A statue of the late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister will be erected in his hometown of Burslem, which is part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
Plans for the 2.25-meter bronze sculpture have been approved, according to the BBC, despite police concerns that the statue could generate “good-natured but potentially incident generating attention” — namely revelers climbing the plinth to pose with Lemmy or causing vandalism. It will be located in Burslem’s Market Place.
Local sculptor Andy Edwards will be constructing the statue out of Staffordshire clay, having previously created sculptures of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor at Derby County Fc and The Beatles on Liverpool’s Pier Head. An artist rendering (seen above) depicts Lemmy in his iconic stage pose, singing upward toward the skies with the microphone placed abnormally high above him.
Following the aforementioned concern from local authorities, Edwards agreed to increase the height of...
Plans for the 2.25-meter bronze sculpture have been approved, according to the BBC, despite police concerns that the statue could generate “good-natured but potentially incident generating attention” — namely revelers climbing the plinth to pose with Lemmy or causing vandalism. It will be located in Burslem’s Market Place.
Local sculptor Andy Edwards will be constructing the statue out of Staffordshire clay, having previously created sculptures of Brian Clough and Peter Taylor at Derby County Fc and The Beatles on Liverpool’s Pier Head. An artist rendering (seen above) depicts Lemmy in his iconic stage pose, singing upward toward the skies with the microphone placed abnormally high above him.
Following the aforementioned concern from local authorities, Edwards agreed to increase the height of...
- 2/26/2024
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Judy Collins is an American singer/songwriter and musician with an impressive career spanning over seven decades. She is known primarily for her eclectic taste in music, her social activism and the unique clarity of her voice.
Judy Collins Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Judy Collins was born on May 1, 1939 (Judy Collins’s age: 84) in Seattle, Washington, where she was raised for the first ten years of her life. When her father, who was a blind singer, pianist, and record show host, landed a job in Denver, Colorado in 1949, he brought the entire family along for the ride.
Collins began playing the piano at the age of five, made her public debut at thirteen years old with Denver Symphony and began playing the guitar and singing folk music while enrolled in Denver East High School as a young teenager. She studied classical music with her instructor, Antonia Brico, and...
Judy Collins Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education
Judy Collins was born on May 1, 1939 (Judy Collins’s age: 84) in Seattle, Washington, where she was raised for the first ten years of her life. When her father, who was a blind singer, pianist, and record show host, landed a job in Denver, Colorado in 1949, he brought the entire family along for the ride.
Collins began playing the piano at the age of five, made her public debut at thirteen years old with Denver Symphony and began playing the guitar and singing folk music while enrolled in Denver East High School as a young teenager. She studied classical music with her instructor, Antonia Brico, and...
- 7/6/2023
- by Trevor Hanuka
- Uinterview
Camera Threat“Don’t try to hold onto the wave that’s breaking against your foot. So long as you stand in the stream, fresh waves will always keep breaking against it.”—Widow Begbick in Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Man Equals Man’A preface for the unfamiliar. Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is a small, strange and very special film festival situated in the northernmost place in England, the quite lovely Berwick-upon-Tweed, a small, much contested coastal town on the Scottish border that is home to a set of impressive defensive walls, Britain’s earliest barracks building, some nice pubs and a few good fish and chip shops that close at 5pm. Inaugurated in 2005, the town’s film festival—a five day affair that consists of a mixture of short films and features exhibited in the town’s single cinema, performances elsewhere, and installations placed in historic sites along the town...
- 10/31/2017
- MUBI
Tom Hanks tinkering with teamsheets as Ranieri, Idris Elba barking orders as captain Morgan, and Tom Hiddleston smashing in the goals … a surefire lineup to get them queuing at the turnstiles
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. So just as football journalists have been sharpening their pens and documentary-makers loading up their editing suites over the past few weeks as the Foxes have been closing in on the championship, film production executives will have begun the unseemly jostle to get Leicester City: The Movie in the works.
But how to go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. So just as football journalists have been sharpening their pens and documentary-makers loading up their editing suites over the past few weeks as the Foxes have been closing in on the championship, film production executives will have begun the unseemly jostle to get Leicester City: The Movie in the works.
But how to go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Hanks tinkering with teamsheets as Ranieri, Idris Elba barking orders as captain Morgan, and Tom Hiddleston smashing in the goals … a surefire lineup to get them queuing at the turnstiles
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. So just as football journalists have been sharpening their pens and documentary-makers loading up their editing suites over the past few weeks as the Foxes have been closing in on the championship, film production executives will have begun the unseemly jostle to get Leicester City: The Movie in the works.
But how to go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
Film producers like nothing more than a chest-burstingly uplifting, against-the-odds, underdog-come-good, overcoming-adversity story, and Leicester City’s tilt at the Premier League title is about as chestburstingly uplifting as they come. So just as football journalists have been sharpening their pens and documentary-makers loading up their editing suites over the past few weeks as the Foxes have been closing in on the championship, film production executives will have begun the unseemly jostle to get Leicester City: The Movie in the works.
But how to go about it? The first issue is where to pitch it. Notoriously, most films about football – about British football, at least – have been pretty bad: hamstrung between the need to appeal to the widest possible only-vaguely-interested audience (ie,...
- 5/3/2016
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
According to Albert R. Broccoli’s Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment, the new 'James Bond' movie "Spectre" "...has shattered (international) box office records in nearly every market in which it has been released, led by a historic performance in the UK...":
The 24th Bond adventure, continues the longest running and most successful film franchise in cinema history, opening in 647 cinemas and on 2,500 screens, making it the widest release of all time in the UK and Ireland.
"Spectre" has also set a new IMAX record, recording the highest per-location average in IMAX history as the first film ever to top a $100,000 per-location average, with $105,000 in 47 IMAX locations.
"What an incredible thrill it is for us at MGM to see how 'James Bond' continues to deliver such excitement to his fans," said Gary Barber, MGM Chairman and CEO. "This record-breaking support from UK audiences for what is our...
The 24th Bond adventure, continues the longest running and most successful film franchise in cinema history, opening in 647 cinemas and on 2,500 screens, making it the widest release of all time in the UK and Ireland.
"Spectre" has also set a new IMAX record, recording the highest per-location average in IMAX history as the first film ever to top a $100,000 per-location average, with $105,000 in 47 IMAX locations.
"What an incredible thrill it is for us at MGM to see how 'James Bond' continues to deliver such excitement to his fans," said Gary Barber, MGM Chairman and CEO. "This record-breaking support from UK audiences for what is our...
