Exclusive: Tobias Menzies was hiding in plain sight at a rally held by UK actors union Equity in support of its sister union SAG-AFTRA.
Cameras and microphones were being shoved in front of the likes of Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo, Naomie Harris and many others, but Menzies was just out of shot.
Had Menzies been wearing a bespoke suit, shirt, tie and nice polished shoes, the penny might have dropped for some in the media scrum.
He won an Emmy for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Seasons 3 and 4 of Netflix and Left Bank Pictures’ The Crown.
Then there’s Nicole Holofcener’s sharply observed — satisfyingly so — arch comedy You Hurt My Feelings, which is available on digital platforms in the U.S. and streaming on Prime Video in the U.K. from August 8.
Menzies sports an impressive American accent in Holofcener’s movie...
Cameras and microphones were being shoved in front of the likes of Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Hayley Atwell, David Oyelowo, Naomie Harris and many others, but Menzies was just out of shot.
Had Menzies been wearing a bespoke suit, shirt, tie and nice polished shoes, the penny might have dropped for some in the media scrum.
He won an Emmy for his portrayal of Prince Philip in Seasons 3 and 4 of Netflix and Left Bank Pictures’ The Crown.
Then there’s Nicole Holofcener’s sharply observed — satisfyingly so — arch comedy You Hurt My Feelings, which is available on digital platforms in the U.S. and streaming on Prime Video in the U.K. from August 8.
Menzies sports an impressive American accent in Holofcener’s movie...
- 7/22/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Egyptian superstar Yousra over the course of a four-decade career has starred in a multitude of Arabic film and TV milestones comprising classic movies such as Youssef Chahine’s “Alexandria: Again and Forever” and Marwan Hamed’s “The Yacoubian Building,” and hit Ramadan series “Public Opinion Case,” which was instrumental in changing Egypt’s rape victim legislation.
But while Yousra has appeared in several co-productions, she recently had the first-time experience of working on the Mbc series “Rose & Layla” with a non-Arabic writer-director duo: British screenwriter Cris Cole, creator of the BAFTA-nominated series “Mad Dogs,” and Adrian Shergold, who directed “Mad Dogs.” “Rose & Layla,” which is produced by Maged Mohsen and Safa Aburizik, will be distributed internationally by veteran Brit exec Stewart Till’s Till Entertainment.
The groundbreaking 10-episode show – which will be launching on Mbc’s Shahid streamer by year’s end – marks another first, pairing Yousra with popular...
But while Yousra has appeared in several co-productions, she recently had the first-time experience of working on the Mbc series “Rose & Layla” with a non-Arabic writer-director duo: British screenwriter Cris Cole, creator of the BAFTA-nominated series “Mad Dogs,” and Adrian Shergold, who directed “Mad Dogs.” “Rose & Layla,” which is produced by Maged Mohsen and Safa Aburizik, will be distributed internationally by veteran Brit exec Stewart Till’s Till Entertainment.
The groundbreaking 10-episode show – which will be launching on Mbc’s Shahid streamer by year’s end – marks another first, pairing Yousra with popular...
- 12/5/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Cordelia received widespread acclaim from critics, although verdict from regular audiences hasn’t yet come in. The movie was directed by Adrian Shergold, who worked on projects like Persuasion, Funny Cow, Clapham Junction, Lucan, and My Mother and Other Strangers. The movie stars Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Catherine McCormack, Joel Fry, Michael Gambon, and Alun Armstrong. The plot of Cordelia is as follows: “Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young woman living in London, meets her mysterious and alluring neighbor Frank (Johnny Flynn) for the first time but quickly becomes suspicious of his motives. With her twin sister away for the weekend, Cordelia is left alone and
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Cordelia”...
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Cordelia”...
- 6/6/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
So, what’s one of the hazards of living in a big city? Most folks might immediately think of crime or perhaps trying to earn enough to keep up with the high rents. Strangely, a lot of city dwellers deal with isolation, that sibling to loneliness. And even though the streets are packed with bustling commuters and shoppers, there are those who internally “cut themselves off”, going about a routine before locking their doors and almost hibernating, Then there’s an element that accelerates this behavior, say a traumatic incident or accident. This is all at the center of a new psychological thriller set in one of the world’s biggest population centers, London. Even though it focuses on a “flat” that’s the home of two sisters, a deep loneliness haunts the one named Cordelia.
Oddly, our introduction with her is when she sweetly gives up her seat on...
Oddly, our introduction with her is when she sweetly gives up her seat on...
- 5/19/2022
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Cordelia Trailer — Adrian Shergold‘s Cordelia (2019) movie trailer has been released by Screen Media Films. The Cordelia trailer stars Antonia Campbell-Hughes Johnny Flynn, Catherine McCormack, Joel Fry, and Michael Gambon. Crew Adrian Shergold and Antonia Campbell-Hughes wrote the screenplay for Cordelia. Natalie Holt created the music for the film. Tony Slater Ling crafted the [...]
Continue reading: Cordelia (2019) Movie Trailer: Antonia Campbell-Hughes Begins to Unravel with Paranoia in Adrian Shergold’s Film...
Continue reading: Cordelia (2019) Movie Trailer: Antonia Campbell-Hughes Begins to Unravel with Paranoia in Adrian Shergold’s Film...
- 5/8/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
In Theaters and On Demand May 20, 2022 Directed by Adrian Shergold (“Mad Dogs,” Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, “Eureka Street”) Written by Adrian Shergold & Antonia Campbell-Hughes Starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes (3096 Days, Queen Marie-Antoinette in “Dangerous Liaisons”) Johnny Flynn (Emma., Clouds of Sils Maria, Beast) Catherine McCormack (Braveheart, Spy Game, 28 Weeks Later) Joel Fry (In The Earth, Yesterday, Cruella) Michael Gambon (Gosford Park, Harry Potter) Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young woman living …
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- 4/29/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Distribution
PBS Distribution will be the North American distribution partner for West Road Pictures and All3Media International series “Ridley.” It stars Adrian Dunbar (“Line of Duty”) as Detective Inspector Alex Ridley, who has retired from the police after 20 years of dedicated service. Now working in a consultancy role, Ridley resumes his partnership with his former protégée, Di Carol Farman, when she turns to him for help on a complex murder investigation.
The series, which consists of four two-hour episodes, is currently filming across Northern England, and will premiere on ITV in the U.K. It has sold to Npo in the Netherlands, Vrt in Flemish Belgium, BritBox for exclusive Australia streaming, Pumpkin TV has China VOD rights, and Rlj Entertainment has secured DVD/Video rights for Australia and New Zealand.
“Ridley” is written and created by Paul Matthew Thompson (“Vera”) and co-created by Jonathan Fisher (“Blood”), MD of West Road Pictures,...
PBS Distribution will be the North American distribution partner for West Road Pictures and All3Media International series “Ridley.” It stars Adrian Dunbar (“Line of Duty”) as Detective Inspector Alex Ridley, who has retired from the police after 20 years of dedicated service. Now working in a consultancy role, Ridley resumes his partnership with his former protégée, Di Carol Farman, when she turns to him for help on a complex murder investigation.
The series, which consists of four two-hour episodes, is currently filming across Northern England, and will premiere on ITV in the U.K. It has sold to Npo in the Netherlands, Vrt in Flemish Belgium, BritBox for exclusive Australia streaming, Pumpkin TV has China VOD rights, and Rlj Entertainment has secured DVD/Video rights for Australia and New Zealand.
