A Gritty Realism Foray with Welcome to Sarajevo The film Welcome to Sarajevo marked a significant turn in Michael Winterbottom’s career, propelling him into the realm of war-torn settings and gritty realism. The movie’s blend of fiction and documentary footage brought the Bosnian conflict’s harrowing reality to an international audience. In his own words, Winterbottom aimed to bring attention to the war, expressing his concern for the lack of action despite the widespread media coverage. Our hope when we made the film was that it might bring Sarajevo to the attention of people, he said, highlighting his drive to tackle...
- 12/8/2023
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
“Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” breakout Tom Blyth has found his next starring role in a new film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s seminal novel “A Farewell to Arms.”
Directed and written by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Blyth as protagonist Frederic Henry, a young volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I who gets wounded and falls in love with his nurse. Produced by Fremantle, Revolution Films and Passenger, “A Farewell to Arms” is set to start shooting in Italy later next year.
Published in 1929, Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” is considered one of the greatest war novels of the 20th century and made the author a household name. Based on Hemingway’s own experience serving as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI, the book is both an unflinching account of the atrocities of war and a dramatic love story. It...
Directed and written by Michael Winterbottom, the film stars Blyth as protagonist Frederic Henry, a young volunteer ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I who gets wounded and falls in love with his nurse. Produced by Fremantle, Revolution Films and Passenger, “A Farewell to Arms” is set to start shooting in Italy later next year.
Published in 1929, Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms” is considered one of the greatest war novels of the 20th century and made the author a household name. Based on Hemingway’s own experience serving as an ambulance driver in Italy during WWI, the book is both an unflinching account of the atrocities of war and a dramatic love story. It...
- 12/7/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
U.S.-Lebanese actor Tony Shalhoub, who played the “defective detective” on “Monk,” is set to star as former auto mogul-turned-fugitive Carlos Ghosn in a high-profile TV series directed by Michael Winterbottom.
Ghosn is the French-Lebanese-Brazilian former CEO of automakers Nissan and Renault who in 2020 jumped bail and absconded to Beirut hidden in a music case on a private jet while on trial in Japan for alleged financial misconduct. Lebanon does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.
The six-part series titled “Fall of the God of Cars” is written by Winterbottom, the prolific British director of “Welcome to Sarajevo,” whose TV work comprises hit sitcom series “The Trip” and, more recently, “This is England” starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson.
The Winterbottom Ghosn show is being produced by Fremantle, Revolution Films, Passenger and Anonymous Content.
The project was originally developed by Winterbottom and Alfonso Cuaron for Anonymous Content, the...
Ghosn is the French-Lebanese-Brazilian former CEO of automakers Nissan and Renault who in 2020 jumped bail and absconded to Beirut hidden in a music case on a private jet while on trial in Japan for alleged financial misconduct. Lebanon does not have an extradition treaty with Japan.
The six-part series titled “Fall of the God of Cars” is written by Winterbottom, the prolific British director of “Welcome to Sarajevo,” whose TV work comprises hit sitcom series “The Trip” and, more recently, “This is England” starring Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson.
The Winterbottom Ghosn show is being produced by Fremantle, Revolution Films, Passenger and Anonymous Content.
The project was originally developed by Winterbottom and Alfonso Cuaron for Anonymous Content, the...
- 3/24/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Director’s Revolution Films has partnered with Fremantle, Passenger and Anonymous Content on six-parter
Director Michael Winterbottom is making a six-part drama, Fall Of The God Of Cars, about former Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn.
Winterbottom’s Revolution Films is collaborating with Fremantle, Passenger and Anonymous Content on the series, which tells the story of the Brazilian-Lebanese businessman who was arrested in Japan and one year later orchestrated his own escape to Beirut, hidden in a music case on a private jet.
The series is written and directed by Winterbottom. Tony Shalhoub stars as Ghosn.
The series was originally developed by Winterbottom,...
Director Michael Winterbottom is making a six-part drama, Fall Of The God Of Cars, about former Nissan and Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn.
Winterbottom’s Revolution Films is collaborating with Fremantle, Passenger and Anonymous Content on the series, which tells the story of the Brazilian-Lebanese businessman who was arrested in Japan and one year later orchestrated his own escape to Beirut, hidden in a music case on a private jet.
The series is written and directed by Winterbottom. Tony Shalhoub stars as Ghosn.
The series was originally developed by Winterbottom,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Carlos Ghosn, the disgraced Nissan exec whose dramatic fall from grace as one of the biggest names in the motoring industry has already led to several documentaries, is getting the scripted treatment.
Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk, The Marvelous Miss Maisel) will play the Brazilian-Lebanese exec in the newly-announced six-part drama Fall of the God of Cars, written and directed by prolific Brit filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo, The Trip, 24 Hour Party People). The series comes from Fremantle, Winterbottom’s Revolution films (This England, A Mighty Heart), Passenger (True Detective, Outlaw King, Catch-22) and Anonymous Content (The Revenant, Mr Robot, Maniac). It was originally developed by Winterbottom, Alfonso Cuaron and Anonymous Content.
Ghosn, a major business figure who for several years headed up both Renault and Nissan and helped save Nissan from near-bankruptcy in 1999, was arrested in Japan in December 2018 over allegations of under-reporting his salary and gross misuse of company assets,...
Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub (Monk, The Marvelous Miss Maisel) will play the Brazilian-Lebanese exec in the newly-announced six-part drama Fall of the God of Cars, written and directed by prolific Brit filmmaker Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo, The Trip, 24 Hour Party People). The series comes from Fremantle, Winterbottom’s Revolution films (This England, A Mighty Heart), Passenger (True Detective, Outlaw King, Catch-22) and Anonymous Content (The Revenant, Mr Robot, Maniac). It was originally developed by Winterbottom, Alfonso Cuaron and Anonymous Content.
Ghosn, a major business figure who for several years headed up both Renault and Nissan and helped save Nissan from near-bankruptcy in 1999, was arrested in Japan in December 2018 over allegations of under-reporting his salary and gross misuse of company assets,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Winterbottom has devoted much of his filmmaking career to revisiting real-life events through works blurring the boundaries between documentary and drama to various degrees.
The filmmaker shed light on his approach in a recent Doha Film Institute (Dfi) masterclass, going behind the scenes of Welcome To Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, In This World, The Road To Guantanamo, A Might Heart and Eleven Days In May.
“It’s a continuum, even if you’re filming a fantasy film in a studio on a green screen there is an element of document to that. You’re recording that moment of the act of performance,” he said when quizzed on his attitude towards documentary versus fiction.
“Equally, even in a documentary like Eleven Days… you’re trying to shape that story, so it’s a continuum,” he added, referring to the 2022 documentary commemorating 68 children killed in Israeli bombing raids over Gaza...
The filmmaker shed light on his approach in a recent Doha Film Institute (Dfi) masterclass, going behind the scenes of Welcome To Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, In This World, The Road To Guantanamo, A Might Heart and Eleven Days In May.
“It’s a continuum, even if you’re filming a fantasy film in a studio on a green screen there is an element of document to that. You’re recording that moment of the act of performance,” he said when quizzed on his attitude towards documentary versus fiction.
“Equally, even in a documentary like Eleven Days… you’re trying to shape that story, so it’s a continuum,” he added, referring to the 2022 documentary commemorating 68 children killed in Israeli bombing raids over Gaza...
