Peter Stormare, Steven Berkoff and Matt Hookings have signed on to star in Matt Routledge’s thriller The Awakening for UK producers Camelot Media.
Julian Glover and Justin Tinto are also among the cast of the film, in which Tinto plays a man who discovers a global conspiracy and sets out to awaken the world.
Tinto wrote the original script; the film is currently in pre-production ahead of a shoot at Pinewood Studios.
Hookings and Tim Kent will produce the title for Camelot. It is fully financed through independent sources. Tinto says the film is aiming to convey a “message...
Julian Glover and Justin Tinto are also among the cast of the film, in which Tinto plays a man who discovers a global conspiracy and sets out to awaken the world.
Tinto wrote the original script; the film is currently in pre-production ahead of a shoot at Pinewood Studios.
Hookings and Tim Kent will produce the title for Camelot. It is fully financed through independent sources. Tinto says the film is aiming to convey a “message...
- 4/30/2024
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Prolific German actor Thomas Kretschmann, star of movies including The Pianist, King Kong and the upcoming Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny, is to play seminal and controversial German composer Richard Wagner in a new English-language biopic.
The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn on an alternative history, as it will see Wagner’s father-in-law, Franz Liszt, follow the couple soon after as news of a comet headed towards earth launches Wagner into composing one final piece of music.
Marton Csokas (The Equalizer) will play fellow-composer Liszt in the project which is being sold at Berlin’s EFM by Motus Studios.
Daniel Graham (Prizefighter: The Life Of Jem Belcher) is writer-director and the team is aiming to shoot in Venice in late spring, 2023.
Emanuele Moretti (Assassin Club) is producing...
The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn on an alternative history, as it will see Wagner’s father-in-law, Franz Liszt, follow the couple soon after as news of a comet headed towards earth launches Wagner into composing one final piece of music.
Marton Csokas (The Equalizer) will play fellow-composer Liszt in the project which is being sold at Berlin’s EFM by Motus Studios.
Daniel Graham (Prizefighter: The Life Of Jem Belcher) is writer-director and the team is aiming to shoot in Venice in late spring, 2023.
Emanuele Moretti (Assassin Club) is producing...
- 2/18/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Prizefighter (2022) Movie Trailer: Russell Crowe & Ray Winston star in Daniel Graham’s Boxing Biopic
Prizefighter Trailer — Daniel Graham‘s Prizefighter (2022) movie trailer has been released by Prime Video. The Prizefighter trailer stars Matt Hookings, Russell Crowe, Ray Winstone, Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Julian Glover, Lucy Martin, Glen Fox, and Ricky Chaplin. Crew Matt Hookings wrote the screenplay for Prizefighter. Paul Saunderson created the music for the film. Ben Braham [...]
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- 6/18/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Exclusive: Amazon Prime has quietly picked up domestic rights to UK boxing movie Prizefighter: The Life Of Jem Belcher.
Also kept relatively quiet has been the casting of Oscar winner Russell Crowe in a key supporting role alongside protagonists Matt Hookings, Ray Winstone, Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Steven Berkoff and Julian Glover.
Set at the turn of the 19th century, the movie charts the story of a gifted young boxer (played by Hookings) who fought his way to becoming champion of England under the watchful eye of trainer and surrogate father Bill Warr (played by Winstone). The feature has been a passion project and labour of love for Hookings.
XYZ struck the multi-million dollar domestic deal a little while ago and is soon taking delivery of a cut of the film for the Cannes market, where sales are due to continue. The Amazon delivery will follow this month. Above and below are first look images.
Also kept relatively quiet has been the casting of Oscar winner Russell Crowe in a key supporting role alongside protagonists Matt Hookings, Ray Winstone, Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Steven Berkoff and Julian Glover.
Set at the turn of the 19th century, the movie charts the story of a gifted young boxer (played by Hookings) who fought his way to becoming champion of England under the watchful eye of trainer and surrogate father Bill Warr (played by Winstone). The feature has been a passion project and labour of love for Hookings.
XYZ struck the multi-million dollar domestic deal a little while ago and is soon taking delivery of a cut of the film for the Cannes market, where sales are due to continue. The Amazon delivery will follow this month. Above and below are first look images.
- 5/13/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Harvey Keitel won best actor for his role in local production ‘Blood On The Crown’
Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow were among the honorary winners at the inaugural Malta Film Awards on Saturday night (Jan 29).