- 11/4/2015
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Jonny Owen’s entertaining documentary deals with the manager’s success at Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s
Related: Film review: The Damned United
The reputation of Brian Clough (pictured) in pop culture history famously got a revisionist jolt in 2006 from David Peace’s novel The Damned United, lending an unsuspected dark mythic importance to his brief, bizarrely dysfunctional tenure as Leeds United Fc manager in 1974. The cheeky loudmouth now looked troubled, irrational, even faintly sinister. It was adapted for the cinema in 2009 – in gentler and more conventional terms – starring Michael Sheen. Now Jonny Owen has made an undemanding documentary dealing with the happier era after that, about Clough’s resurgence, managing Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s: the Napoleon of football, leading a little-fancied side to glory in the old first division and the European cup. This affectionate film sets aside all the fashionably “dark” reading of Clough in...
Related: Film review: The Damned United
The reputation of Brian Clough (pictured) in pop culture history famously got a revisionist jolt in 2006 from David Peace’s novel The Damned United, lending an unsuspected dark mythic importance to his brief, bizarrely dysfunctional tenure as Leeds United Fc manager in 1974. The cheeky loudmouth now looked troubled, irrational, even faintly sinister. It was adapted for the cinema in 2009 – in gentler and more conventional terms – starring Michael Sheen. Now Jonny Owen has made an undemanding documentary dealing with the happier era after that, about Clough’s resurgence, managing Nottingham Forest in the late 1970s: the Napoleon of football, leading a little-fancied side to glory in the old first division and the European cup. This affectionate film sets aside all the fashionably “dark” reading of Clough in...
- 10/8/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Film about legendary football manager to premiere at UK football ground before going nationwide.
A new film about football manager Brian Clough’s glory years at Nottingham Forest is to be distributed across the UK by Showcase Cinemas, following its world premiere at the club’s City Ground next month.
I Believe In Miracles tells the story of the five-year period in the 1970s when Clough took Nottingham Forest from a run-down second division club to two European Cups, producing one of the best domestic football teams in the history of the game.
It includes interviews with all of the 1979 European Cup winners involved the families of Clough and his managerial partner Peter Taylor.
I Believe In Miracles was written and directed by Jonny Owen, who also produced alongside Baby Cow Productions (Philomena) and Spool Films/Post.
The documentary will receive its world premiere at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground on Oct 11 before previews in UK cinemas...
A new film about football manager Brian Clough’s glory years at Nottingham Forest is to be distributed across the UK by Showcase Cinemas, following its world premiere at the club’s City Ground next month.
I Believe In Miracles tells the story of the five-year period in the 1970s when Clough took Nottingham Forest from a run-down second division club to two European Cups, producing one of the best domestic football teams in the history of the game.
It includes interviews with all of the 1979 European Cup winners involved the families of Clough and his managerial partner Peter Taylor.
I Believe In Miracles was written and directed by Jonny Owen, who also produced alongside Baby Cow Productions (Philomena) and Spool Films/Post.
The documentary will receive its world premiere at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground on Oct 11 before previews in UK cinemas...
- 9/8/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
The Interview was described as "desperately unfunny" in a series of emails sent by Sony executives.
In a leaked email allegedly sent by Sony Pictures UK Managing Director, Peter Taylor, the banned comedy was described as "another misfire" from Seth Rogen and James Franco.
Sony hack: A full timeline of events leading up to The Interview axe
According to Reuters, Taylor wrote: "The unanimous point of view here is that this (is) another misfire from the pairing."
He later labelled the film "desperately unfunny and repetitive", and hit out at Franco's performance in particular.
"James Franco proves once again that irritation is his strong suit, which is a shame because the character could have been appealing and funny out of his hands," he wrote.
Taylor and other executives agreed that while the first half of the film showed promise, it was spoilt by "realistic violence that would be shocking in...
In a leaked email allegedly sent by Sony Pictures UK Managing Director, Peter Taylor, the banned comedy was described as "another misfire" from Seth Rogen and James Franco.
Sony hack: A full timeline of events leading up to The Interview axe
According to Reuters, Taylor wrote: "The unanimous point of view here is that this (is) another misfire from the pairing."
He later labelled the film "desperately unfunny and repetitive", and hit out at Franco's performance in particular.
"James Franco proves once again that irritation is his strong suit, which is a shame because the character could have been appealing and funny out of his hands," he wrote.
Taylor and other executives agreed that while the first half of the film showed promise, it was spoilt by "realistic violence that would be shocking in...
- 12/19/2014
- Digital Spy
Editor behind Alien, Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire and Goldeneye to receive tribute event.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced that editor Terry Rawlings will be the subject of a BAFTA Tribute on Dec 7 at the organisation’s Piccadilly headquarters in London.
‘A BAFTA Tribute: Terry Rawlings’ will honour his contribution to picture and sound editing, and will celebrate a career spanning 50 years.
Nik Powell, chair of BAFTA’s Film Committee, said: “Terry Rawlings is one of the great editors of both sound and picture.
“For more than half a century his work has been admired by all – not least the huge audiences who have, maybe unknowingly, experienced his influence on films like The L Shaped Room, Women in Love and Bedazzled in the 1960s, The Duellists, The Great Gatsby and The Devils in the 1970s, through to classics such as Watership Down, Alien, Chariots of Fire, Yentl, [link...
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced that editor Terry Rawlings will be the subject of a BAFTA Tribute on Dec 7 at the organisation’s Piccadilly headquarters in London.
‘A BAFTA Tribute: Terry Rawlings’ will honour his contribution to picture and sound editing, and will celebrate a career spanning 50 years.
Nik Powell, chair of BAFTA’s Film Committee, said: “Terry Rawlings is one of the great editors of both sound and picture.
“For more than half a century his work has been admired by all – not least the huge audiences who have, maybe unknowingly, experienced his influence on films like The L Shaped Room, Women in Love and Bedazzled in the 1960s, The Duellists, The Great Gatsby and The Devils in the 1970s, through to classics such as Watership Down, Alien, Chariots of Fire, Yentl, [link...
- 11/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fiona Hanson/Pa Archive/Press Association Images
Great football teams would be nothing without partnerships: Nottingham Forest and Derby had Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, England had Shearer and Sheringham and Manchester United had Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke. These are the pairings on which success was built, and it seems that working within football – with its brotherly bonds and comradeship in battle – is the perfect environment to encourage even closer relationships than working ones.
Sometimes players click together on the pitch in a way that makes them two perfect halves of one identity – like England’s Sas – and others the pair get closer still, their friendships emerging beyond the limits of shared dressing rooms and celebratory high fives.
More often than not, these bromances are a thing of beauty, and in most cases they are hugely successful on the pitch, which is why commentators and fans fall over themselves...
Great football teams would be nothing without partnerships: Nottingham Forest and Derby had Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, England had Shearer and Sheringham and Manchester United had Andy Cole and Dwight Yorke. These are the pairings on which success was built, and it seems that working within football – with its brotherly bonds and comradeship in battle – is the perfect environment to encourage even closer relationships than working ones.
Sometimes players click together on the pitch in a way that makes them two perfect halves of one identity – like England’s Sas – and others the pair get closer still, their friendships emerging beyond the limits of shared dressing rooms and celebratory high fives.
