Outplay Films’ “Turtles,” directed by David Lambert, has landed U.S. distribution with Dark Star Pictures. The film, which stars Dave Johns, Olivier Gourmet and Brigitte Poupart, follows a long-married couple who are headed for divorce.
The official synopsis reads: “Since Thom and Henri met 35 years ago, their love for each other has never faltered. The seemingly perfect life they had built in Brussels started to go awry when Henri retired from being a police officer. Now, Henri’s days seem to stretch endlessly, each one as bland as the next while his feelings for Thom are fading fast. They drift away from each other a little more each day, to the point that their house has become a battleground. Thom’s love for Henri remains strong though and he is not ready to give up. He will do anything to save his relationship and rekindle their love, even if...
The official synopsis reads: “Since Thom and Henri met 35 years ago, their love for each other has never faltered. The seemingly perfect life they had built in Brussels started to go awry when Henri retired from being a police officer. Now, Henri’s days seem to stretch endlessly, each one as bland as the next while his feelings for Thom are fading fast. They drift away from each other a little more each day, to the point that their house has become a battleground. Thom’s love for Henri remains strong though and he is not ready to give up. He will do anything to save his relationship and rekindle their love, even if...
- 4/5/2024
- by Katcy Stephan
- Variety Film + TV
Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber announced on Tuesday that they have acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Ken Loach’s final film “The Old Oak” with a planned release in early 2024.
Zeitgeist and Kino Lorber previously released Loach’s 2020 film “Sorry We Missed You” and will first release “The Old Oak” at the Film Forum in New York before expanding it to arthouses nationwide.
“We’re delighted that Zeitgeist has taken ‘The Old Oak’ for distribution in the U.S. It’s great that they’ve chosen to partner with us again after working together on ‘Sorry We Missed You,'” said Loach and his producing partner Rebecca O’Brien in a statement. “We feel that Zeitgeist Films is ideally placed to help our film reach the widest possible audience in the territory and know they will release the film with gusto.”
“The Old Oak” follows Tj, the owner of...
Zeitgeist and Kino Lorber previously released Loach’s 2020 film “Sorry We Missed You” and will first release “The Old Oak” at the Film Forum in New York before expanding it to arthouses nationwide.
“We’re delighted that Zeitgeist has taken ‘The Old Oak’ for distribution in the U.S. It’s great that they’ve chosen to partner with us again after working together on ‘Sorry We Missed You,'” said Loach and his producing partner Rebecca O’Brien in a statement. “We feel that Zeitgeist Films is ideally placed to help our film reach the widest possible audience in the territory and know they will release the film with gusto.”
“The Old Oak” follows Tj, the owner of...
- 7/11/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Seven years on, Ken Loach’s angriest film still shocks with its portrayal of life on benefits. It made Dave Johns a star – but did nothing to mellow his righteous fury
With his biblical white beard and bright woolly hat, Dave Johns is unrecognisable. He looks like an Arctic explorer. It’s only when he takes off the hat and reveals the familiar shiny pate that you realise it is him after all – Daniel Blake.
Before I, Daniel Blake, Johns was a jobbing comedian. He’d not even had a bit part in a movie, never mind starred in one. Then Ken Loach’s film premiered at Cannes in 2016, got a 15-minute standing ovation, won the Palme d’Or and transformed Johns’ life.
With his biblical white beard and bright woolly hat, Dave Johns is unrecognisable. He looks like an Arctic explorer. It’s only when he takes off the hat and reveals the familiar shiny pate that you realise it is him after all – Daniel Blake.
Before I, Daniel Blake, Johns was a jobbing comedian. He’d not even had a bit part in a movie, never mind starred in one. Then Ken Loach’s film premiered at Cannes in 2016, got a 15-minute standing ovation, won the Palme d’Or and transformed Johns’ life.
- 5/24/2023
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
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- 9/18/2022
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Sequel to comedy about a singing group of mates fortuitously brought to fame is likable enough but all too predictable
In 2019, Cornwall’s sea shanty group Fisherman’s Friends got the Full Monty treatment, when the story of how they hit the big time after a record exec discovered them singing down their local pub inspired a good-humoured harmless comedy. One the major charms of Fisherman’s Friends is their authenticity: a bunch of mates singing for pleasure and for each other is a world away from manufactured pop. So, it was a bit of shame that the original film had that slightly flavourless taste of a factory-made British feelgood comedy. That goes double for this sequel.
A chunk of the very likable cast is back. James Purefoy returns as lead singer Jim, who has hit the bottle after the death of his dad, Fisherman’s co-founder Jago, at the end of the first movie.
In 2019, Cornwall’s sea shanty group Fisherman’s Friends got the Full Monty treatment, when the story of how they hit the big time after a record exec discovered them singing down their local pub inspired a good-humoured harmless comedy. One the major charms of Fisherman’s Friends is their authenticity: a bunch of mates singing for pleasure and for each other is a world away from manufactured pop. So, it was a bit of shame that the original film had that slightly flavourless taste of a factory-made British feelgood comedy. That goes double for this sequel.
A chunk of the very likable cast is back. James Purefoy returns as lead singer Jim, who has hit the bottle after the death of his dad, Fisherman’s co-founder Jago, at the end of the first movie.
- 8/18/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
This week the Lighthouse Cinema in Newquay hosted the UK Premiere of Fisherman’s Friends: One and All. James Purefoy reprises the role of Jim, with other returning cast members including Maggie Steed, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, and Jade Anouka. It was directed by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, who also co-wrote it with Piers Anthony
New faces in Port Isaac include Richard Harrington as the new band member Morgan, Ramon Tikaram, Joshua McGuire and introducing Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May, in her debut acting role.
Filmmakers Anthony Bueno and Claire Bueno filmed the interivews. Follow all the exciting projects on their filmmaking journey right here: https://buenoproductions.com/
Fisherman’s Friends: One and All Premiere Interviews
Fisherman’S Friends: One And All is released in cinemas nationwide by Entertainment Film Distributors on 19th August 2022.
Plot:
Fisherman’S Friends: One And All charts the next instalment of the Fisherman’s Friends amazing and uplifting true-story.
New faces in Port Isaac include Richard Harrington as the new band member Morgan, Ramon Tikaram, Joshua McGuire and introducing Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May, in her debut acting role.
Filmmakers Anthony Bueno and Claire Bueno filmed the interivews. Follow all the exciting projects on their filmmaking journey right here: https://buenoproductions.com/
Fisherman’s Friends: One and All Premiere Interviews
Fisherman’S Friends: One And All is released in cinemas nationwide by Entertainment Film Distributors on 19th August 2022.
Plot:
Fisherman’S Friends: One And All charts the next instalment of the Fisherman’s Friends amazing and uplifting true-story.
- 8/10/2022
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A new trailer has dropped for the sequel to the beloved 2019 uplifting comedy hit ‘Fisherman’s Friends: One and All.’
Inspired by the story of Fisherman’s Friends, who rose to fame performing on the harbour in their native Port Isaac in Cornwall, the band are widely credited with starting the revival of interest in shanty-style choral singing, a pop-culture phenomenon in recent years.
The film charts the next instalment of the Fisherman’s Friends’ unique and uplifting true story. Following the unexpected success of their debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues” we rejoin the world’s oldest ‘buoy band’ a year later struggling to navigate the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame.
