Descendants of Marcel Marceau have disavowed World War II drama “Resistance,” saying that they are “in no way associated with the production,” which stars Jesse Eisenberg as the legendary performer and mime artist.
In a statement to Variety, children and heirs of Marceau said the project was erroneously “reported in the press and on social media as ‘the true story of Marcel Marceau and the French Resistance.'” They said that Baptiste Marceau, one of the performer’s sons, “was wrongly cited as an associate producer, although he and the rest of his family have in no way agreed to participate in the production of this American film.”
“Resistance,” directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz (“Hands of Stone”), follows the story of Marceau and his efforts to save Jewish children whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. Marceau’s own father died in Auschwitz.
His descendants object to the film...
In a statement to Variety, children and heirs of Marceau said the project was erroneously “reported in the press and on social media as ‘the true story of Marcel Marceau and the French Resistance.'” They said that Baptiste Marceau, one of the performer’s sons, “was wrongly cited as an associate producer, although he and the rest of his family have in no way agreed to participate in the production of this American film.”
“Resistance,” directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz (“Hands of Stone”), follows the story of Marceau and his efforts to save Jewish children whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. Marceau’s own father died in Auschwitz.
His descendants object to the film...
- 12/7/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Between The Lion King, Star Wars and his executive producer role on Avengers 4, Jon Favreau is a man who knows how to multitask.
The first marquee project is a live-action retelling of the Disney classic, while Marvel’s untitled 2019 sequel needs no introduction. Sandwiched in between those two heavy-hitters, though, is the first ever live-action Star Wars TV series, which Favreau has agreed to write and direct for Lucasfilm.
It’ll span 10 episodes in total – for now, at least – with a $100M production budget (!), and based on Jon Favreau’s latest Twitter post, the writer-director is on the verge of firing up production on his top-secret Star Wars series.
Embedded below, the photo finds Favreau outside the famous Skywalker Ranch with Dave Filoni, the all-around Lucasfilm veteran whose credits include Rebels, The Clone Wars and the upcoming Resistance series that’s due for a premiere in October.
Is Jon Favreau...
The first marquee project is a live-action retelling of the Disney classic, while Marvel’s untitled 2019 sequel needs no introduction. Sandwiched in between those two heavy-hitters, though, is the first ever live-action Star Wars TV series, which Favreau has agreed to write and direct for Lucasfilm.
It’ll span 10 episodes in total – for now, at least – with a $100M production budget (!), and based on Jon Favreau’s latest Twitter post, the writer-director is on the verge of firing up production on his top-secret Star Wars series.
Embedded below, the photo finds Favreau outside the famous Skywalker Ranch with Dave Filoni, the all-around Lucasfilm veteran whose credits include Rebels, The Clone Wars and the upcoming Resistance series that’s due for a premiere in October.
Is Jon Favreau...
- 8/21/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Ever since Lucasfilm’s crown jewel returned in 2015, the Star Wars franchise has grown and evolved with each passing year.
For 2018, fans have already welcomed the addition of Solo, Ron Howard’s Anthology pic that recounts the formative years of everyone’s favorite smuggler. But it’s not the only Star Wars-related property set for release this year, as Disney and Lucasfilm have pegged the animated Resistance series for a premiere in October, which chronicles the adventures of Leia Organa’s ace fighter pilots as they hope to thwart the growing threat of the First Order.
And now, thanks to one eagle-eyed Twitter user (h/t ComicBook.com), it appears we know exactly where Star Wars Resistance takes place on the series timeline.
Set about six months before The Force Awakens, Star Wars Resistance tells the story of Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with...
For 2018, fans have already welcomed the addition of Solo, Ron Howard’s Anthology pic that recounts the formative years of everyone’s favorite smuggler. But it’s not the only Star Wars-related property set for release this year, as Disney and Lucasfilm have pegged the animated Resistance series for a premiere in October, which chronicles the adventures of Leia Organa’s ace fighter pilots as they hope to thwart the growing threat of the First Order.
And now, thanks to one eagle-eyed Twitter user (h/t ComicBook.com), it appears we know exactly where Star Wars Resistance takes place on the series timeline.
Set about six months before The Force Awakens, Star Wars Resistance tells the story of Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with...
- 8/20/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
After a lengthy wait, we finally have our first look at Star Wars Resistance! Check out the first trailer for the new Disney Xd Animated series...
Shortly after the conclusion of Star Wars Rebels, Disney made it known that they weren't finished developing animated shows for their Star Wars IP. Instead, they wanted to jump ahead to the future with a brand new show, Star Wars Resistance. For some time now, we've hoped to see something from the series, (more than just gritty leaked photos), but Disney wasn't yet comfortable to share it with the world. Today, they are and now we have the First Look Trailer for Star Wars Resistance!
The high-flying adventure series follows Kazuda Xiono ("Kaz"), a young pilot recruited by the Resistance for a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order.
Star Wars Resistance is the next brainchild from renowned Lucasfilm Animation...
Shortly after the conclusion of Star Wars Rebels, Disney made it known that they weren't finished developing animated shows for their Star Wars IP. Instead, they wanted to jump ahead to the future with a brand new show, Star Wars Resistance. For some time now, we've hoped to see something from the series, (more than just gritty leaked photos), but Disney wasn't yet comfortable to share it with the world. Today, they are and now we have the First Look Trailer for Star Wars Resistance!
The high-flying adventure series follows Kazuda Xiono ("Kaz"), a young pilot recruited by the Resistance for a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order.
Star Wars Resistance is the next brainchild from renowned Lucasfilm Animation...
- 8/17/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Matt Malliaros)
- Cinelinx
Get ready for a Star Wars adventure like no other.
Hot off the presses, above you’ll see the very first trailer for Star Wars Resistance, the starry animated series coming to Disney Xd later this year – October 7th, to be specific, when the Powers That Be will get the ball rolling with an hour-long premiere.
Created by Lucasfilm mainstay Dave Filoni, Resistance takes place just prior to The Force Awakens, when rookie pilot Kazuda (Kaz) Xiono hopes to do his part by spying on the First Order and, well, things don’t exactly go according to plan – despite the fact that Kaz has Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and Bb-8 fighting in his corner.
Together, they’ll be going up against an emboldened First Order, and today’s first-look trailer also alludes to Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) and Miss Unkar Plutt, who looks to be every bit as gregarious as her junk-dealing husband.
Hot off the presses, above you’ll see the very first trailer for Star Wars Resistance, the starry animated series coming to Disney Xd later this year – October 7th, to be specific, when the Powers That Be will get the ball rolling with an hour-long premiere.
Created by Lucasfilm mainstay Dave Filoni, Resistance takes place just prior to The Force Awakens, when rookie pilot Kazuda (Kaz) Xiono hopes to do his part by spying on the First Order and, well, things don’t exactly go according to plan – despite the fact that Kaz has Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and Bb-8 fighting in his corner.
Together, they’ll be going up against an emboldened First Order, and today’s first-look trailer also alludes to Captain Phasma (Gwendoline Christie) and Miss Unkar Plutt, who looks to be every bit as gregarious as her junk-dealing husband.
- 8/17/2018
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
John Saavedra Sep 27, 2018
A new trailer gives us our best look yet at Star Wars Resistance! Check it out here...
Star Wars Resistance is the next animated series set in the galaxy far, far away. The new animated series follows Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order. The series will feature Bb-8 alongside ace pilots, colorful new characters, and appearances by Poe Dameron and Captain Phasma, voiced by actors Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie, respectively.
Dave Filoni, exec producer and director of both The Clone Wars and Rebels, is back to helm Resistance. In true Filoni fashion, the series will have its own unique art style. Resistance is described as being "anime-inspired."