- 3/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
When it was announced that Michael Winterbottom would be making a series about the first pandemic lockdown in the spring of 2022, many assumed—or perhaps hoped—that the politically committed director would be holding the British government to account. However, speaking to Deadline at the 38th Sarajevo Film Festival, 25 years after his acclaimed war drama Welcome To Sarajevo screened there, Winterbottom revealed that, in common with many of his fictionalized but factual feature films, the six-part Sky series This England , which debuts 21 September, will be an ensemble piece, taking a bird’s-eye view of the British authorities’ initial response to Covid.
“Boris is just one strand that runs through it,” he said, “because it’s really a mosaic of lots of different stories. The most enjoyable part was the research, really, because we started it straight after the first wave, in June 2020. We got to talk to lots of scientists,...
“Boris is just one strand that runs through it,” he said, “because it’s really a mosaic of lots of different stories. The most enjoyable part was the research, really, because we started it straight after the first wave, in June 2020. We got to talk to lots of scientists,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Kenneth Branagh plays UK prime minister Boris Johnson.
Michael Winterbottom’s This England, starring Kenneth Branagh as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has closed sales across 88 territories through distributor Fremantle.
Commissioning broadcaster Sky will launch the series this Autumn across its territories in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy.
This England has sold to Movistar+ in Spain, Viaplay for the Nordics and Baltics, Poland and the Netherlands, Cosmote (Greece), Osn TV and Osn+ (Mena), M-Net (South Africa) and BBC First (Australia) and Tvnz (New Zealand). Further deals are due to be announced in the coming weeks.
Produced...
Michael Winterbottom’s This England, starring Kenneth Branagh as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has closed sales across 88 territories through distributor Fremantle.
Commissioning broadcaster Sky will launch the series this Autumn across its territories in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy.
This England has sold to Movistar+ in Spain, Viaplay for the Nordics and Baltics, Poland and the Netherlands, Cosmote (Greece), Osn TV and Osn+ (Mena), M-Net (South Africa) and BBC First (Australia) and Tvnz (New Zealand). Further deals are due to be announced in the coming weeks.
Produced...
- 8/18/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Meise joined by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Milan Maric, Katriel Schory.
Austrian writer-director Sebastian Meise will lead a five-person jury for the Competition programme of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Meise will be joined by filmmakers Lucile Hadzihalilovic from France and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic from Croatia; Serbian actor Milan Maric; and Katriel Schory, producer, consultant and former director of the Israel Film Fund.
Meise’s Great Freedom won the jury prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2021, going on to take the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film and for Best Actor for Georg Freidrich at last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
Austrian writer-director Sebastian Meise will lead a five-person jury for the Competition programme of the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival.
Meise will be joined by filmmakers Lucile Hadzihalilovic from France and Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic from Croatia; Serbian actor Milan Maric; and Katriel Schory, producer, consultant and former director of the Israel Film Fund.
Meise’s Great Freedom won the jury prize in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2021, going on to take the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film and for Best Actor for Georg Freidrich at last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival.
- 5/25/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
If you’re trying to figure out what to watch on HBO Max, you may want to prioritize a number of films that are due to leave the streaming service in April.
Set to depart HBO Max at the end of this month are such noteworthy films as the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” the Tom Hanks Western “News of the World,” the Kurt Russell 1996 thriller “Executive Decision,” and the extended version of Bruce Willis’ final “Die Hard” film “A Good Day to Die Hard.”
Also leaving HBO Max this month is “The Fast and the Furious” and the franchise’s first sequel “2 Fast 2 Furious.”
Check out the full list of what’s leaving HBO Max in April below.
April 3:
Life’s Too Short, 2012 (HBO)
April 30:
2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003 (HBO)
A Good Day to Die Hard, 2013 (HBO) (Extended Version)
Aftermath, 2017 (HBO)
Anna to the Infinite Power, 1982 (HBO)
Bloodsport,...
Set to depart HBO Max at the end of this month are such noteworthy films as the Oscar-winning “Promising Young Woman,” the Tom Hanks Western “News of the World,” the Kurt Russell 1996 thriller “Executive Decision,” and the extended version of Bruce Willis’ final “Die Hard” film “A Good Day to Die Hard.”
Also leaving HBO Max this month is “The Fast and the Furious” and the franchise’s first sequel “2 Fast 2 Furious.”
Check out the full list of what’s leaving HBO Max in April below.
April 3:
Life’s Too Short, 2012 (HBO)
April 30:
2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003 (HBO)
A Good Day to Die Hard, 2013 (HBO) (Extended Version)
Aftermath, 2017 (HBO)
Anna to the Infinite Power, 1982 (HBO)
Bloodsport,...
- 4/1/2022
- by Adam Chitwood
- The Wrap
Michael Winterbottom and Mohammed Sawwaf have co-directed the film.
UK production stalwart Revolution Films is making its distribution debut with Eleven Days In May, a documentary narrated by Kate Winslet about the bombing of Gaza in May 2021.
It filmed in 2021 and completed post-production in January this year. It is co-directed by Mohammed Sawwaf of Palestinian production company Alef Multimedia, and Revolution founder Michael Winterbottom.
At least 60 children were killed in the Palestinian territory of Gaza over the course of 11 days of bombing in May 2021.
Eleven Days In May is described by Revolution as “a simple memorial to the children who lost their lives.
UK production stalwart Revolution Films is making its distribution debut with Eleven Days In May, a documentary narrated by Kate Winslet about the bombing of Gaza in May 2021.
It filmed in 2021 and completed post-production in January this year. It is co-directed by Mohammed Sawwaf of Palestinian production company Alef Multimedia, and Revolution founder Michael Winterbottom.
At least 60 children were killed in the Palestinian territory of Gaza over the course of 11 days of bombing in May 2021.
Eleven Days In May is described by Revolution as “a simple memorial to the children who lost their lives.
- 3/24/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The Sarajevo Film Festival is the latest international film organization to show its support for Ukraine as the festival has announced it will include Ukrainian films and filmmakers in its regional programs. The beloved European festival originally started off as regional event for Balkan films and has since evolved to incorporate Southeast Europe and the Causcasus region.
This year Sarajevo will include Ukraine in all of its official programs including the competition programs for feature, documentary, short and student films as well as the In Focus program, the CineLink Film Industry Days program and Talents Sarajevo program, which is intended for the new generation of aspiring film makers from the region.
Sarajevo also plans to launch a residency program for Ukrainian filmmakers, who will work on their projects in the development and post-production stages in Sarajevo in collaboration with international film experts around the world. They will then be presented at CineLink Film Industry Days.
This year Sarajevo will include Ukraine in all of its official programs including the competition programs for feature, documentary, short and student films as well as the In Focus program, the CineLink Film Industry Days program and Talents Sarajevo program, which is intended for the new generation of aspiring film makers from the region.
Sarajevo also plans to launch a residency program for Ukrainian filmmakers, who will work on their projects in the development and post-production stages in Sarajevo in collaboration with international film experts around the world. They will then be presented at CineLink Film Industry Days.
- 3/11/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Kathryn Kates, a veteran character actress who appeared in such TV series as Orange Is the New Black, Seinfeld and Law & Order: Svu and The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark, has died. She was 73.
Her reps at Headline Talent Agency said Kates died Saturday of cancer in Florida.
“Kathryn has been our client for many years, and we have grown much closer to her in this last year since she knew of her cancer returning,” Headline Talent said in a statement. “She was always incredibly brave and wise and approached every role with the greatest of passion. She will be greatly missed.”
A native New Yorker, Kates had a few small roles in the early 1980s but got busier during the following decade. By the mid-’90s, she was guesting on such series as Matlock, Thunder Alley and Seinfeld. She appeared as a counter clerk in...
Her reps at Headline Talent Agency said Kates died Saturday of cancer in Florida.