Directed by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, the film stars James Purefoy, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Maggie Steed, Jade Anouka with David Hayman and Imelda May.
Also in trailers – Ana de Armas is Marilyn Monroe...
Inspired by the story of Fisherman’s Friends, who rose to fame performing on the harbour in their native Port Isaac in Cornwall, the band are widely credited with starting the revival of interest in shanty-style choral singing, a pop-culture phenomenon in recent years.
The film charts the next instalment of the Fisherman’s Friends’ unique and uplifting true story. Following the unexpected success of their debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues” we rejoin the world’s oldest ‘buoy band’ a year later struggling to navigate the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame.
Directed by Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft, the film stars James Purefoy, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Maggie Steed, Jade Anouka with David Hayman and Imelda May.
Also in trailers – Ana de Armas is Marilyn Monroe...
- 6/22/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Freida Films debuts trailer for I’m Still Ethan – short film with Dave Johns soon to be a TV series.
Freida films has debuted the official trailer for the highly anticipated short film ‘I’m Still Ethan”, starring Dave Johns. The film is also being developed into a TV series.
Written and produced by Phoebe Lorenz and Amelia O’Loughlin, I’m Still Ethan explores the impact of imprisonment upon detainees’ partners and children. Told through the eyes of one young boy called Ethan, it looks at how his life changes when one of his parents is put behind bars. It explores how Ethan comes to believe he too is underserving of freedom and safety as he starts to see himself through the eyes of his judgmental local community.
Dave Johns says of the film, “This is such an important story for a significantly under-represented group of people, and I am glad I can play a part in telling it. It’s about time this issue is put on the map...
Written and produced by Phoebe Lorenz and Amelia O’Loughlin, I’m Still Ethan explores the impact of imprisonment upon detainees’ partners and children. Told through the eyes of one young boy called Ethan, it looks at how his life changes when one of his parents is put behind bars. It explores how Ethan comes to believe he too is underserving of freedom and safety as he starts to see himself through the eyes of his judgmental local community.
Dave Johns says of the film, “This is such an important story for a significantly under-represented group of people, and I am glad I can play a part in telling it. It’s about time this issue is put on the map...
- 4/27/2021
- by Chris Connor
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
James Purefoy, Dave Johns are back; Daniel Mays, Tuppence Middleton, Noel Clarke not.
Principal photography is underway in Cornwall on Fisherman’s Friends 2, the sequel to the 2019 box office hit about a sea shanty singing group, with several of the cast from the first film confirmed to return.
James Purefoy is back in the role of Jim, with Maggie Steed, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Jade Anouka and David Hayman also reprising their parts. New cast members include Richard Harrington as new band member Morgan, Ramon Tikaram, Joshua Maguire, and Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May in her debut acting role.
Daniel Mays,...
Principal photography is underway in Cornwall on Fisherman’s Friends 2, the sequel to the 2019 box office hit about a sea shanty singing group, with several of the cast from the first film confirmed to return.
James Purefoy is back in the role of Jim, with Maggie Steed, Dave Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Jade Anouka and David Hayman also reprising their parts. New cast members include Richard Harrington as new band member Morgan, Ramon Tikaram, Joshua Maguire, and Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May in her debut acting role.
Daniel Mays,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Moscow International Film Festival Unveils Plan
The Moscow International Film Festival is set to run as a physical event in the Russian capital from April 22 to 29, making it one of the first international film festivals to take place in physical form this year. The event will run on site for the Russian public and virtually for international delegates. Brillante Mendoza will chair the main competition jury and the festival will open with Timur Bekmambetov-directed war biopic Devyataev. Films in the main lineup include Iranian drama The Son, Japanese title The Women, comedy Bloodsuckers – A Marxist Vampire Comedy, and Italian film The Time Of Indifference. In other Euro festival news, the Monte-Carlo Television Festival announced today that it is planning to host its 60th edition in person at the end of June.
‘Fisherman’s Friends 2’ Underway
Fisherman’s Friends 2, the sequel to the 2019 indie pic that was a box office hit in the UK,...
The Moscow International Film Festival is set to run as a physical event in the Russian capital from April 22 to 29, making it one of the first international film festivals to take place in physical form this year. The event will run on site for the Russian public and virtually for international delegates. Brillante Mendoza will chair the main competition jury and the festival will open with Timur Bekmambetov-directed war biopic Devyataev. Films in the main lineup include Iranian drama The Son, Japanese title The Women, comedy Bloodsuckers – A Marxist Vampire Comedy, and Italian film The Time Of Indifference. In other Euro festival news, the Monte-Carlo Television Festival announced today that it is planning to host its 60th edition in person at the end of June.
‘Fisherman’s Friends 2’ Underway
Fisherman’s Friends 2, the sequel to the 2019 indie pic that was a box office hit in the UK,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman, Tom Grater and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, Acorn TV greenlights “Queens of Mystery” season two; NATPE Budapest confirms in-person event in August; Lionsgate Play unveils “U-Special” — its second original series in India; ITV commissions relationship drama “You & Me”; Dave Johns joins the cast of “I’m Still Ethan”; Mexico’s Dopamine creates a new in-house entertainment team; Spanish courts proceed with a reckless homicide case against adult film star Nacho Vidal; Front Row nabs “The Present” and deals it to Netflix; and the New Voice Awards reveals its 2021 winners.
Renewal
AMC Networks-owned streaming platform Acorn TV has renewed its Primetime Emmy-nominated British crime series “Queens of Mystery” for a second season.
Created by Julian Unthank, who co-writes with Matthew Thomas (“Marcella”), season two sees the return of Julie Graham (“The Bletchley Circle”), Sarah Woodward (“The Pale Horse”) and Siobhan Redmond (“Unforgotten”), joined by newcomer Florence Hall (“The Princess Switch: Switched Again...
Renewal
AMC Networks-owned streaming platform Acorn TV has renewed its Primetime Emmy-nominated British crime series “Queens of Mystery” for a second season.
Created by Julian Unthank, who co-writes with Matthew Thomas (“Marcella”), season two sees the return of Julie Graham (“The Bletchley Circle”), Sarah Woodward (“The Pale Horse”) and Siobhan Redmond (“Unforgotten”), joined by newcomer Florence Hall (“The Princess Switch: Switched Again...
- 3/17/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Sales sister company Parkland Pictures has sold ’23 Walks’ to US.
Parkland Entertainment has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Italian horror title The Nest from director Roberto De Feo from True Colours.
The film is produced by Milan-based Colorado Film Production and Vision Distribution, with Vision handling Italian rights and Alfa Pictures distributing in Spain.
Parkland is aiming for an autumn release, with the format yet to be confirmed.
The Nest debuted at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019, going on to play Sitges and Thessaloniki later that year.
It portrays a rural mansion dominated by a heartless matriarch, who goes to...
Parkland Entertainment has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Italian horror title The Nest from director Roberto De Feo from True Colours.
The film is produced by Milan-based Colorado Film Production and Vision Distribution, with Vision handling Italian rights and Alfa Pictures distributing in Spain.
Parkland is aiming for an autumn release, with the format yet to be confirmed.
The Nest debuted at the Locarno Film Festival in 2019, going on to play Sitges and Thessaloniki later that year.
It portrays a rural mansion dominated by a heartless matriarch, who goes to...