Related Article: What Star Wars Resistance Should Explore
“The idea for Star Wars Resistance came out of my interest in...
A new trailer gives us our best look yet at Star Wars Resistance! Check it out here...
Star Wars Resistance is the next animated series set in the galaxy far, far away. The new animated series follows Kazuda Xiono, a young pilot recruited by the Resistance and tasked with a top-secret mission to spy on the growing threat of the First Order. The series will feature Bb-8 alongside ace pilots, colorful new characters, and appearances by Poe Dameron and Captain Phasma, voiced by actors Oscar Isaac and Gwendoline Christie, respectively.
Dave Filoni, exec producer and director of both The Clone Wars and Rebels, is back to helm Resistance. In true Filoni fashion, the series will have its own unique art style. Resistance is described as being "anime-inspired."
Related Article: What Star Wars Resistance Should Explore
“The idea for Star Wars Resistance came out of my interest in...
- 4/26/2018
- Den of Geek
Netflix, France’s Ocs channel group partner on dramatic limited series.
Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast as 1960s Israeli spy Eli Cohen in The Spy, the upcoming dramatic limited series for Netflix and French channel group Ocs.
Gideon Raff, creator of Prisoners Of War, the Israeli model for Us drama Homeland, is writer and director of The Spy and Legende Films and Alain Goldman are producing. The series will debut outside of France on Netflix.
Legendary spy Cohen lived undercover in Damascus in the early 1960s, spying for Israel and embedding himself in Syrian high society. He rose through...
Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast as 1960s Israeli spy Eli Cohen in The Spy, the upcoming dramatic limited series for Netflix and French channel group Ocs.
Gideon Raff, creator of Prisoners Of War, the Israeli model for Us drama Homeland, is writer and director of The Spy and Legende Films and Alain Goldman are producing. The series will debut outside of France on Netflix.
Legendary spy Cohen lived undercover in Damascus in the early 1960s, spying for Israel and embedding himself in Syrian high society. He rose through...
- 4/11/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Arrow Films takes title, notes for summer release.
Arrow Films has picked up UK rights from Highland Film Group to Vaughn Stein’s noir thriller Terminal starring Oscar nominee Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and Simon Pegg.
Arrow has earmarked a summer release for Terminal, which follows the intertwined lives of two assassins, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor, and a curious waitress leading a double life.
Mike Myers, Max Irons, Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran also star.
Robbie produced alongside Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara through their LuckyChap Entertainment, with David Barron of BeaglePug, Highland Film Group’s Arianne Fraser, Molly Hassell, and Teun Hilte.
Arrow acquisitions director Tom Stewart said: “Arrow Films is incredibly thrilled to be bringing Terminal to UK and Irish audiences this summer. We’re also delighted to be again working with everyone at Highland along with all the incredible talent involved.”
Stein added: “I am delighted to be working...
Arrow Films has picked up UK rights from Highland Film Group to Vaughn Stein’s noir thriller Terminal starring Oscar nominee Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) and Simon Pegg.
Arrow has earmarked a summer release for Terminal, which follows the intertwined lives of two assassins, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor, and a curious waitress leading a double life.
Mike Myers, Max Irons, Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran also star.
Robbie produced alongside Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara through their LuckyChap Entertainment, with David Barron of BeaglePug, Highland Film Group’s Arianne Fraser, Molly Hassell, and Teun Hilte.
Arrow acquisitions director Tom Stewart said: “Arrow Films is incredibly thrilled to be bringing Terminal to UK and Irish audiences this summer. We’re also delighted to be again working with everyone at Highland along with all the incredible talent involved.”
Stein added: “I am delighted to be working...
- 2/18/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
One of the PS4’s biggest exclusives to launch this year is most definitely Spider-Man. Since its initial reveal back in E3 2016, it has been a highly anticipated title, and for good reason. Sony fans are more than familiar with Insomniac Games; giving us legendary titles such as Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, and Resistance. Once the reveal trailer for Spider-Man showed the Insomniac insignia, all hype levels reached maximum capacity. There is absolutely no doubt that this is one of 2018’s most anticipated game of the year. Now, this gives all the more reason to be just a tad bit jealous of Brian Horton, the man who has already beaten the game three times and counting.
Now before you raid the streets and bring about the prophecy of the end-of-times, you would like to hear that Horton is the Design Director of the new game. Of course the Developers that...
Now before you raid the streets and bring about the prophecy of the end-of-times, you would like to hear that Horton is the Design Director of the new game. Of course the Developers that...
- 1/8/2018
- by GameTyrant
- GeekTyrant
There are dozens upon dozens upon dozens upon dozens of new movies coming out this fall (here are 35 that we're particularly excited for) and oodles of awards season-worthy performances within them. But we've whittled that all down to these nine (9!) stars who we're pretty dang confident will break out and who you'll be hearing much more about for many years to come. So, you might as well get to know them now.
1. The Losers' Club (Chosen Jacobs, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff) From It Photo: Getty Images / Warner Bros. Pictures
Age: 14 (except Lillis, who is 15) Where You've Seen Them: Lieberher co-starred with Bill Murray in the feel-good dramedy St. Vincent; Oleff played Young Peter Quill in both volumes of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise; and, of course, Wolfhard plays Mike Wheeler on Netflix's hit series Stranger Things.
Breakout Moment: Bill Skarsgård is getting plenty of attention...
1. The Losers' Club (Chosen Jacobs, Finn Wolfhard, Jack Dylan Grazer, Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis and Wyatt Oleff) From It Photo: Getty Images / Warner Bros. Pictures
Age: 14 (except Lillis, who is 15) Where You've Seen Them: Lieberher co-starred with Bill Murray in the feel-good dramedy St. Vincent; Oleff played Young Peter Quill in both volumes of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise; and, of course, Wolfhard plays Mike Wheeler on Netflix's hit series Stranger Things.
Breakout Moment: Bill Skarsgård is getting plenty of attention...
- 9/27/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Born 1917, as Jean-Pierre Grumbach, son of Alsatian Jews, Jean-Pierre adopted the name Melville as his nom de guerre in 1940 when France fell to the German Nazis and he joined the French Resistance. He kept it as his stage name when he returned to France and began making films.
Melville at 100 at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood is showcasing eight of his films made from 1949 to to 1972 to honor the 100th year since his birth.
Americn Cinemtheque’s historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood
The American Cinematheque has grown tremendously sophisticated since its early days creating the 1960 dream of “The Two Garys” (for those who remember). Still staffed by stalwarts Barbara Smith, Gwen Deglise, Margot Gerber and Tom Harris, and with a Board of Directors of Hollywood heavy hitters, it has also been renovated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which has spent more than $500,000 restoring its infrastructure and repainting its famous murals.
Melville at 100 at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood is showcasing eight of his films made from 1949 to to 1972 to honor the 100th year since his birth.
Americn Cinemtheque’s historic Egyptian Theater in Hollywood
The American Cinematheque has grown tremendously sophisticated since its early days creating the 1960 dream of “The Two Garys” (for those who remember). Still staffed by stalwarts Barbara Smith, Gwen Deglise, Margot Gerber and Tom Harris, and with a Board of Directors of Hollywood heavy hitters, it has also been renovated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association which has spent more than $500,000 restoring its infrastructure and repainting its famous murals.
- 8/7/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
This year’s holiday season is full to bursting with new movies, from the expected awards contenders to a number of festival favorites and some true-blue feel-good offerings to round out the pack, and we’re pleased to offer up 22 of the coming weeks’ best bets for film fans of all stripes. Whether you’re looking to beef up on your Oscar contenders, take the whole family to see something they all can enjoy or you just want to lose yourself in the magic of the movies, the rest of 2016 has something for you.