More often than not, these bromances are a thing of beauty, and in most cases they are hugely successful on the pitch, which is why commentators and fans fall over themselves...
- 10/5/2014
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
John Walton/Pa Wire/Press Association Images
England Under-21 manager and former England centre back Gareth Southgate has spoken out in favour of Eric Dier’s transfer to Tottenham Hotspur.
The England Under-21 defender moved to the Premier League club this summer from Sporting Clube de Portugal and Southgate thinks it’s good that the player wants to test himself in the best league in the world.
Speaking to the F.A.’s official website, Southgate said:
I know Eric was keen to come back to England, he had a difficult season last year when he didn’t get a lot of first team football in Lisbon. He’s a young centre-back who will mature but he plays in a position which takes time to develop so it’s an interesting move for him to test himself over here.
Southgate has given Dier four of his five Under-21 caps – with...
England Under-21 manager and former England centre back Gareth Southgate has spoken out in favour of Eric Dier’s transfer to Tottenham Hotspur.
The England Under-21 defender moved to the Premier League club this summer from Sporting Clube de Portugal and Southgate thinks it’s good that the player wants to test himself in the best league in the world.
Speaking to the F.A.’s official website, Southgate said:
I know Eric was keen to come back to England, he had a difficult season last year when he didn’t get a lot of first team football in Lisbon. He’s a young centre-back who will mature but he plays in a position which takes time to develop so it’s an interesting move for him to test himself over here.
Southgate has given Dier four of his five Under-21 caps – with...
- 8/15/2014
- by Kev Stewart
- Obsessed with Film
Soccernomics is a revolutionary book written by journalist Simon Kuper and economist Stefan Szymanski, and one that all football fans of all levels should read.
The first chapter in the book takes a detailed account of the money thrown in the transfer window and how one can “avoid making silly mistakes in the market”, studying the transfer strategies of Lyon and Nottingham Forest (under Peter Taylor) to “uncover the secrets” of the transfer market that “all other clubs are missing”.
It brings up intriguing facts and I wanted to see whether the points highlighted in the book worked out in Football Manager; that is, if I followed the book’s tips as to how to make good transfers, will I succeed?
The sample club would be Fc Barcelona, primarily because it offered a club with an excellent youth set-up, ample transfer funds (so that heavy splurges could be made if...
The first chapter in the book takes a detailed account of the money thrown in the transfer window and how one can “avoid making silly mistakes in the market”, studying the transfer strategies of Lyon and Nottingham Forest (under Peter Taylor) to “uncover the secrets” of the transfer market that “all other clubs are missing”.
It brings up intriguing facts and I wanted to see whether the points highlighted in the book worked out in Football Manager; that is, if I followed the book’s tips as to how to make good transfers, will I succeed?
The sample club would be Fc Barcelona, primarily because it offered a club with an excellent youth set-up, ample transfer funds (so that heavy splurges could be made if...
- 7/1/2014
- by Surya Solanki
- Obsessed with Film
The worst thing anyone's said to me? 'Sorry old boy, but you've got leukaemia'
Timothy Spall, 57, was born in London. After studying at Rada, he joined Birmingham Rep and the RSC before being cast in the hit TV series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 1983. His movies include Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet and Secrets & Lies, and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. He played Churchill in The King's Speech, Peter Taylor in The Damned United and Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films. He is currently starring in PG Wodehouse's Blandings on BBC1. He is married with three children.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
I have had a tendency to sleepwalk in the past. I once woke up in the nude in a corridor of a hotel in Cornwall in the small hours of the morning. Oh, the cringing shame.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Wanting...
Timothy Spall, 57, was born in London. After studying at Rada, he joined Birmingham Rep and the RSC before being cast in the hit TV series Auf Wiedersehen, Pet in 1983. His movies include Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet and Secrets & Lies, and Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd. He played Churchill in The King's Speech, Peter Taylor in The Damned United and Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films. He is currently starring in PG Wodehouse's Blandings on BBC1. He is married with three children.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
I have had a tendency to sleepwalk in the past. I once woke up in the nude in a corridor of a hotel in Cornwall in the small hours of the morning. Oh, the cringing shame.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Wanting...
- 3/15/2014
- The Guardian - Film News
Edited by Bob Joyce for the Society of Camera Operators 2014 Lifetime Achievement Awards where Peter Taylor (Gravity) won Camera Operator of the Year for Feature Film and Don Devine ("Mad Men") won Camera Operator of the Year for Television the following four minute video, featuring the past, present and future of the motion picture camera was shown. Set to the tune of John Murphy's "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)", the video is sure to feature some familiar faces and films from Louis Lumiere's Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory to the likes of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin and on through the years. It includes the introduction of Cinerama and VistaVision, the Red camera and IMAX up to and including films such as Zodiac, Collateral, Avatar, Gravity and Her. Give it a watch, I bet you'll enjoy it.
- 3/11/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The last awards of the industry guilds for film and television were handed out Saturday night by the Society of Camera Operators. Soc 's (they kept the abbreviation from their original Society of Operating Cameramen name) awards are rarely covered by the media, perhaps due to their dubious status, if any, as Oscar precursor. Unlike the other guilds, no equivalent Oscar or Emmy exists and the Soc Awards take place after the Oscars. "Gravity" was victorious — not unusual this season — as cameraman Peter Taylor claimed the top honor for his tracking shots in the effects-driven space film. The other nominated movies were "American Hustle," "Labor Day," "Lone Survivor" and "Saving Mr. Banks." This is Taylor 's first win. His past work includes "Gladiator," "Love Actually" and two of the "Harry Potter" movies. Taylor filmed one other 2013 film: the British thriller "All Things...
- 3/10/2014
- Gold Derby
Gravity's Peter Taylor won the feature film camera operator of the year award at the Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards, during which the society paid tribute to Sarah Jones, the 27-year-old assistant camerawoman who was killed Feb. 20 while on location in Georgia. Jones' parents, Richard and Elizabeth Jones, were among the 500 guests in attendance for the ceremony, held Saturday at the Skirball Cultural Center. They accepted an honorary associate membership for their daughter, and Richard Jones addressed the crowd, saying, "I know she is looking down with a smile. Her enthusiasm is contagious and I hope it
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- 3/4/2014
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Marc Webb backs UK anti-piracy campaign as new Spider-Man trailer is released in line with the initiative.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the latest feature to join the Moments Worth Paying For campaign, run by the Industry Trust for IP Awareness in its ongoing battle against piracy.
A 35-second trailer, featuring exclusive footage from the upcoming action film, includes a call to visit FindAnyFilms.com, a website that directs users to legal downloads of movies.
The trailer will be shown in cinemas from Feb 28 through Sony Pictures Releasing UK, marking its first such involvement in the Moments Worth Paying For initiative, and the Industry Trust will also push the campaign through digital, PR, social media and outdoor.
