Beta Cinema has revealed further sales on its Berlinale and Europe Film Market lineup, including “500 Miles,” “Führer and Seducer,” “Hammarskjöld,” “The Light” and “From Hilde, With Love.”
After a first deal on the upcoming Bill Nighy-roadmovie “500 Miles” with True Brit Ent. for U.K. was announced during the market, Beta Cinema has confirmed further territories have picked up the dramedy: Australia and New Zealand (Kismet), Middle East (Front Row), Italy (Maestro Distribution), Benelux (September Film), Greece (Feelgood) and former Yugoslavia (Discovery). Aardwolf Films picked up worldwide airline rights. BAFTA-winner Morgan Matthews will direct from a script by Malcolm Campbell, based on the novel “Charlie and Me” by Mark Lowery later in 2024. Roman Griffin Davis will star next to Nighy.
The market premiere for “Führer and Seducer” led to new deals with Condor Entertainment for France, Beta Film for Bulgaria and Tfg for Greece. Deals with Spain (A...
After a first deal on the upcoming Bill Nighy-roadmovie “500 Miles” with True Brit Ent. for U.K. was announced during the market, Beta Cinema has confirmed further territories have picked up the dramedy: Australia and New Zealand (Kismet), Middle East (Front Row), Italy (Maestro Distribution), Benelux (September Film), Greece (Feelgood) and former Yugoslavia (Discovery). Aardwolf Films picked up worldwide airline rights. BAFTA-winner Morgan Matthews will direct from a script by Malcolm Campbell, based on the novel “Charlie and Me” by Mark Lowery later in 2024. Roman Griffin Davis will star next to Nighy.
The market premiere for “Führer and Seducer” led to new deals with Condor Entertainment for France, Beta Film for Bulgaria and Tfg for Greece. Deals with Spain (A...
- 3/4/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Picturehouse Entertiainment has picked up From Hilde, With Love, the new drama from German director Andreas Dresen (Stopped on Track) for the U.K. and Ireland, adding to a swath of European deals for the title, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last month.
Liv Lisa Fries (Babylon Berlin) stars in the 1940s-set drama as Hilde Coppi, a member of a left-wing anti-Nazi resistance cell. Beta, which is handling international sales for the movie, previously announced deals for From Hilde, With Love with Haut et Court in France, Teodora in Italy, Angel Film across Scandinavia, September Film for Benelux and Outsider for Portugal, among other deals. Palace Film will release From Hilde, With Love in Australia and New Zealand. Pandora Film Verleih is handling the German release and will bow the movie in German-speaking territories this October.
Beta also announced a series of deals for its upcoming Bill Nighy road movie 500 Miles,...
Liv Lisa Fries (Babylon Berlin) stars in the 1940s-set drama as Hilde Coppi, a member of a left-wing anti-Nazi resistance cell. Beta, which is handling international sales for the movie, previously announced deals for From Hilde, With Love with Haut et Court in France, Teodora in Italy, Angel Film across Scandinavia, September Film for Benelux and Outsider for Portugal, among other deals. Palace Film will release From Hilde, With Love in Australia and New Zealand. Pandora Film Verleih is handling the German release and will bow the movie in German-speaking territories this October.
Beta also announced a series of deals for its upcoming Bill Nighy road movie 500 Miles,...
- 3/4/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: TV and film writers will want to circle this one in their calendars: Poor Things and The Favourite producer Element Pictures is launching Storyhouse, a new Dublin-based screenwriting festival that will celebrate storytellers and storytelling.
Speakers at the first edition include Poor Things writer and Oscar nominee Tony McNamara, Arthur Harari, who won a BAFTA for Anatomy Of A Fall, and Iranian writer-director Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider). Molly Manning Walker (How To Have Sex) will also be there and appear in conversation with Charlotte Regan (Scrapper).
Other highlights include frequent Element collaborator Lenny Abrahamson (Room) interviewing One Day and Patrick Melrose scribe David Nicholls. The festival sessions will run over March 21-22. The venue is Dublin’s Light House Cinema, which is owned by Element co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney.
Storyhouse will cater for aspiring writers as well as established names and industry professionals. Storyhouse Lab,...
Speakers at the first edition include Poor Things writer and Oscar nominee Tony McNamara, Arthur Harari, who won a BAFTA for Anatomy Of A Fall, and Iranian writer-director Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider). Molly Manning Walker (How To Have Sex) will also be there and appear in conversation with Charlotte Regan (Scrapper).
Other highlights include frequent Element collaborator Lenny Abrahamson (Room) interviewing One Day and Patrick Melrose scribe David Nicholls. The festival sessions will run over March 21-22. The venue is Dublin’s Light House Cinema, which is owned by Element co-founders and co-CEOs Andrew Lowe and Ed Guiney.