Take our advice, there’s no better place to spend the season than at the movie theater, so start here.
“Allied” (November 23)
Robert Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with on-screen history. “Forrest Gump” reimagined decades worth of Americana and “The Walk” turned a grace note of New York history and crafted a spectacle. “Allied” finds him in historical thriller mode,...
Take our advice, there’s no better place to spend the season than at the movie theater, so start here.
“Allied” (November 23)
Robert Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with on-screen history. “Forrest Gump” reimagined decades worth of Americana and “The Walk” turned a grace note of New York history and crafted a spectacle. “Allied” finds him in historical thriller mode,...
- 11/21/2016
- by Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, David Ehrlich, Steve Greene, Graham Winfrey, Zack Sharf and Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Exclusive: 45 Years, Spooks: The Greater Good executive Richard Holmes made redundant amid company cuts.
Creative England’s senior film executive for production Richard Holmes has been made redundant amid staff cuts aimed at reducing overhead.
Holmes, who joined Creative England in 2013, was instrumental in Creative England film investments including Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed second feature 45 Years and Kit Harrington thriller Spooks: The Greater Good.
He was an executive producer for Creative England on titles including Notes On Blindness, The Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson, Keeping Rosy, Burn Burn Burn and upcoming films The Girl With All The Gifts by Colm McCarthy and Rachel Tunnard’s Tribeca-bound Adult Life Skills.
Creative England declined to comment on the decision.
Holmes’ credits as an independent producer prior to his stint at Creative England include James Watkins’ Eden Lake, war drama Resistance, Waking Ned Devine and Shooting Fish.
Earlier this month Creative England CEO Caroline Norbury told Screen that the company would need...
Creative England’s senior film executive for production Richard Holmes has been made redundant amid staff cuts aimed at reducing overhead.
Holmes, who joined Creative England in 2013, was instrumental in Creative England film investments including Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed second feature 45 Years and Kit Harrington thriller Spooks: The Greater Good.
He was an executive producer for Creative England on titles including Notes On Blindness, The Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson, Keeping Rosy, Burn Burn Burn and upcoming films The Girl With All The Gifts by Colm McCarthy and Rachel Tunnard’s Tribeca-bound Adult Life Skills.
Creative England declined to comment on the decision.
Holmes’ credits as an independent producer prior to his stint at Creative England include James Watkins’ Eden Lake, war drama Resistance, Waking Ned Devine and Shooting Fish.
Earlier this month Creative England CEO Caroline Norbury told Screen that the company would need...
- 3/14/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Creative England backs feature about gay couple who plot revenge against a conservative B&B owner.
UK production outfit Hummingbird Films has begun shooting in Bristol on thriller B&B, the directorial debut of Trance co-writer Joe Ahearne.
Paul McGann (Withnail & I), Tom Bateman (Jekyll & Hyde) and Sean Teale (Reign) star in the story of a gay couple who return to bait the owner of a remote B&B one year after they successfully sued him for not allowing them to share a bed.
However, events take a deadly turn when a guest with even more sinister intentions arrives.
B&B is backed by Creative England, Ffilm Cymru Wales and Isabelle Georgeaux of Pont Neuf Productions. 4SquareFilms handles international sales.
Joe Ahearne writes and directs the feature, which is produced by Jayne Chard (Dartmoor Killing) of Hummingbird Films. Ahearne, creator of BBC TV series The Secret Of Crickley Hall and Apparitions, was also a...
UK production outfit Hummingbird Films has begun shooting in Bristol on thriller B&B, the directorial debut of Trance co-writer Joe Ahearne.
Paul McGann (Withnail & I), Tom Bateman (Jekyll & Hyde) and Sean Teale (Reign) star in the story of a gay couple who return to bait the owner of a remote B&B one year after they successfully sued him for not allowing them to share a bed.
However, events take a deadly turn when a guest with even more sinister intentions arrives.
B&B is backed by Creative England, Ffilm Cymru Wales and Isabelle Georgeaux of Pont Neuf Productions. 4SquareFilms handles international sales.
Joe Ahearne writes and directs the feature, which is produced by Jayne Chard (Dartmoor Killing) of Hummingbird Films. Ahearne, creator of BBC TV series The Secret Of Crickley Hall and Apparitions, was also a...
- 1/26/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK, Australia, Japan also among key pacts for sci-fi starring Max Deacon.
Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for Charles Barker’s debut feature The Call Up.
Vertical Entertainment has picked up Us rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalised with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain and Gate 23 for Airlines.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight ([link...
Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for Charles Barker’s debut feature The Call Up.
Vertical Entertainment has picked up Us rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalised with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain and Gate 23 for Airlines.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight ([link...
- 1/13/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Filming will last for three weeks on location at the National Library of Wales.
The Library Suicides, an adaptation of Fflur Dafydd’s novel The Library (Y Llyfrgell), has begun its three-week shoot in the National Library of Wales.
The film, which will be shot in the Welsh language, is the debut feature from director Euros Lyn, who has had a 15-year career directing across numerous television genres, with stints on the likes of Daredevil, Sherlock, Broadchurch, Black Mirror and Doctor Who.
The Library Suicides is the third project to go into production from Ffilm Cymru Wales’ emerging talent scheme ‘Cinematic’; the initiative has been developed in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films, Creative Skillset, Edicis, Soda Pictures and S4C.
The story follows two librarians whose mother, a famous author, apparently commits sucidie, leaving them devastated. However, the mother’s final words suggest that her biographer may have been responsible for her murder; the twins...
The Library Suicides, an adaptation of Fflur Dafydd’s novel The Library (Y Llyfrgell), has begun its three-week shoot in the National Library of Wales.
The film, which will be shot in the Welsh language, is the debut feature from director Euros Lyn, who has had a 15-year career directing across numerous television genres, with stints on the likes of Daredevil, Sherlock, Broadchurch, Black Mirror and Doctor Who.
The Library Suicides is the third project to go into production from Ffilm Cymru Wales’ emerging talent scheme ‘Cinematic’; the initiative has been developed in partnership with the BFI Film Fund, BBC Films, Creative Skillset, Edicis, Soda Pictures and S4C.
The story follows two librarians whose mother, a famous author, apparently commits sucidie, leaving them devastated. However, the mother’s final words suggest that her biographer may have been responsible for her murder; the twins...
- 9/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
The UK firm will raise around $310,000 (£200,000) in UK production finance for Microwave International: Shakespeare India; projects, teams, mentors announced.
Media investment firm Bob & Co is the latest company to invest in Film London’s mentoring and development scheme Microwave International: Shakespeare India.
Bob & Co will raise UK production finance for the project through an Enterprise Investment Scheme (Eis).
The scheme’s aim is to finance one feature with significant Asian and British Asian involvement with up to $780,000 (£500,000) and to theatrically release the film in 2016.
Andy Brunskill, of Bob & Co’s subsidiary Sums London, brokered the deal and will executive produce the selected feature.
Bob & Co will raise money through the Eis scheme, along with India’s Cinestaan Film Company, who partnered with Film London on the initiative in April.
The project will involve six teams of Asian writers, directors and producers from the UK and India honing ideas for Shakespeare-themed features in an intensive week-long microschool, which...
Media investment firm Bob & Co is the latest company to invest in Film London’s mentoring and development scheme Microwave International: Shakespeare India.
Bob & Co will raise UK production finance for the project through an Enterprise Investment Scheme (Eis).
The scheme’s aim is to finance one feature with significant Asian and British Asian involvement with up to $780,000 (£500,000) and to theatrically release the film in 2016.
