(L-r) ‘The Pact’ leads Abbie Hern, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Laura Fraser, Eiry Thomas and Heledd Gwynn.
As Wentworth was coming to an end on Foxtel, its originating screenwriter Pete McTighe was keen to create another female-led ensemble series, but one with a point of difference.
Having lived in Wales for three years, crafting episodes of the BBC’s Doctor Who and the Sky/AMC/BBCAmerica supernatural drama A Discovery of Witches, he came up with the idea of a contemporary crime thriller set in Wales.
He wrote the first episode of The Pact, Cardiff-based Little Door Productions pitched it to BBC Wales and it was quickly commissioned.
Now shooting, the six-part drama directed by Eric Styles (Hidden) and Rebecca Johnson (The Flash) and produced by Catrin Lewis Defis follows five friends who get mixed up in a sudden death and a web of lies.
The leads are played by Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad), Julie Hesmondhalgh,...
As Wentworth was coming to an end on Foxtel, its originating screenwriter Pete McTighe was keen to create another female-led ensemble series, but one with a point of difference.
Having lived in Wales for three years, crafting episodes of the BBC’s Doctor Who and the Sky/AMC/BBCAmerica supernatural drama A Discovery of Witches, he came up with the idea of a contemporary crime thriller set in Wales.
He wrote the first episode of The Pact, Cardiff-based Little Door Productions pitched it to BBC Wales and it was quickly commissioned.
Now shooting, the six-part drama directed by Eric Styles (Hidden) and Rebecca Johnson (The Flash) and produced by Catrin Lewis Defis follows five friends who get mixed up in a sudden death and a web of lies.
The leads are played by Laura Fraser (Breaking Bad), Julie Hesmondhalgh,...
- 9/20/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Eric Styles’s film fails to match its star’s performance as a spiteful dying writer
In his final leading role, the late Sir John Hurt plays a terminally ill writer attempting to patch up his frayed relationship with his son. This is easier said than done. Ralph Maitland is not the kind of man who is inclined to go gentle into anything, let alone that good night. His body may be failing but his mind retains the venomous kill instinct of a scorpion. The beauty of Hurt’s complex performance is the helplessness in his eyes as his mouth spews its poisonous cruelty – he’s a hostage to what used to be wit but now just feels like petty spite. He takes an irrational dislike to his son’s girlfriend, sneeringly suggesting that her job, coordinating scientific conferences, is in fact a cover for some kind of niche-interest sex work.
In his final leading role, the late Sir John Hurt plays a terminally ill writer attempting to patch up his frayed relationship with his son. This is easier said than done. Ralph Maitland is not the kind of man who is inclined to go gentle into anything, let alone that good night. His body may be failing but his mind retains the venomous kill instinct of a scorpion. The beauty of Hurt’s complex performance is the helplessness in his eyes as his mouth spews its poisonous cruelty – he’s a hostage to what used to be wit but now just feels like petty spite. He takes an irrational dislike to his son’s girlfriend, sneeringly suggesting that her job, coordinating scientific conferences, is in fact a cover for some kind of niche-interest sex work.
- 5/13/2018
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Sadly, he’s the best thing in this over-sentimental drama about a gruff writer’s final days in picture-perfect Portugal
Sometimes cosmic misfortune is a film’s good luck. This creaky, sentimental drama might have passed gently into the televisual ether were it not that it granted the late Sir John Hurt his final lead role. (He subsequently took a supporting part in unreleased spy thriller Damascus Cover.) Its middling-to-minor pleasures stem almost exclusively from watching a sunhatted Hurt pottering around the Algarve as Ralph, an ornery old literary goat determining to use the days remaining in the wake of a bleak health diagnosis to organise the means and method of his passing, and attempt reconciliation with his estranged son.
Adapted from a play originally penned by NJ Crisp as a Donald Sinden vehicle, Eric Styles’ film has one other advantage in roseate location shooting: every poolside conversation will do wonders for holiday home sales.
Sometimes cosmic misfortune is a film’s good luck. This creaky, sentimental drama might have passed gently into the televisual ether were it not that it granted the late Sir John Hurt his final lead role. (He subsequently took a supporting part in unreleased spy thriller Damascus Cover.) Its middling-to-minor pleasures stem almost exclusively from watching a sunhatted Hurt pottering around the Algarve as Ralph, an ornery old literary goat determining to use the days remaining in the wake of a bleak health diagnosis to organise the means and method of his passing, and attempt reconciliation with his estranged son.
