The Department of Justice and FBI are pressuring multiple British journalists to cooperate with the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, using vague threats and pressure tactics in the process. I know because I am one of the British journalists being pressured to cooperate in the case against him, as someone who used to (briefly) work and live with him, and who went on to blow the whistle on WikiLeaks’ own ethical lapses.
Assange is facing extradition to the United States from the U.K., where he is currently in Belmarsh prison in south London,...
Assange is facing extradition to the United States from the U.K., where he is currently in Belmarsh prison in south London,...
- 7/5/2023
- by James Ball
- Rollingstone.com
Happy Tuesday, dear readers! We have a brand new round of home media releases on tap for today, and we have a mix of new and classic titles headed home this week. As far as new genre offerings go, Rob Savage’s Dashcam, The Last Thing Mary Saw, and Shark Bait are all being released on DVD, and The Twin featuring Teresa Palmer is coming out on Blu-ray. Galaxy Quest, which is an all-timer in our house, is getting a new Blu-ray today, and as far as older films go, both The Last Broadcast and Terror Circus are getting an HD overhaul, too.
Other releases for July 12th include Death Hunt, Blood Bath and While We Sleep.
Dashcam
Weary of pandemic life, Annie makes a surprise, unwelcome visit to her old bandmate, Stretch, stealing his car and taking over his food delivery gig while live-streaming outrageous antics for internet fans.
Other releases for July 12th include Death Hunt, Blood Bath and While We Sleep.
Dashcam
Weary of pandemic life, Annie makes a surprise, unwelcome visit to her old bandmate, Stretch, stealing his car and taking over his food delivery gig while live-streaming outrageous antics for internet fans.
- 7/12/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
ITV has announced a glut of new content as part of a spring showcase, including revealing that it has greenlit a true-crime drama series on John Darwin, the former prison officer who was jailed for faking his own death.
All3Media-backed Story Films is making four-part series The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, which is based on an unpublished manuscript written by journalist David Leigh.
The series tells the true story of how debt-laden Darwin and his wife, Anne Darwin, came up with an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking his death in a canoeing accident in 2002.
Anne told the world that her husband had gone missing off the coast of Cleveland, England, weaving a web of deceit that included lying to her sons about their own father’s death.
Anne and John later moved to Panama City to start a new life together before their secret...
All3Media-backed Story Films is making four-part series The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, which is based on an unpublished manuscript written by journalist David Leigh.
The series tells the true story of how debt-laden Darwin and his wife, Anne Darwin, came up with an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking his death in a canoeing accident in 2002.
Anne told the world that her husband had gone missing off the coast of Cleveland, England, weaving a web of deceit that included lying to her sons about their own father’s death.
Anne and John later moved to Panama City to start a new life together before their secret...
- 3/4/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent handling sales in Cannes.
Screen can unveil an exclusive first look at Chubby Funny director Harry Michell’s upcoming comedy Ilkley.
The film, about an attempted assassination of a controversial secularist at a literary festival, stars Roger Allam (The Lady In The Van) Derek Jacobi (Tolkien) and Anna Maxwell-Martin (Philomena), alongside Harry Melling (The Lost City Of Z) and Tom Brooke (The Death Of Stalin). Vinette Robinson and Flora Spencer-Longhurst also star.
Michell (Chubby Funny) directed from a script he co-wrote with Jamie Fraser. Helen Simmons produced. The film is now in post-production after shooting in Yorkshire, UK.
Executive...
Screen can unveil an exclusive first look at Chubby Funny director Harry Michell’s upcoming comedy Ilkley.
The film, about an attempted assassination of a controversial secularist at a literary festival, stars Roger Allam (The Lady In The Van) Derek Jacobi (Tolkien) and Anna Maxwell-Martin (Philomena), alongside Harry Melling (The Lost City Of Z) and Tom Brooke (The Death Of Stalin). Vinette Robinson and Flora Spencer-Longhurst also star.
Michell (Chubby Funny) directed from a script he co-wrote with Jamie Fraser. Helen Simmons produced. The film is now in post-production after shooting in Yorkshire, UK.
Executive...
- 5/15/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"Rush"
What's It About? This racing drama is based on the true story of the rivalry between Formula 1 racecar drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, played here by Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.
Why We're In: It's got awesome action scenes and strong performances from Hemsworth and Brühl, with Ron Howard behind the camera.
New on DVD & Blu-ray
"Bonnie & Clyde (2014)"
What's It About? It's a two-part TV mini-series about the legendary criminals, from director Bruce Beresford ("Driving Miss Daisy"). Holliday Grainger ("The Borgias") and Emile Hirsch star as our lovers on the run, with William Hurt as the officer tracking them and Holly Hunter as Bonnie's mama.
In or Out: Can you stand to see anyone play this gangster and his moll other than Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway? You probably already know the answer here.
"Dario Argento's Dracula 3D"
What's It About?...
"Rush"
What's It About? This racing drama is based on the true story of the rivalry between Formula 1 racecar drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda, played here by Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl.
Why We're In: It's got awesome action scenes and strong performances from Hemsworth and Brühl, with Ron Howard behind the camera.
New on DVD & Blu-ray
"Bonnie & Clyde (2014)"
What's It About? It's a two-part TV mini-series about the legendary criminals, from director Bruce Beresford ("Driving Miss Daisy"). Holliday Grainger ("The Borgias") and Emile Hirsch star as our lovers on the run, with William Hurt as the officer tracking them and Holly Hunter as Bonnie's mama.
In or Out: Can you stand to see anyone play this gangster and his moll other than Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway? You probably already know the answer here.
"Dario Argento's Dracula 3D"
What's It About?...
