“Empire of Light” is a new film by director Sam Mendes starring Olivia Colman.
Let’s find out some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Empire of Light is a 2022 romantic drama film
- The film is written and directed by Sam Mendes
- The film stars Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Monica Dolan, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, and Colin Firth
- Empire of Light had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on 3 September 2022
- It was released in the United States on 9 December 2022
- It will be released in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2023, by Searchlight Pictures
- The film received mixed reviews from critics
- It is a love story takes place in an English coastal cinema during the 1980s
- It was announced in April 2021 that Sam Mendes had set his next film, which he would write and direct himself at Searchlight Pictures
- Olivia Colman was in talks to star in the film
- Roger Deakins was announced to serve as cinematographer
- Colman would be confirmed in July
- With Micheal Ward also joining the cast
- In December, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Crystal Clarke and Tanya Moodie were added to the cast
- Tom Brooke and Hannah Onslow were confirmed to star in late February
- Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross composed the film’s score
- Filming began on 7 February 2022 at Margate on the Isle of Thanet, Kent
- The Dreamland Margate Cinema building was remodeled and renamed through May 15
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 47%
- Based on 133 reviews
- With an average rating of 5.9/10
- The site’s critics consensus reads: “Empire of Light contains some fine performances and a few flashes of brilliance, but this tribute to the magic of cinema is disappointingly mundane”
- On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100
- Based on 32 critics
- Indicating “mixed or average reviews”
