Saoirse Ronan (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images); Jack Lowden (Joe Maher/Getty Images)
Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden are exiting their production banner Arcade Pictures.
The company’s debut feature, “The Outrun,” is set to make its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next week. The film had its world premiere at Sundance last month.
Lowden, who currently stars in “Slow Horses,” set up Arcade Pictures in 2019 with “Modern Life is Rubbish” producer Dominic Norris, who will remain with the company.
“Little Women” star Ronan joined the company as a director in 2021.
In 2022 Arcade Pictures unveiled its first major feature film project, an adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s addiction memoir “The Outrun,” directed by Nora Fingscheid.
“Arcade was trained to produce ‘The Outrun’ and Dominic will continue to drive that banner train,” a spokesperson said. “Jack and Saoirse are excited to celebrate the film as it makes its debut and beyond, and will continue to look for more passion projects to develop together in the future.”
In “The Outrun,” Ronan plays Rhona, a struggling alcoholic who, after losing control of her life, checks into rehab and then makes a beeline for Scotland’s wild and lonely Orkney Islands, where she reconnects with the dramatic land. joins in which she grew up. The cast includes “Gangs of London” star Papa Esidu, Stephen Dillen (“Game of Thrones”) and Loden’s “Slow Horses” co-star Saskia Reeves.
DiversityA reviewer for the described the film as “competently and stylishly made” while Ronan “inhabits the role as if she’s occupied it all her life.”
The adaptation was co-written by Fingscheidt and Liptrot. Protagonist pictures are increasing sales worldwide.