Storyhouse will cater for aspiring writers as well as established names and industry professionals. Storyhouse Lab,...
- 2/22/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
Zygi Kamasa’s True Brit Entertainment has acquired UK rights to Morgan Matthews’s 500 Miles starring Bill Nighy and Jojo Rabbit’s Roman Griffin Davis from Beta Cinema.
Billed as a road movie with heart, 500 Miles follows two young brothers running away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather (Nighy) on Ireland’s wild west coast.
The film is being prepped to shoot in Kerry, Ireland in the summer.
Matthews, director of X+Y (A Brilliant Young Mind) and documentary Williams, will direct from a script by Malcolm Campbell, based on the novel Charlie And Me by Mark Lowery.
Billed as a road movie with heart, 500 Miles follows two young brothers running away from trouble at home in England to reach their estranged grandfather (Nighy) on Ireland’s wild west coast.
The film is being prepped to shoot in Kerry, Ireland in the summer.
Matthews, director of X+Y (A Brilliant Young Mind) and documentary Williams, will direct from a script by Malcolm Campbell, based on the novel Charlie And Me by Mark Lowery.
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
Battered by disappointing markets at Toronto and AFM, both of which were held under the shadow of the actors strike, buyers and sellers are looking to Berlin’s European Film Market (EFM), which runs Feb. 15-21, to re-energize the indie business. The outlook, coming out of Sundance, is good.
“The difference in Sundance from last year to this was extreme, there were a lot more deals being down, both by distributors and streamers,” says Janina Vislmaier, head of sales at Protagonist Pictures, which screened The Outrun with Saoirse Ronan and Sasquatch Sunset with Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg in Park City, both of which will screen at the EFM. “Everyone is really excited ahead of Berlin, especially because all the buyers are back, including from Asia, which is a really good sign.”
The end of the SAG and WGA strikes hasn’t, yet, delivered the flood of new projects and packages many had predicted,...
“The difference in Sundance from last year to this was extreme, there were a lot more deals being down, both by distributors and streamers,” says Janina Vislmaier, head of sales at Protagonist Pictures, which screened The Outrun with Saoirse Ronan and Sasquatch Sunset with Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg in Park City, both of which will screen at the EFM. “Everyone is really excited ahead of Berlin, especially because all the buyers are back, including from Asia, which is a really good sign.”
The end of the SAG and WGA strikes hasn’t, yet, delivered the flood of new projects and packages many had predicted,...
- 2/13/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The smash hit monster-gore popcorn flick comes to 4K Ultra HD two years and four months after a deluxe Blu-ray, so we do a pointed comparison for purchase-crazy fans that want official sanction for their madness. Happily, you don’t need to be full-moon looney to go for the 4K: David Naughton and Griffin Dunne’s descent into a lycanthropic nightmare is as wrenching as ever.
An American Werewolf in London 4K
4K Ultra-hd
Arrow Video
1981 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date March 15, 2022 / Available from / 59.95
Starring: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Brian Glover, Frank Oz, Sydney Bromley.
Cinematography: Robert Paynter
Art Director: Leslie Dilley
Film Editor: Malcolm Campbell
Original Music: Elmer Bernstein
Special Makeup Effects Designer and Creator: Rick Baker
Produced by George Folsey Jr., Peter Guber, John Peters
Written and Directed by John Landis
The street date for a 4K disc of a certain high-profile...
An American Werewolf in London 4K
4K Ultra-hd
Arrow Video
1981 / B&w / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date March 15, 2022 / Available from / 59.95
Starring: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Brian Glover, Frank Oz, Sydney Bromley.
Cinematography: Robert Paynter
Art Director: Leslie Dilley
Film Editor: Malcolm Campbell
Original Music: Elmer Bernstein
Special Makeup Effects Designer and Creator: Rick Baker
Produced by George Folsey Jr., Peter Guber, John Peters
Written and Directed by John Landis
The street date for a 4K disc of a certain high-profile...
- 3/5/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Clare Dunne stars in and writes this self-empowering story of a battered Dublin cleaner who builds her own house, directed by The Iron Lady’s Phyllida Lloyd
Clare Dunne is the young Irish stage and screen performer who takes a commanding role in this heartfelt and engrossing personal movie: she is the star and co-writer with Malcolm Campbell (who scripted Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did). The director is Phyllida Lloyd, known for mainstream films like Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady, and she shows a confident touch with both the subdued moments, the intestine-clenching spasms of domestic abuse and the big C-major chords of emotional uplift. It’s a really unexpected drama: unexpected for a heartwarmer, unexpected for a tough social-realist picture, these being the two genres in which it finds a Venn overlap.
Sandra (Dunne) is a young woman in Dublin who has had to separate from her...
