In the hierarchy of significance in what made news this past week, the sudden availability of the entirety of Albert Brooks’ output of feature films as a writer-director via Netflix Streaming may not carry the urgency of, say, the alarming continuance of African-American deaths under police fire, the attack on a peaceful protest against police violence by shooters who killed five law enforcement officers and wounded several more in Dallas, the ongoing partisan bloviating inspired by the FBI’s decision to not charge Hilary Clinton with federal crimes, or the frightening clown circus of offenses that characterizes the dawning of each new day in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. But art can, among many other things, provide a momentary respite from pain, sometimes even while examining some of the more frustrating, self-centric and petty dissonances within our own, or someone’s else’s worldview, and in this Brooks’ films at...
- 7/10/2016
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Bill Nighy, Anna Friel and Greg Wise star in the family adventure that will shoot spring 2015.
A new spin on the Heidi franchise, starring Bill Nighy, Anna Friel and Greg Wise, has been sold throughout the world by Carnaby International.
Family adventure Heidi and the Magic Pool has been snapped up by one major distributor, which Carnaby declined to name, that comprises the UK; Australia and New Zealand; France; Benelux; the Czech Republic; Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland; Greece; Portugal; Slovakia; Scandinavia; India, Israel, South Africa, Turkey; Hong Kong; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam; and all of Latin America.
Carnaby International’s director of international sales, Tania Sarra, has also concluded deals with the Middle East (Gulf Film), Indonesia (Pt Prima Cinema), Spain (Flins y Piniculas) and the countries of the former Yugoslavia (Discovery).
Carnaby has also announced an April 2015 start for the film, a UK-Hungarian co-production filming in both those countries. Discussions are ongoing...
A new spin on the Heidi franchise, starring Bill Nighy, Anna Friel and Greg Wise, has been sold throughout the world by Carnaby International.
Family adventure Heidi and the Magic Pool has been snapped up by one major distributor, which Carnaby declined to name, that comprises the UK; Australia and New Zealand; France; Benelux; the Czech Republic; Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland; Greece; Portugal; Slovakia; Scandinavia; India, Israel, South Africa, Turkey; Hong Kong; Malaysia; Philippines; Singapore; Taiwan; Thailand; Vietnam; and all of Latin America.
Carnaby International’s director of international sales, Tania Sarra, has also concluded deals with the Middle East (Gulf Film), Indonesia (Pt Prima Cinema), Spain (Flins y Piniculas) and the countries of the former Yugoslavia (Discovery).
Carnaby has also announced an April 2015 start for the film, a UK-Hungarian co-production filming in both those countries. Discussions are ongoing...
- 11/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Heidi and the Magic Pool – a family feature based on the durable ‘Heidi’ children’s franchise – has cleared territory sales across most of the world, and will start production in April with Bill Nighy, Anna Friel and Greg Wise in the cast, Carnaby International’s Tania Sarra announced at Afm today. The company said it also is in discussions with Jim Broadbent (Iris, Gangs of New York) for a role.
The film follows 12-year-old Heidi when she’s taken from her grandfather to live in the city as a companion to Clara, who is being poisoned by a governess with designs on Clara’s father. Clara and Heidi flee to a mysterious grotto called the Magic Pool.
Sarra said the territories sold to one big distributor include the UK, Australia and New Zealand, much of Europe, India, Southeast Asia and all of Latin America. Other deals will cover the Middle...
The film follows 12-year-old Heidi when she’s taken from her grandfather to live in the city as a companion to Clara, who is being poisoned by a governess with designs on Clara’s father. Clara and Heidi flee to a mysterious grotto called the Magic Pool.
Sarra said the territories sold to one big distributor include the UK, Australia and New Zealand, much of Europe, India, Southeast Asia and all of Latin America. Other deals will cover the Middle...
- 11/10/2014
- by David Bloom
- Deadline
Movie adaptation of BBC teen magazine show Friday Download to begin shooting this week.
Friday Download, the BAFTA-winning kids TV show that begins its eighth series on Cbbc in the UK next month, is to be adapted for the big screen.
The Friday Download Movie will begin a four-week shoot on Sept 6, primarily in Wales, in and around Swansea.
It will be directed by John Henderson (The Borrowers) and the script has been written by Toby Davies, who has penned British TV series such as Yonderland, Crackanory and Sorry I’ve Got No Head.
Producers are Pilot Media directors Jules Elvins and Dan Shepherd (Chalet Girl, Mr Nice), and Jeremy Salsby of Saltbeef TV, who created the show.