Adapted from a play originally penned by NJ Crisp as a Donald Sinden vehicle, Eric Styles’ film has one other advantage in roseate location shooting: every poolside conversation will do wonders for holiday home sales.
- 5/11/2018
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
In Hurt’s last film, That Good Night, he played a screenwriter with a terminal illness. Here, director Eric Styles recalls the actor’s good humour despite his own diagnosis
John Hurt had a constant companion on the set of That Good Night: a container of revolting-looking bright green vegetable juice which, he testified, tasted “bloody awful”. He chugged dutifully away on this throughout the shoot, forgoing his beloved fine wines in favour of something that might help the prognosis – for he had pancreatic cancer.
In our film, John plays an ageing writer who is facing his own mortality following a similar diagnosis. He must have chosen the project with the parallels in mind, though he was not a man especially solemn about his remaining time on the planet – or, indeed, about anything.
John Hurt had a constant companion on the set of That Good Night: a container of revolting-looking bright green vegetable juice which, he testified, tasted “bloody awful”. He chugged dutifully away on this throughout the shoot, forgoing his beloved fine wines in favour of something that might help the prognosis – for he had pancreatic cancer.
In our film, John plays an ageing writer who is facing his own mortality following a similar diagnosis. He must have chosen the project with the parallels in mind, though he was not a man especially solemn about his remaining time on the planet – or, indeed, about anything.
- 5/10/2018
- by Eric Styles
- The Guardian - Film News
Eric Styles writes about directing John Hurt in his last leading role
When I received a call out of the blue about working with John Hurt on ‘That Good Night’ it was hard to contain my excitement. Whenever I mentioned the project and my good luck in acquiring it, the response was pretty unanimous – “Oh my God, John Hurt, he’s a bloody legend…” and we’d spend the next few minutes discussing which of John’s myriad performances had captivated us the most.
But as I look back now, over making the film and the subsequent sad news of John’s passing in January 2017, I think about that consistent response and wonder what made John a ‘legend’.
It was wonderful to witness how his presence rippled out and touched everyone involved in the production.
I’ve been fortunate to work with a few ‘starry’ actors, including Oscar winner Julie Andrews,...
When I received a call out of the blue about working with John Hurt on ‘That Good Night’ it was hard to contain my excitement. Whenever I mentioned the project and my good luck in acquiring it, the response was pretty unanimous – “Oh my God, John Hurt, he’s a bloody legend…” and we’d spend the next few minutes discussing which of John’s myriad performances had captivated us the most.
But as I look back now, over making the film and the subsequent sad news of John’s passing in January 2017, I think about that consistent response and wonder what made John a ‘legend’.
It was wonderful to witness how his presence rippled out and touched everyone involved in the production.
I’ve been fortunate to work with a few ‘starry’ actors, including Oscar winner Julie Andrews,...
- 5/4/2018
- by Eric Styles
- Pure Movies
Movie adaptations of classic texts can be disappointing. Transitioning from one form to the next is dangerous, particularly when nothing original arises from the outgoing medium. Sometimes it’s as if the filmmakers have left the camera pointed at a stage-play or between the pages of a book. But the 1958 film adaptation of Look Back in Anger is a masterful translation of John Osborne’s (now-)classic play – incorporating the essence of the newly-emerging British New Wave and continuing the legacy of the “angry young men” literary movement.
Set in the grey and wet city of Derby, sweet-seller Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) lives with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) and best friend Cliff (Gary Raymond). He is a stern, explosive individual – consistently aggressive and searingly misogynistic, even by the standards of 1958. Alison feels tired and trapped by him, never finding the right opportunity to say she’s carrying his child.
Set in the grey and wet city of Derby, sweet-seller Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) lives with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) and best friend Cliff (Gary Raymond). He is a stern, explosive individual – consistently aggressive and searingly misogynistic, even by the standards of 1958. Alison feels tired and trapped by him, never finding the right opportunity to say she’s carrying his child.
- 4/17/2018
- by Euan Franklin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Few plays work well in a cinematic environment. Singular locations grow restrictive, waves of dialogue sound superfluous, and sometimes the acting (suited for the stage) is too over-the-top to take seriously. Based on the 1996 stage-play by N.J. Crisp, That Good Night ticks these off like a to-do list.