The event, hosted by UK comedian and actor David Walliams, was held at at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta and broadcast live on Television Malta. Local politicians and leading figures from the Maltese arts and film sectors were in attendance.
It was a lavish show, full of music and dance interludes and flashy lighting effects. Local media reported that...
Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow were among the honorary winners at the inaugural Malta Film Awards on Saturday night (Jan 29).
The event, hosted by UK comedian and actor David Walliams, was held at at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta and broadcast live on Television Malta. Local politicians and leading figures from the Maltese arts and film sectors were in attendance.
It was a lavish show, full of music and dance interludes and flashy lighting effects. Local media reported that...
- 1/31/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
When U.K.-based Camelot Films’ “Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher” was forced to relocate to Lithuania earlier this year, after the film’s Welsh financing fell through, executive producer Kestutis Drazdauskas knew the first challenge facing director Daniel Graham’s period drama would be re-creating 19th century England in 21st century Vilnius.
“It was an extensive set construction for us, because locations for us are minimal that could play as that period in England and Wales,” says Drazdauskas, who runs the production company Artbox and is chairman of the board of the Independent Producers Assn. of Lithuania. Time was of the essence for the 36-day shoot, but local crews were quick to respond, with set dressing and skillfully deployed props allowing the production to recreate the look and feel of Victorian England.
It’s a credit to what Drazdauskas describes as a “small but very efficient film industry” in Lithuania,...
“It was an extensive set construction for us, because locations for us are minimal that could play as that period in England and Wales,” says Drazdauskas, who runs the production company Artbox and is chairman of the board of the Independent Producers Assn. of Lithuania. Time was of the essence for the 36-day shoot, but local crews were quick to respond, with set dressing and skillfully deployed props allowing the production to recreate the look and feel of Victorian England.
It’s a credit to what Drazdauskas describes as a “small but very efficient film industry” in Lithuania,...
- 10/23/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Spall plays an eccentric architect hired to design a tomb for the the eponymous aristocrat, in writer-director Daniel Graham’s homage to Peter Greenaway
Having apprenticed in arthouse distribution, writer-director Daniel Graham has nobly devoted himself to reviving the aesthetics of once-prominent auteurs deemed unfashionable, uncommercial or both simultaneously. Graham’s 2017 film Opus Zero followed in the thematically dense, landscape-attentive footsteps of Theo Angelopoulos; this deeply eccentric follow-up tips a plumed hat to Peter Greenaway, casting Timothy Spall in what instantly resembles a post-Brexit update of 1987’s The Belly of an Architect. There’s a lot of vomit, and the film is something of a splurge itself, pebble-dashing the screen with ideas. Yet its better ones stick: whether new or regurgitated, the constituent elements are forever intriguing, even if Graham only partially pulls them together at the last.
Spall is at his most Hogarthian, making a full three-course meal out...
Having apprenticed in arthouse distribution, writer-director Daniel Graham has nobly devoted himself to reviving the aesthetics of once-prominent auteurs deemed unfashionable, uncommercial or both simultaneously. Graham’s 2017 film Opus Zero followed in the thematically dense, landscape-attentive footsteps of Theo Angelopoulos; this deeply eccentric follow-up tips a plumed hat to Peter Greenaway, casting Timothy Spall in what instantly resembles a post-Brexit update of 1987’s The Belly of an Architect. There’s a lot of vomit, and the film is something of a splurge itself, pebble-dashing the screen with ideas. Yet its better ones stick: whether new or regurgitated, the constituent elements are forever intriguing, even if Graham only partially pulls them together at the last.
Spall is at his most Hogarthian, making a full three-course meal out...
- 9/17/2021
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
US-based XYZ Films has acquired world sales rights to Daniel Graham’s boxing biopic Prizefighter: The Life Of Jem Belcher.
The film is now shooting in the UK, and will later move to Lithuania and Australia, with the shoot wrapping in early September.
Matt Hookings is starring in the true story of James ‘Jem’ Belcher, who became a boxing champion aged 19 in 1800, and left behind poverty, violence and addiction to transform primitive pugilism into the boxing of today.
Ray Winstone is playing Belcher’s trainer Bill Warr, with Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Steven Berkoff, Julian Glover, Lucy Morgan, Olivia Chenry...