- 3/10/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales company Parkland Pictures is at the virtual EFM with Paul Morrison rom-com drama 23 Walks, which has been picked up for North America by Vertical Entertainment.
Pic stars Dave Johns from Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Secrets & Lies and Olivier Award-winner Alison Steadman. The actors play Dave and Fern, two strangers, who have both been bruised by events in their past. They meet walking their dogs in a North London park, and over the course of twenty-three walks together romance begins to blossom. But Dave and Fern haven’t been completely honest with one another and their future together may be threatened by the secrets they have withheld.
The film was produced by Anna Mohr-Pietsch and Stewart le Maréchal from MetFilm Production and Maggie Monteith’s Northern Stories.
Previously reported pacts include UK (Parkland Entertainment), Airlines (Aardwolf), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Costa...
Pic stars Dave Johns from Palme d’Or winner I, Daniel Blake and Secrets & Lies and Olivier Award-winner Alison Steadman. The actors play Dave and Fern, two strangers, who have both been bruised by events in their past. They meet walking their dogs in a North London park, and over the course of twenty-three walks together romance begins to blossom. But Dave and Fern haven’t been completely honest with one another and their future together may be threatened by the secrets they have withheld.
The film was produced by Anna Mohr-Pietsch and Stewart le Maréchal from MetFilm Production and Maggie Monteith’s Northern Stories.
Previously reported pacts include UK (Parkland Entertainment), Airlines (Aardwolf), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Costa...
- 3/5/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Keeper (Trautmann) Menemsha Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller Writer: Robert Marciniak, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Nicholas J. Schofield Cast: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Michael Socha, Dave Johns Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 9/26/20 Opens: October 2, 2020 Do you […]
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- 10/3/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
New releases included ‘Miss Juneteenth’ and ’23 Walks’.
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Sep 25-27)Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £623,000 £15m 5 2 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £514,020 £2.56m 4 3 Bill And Ted Face The Music (Warner Bros) £212,000 £830,000 2 4 Onward (Disney) £126,355 £7.3m 16 5 The New Mutants (Disney) £93,253 £1.47m 4
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29
Shear Entertainment’s romantic drama After We Collided continued to perform strongly at the UK and Ireland box office over the weekend, which remained dominated by Tenet.
The young adult drama took £514,020 from September 25-27, down just 14% on its previous session, meaning it has now grossed £2.56m after four weekends. The...
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Sep 25-27)Total gross to date Week 1 Tenet (Warner Bros) £623,000 £15m 5 2 After We Collided (Shear Entertainment) £514,020 £2.56m 4 3 Bill And Ted Face The Music (Warner Bros) £212,000 £830,000 2 4 Onward (Disney) £126,355 £7.3m 16 5 The New Mutants (Disney) £93,253 £1.47m 4
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29
Shear Entertainment’s romantic drama After We Collided continued to perform strongly at the UK and Ireland box office over the weekend, which remained dominated by Tenet.
The young adult drama took £514,020 from September 25-27, down just 14% on its previous session, meaning it has now grossed £2.56m after four weekends. The...
- 9/28/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
"They're more like mutant ravers." Capital Motion Picture Group has released a new official US trailer for Ravers, a horror comedy from the UK set at an illegal rave. This initially premiered a few years ago in 2018 at the FrightFest London Film Festival, and finally opens in US theaters this month. Murder on the dance floor in a witty, bloody horror about madness, mayhem and mutants... When a contaminated energy drink turns an illegal rave into a nightmare, a germaphobic journalist has to overcome her deepest fears to get her friends out alive. Starring Georgia Hirst as the journalist, Becky, joined by Natasha Henstridge, Eve Connolly, Dave Johns, and Orson Chaplin. This looks as wild and as crazy as promised, but probably not very good, though who cares! It's a crazy party movie and horror comedy all packed into one. Have fun. Here's the new official trailer (+ poster) for Bernhard Pucher's Ravers,...
- 9/14/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Germany, Spain, Scandinavia deals join earlier UK announcement.
UK sales company Parkland Pictures has sealed multiple international deals on Paul Morrison’s romantic comedy-drama 23 Walks.
The film has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Rialto); Germany (Weltkino); Spain (Caramel); Middle East (Falcon Films); Slovenia (TV Slovenia); Scandinavia (Nightvisions); and Turkey (Siyah Beyaz Film).
Parkland’s distribution arm Parkland Entertainment will release the title theatrically in the UK and Ireland on September 25, after its initial release date was delayed by the Covid-19 shutdown.
The film stars Dave Johns, whose break out film was Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, and Mike Leigh regular Alison Steadman,...
UK sales company Parkland Pictures has sealed multiple international deals on Paul Morrison’s romantic comedy-drama 23 Walks.
The film has sold to Australia and New Zealand (Rialto); Germany (Weltkino); Spain (Caramel); Middle East (Falcon Films); Slovenia (TV Slovenia); Scandinavia (Nightvisions); and Turkey (Siyah Beyaz Film).
Parkland’s distribution arm Parkland Entertainment will release the title theatrically in the UK and Ireland on September 25, after its initial release date was delayed by the Covid-19 shutdown.
The film stars Dave Johns, whose break out film was Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, and Mike Leigh regular Alison Steadman,...
- 9/2/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
‘Unhinged.’
Australian critics scorned Unhinged but audiences turned out last weekend for the road rage thriller starring Russell Crowe and Caren Pistorius.
The Studiocanal release, which stars Pistorius as a single mother who incurs the wrath of Crowe’s character, drummed up $802,000 on more than 200 screens.
Even so, ticket sales remain depressed with Melbourne’s cinemas closed (26 per cent of the market) and most locations operating on reduced sessions and with capacity limits.
The top 20 titles generated nearly $2 million, 11 per cent up on the previous frame, according to Numero, but nearly 90 per cent below the same weekend a year ago – $17.8 million – when Universal launched Fast & Furious Hobbs and Shaw.
Clearly the pandemic is deterring some cinemagoers. “I think that the fear of what is happening with Covid-19 is impacting audiences still, especially the older audience,” Majestic Cinemas CEO Kieren Dell tells If.
“Most of the other movies we have on are aimed at that audience.
Australian critics scorned Unhinged but audiences turned out last weekend for the road rage thriller starring Russell Crowe and Caren Pistorius.
The Studiocanal release, which stars Pistorius as a single mother who incurs the wrath of Crowe’s character, drummed up $802,000 on more than 200 screens.
Even so, ticket sales remain depressed with Melbourne’s cinemas closed (26 per cent of the market) and most locations operating on reduced sessions and with capacity limits.
The top 20 titles generated nearly $2 million, 11 per cent up on the previous frame, according to Numero, but nearly 90 per cent below the same weekend a year ago – $17.8 million – when Universal launched Fast & Furious Hobbs and Shaw.
Clearly the pandemic is deterring some cinemagoers. “I think that the fear of what is happening with Covid-19 is impacting audiences still, especially the older audience,” Majestic Cinemas CEO Kieren Dell tells If.
“Most of the other movies we have on are aimed at that audience.
- 8/3/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
The moment a group of Cornish fishermen and lifeboatmen turned their charitable crooning on the shore of Port Isaac into a Universal Music record deal that saw them debut in the top ten was the moment producers started falling over themselves to sign the life rights for a cinematic adaptation. And just as the band subsequently released another two collections of sea shanties and traditional folk songs despite their original one-album contract, it appears that Chris Foggin’s feel-good dramedy will soon receive its own sequel. I guess that’s the power of Fisherman’s Friends and their inspiring bond steeped in history, work ethic, family, and friendship. They’re a band that’s as easy to underestimate as they are to champion once they’ve proven you wrong because the music doesn’t lie.