- 1/28/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
The film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and, yes, the Guardian, has bombed at the box office. Even though it was stuffed with handsome talent
Age: About seven weeks.
Appearance: Don't know.
Why not? I haven't seen it.
Find me somebody who has. That won't be easy.
How come? What are we actually talking about here? It's a movie. Came out in October. Total flop. It cost DreamWorks $28m (£17.1m) to make, and Disney about the same again to market, but so far it's taken only $6m worldwide. According to Forbes, that means it's lost more money as a proportion of its production costs than any other major movie this year.
Oh. Is it a comedy about a hapless dad and the misfortunes that befall him as he buys a series of increasingly unreliable large family cars? No. That sounds quite good. This is about WikiLeaks. Journalism is said to be the fourth estate,...
Age: About seven weeks.
Appearance: Don't know.
Why not? I haven't seen it.
Find me somebody who has. That won't be easy.
How come? What are we actually talking about here? It's a movie. Came out in October. Total flop. It cost DreamWorks $28m (£17.1m) to make, and Disney about the same again to market, but so far it's taken only $6m worldwide. According to Forbes, that means it's lost more money as a proportion of its production costs than any other major movie this year.
Oh. Is it a comedy about a hapless dad and the misfortunes that befall him as he buys a series of increasingly unreliable large family cars? No. That sounds quite good. This is about WikiLeaks. Journalism is said to be the fourth estate,...
- 12/2/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
Film: "The Fifth Estate"; Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Bruhl, Alicia Vikander, Carice van Houten, Laura Linney, Stanley Tucci; Director: Bill Condon; Rating: ** - crumbles, disintegrates.
Director Bill Condon's "The Fifth Estate" is a fine example of - power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely!
Welcome to "The Fifth Estate"- the new era of journalism, the era of the electronic media.
Based on two books by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, David Leigh and Luke Harding, this biopic documents the birth of information war and the scary heights investigative journalism has scaled between 2007 and 2010.
The film is about Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), the Australian activist who founded.
Director Bill Condon's "The Fifth Estate" is a fine example of - power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely!
Welcome to "The Fifth Estate"- the new era of journalism, the era of the electronic media.
Based on two books by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, David Leigh and Luke Harding, this biopic documents the birth of information war and the scary heights investigative journalism has scaled between 2007 and 2010.
The film is about Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch), the Australian activist who founded.
- 10/26/2013
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Benedict Cumberbatch did more than just bleach his eyebrows and perfect an Australian lilt to play WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate. The actor also dug deep into Assange's personal history and even emailed with the mercurial and controversial publisher in the hopes of forging a relationship - hopes that were quickly dashed by Assange himself. The Fifth Estate is based on two books about WikiLeaks: Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website by former WikiLeaks collaborator Daniel Domscheit-Berg and WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding. The movie cleaves closely to the real-life story brought to light by both books, giving a revealing look at the man behind the information-leaking Goliath. Here are six things - both serious and superficial - we learned from Cumberbatch's take on one of the world's most famous...
- 10/20/2013
- by Lindsay Miller
- Popsugar.com
Might be interesting if it had enough passion and guts to take a stand, but ends up in the mushy middle of the road, which surely sprang from a desire to be “fair” and “balanced.” I’m “biast” (pro): fascinated by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks; adore Benedict Cumberbatch
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There was a small knot of confused-looking people hovering around outside the opening-day multiplex showing of The Fifth Estate I attended in central London, trying to push flyers on moviegoers that would convince us that the film is a propagandistic anti-Assange, WikiLeaks-bashing hack job. They were still there when I exited, and it was all I could do to restrain myself from asking, “Have ya actually seen the film?”
Cuz The Fifth Estate is nothing of the kind. It...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
There was a small knot of confused-looking people hovering around outside the opening-day multiplex showing of The Fifth Estate I attended in central London, trying to push flyers on moviegoers that would convince us that the film is a propagandistic anti-Assange, WikiLeaks-bashing hack job. They were still there when I exited, and it was all I could do to restrain myself from asking, “Have ya actually seen the film?”
Cuz The Fifth Estate is nothing of the kind. It...
- 10/14/2013
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
It was the day before shooting began on The Fifth Estate when Benedict Cumberbatch, as he was trying on blond wigs for the last time, heard back from Julian Assange, the man he was to play.
Through friends of the WikiLeaks creator, Cumberbatch had reached out to Assange. The letter (which WikiLeaks has since posted online) starts out cordially, with Assange complementing Cumberbatch's work. But he then levels a warning: "I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film."
Assange went on to say, at some length, why the movie, based on two books Assange disputes (Daniel Domscheit-Berg's "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website" and "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assanges War on Secrecy," by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding), would do harm to him, WikiLeaks and whistleblowers around the world.
"It winded me quite a bit,...
Through friends of the WikiLeaks creator, Cumberbatch had reached out to Assange. The letter (which WikiLeaks has since posted online) starts out cordially, with Assange complementing Cumberbatch's work. But he then levels a warning: "I believe you are a good person, but I do not believe that this film is a good film."
Assange went on to say, at some length, why the movie, based on two books Assange disputes (Daniel Domscheit-Berg's "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange and the World's Most Dangerous Website" and "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assanges War on Secrecy," by British journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding), would do harm to him, WikiLeaks and whistleblowers around the world.
"It winded me quite a bit,...
- 10/11/2013
- by Cineplex.com and contributors
- Cineplex
Watch a Published in Full clip as well as a second featurette from The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberpatch and Daniel Bruhl. The film from director Bill Condon opens October 18th via DreamWorks Pictures. Josh Singer wrote the screenplay bassed on the books “Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website” by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and the Guardian book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy” by David Leigh and Luke Harding Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney also star in the drama thriller produced by Steve Golin and Michael Sugar and executive-produced by Richard Sharkey, Paul Green, Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King.