The film is now shooting in the UK, and will later move to Lithuania and Australia, with the shoot wrapping in early September.
Matt Hookings is starring in the true story of James ‘Jem’ Belcher, who became a boxing champion aged 19 in 1800, and left behind poverty, violence and addiction to transform primitive pugilism into the boxing of today.
Ray Winstone is playing Belcher’s trainer Bill Warr, with Marton Csokas, Jodhi May, Steven Berkoff, Julian Glover, Lucy Morgan, Olivia Chenry...
- 7/7/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Camelot Films has added a raft of cast to its upcoming feature Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher with principal photography set to commence on May 9 on location in Wales.
Matt Hookings (The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica) will star in the titular role, alongside boxing enthusiast Ray Winstone (Black Widow) as Bill Warr, a keen pugilist who becomes both trainer and surrogate father to the film’s lead character, Jem Belcher. Also aboard are Marton Csokas (The Luminaries), Jodhi May (The Witcher), Steven Berkoff (Vikings), Julian Glover (Game of Thrones) and William Moseley (Artemis Fowl). Additional actors are in talks.
The film will tell the little known true story of boxer James Belcher, whose journey to become the youngest ever boxing world champion at the age of nineteen in 1800 helped transform primitive pugilism into the sport of boxing as we know it today. Growing up...
Matt Hookings (The Obscure Life of the Grand Duke of Corsica) will star in the titular role, alongside boxing enthusiast Ray Winstone (Black Widow) as Bill Warr, a keen pugilist who becomes both trainer and surrogate father to the film’s lead character, Jem Belcher. Also aboard are Marton Csokas (The Luminaries), Jodhi May (The Witcher), Steven Berkoff (Vikings), Julian Glover (Game of Thrones) and William Moseley (Artemis Fowl). Additional actors are in talks.
The film will tell the little known true story of boxer James Belcher, whose journey to become the youngest ever boxing world champion at the age of nineteen in 1800 helped transform primitive pugilism into the sport of boxing as we know it today. Growing up...
- 3/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Executive producer and financier Ingenious negotiated the deal.
US-based distributor Vertical Entertainment has acquired US and UK rights to Daniel Graham’s The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica, and is scheduling a theatrical release in both territories for later this year.
The deal was secured through the film’s executive producer Simon Williams, an investment director at finance partner Ingenious.
Sales agent Amp International has separately sold the film to Australia (Rialto Film), Benelux (FilmFreak), India (Pictureworks), Middle East (Front Row), Turkey (SiyahBeyaz) and Greece (Odeon).
Shot on location in Malta in 2019 (long before the Covid-19 pandemic...
US-based distributor Vertical Entertainment has acquired US and UK rights to Daniel Graham’s The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica, and is scheduling a theatrical release in both territories for later this year.
The deal was secured through the film’s executive producer Simon Williams, an investment director at finance partner Ingenious.
Sales agent Amp International has separately sold the film to Australia (Rialto Film), Benelux (FilmFreak), India (Pictureworks), Middle East (Front Row), Turkey (SiyahBeyaz) and Greece (Odeon).
Shot on location in Malta in 2019 (long before the Covid-19 pandemic...
- 3/5/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Further deals include Australia, Benelux.
UK-based sales firm Amp International has secured a raft of deals on Daniel Graham’s black comedy The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica at EFM.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired the film for release in the US and UK, with a theatrical release planned for later this year in the former.
Further sales include Australia (Rialto Film), Benelux (FilmFreak), India (Pictureworks), Middle East (Front Row), Turkey (SiyahBeyaz) and Greece (Odeon).
Written in 2017, the film tells of a cantankerous yet brilliant architect who embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for an eccentric billionaire.
UK-based sales firm Amp International has secured a raft of deals on Daniel Graham’s black comedy The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica at EFM.
Vertical Entertainment has acquired the film for release in the US and UK, with a theatrical release planned for later this year in the former.
Further sales include Australia (Rialto Film), Benelux (FilmFreak), India (Pictureworks), Middle East (Front Row), Turkey (SiyahBeyaz) and Greece (Odeon).
Written in 2017, the film tells of a cantankerous yet brilliant architect who embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for an eccentric billionaire.
- 3/4/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The 26th annual SAG Awards are getting underway tonight at 8 Pm Et/5 Pm Pt at the Shrine Auditorium, with the show airing live on TNT and TBS. SAG-aftra is presenting awards in 15 categories honoring the year’s best film and TV acting performances.