Clare Dunne is the young Irish stage and screen performer who takes a commanding role in this heartfelt and engrossing personal movie: she is the star and co-writer with Malcolm Campbell (who scripted Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did). The director is Phyllida Lloyd, known for mainstream films like Mamma Mia! and The Iron Lady, and she shows a confident touch with both the subdued moments, the intestine-clenching spasms of domestic abuse and the big C-major chords of emotional uplift. It’s a really unexpected drama: unexpected for a heartwarmer, unexpected for a tough social-realist picture, these being the two genres in which it finds a Venn overlap.
Sandra (Dunne) is a young woman in Dublin who has had to separate from her...
- 9/9/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The Writers Guild of America Awards announced their nominations where big boosts were given to films like “Judas and the Black Messiah” from Shaka King, “Palm Springs” from Max Barbakow and “The White Tiger” from Ramin Bahrani.
Missing from the lineup, that was eligible, are “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” in the original screenplay category and “First Cow” and “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” in the adapted.
The full list of nominations is below:
Original Screenplay
“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas “Palm Springs” (Hulu/Neon) – Screenplay by Andy Siara, Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow “Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Written by Emerald Fennell “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix) – Written by Aaron Sorkin...
Missing from the lineup, that was eligible, are “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” in the original screenplay category and “First Cow” and “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” in the adapted.
The full list of nominations is below:
Original Screenplay
“Judas and the Black Messiah” (Warner Bros) – Screenplay by Will Berson & Shaka King, Story by Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas “Palm Springs” (Hulu/Neon) – Screenplay by Andy Siara, Story by Andy Siara & Max Barbakow “Promising Young Woman” (Focus Features) – Written by Emerald Fennell “Sound of Metal” (Amazon Studios) – Screenplay by Darius Marder & Abraham Marder, Story by Darius Marder & Derek Cianfrance “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (Netflix) – Written by Aaron Sorkin...
- 2/16/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Irish actress Clare Dunne stars in Herself, a harrowing drama about a single mother who, after escaping an abusive partner, aims to rebuild her life in a unique manner. After months of struggling with the welfare and housing systems, she comes upon the idea of self-building an affordable home and, with the help of friends and neighbors, rebuilds her life and theirs from the ground up.
“I just had a friend who was basically in that similar situation,” Dunne says during the Amazon Studios film’s panel at Deadline’s Contender Film awards-season event. “She didn’t go on to build a house like Sandra, but I was inspired by, I suppose, the injustice of it all.”
The pic, which had its world premiere at last year’s Sundance festival, marks the first feature from director Phyllida Lloyd since 2011’s Iron Lady. Lloyd, who previously worked with Dunne in an...
“I just had a friend who was basically in that similar situation,” Dunne says during the Amazon Studios film’s panel at Deadline’s Contender Film awards-season event. “She didn’t go on to build a house like Sandra, but I was inspired by, I suppose, the injustice of it all.”
The pic, which had its world premiere at last year’s Sundance festival, marks the first feature from director Phyllida Lloyd since 2011’s Iron Lady. Lloyd, who previously worked with Dunne in an...
- 1/23/2021
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Photo: 'Herself'/Amazon Studios The first shot of a film is always the most important. Within the first few seconds of ‘Herself’, the camera already tells us exactly what this story is going to be about. Flanked by her two girls we discover Sandra, a mother who’d spend the entirety of the movie discovering herself and the meaning of family, as the blurred shot teaming into focus relays to us. Guilded with a birthmark under her left eye, Sandra is played by one of the stories writers, Clare Dunne, who shares the credit with writer Malcolm Campbell. Related article: Oscar Buzz – ‘Pieces of a Woman’: Vanessa Kirby is Powerful, Raw and Intimate in this Silent Portrayal of Tragedy Related article: Carey Mulligan’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ Makes A Promise To All Women In Their Quest For Justice Sharing the producers as ‘Room’, the film reeks of the same...
- 1/11/2021
- by Tyler Bey
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
As we begin to pack away the holiday decorations and head back to the mall for the inevitable returns, this new release reminds us of those unfortunate families that aren’t lucky enough to tackle such minor inconveniences. In fact, the mother at the center of this story is completely left to her own devices, without a family aside from a violently abusive ex. She’s now part of the “system”, relying on the government to aide her with the housing of her two grade-school aged tots. In order to keep a roof over their heads she’s nearly drowning in “red tape” and “check-ins’ with often clueless “pencil-pushers”. But what if she somehow built that “roof” and freed her kids from moving from one temporary shelter to the next. But without professional laborers can she construct a home all by Herself?
The film begins on a typically hectic day...
The film begins on a typically hectic day...
- 12/30/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Amazon Studios acquired the North American rights to Phyllida Lloyd’s “Herself” out of the Sundance Film Festival, the distributor announced Sunday.
The distributor is planning a theatrical release for the film later this year. No financial details were disclosed.
