Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson have joined the cast of the 3-part Amazon series ‘A Very Royal Scandal.’
Based on the infamous interview with Prince Andrew, the series will follow Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis. the series will also star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
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Jeremy Brock and Julian Jarrold are collaborating on a the new series with Brock as the scribe and Jarrold as director. The show is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. The executive producers of the series are Karen Thrussell,...
Based on the infamous interview with Prince Andrew, the series will follow Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis. the series will also star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
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Jeremy Brock and Julian Jarrold are collaborating on a the new series with Brock as the scribe and Jarrold as director. The show is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. The executive producers of the series are Karen Thrussell,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson are leading the cast of A Very Royal Scandal, Prime Video’s upcoming limited series about Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis, in which he explained his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The series is currently in production in the UK.
According to the description, the three-part limited series, written by Jeremy Brock, will follow Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).
Cast also includes Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings as Sir Edward Young and Éanna Hardwicke as Stewart Maclean.
Julian Jarrold directs the series, which is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios, and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. Karen Thrussell, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, Jeremy Brock, Jarrold, and Maitlis herself serve as executive producers. Josh Hyams serves as a producer on the series.
According to the description, the three-part limited series, written by Jeremy Brock, will follow Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).
Cast also includes Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings as Sir Edward Young and Éanna Hardwicke as Stewart Maclean.
Julian Jarrold directs the series, which is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios, and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. Karen Thrussell, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, Jeremy Brock, Jarrold, and Maitlis herself serve as executive producers. Josh Hyams serves as a producer on the series.
- 11/20/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Sheen has, in different points of his career, made a speciality of playing real people. He's been Tony Blair, David Frost and Brian Clough among others. He's adding the disgraced Prince Andrew to his collection with Amazon's new miniseries A Very Royal Scandal, which will follow the events leading up to portraying, the Prince's interview with journalist Emily Maitlis. And with the show set to focus more on Maitlis than Andrew, Ruth Wilson is aboard to play her.
The series is, according to its official description, detailing "Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew."
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The cast for this...
The series is, according to its official description, detailing "Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew."
Tackled about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein and his involvement with a huge sex scandal that affected underage girls, it's a sweaty how-not-to be an interviewee. You can :a[see the original interview here]{href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtBS8COhhhM' }.
The cast for this...
- 11/20/2023
- by James White
- Empire - TV
Another Scandal is heading to Prime Video: Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson will star in the streamer’s A Very Royal Scandal which will chronicle Emily Maitlis’ revealing interview with Prince Andrew. The news was first reported by our sister site Variety Monday.
According to the official description, the three-part limited series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).”
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According to the official description, the three-part limited series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).”
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- 11/20/2023
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
Amazon is making a limited series about Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis, Variety has learned.
Production is underway in the U.K. on the three-part series, titled “A Very Royal Scandal.” Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis.
According to the official description, the series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Along with Sheen and Wilson, the series will star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
The series follows on Amazon’s past successes with “A Very English Scandal” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and “A Very British Scandal” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Jeremy Brock is writing “A Very Royal Scandal” with Julian Jarrold directing.
Production is underway in the U.K. on the three-part series, titled “A Very Royal Scandal.” Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis.
According to the official description, the series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Along with Sheen and Wilson, the series will star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
The series follows on Amazon’s past successes with “A Very English Scandal” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and “A Very British Scandal” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Jeremy Brock is writing “A Very Royal Scandal” with Julian Jarrold directing.
- 11/20/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company’, a book written by historian William Dalrymple, is set to be adapted for the screen. The book, which tells the story of how one of the world’s most biggest empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company, will be turned into a series.
The book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and was also the recipient of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Acclaimed screenwriter Jeremy Brock has been entrusted with the task of adapting the book for the screen. Brock is a BAFTA winning writer, director and producer, best known for his work in ‘Her Majesty Mrs Brown’, ‘The Last King of Scotland’, ‘Driving Lessons’, and ‘How I Live Now’.
With a career spanning over two decades, Brock is a member of both the American and British Academies.
The book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and was also the recipient of the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Acclaimed screenwriter Jeremy Brock has been entrusted with the task of adapting the book for the screen. Brock is a BAFTA winning writer, director and producer, best known for his work in ‘Her Majesty Mrs Brown’, ‘The Last King of Scotland’, ‘Driving Lessons’, and ‘How I Live Now’.
With a career spanning over two decades, Brock is a member of both the American and British Academies.
- 4/20/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
BAFTA-winning “The Last King of Scotland” writer Jeremy Brock will adapt independent studio Wiip and India’s Roy Kapur Films’ series based on the book “The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company” by author and historian William Dalrymple.
“The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide.
The bestselling historical book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and one of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year when it was published in 2019.
Executive producers...
“The Anarchy” will be mounted as an international co-production between Wiip and Roy Kapur Films to be produced across the U.S., U.K. and India. The book tells the story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires, the Mughal empire, disintegrated and came to be replaced by the British East India Company – a dangerously unregulated private company based thousands of miles away in a small London office just five windows wide.
The bestselling historical book won accolades as President Barack Obama’s top 10 recommended books and one of The Wall Street Journal’s Best Books of the Year when it was published in 2019.
Executive producers...
- 4/20/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
It can be hard at times to separate Rupert Grint from his "Harry Potter" roots. Even now, over a decade after the last film in the franchise was released, Grint's name is still synonymous with Ron Weasley, the clumsy boy wizard with a heart of gold. But Grint's acting career definitely has roots outside of Hogwarts. Over the years, he's appeared in various other films including Jeremy Brock's "Driving Lessons," Jonathan Lynn's "Wild Target," and 2009's "Cherrybomb" directed by Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn.
"Cherrybomb" is a British drama about two teenagers who both fall for the same girl. In increasingly more serious attempts at getting her attention, they eventually find themselves in over their heads and headed for disaster. Grint plays one of the teens, Malachy McKinney, an employee at a local movie theater. In the film, Malachy is the exact opposite of Ron Weasley, eager...
"Cherrybomb" is a British drama about two teenagers who both fall for the same girl. In increasingly more serious attempts at getting her attention, they eventually find themselves in over their heads and headed for disaster. Grint plays one of the teens, Malachy McKinney, an employee at a local movie theater. In the film, Malachy is the exact opposite of Ron Weasley, eager...
- 1/26/2023
- by Miyako Pleines
- Slash Film
(Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they've been watching, why it's worth checking out, and where you can stream it.)The Movie: "A Little Chaos"Where You Can Stream It: NetflixThe Pitch: It's the late Alan Rickman's birthday today, and in honor of that, let's shine a spotlight on one of his final films, "A Little Chaos." Rickman wrote the screenplay along with Jeremy Brock and Alison Deegan from Deegan's story. It was his second turn as a director, and he also plays the minor but important role of King Louis Xiv of France. "A Little Chaos" is...