Andy Brunskill, of Bob & Co’s subsidiary Sums London, brokered the deal and will executive produce the selected feature.
Bob & Co will raise money through the Eis scheme, along with India’s Cinestaan Film Company, who partnered with Film London on the initiative in April.
The project will involve six teams of Asian writers, directors and producers from the UK and India honing ideas for Shakespeare-themed features in an intensive week-long microschool, which...
- 7/21/2015
- ScreenDaily
Brit List action-sci-fi to get underway on November 10; Max Deacon to star.
Principal photography is due to get underway on November 10 in Birmingham, UK, on Charles Barker’s action-sci-fi The Call Up.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Boris Ler (In the Land of Blood and Honey), and newcomers Douggie McMeekin and Adriana Randall.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma...
Principal photography is due to get underway on November 10 in Birmingham, UK, on Charles Barker’s action-sci-fi The Call Up.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Boris Ler (In the Land of Blood and Honey), and newcomers Douggie McMeekin and Adriana Randall.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma...
- 10/28/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Fury (David Ayer)
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
[via the BFI]
The programme for the 58th BFI London Film Festival launched today, with Festival Director Clare Stewart presenting this year’s rich and diverse selection of films and events. The lineup includes highly anticipated fall titles including David Ayer’s Fury, Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher, the Sundance smash Whiplash, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language 3D, The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner, Jason Reitman’s Men, Women and Children and Jean-Marc Vallee’s Wild.
As Britain’s leading film event and one of the world’s oldest film festivals, it introduces the finest new British and international films to an expanding London and UK-wide audience, offering a compelling combination of red carpet glamour, engaged audiences and vibrant exchange. The Festival provides an essential profiling opportunity for films seeking global success at the start of the Awards season, promotes the careers of British and...
- 9/3/2014
- by John
- SoundOnSight
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards psychological thriller ahead of Toronto.
London-based sales outfit Parkland Pictures has boarded world rights to Steve Reeves’s thriller, Keeping Rosy, which will play at Dinard Film Festival (Oct 8-12).
Parkland will introduce the film to international buyers at Toronto.
Maxine Peake stars as a career-driven woman who is passed over for a long-expected promotion, leading to frustration which boils over with dire consequences.
The film also stars The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison and was produced by Richard Holmes (Eden Lake, Waking Ned), his third collaboration with French producer Isabelle Georgeaux after Jadoo and Resistance.
It marks Reeves’ first feature film, accompanied by DoP Roger Pratt (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Chocolat) and composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Billy Elliot).
The deal was negotiated by John Cairns and Pierre-Louis Manes-Murphy for Parkland Pictures and by Richard Holmes and Isabelle Georgeaux on behalf of Redemption Films.
London-based sales outfit Parkland Pictures has boarded world rights to Steve Reeves’s thriller, Keeping Rosy, which will play at Dinard Film Festival (Oct 8-12).
Parkland will introduce the film to international buyers at Toronto.
Maxine Peake stars as a career-driven woman who is passed over for a long-expected promotion, leading to frustration which boils over with dire consequences.
The film also stars The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison and was produced by Richard Holmes (Eden Lake, Waking Ned), his third collaboration with French producer Isabelle Georgeaux after Jadoo and Resistance.
It marks Reeves’ first feature film, accompanied by DoP Roger Pratt (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Chocolat) and composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Billy Elliot).
The deal was negotiated by John Cairns and Pierre-Louis Manes-Murphy for Parkland Pictures and by Richard Holmes and Isabelle Georgeaux on behalf of Redemption Films.
- 8/20/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
★★☆☆☆ The feature debut from commercials director Steve Reeves and produced by Isabelle Georgeaux and Richard Holmes - the pair behind Amit Gupta's Resistance (2011) -Keeping Rosy (2014) is a compact and modest low budget drama that nevertheless showcases the clear talent of its first-time helmer. Maxine Peake, last seen in cinemas with Steph Green's superior Run & Jump (2013), stars as a hard-nosed careerist forced to embrace her maternal side after a tragic altercation involving her Eastern European cleaner. Though largely unremarkable, solid performances from Peake and Christine Bottomley (The Arbor) as her straight-talking sister help to lift the occasionally uninspiring material.
- 6/28/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Exclusive: Sex tape romance, from the director of Resistance and Jadoo, stars the daughter of Joely Richardson and Tim Bevan.
Post-production is underway on Nothing Like This, the new British feature from director Amit Gupta (Resistance, Jadoo).
The film is produced by Dean Fisher (City Rats, Squat) and is the first feature from production company Canary Wharf Films – a joint venture between Fisher’s Scanner-Rhodes Productions and Urban Way Productions.
The cast is led by Ray Panthaki (28 Days Later) and Daisy Bevan (Elizabeth), the daughter of actress Joely Richardson and Working Title boss Tim Bevan.
Panthaki plays actor Jay, whose sex tape made him an internet sensation and ruined his career. His parents refuse to speak to him, his acting career is reduced to offers for condom commercials and no girl wants to date the man on that tape but things start to change when Jay meets Hannah, played by Bevan. This relationship...
Post-production is underway on Nothing Like This, the new British feature from director Amit Gupta (Resistance, Jadoo).
The film is produced by Dean Fisher (City Rats, Squat) and is the first feature from production company Canary Wharf Films – a joint venture between Fisher’s Scanner-Rhodes Productions and Urban Way Productions.
The cast is led by Ray Panthaki (28 Days Later) and Daisy Bevan (Elizabeth), the daughter of actress Joely Richardson and Working Title boss Tim Bevan.
Panthaki plays actor Jay, whose sex tape made him an internet sensation and ruined his career. His parents refuse to speak to him, his acting career is reduced to offers for condom commercials and no girl wants to date the man on that tape but things start to change when Jay meets Hannah, played by Bevan. This relationship...
- 2/18/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
This week’s best new releases on all the Instant Watching platforms.
Spring Breakers (2013)
Harmony Korine’s critical darling from last year is likely to be talked about and discussed for a good long while yet. Holding up an uncomfortable mirror to our youth, Spring Breakers works on a lot of levels not only does it work as a surface level tale of four out of control girls on a debauched trip in Florida but it also works as a story about the spiritual death and rebirth of Generation Y and asks some important questions about how post war culture evolved into something where our youth think licking power tools in music videos is something to aspire to.
There is a scene fairly early on where the two most rebellious of our heroines sit in class discussing oral sex on paper as their tutor drones on about world war two,...
Spring Breakers (2013)
Harmony Korine’s critical darling from last year is likely to be talked about and discussed for a good long while yet. Holding up an uncomfortable mirror to our youth, Spring Breakers works on a lot of levels not only does it work as a surface level tale of four out of control girls on a debauched trip in Florida but it also works as a story about the spiritual death and rebirth of Generation Y and asks some important questions about how post war culture evolved into something where our youth think licking power tools in music videos is something to aspire to.
There is a scene fairly early on where the two most rebellious of our heroines sit in class discussing oral sex on paper as their tutor drones on about world war two,...
- 1/27/2014
- by Chris Holt
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Selection opens with a documentary about what motivates Somali pirates and includes the European premiere of 20,000 Days on Earth, starring Nick Cave, and 10 world premieres.Scroll down for full list
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 16 films that will make up the documentary section of its Panorama strand.
This year’s Panorama Dokumente comprises 16 films, including ten world premieres, and will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Dutch co-production The Last Hijack by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting. The film depicts what motivates piracy in Somalia.
The topic of Africa, which is also reflected in the Ethiopian fictional feature Difret, is also central to Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson in Concerning Violence. This commentary on Africa’s decolonisation, cites Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” - and Us singer Lauryn Hill lends these texts her voice.