“Herself” follows single mother Sandra, who escapes her abusive partner with her two young children, but soon finds herself trapped in temporary accommodations. She then comes up with the idea to self-build an affordable home with the help of friends and neighbors.
Also Read: Huriyyah Muhammad Wins Producers Award From Sundance Institute and Amazon Studios
The film stars Clare Dunne as Sandra, as well as Harriet Walter and Conleth Hill. Dunne wrote the script with Malcolm Campbell.
Rory Gilmartin, Sharon Horgan and Ed Guiney are producing, while Andrew Lowe, Clelia Mountford, Rose Garnett, Alison Thompson and Mary Burke executive produced.
Also Read: 'Downhill' Film Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and...
The distributor is planning a theatrical release for the film later this year. No financial details were disclosed.
“Herself” follows single mother Sandra, who escapes her abusive partner with her two young children, but soon finds herself trapped in temporary accommodations. She then comes up with the idea to self-build an affordable home with the help of friends and neighbors.
Also Read: Huriyyah Muhammad Wins Producers Award From Sundance Institute and Amazon Studios
The film stars Clare Dunne as Sandra, as well as Harriet Walter and Conleth Hill. Dunne wrote the script with Malcolm Campbell.
Rory Gilmartin, Sharon Horgan and Ed Guiney are producing, while Andrew Lowe, Clelia Mountford, Rose Garnett, Alison Thompson and Mary Burke executive produced.
Also Read: 'Downhill' Film Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and...
- 1/27/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
High West Distillery hosted annual Park City bash on Sunday.
Outgoing Sundance director John Cooper received a heartfelt tribute at the annual Brunch With The Brits event in Park City supported by British Film Commission, British Film Institute, BBC Films, Film4, and Screen International.
“Without Cooper we wouldn’t be here,” Lizzie Francke, senior development and production executive, BFI Film Fund, told more than 250 attendees at the traditional High West Distillery venue on Sunday (26).
“He has been an absolute inspiration and it’s particularly sad this year that he’s stepping down. We all wish him incredibly well. He’s reinvented this festival.
Outgoing Sundance director John Cooper received a heartfelt tribute at the annual Brunch With The Brits event in Park City supported by British Film Commission, British Film Institute, BBC Films, Film4, and Screen International.
“Without Cooper we wouldn’t be here,” Lizzie Francke, senior development and production executive, BFI Film Fund, told more than 250 attendees at the traditional High West Distillery venue on Sunday (26).
“He has been an absolute inspiration and it’s particularly sad this year that he’s stepping down. We all wish him incredibly well. He’s reinvented this festival.
- 1/27/2020
- ScreenDaily
Andrew Legge’s feature debut and Phillyda Lloyd’s ’Herself’ also receive production awards.
New projects from filmmakers Carmel Winters, Darren and Colin Thornton and Andrew Legge are among the projects being backed by Screen Ireland (formerly the Irish Film Board) in its latest round of funding decisions. The body has also awarded production funding this quarter to Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which is currently shooting in Dublin.
Winters, the winner of the Fipresci Prize for the Discovery Programme at Toronto for Float Like A Butterfly (pictured), is developing her next project Heron Island - a love story about a...
New projects from filmmakers Carmel Winters, Darren and Colin Thornton and Andrew Legge are among the projects being backed by Screen Ireland (formerly the Irish Film Board) in its latest round of funding decisions. The body has also awarded production funding this quarter to Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which is currently shooting in Dublin.
Winters, the winner of the Fipresci Prize for the Discovery Programme at Toronto for Float Like A Butterfly (pictured), is developing her next project Heron Island - a love story about a...
- 5/30/2019
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Cornerstone Films has boarded sales on “Herself,” the female-driven movie from “Mamma Mia!” and “The Iron Lady” helmer Phyllida Lloyd.
Irish actor Clare Dunne, who starred in Lloyd’s all-female theater production of “Henry IV,” will play a single mother determined to build her own home with a free online plan, rebuilding her life in the process. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with Malcolm Campbell (“What Richard Did”).
Harriet Walter (“Rocketman”) and Conleth Hill (“Game of Thrones”) have also joined the cast.
“The Favourite” producer Element Pictures developed the film with Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s shingle Merman. Element’s Ed Guiney and Rory Gilmartin will produce with Horgan. Screen Ireland, BBC Films and the BFI are backing the film. Mountford, Element’s Andrew Lowe, BBC Films’ Rose Garnett, Mary Burke from the BFI, and Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson are exec producing.
Dunne will play Sandra, the mother of two young daughters,...
Irish actor Clare Dunne, who starred in Lloyd’s all-female theater production of “Henry IV,” will play a single mother determined to build her own home with a free online plan, rebuilding her life in the process. Dunne co-wrote the screenplay with Malcolm Campbell (“What Richard Did”).
