This true crime-inspired trudge through the cockney underworld is both misleadingly romanticised and too cheaply produced
Somehow, this true-crime-inspired gangster film brings to mind the 80s/90s concept of “heritage cinema”, a phrase that back in the day was applied to films by Merchant Ivory and any literary adaptation of the era. This particular period drama, however, has no ladies in crinolines sipping tea. Indeed, this recounting of the rise and fall of London mob boss Jack “Spot” Comer (Terry Stone) and his protege-cum-rival Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) mostly features lairy cockney men swearing and slicing each other up with cut-throat razors or finding even more inventive ways to inflict pain. But the film’s nostalgic posturing – where boozy nights in the pub were soundtracked by skiffle-band covers, £80 was a lot of money and all prostitutes were pretty – is just as misleading and romanticised as anything that Helena Bonham Carter...
Somehow, this true-crime-inspired gangster film brings to mind the 80s/90s concept of “heritage cinema”, a phrase that back in the day was applied to films by Merchant Ivory and any literary adaptation of the era. This particular period drama, however, has no ladies in crinolines sipping tea. Indeed, this recounting of the rise and fall of London mob boss Jack “Spot” Comer (Terry Stone) and his protege-cum-rival Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) mostly features lairy cockney men swearing and slicing each other up with cut-throat razors or finding even more inventive ways to inflict pain. But the film’s nostalgic posturing – where boozy nights in the pub were soundtracked by skiffle-band covers, £80 was a lot of money and all prostitutes were pretty – is just as misleading and romanticised as anything that Helena Bonham Carter...
- 4/19/2019
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Sales slate includes UK gangster film Mad Frank, graffiti artist drama Burners.
Us-based Apl Film president of global sales Brian Sweet heads to the Efm with worldwide rights on the crime thriller Chameleon and will shop to buyers in Berlin next week.
Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk executive producer Jillian Longnecker is on board the completed project and Marcus Mizelle directed from his screenplay about a struggling ex-con and his unpredictable accomplice who scam superficial trophy wives and their husbands in Los Angeles.
Australia’s Joel Hogan (Open Water 3: Cage Dive), Emmy-nominated Alicia Leigh Willis (General Hospital), Donald Prabatah,...
Us-based Apl Film president of global sales Brian Sweet heads to the Efm with worldwide rights on the crime thriller Chameleon and will shop to buyers in Berlin next week.
Vice and If Beale Street Could Talk executive producer Jillian Longnecker is on board the completed project and Marcus Mizelle directed from his screenplay about a struggling ex-con and his unpredictable accomplice who scam superficial trophy wives and their husbands in Los Angeles.
Australia’s Joel Hogan (Open Water 3: Cage Dive), Emmy-nominated Alicia Leigh Willis (General Hospital), Donald Prabatah,...
- 1/30/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metrodome International inks deal on gangster doc.
Us home entertainment distributor Revolver Us has picked up all rights to completed Kray brothers documentary The Krays: Kill Order from Metrodome International.
The documentary about the infamous British gangland twins includes contributions from Kray contemporaries including Freddie Foreman, Frankie Fraser, Eddie Richardson, Albert Donoghue, Lenny Hamilton, Billy Frost, Jimmy Tippett Snr., Albert Chapman, Toby Von Judge, Maureen Flanagan and Bernard O’Mahoney as well as some never heard before audio recordings of Reggie Kray.
Christopher Matthews directs, Revelation Films produces.
Jezz Vernon, Metrodome International MD, said: “With the Krays biopic Legend approaching £18m at the UK box office, interest in the twins has never been greater than now. We’re looking forward to working with Revolver to bring this powerful documentary to the Us market.”
Seb Marciano, president of Revolver Entertainment, added: “With Legend getting a significant stateside release here on November 20 through Universal Pictures, Revolver Entertainment is now...
Us home entertainment distributor Revolver Us has picked up all rights to completed Kray brothers documentary The Krays: Kill Order from Metrodome International.
The documentary about the infamous British gangland twins includes contributions from Kray contemporaries including Freddie Foreman, Frankie Fraser, Eddie Richardson, Albert Donoghue, Lenny Hamilton, Billy Frost, Jimmy Tippett Snr., Albert Chapman, Toby Von Judge, Maureen Flanagan and Bernard O’Mahoney as well as some never heard before audio recordings of Reggie Kray.
Christopher Matthews directs, Revelation Films produces.
Jezz Vernon, Metrodome International MD, said: “With the Krays biopic Legend approaching £18m at the UK box office, interest in the twins has never been greater than now. We’re looking forward to working with Revolver to bring this powerful documentary to the Us market.”
Seb Marciano, president of Revolver Entertainment, added: “With Legend getting a significant stateside release here on November 20 through Universal Pictures, Revolver Entertainment is now...
- 10/29/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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