It’s based on a true story, set in Germany’s Weimar Republic in 1933.
UK production, financing and sales studio Anton is launching world sales at Cannes on Niels Arden Oplev’s upcoming thriller, Thirty Three.
Danish filmmaker Oplev, who directed the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well TV series Vikings: Valhalla and Mr Robot, will helm the feature with a cast including Mark Strong and Paula Beer, who won the Berlianle Silver Bear for her role in Christian Petzold’s Undine. The screenplay is by Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford.
It is is based...
UK production, financing and sales studio Anton is launching world sales at Cannes on Niels Arden Oplev’s upcoming thriller, Thirty Three.
Danish filmmaker Oplev, who directed the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well TV series Vikings: Valhalla and Mr Robot, will helm the feature with a cast including Mark Strong and Paula Beer, who won the Berlianle Silver Bear for her role in Christian Petzold’s Undine. The screenplay is by Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford.
It is is based...
- 5/11/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
The sun is shining, the stars have made their way down the red carpet and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) Television Awards is underway at the Royal Festival Hall in London, U.K.
The event – the first time it has taken place in person in three years due to the Covid pandemic – is being hosted by comedian and director Richard Ayoade (“The It Crowd”).
Among those nominated for a gong tonight are songstress “An Audience With Adele,” for best entertainment program, Rose Matafeo is nominated for best female performance in a comedy for “Starstruck” while Olly Alexander is nominated for leading actor for “It’s A Sin.”
Meanwhile the contenders for best international series will be one of the most fraught with some of the past year’s most talked-about series – including “Call My Agent,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Squid Games” and “Succession – up for an award.
Ncuti Gatwa...
The event – the first time it has taken place in person in three years due to the Covid pandemic – is being hosted by comedian and director Richard Ayoade (“The It Crowd”).
Among those nominated for a gong tonight are songstress “An Audience With Adele,” for best entertainment program, Rose Matafeo is nominated for best female performance in a comedy for “Starstruck” while Olly Alexander is nominated for leading actor for “It’s A Sin.”
Meanwhile the contenders for best international series will be one of the most fraught with some of the past year’s most talked-about series – including “Call My Agent,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Squid Games” and “Succession – up for an award.
Ncuti Gatwa...
- 5/8/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
‘Landscapers’ earned seven nominations, whilst Help and ’Time’ received six.
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
- 3/30/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
‘Landscapers’ earned seven nominations, whilst Help and ’Time’ received six.
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
- 3/30/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The production will be filmed at the Lyttelton Theatre building on London’s South Bank.
The UK’s National Theatre (Nt) is to make its first original film with a screen production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley.
The production was first announced last year, intended for stage at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre in London this summer.
That theatrical run was withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Nt has reimagined it as a 90-minute filmed version, directed by Nt associate Simon Godwin, and adapted for screen by Emily Burns.
The UK’s National Theatre (Nt) is to make its first original film with a screen production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley.
The production was first announced last year, intended for stage at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre in London this summer.
That theatrical run was withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Nt has reimagined it as a 90-minute filmed version, directed by Nt associate Simon Godwin, and adapted for screen by Emily Burns.
- 10/27/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Too edgy for the mainstream, Martin Sherman’s influential play is nevertheless transformed into an admirable, well-crafted show. In Hitler’s Berlin of 1934, being gay means death, or a living death in a ‘protective custody’ camp. Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau and Brian Webber find themselves on the way to Dachau, a new Circle of Hell. Yet even in a forced labor camp, the human spirit prevails. The British-made picture features Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger, and several other notable stars in their salad days.
Bent
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1997 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date January 8, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Rupert Graves, Rachel Weisz, Paul Bettany.
Cinematography: Giorgos Arvanitis
Film Editor: Isabelle Lorente
Original Music: Philip Glass
Written by Martin Sherman from his play.
Produced by Dixie Linder, Michael Solinger
Directed by Sean Mathias
We learned early on that the...
Bent
Blu-ray
Film Movement Classics
1997 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 105 min. / Street Date January 8, 2019 / 39.95
Starring: Lothaire Bluteau, Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Brian Webber, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Rupert Graves, Rachel Weisz, Paul Bettany.
Cinematography: Giorgos Arvanitis
Film Editor: Isabelle Lorente
Original Music: Philip Glass
Written by Martin Sherman from his play.
Produced by Dixie Linder, Michael Solinger
Directed by Sean Mathias
We learned early on that the...