- 10/10/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch a clip called 10,000 Hits an Hour from The Fifth Estate starring Benedict Cumberpatch. The DreamWorks Pictures release under the direction of Bill Condon opens on October 18th. Josh SInger wrote the screenplay based on the books “Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website” by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and the Guardian book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy” by David Leigh and Luke Harding. Also in this talented cast are Rush star Daniel Brühl as well as Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney. Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate...
- 10/9/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
In 2010, a website dedicated to protecting whistleblowers released an avalanche of classified U.S. documents that triggered a new age of high-stakes secrecy and explosive news leaks. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, DreamWorks Pictures’ The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned this Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create an online platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes.
Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations. But when Assange and Domscheit-Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create an online platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes.
Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world’s most legendary media organizations. But when Assange and Domscheit-Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.
- 10/9/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
★★☆☆☆ Ripped from newspaper headlines that are still fresh in the memory, Bill Condon's The Fifth Estate (2013) is a studio-financed, heavily dramatised account of the controversial WikiLeaks site's publicised quest to expose corruption and deception at the highest strata of political and economic authority. With Wilde's "Give a man a mask and he'll tell you the truth" as its mantra and following an ostentatious exposition charting the evolution of news reporting, The Fifth Estate begins with the orchestrated release of classified Us military information by The Guardian, The New York Times and weekly German magazine Der Spiegel.
Based on two novels - one by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the other by The Guardian journalist David Leigh - we're presented with the torturous working relationship shared between Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl). Not dissimilar to David Fincher's The Social Network (2010), Condon's film traces...
Based on two novels - one by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's former colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the other by The Guardian journalist David Leigh - we're presented with the torturous working relationship shared between Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl). Not dissimilar to David Fincher's The Social Network (2010), Condon's film traces...
- 10/9/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The movie version of me in the The Fifth Estate is younger, cooler and more handsome. Just ask my wife
• Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Julian Assange wins Pm's praise
A word of advice: if you ever find yourself a character in a Hollywood movie, try to avoid being played by the hottest screen heartthrob of the moment.
If you don't, here's a taste of what will happen. Your wife will say things like: "Perhaps he would like to come and spend some time at home familiarising himself with the part … and its wife?" Your colleagues will ask things like: "Will he be wearing a prosthetic nose?" Most people, on hearing the news, will just laugh. A bit too much.
I know this because, until a minor Twitter mishap a few weeks ago, my greatest claim to fame was being the bloke who Dan Stevens pretends to be in The Fifth Estate,...
• Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Julian Assange wins Pm's praise
A word of advice: if you ever find yourself a character in a Hollywood movie, try to avoid being played by the hottest screen heartthrob of the moment.
If you don't, here's a taste of what will happen. Your wife will say things like: "Perhaps he would like to come and spend some time at home familiarising himself with the part … and its wife?" Your colleagues will ask things like: "Will he be wearing a prosthetic nose?" Most people, on hearing the news, will just laugh. A bit too much.
I know this because, until a minor Twitter mishap a few weeks ago, my greatest claim to fame was being the bloke who Dan Stevens pretends to be in The Fifth Estate,...
- 10/8/2013
- by Ian Katz
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Luke Harding writing book for Guardian Books; studios and indies in the mix for film rights.
The Guardian is publishing its own book about fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which is among the Snowden books garnering attention from studios and independents for film rights.
The previously unannounced book, due to be published by Guardian Books, is being authored by writer and Guardian correspondent Luke Harding, who previously co-wrote one of the two WikiLeaks books on which DreamWorks’ The Fifth Estate is based.
Screen understands that the book will explore The Guardian’s reporting of the Snowden-nsa-mass surveillance stories.
The existence of The Guardian’s book sheds further light on why at least one major film executive has met with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to discuss film rights in recent months.
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has covered the story from its inception, is simultaneously writing a book about Snowden and the Nsa’s mass surveillance operation for Metropolitan...
The Guardian is publishing its own book about fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which is among the Snowden books garnering attention from studios and independents for film rights.
The previously unannounced book, due to be published by Guardian Books, is being authored by writer and Guardian correspondent Luke Harding, who previously co-wrote one of the two WikiLeaks books on which DreamWorks’ The Fifth Estate is based.
Screen understands that the book will explore The Guardian’s reporting of the Snowden-nsa-mass surveillance stories.
The existence of The Guardian’s book sheds further light on why at least one major film executive has met with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to discuss film rights in recent months.
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has covered the story from its inception, is simultaneously writing a book about Snowden and the Nsa’s mass surveillance operation for Metropolitan...
- 10/3/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
WikiLeaks movie ‘The Fifth Estate’: Bradley Manning episode ‘the best part of the film’ (photo: Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in ‘The Fifth Estate’) (See previous post: “‘The Fifth Estate’ Movie Review Pt.1: ‘Tasty’ But ‘Opaque’ Take on Julian Assange.”) The Fifth Estate begins and eventually circles back to the Bradley Manning episode, in which the now-incarcerated Army private handed almost 450,000 U.S. military documents to WikiLeaks. This section is, by a far sight, the best part of the film. It slows down to consider the stakes and let interpersonal conflicts simmer and boil. Here, Daniel’s growing sense of apostasy towards the imperious Assange mixes with traditional media (represented by David Thewlis, as The Guardian reporter Nick Davies) deciding whether to cross the Rubicon and get into bed with someone so arrogantly deficient in journalistic ethics. Out of self-preservation, the old-school Guardian partnered with the internet provocateur and got what it deserved.