In his last performance before his death in January last year, John Hurt plays Ralph – an agèd screenwriter living opulently in Portugal with his younger wife Anna (Sofia Helin). After receiving news of a terminal illness, Ralph tries to secretly make amends with his son Michael (Max Brown) by inviting him over. But this becomes difficult, as Ralph can never find the right opportunity to tell him.
Following the curse of most theatre-to-film adaptations, That Good Night doesn’t seem to desire a filmic presence. It mostly consists of monotonously stunted shots of actors acting, as if director Eric Styles and cinematographer...
In his last performance before his death in January last year, John Hurt plays Ralph – an agèd screenwriter living opulently in Portugal with his younger wife Anna (Sofia Helin). After receiving news of a terminal illness, Ralph tries to secretly make amends with his son Michael (Max Brown) by inviting him over. But this becomes difficult, as Ralph can never find the right opportunity to tell him.
Following the curse of most theatre-to-film adaptations, That Good Night doesn’t seem to desire a filmic presence. It mostly consists of monotonously stunted shots of actors acting, as if director Eric Styles and cinematographer...
- 3/29/2018
- by Euan Franklin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
While somewhat trifling as a work of cinema, Eric Styles' Anglo-Portuguese drama That Good Night will for many rank as a must-see simply because it features the very last lead performance by the truly great Sir John Hurt. And the widely beloved veteran — who died aged 77 in January — is in fine crusty-grouchy form as Ralph Maitland, a terminally ill British writer facing what he wryly dubs "the ultimate deadline."
Very much made with mature audiences in mind, this gentle-paced adaptation of N.J. Crisp's 1996 play builds steadily toward an irresistibly moving finale which...
Very much made with mature audiences in mind, this gentle-paced adaptation of N.J. Crisp's 1996 play builds steadily toward an irresistibly moving finale which...
- 7/3/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gerard Depardieu has joined the cast of Bach, an upcoming biopic on the 17th century classic composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Max Von Sydow (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Axel Milberg (Hannah Arendt) and Marianne Sagebrecht (Bagdad Cafe) will co-star in the feature from That Good Night director Eric Styles. The role of Bach in the film, which will chart the beer-fueled rebellion of one of the world's greatest composers, has not yet been cast. Styles is directing from a script by Jeffrey Freedman, who will also produce alongside S.J. Evans of Dark Art Films. “I believe in
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- 11/5/2016
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Cast, sales outfit The Yellow Affair join composer biopic.
Gérard Depardieu is set to join the cast of Bach, a biopic about iconic composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Depardieu’s role has not yet been set in the film, which is also due to star Axel Milberg (Hannah Arendt) and Marianne Sagebrecht (Bagdad Café).
The Yellow Affair has boarded sales on the project, currently in development, which will chart the life and passionate battles of the German Baroque composer.
Director is Eric Styles (That Good Night). Writer is Jeffrey Freedman who also produces alongside S J Evans.
Crew attached to the production includes Oscar winner Gabriel Yared, American Beauty editor Tariq Anwar and three-time Oscar winning DoP Vittorio Storaro.
Depardieu said: “I believe in this production which will please millions of fans. Jeffrey Freedman’s film is an important one and I have long been an admirer of Bach.”
The Yellow Affair is at the Afm with...
Gérard Depardieu is set to join the cast of Bach, a biopic about iconic composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Depardieu’s role has not yet been set in the film, which is also due to star Axel Milberg (Hannah Arendt) and Marianne Sagebrecht (Bagdad Café).
The Yellow Affair has boarded sales on the project, currently in development, which will chart the life and passionate battles of the German Baroque composer.
Director is Eric Styles (That Good Night). Writer is Jeffrey Freedman who also produces alongside S J Evans.
Crew attached to the production includes Oscar winner Gabriel Yared, American Beauty editor Tariq Anwar and three-time Oscar winning DoP Vittorio Storaro.
Depardieu said: “I believe in this production which will please millions of fans. Jeffrey Freedman’s film is an important one and I have long been an admirer of Bach.”
The Yellow Affair is at the Afm with...
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Charles Dance ("Game of Thrones") is set to play the role of 'The Visitor' alongside John Hurt in "That Good Night" at Gsp Studios, Red Rock Entertainment and Goldfinch Entertainment.
Based on N.J. Crisp's 1996 stage-play of the same name, Hurt plays a famed screenwriter coming to terms with his impending death.