“Ridley” is written and created by Paul Matthew Thompson (“Vera”) and co-created by Jonathan Fisher (“Blood”), MD of West Road Pictures,...
- 4/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the psychological thriller Cordelia, starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is In Us All) and Johnny Flynn (Emma), from Great Point Media, which holds world distribution rights outside the UK. The Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company plans to release the title from director Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman) day-and-date in at least 10 cities in May.
Cordelia centers on Campbell-Hughes’ character of the same name—a young woman living in London with her twin sister, who quickly becomes suspicious of her mysteriously alluring neighbor Frank (Flynn) when she meets him for the first time. With her sister out of town for the weekend, the anxious Cordelia is all alone and consumed by her many fears, beginning to unravel and sink back into past traumas, the more Frank tries to charm his way into her life.
Joel Fry (Yesterday), Michael Gambon (Harry...
Cordelia centers on Campbell-Hughes’ character of the same name—a young woman living in London with her twin sister, who quickly becomes suspicious of her mysteriously alluring neighbor Frank (Flynn) when she meets him for the first time. With her sister out of town for the weekend, the anxious Cordelia is all alone and consumed by her many fears, beginning to unravel and sink back into past traumas, the more Frank tries to charm his way into her life.
Joel Fry (Yesterday), Michael Gambon (Harry...
- 4/5/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Comcast-owned Sky is working on its first series with Shameless creator Paul Abbott — a crime drama titled Wolfe, which will feature Guerrilla and Rogue One actor Babou Ceesay as a brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist.
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky originals, is written by a team led by Abbott and will co-star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Naomi Yang (Poisonings), Adam Long (Vera), and Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe).
Ceesay leads the crime-of-the-week series as Professor Wolfe Kinteh, the finest crime scene investigator in the north of England. He is a mercurial genius when it comes to piecing together evidence, but is prone to being a liability and has been kicked out of his family home by his wife, Val (Tena).
Wolfe is propped up by a team that includes child prodigy Maggy (Yang...
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky originals, is written by a team led by Abbott and will co-star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Naomi Yang (Poisonings), Adam Long (Vera), and Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe).
Ceesay leads the crime-of-the-week series as Professor Wolfe Kinteh, the finest crime scene investigator in the north of England. He is a mercurial genius when it comes to piecing together evidence, but is prone to being a liability and has been kicked out of his family home by his wife, Val (Tena).
Wolfe is propped up by a team that includes child prodigy Maggy (Yang...
- 1/24/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Despite tier changes during the shoot, the film shot in October and November.
UK actor-filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes could hardly have picked a trickier time to make her feature directorial debut.
It Is In Us All shot in rural Ireland for four and half weeks in October and November 2020 amid ever-tightening Covid-19 restrictions, last-minute cast changes and ongoing, raging storms.
“Every evening after shooting there were conference calls with Screen Ireland about whether we could continue,” Campbell-Hughes recalls of the conversations with the film’s backer. “It was pretty insane, all of the time.”
It Is In Us All is about a Londoner,...
UK actor-filmmaker Antonia Campbell-Hughes could hardly have picked a trickier time to make her feature directorial debut.
It Is In Us All shot in rural Ireland for four and half weeks in October and November 2020 amid ever-tightening Covid-19 restrictions, last-minute cast changes and ongoing, raging storms.
“Every evening after shooting there were conference calls with Screen Ireland about whether we could continue,” Campbell-Hughes recalls of the conversations with the film’s backer. “It was pretty insane, all of the time.”
It Is In Us All is about a Londoner,...
- 1/20/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Antonia Campbell-Hughes feels like one of Britain’s best kept secrets, as as an actress who puts so much of herself into every role, playing with such intensity and conviction in a way few other performers manage. This is no different in her latest production, as she plays the eponymous lead role in Cordelia, a mysterious thriller that also stars Johnny Flynn and none other than Michael Gambon.
While speaking to the Northern Irish actress, we delve into the complexities and nuances of the role at hand, and also on the fact she very much helped chat her, co-penning the screenplay with Adrian Shergold. She also talks about visiting those dark places within her mind, and discusses being ‘unconventional’ and what that has meant in terms of her career. We also wanted to discuss her evident and contagious passion for cinema, and where this fascination was first ignited.
Watch the...
While speaking to the Northern Irish actress, we delve into the complexities and nuances of the role at hand, and also on the fact she very much helped chat her, co-penning the screenplay with Adrian Shergold. She also talks about visiting those dark places within her mind, and discusses being ‘unconventional’ and what that has meant in terms of her career. We also wanted to discuss her evident and contagious passion for cinema, and where this fascination was first ignited.
Watch the...
- 10/21/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn star in a potent chamber piece about a traumatised young woman and the charming man who lives upstairs
There’s a really interesting pairing of two really interesting screen presences – Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn – in this flawed but potent psychological chiller. It’s a claustrophobic chamber drama about emotional breakdown co-written for the screen by Campbell-Hughes with the film’s director Adrian Shergold. In some ways, it’s a riff on Polanski’s Repulsion, with the story of a lonely young woman beginning to get unmoored from unreality.
Campbell-Hughes plays Cordelia, a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline (also played by Campbell-Hughes) and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt (Joel Fry); they leave her alone there. Cordelia...
There’s a really interesting pairing of two really interesting screen presences – Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn – in this flawed but potent psychological chiller. It’s a claustrophobic chamber drama about emotional breakdown co-written for the screen by Campbell-Hughes with the film’s director Adrian Shergold. In some ways, it’s a riff on Polanski’s Repulsion, with the story of a lonely young woman beginning to get unmoored from unreality.
Campbell-Hughes plays Cordelia, a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline (also played by Campbell-Hughes) and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt (Joel Fry); they leave her alone there. Cordelia...
- 10/21/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A new trailer has arrived for the British thriller directed by Adrian Shergold ‘Cordelia’ featuring Johnny Flynn.
Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) lives with her twin sister Caroline (Campbell-Hughes) in their central London basement flat. Years earlier, Cordelia had been caught up in a traumatic event that left her guilt-ridden and fragile. Her gradual recovery and search for independence is jeopardised when her sister leaves for a weekend away. For the first time, she meets her mysterious neighbour Frank (Johnny Flynn), a cellist whose music has intrigued her. As their relationship develops, Cordelia becomes convinced she is being stalked. Increasingly anxious and unsure of Frank’s motives, Cordelia begins to unravel.
Directed by Adrian Shergold, the film stars Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn.
Also in trailers – Queen Catherine goes to war both at home and on the battlefield in trailer for ‘The Spanish Princess’ part 2
The film will hit UK cinemas October 23rd.
Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) lives with her twin sister Caroline (Campbell-Hughes) in their central London basement flat. Years earlier, Cordelia had been caught up in a traumatic event that left her guilt-ridden and fragile. Her gradual recovery and search for independence is jeopardised when her sister leaves for a weekend away. For the first time, she meets her mysterious neighbour Frank (Johnny Flynn), a cellist whose music has intrigued her. As their relationship develops, Cordelia becomes convinced she is being stalked. Increasingly anxious and unsure of Frank’s motives, Cordelia begins to unravel.
Directed by Adrian Shergold, the film stars Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Johnny Flynn.