- 10/3/2013
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
‘The Fifth Estate’ movie review: ‘Tasty’ but ‘opaque’ version of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange (photo: Daniel Brühl as Daniel Domscheit-Berg and Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in ‘The Fifth Estate’) Late in the game during The Fifth Estate, Twilight director Bill Condon’s long-awaited return to helming real movies, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) glowers at close confidante Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) and hisses, “How much time you can spend with a person and still have no idea who they are.” If only Condon knew we’d be wondering the same thing about the tasty, if opaque, version of Assange he’s asking us to consider. Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer (who adapted WikiLeaks books by Domscheit-Berg and The Guardian journalists Luke Harding and David Leigh) practically luxuriate in the mysterious and contradictory motives that make Assange such a fascinating character, until we realize all The Fifth Estate has to...
- 10/3/2013
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
Catch the latest poster for the Wikileaks story-inspired film The Fifth Estate which stars Benedict Cumberpatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney. Bill Condon directs Josh Singer based on the book "Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and David Leigh's book "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy." The Fifth Estate is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, with a release date set for October 18th, 2013.
- 10/3/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Exclusive: Luke Harding writing book for Guardian imprint; studios and indies in the mix for film rights.
The Guardian is publishing its own book about fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which is among the Snowden books garnering attention from studios and independents for film rights.
The previously unannounced book, due to be published by Guardian imprint Guardian Faber, is being authored by writer and Guardian correspondent Luke Harding, who previously co-wrote one of the two WikiLeaks books on which DreamWorks’ The Fifth Estate is based.
Screen understands that the book will explore The Guardian’s reporting of the Snowden-nsa-mass surveillance stories.
The existence of The Guardian’s book sheds further light on why at least one major film executive has met with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to discuss film rights in recent months.
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has covered the story from its inception, is simultaneously writing a book about Snowden and the Nsa’s mass surveillance...
The Guardian is publishing its own book about fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden, which is among the Snowden books garnering attention from studios and independents for film rights.
The previously unannounced book, due to be published by Guardian imprint Guardian Faber, is being authored by writer and Guardian correspondent Luke Harding, who previously co-wrote one of the two WikiLeaks books on which DreamWorks’ The Fifth Estate is based.
Screen understands that the book will explore The Guardian’s reporting of the Snowden-nsa-mass surveillance stories.
The existence of The Guardian’s book sheds further light on why at least one major film executive has met with Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to discuss film rights in recent months.
Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has covered the story from its inception, is simultaneously writing a book about Snowden and the Nsa’s mass surveillance...
- 10/3/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Daniel Bruhl, Benedict Cumberpatch in 4 posters from The Fifth Estate film on Julian Assange It's the same poster on each character, repeated, flipping the words "Hero" for "Traitor" for both Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Brühl who play Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg in the Bill Condon film. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, The Fifth Estate opens on October 18th, 2013 and is scripted by Josh Singer based on the book by David Leigh and Luke Harding. Following Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Cumberbatch), The Fifth Estate traces the heady, early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. The website’s overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects and transformed the flow of information to news media and the world at large.
- 9/25/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Alongside 'mature' screenplay for Bill Condon's film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, WikiLeaks has posted a lengthy essay seeking to undermine its accuracy
WikiLeaks has posted what it claims is a "mature" version of the screenplay for Julian Assange film The Fifth Estate, accompanied by a memo which labels the film "irresponsible, counterproductive and harmful".
The site describes Bill Condon's drama, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange, as "a work of fiction masquerading as fact", adding: "Most of the events depicted never happened, or the people shown were not involved in them."
WikiLeaks' 4,000-word missive also determines to pick apart what it claims is the film's central argument: that the site's release of classified Us State Department documents in 2010 exposed and potentially endangered more than 2,000 informants worldwide. The role of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, which the film suggests was once Assange's right-hand man, is downplayed, and the memo seeks...
WikiLeaks has posted what it claims is a "mature" version of the screenplay for Julian Assange film The Fifth Estate, accompanied by a memo which labels the film "irresponsible, counterproductive and harmful".
The site describes Bill Condon's drama, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Assange, as "a work of fiction masquerading as fact", adding: "Most of the events depicted never happened, or the people shown were not involved in them."
WikiLeaks' 4,000-word missive also determines to pick apart what it claims is the film's central argument: that the site's release of classified Us State Department documents in 2010 exposed and potentially endangered more than 2,000 informants worldwide. The role of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, which the film suggests was once Assange's right-hand man, is downplayed, and the memo seeks...
- 9/20/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Actor who plays WikiLeaks founder in The Fifth Estate says he received long email plea day before filming began
Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed details of his email exchanges with Julian Assange about the new WikiLeaks film, including Assange's plea for him not to take part in the movie, sent the day before filming began.
Cumberbatch, who plays Assange in The Fifth Estate, told the Guardian he had received the 10-page email from the WikiLeaks founder as he made final preparations to begin filming in January.
"It was a very considered, thorough, charming and intelligent account of why he thought this was morally wrong for me to be part of something he thought was going to be damaging in real terms – not just to perceptions but to the reality of the outcome for himself," the actor said.
"He characterised himself as a political refugee, and with [Chelsea, formerly Bradley] Manning awaiting trial, and other...
Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed details of his email exchanges with Julian Assange about the new WikiLeaks film, including Assange's plea for him not to take part in the movie, sent the day before filming began.
Cumberbatch, who plays Assange in The Fifth Estate, told the Guardian he had received the 10-page email from the WikiLeaks founder as he made final preparations to begin filming in January.
"It was a very considered, thorough, charming and intelligent account of why he thought this was morally wrong for me to be part of something he thought was going to be damaging in real terms – not just to perceptions but to the reality of the outcome for himself," the actor said.