“Kathryn has been our client for many years, and we have grown much closer to her in this last year since she knew of her cancer returning,” Headline Talent said in a statement. “She was always incredibly brave and wise and approached every role with the greatest of passion. She will be greatly missed.”
A native New Yorker, Kates had a few small roles in the early 1980s but got busier during the following decade. By the mid-’90s, she was guesting on such series as Matlock, Thunder Alley and Seinfeld. She appeared as a counter clerk in...
- 1/26/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Sarajevo Introduces TV Award
The Sarajevo Film Festival is upping the visibility of TV at its event this year with the introduction of a Heart of Sarajevo prize specifically for series. The Heart of Sarajevo is the fest’s major award and is usually given to the film competition’s winner, with honorary Hearts awarded to filmmakers. The series awards will cover several categories: Best Drama Series, Best Comedy, Best Series Creator(s), Best Actress, Best Actor, and Rising Star. TV dramas and comedies that have premiered between September 1, 2019 and May 31, 2021 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Slovenia, will be eligible for the awards, which will be selected by online voting. Sarajevo has been highlighting regional TV series through its industry-focused CineLink program for years, while its Avant Premiere program has presented first eps from the likes of Besa, Black Sun, The Group, The Paper,...
The Sarajevo Film Festival is upping the visibility of TV at its event this year with the introduction of a Heart of Sarajevo prize specifically for series. The Heart of Sarajevo is the fest’s major award and is usually given to the film competition’s winner, with honorary Hearts awarded to filmmakers. The series awards will cover several categories: Best Drama Series, Best Comedy, Best Series Creator(s), Best Actress, Best Actor, and Rising Star. TV dramas and comedies that have premiered between September 1, 2019 and May 31, 2021 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Slovenia, will be eligible for the awards, which will be selected by online voting. Sarajevo has been highlighting regional TV series through its industry-focused CineLink program for years, while its Avant Premiere program has presented first eps from the likes of Besa, Black Sun, The Group, The Paper,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Do not adjust your WiFi settings. No, you are not experiencing a severe case of Deja Streaming-vu. HBO Max’s list of new releases for May 2021 are indeed highlighted by two very recent WarnerMedia hits.
For starters, Tenet finally makes its long-awaited HBO Max this month. Mark your calendars as May 1 is the day that you can finally watch Christopher Nolan’s latest cerebral thriller. Of course, Tenet already had its theatrical release, but obviously that was not really an option for many of us. In addition to Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984 makes its triumphant return to HBO Max this month on May 13. The Wonder Woman sequel already premiered on HBO Max this past December, now it’s getting a second run on the streamer.
In terms of newer originals, May is relatively light for HBO Max. The Jean Smart-starring comedy Hacks premieres on May 13. The latest Adventure Time...
For starters, Tenet finally makes its long-awaited HBO Max this month. Mark your calendars as May 1 is the day that you can finally watch Christopher Nolan’s latest cerebral thriller. Of course, Tenet already had its theatrical release, but obviously that was not really an option for many of us. In addition to Tenet, Wonder Woman 1984 makes its triumphant return to HBO Max this month on May 13. The Wonder Woman sequel already premiered on HBO Max this past December, now it’s getting a second run on the streamer.
In terms of newer originals, May is relatively light for HBO Max. The Jean Smart-starring comedy Hacks premieres on May 13. The latest Adventure Time...
- 5/1/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Kenneth Branagh will play U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a new Sky TV series detailing Britain’s muddled response to the Covid-19 crisis. The five-part drama will be directed and written by “The Trip” helmer Michael Winterbottom.
Entitled “This Sceptred Isle,” the show will be produced by Fremantle, Richard Brown’s Passenger and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films. The project — which was announced in June but had yet to secure a broadcast partner and announce casting — will chart the events surrounding Johnson and his government in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic. The U.K. leader in late March was hospitalized with Covid-19 for over a week, with a number of days spent in intensive care.
The series will launch on Sky in fall 2022.
“The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered forever,” said Winterbottom. “A time when the country came together to battle an invisible enemy.
Entitled “This Sceptred Isle,” the show will be produced by Fremantle, Richard Brown’s Passenger and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films. The project — which was announced in June but had yet to secure a broadcast partner and announce casting — will chart the events surrounding Johnson and his government in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic. The U.K. leader in late March was hospitalized with Covid-19 for over a week, with a number of days spent in intensive care.
The series will launch on Sky in fall 2022.
“The first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic will be remembered forever,” said Winterbottom. “A time when the country came together to battle an invisible enemy.
- 1/23/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Fremantle has announced an exclusive first-look deal with BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom’s Revolution Films, starting with U.K. political drama series “This Sceptred Isle.”
Under the terms of the deal, Revolution Films will develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide. The deal is done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his company Passenger.
The deal will kick off with “This Sceptred Isle,” a drama series about an extraordinary period in the life of U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, set against the backdrop of the global pandemic. The series will be co-written and directed by Winterbottom, with Melissa Parmenter (Revolution Films) and Richard Brown (Passenger) serving as executive producers. Tim Shipman, political editor of The Sunday Times, is acting as a consultant on the series.
Winner of a BAFTA and a Berlin Golden Bear for “In This World,” Winterbottom’s credits...
Under the terms of the deal, Revolution Films will develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide. The deal is done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his company Passenger.
The deal will kick off with “This Sceptred Isle,” a drama series about an extraordinary period in the life of U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, set against the backdrop of the global pandemic. The series will be co-written and directed by Winterbottom, with Melissa Parmenter (Revolution Films) and Richard Brown (Passenger) serving as executive producers. Tim Shipman, political editor of The Sunday Times, is acting as a consultant on the series.
Winner of a BAFTA and a Berlin Golden Bear for “In This World,” Winterbottom’s credits...
- 11/16/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and his Revolution Films production company have signed an exclusive first-look deal with TV giant Fremantle.
The deal — done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his Passenger banner — will see Winterbottom, best known for film and series such as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, The Trip and recent satire Greed and his regular collaborations with Steve Coogan, develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide.
First out of the partnership’s blocks is a U.K. political drama about Prime Minister Boris Johnson set against the Covid-19 pandemic. The previously ...
The deal — done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his Passenger banner — will see Winterbottom, best known for film and series such as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, The Trip and recent satire Greed and his regular collaborations with Steve Coogan, develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide.
First out of the partnership’s blocks is a U.K. political drama about Prime Minister Boris Johnson set against the Covid-19 pandemic. The previously ...
- 11/16/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom and his Revolution Films production company have signed an exclusive first-look deal with TV giant Fremantle.
The deal — done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his Passenger banner — will see Winterbottom, best known for film and series such as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, The Trip and recent satire Greed and his regular collaborations with Steve Coogan, develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide.
First out of the partnership’s blocks is a U.K. political drama about Prime Minister Boris Johnson set against the Covid-19 pandemic. The previously ...
The deal — done in collaboration with Richard Brown and his Passenger banner — will see Winterbottom, best known for film and series such as Welcome to Sarajevo, 24 Hour Party People, The Trip and recent satire Greed and his regular collaborations with Steve Coogan, develop and produce scripted series and films with Fremantle co-producing and distributing the projects worldwide.
First out of the partnership’s blocks is a U.K. political drama about Prime Minister Boris Johnson set against the Covid-19 pandemic. The previously ...
- 11/16/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The Trip” helmer Michael Winterbottom is set to direct a series depicting the U.K.’s muddled response to the coronavirus crisis under Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Producer-distributor Fremantle is partnering with “True Detective” executive producer Richard Brown’s nascent production outfit Passenger and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films on the project, which will have a keen focus on Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 in late March and spent more than a week in hospital.
The Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman will serve as a consultant on the series, which will tell the true story of one of the most grave national and personal crises to befall a government leader since World War II. It will detail Johnson’s appointment as Prime Minister, to the discovery of the first cases of Covid-19 in the U.K., through to Johnson’s hospitalization and recovery, which also coincided...
Producer-distributor Fremantle is partnering with “True Detective” executive producer Richard Brown’s nascent production outfit Passenger and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films on the project, which will have a keen focus on Johnson, who was admitted to intensive care with Covid-19 in late March and spent more than a week in hospital.
The Sunday Times political editor Tim Shipman will serve as a consultant on the series, which will tell the true story of one of the most grave national and personal crises to befall a government leader since World War II. It will detail Johnson’s appointment as Prime Minister, to the discovery of the first cases of Covid-19 in the U.K., through to Johnson’s hospitalization and recovery, which also coincided...
- 6/26/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
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We speak to Samantha Morton about Sky Atlantic's crime drama The Last Panthers and politicised, groundbreaking television...
Samantha Morton has built an impressive career in television and film. She is currently starring in Sky Atlantic’s The Last Panthers, a multilingual, multinational drama in which she plays Naomi Franckom, an insurance loss-adjuster on the trail of an organised gang of diamond thieves. We spoke to her about transnational crime, the scars of war and deadlifting sixty kilograms.
I want to talk to you about your character Naomi. Her background is clearly very significant to the whole theme of the show but it’s not really fully explored until later on in the series, so how did you approach the task of sketching in her history?
I think it was about getting her, I found her. That was a combination of discussions with Johan [Renck, who directed all six episodes], Peter [Carlton, producer] and Jack Thorne...
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We speak to Samantha Morton about Sky Atlantic's crime drama The Last Panthers and politicised, groundbreaking television...
Samantha Morton has built an impressive career in television and film. She is currently starring in Sky Atlantic’s The Last Panthers, a multilingual, multinational drama in which she plays Naomi Franckom, an insurance loss-adjuster on the trail of an organised gang of diamond thieves. We spoke to her about transnational crime, the scars of war and deadlifting sixty kilograms.
I want to talk to you about your character Naomi. Her background is clearly very significant to the whole theme of the show but it’s not really fully explored until later on in the series, so how did you approach the task of sketching in her history?
I think it was about getting her, I found her. That was a combination of discussions with Johan [Renck, who directed all six episodes], Peter [Carlton, producer] and Jack Thorne...
- 12/10/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
A great actor once said “never work with children or animals.” This episode features both, and once again, the axiom proves true. The students of Coal Hill School have a sleepover in the museum of natural history, and wake up…
In The Forest Of The Night
By Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Directed by Sheree Folkson
London, and indeed the whole world, ha been engulfed by dense, fireproof forests overnight. The Doctor assumes it’s an act of aggression, but with the help of the kids of Coal Hill School, including one very sensitive girl, the real threat to Earth is identified. But are they too late to realize they’ve been attacking the wrong side?
This is another episode where the main plot and the threat of the week is almost overwhelmed by the staggering character work. Wonderful camera work from the director (the steadi-cam run around the top deck of the...
In The Forest Of The Night
By Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Directed by Sheree Folkson
London, and indeed the whole world, ha been engulfed by dense, fireproof forests overnight. The Doctor assumes it’s an act of aggression, but with the help of the kids of Coal Hill School, including one very sensitive girl, the real threat to Earth is identified. But are they too late to realize they’ve been attacking the wrong side?
This is another episode where the main plot and the threat of the week is almost overwhelmed by the staggering character work. Wonderful camera work from the director (the steadi-cam run around the top deck of the...
- 10/26/2014
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
Series 8's winning streak continues with a Frank Cottrell Boyce-penned episode that has a great deal to say...
In The Forest Of The Night brings to an end a run of four Doctor Who series 8 episodes from writers who'd never penned an adventure for the show before before. On the basis of all four stories they came up with, every one of them should be warmly welcomed back in the future.
This latest comes from Frank Cottrell Boyce, whose extensive and hugely impressive writing career to date has taken him from Coronation Street and the wonderful, wonderful Millions, through to Welcome To Sarajevo and Code 46. And it would be fair to say that by the time he sat down to write In The Forest Of The Night, he had plenty of things he wanted to say. To his credit, he's squeezed a great many of them into a 45 minute Doctor Who adventure.
In The Forest Of The Night brings to an end a run of four Doctor Who series 8 episodes from writers who'd never penned an adventure for the show before before. On the basis of all four stories they came up with, every one of them should be warmly welcomed back in the future.
This latest comes from Frank Cottrell Boyce, whose extensive and hugely impressive writing career to date has taken him from Coronation Street and the wonderful, wonderful Millions, through to Welcome To Sarajevo and Code 46. And it would be fair to say that by the time he sat down to write In The Forest Of The Night, he had plenty of things he wanted to say. To his credit, he's squeezed a great many of them into a 45 minute Doctor Who adventure.
- 10/22/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Universal Pictures on board film adaptation of classic British series; cast to include Billy Nighy, Catherine Zeta Jones and Toby Jones
The cast of a long-rumoured film based on classic British comedy series Dad’s Army has been revealed.
Toby Jones, best known for roles in The Hunger Games and Harry Potter franchises, will take the leading role of Captain Mainwaring, a stiff-upper-lipped veteran who oversees the Home Guard in a small village toward the end of the Second World War.
His right-hand man, Wilson, will be played by Bill Nighy, known to international audiences for his roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Love Actually.
Both were previously rumoured to be attached to the project, an adaptation of a BBC comedy series than ran from 1968-77, but Catherine Zeta Jones is newly attached to the film as journalist Rose Winters.
The all-star British cast will also include Tom Courtenay as Corporal Jones, Harry Potter...
The cast of a long-rumoured film based on classic British comedy series Dad’s Army has been revealed.
Toby Jones, best known for roles in The Hunger Games and Harry Potter franchises, will take the leading role of Captain Mainwaring, a stiff-upper-lipped veteran who oversees the Home Guard in a small village toward the end of the Second World War.
His right-hand man, Wilson, will be played by Bill Nighy, known to international audiences for his roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Love Actually.
Both were previously rumoured to be attached to the project, an adaptation of a BBC comedy series than ran from 1968-77, but Catherine Zeta Jones is newly attached to the film as journalist Rose Winters.
The all-star British cast will also include Tom Courtenay as Corporal Jones, Harry Potter...
- 10/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winning directors and actors are among the star guests due in Sarajevo next month for the 20th anniversary edition of the Bosnian city's film festival. Academy award winners, actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter)and directors Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) and Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) will be rubbing shoulders with top international talents that include actors Gael Garcia Bernal, Bérénice Bejo, Ariane Labed and directors Mike Leigh, who will present a screening of his latest film, Mr Turner, and Michael Winterbottom, whose career was launched in 1997 with Welcome to Sarajevo, a film set during the city's wartime siege.
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- 7/31/2014
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's being reported that 24 Hour Party People's Frank Cottrell Boyce has written an episode of Doctor Who series 8...
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All but one of the writing slots for Doctor Who series eight have already been announced, with Steven Moffat joined by Phil Ford, Mark Gatiss, Steve Thompson, Gareth Roberts, Peter Harness and Jamie Mathieson for the new run. It now looks as though the last remaining place - for episode ten in the series - has gone to a particularly interesting writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce.