Harriet Walter (“Rocketman”) and Conleth Hill (“Game of Thrones”) have also joined the cast.
“The Favourite” producer Element Pictures developed the film with Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s shingle Merman. Element’s Ed Guiney and Rory Gilmartin will produce with Horgan. Screen Ireland, BBC Films and the BFI are backing the film. Mountford, Element’s Andrew Lowe, BBC Films’ Rose Garnett, Mary Burke from the BFI, and Cornerstone’s Alison Thompson are exec producing.
Dunne will play Sandra, the mother of two young daughters,...
- 4/25/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Full list of nominations revealed for 15th edition of awards.
The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) has unveiled the nominations for its 2018 film and drama awards.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics
Maudie
Now in its 15th year, the event celebrates the best in Irish film and TV from the past 12 months.
In the film categories, Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, starring Sally Hawkins, leads the way with six nominations including best feature film and director.
Cardboard Gangsters, Handsome Devil, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Farthest follow with five nominations, while The Drummer And The Keeper, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Maze and Michael Inside received four apiece.
The Lodgers, Pilgrimage, Song Of Granite all received three nods, while Lady Bird received two.
In the drama categories, Vikings leads the way on six nominations including best drama, while Game Of Thrones and Peaky Blinders received five each. Paula received four, Acceptable Risk and [link=tt...
The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) has unveiled the nominations for its 2018 film and drama awards.
Source: Sony Pictures Classics
Maudie
Now in its 15th year, the event celebrates the best in Irish film and TV from the past 12 months.
In the film categories, Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, starring Sally Hawkins, leads the way with six nominations including best feature film and director.
Cardboard Gangsters, Handsome Devil, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and The Farthest follow with five nominations, while The Drummer And The Keeper, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer, Maze and Michael Inside received four apiece.
The Lodgers, Pilgrimage, Song Of Granite all received three nods, while Lady Bird received two.
In the drama categories, Vikings leads the way on six nominations including best drama, while Game Of Thrones and Peaky Blinders received five each. Paula received four, Acceptable Risk and [link=tt...
- 1/11/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
What Richard Did
Ireland, 2012
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Written by Malcolm Cambell
The way that What Richard Did delivers its poignant morality tale carries as much thematic importance as the story elements themselves. The camerawork, the acting, even the script can all be described in one simple word: restraint. Restraint is also the crucial character trait on which Richard’s entire fate turns.
Everyone idolizes, and even idealizes, Richard (Jack Reynor). His teammates, his teachers, his parents, even the parents of his friends seem to recognize something special in the blue-eyed young man. And for much of the movie, it really appears as if he can do no wrong. He’s not one to exploit his popularity for selfish ends. He puts it to good use by inspiring underclassmen and improving the moods of everyone around him. Someone like Richard doesn’t have much cause for jealousy. He’s got loyal friends,...
Ireland, 2012
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson
Written by Malcolm Cambell
The way that What Richard Did delivers its poignant morality tale carries as much thematic importance as the story elements themselves. The camerawork, the acting, even the script can all be described in one simple word: restraint. Restraint is also the crucial character trait on which Richard’s entire fate turns.
Everyone idolizes, and even idealizes, Richard (Jack Reynor). His teammates, his teachers, his parents, even the parents of his friends seem to recognize something special in the blue-eyed young man. And for much of the movie, it really appears as if he can do no wrong. He’s not one to exploit his popularity for selfish ends. He puts it to good use by inspiring underclassmen and improving the moods of everyone around him. Someone like Richard doesn’t have much cause for jealousy. He’s got loyal friends,...
- 4/21/2013
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
What Richard Did; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey; Mission to Lars; TinkerBell and the Secret of the Wings
The Irish director Lenny Abrahamson really is a remarkable film-maker. His debut feature, Adam & Paul, updated the existential black comedy of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with two addicts scraping their way through the underbelly of Dublin to grimly comic effect. Garage built upon the acting promise of its predecessor as Abrahamson drew exceptional performances from an ensemble cast including Pat Shortt and Anne-Marie Duff. Both films are eclipsed, however, by What Richard Did (2012, Artificial Eye, 15), a tale of youth, privilege, denial and tragedy that confirms Abrahamson as both a major cinematic talent and a distinctive directorial voice.
Adapted by screenwriter Malcolm Campbell from Kevin Power's book Bad Day in Blackrock (which drew inspiration from real-life events still fresh in the minds of many), this deceptively low-key drama centres on Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor), a handsome,...
The Irish director Lenny Abrahamson really is a remarkable film-maker. His debut feature, Adam & Paul, updated the existential black comedy of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with two addicts scraping their way through the underbelly of Dublin to grimly comic effect. Garage built upon the acting promise of its predecessor as Abrahamson drew exceptional performances from an ensemble cast including Pat Shortt and Anne-Marie Duff. Both films are eclipsed, however, by What Richard Did (2012, Artificial Eye, 15), a tale of youth, privilege, denial and tragedy that confirms Abrahamson as both a major cinematic talent and a distinctive directorial voice.