"He characterised himself as a political refugee, and with [Chelsea, formerly Bradley] Manning awaiting trial, and other...
- 9/13/2013
- by Esther Addley, Decca Aitkenhead
- The Guardian - Film News
DreamWorks Pictures’ The Fifth Estate, a dramatic thriller based on real events, had its Red Carpet Gala Worldwide Premiere at the opening night of the Toronto Film Festival at Roy Thompson Hall.
Among “The Fifth Estate’s” distinguished cast and filmmakers in attendance for the Red Carpet Gala on September 5th included stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander and Carice van Houten, as well as director Bill Condon, screenwriter Josh Singer and producers Steve Golin and Michael Singer.
Photos by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for DreamWorks Pictures/AP Images.
Read Variety’s Toronto Film Festival review here: http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/the-fifth-estate-review-toronto-1200601032/
Check out the brand new clip from the film.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to...
Among “The Fifth Estate’s” distinguished cast and filmmakers in attendance for the Red Carpet Gala on September 5th included stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander and Carice van Houten, as well as director Bill Condon, screenwriter Josh Singer and producers Steve Golin and Michael Singer.
Photos by Eric Charbonneau/Invision for DreamWorks Pictures/AP Images.
Read Variety’s Toronto Film Festival review here: http://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/the-fifth-estate-review-toronto-1200601032/
Check out the brand new clip from the film.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to...
- 9/8/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cumberbatch says of playing Assange in new film The Fifth Estate, 'we show his ideas and integrity and self-sacrifice'
Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor whose high-profile portrayal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is generating Oscar buzz, has launched a defence of the man he plays in new movie The Fifth Estate. "I think we show his ideas and integrity and self-sacrifice," said Cumberbatch, the morning after the film opened the 38th Toronto film festival. "I think there's a lot to celebrate about his achievements."
In the film, Cumberbatch plays Assange as a quicksilver saviour, humane at times, deceitful at others, never less than human. The actor, 37, said empathy was key to his interpretation. "I think to try and go into this realm of thumbs up or thumbs down is so limiting. You want to find what's human about him. And that's not to soften the edges. [But] so it's something we can relate to.
Benedict Cumberbatch, the British actor whose high-profile portrayal of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is generating Oscar buzz, has launched a defence of the man he plays in new movie The Fifth Estate. "I think we show his ideas and integrity and self-sacrifice," said Cumberbatch, the morning after the film opened the 38th Toronto film festival. "I think there's a lot to celebrate about his achievements."
In the film, Cumberbatch plays Assange as a quicksilver saviour, humane at times, deceitful at others, never less than human. The actor, 37, said empathy was key to his interpretation. "I think to try and go into this realm of thumbs up or thumbs down is so limiting. You want to find what's human about him. And that's not to soften the edges. [But] so it's something we can relate to.
- 9/7/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Bill Condon’s anticipated WikiLeaks movie, The Fifth Estate, has just made its debut to the world out in Toronto, and the early reactions have been signalling good news.
The film will be heading into cinemas next month on both sides of the Atlantic, and now a new featurette has landed online, going behind the scenes on what is sure to become one of the most talked-about movies in the coming months.
A dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power...
The film will be heading into cinemas next month on both sides of the Atlantic, and now a new featurette has landed online, going behind the scenes on what is sure to become one of the most talked-about movies in the coming months.
A dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power...
- 9/6/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Benedict Cumberbatch shines as Julian Assange in Bill Condon's over-ambitious take on WikiLeaks, which opens this year's Toronto film festival
For an employee of the Guardian, particularly one with jetlag, Bill Condon's WikiLeaks thriller can seem more hallucination than movie. An account of the ascent of Julian Assange and his collaboration with this newspaper (among others) in the publication of classified documents, it plays like one of those dreams in which your office looks normal enough from the outside, but step within and everything's subtly different. It's more Scandinavian, somehow; with car park pillars and glass walls to which people attach crucial bits of paper, as on Crimewatch. The editor has developed a sudden taste for shagpile rugs. And why did you never notice the deputy is a dead spit for the dishy one on Downton Abbey?
Such tweaks will not get an artistic licence revoked. In fact,...
For an employee of the Guardian, particularly one with jetlag, Bill Condon's WikiLeaks thriller can seem more hallucination than movie. An account of the ascent of Julian Assange and his collaboration with this newspaper (among others) in the publication of classified documents, it plays like one of those dreams in which your office looks normal enough from the outside, but step within and everything's subtly different. It's more Scandinavian, somehow; with car park pillars and glass walls to which people attach crucial bits of paper, as on Crimewatch. The editor has developed a sudden taste for shagpile rugs. And why did you never notice the deputy is a dead spit for the dishy one on Downton Abbey?
Such tweaks will not get an artistic licence revoked. In fact,...
- 9/6/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
In this new featurette for DreamWorks Pictures’ The Fifth Estate, actors Benedict Cumberbatch, Laura Linney, Daniel Brühl and Stanley Tucci, as well as director Bill Condon, provide some insight behind the “bigger issues” surrounding this journalistic thriller.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes.
