Exclusive: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to New Zealand drama Juniper, starring Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (45 Years).
Directed by first time feature director Matthew J. Saville, the movie will play at Palm Springs this week and has already screened at festivals including Tallinn, Edinburgh, Munich and Brisbane.
Rampling plays Ruth, a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Her semi-estranged adult son Robert — still harboring childhood emotional scars from her long absences — arranges for her to convalesce in his home in New Zealand and look after her teenage grandson Sam (George Ferrier) who she has never met. Sam, unruly and recently kicked out of boarding school, is grieving from the recent death of his mother and reacts with defiance to this imperious woman he doesn’t know.
The film will launch in the U.
Directed by first time feature director Matthew J. Saville, the movie will play at Palm Springs this week and has already screened at festivals including Tallinn, Edinburgh, Munich and Brisbane.
Rampling plays Ruth, a worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and a newly fractured leg. Her semi-estranged adult son Robert — still harboring childhood emotional scars from her long absences — arranges for her to convalesce in his home in New Zealand and look after her teenage grandson Sam (George Ferrier) who she has never met. Sam, unruly and recently kicked out of boarding school, is grieving from the recent death of his mother and reacts with defiance to this imperious woman he doesn’t know.
The film will launch in the U.
- 1/3/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Charlotte Rampling starrer “Juniper” has been picked up by distributor Parkland Entertainment in the U.K. and Ireland.
In “Juniper,” Rampling plays Ruth, a “funny, rude, fearless, flirtatious” grandmother who unexpectedly descends on her grandson Sam and his father after Sam is suspended from boarding school. For Sam, who is already struggling with suicidal thoughts, the thought of having to take care of his ailing relative is, initially, infuriating – until he gets to know her. Soon they develop a friendship that transcends age – helped in part by the fact that Ruth can drink Sam and his friends under the table.
The film is set in New Zealand and also stars George Ferrier as Sam, Marton Csokas as his father Robert and Edith Poor as Ruth’s nurse Sarah.
Matthew J. Saville (“Hitch Hike”) wrote and directed the feature.
Desray Armstrong (“Stray”) and Angela Littlejohn (“Slow”) produce “Juniper” in association with the New Zealand Film Commission,...
In “Juniper,” Rampling plays Ruth, a “funny, rude, fearless, flirtatious” grandmother who unexpectedly descends on her grandson Sam and his father after Sam is suspended from boarding school. For Sam, who is already struggling with suicidal thoughts, the thought of having to take care of his ailing relative is, initially, infuriating – until he gets to know her. Soon they develop a friendship that transcends age – helped in part by the fact that Ruth can drink Sam and his friends under the table.
The film is set in New Zealand and also stars George Ferrier as Sam, Marton Csokas as his father Robert and Edith Poor as Ruth’s nurse Sarah.
Matthew J. Saville (“Hitch Hike”) wrote and directed the feature.
Desray Armstrong (“Stray”) and Angela Littlejohn (“Slow”) produce “Juniper” in association with the New Zealand Film Commission,...
- 4/29/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Hunt for the Wilderpeople star.Julian Dennison.
The New Zealand Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association (Nzmpea) has launched a nationwide roadshow circuit called My Cinema, a promotional platform that will first run in partnership with Taika Waititi.s Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The promotion brings together Nzmpea independent cinemas in a coordinated promotional effort, allowing them to hold their own preview screenings with intros from Waititi alongside the screening of exclusive, never-seen-before footage.
Cinemas that opt in for the promotion will hold their preview screenings on March 30, with the film releasing around Nz the next day.
.We can.t think of a better way to launch this fantastic promotion across independent cinemas, than to partner with an independent New Zealand film., said Nzmpea President Mark Christensen.
.On average, independent cinemas account for 20 percent of the Nz box office, but Boy and What We Do In The Shadows [Waititi's last two films] over performed with 22 percent and 25 percent respectively.
The New Zealand Motion Pictures Exhibitors Association (Nzmpea) has launched a nationwide roadshow circuit called My Cinema, a promotional platform that will first run in partnership with Taika Waititi.s Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
The promotion brings together Nzmpea independent cinemas in a coordinated promotional effort, allowing them to hold their own preview screenings with intros from Waititi alongside the screening of exclusive, never-seen-before footage.
Cinemas that opt in for the promotion will hold their preview screenings on March 30, with the film releasing around Nz the next day.
.We can.t think of a better way to launch this fantastic promotion across independent cinemas, than to partner with an independent New Zealand film., said Nzmpea President Mark Christensen.
.On average, independent cinemas account for 20 percent of the Nz box office, but Boy and What We Do In The Shadows [Waititi's last two films] over performed with 22 percent and 25 percent respectively.
- 3/16/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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