Speaking in Locarno, Edgar-Jones also expressed desire to work in UK indie film again.
Rising UK star Daisy Edgar-Jones has expressed a desire to work as a producer and director as her career develops.
“I love every aspect of filmmaking, so I think producing would be so magical because I would get to learn about the whole process,” said Edgar-Jones, speaking to Screen at Locarno Film Festival where she received the Leopard Club honorary award this weekend. “I love asking why a Dop has chosen to shoot something with a particular lens; I love the music that imbues a scene with a whole different meaning.
Rising UK star Daisy Edgar-Jones has expressed a desire to work as a producer and director as her career develops.
“I love every aspect of filmmaking, so I think producing would be so magical because I would get to learn about the whole process,” said Edgar-Jones, speaking to Screen at Locarno Film Festival where she received the Leopard Club honorary award this weekend. “I love asking why a Dop has chosen to shoot something with a particular lens; I love the music that imbues a scene with a whole different meaning.
- 8/8/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘Normal People’ Star Daisy Edgar-Jones on ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ and the ‘Strangeness’ of Stardom
One of the breakout stars of the pandemic, Daisy Edgar-Jones, was finally out and about at Locarno Film Festival, where she picked up the Leopard Club Award and introduced her latest film “Where the Crawdads Sing,” based on a novel by Delia Owens.
“The whole idea of being a ‘breakout star’ is a strange thing to comprehend anyway. The strangeness of that, happening in tandem with the strangeness of the pandemic, meant that those things will be forever mixed up together for me,” she tells Variety, recalling “Normal People’s” triumphant unveiling during the lockdown.
“In reality, nothing in my life was changing. I was still in my bedroom on Zoom. This year, I have been all the more grateful for being able to promote the projects I worked on and actually be with the people I made them with.”
Her new film, set in the South and starting all...
“The whole idea of being a ‘breakout star’ is a strange thing to comprehend anyway. The strangeness of that, happening in tandem with the strangeness of the pandemic, meant that those things will be forever mixed up together for me,” she tells Variety, recalling “Normal People’s” triumphant unveiling during the lockdown.
“In reality, nothing in my life was changing. I was still in my bedroom on Zoom. This year, I have been all the more grateful for being able to promote the projects I worked on and actually be with the people I made them with.”
Her new film, set in the South and starting all...
- 8/7/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
The ‘Normal People’ star will be presented with the award on August 6.
UK actor Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of Sony’s summer release Where The Crawdads Sing, will receive the Leopard Club award at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (August 3 - 13).
The former Screen UK & Ireland Star of Tomorrow broke out in 2020 with her role in Element Pictures’ TV series Normal People.
Edgar-Jones will be presented with the honour on August 6 at the Piazza Grande before a special screening of Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life, Edgar-Jones’ debut feature film.
The actor most recently stars in Olivia Newman’s Where The Crawdads Sing...
UK actor Daisy Edgar-Jones, star of Sony’s summer release Where The Crawdads Sing, will receive the Leopard Club award at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (August 3 - 13).
The former Screen UK & Ireland Star of Tomorrow broke out in 2020 with her role in Element Pictures’ TV series Normal People.
Edgar-Jones will be presented with the honour on August 6 at the Piazza Grande before a special screening of Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life, Edgar-Jones’ debut feature film.
The actor most recently stars in Olivia Newman’s Where The Crawdads Sing...
- 7/21/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
British actor Daisy Edgar-Jones, best known for her role as Marianne in the Hulu and BBC series “Normal People,” will be feted by the Locarno Film Festival with its Leopard Club Award.
The Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will celebrate Edgar-Jones on Aug. 5 when her latest film, Olivia Newman’s “Where the Crawdads Sing,” in which she plays the lead, will screen on the 8,000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue.
On the following day Locarno will also screen Bill Buckhurst’s coming-of-age film “Pond Life” which marked Edgar-Jones’ debut in a theatrically released feature.
She also starred opposite Sebastian Stan in the movie “Fresh,” directed by Mimi Cave which premiered at Sundance and was released on Hulu and Disney +.
Edgar-Jones trained at the National Youth Theatre before landing her first role at age 17 as a series regular in the British Comedy-Drama “Cold Feet” alongside James Nesbitt for ITV.
She has earned Critics Choice,...
The Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will celebrate Edgar-Jones on Aug. 5 when her latest film, Olivia Newman’s “Where the Crawdads Sing,” in which she plays the lead, will screen on the 8,000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue.
On the following day Locarno will also screen Bill Buckhurst’s coming-of-age film “Pond Life” which marked Edgar-Jones’ debut in a theatrically released feature.
She also starred opposite Sebastian Stan in the movie “Fresh,” directed by Mimi Cave which premiered at Sundance and was released on Hulu and Disney +.