As he does so, he resolves to attempt two final missions in life: to be reconciled to his long-lost son (Brown), and to ensure he doesn't become a burden on his wife Anna (Helin) with his slow decline by enlisting a mysterious 'Visitor' to help him pass painlessly into 'that good night'.
Sofia Helin, Max Brown and Erin Richards also star. Eric Styles ("Dreaming of Joseph Lees") helms from a screenplay by Charles Savage.
Filming will take place over five weeks on the Algarve coast of Portugal.
Source: Variety...
Based on N.J. Crisp's 1996 stage-play of the same name, Hurt plays a famed screenwriter coming to terms with his impending death.
As he does so, he resolves to attempt two final missions in life: to be reconciled to his long-lost son (Brown), and to ensure he doesn't become a burden on his wife Anna (Helin) with his slow decline by enlisting a mysterious 'Visitor' to help him pass painlessly into 'that good night'.
Sofia Helin, Max Brown and Erin Richards also star. Eric Styles ("Dreaming of Joseph Lees") helms from a screenplay by Charles Savage.
Filming will take place over five weeks on the Algarve coast of Portugal.
Source: Variety...
- 5/7/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Principal photography on stage play adaptation starring John Hurt has begun.
Erin Richards (Gotham), Sofia Helin (The Bridge) and Max Brown (Agent Carter) have joined John Hurt in the cast of That Good Night, which has begun principal photography on the Algarve coastline of Portugal and will shoot for five weeks.
Gsp Studios is behind the film adaptation of the late N.J. Crisp’s 1996 stage play of the same name. Gsp Studios International is also handling worldwide sales.
That Good Night, which derives its name from the Dylan Thomas poem, follows Ralph (Hurt), a famed screenwriter coming to terms with his impending death. As he does so, he resolves to attempt two final missions in life; to be reconciled to his long-lost son (Brown), and to ensure he doesn’t become a burden to his wife Anna (Helin) with his slow decline, by hiring a mysterious “visitor” to help him pass painlessly.
Directed by [link...
Erin Richards (Gotham), Sofia Helin (The Bridge) and Max Brown (Agent Carter) have joined John Hurt in the cast of That Good Night, which has begun principal photography on the Algarve coastline of Portugal and will shoot for five weeks.
Gsp Studios is behind the film adaptation of the late N.J. Crisp’s 1996 stage play of the same name. Gsp Studios International is also handling worldwide sales.
That Good Night, which derives its name from the Dylan Thomas poem, follows Ralph (Hurt), a famed screenwriter coming to terms with his impending death. As he does so, he resolves to attempt two final missions in life; to be reconciled to his long-lost son (Brown), and to ensure he doesn’t become a burden to his wife Anna (Helin) with his slow decline, by hiring a mysterious “visitor” to help him pass painlessly.
Directed by [link...
- 4/6/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: As principal photography gets under way on the big screen adaptation of NJ Crisp's 1996 stage play, That Good Night, the cast has been rounded out by British actress Erin Richards (Gotham) and Sweden’s Sofia Helin (The Snowman, The Bridge). John Hurt and Max Brown (Agent Carter) were previously set in the Eric Styles-helmed drama. The film, which takes its name from the Dylan Thomas poem, follows Ralph (Hurt), a famed screenwriter coming to terms with his…...
- 4/6/2016
- Deadline
Gilmore Girls
Vanessa Marano ("Switched at Birth") has joined the cast of Netflix's "Gilmore Girls" revival, the latest original cast member to join the revival. Marano will reprise her role as April Nardini, daughter of Luke (Scott Patterson).
The polarizing character appeared in the final two seasons and is often blamed for Lorelai's (Lauren Graham) breakup with Luke. It’s not been made clear in which or how many of the four episodes Marano will appear. [Source: Variety]
Untitled Death Row Drama
HBO is developing a drama series penned and directed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney who makes his narrative debut on the project.
Laura Dern is attached to star and executive produce the untitled drama which centers on a court-appointed psychiatrist (Dern) who must determine from her twisted yet humanizing diagnostic exchanges with death row inmates if they are sane enough to be killed by the state. [Source: Deadline]
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Vanessa Marano ("Switched at Birth") has joined the cast of Netflix's "Gilmore Girls" revival, the latest original cast member to join the revival. Marano will reprise her role as April Nardini, daughter of Luke (Scott Patterson).
The polarizing character appeared in the final two seasons and is often blamed for Lorelai's (Lauren Graham) breakup with Luke. It’s not been made clear in which or how many of the four episodes Marano will appear. [Source: Variety]
Untitled Death Row Drama
HBO is developing a drama series penned and directed by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney who makes his narrative debut on the project.
