If crime pays, then consider it payday. But beware, the currency may just be blood. In select theaters and digital April 19.
Make My Money Matter, a campaign group founded by filmmaker and activist Richard Curtis (“Love Actually”), has launched a new short film starring “Game of Thrones” stars and real life couple Kit Harington and Rose Leslie, in a bid to increase pressure on U.K. high street banks to cease financing the expansion of the fossil fuel industry.
The film, titled “Couples Therapy,” showcases how major banks continue to finance the industry, despite warnings from the International Energy Agency that doing so could trigger a climate catastrophe. In the film, Harington and Leslie personify the banks and their oil and gas clients, playing out an unhealthy relationship in a tongue-in-cheek couples’ therapy session.
The film follows the recent release of the Banking on Climate Chaos report, which revealed that the top U.K. banks collectively financed $37.3 billion towards the fossil fuel sector in 2022 alone. Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016, the U.K. Big Five banks have funnelled $419 billion to the fossil fuel industry, with $141 billion going towards the top 100 fossil fuel expanders globally.
According to Make My Money Matter, the majority of U.K. bank customers are unaware that their bank may be financing fossil fuel companies that are developing new oil and gas projects. To increase awareness of the issue, the campaign has invited the public to join them in writing directly to the Big Five banks.
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James asks “Extrapolations” stars Sienna Miller and Kit Harington about their new show and since Kit’s character uses AI, we asked ChatGPT to prepare a question for him in the voice of James.
Kit Harington spoke to “Extra’s” Melvin Robert at the L.A. premiere of the new climate change series “Extrapolations.” He reflected on shining a light on such an important issue and the “complicated” conversations he’ll have to have with his children about the planet. He also revealed he’s seen a few episodes of the “Game of Thrones” prequel series “House of the Dragon,” though he confessed it’s hard for him to watch! Plus, he reacted to buzz about a possible Jon Snow spin-off series. “Extrapolations” is streaming on AppleTV+ March 17.
Kit Harington announces he and his wife are expecting another child, dances around rumors that he’ll reprise his role as Jon Snow in a Game of Thrones spin-off and chats about his film Baby Ruby.
BABY RUBY tells the story of Jo, a successful lifestyle entrepreneur who is happily pregnant, awaiting the arrival of her first child. But soon after Jo welcomes baby Ruby home, something starts to feel off– even though she’s assured it’s all perfectly normal. Is something wrong with her? Is something wrong with Ruby? And why are the seemingly perfect neighborhood moms so desperate to befriend her? As Jo fights to protect herself and her baby, she is plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems. At last, she must confront the truth of her own darkness and contend with the ultimate human sacrifice: The one mothers make for their children.
Revisit the emotional and literal death-defying journey of Jon Snow.
“The team behind BABY RUBY in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The tightly scripted world of a vlogger and influencer (Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady on Fire) unravels as postpartum depression, a lack of support from those in her orbit, and her baby’s apparent hostility all mount, in noted playwright Bess Wohl’s feature debut.