That doesn’t, however, mean that screenwriters Piers Ashworth, Meg Leonard, and Nick Moorcroft had a...
That doesn’t, however, mean that screenwriters Piers Ashworth, Meg Leonard, and Nick Moorcroft had a...
- 7/20/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
It is also putting three planned theatrical releases on hold until later in 2020.
UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has revealed plans to release a raft of new titles onto digital platforms early, including three new acquisitions, as cinemas remain closed nationwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Astronaut, starring Richard Dreyfuss, was set to be released on 65 screens on March 20 – three days before theatres shut their doors – but will now be available to rent and own from digital platforms on April 27.
Documentary Camino Skies will be released as a premium VOD title on Curzon Home Cinema from May 8, the original theatrical release date,...
UK distributor Parkland Entertainment has revealed plans to release a raft of new titles onto digital platforms early, including three new acquisitions, as cinemas remain closed nationwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Astronaut, starring Richard Dreyfuss, was set to be released on 65 screens on March 20 – three days before theatres shut their doors – but will now be available to rent and own from digital platforms on April 27.
Documentary Camino Skies will be released as a premium VOD title on Curzon Home Cinema from May 8, the original theatrical release date,...
- 4/20/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
In an unfortunate twist of fate, Dave Johns, who shot to fame as the star of Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or and BAFTA-winning social realist drama I, Daniel Blake, says he has been told to claim employment benefits due to coronavirus disrupting his work.
The actor and comedian made his film debut as the titular character in Loach’s 2016 film, playing a man who, after suffering a heart attack, can’t return to work and has to navigate the UK’s employment support allowance system.
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Since then, Johns has had roles in UK box office smash Fisherman’s Friends, and soccer biography The Keeper. Upcoming he has comedy Blithe Spirit,...
The actor and comedian made his film debut as the titular character in Loach’s 2016 film, playing a man who, after suffering a heart attack, can’t return to work and has to navigate the UK’s employment support allowance system.
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Since then, Johns has had roles in UK box office smash Fisherman’s Friends, and soccer biography The Keeper. Upcoming he has comedy Blithe Spirit,...
- 3/20/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Georgia Hirst, Olivier Richters, Eve Connolly, Manpreet Bambra, Maria Volk, Dave Johns, Danny Kirrane, Kamal Angelo Bolden, Orson Chaplin | Written by Luke Foster | Directed by Bernhard Pucher
Directed by Bernhard Pucher and written by Luke Foster (Betsy and Leonard), Ravers follows an illegal night-time rave, in a factory where contaminated energy drinks caused a worker to go fatally berserk, that turns into a nightmare. As a forgotten batch of the drink is found and consumed by drunken ravers, a truly terrifying physical transformation takes over and those unaffected try to escape in panic. Becky, a germophobic journalist, reluctantly there to cover the event on the behest of her boss (a cameoing Natasha Henstridge), is trapped among the increasingly hostile crowd of dancers, and to save herself and her friends, she has to overcome her deepest phobias to help them get out alive.
First screened at Frightfest in...
Directed by Bernhard Pucher and written by Luke Foster (Betsy and Leonard), Ravers follows an illegal night-time rave, in a factory where contaminated energy drinks caused a worker to go fatally berserk, that turns into a nightmare. As a forgotten batch of the drink is found and consumed by drunken ravers, a truly terrifying physical transformation takes over and those unaffected try to escape in panic. Becky, a germophobic journalist, reluctantly there to cover the event on the behest of her boss (a cameoing Natasha Henstridge), is trapped among the increasingly hostile crowd of dancers, and to save herself and her friends, she has to overcome her deepest phobias to help them get out alive.
First screened at Frightfest in...
- 3/16/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
As a raucous howl of protest at a welfare state disemboweled by decades of unhinged privatization, Ken Loach’s 2016 I, Daniel Blake ended with no exclamation marks, but a wall daubed in white paint. “I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve,” read the graffiti penned by Dave Johns’s eponymous Daniel, a 59-year-old carpenter and widower wrestling with a catch-22 state-enforced conundrum: avoid work or risk another heart attack, look for jobs or lose welfare benefits. It was an intricate, Kafkaesque nightmare of desk people, computers, and unanswered calls, a bureaucratic apparatus that gradually morphed into a dehumanizing Leviathan. But it also echoed as a hymn to the resilience of the downtrodden, and a call for empathy over and against a system designed to strip individuals of their basic rights. Daniel Blake’s paint-splayed offense was the ultimate, hopeless paean of an ever-growing section of society faced...
- 3/3/2020
- MUBI
23 Walks is directed by Paul Morrison, Oscar-nominated for his debut feature Solomon & Gaenor.
UK outfit Parkland has struck a double deal on romantic drama 23 Walks, starring Alison Steadman and Dave Johns.
Distributor Parkland Entertainment will release the film in the UK and Ireland, while Parkland Pictures will look after the international sales for the rest of the world.
23 Walks is directed by Paul Morrison, Oscar-nominated for his debut feature Solomon & Gaenor, and whose other credits include Little Ashes and Wondrous Oblivion.
For Parkland, the deal was negotiated by Tom Stewart and Andrew Brown. For the production, the deal...
UK outfit Parkland has struck a double deal on romantic drama 23 Walks, starring Alison Steadman and Dave Johns.
Distributor Parkland Entertainment will release the film in the UK and Ireland, while Parkland Pictures will look after the international sales for the rest of the world.
23 Walks is directed by Paul Morrison, Oscar-nominated for his debut feature Solomon & Gaenor, and whose other credits include Little Ashes and Wondrous Oblivion.
For Parkland, the deal was negotiated by Tom Stewart and Andrew Brown. For the production, the deal...
- 2/21/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
The film aims to start shooting in January 2020.
The UK’s Marsha Thomason has signed to star in Gary Young’s action thriller Stolen which is set to start shooting in the UK and South Africa in January 2020.
Thomason, who has appeared in Us TV series including Fox’s White Collar, FX’s Better Things and ABC’s The Good Doctor, will play an ex-military officer and single mother who runs a private security business and is drawn into the investigation in to her daughter’s involvement in a fatal shooting while on holiday in South Africa.
Us actor Michael Landes will co-star,...
The UK’s Marsha Thomason has signed to star in Gary Young’s action thriller Stolen which is set to start shooting in the UK and South Africa in January 2020.
Thomason, who has appeared in Us TV series including Fox’s White Collar, FX’s Better Things and ABC’s The Good Doctor, will play an ex-military officer and single mother who runs a private security business and is drawn into the investigation in to her daughter’s involvement in a fatal shooting while on holiday in South Africa.
Us actor Michael Landes will co-star,...
- 11/12/2019
- by ¬0¦Lisa Wehrstedt¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
To mark the release of Fisherman’s Friends on 8th July, we’ve been given 5 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Danny Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he s pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes the ultimate fish out of water as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who value friendship and community over fame and fortune. As he s drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he s forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means. Starring Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, David Hayman, Dave Johns, and Noel Clarke, Fisherman S Friends was shot on location in Cornwall and comes...