Also in trailers – Queen Catherine goes to war both at home and on the battlefield in trailer for ‘The Spanish Princess’ part 2
The film will hit UK cinemas October 23rd.
- 9/15/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Rafe Spall, Joel Fry, Steve Speirs, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Tim Woodward, Benedikte Hansen, Simone Lykke | Written by Jeff Murphy | Directed by Adrian Shergold
I believe it was the Beatles who once said “all you need is Rafe Spall” or something to that effect anyway… I have made no secret of the fact that when I find an actor or actress I like, I will go out of my way to watch them. It is a select group though, the likes of your Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Vicky McClue, Tom Hardy, Joe Gilgun to name a few (notice these are all Brits). The type of leading actors that can let a whole scene play out over their faces and not say a great deal but have me on the edge of my seat having heart palpitations. Another such actor who has been on my radar for some time now, and...
I believe it was the Beatles who once said “all you need is Rafe Spall” or something to that effect anyway… I have made no secret of the fact that when I find an actor or actress I like, I will go out of my way to watch them. It is a select group though, the likes of your Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Vicky McClue, Tom Hardy, Joe Gilgun to name a few (notice these are all Brits). The type of leading actors that can let a whole scene play out over their faces and not say a great deal but have me on the edge of my seat having heart palpitations. Another such actor who has been on my radar for some time now, and...
- 8/6/2020
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Timothy Spall stars in a fascinating, surprisingly non-morbid look into the life of Albert Pierrepoint, England’s reluctant celebrity hangman who dispatched hundreds of convicted killers, including Ruth Ellis and John Christie, not to mention 47 Nazi war criminals, in a literal marathon of the gallows. The artist of the noose kept up a double life to separate his execution duties from his domestic marriage … until General Montgomery blew his cover of anonymity. Eddie Marsan and Juliet Stevenson provide terrific acting support in this undeservedly obscure gem from director Adrian Shergold.
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Region B Blu-ray
Lionsgate (UK)
2005 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 91 95 min. / Pierrepoint; The Last Hangman / Available from Amazon UK or Amazon Us / Street Date December 7, 2009 /
Starring: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Clive Francis, Tobias Menzies.
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Film Editor: Tania Reddin
Original Music: Martin Phipps
Written by Bob Mills, Jeff Pope
Produced by Christine Langan
Directed...
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Region B Blu-ray
Lionsgate (UK)
2005 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 91 95 min. / Pierrepoint; The Last Hangman / Available from Amazon UK or Amazon Us / Street Date December 7, 2009 /
Starring: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Clive Francis, Tobias Menzies.
Cinematography: Danny Cohen
Film Editor: Tania Reddin
Original Music: Martin Phipps
Written by Bob Mills, Jeff Pope
Produced by Christine Langan
Directed...
- 4/14/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
James Payne’s “The Window,” which is being pitched as part of MipTV Online Plus’s Drama Buyers Summit, a digital marketplace for international broadcasters, is a drama-thriller set in the world of professional soccer.
Shooting on the series was stopped in response to the coronavirus crisis, but, having begun filming in October, eight episodes have been finished and are available as a shortened first season, with producers promising cliffhangers at the end of each episode.
“The Window” is a dramatized, behind the scenes look at an elite English soccer club and how the beautiful game can get ugly, from the top executives all the way down to its teenage stars.
BAFTA-winning director and actor Adrian Shergold (“Mad Dogs”) is lead directing, with Claudia Garde (“Tatort”) and Pieter van Hees (“Versailles”) picking up the remaining episodes. Series creator and writer James Payne (“Mr. Selfridge”) co-wrote Season 1 with Chris Gill (“The Hive...
Shooting on the series was stopped in response to the coronavirus crisis, but, having begun filming in October, eight episodes have been finished and are available as a shortened first season, with producers promising cliffhangers at the end of each episode.
“The Window” is a dramatized, behind the scenes look at an elite English soccer club and how the beautiful game can get ugly, from the top executives all the way down to its teenage stars.
BAFTA-winning director and actor Adrian Shergold (“Mad Dogs”) is lead directing, with Claudia Garde (“Tatort”) and Pieter van Hees (“Versailles”) picking up the remaining episodes. Series creator and writer James Payne (“Mr. Selfridge”) co-wrote Season 1 with Chris Gill (“The Hive...
- 4/1/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Cannes – Germany’s Zdf Enterprises and Japan’s Fuji TV have picked their team for soccer drama “The Window.”
Mel Raido (“Deep State”), Tommy Bastow (“Agatha Raisin”), stage actor Samuel Jordan, Lynn Van Royen (“Tabula Rasa”), Jodie Tyack (“The Feed”), and Carole Weyers (“Grey’s Anatomy”) will all star in the show. It heads into production in the U.K. next week, before moving to Belgium and Malta.
Co-production is commonplace in the international drama market, but not among European and Asian partners. Having pacted, Zdf Enterprises, the commercial arm of German pubcaster Zdf, and Japanese broadcaster Fuji will share international sales duties.
The pair first worked up the idea of teaming on drama at Mipcom three years ago. They unveiled the cast and full team on the show at the 2019 edition of the TV market. Berlin-based production company Boogie Entertainment developed “The Window,” and will make it with Belgium-based Velvet Films.
Mel Raido (“Deep State”), Tommy Bastow (“Agatha Raisin”), stage actor Samuel Jordan, Lynn Van Royen (“Tabula Rasa”), Jodie Tyack (“The Feed”), and Carole Weyers (“Grey’s Anatomy”) will all star in the show. It heads into production in the U.K. next week, before moving to Belgium and Malta.
Co-production is commonplace in the international drama market, but not among European and Asian partners. Having pacted, Zdf Enterprises, the commercial arm of German pubcaster Zdf, and Japanese broadcaster Fuji will share international sales duties.
The pair first worked up the idea of teaming on drama at Mipcom three years ago. They unveiled the cast and full team on the show at the 2019 edition of the TV market. Berlin-based production company Boogie Entertainment developed “The Window,” and will make it with Belgium-based Velvet Films.
- 10/14/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Buyers reveal the films to receive an enthusiastic response.
International delegates have given a positive response to Film London’s new-look London Screenings, which took place at Picturehouse Central in London’s West End from June 24-27.
Some of the films that received a particularly enthusiastic response by distributors included François Girard’s The Song Of Names, starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen and sold by HanWay Films; Hong Khaou’s Karlovy Vary premiere Monsoon, handled by Protagonist and described by one distributor in London as “absolutely charming”, and Elfar Adalsteins’ tragicomic road movie End Of Sentence, about a newly...
International delegates have given a positive response to Film London’s new-look London Screenings, which took place at Picturehouse Central in London’s West End from June 24-27.
Some of the films that received a particularly enthusiastic response by distributors included François Girard’s The Song Of Names, starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen and sold by HanWay Films; Hong Khaou’s Karlovy Vary premiere Monsoon, handled by Protagonist and described by one distributor in London as “absolutely charming”, and Elfar Adalsteins’ tragicomic road movie End Of Sentence, about a newly...
- 7/2/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The event showcases films of any nationality sold by UK sales agents.
Some 160 international buyers are expected to attend Film London’s new-look London Screenings which start in the UK today (June 24).
For the first time in 16 years, the four-day showcase of films handled by UK sales companies, is moving out of its old home at BFI Southbank in Waterloo to take up residence at Picturehouse Central in the heart of the West End. The date has also been moved back a week, closer to the end of June.