The Liverpool Echo reports that native son Boyce (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story, The Railway Man) has provided a script for series eight. The screenwriter is quoted as saying "It’s like joining a family. It’s a great thing to be involved with. I grew up loving Doctor Who, and my teenage son was a big fan of it too.
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All but one of the writing slots for Doctor Who series eight have already been announced, with Steven Moffat joined by Phil Ford, Mark Gatiss, Steve Thompson, Gareth Roberts, Peter Harness and Jamie Mathieson for the new run. It now looks as though the last remaining place - for episode ten in the series - has gone to a particularly interesting writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce.
The Liverpool Echo reports that native son Boyce (24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story, The Railway Man) has provided a script for series eight. The screenwriter is quoted as saying "It’s like joining a family. It’s a great thing to be involved with. I grew up loving Doctor Who, and my teenage son was a big fan of it too.
- 7/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
My earliest memory? Giving my sister 'Smarties' that I knew were pills
Stephen Dillane, 57, grew up in London. He studied at Exeter University, then joined the Croydon Advertiser but left to enrol at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In the early 1990s, his performance in the National Theatre's Angels In America and his Hamlet for the Peter Hall Company attracted critical acclaim. In 2000, he won a Tony award for his role in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. His films include Welcome To Sarajevo (1997) and The Hours (2002). Since 2012, he has played Stannis Baratheon in TV's Game Of Thrones, and he starred in the Sky Atlantic thriller The Tunnel, which is out on DVD. He has two sons with the actor Naomi Wirthner.
When were you happiest?
Playing football in the school playground at lunchtime.
What is your earliest memory?
Giving my sister "Smarties" that I knew were pills.
Which...
Stephen Dillane, 57, grew up in London. He studied at Exeter University, then joined the Croydon Advertiser but left to enrol at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In the early 1990s, his performance in the National Theatre's Angels In America and his Hamlet for the Peter Hall Company attracted critical acclaim. In 2000, he won a Tony award for his role in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. His films include Welcome To Sarajevo (1997) and The Hours (2002). Since 2012, he has played Stannis Baratheon in TV's Game Of Thrones, and he starred in the Sky Atlantic thriller The Tunnel, which is out on DVD. He has two sons with the actor Naomi Wirthner.
When were you happiest?
Playing football in the school playground at lunchtime.
What is your earliest memory?
Giving my sister "Smarties" that I knew were pills.
Which...
- 1/18/2014
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
Us suspect in Kercher murder case who refused to attend retrial in Italy is peripheral to The Face of an Angel, British actor insists
Over a cup of tea in Rome on Friday, Kate Beckinsale was describing how her next film is about a young American girl jailed in a medieval Italian town for the murder of a British student, and she was insisting that it is not about Amanda Knox. "That case is peripheral," said the British actor, who is best known for her role as Selene, the gun-toting vampire in the Underworld series of films. "This is not a whodunnit."
But that is unlikely to stop headline writers linking Beckinsale with Knox, the Seattle-born student whose every court appearance in her trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007 was treated like a Hollywood red carpet moment, and whose guilt or innocence still provokes furious and sometimes fanatical...
Over a cup of tea in Rome on Friday, Kate Beckinsale was describing how her next film is about a young American girl jailed in a medieval Italian town for the murder of a British student, and she was insisting that it is not about Amanda Knox. "That case is peripheral," said the British actor, who is best known for her role as Selene, the gun-toting vampire in the Underworld series of films. "This is not a whodunnit."
But that is unlikely to stop headline writers linking Beckinsale with Knox, the Seattle-born student whose every court appearance in her trial for the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007 was treated like a Hollywood red carpet moment, and whose guilt or innocence still provokes furious and sometimes fanatical...
- 11/8/2013
- by Tom Kington
- The Guardian - Film News
RomCom Filming in NY: Grant, Tomei Star for Director Lawrence Marc Lawrence’s as-yet untitled, New York-set romantic comedy toplining Hugh Grant and Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei began principal photography yesterday, April 17, producer Martin Shafer announced. -- Pictured above: Marisa Tomei, looking more beautiful than ever. Here's the plot, as per the film's press release: In 1998, Keith Michaels, played by Hugh Grant, was on top of the world -- a witty, sexy, Englishman in Hollywood who had just won a major screenwriter’s award. Fifteen years later, he’s creatively washed up, divorced, and broke. With no other options, he takes a job teaching screenwriting at a small college in Binghamton, New York. Although the idea of teaching is less than thrilling, he hopes to make some easy money and enjoy the favors of impressionable young co-eds. What he doesn’t expect to find is romance...
- 4/18/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Melissa George Hunted
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The BBC’s much anticipated Alias-style spy drama Hunted premieres this Thursday at 9pm on BBC One. One-time Aussie soap star Melissa George stars as Sam – an undercover operative who comes to believe that her own colleagues are plotting to kill her.
Stephen Dillane (Welcome to Sarajevo), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost) and Patrick Malahide (Billy Elliot) are among George’s co-stars in the drama which was co-produced by HBO. The show will be broadcast on Cinemax in the U.S. beginning on 19 October. Click below for a sneak peek.
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The BBC’s much anticipated Alias-style spy drama Hunted premieres this Thursday at 9pm on BBC One. One-time Aussie soap star Melissa George stars as Sam – an undercover operative who comes to believe that her own colleagues are plotting to kill her.
Stephen Dillane (Welcome to Sarajevo), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost) and Patrick Malahide (Billy Elliot) are among George’s co-stars in the drama which was co-produced by HBO. The show will be broadcast on Cinemax in the U.S. beginning on 19 October. Click below for a sneak peek.
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- 10/3/2012
- by Edited by K Kinsella
With the Academy Awards now just a week away, large doses of scrutiny are being shoved down the collective throats of the twinkling stars standing in line and hoping for their very own statuette.
Odds are that when the nominations are announced every year, there will be at least one somewhat surprising contender, whether he/she be an unknown, or simply dwells in an artistically shunned corner of the film world…no names mentioned, Jonah.
What is more of a startling occurrence is when said unfancied also-ran is announced as the victor, with their Celebrity Square suddenly expanding, and their face contorted with disbelief and unguarded astonishment in front of millions of amazed viewers.
But just how often is the wild card winner the champion of the future? Is the bookie-breaking hero of the night getting the ultimate kick start into superstardom and legend, an easily carried poisoned chalice, or...
Odds are that when the nominations are announced every year, there will be at least one somewhat surprising contender, whether he/she be an unknown, or simply dwells in an artistically shunned corner of the film world…no names mentioned, Jonah.
What is more of a startling occurrence is when said unfancied also-ran is announced as the victor, with their Celebrity Square suddenly expanding, and their face contorted with disbelief and unguarded astonishment in front of millions of amazed viewers.
But just how often is the wild card winner the champion of the future? Is the bookie-breaking hero of the night getting the ultimate kick start into superstardom and legend, an easily carried poisoned chalice, or...
- 2/20/2012
- by Scott Patterson
- SoundOnSight
Woody Harrelson plays psychopaths brilliantly. It couldn't be anything to do with his dad's day job, could it? He talks about coming to terms with the terrible truth and his new film, Rampart
I'm not looking forward to meeting Woody Harrelson. I'm a bit scared, to be honest. I've just seen Rampart, his new movie in which he plays a racist, psychopathic police officer. Harrelson is terrifying in it. Terrifying when he's chasing villains, bullying juniors, beating the crap out of innocents, stalking the mothers of his children. He's even terrifying when he's making love. His body, specially slimmed-down and muscled-up for the part, pulses with a tension permanently on the cusp of violence.