Peter Taylor, MD of Sony Pictures Releasing UK, said: “We have been working with the Industry Trust since it was created - almost ten years ago. This is the first time we’ve collaborated on an exclusive trailer for the...
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the latest feature to join the Moments Worth Paying For campaign, run by the Industry Trust for IP Awareness in its ongoing battle against piracy.
A 35-second trailer, featuring exclusive footage from the upcoming action film, includes a call to visit FindAnyFilms.com, a website that directs users to legal downloads of movies.
The trailer will be shown in cinemas from Feb 28 through Sony Pictures Releasing UK, marking its first such involvement in the Moments Worth Paying For initiative, and the Industry Trust will also push the campaign through digital, PR, social media and outdoor.
Peter Taylor, MD of Sony Pictures Releasing UK, said: “We have been working with the Industry Trust since it was created - almost ten years ago. This is the first time we’ve collaborated on an exclusive trailer for the...
- 2/21/2014
- ScreenDaily
Women swap skyscraper shoes for brogues and pumps as designers and style icons alike reject the agony of high heels
When actress Emma Thompson walked shoeless on to the stage at the Golden Globes, she confirmed what the rest of us have known for a while. Comfy shoes make sense. Clutching her Christian Louboutin heels in one hand – and a martini in the other – she joked that their trademark red soles were stained with her blood. "I've taken my heels off as a feminist statement really, because why do we wear them? They're so painful. And pointless, really."
With brogues and ballet shoes filling the fashion pages and shops, financial investors have started to take notice. Comfortable shoe brand Hotter, which started life as a slipper manufacturer, has just changed hands for £200m, while the Griggs family, which owned the Dr Martens brand for 50 years, has sold up to private equity giant Permira for £300m.
When actress Emma Thompson walked shoeless on to the stage at the Golden Globes, she confirmed what the rest of us have known for a while. Comfy shoes make sense. Clutching her Christian Louboutin heels in one hand – and a martini in the other – she joked that their trademark red soles were stained with her blood. "I've taken my heels off as a feminist statement really, because why do we wear them? They're so painful. And pointless, really."
With brogues and ballet shoes filling the fashion pages and shops, financial investors have started to take notice. Comfortable shoe brand Hotter, which started life as a slipper manufacturer, has just changed hands for £200m, while the Griggs family, which owned the Dr Martens brand for 50 years, has sold up to private equity giant Permira for £300m.
- 1/26/2014
- by Zoe Wood
- The Guardian - Film News
Los Angeles, Jan. 9, 2014 — The Society of Camera Operators (Soc) will present its Camera Operator of the Year Awards at their Annual Awards Event, as announced today by Soc Vice President and Awards Executive Producer David Frederick, Soc. The black-tie celebration announcing the winners will be held on February 15, 2014 at the Skirball Cultural Center. The Soc donates all proceeds from the Awards Event to the Vision Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to help children overcome their vision deficits. As previously announced, this year.s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients are Chris Haarhoff, Soc/Camera Operator (Saving Private Ryan, Fight Club, Almost Famous), William Coe/Camera Technician (The Avengers, J. Edgar, Jersey Boys), Barry Wetcher, Smpsp/Still Photographer (Goodfellas, Quiz Show, Sherlock Holmes) and Jack Carpenter/Mobile Camera Platform Operator (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Crash, The Matrix). The Distinguished Service Award recipient is Stan McClain, Soc (National Security, Almost Famous, Any Given Sunday...
- 1/9/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Stage and screen actor known for playing battle-axe aunts, village gossips and servants
When Mel Brooks visited the film set of Up at the Villa (2000), in which his wife, Anne Bancroft, was starring, he proclaimed Barbara Hicks, who has died aged 89, the funniest woman he had ever met. This stalwart character actor, always lodged some way down any cast list as if to prove the truth of Stanislavski's dictum that there are no small parts, only small actors, was a fund of stories, many of them unprintable. And Hicks, though slight of build, with a long face and asymmetrical features, was certainly not a small actor.
As another admirer, Alan Bennett, once told her wistfully: "When you go, Barbara, there'll be a terrible hole in Spotlight." And so there is, for since first appearing on television in 1962 playing Miss Print, a comedy sidekick to Richard Hearne's popular Mr Pastry,...
When Mel Brooks visited the film set of Up at the Villa (2000), in which his wife, Anne Bancroft, was starring, he proclaimed Barbara Hicks, who has died aged 89, the funniest woman he had ever met. This stalwart character actor, always lodged some way down any cast list as if to prove the truth of Stanislavski's dictum that there are no small parts, only small actors, was a fund of stories, many of them unprintable. And Hicks, though slight of build, with a long face and asymmetrical features, was certainly not a small actor.
As another admirer, Alan Bennett, once told her wistfully: "When you go, Barbara, there'll be a terrible hole in Spotlight." And so there is, for since first appearing on television in 1962 playing Miss Print, a comedy sidekick to Richard Hearne's popular Mr Pastry,...
- 11/7/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
From Formula One to football and boxing to baseball, here are the big screen's finest sport sagas
Rush
Don't get excited, Liverpool fans: director Ron Howard's latest film isn't about the Reds' all-time leading scorer Ian Rush and his rubbish 'tache. Instead, it tells the extraordinary story of the 1976 Formula One season, dominated by the battle between dashing British playboy driver James Hunt (played by Chris "Thor" Hemsworth) and austere Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel "Good Bye, Lenin!" Brühl). After a near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring, Lauda returned just six weeks later, his horrific scalp burns still bandaged and bleeding, to defend his world title. It's scripted by Peter Morgan, who's made a career out of dramatising real events in the likes of The Queen and Frost/Nixon.
The Damned United
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the country. But I'm in the top one." Director Tom Hooper...
Rush
Don't get excited, Liverpool fans: director Ron Howard's latest film isn't about the Reds' all-time leading scorer Ian Rush and his rubbish 'tache. Instead, it tells the extraordinary story of the 1976 Formula One season, dominated by the battle between dashing British playboy driver James Hunt (played by Chris "Thor" Hemsworth) and austere Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel "Good Bye, Lenin!" Brühl). After a near-fatal crash at the Nürburgring, Lauda returned just six weeks later, his horrific scalp burns still bandaged and bleeding, to defend his world title. It's scripted by Peter Morgan, who's made a career out of dramatising real events in the likes of The Queen and Frost/Nixon.
The Damned United
"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the country. But I'm in the top one." Director Tom Hooper...
- 9/7/2013
- by Michael Hogan
- The Guardian - Film News
Authorities were conducting an air and marine search Thursday off Australia's east coast for two cruise passengers who were believed to have fallen overboard the night before. The couple, Australian citizens from New South Wales state, were discovered missing Thursday morning after the Carnival Spirit docked at Sydney's Circular Quay, at the end of a 10-day journey, said New South Wales Police Superintendent Mark Hutchings. He said surveillance camera footage showed that the couple - a 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman whose names have not been released - fell from the ship's mid deck Wednesday night, when the ship...