The distributors in town include the new German powerhouse backed by Kkr,...
Some 160 international buyers are expected to attend Film London’s new-look London Screenings which start in the UK today (June 24).
For the first time in 16 years, the four-day showcase of films handled by UK sales companies, is moving out of its old home at BFI Southbank in Waterloo to take up residence at Picturehouse Central in the heart of the West End. The date has also been moved back a week, closer to the end of June.
The distributors in town include the new German powerhouse backed by Kkr,...
- 6/24/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
"I'm going to do the deed, and I'm going to get banged up." BBC Films + West End Films has debuted the first "international" promo trailer for a new film titled simply Denmark, the latest feature made by English filmmaker Adrian Shergold (Funny Cow). This "bittersweet" drama-comedy stars Rafe Spall as a down-on-his-luck Welshman without a job or access to hot water, who makes a rash decision to change his life for the better. Hopefully. With nothing to lose, and everything to gain, he travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot. Sounds nice. This also stars Simone Lykke, Thomas Gabrielsson, Steve Speirs, and Joel Fry. This does look amusing, maybe just a bit depressing, and Rafe is pretty much always fanastic in every film he makes. Enjoy. Here's the first official trailer for Adrian Shergold's Denmark,...
- 5/8/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Moviehouse joins completed project from the producers of Funny Cow.
International rights to Adrian Shergold’s UK psychological thriller Cordelia, starring Johnny Flynn and Antonia Campbell-Hughes, have been acquired by London-based Moviehouse Entertainment.
Screen can unveil a first look at the two leads in the film.
Campbell-Hughes stars as the titular Cordelia, who lives with her twin sister in their late father’s basement flat. Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack and Joel Fry co-star in the completed film which was co-written by Campbell-Hughes with Shergold. Sally Hawkins is also an executive producer on the project. The Oscar-nominated actress was originally going...
International rights to Adrian Shergold’s UK psychological thriller Cordelia, starring Johnny Flynn and Antonia Campbell-Hughes, have been acquired by London-based Moviehouse Entertainment.
Screen can unveil a first look at the two leads in the film.
Campbell-Hughes stars as the titular Cordelia, who lives with her twin sister in their late father’s basement flat. Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack and Joel Fry co-star in the completed film which was co-written by Campbell-Hughes with Shergold. Sally Hawkins is also an executive producer on the project. The Oscar-nominated actress was originally going...
- 5/8/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
London-based sales agency WestEnd Films has released the first-look photo for “I Am Woman,” which Variety has exclusively. The movie follows the rise of singer-songwriter Helen Reddy, whose song “I Am Woman” became the anthem for the women’s movement in the 1970s. The shot features Tilda Cobham-Hervey, who plays Reddy.
“A film for our times, this is a story of fearless ambition and passion, about a woman who led the way for other women seeking equality by smashing through the patriarchal norms to become the international singing superstar she always dreamed of being,” according to WestEnd.
The film is directed by Unjoo Moon (“The Zen of Bennett”), and also stars Evan Peters as Helen’s manager and husband Jeff Wald, and Danielle Macdonald as the rock journalist Lilian Roxon.
The film is produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, and is written by Emma Jensen (“Mary Shelley”). The cinematographer is Dion Beebe,...
“A film for our times, this is a story of fearless ambition and passion, about a woman who led the way for other women seeking equality by smashing through the patriarchal norms to become the international singing superstar she always dreamed of being,” according to WestEnd.
The film is directed by Unjoo Moon (“The Zen of Bennett”), and also stars Evan Peters as Helen’s manager and husband Jeff Wald, and Danielle Macdonald as the rock journalist Lilian Roxon.
The film is produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight, and is written by Emma Jensen (“Mary Shelley”). The cinematographer is Dion Beebe,...
- 2/7/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Alun Armstrong, Christine Bottomley, Kevin Eldon, Tony Pitts, Diane Morgan, Hannah Walters, Hebe Beardsall, John Bishop, Lindsey Coulson, Adam Gillen, Dominic Brunt, Vic Reeves | Written by Tony Pitts | Directed by Adrian Shergold
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
Maxine Peake, famed British theatre actress formulates what might just be her greatest performance in the character of Funny Cow. The lead role in the same-titled feature drama directed by Adrian Shergold. Funny Cow is an unsettling harrowing dramatic embodiment the explores the satirical tale of life itself. The fragmented and ironic moments of pain and pleasure threaded into a caricature of sorts that play out in a vicious fiery blanket of love and fear.
The maligned experiences of terror Peakes’ Funny...
A comedian uses her troubled past as material for her stand-up routine, trying to rise up through the comedy circuit by playing Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
Maxine Peake, famed British theatre actress formulates what might just be her greatest performance in the character of Funny Cow. The lead role in the same-titled feature drama directed by Adrian Shergold. Funny Cow is an unsettling harrowing dramatic embodiment the explores the satirical tale of life itself. The fragmented and ironic moments of pain and pleasure threaded into a caricature of sorts that play out in a vicious fiery blanket of love and fear.
The maligned experiences of terror Peakes’ Funny...
- 8/28/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Maxine Peake is magnificent in Adrian Shergold’s unflinching drama about a standup on the 70s northern club circuit
There are several moments in this astringently uncomfortable tragicomedy – which boasts a blistering central performance by Maxine Peake – that will leave audiences squirming and divided. Funny Cow follows the changing fortunes of a standup comic finding her feet in the northern working men’s clubs of the 70s. It has been described by writer and co-star Tony Pitts as “an unblinking obituary” and “unsentimental commentary” on the culture in which he grew up. Some will be shocked by Peake’s “Funny Cow” (we know her only by her stage name), winning round hostile audiences with un-pc gags that were once the backbone of the British club circuit. Others will simply nod in resigned recognition at this hard-knocks world in which “it’s not about being funny, it’s about surviving”.
There...
There are several moments in this astringently uncomfortable tragicomedy – which boasts a blistering central performance by Maxine Peake – that will leave audiences squirming and divided. Funny Cow follows the changing fortunes of a standup comic finding her feet in the northern working men’s clubs of the 70s. It has been described by writer and co-star Tony Pitts as “an unblinking obituary” and “unsentimental commentary” on the culture in which he grew up. Some will be shocked by Peake’s “Funny Cow” (we know her only by her stage name), winning round hostile audiences with un-pc gags that were once the backbone of the British club circuit. Others will simply nod in resigned recognition at this hard-knocks world in which “it’s not about being funny, it’s about surviving”.
There...
- 4/22/2018
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
MaryAnn’s quick take… This is scorched-earth cinema that challenges us to find moments of grace and triumph among misery, cruelty, and emotional frugality. Maxine Peake is absolutely incendiary. I’m “biast” (pro): I’m desperate for movies about women
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
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There are movies — rare as they are — about women who do not compromise and make no apologies. And then there’s Funny Cow, as blistering and caustic a film about a no-bullshit woman clawing her way through a man’s world as I’ve ever seen.
This faux biopic of an unnamed (fictional) famous stand-up comic (Maxine Peake) “presumes” that the audience is already aware of who she is, and so it’s not about her work; this is most definitely not a comedy.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
There are movies — rare as they are — about women who do not compromise and make no apologies. And then there’s Funny Cow, as blistering and caustic a film about a no-bullshit woman clawing her way through a man’s world as I’ve ever seen.