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- 2/21/2022
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Spanish indie production powerhouse Mediapro is at San Sebastian Film Festival this year screening two of the buzziest local features in the program: the Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Oscar Martinez-starring Official Competition, which arrives from Venice, and the Javier Bardem-fronted The Good Boss, which premieres here.
The pair of films, which are both forms of comedies but could hardly be more different in their approach to the medium, are the talk of the town after being well received at the fest (the official The Good Boss premiere is this eve but it has screened twice already).
Speaking to Deadline in San Sebastian, Laura Fernández Espeso, CEO of Mediapro’s production wing The Mediapro Studio, says the festival feels like a “celebration” for the company after a tumultuous 18 months. At the beginning of the pandemic, the prolific outfit had to pause a total of 52 productions, but everything is now back on track,...
The pair of films, which are both forms of comedies but could hardly be more different in their approach to the medium, are the talk of the town after being well received at the fest (the official The Good Boss premiere is this eve but it has screened twice already).
Speaking to Deadline in San Sebastian, Laura Fernández Espeso, CEO of Mediapro’s production wing The Mediapro Studio, says the festival feels like a “celebration” for the company after a tumultuous 18 months. At the beginning of the pandemic, the prolific outfit had to pause a total of 52 productions, but everything is now back on track,...
- 9/21/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“This is Music,” an anthology TV series to be directed by Wim Wenders, David Byrne, and Norwegian talents Joachim Trier and Julie Andem, is among projects set to be pitched at the upcoming Berlinale Series Market. These Co-Pro Series pitching sessions and meetings run March 2-5.
This TV section of the Berlin Film Festival’s market has been a launchpad for high-profile shows such as “Babylon Berlin,” Norway’s “Valkyries” and Netflix’s “Freud.”
“This is Music” is being produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures and was created and written by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen who penned the Wenders’ film “Every Thing Will be Fine.” Julie Andem is the creator of hit Norwegian series “Skam.” Trier directed “Louder Than Bombs.” Further details are being kept under wraps.
The 10 selected Berlinale Co-Pro Series projects also comprise promising British series project “58 Seconds” from Jeremy Brock who won screenplay adaptation BAFTA for “The Last King of Scotland...
This TV section of the Berlin Film Festival’s market has been a launchpad for high-profile shows such as “Babylon Berlin,” Norway’s “Valkyries” and Netflix’s “Freud.”
“This is Music” is being produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures and was created and written by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen who penned the Wenders’ film “Every Thing Will be Fine.” Julie Andem is the creator of hit Norwegian series “Skam.” Trier directed “Louder Than Bombs.” Further details are being kept under wraps.
The 10 selected Berlinale Co-Pro Series projects also comprise promising British series project “58 Seconds” from Jeremy Brock who won screenplay adaptation BAFTA for “The Last King of Scotland...
- 1/26/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Six series will play in the festival with 10 titles in the Market.
A new anthology series titled This Is Music from directors including Wim Wenders and David Byrne is one of 10 international projects selected for the Co-Pro Series section of the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2021 (March 2-5).
The Berlinale Series has also selected six series to play in the online festival, which runs from March 1-5.
Scroll down for full list of Co-Pro Series, Berlinale Series and Series Market Selects titles
Produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures, anthology series This Is Music is created by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, who wrote Wenders...
A new anthology series titled This Is Music from directors including Wim Wenders and David Byrne is one of 10 international projects selected for the Co-Pro Series section of the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2021 (March 2-5).
The Berlinale Series has also selected six series to play in the online festival, which runs from March 1-5.
Scroll down for full list of Co-Pro Series, Berlinale Series and Series Market Selects titles
Produced by Norway’s Oslo Pictures, anthology series This Is Music is created by Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, who wrote Wenders...
- 1/26/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
2021’s totally online NATPE Virtual Miami is just but half over. Some inkling of how it might shape out, however, is fast falling into place.
Basically, streaming stole the show. Yes, Fox did announce during NATPE that the Jay Leno-hosted “You Bet Your Life” reboot, bowing this fall, has sold in 85% of the U.S. Yet a once annual launchpad for shows seeking U.S. syndication was dominated this time round by the seismic pivot of Hollywood’s majors and other players into global VOD platforms, and the impact of this tectonic shunt on the industry at large.
Dominating NATPE-related business announcements and online panel discussions, that impact is inevitable.
But it didn’t always play out in the most obvious fashion.
Following, six – somewhat provisional – takeaways from this year’s NATPE Miami, focused on its international business:
The Big Swings
During NATPE, Paramount Plus set a March 4 launch date for the U.
Basically, streaming stole the show. Yes, Fox did announce during NATPE that the Jay Leno-hosted “You Bet Your Life” reboot, bowing this fall, has sold in 85% of the U.S. Yet a once annual launchpad for shows seeking U.S. syndication was dominated this time round by the seismic pivot of Hollywood’s majors and other players into global VOD platforms, and the impact of this tectonic shunt on the industry at large.
Dominating NATPE-related business announcements and online panel discussions, that impact is inevitable.
But it didn’t always play out in the most obvious fashion.
Following, six – somewhat provisional – takeaways from this year’s NATPE Miami, focused on its international business:
The Big Swings
During NATPE, Paramount Plus set a March 4 launch date for the U.
- 1/25/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid-based international TV powerhouse The Mediapro Studio has sold banner series “The Head” to HBO Max for the U.S. as it powers into English-language production, partnering with John Turturro, “Casualty” writers Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, U.K. producer Big Talk and London-based director Guillem Morales.
The drive into U.S. and now most especially U.K. production marks the latest strategic growth in one of the fastest ramp-ups in drama series production in Europe, spearheaded by Laura Fernández Espeso, appointed The Mediapro corporate director in October 2019 and chief executive last month.
“We are making a large bet on fortifying our position in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America, and feature film production, and are proud to be working with a huge range of high-caliber partners,” Fernández-Espeso told Variety.
Underscoring her point, she noted four U.S. projects now in development; a production alliance with Erik Barmack,...
The drive into U.S. and now most especially U.K. production marks the latest strategic growth in one of the fastest ramp-ups in drama series production in Europe, spearheaded by Laura Fernández Espeso, appointed The Mediapro corporate director in October 2019 and chief executive last month.
“We are making a large bet on fortifying our position in the U.S., U.K. and Latin America, and feature film production, and are proud to be working with a huge range of high-caliber partners,” Fernández-Espeso told Variety.
Underscoring her point, she noted four U.S. projects now in development; a production alliance with Erik Barmack,...
- 1/25/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to Alistair Owen, author of The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft, about his picks for 5 Great Screen Adaptations – dipping into 5 case studies from the book:
Drive – Hossein Amini – how to write a great opening Atonement – Christopher Hampton – fidelity to the novel Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach – importance of point of view / use of voiceover (compare and contrast with Andrew Davies’ TV version) Great Expectations – Sarah Phelps – how small changes can make a big difference (compare and contract with David Nicholls’ film version) Wild – Nick Hornby – the challenges of nonfiction
Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book – but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays?...