- 5/9/2013
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
New Delhi, April 9: Indian cricket's master blaster Sachin Tendulkar now has an animated avatar. It will be seen in "Master Blasters", a 3D action, comedy and adventure TV animation series.
In the show, the animated Sachin is appointed by the Programme for International Training of Cricket Heroes (Pitch) to head a cricket camp and mentor 12 young cricketers from around the world.
A dog will accompany them too. Another cricket camp will be headed by an animtaed version of cricketer Peter Taylor, who will compete with Sachin's team members. Sachin is excited.
"I have always been fascinated with the world of animation and have enjoyed watching it with my children. The challenge for the production team will be to ensure.
In the show, the animated Sachin is appointed by the Programme for International Training of Cricket Heroes (Pitch) to head a cricket camp and mentor 12 young cricketers from around the world.
A dog will accompany them too. Another cricket camp will be headed by an animtaed version of cricketer Peter Taylor, who will compete with Sachin's team members. Sachin is excited.
"I have always been fascinated with the world of animation and have enjoyed watching it with my children. The challenge for the production team will be to ensure.
- 4/9/2013
- by Amith Ostwal
- RealBollywood.com
James Bond has beaten the blue aliens of Avatar to claim the cinematic crown in the UK.
It was today announced that the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, has broken box office records to become Britain's biggest film of all time - in just 40 days.
Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment said Skyfall was now the highest grossing film in UK history.
Daniel Craig's latest 007 adventure has taken a staggering £94,277,612 at the UK box office in just 40 days on release, overtaking Avatar's lifetime gross of £94,025,632 million during 11 months on release in UK cinemas.
Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond adventure, continues the longest running and most successful franchise in film history, opening in 587 cinemas across the UK and Ireland on October 26. It is still on general release.
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said "We're overwhelmed with gratitude to the cinema-going audiences in the UK who have made...
It was today announced that the latest Bond movie, Skyfall, has broken box office records to become Britain's biggest film of all time - in just 40 days.
Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment said Skyfall was now the highest grossing film in UK history.
Daniel Craig's latest 007 adventure has taken a staggering £94,277,612 at the UK box office in just 40 days on release, overtaking Avatar's lifetime gross of £94,025,632 million during 11 months on release in UK cinemas.
Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond adventure, continues the longest running and most successful franchise in film history, opening in 587 cinemas across the UK and Ireland on October 26. It is still on general release.
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said "We're overwhelmed with gratitude to the cinema-going audiences in the UK who have made...
- 12/5/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
London, 5th December – Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment are delighted to announce that Skyfall has made history in the UK and become the highest grossing film of all time.
Skyfall has now taken a staggering £94,277,612 at the UK box office in just 40 days on release, making box office history and overtaking the record previously held by Avatar which had a lifetime gross of £94,025, 632 million during 11 months on release in UK cinemas.
Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond adventure, continuing the longest running and most successful franchise in film history, opened in 587 cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Friday 26th October, and is still on general release.
In response to this fantastic news, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said “We’re overwhelmed with gratitude to the cinema-going audiences in the UK who have made Skyfall the highest grossing film of all time. We are very proud...
Skyfall has now taken a staggering £94,277,612 at the UK box office in just 40 days on release, making box office history and overtaking the record previously held by Avatar which had a lifetime gross of £94,025, 632 million during 11 months on release in UK cinemas.
Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond adventure, continuing the longest running and most successful franchise in film history, opened in 587 cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Friday 26th October, and is still on general release.
In response to this fantastic news, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said “We’re overwhelmed with gratitude to the cinema-going audiences in the UK who have made Skyfall the highest grossing film of all time. We are very proud...
- 12/5/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Skyfall Smashes UK Box Office Record To Become Biggest Film Of All Time Bond Makes History In Just 40 Days London, 5th December – Eon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Sony Pictures Entertainment are delighted to announce that Skyfall has made history in the UK and become the highest grossing film of all time. Skyfall has now taken a staggering £94,277,612 at the UK box office in just 40 days on release, making box office history and overtaking the record previously held by Avatar which had a lifetime gross of £94,025,632 during 11 months on release in UK cinemas. Skyfall, the 23rd James Bond adventure, continuing the longest running and most successful franchise in film history, opened in 587 cinemas across the UK and Ireland on Friday 26th October, and is still on general release. ... Peter Taylor, Managing Director, Sony Pictures Releasing UK also commented “We are delighted that cinemagoers have so enthusiastically embraced Skyfall in such an incredible way.
- 12/5/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
It’s been storming the UK box-office ever since it was released on October 26th and now, just 6 weeks later, it’s officially taken the #1 spot from James Cameron’s 2009 movie Avatar. This feat is rather impressive especially since the takings for Skyfall are minus any 3D sales since the movie was shot in the traditional way. Both films did find a home at IMAX so ticket sales will have been slightly higher there but it’s the 3d element that has really impressed.
Avatar’s total was previously held at £94m and Skyfall has now made the rather precise figure of 94,277,612 in just 40 days. So pleased this movie has done so well. It’s gone back to simple film-making with a simple story told brilliantly by all involved. Surely with this latest news, Director Sam Mendes is a dead cert to return in James Bond 24?
Have you seen Skyfall?...
Avatar’s total was previously held at £94m and Skyfall has now made the rather precise figure of 94,277,612 in just 40 days. So pleased this movie has done so well. It’s gone back to simple film-making with a simple story told brilliantly by all involved. Surely with this latest news, Director Sam Mendes is a dead cert to return in James Bond 24?
Have you seen Skyfall?...
- 12/5/2012
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
News Limited’s restructure has continued with the creation of a new “seven-day superdesk structure” for editorial in Victoria while a reported 45 photographers are to be made redundant nationally.
The Victorian restructure is the latest move to the company’s one city, one newsroom” vision outlined by News Limited boss Kim Williams.
All of the new positions will report in to Herald Sun editor Damon Johnston and Herald Sun weekend editor Jill Baker.
The new roles, announced in a statement from News, are as follows:
Head of News
Ellen Whinnett will become the master of the engine room and key content driver. She will be responsible for identifying and developing local content, ensuring the right content mix and managing quality control. With an acute understanding of consumer needs and interest, she will determine the channel and time for publication. This role co-ordinates with local and network peers to ensure content...
The Victorian restructure is the latest move to the company’s one city, one newsroom” vision outlined by News Limited boss Kim Williams.
All of the new positions will report in to Herald Sun editor Damon Johnston and Herald Sun weekend editor Jill Baker.
The new roles, announced in a statement from News, are as follows:
Head of News
Ellen Whinnett will become the master of the engine room and key content driver. She will be responsible for identifying and developing local content, ensuring the right content mix and managing quality control. With an acute understanding of consumer needs and interest, she will determine the channel and time for publication. This role co-ordinates with local and network peers to ensure content...