- 1/12/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct.
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct a feature adaptation of stage play Love for BBC Two.
The project is a collaboration between BBC Films, BBC Arts, Arts Council England, Cuba Pictures and the National Theatre, and will air on BBC Two in late autumn as part of the BBC’s Performance Live strand.
Love starts its two-week shoot in London this week. The cast includes Nick Holder, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, reprising the roles they originated on stage.
The play opened...
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct a feature adaptation of stage play Love for BBC Two.
The project is a collaboration between BBC Films, BBC Arts, Arts Council England, Cuba Pictures and the National Theatre, and will air on BBC Two in late autumn as part of the BBC’s Performance Live strand.
Love starts its two-week shoot in London this week. The cast includes Nick Holder, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, reprising the roles they originated on stage.
The play opened...
- 7/10/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
David Schwimmer is exec producing a television adaptation of British stage play Love for the BBC. The Friends star is one of the team behind the feature-length film, which is being produced by McMafia producer Cuba Pictures.
Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the story of families brought together and placed in temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
It follows Colin, a middle-aged man, played by Nick Holder, who starred in ABC’s Galavant and C4’s Coalition, and his elderly mother Barbara, played by Wuthering Heights star Anna Calder-Marshall, who are relocated from their previous housing, and a young couple – Dean and Emma – preparing to welcome a new child into their family. Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, who were in the original stage play, reprise their roles as Dean and Emma.
The play originally opened at the National Theatre in...
Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the story of families brought together and placed in temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
It follows Colin, a middle-aged man, played by Nick Holder, who starred in ABC’s Galavant and C4’s Coalition, and his elderly mother Barbara, played by Wuthering Heights star Anna Calder-Marshall, who are relocated from their previous housing, and a young couple – Dean and Emma – preparing to welcome a new child into their family. Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, who were in the original stage play, reprise their roles as Dean and Emma.
The play originally opened at the National Theatre in...
- 7/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated to clarify: BBC One has ordered an eight-episode second season of Russian crime drama McMafia. The series airs on AMC in the U.S, but the network has not yet made a decision on a renewal.
BBC said that it was the UK public broadcaster’s biggest new drama launch this year as well as one of its most popular shows on its digital platform iPlayer.
The series, from Cuba Pictures, charts the journey of Alex Godman, played by James Norton, as he plunges deeper and deeper into the world of organized crime, eventually finding himself unable to resist the lures of corruption.
Created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and based on the book by Misha Glenny, Amini and Watkins said that they were keen to “cast more light on the shady intersections of transnational criminals”.
Watkins told an audience at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy event in La...
BBC said that it was the UK public broadcaster’s biggest new drama launch this year as well as one of its most popular shows on its digital platform iPlayer.
The series, from Cuba Pictures, charts the journey of Alex Godman, played by James Norton, as he plunges deeper and deeper into the world of organized crime, eventually finding himself unable to resist the lures of corruption.
Created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and based on the book by Misha Glenny, Amini and Watkins said that they were keen to “cast more light on the shady intersections of transnational criminals”.
Watkins told an audience at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy event in La...
- 5/1/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Protagonist to handle sales and Element secures distribution rights to Parallel Films production backed by IFB and BFI.
The Delinquent Season, the directorial debut of Mark O’Rowe that stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight), has secured worldwide and UK deals.
Protagonist Pictures will handle worldwide sales for the project, a character-driven drama set in suburban Dublin, while Element Pictures Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland.
The film, supported by the Irish Film Board, RTE and the BFI, centers on two couples whose apparently solid marriages come under strain. Catherine Walker (Critical) and Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn) co-star.
Director O’Rowe is well-known for his stage plays, including Our Few and Evil Days and screenplays including Irish crime drama Intermission, starring Murphy and Colin Farrell, crime drama Perrier’s Bounty, with Murphy and Brendan Gleeson and Boy A, starring Andrew Garfield.
Murphy is a regular collaborator with O’Rowe, having starred...
The Delinquent Season, the directorial debut of Mark O’Rowe that stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight), has secured worldwide and UK deals.
Protagonist Pictures will handle worldwide sales for the project, a character-driven drama set in suburban Dublin, while Element Pictures Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland.
The film, supported by the Irish Film Board, RTE and the BFI, centers on two couples whose apparently solid marriages come under strain. Catherine Walker (Critical) and Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn) co-star.