- 9/6/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Check out a new featurette from The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl and Anthony Mackie, as well as Laura Linney, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander and Carice van Houten. Following Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Brühl), an early supporter and eventual colleague of Julian Assange (Cumberbatch), The Fifth Estate traces the heady, early days of WikiLeaks, culminating in the release of a series of controversial and history changing information leaks. The website’s overnight success brought instant fame to its principal architects and transformed the flow of information to news media and the world at large. Bill Condon directs the film from the script by Josh Singer, based on the books “Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website” by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and the Guardian book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy” by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
- 9/5/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Canadian festival hopes to outshine Venice and Telluride with films including WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate
• Watch the trailer for The Fifth Estate
• Our gallery of the pick of the line-up
• Video: Toronto 2013 kicks off
In Venice, they're rolling up the red carpet as the sun sets on the 70th film festival. Four thousand miles west, they're unfurling it, as Toronto gears up to host its festival for the 37th year. Many critics are touting it as the finest film festival lineup in history – less a programme than a dry run for Oscars night.
The festival begins on Thursday evening with the world premiere of the WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate, partly based on the book by the Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, while Peter Capaldi is the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, David Thewlis is the investigative reporter Nick Davies and...
• Watch the trailer for The Fifth Estate
• Our gallery of the pick of the line-up
• Video: Toronto 2013 kicks off
In Venice, they're rolling up the red carpet as the sun sets on the 70th film festival. Four thousand miles west, they're unfurling it, as Toronto gears up to host its festival for the 37th year. Many critics are touting it as the finest film festival lineup in history – less a programme than a dry run for Oscars night.
The festival begins on Thursday evening with the world premiere of the WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate, partly based on the book by the Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, while Peter Capaldi is the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, David Thewlis is the investigative reporter Nick Davies and...
- 9/5/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Set to make its world premiere as the opening night film at the Toronto Film Festival, DreamWorks has released the first official poster for its Wikileaks drama The Fifth Estate featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange opposite his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl). The story follows their ascendance and would appear to paint the duo in a positive light as the official synopsis continues the description of the film saying: ...they team to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes. Soon, they are breaking more hard news than the world's most legendary media organizations combined. But when Assange and Berg gain access to the biggest trove of confidential intelligence documents in U.S. history, they battle each other and...
- 8/20/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Fifth Estate refers to citizen journalism. “Fifth Estate” is used to describe media outlets (including the blogosphere) that see themselves in opposition to mainstream media (the official press) any class or group in society other than the clergy (First Estate), the nobility (Second Estate), the commoners (Third Estate) and the press (Fourth Estate). It has been used to describe civil society, the poor or the proletariat.
Here’s the new poster for DreamWorks Pictures’ The Fifth Estate.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg...
Here’s the new poster for DreamWorks Pictures’ The Fifth Estate.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg...
- 8/19/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
See the latest poster for DreamWorks' The Fifth Estate, directed by Bill Condon, which hits theaters on October 18th, 2013. Josh Singer wrote the script for the film based on “Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website” by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and the Guardian book “WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy” by David Leigh and Luke Harding. Starring are Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney. Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet...
- 8/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We Steal Secrets documentary director Alex Gibney is set to turn the story of man who was WikiLeaks source into a drama
Hollywood is already planning a film about the WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, who could face the rest of his life in jail after being convicted on 30 July of leaking Us secrets.
The project is being put together by Alex Gibney, a film-maker who has plenty of experience of the territory. The writer-director, who won an Oscar for his searing 2007 indictment of questionable activities by American soldiers in Afghanistan, Taxi to the Dark Side, also put together the popular Sundance documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.
The Bradley Manning project will be a drama rather than a factual film. Gibney last year optioned Denver Nicks' book Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History. Variety reports that he is currently looking for a screenwriter.
Hollywood is already planning a film about the WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning, who could face the rest of his life in jail after being convicted on 30 July of leaking Us secrets.
The project is being put together by Alex Gibney, a film-maker who has plenty of experience of the territory. The writer-director, who won an Oscar for his searing 2007 indictment of questionable activities by American soldiers in Afghanistan, Taxi to the Dark Side, also put together the popular Sundance documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks.
The Bradley Manning project will be a drama rather than a factual film. Gibney last year optioned Denver Nicks' book Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History. Variety reports that he is currently looking for a screenwriter.
- 7/31/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The Toronto film festival unveiled its glittering programme this week with an impressive array of titles to charm canuck located cinefans when the 38th edition of the event commences on the 5th September 2013. Running for ten days the world’s largest movie festival in terms of volume of screenings boasts a global prestige and attracts talent from around the world, as one of the only major festivals which is open to the public the chances of rubbing shoulders with the superstars of California and Cannes ensure that tickets are swiftly snapped up for the huge variety of films and debates which arrange across the full gamut of the celluloid spectrum.
Now traditionally seen as strong candidate for highlighting potential future Oscar bait the directorial heavyweights of Europe and North America are out in force, with new films from Alfonso Cuarón, Xavier Dolan, Atom Egoyan, Steve McQueen, Kelly Reichardt, Jason Reitman,...
Now traditionally seen as strong candidate for highlighting potential future Oscar bait the directorial heavyweights of Europe and North America are out in force, with new films from Alfonso Cuarón, Xavier Dolan, Atom Egoyan, Steve McQueen, Kelly Reichardt, Jason Reitman,...
- 7/25/2013
- by John
- SoundOnSight
WikiLeaks drama kicks off a huge slate of major world premieres, including August: Osage County, Twelve Years a Slave, Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom and new films for Brits such as Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Richard Ayoade, as well as the late James Gandolfini
• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures
• The full Toronto film festival line-up
The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.
Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.
• Toronto film festival: 20 tops picks in pictures
• The full Toronto film festival line-up
The Toronto film festival today offered audiences a glimpse of the future, as it unveiled a list of premieres which reads like a dry run for next year's Oscars ceremony.
Among the 13 galas and 52 special presentations revealed is The Fifth Estate, the drama based partly on the book about WikiLeaks by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, which will open this year's festival. The drama, directed by Bill Condon, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange with Daniel Brühl, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Laura Linney and Dan Stevens in supporting roles.