It's not as if this is a one-off – there's his sickening Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers ("At birth, I was cast into a flaming pit of scum"), deranged killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, Charlie in the...
I'm not looking forward to meeting Woody Harrelson. I'm a bit scared, to be honest. I've just seen Rampart, his new movie in which he plays a racist, psychopathic police officer. Harrelson is terrifying in it. Terrifying when he's chasing villains, bullying juniors, beating the crap out of innocents, stalking the mothers of his children. He's even terrifying when he's making love. His body, specially slimmed-down and muscled-up for the part, pulses with a tension permanently on the cusp of violence.
It's not as if this is a one-off – there's his sickening Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers ("At birth, I was cast into a flaming pit of scum"), deranged killer Tallahassee in Zombieland, Charlie in the...
- 2/18/2012
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
Norwegian film Kompani Orheim (The Orheim Company) was awarded the Dragon Award for the best Nordic film at the 35th Göteborg International Film Festival held from January 27 to February 6,2012. Directed by Arild Andersen as part of a trilogy about a personage named Jarle Kepp,the film is a dark, but warm, humorous, and moving tale of Jarle’s childhood at the hands of an alcoholic and brutal father. Strongly in contention for the award were 10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear), a Danish feature directed by Mads Mattheisen, about a mature adult trying to escape the imposing presence of his mother, and Pojktanten (She Male Snails), a documentary feature directed by Ester Martin Bergsmark, which won a special mention from the jury as well as the audience award for best Nordic feature.
The Göteborg international film festival held in Sweden’s second largest city is a mecca for films from Norway,...
The Göteborg international film festival held in Sweden’s second largest city is a mecca for films from Norway,...
- 2/7/2012
- by Asha Kasbekar
- DearCinema.com
Melissa George
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Work has begun on Nemesis – an eight part drama being co-produced by the BBC and HBO. The drama is written by American TV writer Frank Spotnitz and produced by Kudos films (Life on Mars). Filming will take place in Morocco, London and Scotland. The drama is focused on a private intelligence agency operative named Sam who survives an assassination attempt that she believes was orchestrated by one of her colleagues.
Australian movie star and one-time Home and Away actress Melissa George takes on the role of Sam. Adam Rayner (Hawthorne) plays her co-worker and love interest. Other notables in the cast include Stephen Dillane (Welcome to Sarajevo), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost) and Patrick Malahide (Billy Elliot). Nemesis is expected to air some time in 2012 and it is the latest joint venture involving the BBC and HBO.
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Work has begun on Nemesis – an eight part drama being co-produced by the BBC and HBO. The drama is written by American TV writer Frank Spotnitz and produced by Kudos films (Life on Mars). Filming will take place in Morocco, London and Scotland. The drama is focused on a private intelligence agency operative named Sam who survives an assassination attempt that she believes was orchestrated by one of her colleagues.
Australian movie star and one-time Home and Away actress Melissa George takes on the role of Sam. Adam Rayner (Hawthorne) plays her co-worker and love interest. Other notables in the cast include Stephen Dillane (Welcome to Sarajevo), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost) and Patrick Malahide (Billy Elliot). Nemesis is expected to air some time in 2012 and it is the latest joint venture involving the BBC and HBO.
- 11/23/2011
- by admin
Toronto International Film Festival 2011 has lined up a mixed bag of Indian films: an extravagant Bollywood fare, a Tamil satire, a surreal film and a suspense thriller both shot in Kolkata, and a ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ adaptation set in Rajasthan. The showcase also features a diverse range of directors, from actor-turned-director Pankaj Kapoor to the critically acclaimed Vimukhti Jayasundara.
Photo courtesy: tiff.net
The festival runs from September 8 through September 18, 2011. Well-known actor Pankaj Kapoor’s directorial debut Mausam starring his son Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor will have its World Premiere on September 14 at the festival. The film is touted as a typical Bollywood extravaganza replete with songs and dance. It is a love story between a Hindu Air Force pilot and a Muslim refugee from Kashmir. In the words of Cameron Bailey, the co-director and programmer of Toronto International Film Festival, “No film in this year’s...
Photo courtesy: tiff.net
The festival runs from September 8 through September 18, 2011. Well-known actor Pankaj Kapoor’s directorial debut Mausam starring his son Shahid Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor will have its World Premiere on September 14 at the festival. The film is touted as a typical Bollywood extravaganza replete with songs and dance. It is a love story between a Hindu Air Force pilot and a Muslim refugee from Kashmir. In the words of Cameron Bailey, the co-director and programmer of Toronto International Film Festival, “No film in this year’s...
- 9/7/2011
- by Nandita Dutta
- DearCinema.com
The schedule for the Toronto International Film Festival will be released this Tuesday morning, and I’m trying my best to finish this list before then. There are simply too many films I want to see and choosing between them isn’t easy. Here is the next five most anticipated films from this year’s slate.
16 – Moth Diaries
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Mary Harron (American Psycho) is ready to rock for her big screen adaptation of Rachel Klein’s The Moth Diaries, at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. The Moth Diaries stars Scott Speedman, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon and Sarah Bolger (the little lead girl from In America all grown up). It is always great to support Canadian filmmakers, and since she is from Ontario, I have to place her movie on my must see list.
Synopsis: At an exclusive girls’ boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary.
16 – Moth Diaries
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Mary Harron (American Psycho) is ready to rock for her big screen adaptation of Rachel Klein’s The Moth Diaries, at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. The Moth Diaries stars Scott Speedman, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon and Sarah Bolger (the little lead girl from In America all grown up). It is always great to support Canadian filmmakers, and since she is from Ontario, I have to place her movie on my must see list.
Synopsis: At an exclusive girls’ boarding school, a sixteen-year-old girl records her most intimate thoughts in a diary.
- 8/22/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Michael Winterbottom is the prolific English filmmaker who has directed seventeen feature films in the past fifteen years, three of which (Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland and 24 Hour Party People) were nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Well as expected he is back at Tiff and a trailer has dropped for his latest dramatic endeavour ahead of its Toronto premiere next month.
Synopsis: Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Trishna tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father’s hotel business.
After an accident destroys her father’s Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other,...
Synopsis: Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Trishna tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British businessman Jay Singh (Riz Ahmed) who has come to India to work in his father’s hotel business.
After an accident destroys her father’s Jeep, Trishna goes to work for Jay, and they fall in love. But despite their feelings for each other,...
- 8/19/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Yesterday it was the royal hunks, today's "The Hobbit" dwarf pictorial (via Stuff.co.nz) features three more dwarves who represent a quite different background - the rougher and life loving working class trio of Bombur (Stephen Hunter), Bofur (James Nesbitt) and Bifur (William Kircher). Here's the description of their characters:
"Born and bred in the West, descendants of coal miners and iron workers, they have joined the Quest for the Lonely Mountain partly to seek their fortune and partly because they were told the beer was free."
Hunter is a familiar face on Australian and New Zealand television with a role in several episodes of the acclaimed "Love My Way" along with guest starring roles on "All Saints," "Spirited," "Mercy Peak" and "Street Legal".
Irish actor Nesbitt is an outright legend of British television with memorable leading role turns in "Jekyll," "Cold Feet," "Ballykissangel," "Playing the Field," "Murphy's Law,...
"Born and bred in the West, descendants of coal miners and iron workers, they have joined the Quest for the Lonely Mountain partly to seek their fortune and partly because they were told the beer was free."
Hunter is a familiar face on Australian and New Zealand television with a role in several episodes of the acclaimed "Love My Way" along with guest starring roles on "All Saints," "Spirited," "Mercy Peak" and "Street Legal".