Drive – Hossein Amini – how to write a great opening Atonement – Christopher Hampton – fidelity to the novel Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach – importance of point of view / use of voiceover (compare and contrast with Andrew Davies’ TV version) Great Expectations – Sarah Phelps – how small changes can make a big difference (compare and contract with David Nicholls’ film version) Wild – Nick Hornby – the challenges of nonfiction
Hollywood. Netflix. Amazon. BBC. Producers and audiences are hungrier than ever for stories, and a lot of those stories begin life as a book – but how exactly do you transfer a story from the page to the screen? Do adaptations use the same creative gears as original screenplays?...
- 11/9/2020
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
Cold Communist Files: Avranas Paints Unorthodox Procedural into Mincing Eurotrash
A late addition to the Greek Weird Wave thanks to his 2013 sophomore title Miss Violence, Alexandros Avranas gets a chance at high profile international attention with his latest feature, Dark Crimes, based on a 2008 article by David Grann in the New Yorker adapted for the screen by Belgian writer/director Jeremy Brock. Notably, the property once belonged to Roman Polanski and was set to star Christoph Waltz. A major international coproduction shot within the beautifully preserved confines of Krakow, the project was perhaps always destined to be illogically filmed…...
A late addition to the Greek Weird Wave thanks to his 2013 sophomore title Miss Violence, Alexandros Avranas gets a chance at high profile international attention with his latest feature, Dark Crimes, based on a 2008 article by David Grann in the New Yorker adapted for the screen by Belgian writer/director Jeremy Brock. Notably, the property once belonged to Roman Polanski and was set to star Christoph Waltz. A major international coproduction shot within the beautifully preserved confines of Krakow, the project was perhaps always destined to be illogically filmed…...
- 5/25/2018
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Jim Carrey takes on an incredibly serious role in his latest film project Dark Crimes. The movie is a murder mystery crime thriller, in which Carrey plays a police officer who is hunting down a killer in the dark underworld of sex crimes.
We've seen Carrey make serious films before, but this one definitely looks like it could be his darkest yet. The story follows a police officer named Tadek, "who finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a book by famed writer Krystov Kozlow (Martin Csokas). As Tadek begins to track Kozlow and his girlfriend, a mysterious sex club worker (Charlotte Gainsbourg), his obsession grows and he descends into an underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the shocking truth."
The movie is based on a true story that was told in a 2008 New Yorker article titled, "True Crimes – A postmodern murder mystery", by David Grann.
We've seen Carrey make serious films before, but this one definitely looks like it could be his darkest yet. The story follows a police officer named Tadek, "who finds similarities between an unsolved murder and a crime outlined in a book by famed writer Krystov Kozlow (Martin Csokas). As Tadek begins to track Kozlow and his girlfriend, a mysterious sex club worker (Charlotte Gainsbourg), his obsession grows and he descends into an underworld of sex, lies, and corruption to find the shocking truth."
The movie is based on a true story that was told in a 2008 New Yorker article titled, "True Crimes – A postmodern murder mystery", by David Grann.
- 4/11/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
BBC Two has commissioned fictional single drama Diana and I, about the impact Princess Diana's death had on people's lives. It’s produced by Big Talk Productions and written by Mrs. Brown and The Last King of Scotland scribe Jeremy Brock. The Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo is set to direct. It tells the story from the point of view of four ordinary people and is set across the week that followed her tragic death on August 31, 1997. The characters' fictional stories…...
- 5/18/2017
- Deadline TV
Saban Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Alexandros Avranas' True Crimes starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Written by Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), True Crimes is based on a New Yorker article about the homicide investigation of a slain business man and the novelist eventually convicted of the murder. Saban has yet to set a theatrical release date. RatPac Entertainment's Brett Ratner and John Cheng, InterTitle Films' David…...
- 4/4/2017
- Deadline
Saban Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Alexandros Avranas' True Crimes starring Jim Carrey and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
The film is based on a New Yorker article about the homicide investigation of a slain business man and the novelist eventually convicted of the murder. Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland) wrote the script.
RatPac Entertainment’s Brett Ratner and John Cheng, InterTitle Films’ David Gerson, Los Angeles Media Fund’s Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman produced the crime thriller, which made its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival in October and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in...
The film is based on a New Yorker article about the homicide investigation of a slain business man and the novelist eventually convicted of the murder. Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland) wrote the script.
RatPac Entertainment’s Brett Ratner and John Cheng, InterTitle Films’ David Gerson, Los Angeles Media Fund’s Jeffrey Soros and Simon Horsman produced the crime thriller, which made its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival in October and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in...
- 4/4/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Voltage Pictures financed Once Upon A Time In Venice. Separately, Mongrel Media to distribute Colossal in Canada; Saban Films acquires True Crimes.
Rlj Entertainment has picked up all Us rights from Voltage to the action-comedy Once Upon A Time In Venice.
The film will open theatrically and on VOD on June 16 and stars Willis as a private eye in Venice Beach, California, who takes on a local gangster when his beloved dog is kidnapped.
The ensemble includes John Goodman, Thomas Middleditch, Justice League and Aquaman star Jason Momoa, X-Men’s Famke Janssen, Adam Goldberg and Kal Penn.
Mark Cullen directed and reunites with Willis after he co-wrote the 2010 Kevin Smith action-comedy Cop Out with Robb Cullen.
Voltage Pictures chief Nicolas Chartier produced with Laura Ford, Zev Foreman, Cullen and Cullen. Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter served as executive producer with Stephen J. Eads.
Voltage financed and produced the project and sold out to international buyers as an untitled...
Rlj Entertainment has picked up all Us rights from Voltage to the action-comedy Once Upon A Time In Venice.
The film will open theatrically and on VOD on June 16 and stars Willis as a private eye in Venice Beach, California, who takes on a local gangster when his beloved dog is kidnapped.
The ensemble includes John Goodman, Thomas Middleditch, Justice League and Aquaman star Jason Momoa, X-Men’s Famke Janssen, Adam Goldberg and Kal Penn.
Mark Cullen directed and reunites with Willis after he co-wrote the 2010 Kevin Smith action-comedy Cop Out with Robb Cullen.
Voltage Pictures chief Nicolas Chartier produced with Laura Ford, Zev Foreman, Cullen and Cullen. Voltage president and COO Jonathan Deckter served as executive producer with Stephen J. Eads.
Voltage financed and produced the project and sold out to international buyers as an untitled...
- 4/4/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
ITV has commissioned Desire, a new five-part drama serial written by The Last King of Scotland screenwriter Jeremy Brock. Victoria and Poldark producer Mammoth Screen will produce. The story focuses on Leia, who is just about managing to hold her life together in the face of a messy divorce when she finds herself falling in love with an intensity that she's never experienced before. It's the wrong man at the wrong time but Leia can't give the relationship up. It looks at…...
