Release Year: 2022

Category: Drama

Premiere: Southern California Premiere

Director(s): Sam Mendes
Producer(s): Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes
Screenwriter(s): Sam Mendes
Starring: Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Lost Daughter), Micheal Ward (Blue Story, Top Boy), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man)

Synopsis: Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, from Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes.
EMPIRE OF LIGHT features a stellar cast led by Academy Award winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Lost Daughter), BAFTA winner Micheal Ward (Blue Story, Top Boy) and Academy Award winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man). It also reunites Mendes with Academy Award winning cinematographer Roger Deakins (1917, Skyfall).