- 8/16/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
In the second part of this engrossing series, reporter Peter Taylor contented himself with asking of the modern security services two deceptively simple questions - how far may spies go to protect us from a terrorist attack, and is there a licence to kill?
As with last week's episode, the programme first showed the glamorous images of spies weâ.re used to on TV and film, where itâ.s all state-of-the-art technology and limitless powers to do with it as they will.
The reality is that to be effective, surveillance often needs to be intrusive, into the personal lives of a minority, and this must be weighed against the servicesâ. remit to protect the majority.
This tightrope is obviously walked on a daily basis, and it was comforting to see how reflective the people responsible for such glass-against-the-wall activities are. Phrases such as â.proportionate responseâ. rolled off the tongues of intelligence officers while,...
As with last week's episode, the programme first showed the glamorous images of spies weâ.re used to on TV and film, where itâ.s all state-of-the-art technology and limitless powers to do with it as they will.
The reality is that to be effective, surveillance often needs to be intrusive, into the personal lives of a minority, and this must be weighed against the servicesâ. remit to protect the majority.
This tightrope is obviously walked on a daily basis, and it was comforting to see how reflective the people responsible for such glass-against-the-wall activities are. Phrases such as â.proportionate responseâ. rolled off the tongues of intelligence officers while,...
- 4/9/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Aol TV.
‘Arthur Christmas’ Slays ‘Em In The UK Sony Pictures Animation and Aardman’s Arthur Christmas jumped to the top of the UK box office this weekend – in its fourth week of release. This bit of holiday magic came courtesy of a £1.9 million weekend take for a cume of £11.5 million. The film has been holding steady in second place since it bowed on November 11 and this weekend faced off against Happy Feet Two for the family audience. Largely positive notices and the British voice cast — including James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton — have no doubt been a local draw. Sony Pictures Releasing UK’s Peter Taylor said: “Opening a movie at No. 1 in such a competitive market as the UK is difficult enough, but to reach the top of the chart in the fourth week of release is almost unprecedented. We are all delighted.” Tom Hooper...
- 12/6/2011
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Family film Arthur Christmas has topped the UK box office in its fourth week of release, it was announced today.
Peter Taylor, managing director of Sony Pictures Releasing UK, said: "Opening a movie at No1 in such a competitive market as the UK is difficult enough but to reach the top of the chart in the fourth week of release is almost unprecedented. We are all delighted."
The film has now taken £11.5million to date in the UK, including £2.5m (giving it second place) on its debut weekend, £2.3million (keeping it in second place) on its second weekend, £2.11m (again retaining second place) on its third weekend, and £1.9m this past weekend.
Arthur Christmas is a production of Bristol animation studio Aardman, whose work includes Morph, Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, and was the first project to arise from its feature film deal with Sony.
Directed by Sarah Smith,...
Peter Taylor, managing director of Sony Pictures Releasing UK, said: "Opening a movie at No1 in such a competitive market as the UK is difficult enough but to reach the top of the chart in the fourth week of release is almost unprecedented. We are all delighted."
The film has now taken £11.5million to date in the UK, including £2.5m (giving it second place) on its debut weekend, £2.3million (keeping it in second place) on its second weekend, £2.11m (again retaining second place) on its third weekend, and £1.9m this past weekend.
Arthur Christmas is a production of Bristol animation studio Aardman, whose work includes Morph, Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Chicken Run, and was the first project to arise from its feature film deal with Sony.
Directed by Sarah Smith,...
- 12/5/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Tom Hooper may not pick up the award for best director but Academy Awards matter less to such a high achiever, says Catherine Shoard
The odds are that Tom Hooper won't be named best director this Sunday. What that will make him, by default, is the year's most discreet. For although the cast, composer and writer of The King's Speech seem shoo-ins – and the film itself may well win best picture – Hooper himself looks likely to lose out.
An insult? Was he really the one thing that let the side down? No: it's a compliment. Hooper has helmed an awards-gorger of a movie, an underdog the size of a bus that's steamrollered the competition into submission, and no one really noticed there was a driver. A story in last week's Evening Standard said that "Peter Hooper" was irked by accusations of historical inaccuracy. This is the man behind the biggest Britflick in years.
The odds are that Tom Hooper won't be named best director this Sunday. What that will make him, by default, is the year's most discreet. For although the cast, composer and writer of The King's Speech seem shoo-ins – and the film itself may well win best picture – Hooper himself looks likely to lose out.
An insult? Was he really the one thing that let the side down? No: it's a compliment. Hooper has helmed an awards-gorger of a movie, an underdog the size of a bus that's steamrollered the competition into submission, and no one really noticed there was a driver. A story in last week's Evening Standard said that "Peter Hooper" was irked by accusations of historical inaccuracy. This is the man behind the biggest Britflick in years.
- 2/25/2011
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Hooper’s film The King’s Speech is out in UK cinemas on the 7th of January and is the perfect way to start your cinematic year.
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush take the lead in the story of King George VI’s reluctant ascension to the throne and the crucial relationship he strikes up with speech therapist Lionel Logue to tame the stammer which threatens to undermine his presence as King as he is thrust before his subjects under intense public scrutiny at a point in history when the people need a monarch to lead.
I had the chance to sit down with Hooper who was very keen to play up the collaborative nature of the film’s development, including his work with Firth and Rush on the all important central relationship and how this creative partnership extended beyond the filming. Hooper’s humility and considered opinion of...
Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush take the lead in the story of King George VI’s reluctant ascension to the throne and the crucial relationship he strikes up with speech therapist Lionel Logue to tame the stammer which threatens to undermine his presence as King as he is thrust before his subjects under intense public scrutiny at a point in history when the people need a monarch to lead.
I had the chance to sit down with Hooper who was very keen to play up the collaborative nature of the film’s development, including his work with Firth and Rush on the all important central relationship and how this creative partnership extended beyond the filming. Hooper’s humility and considered opinion of...
- 1/3/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Since its debut at the Telluride Film Festival, “The King’s Speech” has collected numerous accolades for the film, its director Tom Hooper, and the filmmaker’s illustrious cast. Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter have been recognized by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, to name but a few.
Yet, there’s one nod Hooper has not received: A vote of confidence from the royal family.
“We still don’t even know if the Queen has watched ‘The Queen,’” Hooper told me during a recent one-on-one interview. “And that was five years ago, Sadly, I think it’s unlikely that I will get to find out whether she’s watched this or not. But if you or another member of the press ever do find out, please ring me up.”
As Hooper...
Hollywoodnews.com: Since its debut at the Telluride Film Festival, “The King’s Speech” has collected numerous accolades for the film, its director Tom Hooper, and the filmmaker’s illustrious cast. Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter have been recognized by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, to name but a few.