Laura Dern is attached to star and executive produce the untitled drama which centers on a court-appointed psychiatrist (Dern) who must determine from her twisted yet humanizing diagnostic exchanges with death row inmates if they are sane enough to be killed by the state. [Source: Deadline]
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- 2/12/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Stars: Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren, Yi Huang, Nathan Lee, James Lance, Lydia Leonard, Geng Le, Murray Clive Walker, Viktor Sobtchak, Tom Austen, David Thomas Jenkins, Li Shengye, Yang Caiyu, Paul Philip Clark, Ivan Kotik | Written by Andy Briggs | Directed by Eric Styles
Take one 80s action star and one current kick-ass action movie icon and throw in a strange, mythical creature and you get Legendary (aka Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon, aka Legendary 3D). A family-friendly, Indiana Jones-style monster movie that follows cryptozoologist Travis (Adkins) who, after the death of one of his team whilst chasing down an undiscovered prehistoric bear, travels to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist: a mythical creature, a Cryptid, which is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a new pipeline is being laid. However standing in their way is bounty-hunter Harker (Lundgren) whose plan – as it was when he teamed...
Take one 80s action star and one current kick-ass action movie icon and throw in a strange, mythical creature and you get Legendary (aka Legendary: Tomb of the Dragon, aka Legendary 3D). A family-friendly, Indiana Jones-style monster movie that follows cryptozoologist Travis (Adkins) who, after the death of one of his team whilst chasing down an undiscovered prehistoric bear, travels to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist: a mythical creature, a Cryptid, which is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a new pipeline is being laid. However standing in their way is bounty-hunter Harker (Lundgren) whose plan – as it was when he teamed...
- 6/21/2015
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In Lionsgate’s Legendary, a deadly mythical creature is on the loose and leaving a blood trail. One man wants to kill it and another wants to study it. Dolph Lundgren plays the former in this creature feature now available on DVD and VOD platforms, and we have an exclusive clip in which the enduring actor explains the “old-school hunter” personality of his character Jim Harker.
“Prepare for an epic battle between man and beast when action stars Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren collide in Legendary, arriving on DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet), Digital HD, Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View July 29. Directed by Eric Styles (Miss Conception, True True Lie), the action-thriller follows the battle between two rivals to capture a mythical creature that shouldn’t exist. The Legendary DVD includes a “making of” featurette and will be available for the suggested retail price of $26.98.
Travis Preston assembles his team for...
“Prepare for an epic battle between man and beast when action stars Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren collide in Legendary, arriving on DVD (plus Digital UltraViolet), Digital HD, Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View July 29. Directed by Eric Styles (Miss Conception, True True Lie), the action-thriller follows the battle between two rivals to capture a mythical creature that shouldn’t exist. The Legendary DVD includes a “making of” featurette and will be available for the suggested retail price of $26.98.
Travis Preston assembles his team for...
- 7/29/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Lionsgate's dropping the Dolph Lundgren and Scott Adkins starring monster-bash Legendary on DVD and VOD tomorrow and right now we have an exclusive clip from the DVD to get you all fired up.
Huge bonus points awarded if either Adkins or Lundgren actually either kick or punch the creature.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the recent Syfy Original Movie The Philadelphia Experiment.
Huge bonus points awarded if either Adkins or Lundgren actually either kick or punch the creature.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the recent Syfy Original Movie The Philadelphia Experiment.
- 7/28/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Dolph Lundgren and Scott Adkins are battling huge monsters in “Legendary,” coming to DVD plus Digital Ultraviolet, Digital HD, Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View July 29. The film, directed by Eric Styles (“Miss Conception,” “True True Lie”) tells the story of two rivals who are aiming to capture a mythical creature. “Travis Preston assembles his team for an expedition to a remote region in China’s hinterland, where a wild animal that the locals believe to be a primeval monster they call the ‘Shocate’ is said to roam free. Travis’ nemesis, Jim Harker, a merciless trophy hunter, has already set up camp. A race against time ensues and Travis and his [ Read More ]
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- 7/22/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
Dolph Lundgren + Scott Adkins + Giant Beastie + Generic Artwork = Lionsgate's upcoming DVD release of Legendary. Look for it on DVD and VOD beginning on July 29th.