A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Danny Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he s pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes the ultimate fish out of water as he struggles to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who value friendship and community over fame and fortune. As he s drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he s forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means. Starring Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, David Hayman, Dave Johns, and Noel Clarke, Fisherman S Friends was shot on location in Cornwall and comes...
- 6/24/2019
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Judi Dench, Leslie Mann and Dan Stevens are all set to lead the cast in an adaptation of Noel Coward’s play ‘Blithe Spirit’.
Directed by Edward Hall and written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, Piers Ashworth, Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum, Confessions of a Shopaholic), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush, Stardust), Emilia Fox, Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Outlander, Four Weddings and a Funeral) all join Dench, Mann and Stevens on the reimaging of Coward’s classic comedy, about love that just won’t die…
The story follows Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Stevens), struggling with catastrophic writer’s block and a stressful deadline for his first screenplay. His picture-perfect second wife Ruth (Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focussed in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood.
Charles’ desperate search for inspiration leads him to invite Madame Arcati (Dench), a medium recently exposed as a fraud,...
Directed by Edward Hall and written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard, Piers Ashworth, Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum, Confessions of a Shopaholic), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush, Stardust), Emilia Fox, Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Outlander, Four Weddings and a Funeral) all join Dench, Mann and Stevens on the reimaging of Coward’s classic comedy, about love that just won’t die…
The story follows Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Stevens), struggling with catastrophic writer’s block and a stressful deadline for his first screenplay. His picture-perfect second wife Ruth (Fisher) is doing her best to keep him focussed in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood.
Charles’ desperate search for inspiration leads him to invite Madame Arcati (Dench), a medium recently exposed as a fraud,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Filming has started on “Blithe Spirit,” an adaptation of Noel Coward’s classic comedy about love that just won’t die. Judi Dench, Isla Fisher and Dan Stevens are among the cast in the picture, which is helmed by Edward Hall (“Downton Abbey”). Protagonist has closed a raft of pre-sales on the project, which was previously adapted for the screen by David Lean in 1945.
Other cast members in the movie from Fred Films, Powder Keg Pictures, British Lion Films, Align Pictures and Protagonist Pictures include Leslie Mann, Julian Rhind-Tut, Emilia Fox, Dave Johns, and James Fleet.
The story tracks crime writer Charles (Stevens), who is struggling with writer’s block and a deadline for his first screenplay. His second wife, Ruth (Fisher), is doing her best to keep him focused in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood. When Charles invites medium Madame Arcati (Dench) to perform a séance,...
Other cast members in the movie from Fred Films, Powder Keg Pictures, British Lion Films, Align Pictures and Protagonist Pictures include Leslie Mann, Julian Rhind-Tut, Emilia Fox, Dave Johns, and James Fleet.
The story tracks crime writer Charles (Stevens), who is struggling with writer’s block and a deadline for his first screenplay. His second wife, Ruth (Fisher), is doing her best to keep him focused in the hope of fulfilling her dream of heading to Hollywood. When Charles invites medium Madame Arcati (Dench) to perform a séance,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Principal photography has now started on the project, which is directed by Edward Hall.
Studiocanal has acquired UK rights to Edward Hall’s Blithe Spirit, an adaptation of Noel Coward’s 1941 play, from Protagonist Pictures.
Leslie Mann has also joined the previously announced Judi Dench, Isla Fisher and Dan Stevens in the cast, which also includes Julian Rhind-Tutt, Emilia Fox, Dave Johns and James Fleet.
Principal photography has now started on the project, which is written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. It is shooting in and around London.
London-based Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide rights on the...
Studiocanal has acquired UK rights to Edward Hall’s Blithe Spirit, an adaptation of Noel Coward’s 1941 play, from Protagonist Pictures.
Leslie Mann has also joined the previously announced Judi Dench, Isla Fisher and Dan Stevens in the cast, which also includes Julian Rhind-Tutt, Emilia Fox, Dave Johns and James Fleet.
Principal photography has now started on the project, which is written by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. It is shooting in and around London.
London-based Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide rights on the...
- 6/18/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Principal photography is under way in UK on comedy feature Blithe Spirit, starring Dan Stevens (Beauty And The Beast), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns, James Fleet (Outlander) and Judi Dench (Skyfall). As we revealed yesterday, Leslie Mann (This is 40) has also joined in a lead role.
StudioCanal has acquired the film for the UK with Protagonist also closing several territories in Cannes including Australia/New Zealand (Transmission), Spain (A Contracorriente), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Latin America (Cinepolis), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Cis/Baltics (Paradise), Eastern Europe (M2), Greece/Cyprus (Tanweer), Israel (Forum Films), Philippines (Pioneer), Taiwan (Cai Chang), the Middle East (Front Row), South Africa (Empire) and Airlines (Echo Lake).
Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) is directing from Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth’s adaptation of the Noel Coward play about best-selling crime novelist Charles (Stevens) who is struggling with...
StudioCanal has acquired the film for the UK with Protagonist also closing several territories in Cannes including Australia/New Zealand (Transmission), Spain (A Contracorriente), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Latin America (Cinepolis), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Cis/Baltics (Paradise), Eastern Europe (M2), Greece/Cyprus (Tanweer), Israel (Forum Films), Philippines (Pioneer), Taiwan (Cai Chang), the Middle East (Front Row), South Africa (Empire) and Airlines (Echo Lake).
Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) is directing from Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth’s adaptation of the Noel Coward play about best-selling crime novelist Charles (Stevens) who is struggling with...
- 6/18/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Leslie Mann has joined the all-star cast of Blithe Spirit, based on the renowned play by Noel Coward.
Mann joins Dan Stevens (Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Judi Dench (Philomena) in the film, being directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) from a script by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. Production has begun.
The re-imagining of Cowards's classic comedy sees Stevens playing a best-selling crime novelist struggling with catastrophic writer’s block whose desperate search for ...
Mann joins Dan Stevens (Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Judi Dench (Philomena) in the film, being directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) from a script by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. Production has begun.
The re-imagining of Cowards's classic comedy sees Stevens playing a best-selling crime novelist struggling with catastrophic writer’s block whose desperate search for ...
- 6/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leslie Mann has joined the all-star cast of Blithe Spirit, based on the renowned play by Noel Coward.
Mann joins Dan Stevens (Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Judi Dench (Philomena) in the film, being directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) from a script by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. Production has begun.
The re-imagining of Cowards's classic comedy sees Stevens playing a best-selling crime novelist struggling with catastrophic writer’s block whose desperate search for ...
Mann joins Dan Stevens (Legion), Isla Fisher (The Beach Bum), Julian Rhind-Tut (Rush), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Judi Dench (Philomena) in the film, being directed by Edward Hall (Downton Abbey) from a script by Nick Moorcroft, Meg Leonard and Piers Ashworth. Production has begun.
The re-imagining of Cowards's classic comedy sees Stevens playing a best-selling crime novelist struggling with catastrophic writer’s block whose desperate search for ...
- 6/18/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critic Leonardo Goi and editor Daniel Kasman.A White, White DayDear Danny,Among the many veteran’s tips you gave me on our first Cannes rendezvous was a polite reminder to fish for gems outside the red-carpeted slots of the official competition, and yesterday I heeded the call, queuing for my first screening at the Critics’ Week, Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day. It was not the first time I stumbled into the Icelandic 34-year-old. Back in Locarno, in 2017, I’d been able to catch his debut feature, the visceral study of masculinity and festival darling Winter Brothers. And if the latter had heralded the Reykjavik-native as new name to reckon with, his new film only adds more evidence to the director's talent.Having lost his wife in a car accident, police chief Ingimundur processes grief by channeling all...