Yet, there’s one nod Hooper has not received: A vote of confidence from the royal family.
“We still don’t even know if the Queen has watched ‘The Queen,’” Hooper told me during a recent one-on-one interview. “And that was five years ago, Sadly, I think it’s unlikely that I will get to find out whether she’s watched this or not. But if you or another member of the press ever do find out, please ring me up.”
As Hooper...
- 12/22/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
If you are not a fan of English soccer, you won't fully appreciate the qualities of The Damned United. That's too bad because this splendidly acted film provides a lesson in technically excellent filmmaking. Unfortunately, while it may appear to be biographical tale of one of England’s greatest soccer managers, it takes too many liberties with the truth to get away without a caution.
Want to know more? The Damned United focuses on a brief period in the managerial career of Brian Clough, one of English soccer's most outspoken and opinionated team managers. He was also the only manager to take a team (Nottingham Forest) to the final of the prestigious European Cup (now the European Champions League) two years in a row and win both times.
Clough enjoyed success early in his managerial career at Derby County. He had previously played for his home town of Middlesborough and...
Want to know more? The Damned United focuses on a brief period in the managerial career of Brian Clough, one of English soccer's most outspoken and opinionated team managers. He was also the only manager to take a team (Nottingham Forest) to the final of the prestigious European Cup (now the European Champions League) two years in a row and win both times.
Clough enjoyed success early in his managerial career at Derby County. He had previously played for his home town of Middlesborough and...
- 3/11/2010
- CinemaSpy
The Informant!: "Many of Steven Soderbergh's films in the past eight or nine years can be understood in light of the director asking himself a different hypothetical question: What if I made a slick caper movie cobbled from the emotional remnants of the 1960s? What if I made a stilted, form-driven science-fiction movie cobbled together from the emotional remnants of the 1970s? What if I made a historical drama using period filming techniques cobbled together from the emotional remnants of the 1940s? Etc., etc. Where Soderbergh's earlier films seemed genuinely interested in examining what it meant to pick a certain storytelling approach while never losing sight of the central narrative, his later work is often willfully unclassifiable, as in the deeply flawed and navel-gazing Ocean's Twelve or the passion project Che. But with The Informant!, Soderbergh's finally made a movie that doesn't know whether it's a limp comedy or a slack thriller.
- 2/23/2010
- by Intern Rusty
The Damned United is a sports film but it’s not really about sports. If you’re looking for one of those movies about the underdog team who defeats the odds and achieves a rousing and inspirational come-from-behind victory, look elsewhere. Instead The Damned United tells the true story of Brian Clough, one of the most famous British football (that’s soccer to you and me) managers ever and focuses on the brief period in 1974 where he ran one of the most popular soccer teams in England, Leeds United, and how he was able to achieve that position. The Damned United has been a big hit in England, but since most Americans don’t give a crap about soccer, and much of the dialog represents the inside politics of the sport, I can’t imagine it finding much of an audience this side of the Atlantic. It’s produced with...
- 11/27/2009
- by Tom
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Whether playing former Prime Minister Tony Blair (The Queen) or talk show host David Frost (Frost/Nixon), veteran actor Michael Sheen has become known to American audiences for playing an incredibly versatile range of characters from werewolves to now, football coaches. Though football -- oops, soccer to us Americans -- hasn't won the legion of fans that are found worldwide, director Tom Hooper's The Damned United tells a story that is virtually universal in the world of sports. Hell, it's universal to men everywhere. In the film, Sheen plays legendary coach Brian Clough whose powerful alliance with coach Peter Taylor (Tim Spall) -- his right hand man -- forges such a deep and abiding friendship that it leads them to success and a totally platonic love affair. Though men don't bond the way women do with their history of kaffee klatches and...
- 10/14/2009
- by Brad Balfour
- Huffington Post
Timothy Spall and Michael Sheen in The Damned United
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics After seeing the trailer I thought The Damned United looked like the British version of some crappy American sports drama. How wrong I was. After making known my initial read of the film to others that had seen it I was set straight and urged to give it a shot, and I'm glad I did. This hardly qualifies as a sports movie as much as it is a personal drama about a cocky man whose ego got the best of him and Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall turn in excellent performances along the way.
Spanning approximately ten years from the 1960s to mid-1970s, The Damned United focuses its attention on Brian Clough (Sheen) as he settles in to manage the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. He is stepping into the shoes of Don Revie...
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics After seeing the trailer I thought The Damned United looked like the British version of some crappy American sports drama. How wrong I was. After making known my initial read of the film to others that had seen it I was set straight and urged to give it a shot, and I'm glad I did. This hardly qualifies as a sports movie as much as it is a personal drama about a cocky man whose ego got the best of him and Michael Sheen and Timothy Spall turn in excellent performances along the way.
Spanning approximately ten years from the 1960s to mid-1970s, The Damned United focuses its attention on Brian Clough (Sheen) as he settles in to manage the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. He is stepping into the shoes of Don Revie...
- 10/9/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Damned United
Starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, and Jim Broadbent
Directed by Tom Hooper
Rated R
By and large, the sport we call soccer has never fully caught on in the United States. It's football everywhere else in the world, and we know why we don't call it the same thing here. And as much as we love American football, we simply can't compare to the rabid loyalty international football enjoys among its native fans.
Perhaps nowhere is the love of the game so fiercely expressed than in the UK, the setting for the new import The Damned United, which stars Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) as legendary coach Brian Clough.
But during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Clough was not so legendary, and his time spend with Leeds United would not ordinarilly seem like the sort of thing you'd make a movie about. In American terms, it would...
Starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, and Jim Broadbent
Directed by Tom Hooper
Rated R
By and large, the sport we call soccer has never fully caught on in the United States. It's football everywhere else in the world, and we know why we don't call it the same thing here. And as much as we love American football, we simply can't compare to the rabid loyalty international football enjoys among its native fans.
Perhaps nowhere is the love of the game so fiercely expressed than in the UK, the setting for the new import The Damned United, which stars Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) as legendary coach Brian Clough.
But during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Clough was not so legendary, and his time spend with Leeds United would not ordinarilly seem like the sort of thing you'd make a movie about. In American terms, it would...
- 10/9/2009
- by Colin Boyd
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Michael Sheen is an excellent interview, not that he hasn't had the practice. Coming off an acclaimed turn as journalist David Frost in last year's "Frost/Nixon," Sheen once again plays a man who sits in judgment as Brian Clough, the brash soccer manager given to tossing out bon mots like "Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job" before he's humbled by a disastrous 44-day stint in charge of the revered Leeds United squad in 1974. Although Clough spends much of "The Damned United" in the hot seat, Sheen clearly relishes playing the alternately cocky and vulnerable tactician who struggles in the shadow of his successful predecessor Don Revie (Colm Meaney) and without the help of his trusted assistant Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall), who's since moved on to coach another team. Although Sheen was already comfortable on the practice pitch -- he was recruited to...