Huge bonus points awarded if either Adkins or Lundgren actually either kick or punch the creature.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the recent Syfy Original Movie The Philadelphia Experiment.
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Huge bonus points awarded if either Adkins or Lundgren actually either kick or punch the creature.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the recent Syfy Original Movie The Philadelphia Experiment.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
- 6/18/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Wreckin Hill Entertainment and Lionsgate are fixing to release the 3D Dolph Lundgren film Legendary on VOD soon, and to mark the occasion, a new trailer has been released. Check it out, and look for an exact release date soon!
Scott Adkins co-stars.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the recent Syfy Original premiere The Philadelphia Experiment.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Scott Adkins co-stars.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the recent Syfy Original premiere The Philadelphia Experiment.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
- 5/8/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
The official trailer for Legendary has dropped online, and unlike the one that came before it, this time we're getting a look at the final product, finished visual effects and all. Check it out!
Below you'll find a much better look at Legendary, formerly Tomb of the Dragon. Look for more soon!
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the...
Below you'll find a much better look at Legendary, formerly Tomb of the Dragon. Look for more soon!
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author of the...
- 6/1/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
It was almost a year ago when we first heard that Dolph Lundgren and his Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning co-star Scott Adkins were heading to China for a new 3D creature feature that would see them hunting a ferocious dragon.
Now we have our first look at Legendary, formerly Tomb of the Dragon.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author...
Now we have our first look at Legendary, formerly Tomb of the Dragon.
Synopsis:
Travis and his team travel to China in search of what isn’t supposed to exist... their mission is to capture a cryptid that is wreaking havoc in a remote village where a water pipeline is being built. They need to do this before Harker, the legendary bounty hunter, finds and kills it — and before anyone else falls victim to its rage.
Midsummer Films and China Film Group are behind this filmed-in-Beijing production from director Eric Styles, whose previous directorial effort was a 2008 Heather Graham romantic comedy Miss Conception, and screenwriter Andy Briggs, the author...
- 5/7/2013
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Any movie that casts Dolph Lundgren and rising action hero Scott Adkins as rival cryptozoologists fighting over the discovery of a living, breathing killer Chinese dragon has my immediate attention.
Scott Adkins (Undisputed III: Redemption, Ninja) does battle with his The Expendables 2 and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning co-star Dolph Lundgren in the monstrous action thriller Tomb of the Dragon.
Synopsis:
Travis, our heroic cryptozoologist, wants to prove that a prehistoric beast killing construction workers is more than just a myth. But at the same time his ruthless competitor, Harker, wants to prove he is the best in the business and outdo Travis in any way he can.\
Travis finds himself in a race against time to preserve the rare but deadly creature because Harker thrives on trophy killings and shoots to kill…including humans if they come between him and his prey.
Travis is funded by a mysterious...
Scott Adkins (Undisputed III: Redemption, Ninja) does battle with his The Expendables 2 and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning co-star Dolph Lundgren in the monstrous action thriller Tomb of the Dragon.
Synopsis:
Travis, our heroic cryptozoologist, wants to prove that a prehistoric beast killing construction workers is more than just a myth. But at the same time his ruthless competitor, Harker, wants to prove he is the best in the business and outdo Travis in any way he can.\
Travis finds himself in a race against time to preserve the rare but deadly creature because Harker thrives on trophy killings and shoots to kill…including humans if they come between him and his prey.
Travis is funded by a mysterious...
- 7/27/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
This misconceived U.K. entry in the ever-popular pregnancy-comedy genre centers on a posh Brit's preposterous mission to get knocked up.
The toplining Heather Graham has a daffy comic quality but mainly relies on cutesy mugging, much as the story rests on flimsy situations. A light touch keeps the film from being an ordeal, but the story's trajectory is as predictable as the setup is contrived.
The Blue Angel Films/Miromar Entertainment/Northern Ireland Screen/International Film Finance production is receiving a limited release from First Look Studios. It feels more like a small-screen distraction. It opens Friday, June 6.
The inanity begins when a fertility expert assures Georgina, 33, that she's about to enter early menopause and has precisely one egg left. As bad timing would have it, she has just kicked out her boyfriend (Tom Ellis) because he hadn't expressed the requisite eagerness to procreate. He even went so far as to smash his sister's ostentatiously displayed belly cast, a passive-aggressive move that marks the bland character's one sign of mental activity.