The handing out of awards has already began on the Shrine red carpet, with the ensemble stunt teams of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and HBO’s Game of Thrones winning the motion picture and TV categories, respectively.
Also on tap tonight is Robert De Niro receiving the SAG Life Achievement Award, with Leonardo DiCaprio doing the presenting. Both have dogs in the fight tonight: De Niro with Netlfix’s The Irishman and DiCaprio with Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
This year’s marquee Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture category aside from the two mentioned above includes Lionsgate’s Bombshell — Bombshell,...
The handing out of awards has already began on the Shrine red carpet, with the ensemble stunt teams of Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame and HBO’s Game of Thrones winning the motion picture and TV categories, respectively.
Also on tap tonight is Robert De Niro receiving the SAG Life Achievement Award, with Leonardo DiCaprio doing the presenting. Both have dogs in the fight tonight: De Niro with Netlfix’s The Irishman and DiCaprio with Sony’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
This year’s marquee Performance By a Cast in a Motion Picture category aside from the two mentioned above includes Lionsgate’s Bombshell — Bombshell,...
- 1/19/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Project begins shooting in Malta this week.
Peter Stormare has joined Timothy Spall in the cast of The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica, a UK comedy that begins shooting in Malta this week.
Daniel Graham is directing the project, his second feature after 2017 drama Opus Zero, which starred Willem Dafoe.
Stormare will play the titular Grand Duke, an eccentric billionaire who commissions a cantankerous architect (Spall). When an epidemic hits the island, all its inhabitants must flee, but the architect remains behind to finish the job.
Stormare’s previous roles include Fargo, Prison Break and Minority Report.
Peter Stormare has joined Timothy Spall in the cast of The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica, a UK comedy that begins shooting in Malta this week.
Daniel Graham is directing the project, his second feature after 2017 drama Opus Zero, which starred Willem Dafoe.
Stormare will play the titular Grand Duke, an eccentric billionaire who commissions a cantankerous architect (Spall). When an epidemic hits the island, all its inhabitants must flee, but the architect remains behind to finish the job.
Stormare’s previous roles include Fargo, Prison Break and Minority Report.
- 9/10/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Dafoe adds watchability in this story of a composer obsessed with a long-ago disappearance, but this arthouse drama feels like a misstep
There is a halo effect created by Willem Dafoe’s weathered features: those cliff-edge cheekbones perched above carved-out hollows instantly confer fierceness and depth of soul to whatever role he is playing. Dafoe’s face certainly adds watchability to this slow-going and precious arthouse drama, in which he plays an American visiting a dusty Mexican town to sift through his late father’s belongings. The film is directed with auteurist ambition by Daniel Graham and produced by the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.
Dafoe is Paul, a composer struggling to complete an unfinished symphony by a long-dead genius. “I’ve laid down my tools. They’ve become dull,” he tells an old friend of his father, the elderly Zero (Brontis Jodorowsky). In this film’s characteristic style, the two...
There is a halo effect created by Willem Dafoe’s weathered features: those cliff-edge cheekbones perched above carved-out hollows instantly confer fierceness and depth of soul to whatever role he is playing. Dafoe’s face certainly adds watchability to this slow-going and precious arthouse drama, in which he plays an American visiting a dusty Mexican town to sift through his late father’s belongings. The film is directed with auteurist ambition by Daniel Graham and produced by the Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.
Dafoe is Paul, a composer struggling to complete an unfinished symphony by a long-dead genius. “I’ve laid down my tools. They’ve become dull,” he tells an old friend of his father, the elderly Zero (Brontis Jodorowsky). In this film’s characteristic style, the two...
- 8/7/2019
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
UK’s Camelot Films and Serotonin Films producing project.
Mr Turner actor Timothy Spall has boarded the cast of writer-director Daniel Graham’s The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica, which London-based Amp International is launching at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
Spall will play a cantankerous yet brilliant architect who embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for an eccentric billionaire. Negotiations are underway to cast the latter role.
Producers are the UK’s Matt Hookings of Camelot Films and Dominic Norris of Serotonin Films. Finance partners include LipSync Productions, umedia and the Malta Film Commission.
Mr Turner actor Timothy Spall has boarded the cast of writer-director Daniel Graham’s The Obscure Life Of The Grand Duke Of Corsica, which London-based Amp International is launching at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin.