This faux biopic of an unnamed (fictional) famous stand-up comic (Maxine Peake) “presumes” that the audience is already aware of who she is, and so it’s not about her work; this is most definitely not a comedy.
- 4/19/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Sally Hawkins is to executive produce the U.K. bombing drama Cordelia from writer-director Adrian Shergold and Pow Films, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Hawkins has backed the psychological thriller since its inception. The film sees Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Cordelia, a young actress who is on the London subway system on July 7, 2005, when terrorists attack the carriage she is traveling in. Cordelia, which also stars Michael Gambon, Johnny Flynn and Catherine McCormack, picks up the young woman's story 12 years after the terrorist attack when she is attempting to get on with her life in a rundown section of...
Hawkins has backed the psychological thriller since its inception. The film sees Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Cordelia, a young actress who is on the London subway system on July 7, 2005, when terrorists attack the carriage she is traveling in. Cordelia, which also stars Michael Gambon, Johnny Flynn and Catherine McCormack, picks up the young woman's story 12 years after the terrorist attack when she is attempting to get on with her life in a rundown section of...
- 3/28/2018
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sally Hawkins, the Oscar-nominated star of “The Shape of Water,” will take her first executive producer role, on “Cordelia,” a psychological thriller about a young woman who is haunted by past events and who starts to unravel when left alone in her apartment.
Antonia Campbell-Hughes (“Lead Balloon”) stars as Cordelia. She co-wrote the screenplay for the movie with Adrian Shergold (“Funny Cow”), who directs.
Veteran British actor Michael Gambon (“Harry Potter”), Catherine McCormack (“28 Weeks Later”), and actor and musician Johnny Flynn (“Genius”) round out the cast. Georgina Lowe (“Mr Turner”) will exec produce alongside Golden Globe-winning Hawkins.
The titular Cordelia lives with her twin sister, Caroline, and Caroline’s new boyfriend, Matt, in a basement flat in one of the less salubrious parts of London. She is trying to cope with them, a stalker, and neighbors including a mysterious cellist and an eccentric old man, Mr. Moses (Gambon).
More than a decade earlier,...
Antonia Campbell-Hughes (“Lead Balloon”) stars as Cordelia. She co-wrote the screenplay for the movie with Adrian Shergold (“Funny Cow”), who directs.
Veteran British actor Michael Gambon (“Harry Potter”), Catherine McCormack (“28 Weeks Later”), and actor and musician Johnny Flynn (“Genius”) round out the cast. Georgina Lowe (“Mr Turner”) will exec produce alongside Golden Globe-winning Hawkins.
The titular Cordelia lives with her twin sister, Caroline, and Caroline’s new boyfriend, Matt, in a basement flat in one of the less salubrious parts of London. She is trying to cope with them, a stalker, and neighbors including a mysterious cellist and an eccentric old man, Mr. Moses (Gambon).
More than a decade earlier,...
- 3/28/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Sally Hawkins is to executive produce the U.K. bombing drama <em>Cordelia</em> from writer-director Adrian Shergold and Pow Films, <em>The Hollywood Reporter</em> has confirmed.
Hawkins has backed the psychological thriller since its inception. The film sees Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Cordelia, a young actress who is on the London subway system on July 7, 2005, when terrorists attack the carriage she is traveling in. <em>Cordelia</em>, which also stars Michael Gambon, Johnny Flynn and Catherine McCormack, picks up the young woman's story 12 years after the terrorist attack when she is attempting to get on with her life in a rundown section of London....
Hawkins has backed the psychological thriller since its inception. The film sees Antonia Campbell-Hughes as Cordelia, a young actress who is on the London subway system on July 7, 2005, when terrorists attack the carriage she is traveling in. <em>Cordelia</em>, which also stars Michael Gambon, Johnny Flynn and Catherine McCormack, picks up the young woman's story 12 years after the terrorist attack when she is attempting to get on with her life in a rundown section of London....
- 3/28/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A woman who has a funny bone for a backbone. Entertainment One UK has debuted an official trailer for the indie comedy Funny Cow, starring English actress Maxine Peake as a comedienne in the 70s making her mark on the male-dominated stand up scene. Peake recently starred in the black-and-white "Metalhead" episode of Netflix's "Black Mirror", which is where some people might recognize her from, even though she has been in many films before this. Set against the backdrop of the 70s/80s comedy club circuit in Northern England, Funny Cow stars Peake as fictional comedienne "Funny Cow", trying making a name for herself in the stand up world. The full cast includes Paddy Considine, Christine Bottomley, Stephen Graham, Alun Armstrong, Tony Pitts, Hannah Walters, and Kevin Eldon. This film actually looks quite good. Here's the first international trailer (+ poster) for Adrian Shergold's Funny Cow, direct from YouTube...
- 2/28/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Author: Zehra Phelan
Entertainment One have released a trailer for the upcoming Funny Cow, starring Maxine Peake as stand up comedian trying to break through an all-male comedy circuit.
Directed by Adrian Shergold, the film stars Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Tony Pitts, Alun Armstrong with special guest appearances from Corinne Bailey Rae, John Bishop, Vic Reeves and Diane Morgan.
Also in new trailers to watch – Jared Leto stars in trailer for Netflix The Outsider
The film is in cinemas from April 20th.
Funny Cow Official Synopsis
Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of ‘Funny Cow’, a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom. Set against the backdrop of working men’s clubs in the North of England, Funny Cow is both a love-letter to a bygone era and the defiant story of a woman who refuses to give up her dreams.
Entertainment One have released a trailer for the upcoming Funny Cow, starring Maxine Peake as stand up comedian trying to break through an all-male comedy circuit.
Directed by Adrian Shergold, the film stars Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Tony Pitts, Alun Armstrong with special guest appearances from Corinne Bailey Rae, John Bishop, Vic Reeves and Diane Morgan.
Also in new trailers to watch – Jared Leto stars in trailer for Netflix The Outsider
The film is in cinemas from April 20th.
Funny Cow Official Synopsis
Maxine Peake plays the gritty role of ‘Funny Cow’, a comedian who breaks through the glass ceiling of the all-male 1970s comedy circuit to rise to stardom. Set against the backdrop of working men’s clubs in the North of England, Funny Cow is both a love-letter to a bygone era and the defiant story of a woman who refuses to give up her dreams.
- 2/27/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
One of those intriguing but raggedy films that ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its promising parts, British comedy-drama Funny Cow stars Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything) as an irrepressible working-class lass finding her feet as a stand-up comic in mid-century Northern England.
Working off a script by actor Tony Pitts, who also plays the protagonist’s abusive husband, veteran TV director Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman) boldly blends expressionist flourishes (actors playing multiple roles, stylized framing) with hard-grit realism. Peake is flinty and charismatic in the lead, and sharp support is provided by Paddy Considine,...
Working off a script by actor Tony Pitts, who also plays the protagonist’s abusive husband, veteran TV director Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman) boldly blends expressionist flourishes (actors playing multiple roles, stylized framing) with hard-grit realism. Peake is flinty and charismatic in the lead, and sharp support is provided by Paddy Considine,...