With her best friend, the baby-averse Clem (a scene-stealing Mia Kirshner), Georgina embarks on a harebrained scheme to capitalize on her one remaining chance for pregnancy. The plan includes crashing a funeral, looking for Mr. Goodbar in a nightclub and, as a last resort in the last-resort extravaganza, making a withdrawal from a sperm bank. Rather than push the satiric edge of the baby obsession, Camilla Leslie's script embraces the banal, treating pregnancy like a lotto jackpot with an adorable gurgling-and-cooing prize.
There's a latent intelligence in the dumb scenario that Graham and especially Kirshner tap into with crisp line readings. The film's tender but unsentimental view of female friendship rings true, but director Eric Styles doesn't make much else convincing.
The toplining Heather Graham has a daffy comic quality but mainly relies on cutesy mugging, much as the story rests on flimsy situations. A light touch keeps the film from being an ordeal, but the story's trajectory is as predictable as the setup is contrived.
The Blue Angel Films/Miromar Entertainment/Northern Ireland Screen/International Film Finance production is receiving a limited release from First Look Studios. It feels more like a small-screen distraction. It opens Friday, June 6.
The inanity begins when a fertility expert assures Georgina, 33, that she's about to enter early menopause and has precisely one egg left. As bad timing would have it, she has just kicked out her boyfriend (Tom Ellis) because he hadn't expressed the requisite eagerness to procreate. He even went so far as to smash his sister's ostentatiously displayed belly cast, a passive-aggressive move that marks the bland character's one sign of mental activity.
With her best friend, the baby-averse Clem (a scene-stealing Mia Kirshner), Georgina embarks on a harebrained scheme to capitalize on her one remaining chance for pregnancy. The plan includes crashing a funeral, looking for Mr. Goodbar in a nightclub and, as a last resort in the last-resort extravaganza, making a withdrawal from a sperm bank. Rather than push the satiric edge of the baby obsession, Camilla Leslie's script embraces the banal, treating pregnancy like a lotto jackpot with an adorable gurgling-and-cooing prize.
There's a latent intelligence in the dumb scenario that Graham and especially Kirshner tap into with crisp line readings. The film's tender but unsentimental view of female friendship rings true, but director Eric Styles doesn't make much else convincing.
- Silliness ensues as Georgina, an ambitious young London professional, learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. Geez sure sounds like fun. Despite Heather Graham's stock plummeting to direct-to-video status, First Look Studios' has according to THR, added the film to its future slate (actually it is getting a Spring release and a preem at the Miami Int. Film Fest). The German-financed comedy Buy Borrow Steal is directed by Eric Styles, and sees Graham in the lead role. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, played by Mia Kirshner, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child. ...
- 2/7/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
LONDON -- Despite old- fashioned charm and a batch of fine central performances, this adaptation of Noel Coward's 1950s play doesn't quite hit the mark. It is, of course, intriguing to see Julie Andrews back on the big screen, but there is little to indicate she will make a major impact at the boxoffice.
The film opened in the United Kingdom to lukewarm critical response, and it seems destined for a quick exit from the West End. "Relative Values" will probably live a stronger life on video and television.
The project marks the sophomore film for director Eric Styles, whose debut effort, "Dreaming of Joseph Lees", was well-received. His first film was shot on the Isle of Man -- a small island in the Irish Sea between the United Kingdom and Ireland that offers attractive tax breaks -- and here he returns to an impressive 11th century mansion on the island to help re-create postwar Britain.
The story is a series of comic complications set against the backdrop of a country addressing the contradictions of class values in the social turmoil after World War II.
The story starts in the south of France in 1954, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood (Edward Atterton), is busy romancing beautiful Hollywood star Miranda Frayle (Jeanne Tripplehorn), unaware that the announcement of their betrothal causes concern to his mother, Felicity, the Countess of Marshwood (Julie Andrews), and Don Lucas (William Baldwin), a Hollywood star and Miranda's former lover.
Back at the family's stately British home, it is revealed that Felicity's maid Moxie (Sophie Thompson) is actually the long-lost sister of Miranda, who left the family 20 years earlier to seek fame in Tinseltown. The family -- with the aid of butler Crestwell (the excellent Stephen Fry) -- sets about concocting a story whereby they can change Moxie's image. But Moxie is distraught when her sister fails to recognize her, and tells terrible lies about her childhood.
Throw into the pot the arrival of a drunken Don Lucas, which allows the film to resolve the various relationships and leave poor old Nigel to wonder what on earth he is going to do. How could he possibly marry his mother's maid's sister? As chaos ensues, the postwar class system is revealed.