Olsson previously presented The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 about the Afro-American civil rights...
The Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 6-16) has unveiled the 16 films that will make up the documentary section of its Panorama strand.
This year’s Panorama Dokumente comprises 16 films, including ten world premieres, and will open on Feb 7 with the world premiere of Dutch co-production The Last Hijack by Tommy Pallotta and Femke Wolting. The film depicts what motivates piracy in Somalia.
The topic of Africa, which is also reflected in the Ethiopian fictional feature Difret, is also central to Swedish filmmaker Göran Hugo Olsson in Concerning Violence. This commentary on Africa’s decolonisation, cites Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth” - and Us singer Lauryn Hill lends these texts her voice.
Olsson previously presented The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 about the Afro-American civil rights...
- 1/22/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
F rom the works of masters like Costa-Gavras and Asghar Farhadi to newcomers like Nagraj Manjule and Kim Mordaunt, the Mumbai Film Festival 2013 offers above 200 films to choose from for an entire week!
Anu Rangachar, the Program Director of Mumbai Film Festival, lists her 20 favourite films in the lineup.
1. The Act of Killing
Dir.: Joshua Oppenheimer (2012 / Col. / 115′)
Section: The Real Reel
The film won the Panorama Audience Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013 and the Cph:dox Award at the Cph:dox Film Festival 2012. It has bagged several other awards in film festivals at Istanbul, Prague, Geneva, Warsaw, Barcelona, Zagreb, Mexico, etc.
An Indonesian documentary, The Act of Killing challenges the total impunity on genocide by the death squad leaders. In 1965, Anwar Congo and his friends were promoted to the ranks of Death Squad Leaders to help the army obliterate more than one million alleged communists,...
Anu Rangachar, the Program Director of Mumbai Film Festival, lists her 20 favourite films in the lineup.
1. The Act of Killing
Dir.: Joshua Oppenheimer (2012 / Col. / 115′)
Section: The Real Reel
The film won the Panorama Audience Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013 and the Cph:dox Award at the Cph:dox Film Festival 2012. It has bagged several other awards in film festivals at Istanbul, Prague, Geneva, Warsaw, Barcelona, Zagreb, Mexico, etc.
An Indonesian documentary, The Act of Killing challenges the total impunity on genocide by the death squad leaders. In 1965, Anwar Congo and his friends were promoted to the ranks of Death Squad Leaders to help the army obliterate more than one million alleged communists,...
- 10/10/2013
- by Editorial Team
- DearCinema.com
★★★☆☆ Released in UK cinemas this week following a world premiere in Berlin earlier this year comes light-hearted British delicacy Jadoo (2013), from the team behind 2011's Resistance. Trading the rolling hills of the Welsh countryside for an urban setting, the director, Amit Gupta, returns back to his roots with his second feature. Portraying competing Indian restaurants in his native Leicester, Jadoo is a warm comedy that neatly balances its specific and more general themes and is liberally seasoned with laughs. We begin as Shalini (Amara Karan) returns to her home town to inform her family that she is getting married.
Shalini's one wish for the wedding is that both her father, Raja (Harish Patel), and uncle, Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir), will attend but the feuding restaurateurs are cold to her pleas. Their fierce rivalry has been ongoing for twenty-odd years, with each possessing half of their mother's fabled recipe book. Between them...
Shalini's one wish for the wedding is that both her father, Raja (Harish Patel), and uncle, Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir), will attend but the feuding restaurateurs are cold to her pleas. Their fierce rivalry has been ongoing for twenty-odd years, with each possessing half of their mother's fabled recipe book. Between them...
- 9/5/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Amit Gupta's tale of curry-house rivalry in Leicester lays on some tasty performances but ultimately needs more spice
The multicultural foodie flick is becoming a staple at the lower-budget end of the British film industry: where April's Papadopoulos & Sons had Greeks reviving north London chip shops, this one enlists almost every working British-Asian actor for its tale of brothers running rival Leicester curry houses. Amit Gupta, pursuing the centre ground after 2011's Resistance, lays on tasty catering and performances, but his script's too busy being good-natured to be funny or dramatic: the King of Curries showdown proves less explosive than the average Ready Steady Cook, while the lavish wedding we're expecting never materialises. Not bad, just terribly mild.
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The multicultural foodie flick is becoming a staple at the lower-budget end of the British film industry: where April's Papadopoulos & Sons had Greeks reviving north London chip shops, this one enlists almost every working British-Asian actor for its tale of brothers running rival Leicester curry houses. Amit Gupta, pursuing the centre ground after 2011's Resistance, lays on tasty catering and performances, but his script's too busy being good-natured to be funny or dramatic: the King of Curries showdown proves less explosive than the average Ready Steady Cook, while the lavish wedding we're expecting never materialises. Not bad, just terribly mild.
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- 9/5/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Amit Gupta's tale of curry-house rivalry in Leicester lays on some tasty performances but ultimately needs more spice
The multicultural foodie flick is becoming a staple at the lower-budget end of the British film industry: where April's Papadopoulos & Sons had Greeks reviving north London chip shops, this one enlists almost every working British-Asian actor for its tale of brothers running rival Leicester curry houses. Amit Gupta, pursuing the centre ground after 2011's Resistance, lays on tasty catering and performances, but his script's too busy being good-natured to be funny or dramatic: the King of Curries showdown proves less explosive than the average Ready Steady Cook, while the lavish wedding we're expecting never materialises. Not bad, just terribly mild.
Rating: 2/5
ComedyComedyMike McCahill
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The multicultural foodie flick is becoming a staple at the lower-budget end of the British film industry: where April's Papadopoulos & Sons had Greeks reviving north London chip shops, this one enlists almost every working British-Asian actor for its tale of brothers running rival Leicester curry houses. Amit Gupta, pursuing the centre ground after 2011's Resistance, lays on tasty catering and performances, but his script's too busy being good-natured to be funny or dramatic: the King of Curries showdown proves less explosive than the average Ready Steady Cook, while the lavish wedding we're expecting never materialises. Not bad, just terribly mild.
Rating: 2/5
ComedyComedyMike McCahill
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- 9/5/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
First things first, do not go into this film on an empty stomach, because you will be distracted by the dishes on display. Go into it thinking part self-exposition story, part Indian cuisine lesson, on behalf of the writer-director Amit Gupta (who gave us wartime drama Resistance back in 2011). Gupta’s second feature Jadoo has a little too many ingredients that spoil the overall product – in fact it’s a little overcooked, without going into caricature, and often undercooked when it comes to some basic story facts. That said it’s very hard not to enjoy the sweet centre it offers too.
Brilliant chefs but rival Indian brothers Raja (Harish Patel) and younger Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir) fell out years before when a family recipe was sold off, and have not spoken since, even though they each own identically named restaurants on opposite sides of the road in Leicester’s ‘Golden Mile’. The trouble is,...
Brilliant chefs but rival Indian brothers Raja (Harish Patel) and younger Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir) fell out years before when a family recipe was sold off, and have not spoken since, even though they each own identically named restaurants on opposite sides of the road in Leicester’s ‘Golden Mile’. The trouble is,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Making its world debut out in Berlin back in the spring, Jadoo is just a few weeks away from arriving on our shores, and has its sights on becoming the best British-Asian comedy since Four Lions.
With its 6th September release date on our shores very much on the horizon, we’ve exclusively got the film’s new poster to share, which will hopefully be arriving on the Underground and in bus shelters soon.
Jadoo, in cinemas, 6th Sept, is a British-made film set in Leicester, and tells the story of two brothers, Raja (Harish Patel – Run Fatboy Run) and Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir – Bend it Like Beckham). Both wonderful chefs, who fall out so catastrophically that in the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half: one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides...