Adapted by screenwriter Malcolm Campbell from Kevin Power's book Bad Day in Blackrock (which drew inspiration from real-life events still fresh in the minds of many), this deceptively low-key drama centres on Richard Karlsen (Jack Reynor), a handsome,...
- 4/6/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Tribeca Film Festival organizers on Wednesday announced 46 of the 89 feature films screening at the New York-set festival starting next month, including selections in the World Narrative and Documentary Competition film sections, as well as out-of-competition Viewpoints screenings.
"Big Men," a documentary about American corporations pursuing oil reserves in Africa, will serve as the opening night film for the World Documentary portion; "Bluebird," a small-town drama featuring "Girls" star Adam Driver, will kick-off the World Narrative slate. "Flex Is Kings," a documentary about Brooklyn street performers, is the Viewpoints opener. All three films premiere on April 18. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 17 through April 28, with "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, serving as the fest's opening night film.
"Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frederic Boyer said in a release. “The cinematic proficiency that...
"Big Men," a documentary about American corporations pursuing oil reserves in Africa, will serve as the opening night film for the World Documentary portion; "Bluebird," a small-town drama featuring "Girls" star Adam Driver, will kick-off the World Narrative slate. "Flex Is Kings," a documentary about Brooklyn street performers, is the Viewpoints opener. All three films premiere on April 18. The Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 17 through April 28, with "Mistaken For Strangers," a documentary about The National, serving as the fest's opening night film.
"Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” Tribeca Film Festival Artistic Director Frederic Boyer said in a release. “The cinematic proficiency that...
- 3/5/2013
- by Christopher Rosen
- Huffington Post
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the first half of its 2013 movie slate today, including its World Narrative and Documentary Competition film categories, along with selections from the out-of-competition Viewpoints section, which highlights international and independent cinema. Festival organizers reviewed more than 6,000 submissions to select 89 feature-length films from 30 different countries for this year’s festival, which boasts 53 world premieres. “Our competition selections embody the quality and diversity of contemporary cinema from across the globe,” said Frederic Boyer, Tribeca’s artistic director. “The cinematic proficiency that harnesses this lineup is remarkable and we’re looking forward to sharing these new perspectives, powerful performances,...
- 3/5/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Tribeca Film has snapped up North American rights to Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's "What Richard Did," which recently took home five Irish Film & Television Awards, including Best Film, Director and Actor (newcomer Jack Reynor, who can be seen in the upcoming "Transformers 4.") The film is penned by Malcolm Campbell ("Skins," "Shameless"), and co-stars Irish singer-songwriter Roisin Murphy, Sam Keeley ("The Other Side of Sleep") and Lars Mikkselsen ("The Killing"). The synopsis is below. Tribeca plans a spring 2013 theatrical release, with a simultaneous VOD platform roll-out. A striking portrait adapted from Kevin Powers’ award-winning book Bad Day in Blackrock. The world is bright and everything seems possible for Richard Karlsen (Reynor), the golden boy of his privileged set of Dublin teens, until he does something that destroys it all and shatters the lives of the people closest to him....
- 2/15/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
North American rights to Lenny Abrahamson's ("Adam and Paul") upcoming drama "What Richard Did" have been picked up by Tribeca Film in the wake of last weekend's Irish Film & Television Awards, during which it took home five awards, including Best Film and Best Director. The primarily young cast stars Jack Reynor as a privileged teenager who after losing his temper one finds both his future and relationships with his friend and family shattered. Sam Keeley ("Misfits") and Lars Mikkelsen ("The Killing") costar. The film is Abrahamson's fourth directorial feature, working with a script written by "Skins" and "Shameless" scribe Malcolm Campbell. "What Richard Did" was produced by Protagonist Pictures and saw a U.K. theatrical release earlier this year. "Lenny Abrahamson has established himself as a dynamic voice among the superb Irish filmmaking community to emerge over the last...
- 2/15/2013
- by Cameron Sinz
- Indiewire
Tribeca Film today announced it has concluded a deal with Protagonist Pictures to acquire all North American rights to Irish director Lenny Abrahamson’s drama What Richard Did – which swept this past weekend’s Irish Film & Television Awards, taking home five IFTAs for Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor and Best Editing. Newcomer Jack Reynor (to be seen in the upcoming Transformers sequel) and Róisín Murphy star alongside Sam Keeley (The Other Side of Sleep, Misfits), and Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing) in this striking portrait adapted from Kevin Powers’ award-winning book Bad Day in Blackrock. The world is bright and everything seems possible for Richard Karlsen, the golden boy of his privileged set of Dublin teens, until he does something that destroys it all and shatters the lives of the people closest to him. Featuring extraordinary performances from its largely young cast, What Richard Did is a quietly...