- 5/21/2019
- MUBI
Exclusive: From Cornwall to the Croisette. the UK band Fisherman’s Friends, subject of the recent UK box office hit of the same name, was in Cannes today, where stops included the Deadline party. Next stop: Australia.
While at our annual Riviera bash, producers behind the breakout movie, which recently took close to $10M in the UK alone, revealed to us that a sequel is in the works. The comedy music pic will be called Fisherman’s Friends 2: Bound for South Australia and will follow the group from the highs of performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury to the lows of struggling with their second album. During a divisive tour of South Australia, they will trace their ancestors who were transported in the 1800s and embrace a new community and discover their musical DNA.
The sequel will again be produced by James Spring, Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft,...
While at our annual Riviera bash, producers behind the breakout movie, which recently took close to $10M in the UK alone, revealed to us that a sequel is in the works. The comedy music pic will be called Fisherman’s Friends 2: Bound for South Australia and will follow the group from the highs of performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury to the lows of struggling with their second album. During a divisive tour of South Australia, they will trace their ancestors who were transported in the 1800s and embrace a new community and discover their musical DNA.
The sequel will again be produced by James Spring, Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft,...
- 5/17/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
“This isn’t going to end well,” Adam Driver says more than once in “The Dead Don’t Die,” the Jim Jarmusch zombie movie that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. And when Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You” premiered on Thursday in Cannes, opening with a scene in which an out-of-work laborer is hired for a job that seems to have lots of strings attached, it’s hard not to think that Driver’s gloomy forecast will hold true in this setting as well.
But it’s not zombies who make the prospects so bleak for the characters in “Sorry We Missed You.” Rather, it’s the plight of the British working class, which in many Loach movies is under constant assault from larger forces — sometimes the forces of government, sometimes the forces of commerce, sometimes a brutal mixture that serves to batter and dehumanize the average worker.
But it’s not zombies who make the prospects so bleak for the characters in “Sorry We Missed You.” Rather, it’s the plight of the British working class, which in many Loach movies is under constant assault from larger forces — sometimes the forces of government, sometimes the forces of commerce, sometimes a brutal mixture that serves to batter and dehumanize the average worker.
- 5/16/2019
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Annual awards hype tends to drive the perception that the Oscar is the highest award in the film community. But for countless filmmakers and cinephiles around the world, the Palme d’Or comes out ahead. Ever since 1955, the Cannes Film Festival has assembled a discerning jury of A-listers to bestow this honor on an exclusive Competition section featuring some of the greatest auteurs the medium has known.
Originally known as the Grand Prix, the shimmering Golden Palm has played a key role in advancing careers, but it has just as often fallen to veterans of the form, and across seven decades juries have acknowledged an astounding range of cinematic accomplishments. But some of these prizes were worthier than others.
Here’s a look at all the Palme winners over the years, ranked in order of which ones we believe deserved it the most. Viewed as a whole, the winners provide...
Originally known as the Grand Prix, the shimmering Golden Palm has played a key role in advancing careers, but it has just as often fallen to veterans of the form, and across seven decades juries have acknowledged an astounding range of cinematic accomplishments. But some of these prizes were worthier than others.
Here’s a look at all the Palme winners over the years, ranked in order of which ones we believe deserved it the most. Viewed as a whole, the winners provide...
- 5/13/2019
- by Eric Kohn, Christian Blauvelt, Kate Erbland, Anne Thompson, Chris O'Falt, David Ehrlich, Tom Brueggemann, Tambay Obenson and Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Inspired by a true story, this warm-hearted tale of a singing group from Cornwall is likable, if goofy
Corny it may be – we’ve hardly got five minutes in before someone’s used the phrase “Davy Jones’s locker” – but this gentle, sweet-natured comedy has warmth and a certain X factor of likability, helped by big-hearted performances from a cast including Daniel Mays and Tuppence Middleton. It’s inspired by the true story of the Fisherman’s Friends, an all-male a capella folk singing group from Port Isaac in Cornwall who in the noughties became an unexpected hit for their genuine sea shanties.
Danny (Mays) is a music executive who travels to Cornwall on a stag weekend with a bunch of his shallow London music PR mates – joining in with their inanities just to soothe his secret loneliness – and he’s pranked by them into offering to sign the local sea shanty singers,...
Corny it may be – we’ve hardly got five minutes in before someone’s used the phrase “Davy Jones’s locker” – but this gentle, sweet-natured comedy has warmth and a certain X factor of likability, helped by big-hearted performances from a cast including Daniel Mays and Tuppence Middleton. It’s inspired by the true story of the Fisherman’s Friends, an all-male a capella folk singing group from Port Isaac in Cornwall who in the noughties became an unexpected hit for their genuine sea shanties.
Danny (Mays) is a music executive who travels to Cornwall on a stag weekend with a bunch of his shallow London music PR mates – joining in with their inanities just to soothe his secret loneliness – and he’s pranked by them into offering to sign the local sea shanty singers,...
- 3/13/2019
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Based on true events, Parkland Entertainment has released the UK trailer for war-time drama ‘The Keeper’.
Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller, the film stars David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Dave Johns, Dervla Kirwan and Gary Lewis.
Also in trailers – The ‘Ugly Dolls’ go on an adventure in new trailer
The film hits cinemas April 5th.
The Keeper Synopsis
The film tells the incredible true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalkeeper at Manchester City, and in doing so becomes a footballing icon.
Struggling for acceptance by those who dismiss him as the enemy, Bert’s love for Margaret (Freya Mavor), an Englishwoman, carries him through and he wins over even his harshest opponents by winning the 1956 Fa Cup Final, playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller, the film stars David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw, Harry Melling, Dave Johns, Dervla Kirwan and Gary Lewis.
Also in trailers – The ‘Ugly Dolls’ go on an adventure in new trailer
The film hits cinemas April 5th.
The Keeper Synopsis
The film tells the incredible true story of Bert Trautmann (David Kross), a German soldier and prisoner of war who, against a backdrop of British post-war protest and prejudice, secures the position of Goalkeeper at Manchester City, and in doing so becomes a footballing icon.
Struggling for acceptance by those who dismiss him as the enemy, Bert’s love for Margaret (Freya Mavor), an Englishwoman, carries him through and he wins over even his harshest opponents by winning the 1956 Fa Cup Final, playing on with a broken neck to secure victory.
- 2/7/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: I, Daniel Blake star Dave Johns and Life Is Sweet and Gavin & Stacey star Alison Steadman are starring in UK grey-pound comedy-drama 23 Walks, from the producers of Swimming With Men and Carol Morley’s Out Of Blue.
The film marks a return to the director’s chair after more than a decade for Wondrous Oblivion and Little Ashes director Paul Morrison, whose 2000 drama Solomon & Gaenor was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Morrison has also written the script. Above is a first look.
23 Walks follows pensioners Dave and Fern, two strangers who meet walking their dogs in a North London park. Over the course of twenty-three walks together romance begins to blossom but the two also hide secrets which could derail their newfound love.