With its 6th September release date on our shores very much on the horizon, we’ve exclusively got the film’s new poster to share, which will hopefully be arriving on the Underground and in bus shelters soon.
Jadoo, in cinemas, 6th Sept, is a British-made film set in Leicester, and tells the story of two brothers, Raja (Harish Patel – Run Fatboy Run) and Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir – Bend it Like Beckham). Both wonderful chefs, who fall out so catastrophically that in the climax of their dispute they rip the family recipe book in half: one brother gets the starters and the other gets the main courses. They set up rival restaurants, on opposite sides...
- 7/31/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Another new face has joined the cast of Season 3 of "Game of Thrones."
Iwan Rheon will play the mysteriously described "Boy," HBO confirmed to Access Hollywood on Friday.
The actor previously starred alongside "Got" Season 2 cast member Tom Wlaschiha (Jaqen H'ghar) in the film, "Resistance" in 2011.
He also appeared in the British television series "Misfits," which featured Michelle Fairley (Catelyn) in a small role as a mother of one of the misfits.
Speculation that the actor had joined the cast of the show first emerged earlier this month when he was spotted at ...
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Iwan Rheon will play the mysteriously described "Boy," HBO confirmed to Access Hollywood on Friday.
The actor previously starred alongside "Got" Season 2 cast member Tom Wlaschiha (Jaqen H'ghar) in the film, "Resistance" in 2011.
He also appeared in the British television series "Misfits," which featured Michelle Fairley (Catelyn) in a small role as a mother of one of the misfits.
Speculation that the actor had joined the cast of the show first emerged earlier this month when he was spotted at ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 7/27/2012
- by nobody@accesshollywood.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Industry Event By Invitation Only. No Press Or Public Allowed.
Please Join Us For Efp'S Industry Screenings In N.Y.
Monday, June 25 & Tuesday, June 26, 2012
at the Tribeca Grand Hotel's Screening Room, 2 Avenue of the Americas, Lower Level
European Film Promotion invites you and a guest to the NY Industry Screenings at the Tribeca Grand Hotel.
Monday, June 25
4 pm
Resistance by Amit Gupta
Sales Agent in attendance Denis Revirand, Rezo Films6 pm
Jelly T by Michael Hegner
Sales Agent in attendance Imke Wulfmeyer, Sola Media
8 pm
The Magic Of Hope by Paco Torres
Sales Agent in attendance Olivier Van Bockstael, EastWest FilmdistributionTuesday, June 26
4pm
Blancanieves by Pablo Berger
Sales Agent in attendance Mar Abadin, Dreamcatchers
6pm
The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears by Teona Strugar Mitevska
Sales Agent in attendance Eric Schnedecker, Urban Distribution International
8pm
Approved For Adoption by Jung and Laurent Boileau
Sales Agent in attendance LoC Magneron, Wide
*Please join us for a drink at the Hotel Lounge Bar following the screenings.
RSVP to: Andreas Struck, screenings [At] efp-online.com
Please indicate which screenings you will be attending.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind regards,
Andreas Struck, Efp Project Director
Karen Arikian, Efp Consultant/Us Projects
European Film Promotion
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Please Join Us For Efp'S Industry Screenings In N.Y.
Monday, June 25 & Tuesday, June 26, 2012
at the Tribeca Grand Hotel's Screening Room, 2 Avenue of the Americas, Lower Level
European Film Promotion invites you and a guest to the NY Industry Screenings at the Tribeca Grand Hotel.
Monday, June 25
4 pm
Resistance by Amit Gupta
Sales Agent in attendance Denis Revirand, Rezo Films6 pm
Jelly T by Michael Hegner
Sales Agent in attendance Imke Wulfmeyer, Sola Media
8 pm
The Magic Of Hope by Paco Torres
Sales Agent in attendance Olivier Van Bockstael, EastWest FilmdistributionTuesday, June 26
4pm
Blancanieves by Pablo Berger
Sales Agent in attendance Mar Abadin, Dreamcatchers
6pm
The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears by Teona Strugar Mitevska
Sales Agent in attendance Eric Schnedecker, Urban Distribution International
8pm
Approved For Adoption by Jung and Laurent Boileau
Sales Agent in attendance LoC Magneron, Wide
*Please join us for a drink at the Hotel Lounge Bar following the screenings.
RSVP to: Andreas Struck, screenings [At] efp-online.com
Please indicate which screenings you will be attending.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Kind regards,
Andreas Struck, Efp Project Director
Karen Arikian, Efp Consultant/Us Projects
European Film Promotion
Friedensallee 14-16 22765 Hamburg Germany
phone +49 40- 3906252 fax +49 40- 3906249
www.efp-online.com
www.shooting-stars.eu
www.facebook.com/EuropeanFilmPromotion
www.facebook.com/ShootingStarsEFP...
- 6/15/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Up-and-coming Brit actress Andrea Riseborough has joined Alexander Skarsgard in “The Hidden”, a new horror movie at Warner Bros.
Written by Ross and Matt Duffer, the 2011 black listed screenplay tells the story of a family who hide out in a bomb shelter after a mysterious outbreak. Full details about the plot are being kept under-wraps for the time being but we imagine there will be plenty of twists and turns in this one. The Duffer brothers first got their name out there with “Eater”, a 2007 short film about a police station that is stalked by a cannibal overnight. This will be their feature film debut.
Riseborough was star of Madonna’s “W.E.” and appeared in the WWII alternate history movie “Resistance”. She has landed a number of high-profile gigs recently including a part in James McAvoy’s actioner “Welcome to the Punch” and opposite Tom Cruise in his big sci-fi...
Written by Ross and Matt Duffer, the 2011 black listed screenplay tells the story of a family who hide out in a bomb shelter after a mysterious outbreak. Full details about the plot are being kept under-wraps for the time being but we imagine there will be plenty of twists and turns in this one. The Duffer brothers first got their name out there with “Eater”, a 2007 short film about a police station that is stalked by a cannibal overnight. This will be their feature film debut.
Riseborough was star of Madonna’s “W.E.” and appeared in the WWII alternate history movie “Resistance”. She has landed a number of high-profile gigs recently including a part in James McAvoy’s actioner “Welcome to the Punch” and opposite Tom Cruise in his big sci-fi...
- 4/26/2012
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
★★★☆☆ Ignore the bombastic DVD/Blu-ray cover with its armour-clad Nazi soldiers and pyrotechnics - the newly released Resistance (2011) couldn't be much further away from an exploitative, WWII romp. From debut British director Amit Gupta - and adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name by Owen Sheers - the film is a strange, ethereal piece set in a remote Welsh village outside of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, now occupied by German forces after the hypothetical failure of the 1944 D-Day landings. Read more »...
- 3/20/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Dreams of a Life; Moneyball; Snowtown; Weekend; The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn; Resistance; Wreckers
While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.
Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...
While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.
Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...
- 3/19/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Keswick Film Festival
The paparazzi won't exactly be beating a path to the Lake District for this, but it's a small festival with an agreeably broad outlook. The guest of honour is John Hurt, who's in conversation and introducing a number of movies from his prolific career, including his celebrated Quentin Crisp double bill. There's also a tribute to the versatile Tony Palmer, including his seminal Leonard Cohen movie Bird On A Wire, and a complete showing of his eight-hour Wagner series (starring Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier). Also in the mix are recent releases such as Tyrannosaur and Melancholia, award-winning world cinema and uplifting films about life-changing illnesses.
