BBC Films appoints Film4 executive to lead role.
Film4 head of creative Rose Garnett has been appointed director of BBC Films.
Garnett has served as head of creative at Film4 since 2015, working on titles including Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette and Andrea Arnold’s American Honey as well as upcoming titles such as Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Clio Barnard’s Dark River and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.
She began her time at Film4 as head of development in 2014 before being promoted to head of editorial.
Garnett previously worked in theatre. She and writer-director David Farr ran the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill where they commissioned and worked with writers and directors including Lee Hall, Tracy Letts, Dominic Cook and Sarah Kane.
As previously reported by Screen, Garnett was one of the leading candidates for the job, though long-running BBC Films executive Joe Oppenheimer, who has served...
Film4 head of creative Rose Garnett has been appointed director of BBC Films.
Garnett has served as head of creative at Film4 since 2015, working on titles including Lenny Abrahamson’s Room, Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette and Andrea Arnold’s American Honey as well as upcoming titles such as Sebastian Lelio’s Disobedience, Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Clio Barnard’s Dark River and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite.
She began her time at Film4 as head of development in 2014 before being promoted to head of editorial.
Garnett previously worked in theatre. She and writer-director David Farr ran the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill where they commissioned and worked with writers and directors including Lee Hall, Tracy Letts, Dominic Cook and Sarah Kane.
As previously reported by Screen, Garnett was one of the leading candidates for the job, though long-running BBC Films executive Joe Oppenheimer, who has served...
- 2/27/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff) and EuropaCorp announced today that the 32nd edition of the festival will close with the Lone Scherfig (An Education, The Riot Club) directed comedic drama Their Finest at the Arlington Theatre on Saturday, February 11, 2017 in anticipation of the film’s March 24th theatrical release.
Their Finest is written by Gaby Chiappe, based on the novel by Lissa Evans and stars Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia), Sam Claflin (Me Before You), Bill Nighy (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Franchise), Jack Huston (American Hustle), and Richard E. Grant (Bram Stoker’s Dracula).
Sbiff Executive Director Roger Durling stated, “Lone’s deeply touching film is authentic, funny and depicts the power that cinema has to bring people together and share their stories. It was the perfect choice to close this year’s festival.”
The year is 1940, Britain. With the nation devastated by the war, the British ministry...
Their Finest is written by Gaby Chiappe, based on the novel by Lissa Evans and stars Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia), Sam Claflin (Me Before You), Bill Nighy (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Franchise), Jack Huston (American Hustle), and Richard E. Grant (Bram Stoker’s Dracula).
Sbiff Executive Director Roger Durling stated, “Lone’s deeply touching film is authentic, funny and depicts the power that cinema has to bring people together and share their stories. It was the perfect choice to close this year’s festival.”
The year is 1940, Britain. With the nation devastated by the war, the British ministry...
- 10/17/2016
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Robert Shapiro will produce the story of a Jewish piano prodigy who narrowly escapes Nazi-occupied Vienna during the Second World War.
BBC Films and producer Robert Shapiro (Empire Of The Sun) are set to adapt Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen’s 2003 book The Children Of Willesden Lane into a feature.
The project is scripted by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (Race), and produced by Shapiro, with Christine Langan and Ed Wethered executive producing for BBC Films.
The film will tell the true story of Golabek’s mother Lisa Jura, a piano prodigy who narrowly escaped Vienna in 1938 as part of the Kindertransport rescue of Jewish refugee children, and went to England to start a new life.
A stage production, starring Golabek, recently had a sold out run at the St. James Theatre in London, after premiering in the U.S.
Shapiro, an executive producer on Empire Of The Sun, produced Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Black Beauty.
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BBC Films and producer Robert Shapiro (Empire Of The Sun) are set to adapt Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen’s 2003 book The Children Of Willesden Lane into a feature.
The project is scripted by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse (Race), and produced by Shapiro, with Christine Langan and Ed Wethered executive producing for BBC Films.
The film will tell the true story of Golabek’s mother Lisa Jura, a piano prodigy who narrowly escaped Vienna in 1938 as part of the Kindertransport rescue of Jewish refugee children, and went to England to start a new life.
A stage production, starring Golabek, recently had a sold out run at the St. James Theatre in London, after premiering in the U.S.
Shapiro, an executive producer on Empire Of The Sun, produced Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Black Beauty.
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- 3/30/2016
- ScreenDaily
Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) to begin shooting next week.
Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer and Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery have joined Jim Broadbent in the film adaptation of The Sense Of An Ending, Julian Barnes’ 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel.
Broadbent will play divorced retiree Tony Webster, who learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica, left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony parted ways.
Tony’s quest to recover the diary, now in Veronica’s possession, forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his friends and of his younger self.
Also joining the cast are rising British actors Billy Howle, soon to appear opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan in the big screen adaptation of Chekov’s The Seagull; Freya Mavor (Sunshine on Leith, The White Queen); and Joe Alwyn; recently cast as the eponymous star in Ang Lee’s upcoming...
Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer and Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery have joined Jim Broadbent in the film adaptation of The Sense Of An Ending, Julian Barnes’ 2011 Man Booker Prize winning novel.
Broadbent will play divorced retiree Tony Webster, who learns that the mother of his university girlfriend, Veronica, left in her will a diary kept by his best friend who dated Veronica after she and Tony parted ways.
Tony’s quest to recover the diary, now in Veronica’s possession, forces him to revisit his flawed recollections of his friends and of his younger self.
Also joining the cast are rising British actors Billy Howle, soon to appear opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan in the big screen adaptation of Chekov’s The Seagull; Freya Mavor (Sunshine on Leith, The White Queen); and Joe Alwyn; recently cast as the eponymous star in Ang Lee’s upcoming...
- 8/7/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Lone Scherfig to direct BBC Films’ wartime romcom; HanWay to handle worldwide sales.
Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe) has signed on to star as a young screenwriter in a romantic comedy set in wartime London, Their Finest Hour And A Half.
The film, directed by Lone Scherfig (The Riot Club, An Education), will also star Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Bill Nighy (The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Pride), it was announced today.
BBC Films developed and will co-finance the feature, which is being produced by Oscar-nominated Number 9 Films and Wildgaze Films, led by Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) and Amanda Posey (Brooklyn, An Education).
It has been adapted for the screen by Gaby Chiappe - whose script appeared on the 2014 Brit List - from Lissa Evans’s comic and 2009 novel.
Executive producers are Christine Langan and Ed Wethered of BBC Films, which featured the film on its 25th anniversary slate.
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Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Tamara Drewe) has signed on to star as a young screenwriter in a romantic comedy set in wartime London, Their Finest Hour And A Half.
The film, directed by Lone Scherfig (The Riot Club, An Education), will also star Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and Bill Nighy (The Second Best Marigold Hotel, Pride), it was announced today.
BBC Films developed and will co-finance the feature, which is being produced by Oscar-nominated Number 9 Films and Wildgaze Films, led by Stephen Woolley (Carol, Made in Dagenham) and Amanda Posey (Brooklyn, An Education).
It has been adapted for the screen by Gaby Chiappe - whose script appeared on the 2014 Brit List - from Lissa Evans’s comic and 2009 novel.
Executive producers are Christine Langan and Ed Wethered of BBC Films, which featured the film on its 25th anniversary slate.
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- 4/14/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Media Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Face Of An Angel, director Michael Winterbottom’s psychological thriller inspired by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy and the resulting trial of her flatmate, American student Amanda Knox. Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea and Cara Delevingne star in the tale of a film director (Brühl) researching a movie based on a violent Kercher-esque murder case who becomes tormented by the motivations of everyone involved, including himself. The WestEnd Films production premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last month and next hits the London Film Festival this week. Screen Media is planning a day and date release in Q2 of 2015.
The Face Of An Angel is scripted by Paul Viragh and produced by Melissa Parmenter. It’s based on the book Angel Face: The True Story Of Student Killer Amanda Knox by Barbie Latza Nadeau, an...
The Face Of An Angel is scripted by Paul Viragh and produced by Melissa Parmenter. It’s based on the book Angel Face: The True Story Of Student Killer Amanda Knox by Barbie Latza Nadeau, an...
- 10/14/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Screen Media Films has taken Us rights to Michael Winterbottom’s The Face Of An Angel starring Daniel Brühl, Kate Beckinsale, Valerio Mastandrea and Cara Delevingne. In other news, Breaking Glass has picked up Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl.
The film premiered in Toronto and will screen at the London Film Festival on October 18. BBC Films financed alongside Multitrade, Ypsilon Films, Lipsync, Revolution Films and the Tuscan region.
The story centres on a filmmaker who endures torment and a change of focus when he sets out to adapt a book about the trial of an American woman charged with murdering her flatmate. Paul Viragh wrote the screenplay.
Melissa Parmenter produced The Face Of An Angel and the executive producers are Christine Langan, Eric Anidjar, Leon Benarroch, Roberto Mitrani, Norman Merry, Ed Wethered, Anthony Jabre, Reza Safinia and Susana Hornil.
Screen Media negotiated the deal with WestEnd Films and plans a second quarter 2015 release.
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The film premiered in Toronto and will screen at the London Film Festival on October 18. BBC Films financed alongside Multitrade, Ypsilon Films, Lipsync, Revolution Films and the Tuscan region.
The story centres on a filmmaker who endures torment and a change of focus when he sets out to adapt a book about the trial of an American woman charged with murdering her flatmate. Paul Viragh wrote the screenplay.
Melissa Parmenter produced The Face Of An Angel and the executive producers are Christine Langan, Eric Anidjar, Leon Benarroch, Roberto Mitrani, Norman Merry, Ed Wethered, Anthony Jabre, Reza Safinia and Susana Hornil.
Screen Media negotiated the deal with WestEnd Films and plans a second quarter 2015 release.
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- 10/14/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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