- 2/15/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Last night, the glitz and glamour of the 10th annual Irish Film and Television Awards came to Dublin, with a who's who of Irish Talent gathering to celebrate an absolutely fantastic year in Irish film and television (seriously, it was one of the best in recent memory. This current crop is a really talented bunch). Surprising just about nobody, What Richard Did proved to be the big winner, netting 5 awards, including Best Film, and Grabbers, which should have done better than it actually did, bagging Ruth Bradley a Best Actress award. A full list of winners, in all categories, is below: Film Best Film: What Richard Did Best Director: Lenny Abrhamson (What Richard Did) Best Script: Malcolm Campbell (What Richard Did) Best Actor: Jack Reynor (What Richard Did) Best Supporting Actor: Domhnall Gleeson (Anna Karenina) Best Actress: Ruth Bradley (Grabbers) Best Supporting Actress: Bríd Brennan (Shadow Dancer) Special Irish Language Award: Lón Sa.
- 2/10/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Record-breaking James Bond hit Skyfall has scored a double win at a major British movie awards event.
The picture - which stars Daniel Craig in his third 007 outing and has become the UK's biggest box office hit - was named best film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, while viewers voted it their blockbuster of the year.
Comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen - whose outrageous characters have included Borat, Bruno and Ali G - took an honorary title, the editor's award, to celebrate his "extraordinary achievement."
Oscar nominee Daniel Day-Lewis missed out on the best actor award, despite huge acclaim for his lead role in Lincoln.
Instead the prize went to Toby Jones for the independent art house film Berberian Sound Studio, which sees him play a British sound designer in the homage to 1970s Italian horror.
"I'm thrilled. Daniel Day-Lewis is a hero to me so to be...
The picture - which stars Daniel Craig in his third 007 outing and has become the UK's biggest box office hit - was named best film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards, while viewers voted it their blockbuster of the year.
Comedy actor Sacha Baron Cohen - whose outrageous characters have included Borat, Bruno and Ali G - took an honorary title, the editor's award, to celebrate his "extraordinary achievement."
Oscar nominee Daniel Day-Lewis missed out on the best actor award, despite huge acclaim for his lead role in Lincoln.
Instead the prize went to Toby Jones for the independent art house film Berberian Sound Studio, which sees him play a British sound designer in the homage to 1970s Italian horror.
"I'm thrilled. Daniel Day-Lewis is a hero to me so to be...
- 2/5/2013
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
James Bond juggernaut rolls on, while Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough claim best actor gongs
The James Bond adventure Skyfall triumphed at the Evening Standard film awards on Monday night, taking both the film of the year and blockbuster of the year prizes ahead of this weekend's Baftas.
Sam Mendes' film, a critical hit which has also been the most successful 007 outing at the box office, was the first Bond movie to be nominated for the best film prize at the awards. The blockbuster accolade follows Skyfall's success as the UK's highest grossing movie last year; the film took a staggering £102m, the highest total recorded for any film in Britain.
"Thanks in part to the extraordinary success of Skyfall – a truly big British movie, delivered with a panache Hollywood could envy – 2012 also highlighted the creativity, vision and talent of a new generation of British film-makers, actors and actresses,...
The James Bond adventure Skyfall triumphed at the Evening Standard film awards on Monday night, taking both the film of the year and blockbuster of the year prizes ahead of this weekend's Baftas.
Sam Mendes' film, a critical hit which has also been the most successful 007 outing at the box office, was the first Bond movie to be nominated for the best film prize at the awards. The blockbuster accolade follows Skyfall's success as the UK's highest grossing movie last year; the film took a staggering £102m, the highest total recorded for any film in Britain.
"Thanks in part to the extraordinary success of Skyfall – a truly big British movie, delivered with a panache Hollywood could envy – 2012 also highlighted the creativity, vision and talent of a new generation of British film-makers, actors and actresses,...
- 2/5/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Skyfall has won the top prize at this year's London Evening Standard British Film Awards.
The Daniel Craig James Bond movie, which became the highest-grossing film ever at the UK box office following its release in October, was named 'Film of the Year'.
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Toby Jones picked up 'Best Actor' for his role in Berberian Sound Studio, while Andrea Riseborough scooped 'Best Actress' for her work on Shadow Dancer.
Sacha Baron Cohen, whose recent films have included Les Misérables and The Dictator, was the recipient of this year's 'Editor's Award' "for making every film an event".
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers collected the 'Peter Sellers Award for Comedy', Malcolm Campbell was awarded 'Best Screenplay' for What Richard Did and My Brother the Devil writer-director Sally El Hosaini was recognised as the 'Most Promising Newcomer'.