Director O’Rowe is well-known for his stage plays, including Our Few and Evil Days and screenplays including Irish crime drama Intermission, starring Murphy and Colin Farrell, crime drama Perrier’s Bounty, with Murphy and Brendan Gleeson and Boy A, starring Andrew Garfield.
Murphy is a regular collaborator with O’Rowe, having starred...
- 1/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Happy Valley star will lead the eight-part series about organised crime in London.
James Norton, star of Happy Valley and War And Peace, will play the lead role in big budget BBC drama series McMafia.
The eight-part programme will be produced by Paul Ritchie and directed by Bastille Day (2016) director James Watkins.
Inspired by Misha Glenny’s bestselling book of the same name, McMafia will centre on a Russian family in London and will provide a look at the far-reaching influence of global crime. The writing team is led by Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini and director Watkins.
Norton will play the lead role of Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian exiles with a mafia past. When his family’s murderous history returns to threaten him and his girlfriend, Alex is drawn into the criminal world and forced to confront his values to protect those he loves.
The series is exec produced by Amini and Watkins along Misha...
James Norton, star of Happy Valley and War And Peace, will play the lead role in big budget BBC drama series McMafia.
The eight-part programme will be produced by Paul Ritchie and directed by Bastille Day (2016) director James Watkins.
Inspired by Misha Glenny’s bestselling book of the same name, McMafia will centre on a Russian family in London and will provide a look at the far-reaching influence of global crime. The writing team is led by Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini and director Watkins.
Norton will play the lead role of Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian exiles with a mafia past. When his family’s murderous history returns to threaten him and his girlfriend, Alex is drawn into the criminal world and forced to confront his values to protect those he loves.
The series is exec produced by Amini and Watkins along Misha...
- 8/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to "The Ones Below," the debut feature from British playwright and theater director David Farr. Starring Clemence Poesy ("Harry Potter") and David Morrissey ("The Walking Dead"), the psychological thriller focuses on a young suburban couple engaged in a battle of wills with their new neighbors. It world premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Read More: "Scandinavia Stands Tall in 2015 Oscar Race" Set in contemporary London, "The Ones Below" follows Kate (Poesy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore), affluent parents-to-be whose lives are upended when Teresa (Laura Bim) and Jon (Morrissey), also expecting, move into the apartment downstairs. "The Ones Below" is produced by Nikki Parrott of Tigerlily Films in association with Protagonist Pictures, with funding from BBC Films and BFI. Executive producers are Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba...
- 11/9/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Mark Gatiss has signed up to play Labour politician Peter Mandelson in new Channel 4 political drama Coalition.
The Sherlock and League of Gentlemen actor will be joined by Babylon's Bertie Carvel as Nick Clegg, The Bletchley Circle's Mark Dexter as David Cameron and Ian Grieve (The Confessions of Gordon Brown) as Gordon Brown.
Coalition follows the moments which led to Clegg rising from outsider in the 2010 general election to the man who would decide the political fate of the country.
As a politician who was living in the shadow of Cameron and Brown, Clegg found himself in the powerful position of having to choose whether to ally his party with Labour or the Conservatives following the public's election votes.
Coalition is written by James Graham, who previously worked on Privacy, This House and Tory Boyz.
BAFTA-winning director Alex Holmes, who helmed Dunkirk and House of Saddam, will direct the 90-minute single drama.
The Sherlock and League of Gentlemen actor will be joined by Babylon's Bertie Carvel as Nick Clegg, The Bletchley Circle's Mark Dexter as David Cameron and Ian Grieve (The Confessions of Gordon Brown) as Gordon Brown.
Coalition follows the moments which led to Clegg rising from outsider in the 2010 general election to the man who would decide the political fate of the country.
As a politician who was living in the shadow of Cameron and Brown, Clegg found himself in the powerful position of having to choose whether to ally his party with Labour or the Conservatives following the public's election votes.
Coalition is written by James Graham, who previously worked on Privacy, This House and Tory Boyz.
BAFTA-winning director Alex Holmes, who helmed Dunkirk and House of Saddam, will direct the 90-minute single drama.