- 2/28/2017
- Deadline TV
One of the highlights of this time of year, for anyone that is in the UK and has even a passing interest in movies and typing the words “Int.” or “Ext.” is the BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture Series. Now in its seventh year, and founded by “Last King Of Scotland” writer Jeremy Brock, it’s seen acclaimed and award-wining wordsmiths including Simon Beaufoy, Charlie Kaufman, Abi Morgan, Scott Frank, Tony Gilroy, Emma Thompson and Nick Hornby unspool some of their secrets.
Continue reading Park Chan-Wook Talks Collaboration, Coming Up With The ‘Oldboy’ Ending While Peeing & More In 49-Minute BAFTA Talk at The Playlist.
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- 10/24/2016
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Harvey Weinstein and Steven Spielberg are poised to go head-to-head once again. The Weinstein Co. is moving forward with a drama based on the true story of the kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, with Robert De Niro circling the role of Pope Pius IX. The move pits the untitled film against an Amblin Entertainment project on the subject that will mark Spielberg's next directorial effort. Baltasar Kormakur is in talks to direct the Weinstein film, which Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland) is penning. Julia Chasman (25th Hour), who has been developing the property for 15 years, is
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- 9/14/2016
- by Tatiana Siegel, Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The Lego Movie duo Phil Lord and Chris Miller complete lineup.
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By The Sea), Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) and Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie) are to deliver this year’s BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lectures in October.
Now in its seventh year, the Screenwriters’ Lecture Series celebrates screenwriters’ contribution to film, and gives well known writers a platform to share highlights and insights from their careers.
The series, funded by Jj Charitable Trust (one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts), was created by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock.
This year’s lecture by Park Chan-wook is hosted in partnership with the BFI.
Dame Pippa Harris, chair of the BAFTA Film Committee said: “The Screenwriters’ Lecture Series, brilliantly overseen by Jeremy Brock, offers an invaluable opportunity to hear today’s most acclaimed screenwriters share their wisdom and secrets of the trade. This year we have an outstanding line up of diverse...
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester By The Sea), Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann), Park Chan-wook (Old Boy) and Phil Lord and Chris Miller (The Lego Movie) are to deliver this year’s BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lectures in October.
Now in its seventh year, the Screenwriters’ Lecture Series celebrates screenwriters’ contribution to film, and gives well known writers a platform to share highlights and insights from their careers.
The series, funded by Jj Charitable Trust (one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts), was created by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock.
This year’s lecture by Park Chan-wook is hosted in partnership with the BFI.
Dame Pippa Harris, chair of the BAFTA Film Committee said: “The Screenwriters’ Lecture Series, brilliantly overseen by Jeremy Brock, offers an invaluable opportunity to hear today’s most acclaimed screenwriters share their wisdom and secrets of the trade. This year we have an outstanding line up of diverse...
- 9/13/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
2015 was a successful year regarding the quantity and quality of foreign productions shot in Poland. At the beginning of the year, Anne Fontaine (“Coco Before Chanel,” “Perfect Mothers”) filmed a French-Polish co-production “Agnus Dei” in Warmia, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film features Polish and French actresses among others Lou de Laage, Agata Kulesza, Agata Buzek and Joanna Kulig.
In the spring, the crew of a Polish-German-French-Belgian co-production about the life of Maria Sklodowska-Curie (dir. Marie Noelle) spent 20 days on the set in among others Lodz, Leba and Krakow. The cast is international, and the film is made in French. The Polish Nobelist is portrayed by Karolina Gruszka (“Oxygen”).
The summer brought about increased activity of German producers. A Zdf TV show, “Ein Sommer in…” was filmed in two resort towns in the north-eastern Poland – Mikolajki and Mragowo. Ard and Tvp collaborated on the set of "Polizeiruf 110" ("Police Call 110"), which was filmed in July and August among others in a Polish border-town – Swiecko. Also in July began the shooting of a new part of detective TV series "Der Usedom-Krimi" filmed on both the Polish and German side of the Usedom island.
However, a true influx of foreign productions took place in the autumn. American-Polish thriller “Chronology” was filmed in Poznan. The cast includes William Baldwin (TV series "Gossip Girl," "Adrift in Manhattan") and Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “From Dusk till Dawn”).
The Goetz Palace in Brzesk, in Malopolska hosted filmmakers from India who for six days were shooting “Fitoor,” an Indian adaptation of Dickens's “Great Expectations.” The crew consisted of over 40 Indians and almost 80 Poles. Another crew from India – this time from the so-called Kollywood in the south of the country – spent twenty days on the set in various Polish locations (among others Zakopane, Walbrzych, Krakow, Leba). The film titled “24” features Surya, a Tamil superstar, in the main role.
The autumn months were also very intensive in Lodz with three simultaneous big film sets. Andrzej Wajda (“The Promised Land,” “Walesa. Man of Hope”) worked on his new film “Powidoki”; Opus Film, the producer of “Ida”, organized for an Israeli partner eleven-day shoot to a film set in 1970s – “Past Life,” directed by Avi Nesher; and American director Martha Coolidge (“The Prince and Me,” TV shows “Sex and the City,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Weeds”) filmed her project “Music, War and Love,” whose producer is among others Fred Roos known from such films as “Apocalypse Now,” “The Godfather” or “Lost in Translation.” The picture features Adelaide Clemens (“The Great Gatsby”), Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), Toby Sebastian (“Game of Thrones”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Nymphomaniac”).
The end of the year was also very successful for Malopolska and Krakow. Two movies were filmed in the region – an American-British biography of Martin Luther commissioned by PBS with Padraic Delaney (“The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” “The Tudors”) in the main role; and a feature titled “True Crimes” starring two-time winner of a Golden Globe – Jim Carrey (“The Truman Show,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Mask”) as the protagonist. The crew spent 32 days on the set in Krakow. The picture was directed by Greek Alexandros Avranas (“Miss Violence”), written by Jeremy Brock (“Brideshead Revisited,” “The Last King of Scotland”), and produced by Brett Ratner (“X-Men 3: the Last Stand,” TV series “Rush Hour”). Accompanying Jim Carrey were Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Nymphomaniac,” “Antichrist”); Marton Csokas (“The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”) and Polish actors Agata Kulesza (“Ida”) and Robert Wieckiewicz (“Walesa. Man of Hope”).
The first information about productions planned for 2016 has already been released. In January, Krakow will host the crew of French black comedy “Grand Froid,” Gérard Pautonnier's debut featuring Jean-Pierre Bacri (“The Taste of Others,” “Let It Rain”), Olivier Gourmet (“Rosetta,” “The Son”) and Arthur Dupond (“Bus Palladium”). The project won the first edition of the Krakow International Film Fund.