Edgar-Jones trained at the National Youth Theatre before landing her first role at age 17 as a series regular in the British Comedy-Drama “Cold Feet” alongside James Nesbitt for ITV.
She has earned Critics Choice,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The film will be released to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Folio in 2023.
Dominic Dromgoole, the former artistic director of London’s The Globe Theatre, will direct and produce Folio! Folio!, a feature comedy about the publication of the ground-breaking edition of Shakespeare’s works.
The film is aiming to shoot in summer 2022, produced by Marcus Coles’ UK company Folio 400 Productions. The company was founded to celebrate the 400th anniversary in 2023 of the publication of Shakespeare’s Folio – the first full collection of his plays, including the previously unpublished Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and The Tempest.
Dominic Dromgoole, the former artistic director of London’s The Globe Theatre, will direct and produce Folio! Folio!, a feature comedy about the publication of the ground-breaking edition of Shakespeare’s works.
The film is aiming to shoot in summer 2022, produced by Marcus Coles’ UK company Folio 400 Productions. The company was founded to celebrate the 400th anniversary in 2023 of the publication of Shakespeare’s Folio – the first full collection of his plays, including the previously unpublished Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and The Tempest.
- 6/2/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Whoopi Goldberg won’t be falling back into the old habit after all: The View moderator has canceled plans to appear in an upcoming London revival of Sister Act The Musical due to the production’s pandemic-caused postponement.
Goldberg, who is also a producer of the musical, had been set to reprise her Deloris Van Cartier role from the 1992 film, costarring opposite Absolutely Fabulous‘ Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior.
In a statement posted today on the show’s website, producers Goldberg and Jamie Wilson attribute the decision to “ongoing government restrictions resulting in a further delay to the production.” The musical had been set to begin performances at London’s Eventim Apollo this July, but the opening has been pushed back a year to July 2022.
“This necessary change of dates now means that Whoopi Goldberg will no longer be able to appear in the role of Deloris Van Cartier,” the statement continues.
Goldberg, who is also a producer of the musical, had been set to reprise her Deloris Van Cartier role from the 1992 film, costarring opposite Absolutely Fabulous‘ Jennifer Saunders as Mother Superior.
In a statement posted today on the show’s website, producers Goldberg and Jamie Wilson attribute the decision to “ongoing government restrictions resulting in a further delay to the production.” The musical had been set to begin performances at London’s Eventim Apollo this July, but the opening has been pushed back a year to July 2022.
“This necessary change of dates now means that Whoopi Goldberg will no longer be able to appear in the role of Deloris Van Cartier,” the statement continues.
- 2/16/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Wme has signed Hanna star Esme Creed-Miles for representation in all areas. Creed-Miles plays the title character in the Amazon series that got a 24-hour sneak peek for subscribers after the bow of its Super Bowl ad Sunday night.
Hanna officially debuts on Amazon in March.
Creed-Miles’ other credits include Clio Barnard’s 2017 feature film Dark River starring Ruth Wilson, and, in 2018, Lisa Mulcahy’s Undercliffe and Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life.
The actress continues to be represented by Conway van Gelder Grant.
In Hanna, Creed-Miles plays the title character, a girl raised in total seclusion in the remote woods of Eastern Europe trained by her mercenary father Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman) to fight off those who would hunt her – such as the rogue CIA agents headed by operative Marissa Wiegler (Mireille Enos). When Hanna and her father are separated, the girl embarks on a perilous journey across Europe.
Hanna officially debuts on Amazon in March.
Creed-Miles’ other credits include Clio Barnard’s 2017 feature film Dark River starring Ruth Wilson, and, in 2018, Lisa Mulcahy’s Undercliffe and Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life.
The actress continues to be represented by Conway van Gelder Grant.
In Hanna, Creed-Miles plays the title character, a girl raised in total seclusion in the remote woods of Eastern Europe trained by her mercenary father Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman) to fight off those who would hunt her – such as the rogue CIA agents headed by operative Marissa Wiegler (Mireille Enos). When Hanna and her father are separated, the girl embarks on a perilous journey across Europe.
- 2/6/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Company will released Old Boys and Pond Life as first two titles in new initiative.
UK distributor Verve Pictures is launching a non-profit first feature distribution support scheme that will back six debuts over the next 12 months.
The company has received a £135,000 award from the BFI Audience Fund to back the project, which has selected the first two features that will benefit – Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life, which Verve has taken UK rights to, and Toby MacDonald’s Old Boys, which the company is now working on a deal for. Four more films will be selected over the course of the next year.
UK distributor Verve Pictures is launching a non-profit first feature distribution support scheme that will back six debuts over the next 12 months.
The company has received a £135,000 award from the BFI Audience Fund to back the project, which has selected the first two features that will benefit – Bill Buckhurst’s Pond Life, which Verve has taken UK rights to, and Toby MacDonald’s Old Boys, which the company is now working on a deal for. Four more films will be selected over the course of the next year.