The film has been fully financed by Great Point Media, run by producers Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi Jnr.
International sales will be handled by Genesis Film Sales.
The TV series, which launched in 2011, is a weekly magazine show that...
Friday Download, the BAFTA-winning kids TV show that begins its eighth series on Cbbc in the UK next month, is to be adapted for the big screen.
The Friday Download Movie will begin a four-week shoot on Sept 6, primarily in Wales, in and around Swansea.
It will be directed by John Henderson (The Borrowers) and the script has been written by Toby Davies, who has penned British TV series such as Yonderland, Crackanory and Sorry I’ve Got No Head.
Producers are Pilot Media directors Jules Elvins and Dan Shepherd (Chalet Girl, Mr Nice), and Jeremy Salsby of Saltbeef TV, who created the show.
The film has been fully financed by Great Point Media, run by producers Jim Reeve and Robert Halmi Jnr.
International sales will be handled by Genesis Film Sales.
The TV series, which launched in 2011, is a weekly magazine show that...
- 9/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
A film adaptation of the BAFTA-winning BBC teen magazine show "Friday Download" begins filming this week.
The show begins its eighth series on Cbbc in the UK next month. The weekly magazine show features several segments (aka 'Downloads') fronted by a different presenter. Each download features information on a variety of subjects.
The film version sees the gang head off on a holiday, where they are drawn to a creepy old mansion in the middle of nowhere. Current presents Dionne Bromfield, Richard Wisker, Shannon Flynn, George Sear, Bobby Lockwood and past presenters Tyger Drew Honey and Louisa Connelly-Burnham are also attached to star.
The four week shoot on the film will take place primarily in Wales, in and around Swansea. John Henderson ("The Borrowers") helms from a script by Toby Davies, while Jeremy Salsby, Jules Elvins and Dan Shepherd will produce.
Source: Screen...
The show begins its eighth series on Cbbc in the UK next month. The weekly magazine show features several segments (aka 'Downloads') fronted by a different presenter. Each download features information on a variety of subjects.
The film version sees the gang head off on a holiday, where they are drawn to a creepy old mansion in the middle of nowhere. Current presents Dionne Bromfield, Richard Wisker, Shannon Flynn, George Sear, Bobby Lockwood and past presenters Tyger Drew Honey and Louisa Connelly-Burnham are also attached to star.
The four week shoot on the film will take place primarily in Wales, in and around Swansea. John Henderson ("The Borrowers") helms from a script by Toby Davies, while Jeremy Salsby, Jules Elvins and Dan Shepherd will produce.
Source: Screen...
- 9/3/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
For some of the oldsters out there they may recall the 1973 Gamble & Huff-produced R&B hit single “I’ll Always Love My Mama” by the musical group The Intruders. This musical anthem was certainly a lyrical tribute to caring mothers and how their sacrifices shaped our childhood and adulthood. This finger-snapping song definitely captured the spirit of motherly guidance.
Naturally film has had its share of depicting motherhood over the decades. In fact, mothers of all types are presented before our eyes in packages of being nurturing, notorious, nutty, naive and nonsensical. However, there is something so special about the mother-son relationship that rivals the father-daughter dynamic. We have our share of proud Mama’s boys out there roaming about in society.
In Mama’s Boy: The Top 10 Mother-Son Combos in Movies we will examine some of the big screen bonds that have been celebrated between the Mommy Dearests...
Naturally film has had its share of depicting motherhood over the decades. In fact, mothers of all types are presented before our eyes in packages of being nurturing, notorious, nutty, naive and nonsensical. However, there is something so special about the mother-son relationship that rivals the father-daughter dynamic. We have our share of proud Mama’s boys out there roaming about in society.
In Mama’s Boy: The Top 10 Mother-Son Combos in Movies we will examine some of the big screen bonds that have been celebrated between the Mommy Dearests...
- 7/7/2014
- by Frank Ochieng
- SoundOnSight
On the Internet, no one knows you're secretly a man (or woman), right? Think again. Just by examining patterns in tweets, you can infer a Twitter user's gender. A look at the words (Etsy, Jeep, redneck...) that make men and women give themselves away.
When you tweet--even if you tweet under a pseudonym--how much do you reveal about yourself? More than you realize, argues a new paper from researchers at the Mitre Corporation. The paper, "Discriminating Gender on Twitter," which is being presented this week at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Scotland, demonstrates that machines can often figure out a person's gender on Twitter just by reading their tweets. And such knowledge is power: the findings could be useful to advertisers and others.