Pic is currently in the middle of a production hiatus as it waits for spring to shoot the scheduled second block of principle photography. The...
The film marks a return to the director’s chair after more than a decade for Wondrous Oblivion and Little Ashes director Paul Morrison, whose 2000 drama Solomon & Gaenor was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Morrison has also written the script. Above is a first look.
23 Walks follows pensioners Dave and Fern, two strangers who meet walking their dogs in a North London park. Over the course of twenty-three walks together romance begins to blossom but the two also hide secrets which could derail their newfound love.
Pic is currently in the middle of a production hiatus as it waits for spring to shoot the scheduled second block of principle photography. The...
- 2/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The first trailer for ‘Fisherman’s Friends’, based on the true story of the rise to fame of a bunch of Cornish fishermen, has debuted.
The film is based on a true story of a group of Cornish fishermen who were signed by the legendary Island Records and went on to score a UK top ten album.
The cast includes Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, David Hayman, Dave Johns and Noel Clarke.
Also in trailers – New trailer for BBC adaptation ‘Les Misérables’ takes us amongst civil unrest
The film is released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 15th March 2019.
Fisherman’s Friends Official Synopsis
A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Daniel Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he’s pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes...
The film is based on a true story of a group of Cornish fishermen who were signed by the legendary Island Records and went on to score a UK top ten album.
The cast includes Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, Tuppence Middleton, David Hayman, Dave Johns and Noel Clarke.
Also in trailers – New trailer for BBC adaptation ‘Les Misérables’ takes us amongst civil unrest
The film is released in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 15th March 2019.
Fisherman’s Friends Official Synopsis
A fast-living, cynical London music executive (Daniel Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he’s pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). He becomes...
- 12/4/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sales company to diversify operations with UK distribution arm.
UK sales and production outfit Moviehouse Entertainment is diversifying its operations with the launch of a distribution arm that will specialise in releasing music documentaries.
Moviehouse Music Distribution will work across theatrical, DVD releases and additional merchandise. The first title will be Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me, the story of the Philadelphia-born singer who looked set to become one of the biggest R&B artists of all time until a tragic accident changed his life. Pendergrass was the first male African American artist to record five consecutive platinum albums in the Us,...
UK sales and production outfit Moviehouse Entertainment is diversifying its operations with the launch of a distribution arm that will specialise in releasing music documentaries.
Moviehouse Music Distribution will work across theatrical, DVD releases and additional merchandise. The first title will be Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don’t Know Me, the story of the Philadelphia-born singer who looked set to become one of the biggest R&B artists of all time until a tragic accident changed his life. Pendergrass was the first male African American artist to record five consecutive platinum albums in the Us,...
- 11/3/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Young’s second feature will be action thriller Stolen, a UK-South Africa co-production.
Netflix has acquired SVoD rights for all English-speaking territories for Gary Young’s British thriller Two Graves, which it will launch on the service in May 2019. Front Row has acquired Mena rights. Moviehouse Entertainment handles international sales.
Young wrote and directed Two Graves as his feature directorial debut; he previously wrote the Michael Caine-starring Harry Brown. The revenge thriller stars Katie Jarvis, Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns, David Hayman, Josh Herdman and Danielle Harold. Tyson (Mona Lisa) plays a mother trying to uncover the circumstances behind her son’s brutal death.
Netflix has acquired SVoD rights for all English-speaking territories for Gary Young’s British thriller Two Graves, which it will launch on the service in May 2019. Front Row has acquired Mena rights. Moviehouse Entertainment handles international sales.
Young wrote and directed Two Graves as his feature directorial debut; he previously wrote the Michael Caine-starring Harry Brown. The revenge thriller stars Katie Jarvis, Cathy Tyson, Dave Johns, David Hayman, Josh Herdman and Danielle Harold. Tyson (Mona Lisa) plays a mother trying to uncover the circumstances behind her son’s brutal death.
- 11/1/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Brit comedy Fisherman’s Friends, from the writing and producing team behind UK box office hit Finding Your Feet, has netted a UK deal with Entertainment Film Distributors.
The film, currently in post-production, has an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays (Atonement), Tuppence Middleton (The Imitation Game), James Purefoy (Solomon Kane), David Hayman (Finding Your Feet), Dave Johns Sam Swainsbury (Thor: The Dark World), Maggie Steed (Paddington 2) Christian Brassington (St Trinian’s 2) and Noel Clarke (Brotherhood). Here’s a first look at some of the team.
Directed by Chris Foggin (Kids In Love), the Cornwall-shot feature is inspired by the true story of the male singing group Fisherman’s Friends, who went from performing in their village harbour to securing a deal with Island Records, a top-ten album and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
Producers are James Spring, Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft with Piers Ashworth (St Trinian’s), Leonard and Moorcroft writing the screenplay.
Legacy Rights, the sales label headed up by James Scott, has inked deals in Latin America and Spain (Sun Distribution), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Japan (New Select), Middle East (Phars) and Airlines (Jaguar). Scott will be showing a promo to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival next week.
Pic is a Head Gear Films and Metrol Technology presentation in association with Legacy Rights of a Fred Films and Powder Keg Production in association with Hindsight and Ipg Media. Post-Production is being handled by Lipsync.
The film, currently in post-production, has an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays (Atonement), Tuppence Middleton (The Imitation Game), James Purefoy (Solomon Kane), David Hayman (Finding Your Feet), Dave Johns Sam Swainsbury (Thor: The Dark World), Maggie Steed (Paddington 2) Christian Brassington (St Trinian’s 2) and Noel Clarke (Brotherhood). Here’s a first look at some of the team.
Directed by Chris Foggin (Kids In Love), the Cornwall-shot feature is inspired by the true story of the male singing group Fisherman’s Friends, who went from performing in their village harbour to securing a deal with Island Records, a top-ten album and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
Producers are James Spring, Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft with Piers Ashworth (St Trinian’s), Leonard and Moorcroft writing the screenplay.
Legacy Rights, the sales label headed up by James Scott, has inked deals in Latin America and Spain (Sun Distribution), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Japan (New Select), Middle East (Phars) and Airlines (Jaguar). Scott will be showing a promo to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival next week.
Pic is a Head Gear Films and Metrol Technology presentation in association with Legacy Rights of a Fred Films and Powder Keg Production in association with Hindsight and Ipg Media. Post-Production is being handled by Lipsync.
- 8/31/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Shooting is underway on UK comedy Fisherman’s Friends, from the writing and producing team behind UK feature Finding Your Feet.
Shooting is underway on UK comedy Fisherman’s Friends, from the writing and producing team behind UK feature Finding Your Feet.
The film has an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays (Atonement), Tuppence Middleton (The Imitation Game), James Purefoy (Solomon Kane), David Hayman (Finding Your Feet), Dave Johns Sam Swainsbury (Thor: The Dark World), Maggie Steed (Paddington 2) and Noel Clarke (Brotherhood).
Chris Foggin (Kids In Love) is directing, his second feature after a trio of award-winning shorts including Friend...
Shooting is underway on UK comedy Fisherman’s Friends, from the writing and producing team behind UK feature Finding Your Feet.
The film has an ensemble cast featuring Daniel Mays (Atonement), Tuppence Middleton (The Imitation Game), James Purefoy (Solomon Kane), David Hayman (Finding Your Feet), Dave Johns Sam Swainsbury (Thor: The Dark World), Maggie Steed (Paddington 2) and Noel Clarke (Brotherhood).