- 7/24/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's the first trailer for Bill Condon‘s The Fifth Estate, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The film tells the story of the rise and fall of the controversial website. The movie also stars Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney, and it looks like it will be a great movie!
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data,...
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data,...
- 7/17/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The first trailer for Bill Condon's "The Fifth Estate," starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Wikileaks icon Julian Assange, has landed. The film will chart the rise of Assange's notorious watchdog website and his status as a highly controversial international figure. Watch below. Based on Daniel Domscheit-Berg's book "Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website" and David Leigh and Luke Harding's "Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy," the film also stars Daniel Bruhl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney, among others. Scribe Josh Singer penned the adaptation. Here's a detailed synopsis. The film hits theaters on October 18, in prime time for Oscar season. Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to.
- 7/17/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Check out this new trailer for "The Fifth Estate," the upcoming movie based on "Inside WikiLeaks" by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and the Guardian book "WikiLeaks" by David Leigh and Luke Harding.
"The Fifth Estate" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as famed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Daniel Bruhl as Assange's colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who work together to create a site where whistleblowers can leak classified data and expose the dark areas of government secrets and corporate crimes.
The movie is directed by Bill Condon ("Breaking Dawn" parts 1 and 2, "Dreamgirls," "Gods and Monsters") and is opening nationwide on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013.
What do you think?...
"The Fifth Estate" stars Benedict Cumberbatch as famed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Daniel Bruhl as Assange's colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who work together to create a site where whistleblowers can leak classified data and expose the dark areas of government secrets and corporate crimes.
The movie is directed by Bill Condon ("Breaking Dawn" parts 1 and 2, "Dreamgirls," "Gods and Monsters") and is opening nationwide on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013.
What do you think?...
- 7/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The new trailer for DreamWorks Pictures’ dramatic thriller The Fifth Estate is here.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes.
Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Brühl, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Alicia Vikander, Peter Capaldi, Carice van Houten, Dan Stevens, with Stanley Tucci and Laura Linney.
The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblowers to anonymously leak covert data, shining a light on the dark recesses of government secrets and corporate crimes.
- 7/17/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Benedict Cumberbatch's performance as a youthful and passionate Julian Assange has been unveiled in the first trailer for Wikileaks film 'The Fifth Estate'.
Described by Assange as a "massive propaganda attack", the film is a fictionalised account of the Wikileaks saga in which the website's founder Assange leaked confidential information on the Us military's operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to newspapers including the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange
Cumberbatch makes an extreme transformation for the film, with his face aged with make-up, his hair long and white, and he adopts an Australian accent in his bid to become Assange.
Interview: Documentary Maker Alex Gibney Explains Why He 'Soured' On Julian Assange
The trailer shows events leading up to Wikileaks' revelations which shook the world.
Cumberbatch appears giving a speech in which Assange declares himself as "one whistle-blower willing to...
Described by Assange as a "massive propaganda attack", the film is a fictionalised account of the Wikileaks saga in which the website's founder Assange leaked confidential information on the Us military's operations in Afghanistan and Iraq to newspapers including the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange
Cumberbatch makes an extreme transformation for the film, with his face aged with make-up, his hair long and white, and he adopts an Australian accent in his bid to become Assange.
Interview: Documentary Maker Alex Gibney Explains Why He 'Soured' On Julian Assange
The trailer shows events leading up to Wikileaks' revelations which shook the world.
Cumberbatch appears giving a speech in which Assange declares himself as "one whistle-blower willing to...
- 7/17/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK/PA
- Huffington Post
The first trailer for the hotly anticipated WikiLeaks thriller stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, and Daniel Bruhl as his former compadre Daniel Domscheit-Berg
It has been condemned by Julian Assange himself as a "massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff", yet the first trailer for The Fifth Estate suggests an even-handed political thriller which sits halfway between indictment and eulogy.
Featuring Britain's Benedict Cumberbatch as a floppy-fringed, youthful Assange with the air of an Aussie Bond villain, Bill Condon's film also stars Goodbye Lenin's Daniel Bruhl as former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg. It has been adapted by The West Wing's Josh Singer from Domscheit-Berg's book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy.
The trailer offers up a blitzkrieg...
It has been condemned by Julian Assange himself as a "massive propaganda attack on WikiLeaks and the character of my staff", yet the first trailer for The Fifth Estate suggests an even-handed political thriller which sits halfway between indictment and eulogy.
Featuring Britain's Benedict Cumberbatch as a floppy-fringed, youthful Assange with the air of an Aussie Bond villain, Bill Condon's film also stars Goodbye Lenin's Daniel Bruhl as former WikiLeaks spokesman Daniel Domscheit-Berg. It has been adapted by The West Wing's Josh Singer from Domscheit-Berg's book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website, as well as Guardian writers David Leigh and Luke Harding's WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy.
The trailer offers up a blitzkrieg...
- 7/17/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
DreamWorks Pictures has debuted the first trailer for The Fifth Estate, their upcoming true-life thriller that depicts the early years of the clash between the most powerful nation on Earth and a group of well-connected hacker journalists. Based on the books ‘Inside WikiLeaks: My Time With Julian Assange At The World’s Most Dangerous Website’ (by Daniel Domscheit-Berg) and ‘WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War On Secrecy’ (by David Leigh and Luke Harding), Bill Condon‘s feature film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the platinum haired hacker icon and Daniel Bruhl as Wikileaks co-found Daniel. The trailer suggests that The Fifth Estate walks the fine line between calling Assange...