- 10/22/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peake is hypnotically belligerent as an ambitious club performer trampling over prejudice and sticky carpets on the 1970s comedy circuit
Maxine Peake dominates the screen as producer and star of this painful, angry film written by Tony Pitts and directed by Adrian Shergold, about a fictional female club comedian fighting her way to the top, or at least the middle, in 1970s Britain.
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Maxine Peake dominates the screen as producer and star of this painful, angry film written by Tony Pitts and directed by Adrian Shergold, about a fictional female club comedian fighting her way to the top, or at least the middle, in 1970s Britain.
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- 10/11/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Rafe Spall has been set to star in upcoming comedy-drama Denmark, directed by Adrian Shergold (Persuasion, Funny Cow). Story follows a man's decision to leave behind his dreary life and start afresh. Spall will play Herb, a down-on-his-luck Welshman with no job, horrible neighbors and even worse prospects. When he discovers that Danish convicts live a luxurious life he could only dream of, he finally feels that he has something to aspire to: a life in Denmark…...
- 5/15/2017
- Deadline
Exclusive: I, Daniel Blake star Dave Johns and Mona Lisa’s Cathy Tyson among cast; first-look revealed.
UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment has been appointed to handle world sales for Gary Young’s directorial feature debut Two Graves.
Young produced and wrote Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer starrer Harry Brown and most recently co-wrote Adam Randall thriller Level Up.
Also written by Young, Two Graves is being produced by Keith Bell (Harry Brown), Shantelle Rochester-Henry (The Rise Of The Krays) and Lorianne Hall (SoulBoy) and stars I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns, Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa), David Hayman (Taboo), Josh Herdman (Robin Hood), Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Danielle Harold (EastEnders) and Kedar Williams-Stirling (Roots).
The deal was negotiated by Lorianne Hall for the producers and Moviehouse Entertainment’s Mark Vennis.
Screen can also reveal the first-look at Katie Jarvis in the film.
Set in the Northeast of England, the plot is about a middle-aged, middle class doctor...
UK-based Moviehouse Entertainment has been appointed to handle world sales for Gary Young’s directorial feature debut Two Graves.
Young produced and wrote Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer starrer Harry Brown and most recently co-wrote Adam Randall thriller Level Up.
Also written by Young, Two Graves is being produced by Keith Bell (Harry Brown), Shantelle Rochester-Henry (The Rise Of The Krays) and Lorianne Hall (SoulBoy) and stars I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns, Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa), David Hayman (Taboo), Josh Herdman (Robin Hood), Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Danielle Harold (EastEnders) and Kedar Williams-Stirling (Roots).
The deal was negotiated by Lorianne Hall for the producers and Moviehouse Entertainment’s Mark Vennis.
Screen can also reveal the first-look at Katie Jarvis in the film.
Set in the Northeast of England, the plot is about a middle-aged, middle class doctor...
- 5/4/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Filming under way on Entertainment One’s 1970s-set comedy drama.
Production on Funny Cow, which stars Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything, Shameless) as a stand-up comedienne, has begun in Yorkshire.
The comedy drama, directed by Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint), follows the rise to stardom of Peake’s character in 1970s northern England and is filming on location in Yorkshire for four weeks.
Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz) and Stephen Graham (This Is England) co-star in the film, which features music by ex-Longpigs frontman and Mercury award-nominated solo artist Richard Hawley and Grammy Award winner Corinne Bailey Rae.
War Horse and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Tony Pitts penned the script and has an acting role.
Kevin Proctor from Pow Films and Mark Vennis from Moviehouse Entertainment are producing, with Entertainment One releasing in the UK and Moviehouse Entertainment handling intrernational sales.
The film is executive produced by Peter Dunphy and Charlotte Arden of Gizmo Films and Norman Merry...
Production on Funny Cow, which stars Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything, Shameless) as a stand-up comedienne, has begun in Yorkshire.
The comedy drama, directed by Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint), follows the rise to stardom of Peake’s character in 1970s northern England and is filming on location in Yorkshire for four weeks.
Paddy Considine (Hot Fuzz) and Stephen Graham (This Is England) co-star in the film, which features music by ex-Longpigs frontman and Mercury award-nominated solo artist Richard Hawley and Grammy Award winner Corinne Bailey Rae.
War Horse and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story writer Tony Pitts penned the script and has an acting role.
Kevin Proctor from Pow Films and Mark Vennis from Moviehouse Entertainment are producing, with Entertainment One releasing in the UK and Moviehouse Entertainment handling intrernational sales.
The film is executive produced by Peter Dunphy and Charlotte Arden of Gizmo Films and Norman Merry...
- 1/12/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: eOne pre-buys UK rights to 70s-set feature on eve of Cannes Marché.
Entertainment One (eOne) has pre-bought UK rights to comedy-drama Funny Cow from Moviehouse Entertainment.
Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything) will to star in the 1970s-set feature about the rise of a working class comedienne.
After struggling to free herself from an abusive home life, Peake’s character, known as ‘Funny Cow’, finds herself drawn to the stand-up circuit of Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
The film is also due to star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), John Hannah (The Mummy), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire) and Tony Pitts (War Horse) with production expected to begin in October 2016 in Belfast.
Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint) directs from a script by Peaky Blinders actor-writer Pitts. Kevin Proctor of Pow Films will produce alongside Mark Vennis of Moviehouse.
The deal was negotiated by Ashanti McIntosh for eOne and Mark Vennis for Moviehouse Entertainment.
McIntosh commented:...
Entertainment One (eOne) has pre-bought UK rights to comedy-drama Funny Cow from Moviehouse Entertainment.
Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything) will to star in the 1970s-set feature about the rise of a working class comedienne.
After struggling to free herself from an abusive home life, Peake’s character, known as ‘Funny Cow’, finds herself drawn to the stand-up circuit of Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
The film is also due to star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), John Hannah (The Mummy), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire) and Tony Pitts (War Horse) with production expected to begin in October 2016 in Belfast.
Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint) directs from a script by Peaky Blinders actor-writer Pitts. Kevin Proctor of Pow Films will produce alongside Mark Vennis of Moviehouse.
The deal was negotiated by Ashanti McIntosh for eOne and Mark Vennis for Moviehouse Entertainment.
McIntosh commented:...
- 5/10/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: eOne pre-buys UK rights to 70s-set feature on eve of Cannes Marché.
Entertainment One (eOne) has pre-bought UK rights to comedy-drama Funny Cow from Moviehouse Entertainment.
Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything) will to star in the 70s-set feature about the rise of a working class comedienne.
After struggling to free herself from an abusive home life, Peake’s character, known as ‘Funny Cow’, finds herself drawn to the stand-up circuit of Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
The film is also due to star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), John Hannah (The Mummy), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire) and Tony Pitts (War Horse) with production expected to begin in October 2016 in Belfast.
Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint) directs from a script by Peaky Blinders actor-writer Pitts. Kevin Proctor of Pow Films will produce alongside Mark Vennis of Moviehouse.
The deal was negotiated by Ashanti McIntosh for eOne and Mark Vennis for Moviehouse Entertainment.
McIntosh commented:...
Entertainment One (eOne) has pre-bought UK rights to comedy-drama Funny Cow from Moviehouse Entertainment.
Maxine Peake (The Theory Of Everything) will to star in the 70s-set feature about the rise of a working class comedienne.
After struggling to free herself from an abusive home life, Peake’s character, known as ‘Funny Cow’, finds herself drawn to the stand-up circuit of Northern England’s working men’s clubs.
