EXCLUSIVE: The traditional Scottish city of St Andrews was hit with a heavy bout of Spidey fever this previous weekend because the third annual Sands Worldwide Movie Competition opened, pulling in an eclectic set of movies, filmmakers, and audio system alongside one common visitor of honor.
Spider-Man actor Tom Holland, additionally identified for The Unattainable, Cherry, and The Satan All of the Time handed by the fest, which opened with a screening of Final Name, a brief undertaking he leads with Lindsay Duncan (Blackbird) that was co-written and directed by his brother, Harry Holland. The Holland brothers additionally took half within the first annual Sands golf event, which is able to proceed as a part of the pageant’s wider actions. It was on the pristine {golfing} greens the place Tom linked up with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr to debate his profession thus far and plans for future initiatives, together with whether or not he’ll return for a fourth Spider-Man film.
“The straightforward reply is that I’ll all the time need to do Spider-Man movies,” Tom advised Deadline. “I owe my life and profession to Spider-Man. So the straightforward reply is sure. I’ll all the time need to do extra.”
The extra “difficult reply” Tom added is how he and the Spider-Man crew method any follow-up to Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling, the third title in his webbed saga, with out retreading previous themes.
“We’ve one of the best within the enterprise working towards regardless of the story is perhaps. However till we’ve cracked it, we’ve a legacy to guard,” he stated. “The third film was so particular in so many ways in which we’d like to ensure we do the correct factor.”
He added: “That is the primary time on this course of that I’ve been a part of the artistic so early. It’s only a course of the place I’m watching and studying. It’s only a actually enjoyable stage for me. Like I stated, everybody desires it to occur. However we need to be sure we’re not overdoing the identical issues.”
Mike Fleming Jr, Tom Holland, Harry Holland, Donald Mustard, Joe Russo. (Sands Movie Competition).
Starring Holland alongside Zendaya, Tobey Maguire, and Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling opened in December 2021 and took $260M in its first weekend, turning into the second-highest opening ever on the home field workplace. It will ultimately race previous the billion-dollar mark and encourage a now-seminal web meme.
Holland was final seen on display screen within the Apple mini-series The Crowded Room reverse Amanda Seyfried, Sasha Lane, and Will Chase. The collection was created by Akiva Goldsman and impressed by the ebook The Minds of Billy Milligan. The Spider-Man actor advised us he’s now engaged within the growth of a number of burgeoning initiatives.
“We’re figuring it out. We’re at that stage the place it’s post-strike, so we’re ready for these scripts to return in,” he stated. “We’re giving the writers the time they should hit the bottom working. However I’ve acquired a number of initiatives that I’m actually enthusiastic about and scripts are coming in now and so they’re nice. I learn one thing the opposite day that completely blew my thoughts.”
Tom Holland was only one of some high-profile names to cross by Sands this 12 months. The pageant additionally hosted a singular Q&A session with composer Alan Silvestri, finest identified for scoring Forrest Gump, Again to the Future, and Forged Away amongst different Hollywood classics. The session was bookended with an intimate efficiency by Silvestri who was accompanied by the St Andrews Chamber Orchestra.
(Photograph by Euan Cherry/Getty Photos for College of St Andrews)
Movies screened as a part of this 12 months’s pageant lineup included Anna Hints’ Sundance-winning doc Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, Daisy Ridley-starrer Typically I Assume About Dying, and Anthony and Joe Russo’s little-seen 2002 comedy Welcome to Collinwood. The movie’s producer Steven Soderbergh was additionally current for a uncommon onstage Q&A following the screening.
Mounted throughout a weekend in St Andrews, Sands is run by Ania Trzebiatowska — additionally a full-time programmer at Sundance — with a formidable gang of part-time scholar programmers from the College of St. Andrews, a companion on the pageant alongside Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO. The pageant closed Sunday night with Maggie Contreras’ debut function documentary Maestra, during which 5 feminine conductors from throughout the globe put together for and compete in La Maestra, the world’s solely competitors for feminine conductors.
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