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[Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough attend the awards]
Anna Karenina's Jacqueline Durran...
The Daniel Craig James Bond movie, which became the highest-grossing film ever at the UK box office following its release in October, was named 'Film of the Year'.
© MGM
Toby Jones picked up 'Best Actor' for his role in Berberian Sound Studio, while Andrea Riseborough scooped 'Best Actress' for her work on Shadow Dancer.
Sacha Baron Cohen, whose recent films have included Les Misérables and The Dictator, was the recipient of this year's 'Editor's Award' "for making every film an event".
Ben Wheatley's Sightseers collected the 'Peter Sellers Award for Comedy', Malcolm Campbell was awarded 'Best Screenplay' for What Richard Did and My Brother the Devil writer-director Sally El Hosaini was recognised as the 'Most Promising Newcomer'.
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© Pa Images / Ian West/Pa Wire
[Toby Jones and Andrea Riseborough attend the awards]
Anna Karenina's Jacqueline Durran...
- 2/5/2013
- Digital Spy
James Bond spectacular Skyfall has won Best Film at this year's Evening Standard Awards.
Best Actor went to Toby Jones for Berberian Sound Studio, one of the films that impressed our critics at last year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, while Andrea Riseborough was named Best Actress for Shadow Dancer.
Best Documentary went to The Imposter and Best Newcomer to Sally E Hosaini for another film where people might not be quite what they appear, My Brother The Devil. Ben Wheatley received the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy for Sightseers and the Editors' Award went to Sacha Baron Cohen in recognition of his several impressive recent films. Malcolm Campbell won Best Screenplay for What Richard Did and there was also an award for Anna Karenina for Best Technical Achievement.
If you're a fan of independent film, you may wonder how it is that most of the big awards ignore all the.
Best Actor went to Toby Jones for Berberian Sound Studio, one of the films that impressed our critics at last year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, while Andrea Riseborough was named Best Actress for Shadow Dancer.
Best Documentary went to The Imposter and Best Newcomer to Sally E Hosaini for another film where people might not be quite what they appear, My Brother The Devil. Ben Wheatley received the Peter Sellers Award for Comedy for Sightseers and the Editors' Award went to Sacha Baron Cohen in recognition of his several impressive recent films. Malcolm Campbell won Best Screenplay for What Richard Did and there was also an award for Anna Karenina for Best Technical Achievement.
If you're a fan of independent film, you may wonder how it is that most of the big awards ignore all the.
- 2/4/2013
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
An intelligent drama set in Dublin that throbs in your head long after it's finished
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson emerges with his third feature as a premier league film-maker. Each of his movies looks different from the others – there are no repeated auteurist mannerisms – and yet the potent, creative intelligence behind them is plain. His first film, Adam and Paul (2004), had something of Beckett with its two smackheads at large in Dublin; his second, Garage (2007), was a tragicomedy about a lonely petrol station attendant in a higher social-realist style (though working with same writer, Mark O'Halloran).
What Richard Did is something else again. Written by Malcolm Campbell, it's a complex, subtle drama about self-confident teenagers that draws on two traditions: American teen-noir such as Carrie or Heathers, and European dramas of group dysfunction such as those by Vinterberg and Haneke. I can imagine it getting remade by Hollywood – or in Danish.
Irish director Lenny Abrahamson emerges with his third feature as a premier league film-maker. Each of his movies looks different from the others – there are no repeated auteurist mannerisms – and yet the potent, creative intelligence behind them is plain. His first film, Adam and Paul (2004), had something of Beckett with its two smackheads at large in Dublin; his second, Garage (2007), was a tragicomedy about a lonely petrol station attendant in a higher social-realist style (though working with same writer, Mark O'Halloran).
What Richard Did is something else again. Written by Malcolm Campbell, it's a complex, subtle drama about self-confident teenagers that draws on two traditions: American teen-noir such as Carrie or Heathers, and European dramas of group dysfunction such as those by Vinterberg and Haneke. I can imagine it getting remade by Hollywood – or in Danish.
- 1/11/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Jealousy could be the most destructive force in youth culture. With hormones raging to drive a need for companionship to help prevail through high school and ready for the next step in life, the power lust, love, convenience, or whatever it is that takes the wheel possesses is never easily overcome. The darkness of anger boiling over when someone incapable of understanding the intricacies of life will take over and cause actions completely out of character from the role model, compassionate soul you have begun to believe you are since everyone else says it. However, if you find yourself relishing with a psychological pat on the back for vengeance served the moment when all reason escapes to leave an acutely devastating capacity for violence, the question becomes whether the monster unleashed is in fact who you’ve been the entire time.
This is what writer Malcolm Campbell and director Leonard Abrahamson...
This is what writer Malcolm Campbell and director Leonard Abrahamson...
- 9/10/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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