The film is also due to star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), John Hannah (The Mummy), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire) and Tony Pitts (War Horse) with production expected to begin in October 2016 in Belfast.
Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint) directs from a script by Peaky Blinders actor-writer Pitts. Kevin Proctor of Pow Films will produce alongside Mark Vennis of Moviehouse.
The deal was negotiated by Ashanti McIntosh for eOne and Mark Vennis for Moviehouse Entertainment.
McIntosh commented:...
- 5/10/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Tom Cullen has joined ITV drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose, as filming begins on the series.
The Downton Abbey star will play Jason Rose, the son of Jimmy (Ray Winstone) and Jackie (Amanda Redman).
Charlotte Randle has also signed up to play Julie, Jason's sister.
Meanwhile, Montanna Thompson will play Jimmy and Jackie's granddaughter Ellie and The Fall actor John Lynch will feature as Steve McIntyre.
The Trials of Jimmy Rose follows notorious armed robber Jimmy Rose, who is released from prison only to find that his family have moved on with their lives.
Written by Strike Back's Alan Whiting and directed by Adrian Shergold, the three-part drama is currently shooting in Manchester.
The Downton Abbey star will play Jason Rose, the son of Jimmy (Ray Winstone) and Jackie (Amanda Redman).
Charlotte Randle has also signed up to play Julie, Jason's sister.
Meanwhile, Montanna Thompson will play Jimmy and Jackie's granddaughter Ellie and The Fall actor John Lynch will feature as Steve McIntyre.
The Trials of Jimmy Rose follows notorious armed robber Jimmy Rose, who is released from prison only to find that his family have moved on with their lives.
Written by Strike Back's Alan Whiting and directed by Adrian Shergold, the three-part drama is currently shooting in Manchester.
- 11/7/2014
- Digital Spy
Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman will star in new ITV drama The Trials of Jimmy Rose.
The series will tell the story of armed robber Jimmy Rose (Winstone), whose lifetime of crime has had its costs.
His wife Jackie (Redman) battles with thoughts that she no longer loves her husband, while their adult children decide to cut Jimmy out of their lives.
The three-part series follows Jimmy as he is released from prison and tries to adapt to his family's new take on his lifestyle.
Winstone said: "Alan Whiting has created and written a gift of a role. I'm excited to be playing him and to be working with the great Amanda Redman. She's such a fine actress, and together with Adrian Shergold and the production team, I'm sure we'll be able to bring Jimmy and Jackie to life."
The Trials of Jimmy Rose also features Marion Bailey, Sue Anderson and Paul Jesson,...
The series will tell the story of armed robber Jimmy Rose (Winstone), whose lifetime of crime has had its costs.
His wife Jackie (Redman) battles with thoughts that she no longer loves her husband, while their adult children decide to cut Jimmy out of their lives.
The three-part series follows Jimmy as he is released from prison and tries to adapt to his family's new take on his lifestyle.
Winstone said: "Alan Whiting has created and written a gift of a role. I'm excited to be playing him and to be working with the great Amanda Redman. She's such a fine actress, and together with Adrian Shergold and the production team, I'm sure we'll be able to bring Jimmy and Jackie to life."
The Trials of Jimmy Rose also features Marion Bailey, Sue Anderson and Paul Jesson,...
- 10/8/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV has commissioned a new drama titled The Trials of Jimmy Rose.
The three-part series will centre around Jimmy Roberts, a former gangster and ex-con who is attempting to regain the love and trust of his family.
It is written and created by Alan Whiting, who has previously worked on Strike Back and Kingdom.
Adrian Shergold, whose previous projects include Lucan and Mad Dogs, directs.
ITV's Kieran Roberts confirmed that the show will begin filming this autumn.
"The Trials of Jimmy Rose is a warm, funny and compelling drama about a family man with a criminal past who has to prove it's never too late to start over," Roberts explained.
ITV's Steve November added: "Alan Whiting has created an instantly memorable character, a man with too much to regret and not enough time to make amends.
"He's been a successful criminal but can he now become a successful husband and father?...
The three-part series will centre around Jimmy Roberts, a former gangster and ex-con who is attempting to regain the love and trust of his family.
It is written and created by Alan Whiting, who has previously worked on Strike Back and Kingdom.
Adrian Shergold, whose previous projects include Lucan and Mad Dogs, directs.
ITV's Kieran Roberts confirmed that the show will begin filming this autumn.
"The Trials of Jimmy Rose is a warm, funny and compelling drama about a family man with a criminal past who has to prove it's never too late to start over," Roberts explained.
ITV's Steve November added: "Alan Whiting has created an instantly memorable character, a man with too much to regret and not enough time to make amends.
"He's been a successful criminal but can he now become a successful husband and father?...
- 8/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Lucan focuses on the life of Lord Lucan, aka Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, a suspected murderer who disappeared without trace in 1974. ITV has commissioned the two-part drama which examines the events surrounding the bludgeoning death of Lucan’s children’s nanny Sandra Rivett, after which the Lord escaped a police search. Rory Kinnear (Skyfall) will play Lucan whose whereabouts and eventual fate have remained a mystery for nearly 40 years. The movie will also tell the story of Lucan’s exploits as a member of the Clermont Set, a group of British high-rollers who regularly met in a Mayfair casino. Christopher Eccleston and Michael Gambon also star. Jeff Pope, whose credits include the upcoming Philomena, wrote the screenplay. The drama is produced by ITV Studios/GroupM Entertainment. Exec producers are Pope, Francis Hopkinson (Wallander), Quentin Curtis, Richard Foster and Tony Moulsdale. Producer is Chris Clough. Adrian Shergold...
- 7/31/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Having interviewed Mark Strong no less than two months ago for the Oscar nominated Zero Dark Thirty, the talented actor is back in London promoting his latest flick, in the crime thriller Welcome to the Punch, where he plays the lead villain Jacob Sternwood – and we were fortunate to speak him once again.
Upon walking into the room – replacing the departing Eran Creevy, Strong says “now you know why I did the film”, as the enthusiasm shown by the gifted young filmmaker is there for all to see. Strong then proceeds to discuss his delight at working with Creevy, the pros and cons of working from home in London, his upcoming project Before I Go to Sleep with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, and why he always seems to be cast as the bad guy.
You can see all our coverage of Welcome to the Punch which is out this Friday 15th March here.
Upon walking into the room – replacing the departing Eran Creevy, Strong says “now you know why I did the film”, as the enthusiasm shown by the gifted young filmmaker is there for all to see. Strong then proceeds to discuss his delight at working with Creevy, the pros and cons of working from home in London, his upcoming project Before I Go to Sleep with Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, and why he always seems to be cast as the bad guy.
You can see all our coverage of Welcome to the Punch which is out this Friday 15th March here.
- 3/12/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sky’s newfound commitment to original drama continues with the sun-kissed thriller Mad Dogs, where four middle-aged friends — Woody (Max Beesley), Quinn (Philip Glenister), Baxter (John Simm) and Rick (Marc Warren) — fly out to Majorca to spend a week at their mutual pal Alvo’s (Ben Chaplin) luxurious villa, at his invitation, to get reacquainted and relive their youth. A simple setup for a ribald comedy-drama about midlife crisis, but Mad Dogs has more sinister and surreal things playing on its mind.