- 10/26/2014
- Digital Spy
Hanna co-writer David Farr is making his feature directing debut with The Ones Below, a psychological thriller that’s just kicked off principal photography in London. Not to be confused with Legendary and Universal’s current catacombs pic As Above/So Below, The Ones Below focuses on two affluent couples living above and below each other whose lives become fatally interlinked. Clémence Poésy (The Tunnel, Harry Potter), David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys) and Finnish actress Laura Birn (A Walk Among The Tombstones) star in the ensemble that’s also scripted by Farr.
The story follows upstairs couple Kate (Poésy) and Justin (Campbell Moore) who are expecting their first baby, and Jon (Morrissey) and Teresa (Birn) who move in downstairs and are also expecting a child. In contrast to Kate, Teresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. Pregnancy brings the women together in shared confidence,...
The story follows upstairs couple Kate (Poésy) and Justin (Campbell Moore) who are expecting their first baby, and Jon (Morrissey) and Teresa (Birn) who move in downstairs and are also expecting a child. In contrast to Kate, Teresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. Pregnancy brings the women together in shared confidence,...
- 9/30/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
- 9/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
- 9/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy [pictured], David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy [pictured], David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
- 9/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Theatre’s first film investment is controversial musical about Ipswich murders starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman.
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Theatre’s first film investment is controversial musical about Ipswich murders starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman.
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
New feature, starring Maggie Smith, will reunite the team behind The History Boys. BBC Films to also produce crime drama City of Tiny Lights starring Riz Ahmed.
BBC Films has unveiled its upcoming slate ahead of Cannes, which highlights its ongoing strategy to develop new talent and bolster existing relationships with filmmakers.
The slate is headlined by The Lady In The Van, an adaptation of the memoir of playwright, screenwriter, actor and author Alan Bennett.
Reuniting the team behind The History Boys, BBC Films and Bennett will be joined by Nicholas Hytner who will direct. Kevin Loader, Damian Jones and Nicholas Hytner will produce.
Starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings as Bennett, The Lady In The Van is based on Bennett’s experiences with Miss Shepherd, a vagrant who parked her clapped out old dormobile in his drive and stayed for 15 years.
BBC Films also revealed that they will be producing City of Tiny Lights with Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto...
BBC Films has unveiled its upcoming slate ahead of Cannes, which highlights its ongoing strategy to develop new talent and bolster existing relationships with filmmakers.
The slate is headlined by The Lady In The Van, an adaptation of the memoir of playwright, screenwriter, actor and author Alan Bennett.
Reuniting the team behind The History Boys, BBC Films and Bennett will be joined by Nicholas Hytner who will direct. Kevin Loader, Damian Jones and Nicholas Hytner will produce.
Starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings as Bennett, The Lady In The Van is based on Bennett’s experiences with Miss Shepherd, a vagrant who parked her clapped out old dormobile in his drive and stayed for 15 years.
BBC Films also revealed that they will be producing City of Tiny Lights with Ado Yoshizaki Cassuto...
- 5/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Way back in April we got word that BBC America is expanding its "Supernatural Saturday" lineup in 2014 to include a seven-part "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" miniseries, based on the novel by Susanna Clarke. Today we know who the cast members are.
From the Press Release:
Eddie Marsan (pictured; "Ray Donovan," The Worlds End) and Olivier award-winning Bertie Carvel (Restless, "Primeval") have been cast in BBC America’s co-production "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?). The new seven-part drama series is to premiere as part of the channel’s Supernatural Saturday.
Further casting includes Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa, Beautiful Creatures), Marc Warren ("The Good Wife," "Hustle"), Samuel West ("Mr Selfridge," "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond"), Charlotte Riley (Wuthering Heights, Easy Virtue), Enzo Cilenti ("Prisoners Wives," "Rome"), and Paul Kaye ("Game of Thrones,...
From the Press Release:
Eddie Marsan (pictured; "Ray Donovan," The Worlds End) and Olivier award-winning Bertie Carvel (Restless, "Primeval") have been cast in BBC America’s co-production "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?). The new seven-part drama series is to premiere as part of the channel’s Supernatural Saturday.
Further casting includes Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa, Beautiful Creatures), Marc Warren ("The Good Wife," "Hustle"), Samuel West ("Mr Selfridge," "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond"), Charlotte Riley (Wuthering Heights, Easy Virtue), Enzo Cilenti ("Prisoners Wives," "Rome"), and Paul Kaye ("Game of Thrones,...
- 10/25/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
BBC America has announced that it is coproducing a seven-part adaptation of the giant book that has been sitting on my shelf for years, that I will now avoid until after the series airs in 2014, entitled Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, as an upcoming segment of its Supernatural Saturdays programming block.