Irish actor Nesbitt is an outright legend of British television with memorable leading role turns in "Jekyll," "Cold Feet," "Ballykissangel," "Playing the Field," "Murphy's Law,...
- 7/14/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
This world loves bickering buddies. From Laurel and Hardy to Jay and Silent Bob, there's plenty of fondness for comedies built around caustic and amusing back-and-forths between two people that, at the drop of a hat, either want to kill each other or cuddle. Michael Winterbottom, the man responsible for "Welcome to Sarajevo" and the harshly-and-unjustly-criticized "The Killer Inside Me," saw gold in the relationship between his star Steve Coogan ("24 Hour Party People") and friend/comedian Rob Brydon and amplified their personalities for "Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story." The result was a riot, and things went so well…...
- 4/27/2011
- The Playlist
Subject: Marisa Tomei, 46-year old American Actress
Date of Assessment: March 16, 2011
Positive Buzzwords: Sensuality, pluckiness, longevity
Negative Buzzwords: The Academy, romcoms
The Case: Just last week, I discussed how Gary Oldman has suffered no adverse effects after experiencing a career of neglect at the hands of The Academy. Naturally, Gary doesn't give much of a shit whether or not he's receiving relatively worthless reinforcement from his fellow actors; and in this week's assessment, we explore the simple notion that an Oscar can actually hurt one's career prospects.
Very early on in Marisa Tomei's career (following stints on "As the World Turns" and "A Different World" as well as bit roles in a few negligible feature films), the actress received a substantial boost after winning the 1992 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny. Now, whether or not she deserved the award is a matter of personal opinion,...
Date of Assessment: March 16, 2011
Positive Buzzwords: Sensuality, pluckiness, longevity
Negative Buzzwords: The Academy, romcoms
The Case: Just last week, I discussed how Gary Oldman has suffered no adverse effects after experiencing a career of neglect at the hands of The Academy. Naturally, Gary doesn't give much of a shit whether or not he's receiving relatively worthless reinforcement from his fellow actors; and in this week's assessment, we explore the simple notion that an Oscar can actually hurt one's career prospects.
Very early on in Marisa Tomei's career (following stints on "As the World Turns" and "A Different World" as well as bit roles in a few negligible feature films), the actress received a substantial boost after winning the 1992 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny. Now, whether or not she deserved the award is a matter of personal opinion,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Agent Bedhead
Despite my love of science fiction and comic books, I’ve never seen a face-off quite like the one toward the end of Of Gods And Men.
A modern, weaponized helicopter is defeated by eight men armed solely with liturgical chants. The battle is set in Algeria at the cusp of its fall to institutionalized radicalism, and this scene, indeed the entire story, could have been just another beat in a downer “important” picture about the current geo-political climate. We can offer up thanks to God that director Xavier Beauvois has little interest in making a Bloody Sunday or Welcome to Sarajevo, noble though those pictures may be. Of Gods And Men, the based-on-a-true-story tale of an order of French monks caught in a shift of fundamentalist Islamic power, has much more than simple reporting on its mind.
Of Gods And Men is a film about decision-making and the rationalizations...
A modern, weaponized helicopter is defeated by eight men armed solely with liturgical chants. The battle is set in Algeria at the cusp of its fall to institutionalized radicalism, and this scene, indeed the entire story, could have been just another beat in a downer “important” picture about the current geo-political climate. We can offer up thanks to God that director Xavier Beauvois has little interest in making a Bloody Sunday or Welcome to Sarajevo, noble though those pictures may be. Of Gods And Men, the based-on-a-true-story tale of an order of French monks caught in a shift of fundamentalist Islamic power, has much more than simple reporting on its mind.
Of Gods And Men is a film about decision-making and the rationalizations...
- 2/23/2011
- UGO Movies
The gloom of January getting you down? World cinema can provide the perfect guide to your summer holiday destinations, as Nick explains…
So, it's January. Post-festive season excesses have caught up with us, and for many, back to work blues have most likely also struck. What a crappy month. No wonder most people have already started planning their holidays. In my office the talk is full of people with one foot somewhere exotic. Or at least Magaluf.
But can films provide us with inspiration? I hope so, or else this is going to be a somewhat short column. So, without further ado, here's a list of destinations for you, complete with what makes them so special...
Thailand
What the guidebook says: "Thailand...gives off a certain lustre, be it the fertile rice fields of the central plains, white sandy beaches or the warm hospitality of its citizenry."
All well and good,...
So, it's January. Post-festive season excesses have caught up with us, and for many, back to work blues have most likely also struck. What a crappy month. No wonder most people have already started planning their holidays. In my office the talk is full of people with one foot somewhere exotic. Or at least Magaluf.
But can films provide us with inspiration? I hope so, or else this is going to be a somewhat short column. So, without further ado, here's a list of destinations for you, complete with what makes them so special...
Thailand
What the guidebook says: "Thailand...gives off a certain lustre, be it the fertile rice fields of the central plains, white sandy beaches or the warm hospitality of its citizenry."
All well and good,...
- 1/12/2011
- Den of Geek
Artifacts such as solar cells and satellite telephones show the way ordinary citizens survived the three-year conflict.
Wartime innovation generally comes from the armed forces in the form of better guns or bombers. But surviving a war often requires just as much ingenuity. An online exhibit opened this week features artifacts from the Sarajevo Siege from 1992-1995 that show how everyday citizens in Sarajevo got through the war by innovating with what little they had during the crisis. It includes car radios, satellite telephones, solar cells, coffee makers, water carts and more. Each real-life object is viewable via video, 3-D model, or simply as an online image.
The "Sarajevo Survival Tools" project is part of the "Sarajevo Under Siege Exhibit," an online museum created by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo (Etf) and the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Sarajevo siege was a time when many ordinary citizens...
Wartime innovation generally comes from the armed forces in the form of better guns or bombers. But surviving a war often requires just as much ingenuity. An online exhibit opened this week features artifacts from the Sarajevo Siege from 1992-1995 that show how everyday citizens in Sarajevo got through the war by innovating with what little they had during the crisis. It includes car radios, satellite telephones, solar cells, coffee makers, water carts and more. Each real-life object is viewable via video, 3-D model, or simply as an online image.
The "Sarajevo Survival Tools" project is part of the "Sarajevo Under Siege Exhibit," an online museum created by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo (Etf) and the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Sarajevo siege was a time when many ordinary citizens...
- 12/17/2010
- by Jenara Nerenberg
- Fast Company
It must be frustrating being Steve Coogan. As the winner of numerous British Comedy and BAFTA awards (not to mention the 1992 Perrier Award, the 1997 Silver Rose of Montreux and a South Bank Show Award for his live show “The Man Who Thinks He’s It”) he’s also been listed amongst the 50 funniest acts working in British comedy as well as featuring in the Top 20 greatest comedy acts of all time as voted for by fellow comedians.
He’s forged himself a moderately successful Hollywood career and starred in a number of successful films from the likes of Sofia Coppola, Ben Stiller, Jim Jarmusch, Adam McKay and Frank Oz and starred alongside such names as Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Kirsten Dunst. And to top it all off he’s even founded his own production company, Baby Cow Productions, which itself has given birth to such...
He’s forged himself a moderately successful Hollywood career and starred in a number of successful films from the likes of Sofia Coppola, Ben Stiller, Jim Jarmusch, Adam McKay and Frank Oz and starred alongside such names as Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and Kirsten Dunst. And to top it all off he’s even founded his own production company, Baby Cow Productions, which itself has given birth to such...