In the spring, the crew of a Polish-German-French-Belgian co-production about the life of Maria Sklodowska-Curie (dir. Marie Noelle) spent 20 days on the set in among others Lodz, Leba and Krakow. The cast is international, and the film is made in French. The Polish Nobelist is portrayed by Karolina Gruszka (“Oxygen”).
The summer brought about increased activity of German producers. A Zdf TV show, “Ein Sommer in…” was filmed in two resort towns in the north-eastern Poland – Mikolajki and Mragowo. Ard and Tvp collaborated on the set of "Polizeiruf 110" ("Police Call 110"), which was filmed in July and August among others in a Polish border-town – Swiecko. Also in July began the shooting of a new part of detective TV series "Der Usedom-Krimi" filmed on both the Polish and German side of the Usedom island.
However, a true influx of foreign productions took place in the autumn. American-Polish thriller “Chronology” was filmed in Poznan. The cast includes William Baldwin (TV series "Gossip Girl," "Adrift in Manhattan") and Danny Trejo (“Machete,” “From Dusk till Dawn”).
The Goetz Palace in Brzesk, in Malopolska hosted filmmakers from India who for six days were shooting “Fitoor,” an Indian adaptation of Dickens's “Great Expectations.” The crew consisted of over 40 Indians and almost 80 Poles. Another crew from India – this time from the so-called Kollywood in the south of the country – spent twenty days on the set in various Polish locations (among others Zakopane, Walbrzych, Krakow, Leba). The film titled “24” features Surya, a Tamil superstar, in the main role.
The autumn months were also very intensive in Lodz with three simultaneous big film sets. Andrzej Wajda (“The Promised Land,” “Walesa. Man of Hope”) worked on his new film “Powidoki”; Opus Film, the producer of “Ida”, organized for an Israeli partner eleven-day shoot to a film set in 1970s – “Past Life,” directed by Avi Nesher; and American director Martha Coolidge (“The Prince and Me,” TV shows “Sex and the City,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Weeds”) filmed her project “Music, War and Love,” whose producer is among others Fred Roos known from such films as “Apocalypse Now,” “The Godfather” or “Lost in Translation.” The picture features Adelaide Clemens (“The Great Gatsby”), Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), Toby Sebastian (“Game of Thrones”) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Nymphomaniac”).
The end of the year was also very successful for Malopolska and Krakow. Two movies were filmed in the region – an American-British biography of Martin Luther commissioned by PBS with Padraic Delaney (“The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” “The Tudors”) in the main role; and a feature titled “True Crimes” starring two-time winner of a Golden Globe – Jim Carrey (“The Truman Show,” “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Mask”) as the protagonist. The crew spent 32 days on the set in Krakow. The picture was directed by Greek Alexandros Avranas (“Miss Violence”), written by Jeremy Brock (“Brideshead Revisited,” “The Last King of Scotland”), and produced by Brett Ratner (“X-Men 3: the Last Stand,” TV series “Rush Hour”). Accompanying Jim Carrey were Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Nymphomaniac,” “Antichrist”); Marton Csokas (“The Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King,” “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”) and Polish actors Agata Kulesza (“Ida”) and Robert Wieckiewicz (“Walesa. Man of Hope”).
The first information about productions planned for 2016 has already been released. In January, Krakow will host the crew of French black comedy “Grand Froid,” Gérard Pautonnier's debut featuring Jean-Pierre Bacri (“The Taste of Others,” “Let It Rain”), Olivier Gourmet (“Rosetta,” “The Son”) and Arthur Dupond (“Bus Palladium”). The project won the first edition of the Krakow International Film Fund.
- 2/4/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
True Crimes
Director: Alexandros Avranas
Writer: Jeremy Brock
One of the most exciting directorial debuts out of 2013 was Alexandros Avranas‘ Miss Violence, a domestic drama lumped into the growing Greek Weird Wave movement. Initially, Avranas announced another Greek language project with returning cast members of his first film, but instead he’s inherited this Us-Polish co-production, True Crimes, concerning the murder investigation of a slain businessman and based on a 2008 New Yorker article by David Grann. A couple years ago, this was a property announced for Roman Polanski and set to star Christoph Waltz—however, Polanski’s weathered several delays in his other developing project, The Dreyfuss Affair, explaining why it’s navigated elsewhere. We’re curious to see what Avranas does with the thriller, considering it stars Jim Carrey, whose serious minded efforts can be hit or miss. Supporting cast mates like Gainsbourg, Kaurismaki regular Kati Outinen, and character...
Director: Alexandros Avranas
Writer: Jeremy Brock
One of the most exciting directorial debuts out of 2013 was Alexandros Avranas‘ Miss Violence, a domestic drama lumped into the growing Greek Weird Wave movement. Initially, Avranas announced another Greek language project with returning cast members of his first film, but instead he’s inherited this Us-Polish co-production, True Crimes, concerning the murder investigation of a slain businessman and based on a 2008 New Yorker article by David Grann. A couple years ago, this was a property announced for Roman Polanski and set to star Christoph Waltz—however, Polanski’s weathered several delays in his other developing project, The Dreyfuss Affair, explaining why it’s navigated elsewhere. We’re curious to see what Avranas does with the thriller, considering it stars Jim Carrey, whose serious minded efforts can be hit or miss. Supporting cast mates like Gainsbourg, Kaurismaki regular Kati Outinen, and character...
- 1/9/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. This November, we’ve got a fivesome of projects that we feel are worth signaling out, but before we put the focus on those, the previous month was a rather fruitful one for mostly indiewood film productions. Films that we’ll be seeing in 2016 and which are for the most part still filming include: Mark Williams‘ workplace drama The Headhunter’s Calling (with Alison Brie, Gretchen Mol, Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina), Philippe Falardeau‘s bio boxing drama The Bleeder (with Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss), Taron Lexton’s coming-of-ager In Search of Fellini (with Ksenia Solo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Maria Bello), Kevin Tent‘s Black List scripted rom-com (with Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, Nina Dobrev), Sophie Brooks‘ NYC set Euro-fizzled comedy,...
- 11/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Can Jim Carrey serve as a replacement for Christoph Waltz? The world at large may have its doubts, but the filmmakers behind True Crimes think he can, as Waltz is no longer being talked about in connection with the murder mystery, but Carrey is now preparing to star alongside Agata Kulesza, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kati Outinen, Zbigniew Zamachowski and Marton Czokas.Jeremy Brock’s script is drawn from David Grann’s 2008 New Yorker article about the slaying of advertising company manager Dariusz Janiszewski, whose body washed up in Poland’s Oder River in December 2000. The crime baffled the authorities until detective Jacek Wroblewski tracked Janiszewski's missing cell phone to an eBay auction. The seller was Krystian Bala, a Polish intellectual whose sado-sexual novel Amok had been published after Janiszewski's death, and featured a plot that seemed eerily similar the real-life killing.Speaking to Screen International, Brock explained that he travelled to...