BBC America To Co-produce Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seven part series for Supernatural Saturday is based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke
New York – Monday, April 8 – Announced today, BBC America is co-producing for Supernatural Saturday a new drama series, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness (Wallander, Is Anybody There?), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
BBC America To Co-produce Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seven part series for Supernatural Saturday is based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke
New York – Monday, April 8 – Announced today, BBC America is co-producing for Supernatural Saturday a new drama series, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness (Wallander, Is Anybody There?), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
- 4/9/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
BBC America is expanding its "Supernatural Saturday" lineup in 2014, and we have all the early details for its upcoming seven-part "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" miniseries, based on the novel by Susanna Clarke.
From the Press Release:
BBC America is co-producing a new drama series, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell." Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?), "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
The series is produced by Cuba Pictures (Boy A, Broken) for the BBC and co-produced by BBC America, in association with Feel Film, Bell Media’s Space, Far Moor, and Screen Yorkshire. It is distributed by Endemol Worldwide Distribution.
Toby Haynes ("Doctor Who," "Sherlock," "Wallander") directs, Nick Hirschkorn...
From the Press Release:
BBC America is co-producing a new drama series, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell." Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?), "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
The series is produced by Cuba Pictures (Boy A, Broken) for the BBC and co-produced by BBC America, in association with Feel Film, Bell Media’s Space, Far Moor, and Screen Yorkshire. It is distributed by Endemol Worldwide Distribution.
Toby Haynes ("Doctor Who," "Sherlock," "Wallander") directs, Nick Hirschkorn...
- 4/8/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The European Film Academy and Fipresci have announced the five nominations for this year’s Discovery Award / Prix Fipresci and making the cut we find Angelina Nikonova’s outstanding Twilight Portrait (Venice and Tiff in 2011 – pic above) which will measure itself against Mads Matthiesen’s Teddy Bear (Sundance 2012 – read review), Boudewijn Koole’s Kauwboy and Jan Speckenbach’s Reported Missing (2012′s Berlin Film Fest) and Rufus Norris’ Broken (Critics’ Week opener in Cannes this year – see our coverage). The 25th European Film Awards will take place in Malta on 1 December 2012. Since this specific award has existed, previous winners include some worthy winners in 1997′s Bruno Dumont (La vie de Jésus), 2003′s Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), 2008′s Steve McQueen (Hunger), 2009′s Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga), 2010′s Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) and last year, 2011′s Hans Van Nuffel (Oxygen).
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)
Denmark, 92 min
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Written by: Mads Matthiesen...
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)
Denmark, 92 min
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Written by: Mads Matthiesen...
- 10/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The European Film Academy has nominated five films for the European Discovery 2012 Award. The Efa bestows the award on a young, up-and-coming director with a first feature-length film. The awards will be given on December 1st. This years nominees include: "10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)" Denmark, 92 min Directed By: Mads Matthiesen Written By: Mads Matthiesen & Martin Pieter Zandvliet Produced By: Morten Kjems Juhl "Broken" UK, 90 min Directed By: Rufus Norris Written By: Mark O’Rowe Produced By: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill Kenwright "Kauwboy" The Netherlands, 81 min Directed By: Boudewijn Koole Written By: Boudewijn Koole & Jolein Laarman Produced By: Jan van der Zanden & Wilant Boekelman "Portret V Sumerkhak (Twilight Portrait)" Russia, 105 min Directed By: Angelina Nikonova Written By: Angelina Nikonova &...
- 10/16/2012
- by Maggie Lange
- Thompson on Hollywood
The European Film Academy have announced the nominees of their annual European Discovery Award, presented as part of the European Film Awards to "a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film." This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as Alin Tasciyan (Turkey), Paulo Portugal (Portugal), and Mihai Chirilov (Romania) as members of Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics. The nominees are: 10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear) Denmark, 92 min Directed By: Mads Matthiesen Written By: Mads Matthiesen & Martin Pieter Zandvliet Produced By: Morten Kjems Juhl Broken UK, 90 min Directed By: Rufus Norris Written By: Mark O’Rowe Produced By: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill...
- 10/16/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Of the 22 films in contention for the prestigious Palme d'Or, not one has a female director. And while women's lives are getting more attention on screen, the struggle to break in to the rough and tough old boys' club of directing appears as hard as ever
Cannes' fabled Croisette promenade was dotted with the customary festival starlets in high heels and glamorous dresses yesterday afternoon.