To conduct their research, the Mitre folks--John Burger, John Henderson, George Kim, and Guido Zarrella--first had to assemble a corpus of...
When you tweet--even if you tweet under a pseudonym--how much do you reveal about yourself? More than you realize, argues a new paper from researchers at the Mitre Corporation. The paper, "Discriminating Gender on Twitter," which is being presented this week at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Scotland, demonstrates that machines can often figure out a person's gender on Twitter just by reading their tweets. And such knowledge is power: the findings could be useful to advertisers and others.
To conduct their research, the Mitre folks--John Burger, John Henderson, George Kim, and Guido Zarrella--first had to assemble a corpus of...
- 7/27/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
A new feature film remake of popular 1970s children's TV drama Catweazle is underway with filming anticipated to take place this summer. The family fantasy film will be directed by BAFTA-winning John Henderson and produced by Paul Knight.
Catweazle is the story of an 11th-century wizard who is on the run from invading Normans after accidentally starting the Battle of Hastings.
Casting a hopeless spell to aid his escape, he accidentally finds himself in the present day and struggles with his wayward magic powers to return to the year 1066.
Catweazle befriends farmer’s son Carrot, who, to him is a magician himself having demonstrated his control over the “sun in the bottle” and “electrickery” which amazes Catweazle! Carrot helps Catweazle to try and get back to his own time . . . . . . but not before they have many adventures as Catweazle helps in turn to try and save the day for Carrot and...
Catweazle is the story of an 11th-century wizard who is on the run from invading Normans after accidentally starting the Battle of Hastings.
Casting a hopeless spell to aid his escape, he accidentally finds himself in the present day and struggles with his wayward magic powers to return to the year 1066.
Catweazle befriends farmer’s son Carrot, who, to him is a magician himself having demonstrated his control over the “sun in the bottle” and “electrickery” which amazes Catweazle! Carrot helps Catweazle to try and get back to his own time . . . . . . but not before they have many adventures as Catweazle helps in turn to try and save the day for Carrot and...
- 1/16/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Can “Catweazle” find an audience in the States?
We’re going to find out soon enough, as a planned adaptation of the popular book and television series, which earned huge U.K. audiences and spread its influence over more than 50 countries, is moving forward, according to THR.
The series, created by Richard Carpenter, centered around a crotchety old wizard named Catweazle, who accidentally travels back to 1969 and, with the help of a young boy named Carrot, tries to figure out how to get home.
THR reports that BAFTA winner John Henderson (“The Borrowers”) will direct the feature for
Intandem Films.
Intandem director Andrew Brown described Catweazle as “a classic and timeless ‘fish out of water’ story and will be a delightful, modern family romp.”
More on “Catweazle” casting and release dates as they develop.
Follow Hollywood News on Twitter for up-to-date news information.
Hollywood News,...
Hollywoodnews.com: Can “Catweazle” find an audience in the States?
We’re going to find out soon enough, as a planned adaptation of the popular book and television series, which earned huge U.K. audiences and spread its influence over more than 50 countries, is moving forward, according to THR.
The series, created by Richard Carpenter, centered around a crotchety old wizard named Catweazle, who accidentally travels back to 1969 and, with the help of a young boy named Carrot, tries to figure out how to get home.
THR reports that BAFTA winner John Henderson (“The Borrowers”) will direct the feature for
Intandem Films.
Intandem director Andrew Brown described Catweazle as “a classic and timeless ‘fish out of water’ story and will be a delightful, modern family romp.”
More on “Catweazle” casting and release dates as they develop.
Follow Hollywood News on Twitter for up-to-date news information.
Hollywood News,...
- 12/20/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
John Wray’s latest novel, Lowboy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), released in March of this year, concerns a 16-year-old schizophrenic named Will Heller, just out of Bellavista psychiatric hospital (read Bellevue), off his meds and with a history of violence, who rides the subways beneath Manhattan trying to save the world from imminent global apocalypse by eluding capture and successfully losing his virginity. This thriller engine— Doa meets Shock Corridor —Wray says he took from an Australian news clipping. But knowing that he traveled to Austin, Texas in the mid-’90s, where he met the schizophrenic singer-songwriter and artist Daniel Johnston— whom he calls “the single most creative individual I’ve met”— it’s tempting to imagine the two connected, at least within the Cuisinart of the creative process. As detailed in Jeff Feuerzeig’s acclaimed 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Johnston even had his own lost week in New...
- 9/23/2009
- Vanity Fair
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