- 10/22/2015
- EmpireOnline
Exclusive: Principal photography on thriller True Crimes, starring Jim Carrey, will begin in Poland’s Krakow on Nov 7.
Speaking to ScreenDaily, the film’s UK screenwriter Jeremy Brock explained that his screenplay was inspired after reading David Grann’s New Yorker article True Crimes - A Post-Modern Murder Mystery, which centres on a Polish murder investigation turning to clues found in a novelist’s book that bear a bizarre resemblance to the case.
Brock, whose screenwriting credits include Mrs Brown, The Last King Of Scotland and Brideshead Revisited, spent a week in Poland in 2008 “just getting my bearings”.
“I spent the intervening time to find my inspiration for what has become an original screenplay,” he recalled, noting that, in his 30 years as a screenwriter from his beginnings as a co-writer of the BBC TV series Casualty in 1985, “I haven’t worked so long and persistently on one project as I have done on this one”.
“Through working...
Speaking to ScreenDaily, the film’s UK screenwriter Jeremy Brock explained that his screenplay was inspired after reading David Grann’s New Yorker article True Crimes - A Post-Modern Murder Mystery, which centres on a Polish murder investigation turning to clues found in a novelist’s book that bear a bizarre resemblance to the case.
Brock, whose screenwriting credits include Mrs Brown, The Last King Of Scotland and Brideshead Revisited, spent a week in Poland in 2008 “just getting my bearings”.
“I spent the intervening time to find my inspiration for what has become an original screenplay,” he recalled, noting that, in his 30 years as a screenwriter from his beginnings as a co-writer of the BBC TV series Casualty in 1985, “I haven’t worked so long and persistently on one project as I have done on this one”.
“Through working...
- 10/22/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
At the fourth installment of the BAFTA BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series held in London this week, British television writer Jimmy McGovern spoke about how he was able to tackle social and political issues on the small screen. British screenwriter Jeremy Brock, who introduced McGovern, noted: "I can think of no single British screenwriter who has subjected his own culture to such an extraordinary and dramatic scrutiny as has Jimmy McGovern. His work is always fiercely honest, incredibly funny, deeply moving, and above all substantive." Few soap opera writers can claim to have such a warm reception. Ironically, McGovern attributes his success in the industry as part fluke. He was in his thirties when he began writing for Channel 4’s hit soap opera "Brookside" and, at the time, he claimed that he was flat out immature and out of his league in many ways. "I think I was so lucky...
- 10/2/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Read More: Listen to Emma Thompson Talk Screenwriting: ‘If You Can’t Fail, You Can’t Do This Job For the sixth year running, the BAFTA and BFI Screenwriters’ Lecture Series launched last night with Academy Award winning screenwriter, Nick Hornby, as its kickoff speaker. Hornby will be followed by screenwriters Andrew Bovell, Nancy Meyers, Jimmy McGovern and Beau Willimon. This year’s season is programmed by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jeremy Brock and BAFTA-winning producer Andrea Calderwood. Jeremy Brock, who created the series, said, "each year, the Screenwriters’ Lecture Series brings the importance of the screenwriters’ role into sharp focus. Through their original ideas and adaptations, this season’s esteemed speakers have helped bring to the screen stories that have touched our hearts, cheered our souls, and made us think." Speaking candidly about the loneliness of writing, Hornby frequently touched on the hardships of writing novels versus ...
- 9/24/2015
- by Elle Leonsis
- Indiewire
Wind River
Chris Pine and Elizabeth Olsen are set to star in "Sicario" screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's directorial debut "Wind River" at Insiders, Thunder Road and Film 44.
Pine is set to play a fish and game hunter forced to confront his past when he joins a rookie FBI agent in a quest to solve a murder in the lawless Wind River Indian Reservation. [Source: Screen]
Free Fire
"District 9" actor Sharlto Copley has signed on to star in "Kill List" director Ben Wheatley's next film, the action thriller "Free Fire" which Martin Scorsese will executive produce.
Set in Boston in 1978, the story deals with a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. Luke Evans, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer and Michael Smiley also star. [Source: Twitter]
True Crimes
Jim Carrey is in talks to star in Alexandros Avranas' indie drama...
Chris Pine and Elizabeth Olsen are set to star in "Sicario" screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's directorial debut "Wind River" at Insiders, Thunder Road and Film 44.
Pine is set to play a fish and game hunter forced to confront his past when he joins a rookie FBI agent in a quest to solve a murder in the lawless Wind River Indian Reservation. [Source: Screen]
Free Fire
"District 9" actor Sharlto Copley has signed on to star in "Kill List" director Ben Wheatley's next film, the action thriller "Free Fire" which Martin Scorsese will executive produce.
Set in Boston in 1978, the story deals with a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. Luke Evans, Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer and Michael Smiley also star. [Source: Twitter]
True Crimes
Jim Carrey is in talks to star in Alexandros Avranas' indie drama...
- 5/14/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Kate Winslet has featured in the first trailer from upcoming romantic drama A Little Chaos.
Alan Rickman has directed the project from a screenplay he co-wrote with Allison Deegan and Jeremy Brock.
Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts, Danny Webb and Rickman himself also star in the drama.
A Little Chaos is centred around Sabine (Winslet), a landscape designer who challenges sexual protocols when she is selected to build a large garden at King Louis Xiv's new Versailles palace.
She soon finds herself in a professional and romantic puzzle with the court's landscape architect André Le Notre (Schoenaerts).
The period drama will be released on March 27, 2015 in the Us and on April 17 in the UK.
Alan Rickman has directed the project from a screenplay he co-wrote with Allison Deegan and Jeremy Brock.
Stanley Tucci, Matthias Schoenaerts, Danny Webb and Rickman himself also star in the drama.
A Little Chaos is centred around Sabine (Winslet), a landscape designer who challenges sexual protocols when she is selected to build a large garden at King Louis Xiv's new Versailles palace.
She soon finds herself in a professional and romantic puzzle with the court's landscape architect André Le Notre (Schoenaerts).
The period drama will be released on March 27, 2015 in the Us and on April 17 in the UK.
- 12/19/2014
- Digital Spy
Focus Features snapped up North American rights to actor-turned-director Alan Rickman's "A Little Chaos" at Tiff. This romantic drama stars Winslet as a steely landscape designer who breaks sexual and class barriers when she's chosen to build one of King Louis Xiv's gardens at the new Versailles. Sabine also finds herself entangled romantically with renowned landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). Costarring Jennifer Ehle and Stanley Tucci, "Chaos" suffered middling reviews at Toronto. Financed by Lionsgate UK and penned by Alison Deegan, Jeremy Brock and Rickman, the period romance will have its stateside premiere on March 27, 2015. What this does reveal is that the new Focus under Peter Schlessel wants to stay in the business of releasing this sort of arthouse material. ...