But just behind them, a feminist uprising of sorts was in full swing. Inside a landmark hotel on the seafront strip in the South of France, loud calls for positive discrimination in favour of women's films were being voiced. The impact of British director Andrea Arnold's public anger about the failure to include a female director in the prestigious Palme D'Or line-up continues to stir controversy at the annual celebration of world cinema.
Speakers at a Beyond Borders diversity symposium echoed Arnold's complaint that...
Cannes' fabled Croisette promenade was dotted with the customary festival starlets in high heels and glamorous dresses yesterday afternoon.
But just behind them, a feminist uprising of sorts was in full swing. Inside a landmark hotel on the seafront strip in the South of France, loud calls for positive discrimination in favour of women's films were being voiced. The impact of British director Andrea Arnold's public anger about the failure to include a female director in the prestigious Palme D'Or line-up continues to stir controversy at the annual celebration of world cinema.
Speakers at a Beyond Borders diversity symposium echoed Arnold's complaint that...
- 5/19/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy and Rory Kinnear have signed on to star in a film adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel "Broken" for BBC Films and Lip Sync says The Hollywood Reporter.
Mark O’Rowe adapted the script for this story of a young North London girl who witnesses a violent attack which brings chaos to her life.
Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner and newcomer Eloise Laurence also star. Rufus Norris directs the film which begins shooting later this month in the U.K.
Dixie Linder, Nick Marston, Tally Garner and Bill Kenwright will produce.
Mark O’Rowe adapted the script for this story of a young North London girl who witnesses a violent attack which brings chaos to her life.
Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner and newcomer Eloise Laurence also star. Rufus Norris directs the film which begins shooting later this month in the U.K.
Dixie Linder, Nick Marston, Tally Garner and Bill Kenwright will produce.
- 10/7/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: While Lie To Me star Tim Roth waits for his next series that will come from the deal he signed with 20th Century Fox TV, he’ll first go back to the UK to star in a pair of films he’ll make back to back. Roth and Cillian Murphy will star with newcomer Eloise Laurence in Broken, an adaptation of the Daniel Clay novel that was scripted by Mark O’Rowe and will be directed by Rufus Norris, the British theater director whose credits include the Tony-nominated Les Liasons Dangereuses. The film will be produced by Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Tally Garner, and funded by BBC Films and the BFI in association with Lip Sync and Bill Kenwright Ltd, a Cuba Pictures Production. BBC Films developed it. Roth plays the father of an 11-year-old girl living in North London who witnesses a violent attack that changes the...
- 10/7/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Maggie Lunn Casting Cdg
Open Call Auditions
Sunday 27Th February 2011
At Rada (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)Address: Malet Street, London WC1E 7JNEntrance can be found at Rada Theatre’s box office on Malet StMap on www.rada.ac.uk click ‘contact us’ Tubes- Goodge St 5 min walk - Warren St 10 min
Arrive by 10am
Film: Broken – Children’S CASTINGDirector: Rufus Norris Producers: Dixie Linder – Cuba PicturesIn association with BBC Film
Who we are looking for:skunk Cunningham- Leading Role Female – White or Mixed Race, aged between 11 - 14 years to play 11.A bright kid, she is kind, innocent, watchful & curious.
Skunk has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother (13) they live on a quiet suburban street in London. But they have the neighbours from hell - The Oswalds. A small act of cruelty by one of the Oswald girls leads to increasingly troubled events.
Leading role in the...
Open Call Auditions
Sunday 27Th February 2011
At Rada (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)Address: Malet Street, London WC1E 7JNEntrance can be found at Rada Theatre’s box office on Malet StMap on www.rada.ac.uk click ‘contact us’ Tubes- Goodge St 5 min walk - Warren St 10 min
Arrive by 10am
Film: Broken – Children’S CASTINGDirector: Rufus Norris Producers: Dixie Linder – Cuba PicturesIn association with BBC Film
Who we are looking for:skunk Cunningham- Leading Role Female – White or Mixed Race, aged between 11 - 14 years to play 11.A bright kid, she is kind, innocent, watchful & curious.
Skunk has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother (13) they live on a quiet suburban street in London. But they have the neighbours from hell - The Oswalds. A small act of cruelty by one of the Oswald girls leads to increasingly troubled events.