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- 7/17/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Benedict Cumberbatch has been going from strength to strength in recent years, making a name for himself with roles in Sherlock, Star Trek Into Darkness, and The Hobbit. Amongst the slew of movies on his slate before year’s end, many likely to be Oscar-bound, is The Fifth Estate, which is set to tell the story of the rise of WikiLeaks.
Cumberbatch takes the lead as Julian Assange himself, and is joined by a stellar cast led by Daniel Brühl as his colleague, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. We’ve heard little from the movie since our first look back in January. But with its release date now in sight, the first trailer has surfaced, along with a handful of new images.
A dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
Cumberbatch takes the lead as Julian Assange himself, and is joined by a stellar cast led by Daniel Brühl as his colleague, Daniel Domscheit-Berg. We’ve heard little from the movie since our first look back in January. But with its release date now in sight, the first trailer has surfaced, along with a handful of new images.
A dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
- 7/17/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Benedict Cumberbatch is continuing his rise as a big screen star in 2013, as DreamWorks Pictures has released the first trailer for director Bill Condon's upcoming Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate. Scripted by Josh Singer (a writer on The West Wing, Lie To Me and Fringe) and based on three separate books about Assange written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Luke Harding and David Leigh, the new film centers on the relationship between the WikiLeaks founder (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl), an early supporter and colleague. As the website grows and sends shockwaves around the world, the bond between the two men is stretched to its limits. Watching the trailer and thinking about the plot, I can't help but make comparisons to David Fincher's The Social Network. The big difference, of course, is that the website at the center of one plot allows users to update their...
- 7/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Benedict Cumberbatch is continuing his rise as a big screen star in 2013, as DreamWorks Pictures has released the first trailer for director Bill Condon's upcoming Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate. Scripted by Josh Singer (a writer on The West Wing, Lie To Me and Fringe) and based on three separate books about Assange written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Luke Harding and David Leigh, the new film centers on the relationship between the WikiLeaks founder (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl), an early supporter and colleague. As the website grows and sends shockwaves around the world, the bond between the two men is stretched to its limits. Watching the trailer and thinking about the plot, I can't help but make comparisons to David Fincher's The Social Network. The big difference, of course, is that the website at the center of one plot allows users to update their...
- 7/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Benedict Cumberbatch is continuing his rise as a big screen star in 2013, as DreamWorks Pictures has released the first trailer for director Bill Condon's upcoming Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate. Scripted by Josh Singer (a writer on The West Wing, Lie To Me and Fringe) and based on three separate books about Assange written by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Luke Harding and David Leigh, the new film centers on the relationship between the WikiLeaks founder (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) and Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Bruhl), an early supporter and colleague. As the website grows and sends shockwaves around the world, the bond between the two men is stretched to its limits. Watching the trailer and thinking about the plot, I can't help but make comparisons to David Fincher's The Social Network. The big difference, of course, is that the website at the center of one plot allows users to update their...
- 7/17/2013
- cinemablend.com
Watch the trailer for The Fifth Estate, starring Benedict Cumberpatch, Daniel Brühl, Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi, Dan Stevens, Alicia Vikander and Carice van Houten. The DreamWorks film opens in theaters from October 18, 2013. Bill Condon directs from the screenplay by Josh Singer, based on the book “Inside WikiLeaks” by Daniel Domscheit-Berg and the Guardian book “WikiLeaks” by David Leigh and Luke Harding. Triggering our age of high-stakes secrecy, explosive news leaks and the trafficking of classified information, WikiLeaks forever changed the game. Now, in a dramatic thriller based on real events, The Fifth Estate reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization. The story begins as WikiLeaks founder...
- 7/17/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Director visits Julian Assange at Ecuadorian embassy in London and praises the Wikileaks founder's strength of mind
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has attacked two forthcoming films about Julian Assange after revealing that he met the Wikileaks founder at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last week.
Stone, a long-time supporter of Assange, tweeted a picture of himself with the political activist. He wrote: "A sad occasion in that Julian could not follow me out the door. He lives in a tiny room with great modesty and discipline."
In further tweets, Stone added: "Strong mind, no sun, friends who visit, work to be done, one documentary coming out from Alex Gibney that is not expected to be kind.
"Another film from Dreamworks which is also going to be unfriendly … I don't think most people in the Us realise how important Wikileaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
"Julian Assange did much...
Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone has attacked two forthcoming films about Julian Assange after revealing that he met the Wikileaks founder at the Ecuadorian embassy in London last week.
Stone, a long-time supporter of Assange, tweeted a picture of himself with the political activist. He wrote: "A sad occasion in that Julian could not follow me out the door. He lives in a tiny room with great modesty and discipline."
In further tweets, Stone added: "Strong mind, no sun, friends who visit, work to be done, one documentary coming out from Alex Gibney that is not expected to be kind.
"Another film from Dreamworks which is also going to be unfriendly … I don't think most people in the Us realise how important Wikileaks is and why Julian's case needs support.
"Julian Assange did much...
- 4/11/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
The Plot: "The Fifth Estate" focuses on the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, which is tested as the website becomes increasingly powerful. -Insertgroups:12- The Pedigree: The film is directed by Bill Condon, who won an Oscar for writing "Gods and Monsters" (1998) and was nominated again for his script for 2003 Best Picture champ "Chicago." He also helmed "Kinsey" (2004), which earned a Supporting Actress bid for Laura Linney, and "Dreamgirls" (2006), which won that category for Jennifer Hudson. The screenplay is by Josh Singer, based on a book by Domscheit-Berg, and another by British journalists Luke Harding and David Leigh. It's Singer's first feature screenplay, but his TV credits include scripts for "The West Wing" and "Fringe." The cast is led by rising stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl (above) and ...
- 4/1/2013
- Gold Derby
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