- 10/8/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
The Damned United
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Cast: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Plot: Brian Clough (Sheen), a successful manager of a growing football team in England, is hired to manage his once rival team to the top of the ranks.
Who’S It For? Fans of the sport who are familiar with Brian Clough certainly owe it to themselves to see a movie based more on his ego than his win records. But for most of us (in America, anyway), those who can appreciate a strong character study should take a chance on the type of sports film not often made stateside.
Expectations: Before going into The Damned United, I only knew it was about soccer (or futbol to be geographically correct). I assumed that this was going to be an entertaining but crass movie, a rollicking, somewhat typical sports flick.
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Cast: Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: R
Release Date: October 2, 2009
Plot: Brian Clough (Sheen), a successful manager of a growing football team in England, is hired to manage his once rival team to the top of the ranks.
Who’S It For? Fans of the sport who are familiar with Brian Clough certainly owe it to themselves to see a movie based more on his ego than his win records. But for most of us (in America, anyway), those who can appreciate a strong character study should take a chance on the type of sports film not often made stateside.
Expectations: Before going into The Damned United, I only knew it was about soccer (or futbol to be geographically correct). I assumed that this was going to be an entertaining but crass movie, a rollicking, somewhat typical sports flick.
- 10/2/2009
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 10-19 this year and on hand will be a ton of films vying for distribution or hoping to get some early word of mouth to ensure their fall and winter releases satisfy the box-office expectations or guide the way to an Oscar nomination. As a result, we here at RopeofSilicon have received 73 new images from 18 of the films that will be screening at this year's festival and these films include the likes of everything from Niki Caro's The Vintner's Luck to Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare at Goats, two Werner Herzog pictures in The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Calls New Orleans and My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, as well as something for horror fans with new looks at Jennifer's Body as well as a gallery for [Rec] 2. Along with each preview over the following four pages...
- 8/18/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
While this short announcement may not contain 8 films, it packs quite a punch. Why? It includes the latest from auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet which is now being called Micmacs (trailer). To say we're looking forward to this is an understatement as the man has done some of the most brilliant film of our time, specifically Amelie, and The City of Lost Children.
On a side note, Joe Dante's remake of The Hole is getting huge play now. It's premiering at Venice and having it's North American premier at Tiff. I would of completely ignored this film, but with all this major fest play, maybe it's quite brilliant? What gives?
Full list after the break.
Galas
The Damned United Tom Hooper, United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Set in 1960's and 1970's England, this is the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning...
On a side note, Joe Dante's remake of The Hole is getting huge play now. It's premiering at Venice and having it's North American premier at Tiff. I would of completely ignored this film, but with all this major fest play, maybe it's quite brilliant? What gives?
Full list after the break.
Galas
The Damned United Tom Hooper, United Kingdom
North American Premiere
Set in 1960's and 1970's England, this is the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning...
- 7/30/2009
- QuietEarth.us
- Worse than a buffet line in Texas, the added eight titles announced today (four Gala and four Special Presentations) only reminds me of the gargantuan size of the Toronto Film Festival. Once again, it may be difficult to get to do everything one wants to do in terms of coverage, but with so many quality offerings I get a sense that I'll encounter the future Goodbye Solos and The Hurt Lockers (among the tops of the year so far that were shown at Tiff in 08') without even trying. Among the most anticipated titles we have is the Micmacs film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a comedy that I thought was pegged for a Venice world preem but instead is showing in Toronto first. We have a friends of the festival in Dagur Kari who returns to Tiff with the Paul Dano and Brian Cox pairing and Fatih Akin will jump
- 7/30/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Apparently Michael Sheen just can't keep his name out of the news cycle as we now have the trailer for the soccer drama The Damned United set to be released on September 25 from Sony Pictures Classics. In the film Sheen stars as Brian Clough tellling the story of his doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. The film looks like another generic sports story, but the talent involved says otherwise as it stars Sheen as well as Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney and Jim Broadbent with a script adaptation by Peter Morgan (The Queen) and Tom Hooper ("John Adams") directing. Sounds like it's worth a shot to me. Watch the trailer below and see what you think or check it out in high definition at Apple. Set in 1960's and 1970's England, "The Damned United" tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian...
- 7/30/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
- There were no pick-up announcements that were made by Sony Picture Classics with regards to Tom Hoopers' The Damned United since the true story attracted Sony Pictures early on, pushing the distributor to grab the world rights to the football/soccer pic. To be released on on the 25th of September (a week after Spc releases Coco Avant Chanel) this features Michel Sheen playing yet again another real person role (he of course played British Prime Minister Tony Blair, not once but soon to be twice and was the one that duked it out with a former U.S. president in both the play, and feature film versions of Frost/Nixon. Adapted from David Peace's novel and written by Peter Morgan, this is about the legendary English soccer coach Brian Clough (Sheen). Tim Spall will take the role of his sidekick Peter Taylor, Colm Meaney will play rival coach Don Revie,
- 7/16/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Actor Timothy Spall's leukaemia battle in 1996 killed his passion for soccer - because he was forced to spend a summer watching England compete in Euro '96.
The longtime Crystal Palace fan admits he hasn't been able to enjoy the sport ever since he spent months watching every game while he fought cancer of the blood.
Spall, who plays former Nottingham Forest assistant manager Peter Taylor in a new British biopic of late soccer manager Brian Clough, says, "When I got ill, I spent most of the summer at home watching the Euros and though England cheered me up, I got very depressed by all the diving, all the cheating and all the loony thuggery.
"I thought, 'I've got more important things to worry about than this,' and it's not really been the same for me since."...
The longtime Crystal Palace fan admits he hasn't been able to enjoy the sport ever since he spent months watching every game while he fought cancer of the blood.
Spall, who plays former Nottingham Forest assistant manager Peter Taylor in a new British biopic of late soccer manager Brian Clough, says, "When I got ill, I spent most of the summer at home watching the Euros and though England cheered me up, I got very depressed by all the diving, all the cheating and all the loony thuggery.
"I thought, 'I've got more important things to worry about than this,' and it's not really been the same for me since."...
- 5/10/2009
- WENN
Much as we love Simon Pegg, it's possible that they missed a trick when they cast How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, because on the evidence of this exclusive clip from The Damned United Michael Sheen could alienate anybody - at least when playing legendary football manager Brian Clough.The film focuses on Clough's brief but action-packed tenure as manager of Leeds United in the 1970s, but this clip sees him talking to Sam Longson (Jim Broadbent), the chairman of his previous club Derby County. That's Clough's right-hand man Peter Taylor (Timothy Spall) waiting in the background - and we feel it's safe to say that this scene signals a deterioration in the relations between Clough and Longson. The Damned United is out on March 27 here, so this will have to keep you going for the next week or so.
- 3/18/2009
- EmpireOnline
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