- 9/19/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Producers of the long-running Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street said the intimate, immersive rendering of the Stephen Sondheim masterpiece will close on August 26.
Sweeney Todd‘s original Broadway incarnation in 1979 remains one of the peak moments in musical theater history, but the current interpretation breathed a whole different life into the show. The Tooting Arts Club initially mounted the production in London in 2014, using venues as small as 35 seats and combining the performance with food available for purchase from the same pie shop used in the show’s set.
The pies, served with mashed potatoes, echoed the prominent role of Mrs. Lovett’s bake shop in the show, but thankfully they were not, as the songs have it, “The Worst Pies in London” or flecked with bits of “A Little Priest.” The production then opened at New York’s Barrow Street Theatre, with...
Sweeney Todd‘s original Broadway incarnation in 1979 remains one of the peak moments in musical theater history, but the current interpretation breathed a whole different life into the show. The Tooting Arts Club initially mounted the production in London in 2014, using venues as small as 35 seats and combining the performance with food available for purchase from the same pie shop used in the show’s set.
The pies, served with mashed potatoes, echoed the prominent role of Mrs. Lovett’s bake shop in the show, but thankfully they were not, as the songs have it, “The Worst Pies in London” or flecked with bits of “A Little Priest.” The production then opened at New York’s Barrow Street Theatre, with...
- 5/21/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
On Broadway and beyond, a curtain can rise as quickly as it can fall; a star can be swapped as easily as Bernie Telsey can say, “That’s enough.” Theater is the beating heart of New York show business and, if you want to make it here, it’s crucial you’re up to date on incoming projects, latest castings, and other industry news. Don’t worry, Broadway baby, Backstage has your back. Every week, we’re rounding up the can’t-miss stories no thespian should live without, so you can focus on important matters like hitting your high F. Curtain up and light those lights! The pie shop gets new management.Off-Broadway’s immersive production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” has announced that Thom Sesma and Sally Ann Triplett will take over the tuner’s respective leading roles beginning Feb. 27. They replace current stars Hugh Panaro and Carolee Carmello,...
- 1/4/2018
- backstage.com
Exclusive: Dromgoole to direct Ché Walker script Dead Head.
Open Palm Films, led by the former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre Dominic Dromgoole, has revealed a slate of six feature projects, including four in pre-production.
According to Open Palm, which launched last year, all four are fully financed.
Among the slate is Benjamin, written and directed by UK comedian Simon Amstell, which is due to shoot this summer.
The comedy, about “intimacy and despair”, marks Amstell’s first narrative feature after BBC sitcom Grandma’s House and recent BBC documentary feature Carnage.
The company is due to go into production next month on Parade, directed by Lisa Mulcahy (The Legend of Longwood) and written by Bruce McLeod (The War Boys).
Set in Bradford, the film follows a young man who is left with severe memory loss after a brutal attack. As he begins to piece together his identity, he’s ashamed...
Open Palm Films, led by the former artistic director of London’s Globe theatre Dominic Dromgoole, has revealed a slate of six feature projects, including four in pre-production.
According to Open Palm, which launched last year, all four are fully financed.
Among the slate is Benjamin, written and directed by UK comedian Simon Amstell, which is due to shoot this summer.
The comedy, about “intimacy and despair”, marks Amstell’s first narrative feature after BBC sitcom Grandma’s House and recent BBC documentary feature Carnage.
The company is due to go into production next month on Parade, directed by Lisa Mulcahy (The Legend of Longwood) and written by Bruce McLeod (The War Boys).
Set in Bradford, the film follows a young man who is left with severe memory loss after a brutal attack. As he begins to piece together his identity, he’s ashamed...
- 4/10/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Nyu Skirball will present Shakespeare's Globe's acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's King Lear. Directed by Bill Buckhurst and starring Joseph Marcell in the title role, King Lear begins performances at Nyu Skirball 566 Laguardia Place at Washington Square, New York, NY, 10012 on Tuesday, September 30, 2014, with opening night set for Wednesday, October 1, 2014, and running through Sunday, October 12, 2014. Tickets are on sale now at www.nyuskirball.org , or by phone at 888.611.8183.
- 8/26/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Folger Theatre continues its relationship with Shakespeare's Globe in London with the touring production of King Lear, coming to D.C. for a limited engagement of 18 performances, September 5 - 21. Directed by Bill Buckhurst, the acclaimed production has toured for months in the UK, Europe, and Asia. The Folger will be its debut here in the States. Click below to go behind the scenes with the cast and creative team...
- 8/6/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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“Skyfall,” which opens on Nov. 9, 2012 in Chicago and is rated “PG-13,” also stars Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench, Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Ola Rapace, Helen McCrory, Nicholas Woodeson, Bill Buckhurst, Elize du Toit and Ian Bonar from director Sam Mendes and writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.
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- 11/1/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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