Film Festival ('), is the most prestigious film festival in the world. Held in Cannes, France, it previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. Cannes is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside Venice and Berlin, as well as one of the "Big Five" major international film festivals, alongside Venice, Berlin, Toronto and Sundance. History The early years The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They found the support of the ...
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Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. It is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. She was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper# ...
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Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American trade magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation. It was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933, ''Daily Variety'' was launched, based in Los Angeles, to cover the film industry, motion-picture industry. ''Variety'' website features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, plus a credits database, production charts and film calendar. History Founding ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville, with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. He subsequently decided to start his own publication that, he said, would "not be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father-in-law, he launched ''Variety'' as publisher and editor. In additi ...
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Anthony Welsh
Anthony Michael Welsh (born 5 July 1983) is an English actor. He made his film debut in ''Red Tails'' (2012). On television, he is known for his role as Lucky Gordon in ''The Trial of Christine Keeler'' (2019–2020). Early life and education Welsh was born at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the Hammersmith area of West London and grew up in West Ealing. He attended Drayton Manor High School. He began taking evening acting classes at Richmond Drama School when he was about 20 followed by a foundation course. He went on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is a drama school located in Hammersmith, London. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest specialist drama school in the British Isles and a founding member of the Federation of Drama Schools. In ... (LAMDA). Filmography Film Television Video games Music videos Stage References External links * Living people 1983 births Al ...
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