Exclusive: Cornerstone to sell comedy from ParaNorman director.
X-Files star Gillian Anderson is set to star alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee in the first live-action film from director Sam Fell.
Smith-McPhee is in final negotiations to star in Croak, which would reunite him with his ParaNorman director. The young actor, seen opposite Michael Fassbender in Sundance title Slow West, was recently cast as Nightcrawler in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse.
Also cast is newcomer Tilda Cobham-Hervey (52 Tuesdays).
Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s new sales outfit, Cornerstone Films, is introducing the fantastical feature to buyers in Cannes. UTA is handling the Us.
Nicole Carmen-Davis, Rebekah Gilbertson and Philippa Campbell are producing the film, written by Lucy Moore, which centres on a world-weary 17-year-old Jenny (Cobham-Hervey) and mysterious, geeky Marcus (Smit-McPhee) - a young grim reaper living somewhere between the land of the living and oblivion.
Anderson is to play the character of the grim “Mistress” who keeps a watchful eye over...
X-Files star Gillian Anderson is set to star alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee in the first live-action film from director Sam Fell.
Smith-McPhee is in final negotiations to star in Croak, which would reunite him with his ParaNorman director. The young actor, seen opposite Michael Fassbender in Sundance title Slow West, was recently cast as Nightcrawler in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse.
Also cast is newcomer Tilda Cobham-Hervey (52 Tuesdays).
Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s new sales outfit, Cornerstone Films, is introducing the fantastical feature to buyers in Cannes. UTA is handling the Us.
Nicole Carmen-Davis, Rebekah Gilbertson and Philippa Campbell are producing the film, written by Lucy Moore, which centres on a world-weary 17-year-old Jenny (Cobham-Hervey) and mysterious, geeky Marcus (Smit-McPhee) - a young grim reaper living somewhere between the land of the living and oblivion.
Anderson is to play the character of the grim “Mistress” who keeps a watchful eye over...
- 5/13/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Fox International has started production in Spain on Panda Eyes. Directed by Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me, The Secret Life Of Words), the film stars Game Of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner, who is making her feature film debut. She’s surrounded by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Rhys Ifans, Claire Forlani, Gregg Sulkin, Leonor Watling, Ivana Baquero, and Geraldine Chaplin. The film is a psychological thriller with Turner playing a woman haunted by a secret past. It is based on the Cathy MacPhail novel Another Me, and Coixet wrote the script. 20th Century Fox will distribute the Fox International film, a UK/Spain co-production that has Rebekah Gilbertson and Nicole Carmen-Davis producing for UK-based Rainy Day Films and Mariela Besuievsky producing for Spain-based Tornasol Films. Film Agency for Wales, Fox International Productions, the British Film Co. and Dsk Ventures are financing the film.
- 12/18/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING JR.
- Deadline
John Maybury's 2008 romance has Dylan Thomas's wife-swapping and drunkenly brawling private life only half right
The Edge of Love (2008)
Director: John Maybury
Entertainment grade: C
History grade: C+
Dylan Thomas's poetry was first published in the 1930s, when he was still a teenager. His deep, sonorous voice and beautiful language made him a celebrity on the wireless; his most famous work – Under Milk Wood – was written for radio.
Romance
The Edge of Love focuses on the relationships between Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his wife Caitlin MacNamara (Sienna Miller), Thomas's childhood friend Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and her soldier husband William Killick (Cillian Murphy). The film claims these two couples were entwined in a messy love quadrilateral.
In real life, Thomas served as best man to the Killicks, and Vera was close to Caitlin, but there is scant evidence for any affairs. There are hardly any mentions of...
The Edge of Love (2008)
Director: John Maybury
Entertainment grade: C
History grade: C+
Dylan Thomas's poetry was first published in the 1930s, when he was still a teenager. His deep, sonorous voice and beautiful language made him a celebrity on the wireless; his most famous work – Under Milk Wood – was written for radio.
Romance
The Edge of Love focuses on the relationships between Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his wife Caitlin MacNamara (Sienna Miller), Thomas's childhood friend Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and her soldier husband William Killick (Cillian Murphy). The film claims these two couples were entwined in a messy love quadrilateral.
In real life, Thomas served as best man to the Killicks, and Vera was close to Caitlin, but there is scant evidence for any affairs. There are hardly any mentions of...
- 8/4/2011
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Edinburgh International Film Festival
EDINBURGH, Scotland -- A poet, a warrior and their two lovers form a complicated quartet in John Maybury's "The Edge of Love", a story of wartime romance in which fidelity and trust are put to the strictest test. It opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The poet is extraordinary Welshman Dylan Thomas, played with echoes of the young Richard Burton by Matthew Rhys, but the film's literary appeal is made broader because of excellent playing by Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller as the main women in his life. Capturing superbly the claustrophobic atmosphere of London in the Blitz during World War II and measuring the irreconcilable differences between love and war and poetry and combat, the film succeeds as a deeply involving study of men and women caught up in a whirlwind beyond their control.
It will take careful marketing for the film to find its audience, but the big names involved, the ongoing fascination with Thomas and excellent music supplied by veteran Angelo Badalamenti all serve it well.