Leading role in the...
- 2/18/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Set up in 1998, The British Independent Film Awards aim to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British film, both to honour established British talent, and to promote emerging stars to a wider audience. This year's awards are held at The Brewery in Central London, and the extensive list of nominees documents what an incredible year British independent cinema has enjoyed - with Sir Michael Caine announced as the recipient of the prestigious Variety Award, celebrating his career which has spanned a staggering five decades; coinciding with his lead role in this year's Harry Brown. Daniel Day-Lewis will be honoured with the Richard Harris Award for Outstanding Contributor to British Film by an actor, and is described by the Bifa jury as 'one of the most exceptionally talented and enigmatic actors in the industry'. Debate has been rife as to who will be crowned victorious by the Bifa jury, with Katie Jarvis,...
- 12/3/2009
- by t5m
- t5m.com
DINARD, France -- In My Father's Den, directed by New Zealander Brad McGann, swept the board at the Dinard Festival of British Film on Saturday, taking the Golden Hitchcock award for best film, the best cinematography prize and the audience award. The movie stars Matthew MacFadyen as a war reporter who returns to his native New Zealand after his father's death and befriends a 16-year-old girl, only to find himself the key suspect when she disappears. The film qualified for inclusion at Dinard because it has a U.K. co-producer, Dixie Linder. A new award for best screenplay among the six movies in competition went to Festival, an ensemble comedy set during the Edinburgh comedy fest written and directed by Annie Griffin. As with McGann's picture, it was her first feature film as director.
- 10/9/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A self-consciously bittersweet comedy, "The Martins" contains a fair amount of laughs, but these are largely negated by an overriding sense that the film is not quite the dark social comedy it thinks it is. The key performances are excellent -- Lee Evans ("Mouse Hunt", "There's Something About Mary") never better and Kathy Burke confirming her "national treasure" status in British cinema -- but tyro writer-director Tony Grounds can't make the project work.
The film could be a cult success in the United Kingdom but might prove a tough proposition to release overseas. The social characterizations are very English, the language consistently strong and the humor not strong enough. "Martins" could well find a home on video shelves.
The film's premise is quite simple: The Martins are a suburban family from hell. Robert (Evans) is an unemployed dreamer who thinks his great escape will come from winning newspaper competitions. He is adored by wife Angie (Burke). The couple have a heavily pregnant 14-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son who can't deal with school. And Angie's tartly dressed mother lives just across the road with a mission to make her son-in-law's life miserable.
One morning, as Robert is cooking bacon on an improvised barbecue in the garden (involving throwing tires onto a fire), his neighbor starts shooting water at the fire. Robert pulls a gun and frightens off the neighbor. He explains to his angry wife that he is just keeping the weapon for a friend.
Things then spiral downward: Robert pulls the gun on son Little Bob's teacher and later uses it to threaten the editor of the local newspaper, which had been staging a competition with a dream holiday as the main prize.
Finally, Robert uses to gun to hold up the elderly couple who won the prize (nice cameo performances by Frank Finlay and Barbara Leigh Hunt), steals their ticket to the "dream holiday" (which turns out to be a trip to a cottage on the Isle of Man) and convinces his family that he won the competition and is taking them away. With the police on their trail, they head up the motorway from London to take a ferry to the Isle of Man, where eventually things come to a head with a blazing row between Robert and Angie, their daughter giving birth and the arrival of armed police.
The idea of a comedy built around a supremely dysfunctional family is appealing -- look at the success of Australian film "The Castle". But Grounds is determined to make the characters as unappealing as possible, so it's hard to sympathize with a man who thinks the world owes him everything and, when it doesn't come through, starts waving a gun at innocent people.
That being said, Evans forsakes his usual physical comedy to give a subtle, at times endearing performance as a common man pushed to his edge. Burke is great as the wife who loves him for his strengths -- compassion for his family and general good intentions -- but eventually despairs of his weaknesses. There is a deliriously enjoyable cameo by tough-guy actor Ray Winstone as a children's entertainer who goes berserk at Robert when he tries to persuade him to perform at Little Bob's birthday party.
Grounds has a good reputation from British television, where he scripted the series "Births, Marriages and Deaths". It was a brave move by the producers of "Martins" to let him take on directing chores, but sadly it hasn't paid off. There is a lot of talent there, though, and his will be a career worth following.