It perhaps reveals its hand too soon, in a prologue where each of the four friends were seen looking bloodied and bruised speaking into a camcorder, before the story jumped back in time to reveal how this situation comes about. But the buildup after that worked well, with escalating omens of trouble ahead (a beetle scooped from Alvo’s swimming pool, hours before a dead goat was found...
It perhaps reveals its hand too soon, in a prologue where each of the four friends were seen looking bloodied and bruised speaking into a camcorder, before the story jumped back in time to reveal how this situation comes about. But the buildup after that worked well, with escalating omens of trouble ahead (a beetle scooped from Alvo’s swimming pool, hours before a dead goat was found...
- 2/11/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
Following the outrage sparked by Canadian border guards’ decision to seize three gay-themed films (Shamim Sarif’s I Can’t See Straight, Adrian Shergold’s Clapham Junction and Ella Lemhagen’s Patrik, Age 1.5) headed to Ottawa’s gay film festival a couple of weeks ago, Jenn Ruddy reports at xtra.com that another gay-themed film was held up by Canadian authorities for more than a month. That’s Dinx, a short film directed by Edmonton-based filmmaker Trevor Anderson. According to Ruddy’s report, when Anderson called the Canada Border Services Agency (Cbsa) to ask why his film had been held up, "he was told that a customs official at the border in Emerson, Manitoba[,] had not known what it was and decided to investigate [...]...
- 12/4/2009
- by Alessandro Moretti
- Alt Film Guide
Clapham Junction by Adrian Shergold (top); Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth in I Can’t Think Straight (middle); Patrik Age. 1.5 by Ella Lemhagen (bottom) Canada an egalitarian gay haven? Think again. Marcus McCann reports in Xtra.com that Canada Border Services Agency customs officers have seized three gay-themed films en route to Ottawa’s three-day Inside Out gay film festival, which ends tomorrow, Nov. 22. No explanation was given for the seizure — which, of course, is exactly what you’d expect to happen in a true democracy. The films are supposed to remain in custody until they’re watched in full by some border censor or other. (Curiously, the Inside Out website makes no mention of the border incident.) The three films in question are Adrian [...]...
- 11/22/2009
- by Alessandro Moretti
- Alt Film Guide
London -- U.K. commercial web ITV said Friday that it has shelved plans for a lavish new adaptation of Em Forster's novel "A Passage to India."
The broadcaster said the plan to scrap the drama was for financial reasons, with the global economic downturn playing no small part in the decision.
The high-end adaptation was due to start shooting in January and had a who's-who of British talent lined up to star, including Matthew Macfadyen, Laurence Fox, Gemma Jones. Talks were ongoing with "Happy-Go-Lucky" star Sally Hawkins.
It is reported that ITV beat out competition from the BBC to secure the rights to the novel and had been in preproduction on it for weeks now. Originally planned as an in-house ITV Studios production for the commercial web, the show was planned for flagship channel ITV1.
ITV, listed here on the stock market, has endured 12 months of stock turmoil with...
The broadcaster said the plan to scrap the drama was for financial reasons, with the global economic downturn playing no small part in the decision.
The high-end adaptation was due to start shooting in January and had a who's-who of British talent lined up to star, including Matthew Macfadyen, Laurence Fox, Gemma Jones. Talks were ongoing with "Happy-Go-Lucky" star Sally Hawkins.
It is reported that ITV beat out competition from the BBC to secure the rights to the novel and had been in preproduction on it for weeks now. Originally planned as an in-house ITV Studios production for the commercial web, the show was planned for flagship channel ITV1.
ITV, listed here on the stock market, has endured 12 months of stock turmoil with...
- 12/19/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- London to Brighton, directed by Paul Andrew Williams, scooped the top prize at the close of the 17th annual Dinard Festival of British Film, which ended Sunday in the Northern French resort of Brittany, organizers said. Brighton, which tells the story of a 12-year-old runaway and a prostitute, picked up Dinard's Golden Hitchcock award after the jury, presided over by French actor Francois Berleand, chose the winner. Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint, starring Timothy Spall as real-life British hangman Albert Pierrepoint, took the Silver Hitchcock award, voted on by local moviegoers, as well as the Kodak Prize for cinematography. The Grand Marnier screenplay award went to Noel Clarke, who penned the script for Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood, which details the story of British high school kids at an inner-city school. Andrea Arnold's Red Road took home the event's Heartbeat nod, awarded by a group of French distributors who will release the winner in all their theaters -- approximately 40 cinemas in the Brittany region. Road star Kate Dickie was on hand to accept the award.
- 10/9/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Organizers of the 17th Dinard Festival of British Film, which unspools in the northern French resort of Brittany Oct. 5-8, said Monday this year's jury will include actor and director Charles Dance, actor Stephen Mangan and Irish actor Bronagh Gallagher. The 2006 jury will be presided over by French actor Francois Berleand alongside fellow French representation including actor Chantal Lauby, producer and agent Dominique Besnehard, director Radu Mihaileanu with Korean actress Yun Chung-Hi and actress Evelyne Bouix also judging. Six films will screen in competition for the Hitchcock d'Or Award which sees the winning title secure a financial contribution of 3,000 ($3,800) towards distribution costs, and a 1,600 ($2,000) grant to the director. The winner will come from Almost Adult, directed by Yousaf Ali Khan, Cashback, directed by Sean Ellis, Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood, London to Brighton, directed by Paul Andrew Williams, Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint, and Small Engine Repair, directed by Niall Heery. The festival kicks off Oct. 5 with an out-of-competition screening of The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Helen Mirren, and closes with an out-of-competition outing for Andrea Arnold's Red Road.
- 10/3/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Organizers of the 17th Dinard Festival of British Film, which unspools in the northern French resort of Brittany Oct. 5-8, said Monday this year's jury will include actor and director Charles Dance, actor Stephen Mangan and Irish actor Bronagh Gallagher. The 2006 jury will be presided over by French actor Francois Berleand alongside fellow French representation including actor Chantal Lauby, producer and agent Dominique Besnehard, director Radu Mihaileanu with Korean actress Yoon Shun Lee and actress Evelyne Bouix also judging. Six films will screen in competition for the Hitchcock d'Or Award which sees the winning title secure a financial contribution of 3,000 ($3,800) towards distribution costs, and a 1,600 ($2,000) grant to the director. The winner will come from Almost Adult, directed by Yousaf Ali Khan, Cashback, directed by Sean Ellis, Menhaj Huda's Kidulthood, London to Brighton, directed by Paul Andrew Williams, Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint, and Small Engine Repair, directed by Niall Heery. The festival kicks off Oct. 5 with an out-of-competition screening of The Queen, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Helen Mirren, and closes with an out-of-competition outing for Andrea Arnold's Red Road.
- 10/2/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- Stephen Frears' The Queen, which picked up two prizes at the Venice Film Festival, will open the 17th annual Festival of British Film in Dinard on France's Brittany coast Oct. 5, organizers said Tuesday. Red Road, the first feature from Andrea Arnold, who won an Academy Award for her live-action short film Wasp in 2005, will be given a gala screening. Six films will compete for the festival's annual Golden Hitchcock award: Almost Adult by Yousaf Ali Khan, Cashback by Sean Ellis, Kidulthood by Menhai Huda, London to Brighton by Paul Andrew Williams, Pierrepoint by Adrian Shergold and Small Engine Repair by Niall Heery.
- 9/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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