Various venues, Thu to 26 Feb, keswickfilmclub.org/kff
Exposures: New Talent In Moving Image, Manchester
God knows it's not easy being a student these days, but at least you get your own film festivals. This is the UK's largest, and therefore...
The paparazzi won't exactly be beating a path to the Lake District for this, but it's a small festival with an agreeably broad outlook. The guest of honour is John Hurt, who's in conversation and introducing a number of movies from his prolific career, including his celebrated Quentin Crisp double bill. There's also a tribute to the versatile Tony Palmer, including his seminal Leonard Cohen movie Bird On A Wire, and a complete showing of his eight-hour Wagner series (starring Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier). Also in the mix are recent releases such as Tyrannosaur and Melancholia, award-winning world cinema and uplifting films about life-changing illnesses.
Various venues, Thu to 26 Feb, keswickfilmclub.org/kff
Exposures: New Talent In Moving Image, Manchester
God knows it's not easy being a student these days, but at least you get your own film festivals. This is the UK's largest, and therefore...
- 2/18/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Just last month, we brought you the news when Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Hitman) and Andrea Riseborough (Being Human, Resistance) scored the two female lead roles in the Universal Pictures big-screen adaptation of writer-director Joseph Kosinski‘s (Tron: Legacy) graphic novel Oblivion.
Now, Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman (The Dark Knight Rises) has joined the cast, in a so-far-unrevealed “critical” role in the film starring Tom Cruise (Rock of Ages) as a soldier stationed on Earth, the surface of which has been destroyed by aliens. When he discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets off a chain of events that cause him to question everything he knows.
Oblivion is slated to hit theaters on July 19th, 2013.
Now, Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman (The Dark Knight Rises) has joined the cast, in a so-far-unrevealed “critical” role in the film starring Tom Cruise (Rock of Ages) as a soldier stationed on Earth, the surface of which has been destroyed by aliens. When he discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod, it sets off a chain of events that cause him to question everything he knows.
Oblivion is slated to hit theaters on July 19th, 2013.
- 2/10/2012
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Back in October we brought you the news when Jessica Chastain (Wilde Salome, Mama) scored the role of the wife of Tom Cruise‘s character, the first of two female lead roles in the big-screen adaptation of writer-director Joseph Kosinski‘s graphic novel Oblivion.
Shortly thereafter Chastain had to depart the Universal Pictures project due to scheduling conflicts, leaving both female lead roles open. Now, Variety reports that Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Hitman) and Andrea Riseborough (Being Human, Resistance) have scored the two female lead roles in the film.
There still seems to be some question as to whether or not the film will revert to Oblivion, its original title or Horizons, the moniker the project took on when it was at Walt Disney Pictures.
The story follows a soldier stationed on Earth, the surface of which has been destroyed by aliens. When he discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod,...
Shortly thereafter Chastain had to depart the Universal Pictures project due to scheduling conflicts, leaving both female lead roles open. Now, Variety reports that Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Hitman) and Andrea Riseborough (Being Human, Resistance) have scored the two female lead roles in the film.
There still seems to be some question as to whether or not the film will revert to Oblivion, its original title or Horizons, the moniker the project took on when it was at Walt Disney Pictures.
The story follows a soldier stationed on Earth, the surface of which has been destroyed by aliens. When he discovers a mysterious woman in a crash-landed pod,...
- 1/20/2012
- by Jason Moore
- ScifiMafia
Outstanding in the Madonna-directed W.E., the Rada graduate may just be the best and brightest actor of her generation
Andrea Riseborough does not so much walk into a room as float through it; a fragrant, other-worldly presence who seems to appear out of nowhere like a shimmering will-o'-the-wisp. Her physical presence is slight – translucent skin and tiny, fine-boned fingers – and she gives the impression of operating on a different plane from the rest of us, as though earthly concerns are something of a mystery to her.
We are seated upstairs in the studio where the 30-year-old Riseborough has just finished the Observer photoshoot. On the table is a tray of baked apples. She peers at them detachedly, as though they are a strange piece of sculpture she cannot quite understand. Would she like one? "Oh no, I can't eat them," Riseborough says, smoothing down her floral tea dress. Why not?...
Andrea Riseborough does not so much walk into a room as float through it; a fragrant, other-worldly presence who seems to appear out of nowhere like a shimmering will-o'-the-wisp. Her physical presence is slight – translucent skin and tiny, fine-boned fingers – and she gives the impression of operating on a different plane from the rest of us, as though earthly concerns are something of a mystery to her.
We are seated upstairs in the studio where the 30-year-old Riseborough has just finished the Observer photoshoot. On the table is a tray of baked apples. She peers at them detachedly, as though they are a strange piece of sculpture she cannot quite understand. Would she like one? "Oh no, I can't eat them," Riseborough says, smoothing down her floral tea dress. Why not?...
- 1/8/2012
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
Breaking Dawn is already seventh biggest hit of the year despite taking a drop; while Aardman animation does well ahead of the arrival of Happy Feet Two and Hugo. Plus: mid-range titles 50/50, The Deep Blue Sea and Take Shelter jostle for position
The winner No 1
Despite falling a steep 67%, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is providing plenty of cheer to backers Summit and local distributor Entertainment One. With a cumulative total of £23.31m from just 10 days of release, the film is already the seventh biggest hit of the year, after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, The King's Speech, The Inbetweeners Movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Hangover: Part II and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. A place below Breaking Dawn is Bridesmaids, with £23.01m.
Previous Twilight movie Eclipse stood at £22.10m after two weekends of play, but a different distribution model meant that the...
The winner No 1
Despite falling a steep 67%, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 is providing plenty of cheer to backers Summit and local distributor Entertainment One. With a cumulative total of £23.31m from just 10 days of release, the film is already the seventh biggest hit of the year, after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, The King's Speech, The Inbetweeners Movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Hangover: Part II and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. A place below Breaking Dawn is Bridesmaids, with £23.01m.
Previous Twilight movie Eclipse stood at £22.10m after two weekends of play, but a different distribution model meant that the...
- 11/29/2011
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1964 Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo completed, after seven years work and on a budget of £7,000, one of the most extraordinary pictures ever made in this country. In It Happened Here, they imagined and created in considerable detail a Britain that had been occupied by the Nazis in 1940. Brownlow later wrote How It Happened Here, a riveting account of its production. Based on a novel by Owen Sheers, Resistance turns on the strategically and logistically improbable notion that D-Day failed in 1944, the Germans counter-attacked, and Britain became part of the Nazi empire. The setting is a remote Welsh valley taken over by a German company tasked with a curious secret mission, and a predictable, somewhat muffled story of exchanges with the natives, resistance and collaboration ensues. Not bad, but it falls far short of It Happened Here.
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- 11/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Madonna was ''a joy'' to work with on the set of 'W.E'. Actress Andrea Riseborough - who plays lead Wallis Simpson in the movie, which was written and co-produced by the signer - found the star's ''passion and strength'' in telling the tale of the American socialite ''infectious''. Asked what Madonna was like to work alongside, she said: ''A joy. Her passion was infectious, her strength was admirable and we were complicit from the outset about how and why we wanted to tell this woman's story.'' The 30-year-old star has since been shooting new film 'Resistance' in...
- 11/26/2011
- Virgin Media - Movies
Take Shelter (15)
(Jeff Nichols, 2011, Us) Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart. 121 mins.
After a year-long disaster-movie onslaught, apocalypse fatigue could well be setting in, but this one's worth the extra effort – particularly since it's less about the end of the world than the threat of it. That plays large in the mind of Shannon's modern-day Midwestern Noah, who sets about building his underground ark. His wife worries more about his mental health, and their day-to-day problems. Brilliantly constructed and performed, it's a domestic saga infused with haunting, unnamed dread.