Chris Foggin (Kids In Love) is directing, his second feature after a trio of award-winning shorts including Friend...
- 5/8/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Last remaining 35mm print of Tyneside classic Get Carter will open the event.
The inaugural Newcastle International Film Festival has revealed a line-up of more than 200 films, with the event set to run March 29 to April 1.
The festival will host 40 features, 140 shorts, including works by filmamkers from the North East. There will also be workshops, Q&A sessions and events across the city of Newcastle.
Get Carter, starring Michael Caine in an early role, will open the festival at the Tyneside Cinema on March 29. The only remaining 35mm print of one of the most renowned Newcastle-shot films will screen...
The inaugural Newcastle International Film Festival has revealed a line-up of more than 200 films, with the event set to run March 29 to April 1.
The festival will host 40 features, 140 shorts, including works by filmamkers from the North East. There will also be workshops, Q&A sessions and events across the city of Newcastle.
Get Carter, starring Michael Caine in an early role, will open the festival at the Tyneside Cinema on March 29. The only remaining 35mm print of one of the most renowned Newcastle-shot films will screen...
- 3/16/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Feel-good British comedy Walk Like A Panther is released nationwide in UK cinemas Now. To celebrate, we are offering 2 of you the chance to win a merchandise bundle,
including signed poster, a t-shirt, a cap and some limited edition Panther beer from Magic Rock Brewing!
Starring BAFTA Award nominee Stephen Graham (Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s
Revenge, “Boardwalk Empire”), British Independent Film Award winner Dave Johns (I,
Daniel Blake) and Jill Halfpenny (“Humans,” “EastEnders”), Walk Like A Panther is
directed and written by Dan Cadan.
Walk Like A Panther revolves around a group of ‘80s wrestlers who are forced to don the lycra one last time when their beloved local pub is threatened by closure. Led by father-son duo, Mark (Graham) and Trevor Bolton (Johns), this unlikely bunch of underdog heroes sets out to save their community, rekindling old friendships and family ties along the way.
The ensemble British...
including signed poster, a t-shirt, a cap and some limited edition Panther beer from Magic Rock Brewing!
Starring BAFTA Award nominee Stephen Graham (Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s
Revenge, “Boardwalk Empire”), British Independent Film Award winner Dave Johns (I,
Daniel Blake) and Jill Halfpenny (“Humans,” “EastEnders”), Walk Like A Panther is
directed and written by Dan Cadan.
Walk Like A Panther revolves around a group of ‘80s wrestlers who are forced to don the lycra one last time when their beloved local pub is threatened by closure. Led by father-son duo, Mark (Graham) and Trevor Bolton (Johns), this unlikely bunch of underdog heroes sets out to save their community, rekindling old friendships and family ties along the way.
The ensemble British...
- 3/9/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Stephen Graham, Dave Johns, Steve Furst, Michael Socha, Stephen Tompkinson, Julian Sands, Jill Halfpenny, Lindsey Coulson, Robbie Gee, Jason Flemyng | Written and Directed by Dan Cadan
An evident labour of love for first-time writer-director Dan Cadan, this cheerful British comedy attempts to fuse a nostalgic love of Saturday teatime TV wrestling with a band-of-plucky-underdogs plot that’s straight out of The Full Monty. The result leaves a lot to be desired, but there’s no denying that the film’s heart is in the right place.
The film begins with a wistful flashback to the 1980s, when the nation was glued to British wrestling on ITV’s World of Sport, every Saturday tea-time and young Mark Bolton (Stephen Graham) grew up idolising his wrestler father, Trevor “Bulldog” Bolton (I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns) and his wrestling troupe, The Panthers. Cut to the present day, where Mark still harbours...
An evident labour of love for first-time writer-director Dan Cadan, this cheerful British comedy attempts to fuse a nostalgic love of Saturday teatime TV wrestling with a band-of-plucky-underdogs plot that’s straight out of The Full Monty. The result leaves a lot to be desired, but there’s no denying that the film’s heart is in the right place.
The film begins with a wistful flashback to the 1980s, when the nation was glued to British wrestling on ITV’s World of Sport, every Saturday tea-time and young Mark Bolton (Stephen Graham) grew up idolising his wrestler father, Trevor “Bulldog” Bolton (I, Daniel Blake’s Dave Johns) and his wrestling troupe, The Panthers. Cut to the present day, where Mark still harbours...
- 3/9/2018
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Clare Anyiam-Osigwe’s No Shade, produced by the Festival, to open the event.
The 2018 British Urban Film Festival (June 4-9) has announced its line-up, hosts and awards today.
The festival will open with writer-director Clare Anyiam-Osigwe’s No Shade, about a British woman coming to terms with her relationships with men and her skintone, starring Adele Oni in her debut lead role. It is the first feature to be released by the Festival under its new Buff Originals slate.
The closing night film is the festival premiere of Harry Brown writer Gary Young’s directorial debut Two Graves, a revenge...
The 2018 British Urban Film Festival (June 4-9) has announced its line-up, hosts and awards today.
The festival will open with writer-director Clare Anyiam-Osigwe’s No Shade, about a British woman coming to terms with her relationships with men and her skintone, starring Adele Oni in her debut lead role. It is the first feature to be released by the Festival under its new Buff Originals slate.
The closing night film is the festival premiere of Harry Brown writer Gary Young’s directorial debut Two Graves, a revenge...
- 3/8/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
"The Panthers... You shall all be warriors once more!" 20th Century Fox UK has unveiled an official trailer for a feel-good, cheesy comedy titled Walk Like A Panther, which opens in UK cinemas in March (but no Us release planned yet). The film stars Stephen Graham and Dave Johns (the lead of I, Daniel Blake) as a father-son duo who must team up to help save their local pub when it's threatened. They gather up their old wrestling friends to put on one big show dressed up in their goofy 80's wrestling costumes to make extra money for the pub. The cast includes Stephen Marcus, Julian Sands, Jill Halfpenny, Christopher Fairbank, Robbie Gee, Sue Johnston, plus Stephen Tompkinson, along with Lena Headey and Jason Flemyng. This looks sort of fun, I guess. If this kind of British humor is your thing, then have at it. Here's the official UK trailer...
- 1/16/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Twentieth Century Fox have announced that British comedy Walk Like a Panther will be released in cinemas in UK and Ireland on 9th March, 2018. Starring BAFTA Award nominee Stephen Graham (Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, Boardwalk Empire), British Independent Film Award winner Dave Johns (I, Daniel Blake), Walk Like a Panther is directed by Dan Cadan, making his feature film debut from his own original screenplay.
Well its often said if you want to check out the cream of the movie crop, you have to go British. I mean come on its no secret we are taking over the Hollywood Film and TV landscape with our talent. However you always get something truly special, funny and unique when you head to the cinema for a British-made movie with British-made stars. And Walk Like a Panther is a great example!
Walk Like a Panther features one hell of an ensemble…...
Well its often said if you want to check out the cream of the movie crop, you have to go British. I mean come on its no secret we are taking over the Hollywood Film and TV landscape with our talent. However you always get something truly special, funny and unique when you head to the cinema for a British-made movie with British-made stars. And Walk Like a Panther is a great example!
Walk Like a Panther features one hell of an ensemble…...
- 1/15/2018
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
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