- 12/18/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Though the fest is well over, Toronto deals are still shaking out. Focus Features has snapped up North American rights to actor-turned-director Alan Rickman's Tiff premiere "A Little Chaos," a romantic drama starring Winslet as a steely landscape designer who breaks sexual and class barriers when she's chosen to build one of King Louis Xiv's gardens at the new Versailles. Sabine also finds herself entangled romantically with renowned landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Schoenaerts). Costarring Jennifer Ehle and Stanley Tucci, "Chaos" suffered middling reviews at Toronto. Financed by Lionsgate UK and penned by Alison Deegan, Jeremy Brock and Rickman, the period romance will have its stateside premiere on March 27, 2015. What this does reveal is that the new Focus under Peter Schlessel wants to stay in the business of releasing this sort of arthouse material. ...
- 9/29/2014
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Focus Features announced today that they have acquired North American distribution rights to A Little Chaos, directed by Alan Rickman from a screenplay he wrote with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock. The company also acquired distribution rights to the film, which is financed by Lionsgate UK and BBC Films, in Scandinavia. The romantic drama stars Academy Award winner Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci, Danny Webb and Rickman himself.
- 9/29/2014
- Comingsoon.net
Focus Features has acquired North American distribution rights to “A Little Chaos” starring Kate Winslet, the distributor announced Monday. The period drama, directed by Alan Rickman from a screenplay he wrote with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock, follows Sabine (Winslet), a strong-willed landscape designer who challenges sexual and class barriers when she is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis Xiv's new palace at Versailles, causing her to become professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape architect André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts). Stanley Tucci and Danny Webb also star. Also read: Kate Winslet in ‘Divergent,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Focus Features has taken North American rights to Tiff closing night romantic drama A Little Chaos, starring Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts. Alan Rickman directed the story of a strong-willed landscape designer chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis Xiv’s palace at Versailles. Rickman also co-wrote the Lionsgate UK and BBC Films production with Alison Deegan and Jeremy Brock and stars along with Stanley Tucci and Danny Webb. Focus has set a March 27, 2015 stateside release while Lionsgate UK handles its UK debut early next year. Rickman’s first film as director since 1997’s The Winter Guest is produced by Gail Egan and Andrea Calderwood for Potboiler Productions and Bertrand Faivre for The Bureau. Zygi Kamasa, Guy Avshalom, Nick Manzi, Christine Langan, Ray Cooper, Norman Merry, and Richard Wolfe are executive producers. Focus also took Scandinavian rights as the deals closed during Tiff. Focus Features’ Lia Buman,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Thompson's approach couldn't have been more opposite to James Schamus' opening lecture -- a drier, university-style sermon -- two days prior. The actress-screenwriter showed clips and performed a sketch-comedy monologue to supplement her inspired preamble, during which she sat writing at a desk, barefoot and in overalls, before getting up to wander the stage, stretch on a yoga mat, pull a face of tearful frustration and – to great amusement – whip out a vacuum cleaner and start suctioning the carpet. "I think it's good to know what the writing process is like," Thompson noted drily upon returning to engage in a boisterous conversation with screenwriter Jeremy Brock ("The Last King Of Scotland"), architect of this series. "There is lots of crying, in fetal positions." From there, the conversation devolved broadly into three chapters: Thompson's introduction to writing and early sketch-comedy efforts; her adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense And...
- 9/21/2014
- by Matt Mueller
- Thompson on Hollywood
Quirky is possibly the best word to describe Emma Thompson‘s BAFTA Screenwriters’ Lecture, hilariously delivered tonight in London. It included a physical demonstration of her writing process; pearls of wisdom shared with the filmmaker attendees; and an anecdote about how a period sketch she wrote featuring a Victorian-era virgin encountering a penis led to her penning Sense And Sensibility.
The event, a Thompson-directed variation on a regular series of screenwriter conversations, continued a mini-season of high-wattage names visiting the British Academy, which started with James Schamus on Thursday and David Fincher on Friday. And Thompson tapped her acting and sketch comedy background to give the sell-out crowd a good show.
She was already on stage as the audience started filing in, dressed down in denim overalls and a thick navy coat so that few noticed her at first. She sat barefoot at a tiny writing desk, and in between scribbling on a notepad,...
The event, a Thompson-directed variation on a regular series of screenwriter conversations, continued a mini-season of high-wattage names visiting the British Academy, which started with James Schamus on Thursday and David Fincher on Friday. And Thompson tapped her acting and sketch comedy background to give the sell-out crowd a good show.
She was already on stage as the audience started filing in, dressed down in denim overalls and a thick navy coat so that few noticed her at first. She sat barefoot at a tiny writing desk, and in between scribbling on a notepad,...
- 9/20/2014
- by Joe Utichi, Special To Deadline
- Deadline
Toronto — “Titanic” was a seminal moment in Kate Winslet’s career, but she made it clear even during the film's Oscar run and in the years following that it was a more grueling experience than she ever expected. In the years since she’s avoided anything that came close to those shooting conditions, when she spent weeks in water tanks and wading through water. That is until her new period drama, “A Little Chaos,” which screened for the press at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival Wednesday before its Saturday night premiere. In the film, Winslet and her stunt person are drenched when her character tries to manually close an aqueduct from flooding a massive garden she’s been building at Versailles (yes, that Versailles). The long and the short of it is that the sequence found Winslet in a ton of water. And for her to do that, she must simply adore her co-star and director,...
- 9/11/2014
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
James Schamus, Emma Thompson and Steven Knight to lecture in September.
James Schamus, Emma Thompson and Steven Knight will headline BAFTA and BFI’s annual screenwriters lecture series this September.
These lectures, the first in the 2014 series, will take place between Sept 18-29.
Writer, producer and former Focus Features CEO Schamus, who co-wrote Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm and Lust Caution, kicks the season off on Sept 18.
Writer and actress Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Nanny McPhee) takes to the stage at BFI Southbank on Sept 20, while writer and director Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders, Locke) will follow on Sept 29.
The season is programmed by screenwriter Jeremy Brock and funded by Jj Charitable Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts.
James Schamus, Emma Thompson and Steven Knight will headline BAFTA and BFI’s annual screenwriters lecture series this September.
These lectures, the first in the 2014 series, will take place between Sept 18-29.
Writer, producer and former Focus Features CEO Schamus, who co-wrote Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm and Lust Caution, kicks the season off on Sept 18.
Writer and actress Thompson (Sense and Sensibility, Nanny McPhee) takes to the stage at BFI Southbank on Sept 20, while writer and director Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises, Peaky Blinders, Locke) will follow on Sept 29.
The season is programmed by screenwriter Jeremy Brock and funded by Jj Charitable Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts.