Spall will play a cantankerous yet brilliant architect who embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for an eccentric billionaire. Negotiations are underway to cast the latter role.
Producers are the UK’s Matt Hookings of Camelot Films and Dominic Norris of Serotonin Films. Finance partners include LipSync Productions, umedia and the Malta Film Commission.
- 2/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther won the marquee film ensemble prize Sunday at the 25th annual SAG Awards, topping a loaded field of fellow Oscar nominees and making it a serious contender for next month’s Academy Awards.
“It’s a pleasure to be celebrated by you, to be loved by you,” star Chadwick Boseman said to conclude a rousing speech onstage at the Shrine Auditorium. “And you know you can’t have a Black Panther now without a ‘two’ on it,” — a reference to a pending sequel to the pic, which grossed $1.35 billion this year.
Sunday’s kudos were the first chance since last week’s Oscar nominations for those in the race to establish frontrunner status. Black Panther certainly helped itself tonight against fellow Oscar noms BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born who were nommed tonight along with Crazy Rich Asians.
Among the acting wins, The Wife...
“It’s a pleasure to be celebrated by you, to be loved by you,” star Chadwick Boseman said to conclude a rousing speech onstage at the Shrine Auditorium. “And you know you can’t have a Black Panther now without a ‘two’ on it,” — a reference to a pending sequel to the pic, which grossed $1.35 billion this year.
Sunday’s kudos were the first chance since last week’s Oscar nominations for those in the race to establish frontrunner status. Black Panther certainly helped itself tonight against fellow Oscar noms BlacKkKlansman, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star Is Born who were nommed tonight along with Crazy Rich Asians.
Among the acting wins, The Wife...
- 1/28/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Stunt teams from Black Panther and Glow walked away with this year’s SAG Awards for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles.
The winners were announced Sunday on the red carpet during the live pre-show for the 25th Annual SAG Awards, with awards ambassador Harry Shum Jr. (Motion Picture Cast nominee for Crazy Rich Asians) and Sydney Sweeney (Drama Ensemble nominee for The Handmaid’s Tale) revealing the results.
Black Panther receives the Actor® for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture #sagawards pic.twitter.com/zWxAkrMKg9
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) January 27, 2019
The stunt ensemble honors recognize work within the stunt community during 2018 by stunt performers and coordinators.
The nominees were chosen by their respective SAG Awards film and television nominating committees.
Glow takes home the Actor® for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series #sagawards pic.twitter.
The winners were announced Sunday on the red carpet during the live pre-show for the 25th Annual SAG Awards, with awards ambassador Harry Shum Jr. (Motion Picture Cast nominee for Crazy Rich Asians) and Sydney Sweeney (Drama Ensemble nominee for The Handmaid’s Tale) revealing the results.
Black Panther receives the Actor® for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture #sagawards pic.twitter.com/zWxAkrMKg9
— SAG Awards® (@SAGawards) January 27, 2019
The stunt ensemble honors recognize work within the stunt community during 2018 by stunt performers and coordinators.
The nominees were chosen by their respective SAG Awards film and television nominating committees.
Glow takes home the Actor® for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series #sagawards pic.twitter.
- 1/27/2019
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline Film + TV
Acquisitions include Iffr title Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo).
UK art house distributor New Wave Films has confirmed the acquisition of three new Mexican titles including Internatonal Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) regular Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo), which has been screening this week in Rotterdam’s Deep Focus section.
The most recent pick-up is The Chambermaid by debut director Lila Avilés, which has been touring major festivals since the autumn, winning several prizes on the way.
Sold by Alpha Violet, this is a drama set behind the scenes in a luxury hotel in Mexico City. Avilés and Tatiana Graullera (Limerencia) produced the project,...
UK art house distributor New Wave Films has confirmed the acquisition of three new Mexican titles including Internatonal Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) regular Carlos Reygadas’ Our Time (Nuestro Tiempo), which has been screening this week in Rotterdam’s Deep Focus section.
The most recent pick-up is The Chambermaid by debut director Lila Avilés, which has been touring major festivals since the autumn, winning several prizes on the way.
Sold by Alpha Violet, this is a drama set behind the scenes in a luxury hotel in Mexico City. Avilés and Tatiana Graullera (Limerencia) produced the project,...
- 1/27/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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