THE MARTINS
Icon Entertainment International
Tiger Aspect Pictures and Icon Prods.
Producers: Greg Brenman, Dixie Linder, Bruce Davey
Screenwriter-director: Tony Grounds
Executive producers: Peter Bennett-Jones, Paul Tucker, Ralph Kamp, Steve Christian
Director of photography: David Johnson
Production designer: Michael Carlin
Costume designer: Stewart Meachem
Editor: Robin Sales
Music: Richard Hartley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Robert Martin: Lee Evans
Angie Martin: Kathy Burke
Little Bob: Eric Byrne
Katie: Terri Dumont
Anthea: Linda Bassett
DI Tony Branch: Jack Shepherd
PC Alex: Lennie James
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The film could be a cult success in the United Kingdom but might prove a tough proposition to release overseas. The social characterizations are very English, the language consistently strong and the humor not strong enough. "Martins" could well find a home on video shelves.
The film's premise is quite simple: The Martins are a suburban family from hell. Robert (Evans) is an unemployed dreamer who thinks his great escape will come from winning newspaper competitions. He is adored by wife Angie (Burke). The couple have a heavily pregnant 14-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son who can't deal with school. And Angie's tartly dressed mother lives just across the road with a mission to make her son-in-law's life miserable.
One morning, as Robert is cooking bacon on an improvised barbecue in the garden (involving throwing tires onto a fire), his neighbor starts shooting water at the fire. Robert pulls a gun and frightens off the neighbor. He explains to his angry wife that he is just keeping the weapon for a friend.
Things then spiral downward: Robert pulls the gun on son Little Bob's teacher and later uses it to threaten the editor of the local newspaper, which had been staging a competition with a dream holiday as the main prize.
Finally, Robert uses to gun to hold up the elderly couple who won the prize (nice cameo performances by Frank Finlay and Barbara Leigh Hunt), steals their ticket to the "dream holiday" (which turns out to be a trip to a cottage on the Isle of Man) and convinces his family that he won the competition and is taking them away. With the police on their trail, they head up the motorway from London to take a ferry to the Isle of Man, where eventually things come to a head with a blazing row between Robert and Angie, their daughter giving birth and the arrival of armed police.
The idea of a comedy built around a supremely dysfunctional family is appealing -- look at the success of Australian film "The Castle". But Grounds is determined to make the characters as unappealing as possible, so it's hard to sympathize with a man who thinks the world owes him everything and, when it doesn't come through, starts waving a gun at innocent people.
That being said, Evans forsakes his usual physical comedy to give a subtle, at times endearing performance as a common man pushed to his edge. Burke is great as the wife who loves him for his strengths -- compassion for his family and general good intentions -- but eventually despairs of his weaknesses. There is a deliriously enjoyable cameo by tough-guy actor Ray Winstone as a children's entertainer who goes berserk at Robert when he tries to persuade him to perform at Little Bob's birthday party.
Grounds has a good reputation from British television, where he scripted the series "Births, Marriages and Deaths". It was a brave move by the producers of "Martins" to let him take on directing chores, but sadly it hasn't paid off. There is a lot of talent there, though, and his will be a career worth following.
THE MARTINS
Icon Entertainment International
Tiger Aspect Pictures and Icon Prods.
Producers: Greg Brenman, Dixie Linder, Bruce Davey
Screenwriter-director: Tony Grounds
Executive producers: Peter Bennett-Jones, Paul Tucker, Ralph Kamp, Steve Christian
Director of photography: David Johnson
Production designer: Michael Carlin
Costume designer: Stewart Meachem
Editor: Robin Sales
Music: Richard Hartley
Color/stereo
Cast:
Robert Martin: Lee Evans
Angie Martin: Kathy Burke
Little Bob: Eric Byrne
Katie: Terri Dumont
Anthea: Linda Bassett
DI Tony Branch: Jack Shepherd
PC Alex: Lennie James
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
LONDON -- Element X, a London-based international sales and distribution company headed by former FilmFour International executives Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner, announced its first slate of titles Wednesday. The new entity, set up with backing from British film financing house Visionview, has four titles on its sales roster. The company is selling the New Zealand/United Kingdom co-production "In My Father's Den", written and directed by Brad McGann. Produced by T.H.E. Film's Trevor Haysom and Little Bird's Dixie Linder, the movie is financed by the New Zealand Film Commission, Visionview and the U.K. Film Council.
- 9/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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