- 7/17/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, George MacKay, Harley Bird, Danny McEvoy, Anna Chancellor, Corey Johnson, Jonathan Rugman, Darren Morfitt, Stella Gonet, Des McAleer | Written by Jeremy Brock, Tony Grisoni, Penelope Skinner | Directed by Kevin Macdonald
War is something that changes lives forever, whether you be fighting in it or just a citizen. It rips communities apart and on a more personal level can affect your whole life. How I Live Now is a film that takes the impact of war and puts it at a very personal level, showing that though you may not be on the frontline lives can be changed forever.
When Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) travels to the UK to visit her relatives it takes her time to open up and enjoy herself. Things soon take a turn for the worse though when war breaks out and as the family are split up through mandatory evacuation, Daisy finds...
War is something that changes lives forever, whether you be fighting in it or just a citizen. It rips communities apart and on a more personal level can affect your whole life. How I Live Now is a film that takes the impact of war and puts it at a very personal level, showing that though you may not be on the frontline lives can be changed forever.
When Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) travels to the UK to visit her relatives it takes her time to open up and enjoy herself. Things soon take a turn for the worse though when war breaks out and as the family are split up through mandatory evacuation, Daisy finds...
- 2/5/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
There’s No Place Like Home; Macdonald Pulled By Too Many Strings
This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald’s fourth fiction feature is a little bit of a head-scratcher. As a war film set in the near future, where the enemy is unknown and adolescents must adapt to their war-torn environment without any adults to guide them, it succeeds. As a sweeping star-crossed love story wherein its teenaged heroine is guided by a telepathic passionate connection to her heart’s desire and must find a path back to him, it also succeeds. The key drawback with How I Live Now, however, is that it so desperately yearns to be both, and flails as a result.
Following the blockbuster success of the Twilight franchise, studios ravenously picked up the film rights to every mildly successful dystopian teen novel ranging from the Hunger Games trilogy to the upcoming Divergent series. Last spring,...
This polished as his docu-work, Kevin Macdonald’s fourth fiction feature is a little bit of a head-scratcher. As a war film set in the near future, where the enemy is unknown and adolescents must adapt to their war-torn environment without any adults to guide them, it succeeds. As a sweeping star-crossed love story wherein its teenaged heroine is guided by a telepathic passionate connection to her heart’s desire and must find a path back to him, it also succeeds. The key drawback with How I Live Now, however, is that it so desperately yearns to be both, and flails as a result.
Following the blockbuster success of the Twilight franchise, studios ravenously picked up the film rights to every mildly successful dystopian teen novel ranging from the Hunger Games trilogy to the upcoming Divergent series. Last spring,...
- 11/9/2013
- by Leora Heilbronn
- IONCINEMA.com
Based on Meg Rosoff’s award-winning young adult novel, How I Live Now is an awkward mix of a forbidden romance that would make teen girls swoon and a morose, bloody wartime drama for adults that earned the film an R rating. Imagine slamming two very different movies, a brutal and dystopian thriller a la 28 Days Later and a hormonal, Twilight-hued romance, into the same film. As you can imagine, it’s tonally and emotionally lop-sided and even some pretty decent performances can’t save it.
The awkward plotting and genre mixing brings down the film, which is especially shameful as How I Live Now features magnetic young actors Saoirse Ronan and Tom Holland. Ronan does not get a chance to show her impeccable acting range, while Holland, who almost single-handedly anchored the 2012 drama The Impossible, has a character that is mostly shoved to the side.
How I Live Now focuses on Ronan’s Daisy,...
The awkward plotting and genre mixing brings down the film, which is especially shameful as How I Live Now features magnetic young actors Saoirse Ronan and Tom Holland. Ronan does not get a chance to show her impeccable acting range, while Holland, who almost single-handedly anchored the 2012 drama The Impossible, has a character that is mostly shoved to the side.
How I Live Now focuses on Ronan’s Daisy,...
- 11/8/2013
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Director: Kevin Macdonald; Screenwriters: Jeremy Brock, Jack Thorne, Tony Grisoni, Starring: Saoirse Ronan, George MacKay, Tom Holland, Harley Bird; Running time: 101 mins; Certificate: 15
If there's one thing director Kevin Macdonald excels at, it's balancing realism with high suspense, from his documentary Touching the Void to The Last King of Scotland and conspiracy thriller State of Play. His latest, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a teenager living through a nuclear war, plays to his strengths though it never catches fire in the way it should.
That said, there's plenty of intrigue from the moment Daisy (Ronan) lands in Britain on holiday from America. It's a recognisable landscape except for the military presence on the streets, barbed wire fences and a general feeling of unease. But the story unfolds away from the city in a rural idyll where Daisy's cousins hope to entertain her for the summer, a daunting task because Daisy is brittle,...
If there's one thing director Kevin Macdonald excels at, it's balancing realism with high suspense, from his documentary Touching the Void to The Last King of Scotland and conspiracy thriller State of Play. His latest, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a teenager living through a nuclear war, plays to his strengths though it never catches fire in the way it should.
That said, there's plenty of intrigue from the moment Daisy (Ronan) lands in Britain on holiday from America. It's a recognisable landscape except for the military presence on the streets, barbed wire fences and a general feeling of unease. But the story unfolds away from the city in a rural idyll where Daisy's cousins hope to entertain her for the summer, a daunting task because Daisy is brittle,...
- 9/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Sneak Peek director Kevin Macdonald's 'doomsday' feature "How I Live Now", based on the 2004 novel of same name by author Meg Rosoff. Written by Tony Grisoni, Jeremy Brock and Penelope Skinner, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay, Corey Johnson and Sabrina Dicken:
"...'Daisy' (Ronan), a teenager from New York City, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with 'Eddie' (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st-century world war.
"Along with Eddie’s younger siblings, 'Isaac' (Holland) and 'Piper' (Harley Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is...
"...'Daisy' (Ronan), a teenager from New York City, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with 'Eddie' (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st-century world war.
"Along with Eddie’s younger siblings, 'Isaac' (Holland) and 'Piper' (Harley Bird), they are left in isolation and forced to fend for themselves. When they are violently separated Daisy must embark on a terrifying journey in order to be reunited with the boy she loves. Eddie is...
- 8/29/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
See the second poster for Kevin McDonald's adaptation of Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan Jeremy Brock, Tony Grisoni and Penelope Skinner script, with a cast also including Tom Holland, Anna Chancellor, George MacKay, Harley Bird and Natasha Jonas. Daisy (Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie's younger siblings...
- 8/18/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The new trailer has arrived for eOne's How I Live Now, starring Saoirse Ronan in the Kevin MacDonald film adapted from Meg Rosoff's award-winning novel. Jeremy Brock, Tony Grisoni and Penelope Skinner wrote the screenplay. Daisy (Ronan), a teenager from New York, is sent to the English countryside for the summer to stay with cousins. She soon immerses herself in a dreamy pastoral idyll as she falls madly in love with Eddie (MacKay), until their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war. Along with Eddie's younger siblings...
- 8/13/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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