The First Trailer of "Penguin Bloom"

Watch now the first trailer for #PenguinBloom, a drama based on a true story and starring Naomi Watts! The movie is coming to Netflix in select countries on January 27, 2021 and will be released in Australian cinemas on January 21.

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Thanks to the origonal poster. 

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Happy Birthday Sept 28, 2020

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Naomi Watts talks "Penguin Bloom" in which she stars and produces

Andrew Lincoln and Naomi Watts on ‘Penguin Bloom’, ‘Walking Dead’, and the Scrapped ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff

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Naomi Watts Was Inundated With Pain, Bird Droppings on TIFF Drama ‘Penguin Bloom’

Penguin Bloom TIFF studio 2020
Naomi Watts Was Inundated With Pain, Bird Droppings on TIFF Drama ‘Penguin Bloom’



[read] Variety's article here.
[read] Guardian's Review here.

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PENGUIN BLOOM Q&A | TIFF 2020

PENGUIN BLOOM Q&A | TIFF 2020

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Director Glendyn Ivin, Naomi Watts,Andrew Lincoln, Bruna Papandrea, Emma Cooper, Jacki Weaver, Rachel House, Sam Bloom, and Cameron Bloom in conversation with TIFF in advance of PENGUIN BLOOM's premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival. Watts stars in the true story of Sam Bloom, whose recovery from a tragic accident is helped when she and her family meet an unusual visitor. The 45th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 10 to 19, 2020. For more, visit [TIFF]

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Naomi Watts and Director Phillip Noyce to Film Limelight Thriller ‘Lakewood’

Naomi Watts and director Phillip Noyce are joining forces for the thriller “Lakewood,” set to begin filming Sept. 16 in Ontario under strict COVID-19 protocols.

The film, written by Chris Sparling (“Buried,” “Greenland”) and produced by Boies/Schiller’s Zack Schiller and David Boies, Limelight’s Dylan Sellers and Chris Parker, Untapped’s Andrew Corkin, star Watts for Jam Tart Films and Stratagem’s Alex Lalonde, has echoes from today’s headlines. Limelight’s Alex Dong is an executive producer.

“Lakewood” follows a mother (Watts) who desperately races against time to save her child as authorities place her small town on lockdown.

The run-up to filming “Lakewood” was nearly as suspenseful. A month before principal photography was set to begin, the two-time Oscar nominee (“The Impossible,” “21 Grams”) and veteran producer (“The Painted Veil”) was unsure if her project would move forward as SAG-AFTRA regulations and other pandemic-related issues were being worked out.

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Naomi Watts' Penguin Bloom premieres @TIFF Toronoto

Penguin Bloom (2020)

Special Presentations, Cameron Bailey, Female Experience, Family, Australia + New Zealand, Literary Interest, Drama • 1h 35m • Australia 

 Naomi Watts delivers an inspiring performance in Glendyn Ivin’s Penguin Bloom, dramatizing the surprising, true-life story of a woman who suffers a traumatic accident and then finds a unique ally to pull her out of despair. This portrait of a family finding its way through crisis is both moving and heartwarming. 

 Australian Sam Bloom (Watts) is enjoying a blissful vacation in Thailand when a horrifying accident sends her falling storeys down to the pavement. Life changes in an instant for her, but also for her husband, Cameron (Andrew Lincoln), and their three children. Back home, Sam’s painful adjustment to her new disability leaves her unable to appreciate her idyllic home and a family trying to connect. “It’s not enough,” she says plainly. 

 When the family takes in a stray magpie, naming it Penguin for its black-and-white plumage, Sam is practically scornful. But the little bird cries when it needs help, forcing Sam to focus on more than her own hurt. Against her better judgment, Sam begins to tend to Penguin. 

 What could come off as insanely corny benefits from its grounding in truth, its strong script, and terrific performances all around. Jacki Weaver makes a delicious turn as Sam’s mum, and the amazing Rachel House, frequently seen in Taika Waititi’s films, takes a memorable role as Sam’s kayaking teacher. Reminding us why she’s one of cinema’s best at conveying conflicted inner life, Watts illuminates a woman who believes she’s lost everything that defines her, until she finds herself again. 

CAMERON BAILEY (TIFF, Toronto, Canada)<br>

Read Indiewire's review [Review]

 

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