50/50 (15)
(Jonathan Levine, 2011, Us) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick. 100 mins.
The Knocked Up of cancer movies? Not quite, but this is funnier and more frank than most terminal illness movies. Gordon-Levitt is a potential victim, to whom Rogen offers blokey support.
The Deep Blue Sea (12A)
(Terence Davies, 2011, UK) Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston. 98 mins.
Davies again recreates postwar Britain, this...
(Jeff Nichols, 2011, Us) Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart. 121 mins.
After a year-long disaster-movie onslaught, apocalypse fatigue could well be setting in, but this one's worth the extra effort – particularly since it's less about the end of the world than the threat of it. That plays large in the mind of Shannon's modern-day Midwestern Noah, who sets about building his underground ark. His wife worries more about his mental health, and their day-to-day problems. Brilliantly constructed and performed, it's a domestic saga infused with haunting, unnamed dread.
50/50 (15)
(Jonathan Levine, 2011, Us) Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick. 100 mins.
The Knocked Up of cancer movies? Not quite, but this is funnier and more frank than most terminal illness movies. Gordon-Levitt is a potential victim, to whom Rogen offers blokey support.
The Deep Blue Sea (12A)
(Terence Davies, 2011, UK) Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston. 98 mins.
Davies again recreates postwar Britain, this...
- 11/26/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
What would have happened had Nazi Germany succeeded in invading Britain in the Second World War? Debut feature-film writer-director Amit Gupta’s new anti-war drama, Resistance, starring Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen and German actor Tom Wlaschiha is about occupation and its effects.
We talk exclusively to Gupta (left, on the left of picture) about adapting the novel into a film, the back-story, casting and shooting experiences, and get an unique piece of advice on how to prepare to make a film, plus an insight into his new film, based on his acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play, Jadoo.
HeyUGuys: What was it about Owen Sheers’s novel that made you want to turn it into a film?
Amit Gupta: I think when I read it the first thing that really stayed with me was the atmosphere of it. I felt there was something about it that felt very filmic to me.
We talk exclusively to Gupta (left, on the left of picture) about adapting the novel into a film, the back-story, casting and shooting experiences, and get an unique piece of advice on how to prepare to make a film, plus an insight into his new film, based on his acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play, Jadoo.
HeyUGuys: What was it about Owen Sheers’s novel that made you want to turn it into a film?
Amit Gupta: I think when I read it the first thing that really stayed with me was the atmosphere of it. I felt there was something about it that felt very filmic to me.
- 11/25/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
D-Day has failed, Britain is under Nazi occupation!
The new UK alternate-reality WW2 drama Resistance stars Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen and it is the feature film directorial debut of Amit Gupta (see our interview with Amit here). The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers.
Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmer’s wife, awakes one morning to find that her husband has disappeared along with all the men in the valley. Assuming they have joined the Resistance, the women of this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms, and wait, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, Sarah begins an acquaintance with the patrol’s commanding officer, Albrecht. Cut off from the surrounding war, the lines between collaboration, duty, occupation and survival become blurred.
The new UK alternate-reality WW2 drama Resistance stars Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen and it is the feature film directorial debut of Amit Gupta (see our interview with Amit here). The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers.
Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmer’s wife, awakes one morning to find that her husband has disappeared along with all the men in the valley. Assuming they have joined the Resistance, the women of this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms, and wait, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, Sarah begins an acquaintance with the patrol’s commanding officer, Albrecht. Cut off from the surrounding war, the lines between collaboration, duty, occupation and survival become blurred.
- 11/24/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
British director Amit Gupta's debut feature, the superb Resistance (2011, review here), is released in cinemas nationwide this week, and stars exceptional UK talent in the guise of Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen. Set in an alternative 1944 where D-Day has failed and the Nazis have crossed the Channel and invaded Britain, the film follows a group of women in a remote village somewhere in the Olchon Valley, who awake to find that all their husbands missing and the village occupied by a small unit of German soldiers. CineVue's Joe Walsh recently caught up with the film's director to congratulate him on his completed debut.
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- 11/24/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
"It's a bit of a perfect storm," says Owen Sheers, still a little out of breath from his bike ride across town. The writer, 37, has spent the week shuttling between red carpets in London and his hometown of Abergavenny in South Wales for the premieres of Resistance, a new film starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen based on his debut novel.
- 11/24/2011
- The Independent - Film
It's a bit of a perfect storm," says Owen Sheers, still a little out of breath from his bike ride across town. The writer, 37, has spent the week shuttling between red carpets in London and his hometown of Abergavenny in South Wales for the premieres of Resistance, a new film starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen based on his debut novel. In between, he's just started rehearsals on a new play, The Two Worlds of Charlie F, which will be performed by a company of 30 wounded and recovering soldiers as part of Trevor Nunn's next season at Theatre Royal Haymarket. Meanwhile, he's just spent a week in Wales, "back at the coalface of poetry", giving readings and workshops in his day job as one of Britain's brightest young poets..
- 11/24/2011
- The Independent - Film
As wartime dramas go, one begins to feel very much like another. But what debut feature-film writer-director Amit Gupta has created is an alternative 1940s ‘reality’, based on a fascinating novel by Owen Sheers, about what if the Nazis had succeeded with their invasion plans of Old Blighty. Resistance actually reignites our interest in the genre, as well as points to a fascinating real-life back-story.
It’s WWII and Britain is occupied. A group of women in a remote Welsh village wake up to discover all of their husbands have mysteriously vanished overnight, possibly to join the Resistance. Meanwhile, a German patrol led by commanding officer Albrecht (Tom Wlaschiha) arrives in the valley on a mysterious mission. The women are scared but defiant, and with the harsh winter closing in begin to form a dependency. One young wife, Sarah (Andrea Riseborough), catches Albrecht’s eye. Cut off from all other wartime events,...
It’s WWII and Britain is occupied. A group of women in a remote Welsh village wake up to discover all of their husbands have mysteriously vanished overnight, possibly to join the Resistance. Meanwhile, a German patrol led by commanding officer Albrecht (Tom Wlaschiha) arrives in the valley on a mysterious mission. The women are scared but defiant, and with the harsh winter closing in begin to form a dependency. One young wife, Sarah (Andrea Riseborough), catches Albrecht’s eye. Cut off from all other wartime events,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From a young Margaret Thatcher to Wallis Simpson, Andrea Riseborough has managed to hide inside her roles. Is she ready for the fame Madonna will thrust upon her?
Andrea Riseborough in person is utterly unlike herself on screen. Even from film to film, Riseborough barely registers as the same person. In last year's remake of Brighton Rock she was timid and gawky, hidden behind National Health spectacles and long, mousy hair. In Made in Dagenham she was a mouthy, beehived cockney, while as the young Margaret Thatcher in TV drama The Long Walk to Finchley, she was faux-plummy and primly professional – and far sexier than most left-leaning viewers were comfortable with. Some actors have their own brand identity that is always flashing in the corner of the screen like a TV channel logo, whatever role they play; others can disappear to the extent we don't realise we've been watching them...
Andrea Riseborough in person is utterly unlike herself on screen. Even from film to film, Riseborough barely registers as the same person. In last year's remake of Brighton Rock she was timid and gawky, hidden behind National Health spectacles and long, mousy hair. In Made in Dagenham she was a mouthy, beehived cockney, while as the young Margaret Thatcher in TV drama The Long Walk to Finchley, she was faux-plummy and primly professional – and far sexier than most left-leaning viewers were comfortable with. Some actors have their own brand identity that is always flashing in the corner of the screen like a TV channel logo, whatever role they play; others can disappear to the extent we don't realise we've been watching them...
- 11/18/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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