Julie Andrews is impressive as the upper-class mother trying to prevent her rather dim son from making a marital mistake. But there is a lingering feeling that she has so much more to offer if only the right movie role would come along. Tripplehorn and Baldwin are in good form as the awful movie stars, while best of all is Fry as the urbane butler (elegantly reprising the Jeeves character he played on British television).
There is much to enjoy in "Relative Values" -- we are talking about a film based on a play by the wonderful Noel Coward, after all -- but there is just not enough quality in all departments to give the film the gloss it properly deserves.
RELATIVE VALUES
Alliance Atlantis
Midsummer Films
in association with
the Isle of Man Film Commission
Producer: Chris Mulligan
Director: Eric Styles
Executive producers: Steve Christian, Chris Harris
Screenwriters/associate producers: Paul Rattigan, Michael Walker
Based on the play by: Noel Coward
Director of photography: Jimmy Dibling
Editors: Caroline Limmer, Ian Seymour
Costume designer: Nic Ede
Production designer: Humphrey Jaeger
Music: John Debney
Color/stereo
Cast:
Felicity: Julie Andrews
Moxie: Sophie Thompson
Nigel: Edward Atterton
Miranda: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Don Lucas: William Baldwin
Peter: Colin Firth
Crestwell: Stephen Fry
Alice: Anwen Carlisle
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film opened in the United Kingdom to lukewarm critical response, and it seems destined for a quick exit from the West End. "Relative Values" will probably live a stronger life on video and television.
The project marks the sophomore film for director Eric Styles, whose debut effort, "Dreaming of Joseph Lees", was well-received. His first film was shot on the Isle of Man -- a small island in the Irish Sea between the United Kingdom and Ireland that offers attractive tax breaks -- and here he returns to an impressive 11th century mansion on the island to help re-create postwar Britain.
The story is a series of comic complications set against the backdrop of a country addressing the contradictions of class values in the social turmoil after World War II.
The story starts in the south of France in 1954, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood (Edward Atterton), is busy romancing beautiful Hollywood star Miranda Frayle (Jeanne Tripplehorn), unaware that the announcement of their betrothal causes concern to his mother, Felicity, the Countess of Marshwood (Julie Andrews), and Don Lucas (William Baldwin), a Hollywood star and Miranda's former lover.
Back at the family's stately British home, it is revealed that Felicity's maid Moxie (Sophie Thompson) is actually the long-lost sister of Miranda, who left the family 20 years earlier to seek fame in Tinseltown. The family -- with the aid of butler Crestwell (the excellent Stephen Fry) -- sets about concocting a story whereby they can change Moxie's image. But Moxie is distraught when her sister fails to recognize her, and tells terrible lies about her childhood.
Throw into the pot the arrival of a drunken Don Lucas, which allows the film to resolve the various relationships and leave poor old Nigel to wonder what on earth he is going to do. How could he possibly marry his mother's maid's sister? As chaos ensues, the postwar class system is revealed.
Julie Andrews is impressive as the upper-class mother trying to prevent her rather dim son from making a marital mistake. But there is a lingering feeling that she has so much more to offer if only the right movie role would come along. Tripplehorn and Baldwin are in good form as the awful movie stars, while best of all is Fry as the urbane butler (elegantly reprising the Jeeves character he played on British television).
There is much to enjoy in "Relative Values" -- we are talking about a film based on a play by the wonderful Noel Coward, after all -- but there is just not enough quality in all departments to give the film the gloss it properly deserves.
RELATIVE VALUES
Alliance Atlantis
Midsummer Films
in association with
the Isle of Man Film Commission
Producer: Chris Mulligan
Director: Eric Styles
Executive producers: Steve Christian, Chris Harris
Screenwriters/associate producers: Paul Rattigan, Michael Walker
Based on the play by: Noel Coward
Director of photography: Jimmy Dibling
Editors: Caroline Limmer, Ian Seymour
Costume designer: Nic Ede
Production designer: Humphrey Jaeger
Music: John Debney
Color/stereo
Cast:
Felicity: Julie Andrews
Moxie: Sophie Thompson
Nigel: Edward Atterton
Miranda: Jeanne Tripplehorn
Don Lucas: William Baldwin
Peter: Colin Firth
Crestwell: Stephen Fry
Alice: Anwen Carlisle
Running time -- 89 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/12/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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