- 12/13/2010
- by Nick Turk
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Veteran Irish James Nesbitt and newcomer Adam Brown have officially joined Peter Jackson.s "The Hobbit" as the dwarves Bofur and Ori respectively reports The One Ring. Nesbitt had been linked to the project a few weeks back, but today came word on which role in particular along with confirmation of his involvement. His role will be that of Bofur, a "disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf". Having consistently been in work since 1991 on British television and in features, Nesbitt has delivered memorable character turns in shows like "Ballykissangel","Murphy's Law", "Cold Feet" and Steven Moffat's "Jekyll" mini-series. In film he's worked in strong efforts from some of the great filmmakers of our time including Michael Winterbottom's "Welcome To Sarajevo", Danny...
- 11/4/2010
- www.ohmygore.com/
Winterbottom has shown a determination to carry on making interesting films regardless of whether they fill multiplexes or not
Say this for Michael Winterbottom: he's a grafter. Eighteen films in 16 years and a new TV series, The Trip, just started on BBC2. For a British director, such numbers reflect something bigger than productivity – they demonstrate a determination to carry on in an industry marked by low (and falling) budgets. You might expect this to produce timid, samey films, but not in Winterbottom's case. His work skips across genres and styles: sci-fi (Code 46), western (The Claim), literary adaptation (A Cock and Bull Story), war (Welcome to Sarajevo). "It would be hard to imagine a Michael Winterbottom comedy," observed one Guardian journalist, but that was before the release of 24 Hour Party People, the film history of Factory Records in which God turns up to ask label boss Tony Wilson why...
Say this for Michael Winterbottom: he's a grafter. Eighteen films in 16 years and a new TV series, The Trip, just started on BBC2. For a British director, such numbers reflect something bigger than productivity – they demonstrate a determination to carry on in an industry marked by low (and falling) budgets. You might expect this to produce timid, samey films, but not in Winterbottom's case. His work skips across genres and styles: sci-fi (Code 46), western (The Claim), literary adaptation (A Cock and Bull Story), war (Welcome to Sarajevo). "It would be hard to imagine a Michael Winterbottom comedy," observed one Guardian journalist, but that was before the release of 24 Hour Party People, the film history of Factory Records in which God turns up to ask label boss Tony Wilson why...
- 11/4/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Veteran Irish thesp James Nesbitt and newcomer Adam Brown have officially joined Peter Jackson‘s “The Hobbit” as the dwarves Bofur and Ori respectively reports The One Ring.
Nesbitt had been linked to the project a few weeks back, but today came word on which role in particular along with confirmation of his involvement. His role will be that of Bofur, a "disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf".
Having consistently been in work since 1991 on British television and in features, Nesbitt has delivered memorable character turns in shows like "Ballykissangel," "Murphy's Law," "Cold Feet" and Steven Moffat's "Jekyll" mini-series. In film he's worked in strong efforts from some of the great filmmakers of our time including Michael Winterbottom's "Welcome to Sarajevo", Danny Boyle's "Millions", Woody Allen's "Match Point" and Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday".
Brown will play Ori, another of the Dwarf Company which sets...
Nesbitt had been linked to the project a few weeks back, but today came word on which role in particular along with confirmation of his involvement. His role will be that of Bofur, a "disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf".
Having consistently been in work since 1991 on British television and in features, Nesbitt has delivered memorable character turns in shows like "Ballykissangel," "Murphy's Law," "Cold Feet" and Steven Moffat's "Jekyll" mini-series. In film he's worked in strong efforts from some of the great filmmakers of our time including Michael Winterbottom's "Welcome to Sarajevo", Danny Boyle's "Millions", Woody Allen's "Match Point" and Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday".
Brown will play Ori, another of the Dwarf Company which sets...
- 11/2/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The star's debut as a director has sparked fierce controversy over who has the right to tell the story of Serbian rape camps
A pack of dogs is basking in the sun in the old Jewish cemetery on the hill overlooking the district of Grbavica in Sarajevo. During the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war, the Serbs placed their guns up here to fire into the city. Fifteen years after the war's end, this scruffy neighbourhood has become the centre of a new conflict.
It is thought to be one of the locations where Angelina Jolie would like to direct her debut film, dealing in part with the experience of a Muslim woman who was a victim of the notorious rape camps. The film has provoked a bitter battle over who has the right to interpret one of the conflict's dark episodes – and how. The dispute has even split...
A pack of dogs is basking in the sun in the old Jewish cemetery on the hill overlooking the district of Grbavica in Sarajevo. During the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian war, the Serbs placed their guns up here to fire into the city. Fifteen years after the war's end, this scruffy neighbourhood has become the centre of a new conflict.
It is thought to be one of the locations where Angelina Jolie would like to direct her debut film, dealing in part with the experience of a Muslim woman who was a victim of the notorious rape camps. The film has provoked a bitter battle over who has the right to interpret one of the conflict's dark episodes – and how. The dispute has even split...
- 10/23/2010
- by Peter Beaumont
- The Guardian - Film News
Plans in pipeline for a film directed by Michael Winterbottom inspired by the murder of British exchange student in Italy
Colin Firth has been lined up to take the role of a journalist covering the murder in Italy in 2007 of the British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
The director Michael Winterbottom, whose eclectic career has spanned documentary style dramas, eroticism and the Manchester club scene, is planning a film loosely based on the murder in Perugia, and has interested the star of Pride and Prejudice and the Bridget Jones films.
Winterbottom was in Perugia today to attend a court hearing for Amanda Knox, the 23-year-old American student convicted last year alongside her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of killing her flatmate Kercher during a sexual assault. Both claim innocence and will start their appeal in November.
"You are drawn into this story, it is a puzzle," said Winterbottom. "Usually puzzles in films are fake,...
Colin Firth has been lined up to take the role of a journalist covering the murder in Italy in 2007 of the British exchange student Meredith Kercher.
The director Michael Winterbottom, whose eclectic career has spanned documentary style dramas, eroticism and the Manchester club scene, is planning a film loosely based on the murder in Perugia, and has interested the star of Pride and Prejudice and the Bridget Jones films.
Winterbottom was in Perugia today to attend a court hearing for Amanda Knox, the 23-year-old American student convicted last year alongside her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito of killing her flatmate Kercher during a sexual assault. Both claim innocence and will start their appeal in November.
"You are drawn into this story, it is a puzzle," said Winterbottom. "Usually puzzles in films are fake,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Tom Kington
- The Guardian - Film News
One of the cool things about Michael Winterbottom is that you simply never know what you're going to get each time out. As the director of films like Welcome to Sarajevo, Wonderland, 24 Hour Party People, Code 46, Tristram Shandy, The Killer Inside Me, and a bunch of others, the filmmaker seems firmly intent on being one of those "eclectic" directors, one who'll leap from comedy to tragedy sci-fi to avant-garde weirdness with an admirable enthusiasm. (It's the kind of thing that makes us admire directors like Howard Hawks, Robert Wise, and Danny Boyle: they try a slightly new genre each time out.)
It's Winterbottom's devotion to being different that makes his latest, the low-key two-character comedy The Trip, no real surprise at all. That the movie is so strangely endearing and consistently funny is a satisfying discovery, but, again, not much of a surprise.
Filed under: Comedy, Independent, Theatrical Reviews,...
It's Winterbottom's devotion to being different that makes his latest, the low-key two-character comedy The Trip, no real surprise at all. That the movie is so strangely endearing and consistently funny is a satisfying discovery, but, again, not much of a surprise.
Filed under: Comedy, Independent, Theatrical Reviews,...
- 9/13/2010
- by Scott Weinberg
- Cinematical
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