Sharman Macdonald's astute screenplay swiftly sets up the dynamic between the foursome. Thomas is a sweet, gifted man who can be a right bastard. As the film starts, he is writing propaganda films as a conscientious objector. In a London pub, he runs into his childhood sweetheart, Vera (Knightley), who is a talented singer reduced to performances in London Underground stations while the Nazi bombs fall.
To Vera's dismay, Thomas has a cheerfully unfaithful wife, Caitlin (Miller), but the two fast become friends and turn into a threesome. That relationship is disturbed, however, when soldier William Killick (Cillian Murphy) falls in love with Vera and sets out to woo her. The film follows their story as Killick is sent off to battle and Vera becomes pregnant. When the warrior returns much changed, there is a seismic shift that affects all of them.
Maybury draws terrific performances from his cast. Rhys (ABC's "Brothers & Sisters") reads Thomas' poetry wonderfully and plays the Welsh icon with warts and all. Murphy also brings poetry to the role of the warrior.
But the film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star.
Production: Capitol Films and BBC Films present in association with the Wales Creative IP Fund and Prescience Film Partners 2 a Sarah Radclyffe/Rainy Day Films. Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys. Director: John Maybury. Screenwriter: Sharman Macdonald. Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radcliffe. Running time 109 minutes. Executive producer: David Bergstein, Paul Brett, Linda James, Hannah Leader, Nick Hill, Joe Oppenheimer, Tim Smith, David M. Thompson. Director of Photography: Jonathan Freeman. Production Designer: Alan MacDonald. Music: Angelo Badalamenti. Costume designer: April Ferry. Editor: Emma E. Hickox. Sales: Capitol.
EDINBURGH, Scotland -- A poet, a warrior and their two lovers form a complicated quartet in John Maybury's "The Edge of Love", a story of wartime romance in which fidelity and trust are put to the strictest test. It opened the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The poet is extraordinary Welshman Dylan Thomas, played with echoes of the young Richard Burton by Matthew Rhys, but the film's literary appeal is made broader because of excellent playing by Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller as the main women in his life. Capturing superbly the claustrophobic atmosphere of London in the Blitz during World War II and measuring the irreconcilable differences between love and war and poetry and combat, the film succeeds as a deeply involving study of men and women caught up in a whirlwind beyond their control.
It will take careful marketing for the film to find its audience, but the big names involved, the ongoing fascination with Thomas and excellent music supplied by veteran Angelo Badalamenti all serve it well.
Sharman Macdonald's astute screenplay swiftly sets up the dynamic between the foursome. Thomas is a sweet, gifted man who can be a right bastard. As the film starts, he is writing propaganda films as a conscientious objector. In a London pub, he runs into his childhood sweetheart, Vera (Knightley), who is a talented singer reduced to performances in London Underground stations while the Nazi bombs fall.
To Vera's dismay, Thomas has a cheerfully unfaithful wife, Caitlin (Miller), but the two fast become friends and turn into a threesome. That relationship is disturbed, however, when soldier William Killick (Cillian Murphy) falls in love with Vera and sets out to woo her. The film follows their story as Killick is sent off to battle and Vera becomes pregnant. When the warrior returns much changed, there is a seismic shift that affects all of them.
Maybury draws terrific performances from his cast. Rhys (ABC's "Brothers & Sisters") reads Thomas' poetry wonderfully and plays the Welsh icon with warts and all. Murphy also brings poetry to the role of the warrior.
But the film belongs to the women, with Knightley going from strength to strength (and showing she can sing!) and Miller again proving that she has everything it takes to be a major movie star.
Production: Capitol Films and BBC Films present in association with the Wales Creative IP Fund and Prescience Film Partners 2 a Sarah Radclyffe/Rainy Day Films. Cast: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys. Director: John Maybury. Screenwriter: Sharman Macdonald. Producers: Rebekah Gilbertson, Sarah Radcliffe. Running time 109 minutes. Executive producer: David Bergstein, Paul Brett, Linda James, Hannah Leader, Nick Hill, Joe Oppenheimer, Tim Smith, David M. Thompson. Director of Photography: Jonathan Freeman. Production Designer: Alan MacDonald. Music: Angelo Badalamenti. Costume designer: April Ferry. Editor: Emma E. Hickox. Sales: Capitol.
- 6/17/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- John Maybury's The Edge of Love will open this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Maybury's biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas should give the Scottish capital set event some glitz and glamour with a cast which includes Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys and Cillian Murphy.
Organizers said Knightley, Miller, Rhys and Maybury are expected to attend the gala event June 18.
This year's Edinburgh film shindig is the first time it will unfold in June having previously always occupied an August slot. The festival runs June 18-29.
Maybury's romantic love triangle film is produced by Rebekah Gilbertson and Sarah Radclyffe, co-produced by Huw Penallt Jones and Bill Godfrey and executive produced by David Berstein, Linda James, Hannah Leader, Joe Oppenheimer, Tim Smith and David M. Thompson.
"It's a film that I personally adore, and opening with it is the perfect expression of our commitment to intelligent, impassioned, exciting new filmmaking," festival artistic director Hannah McGill said.
Maybury's biopic of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas should give the Scottish capital set event some glitz and glamour with a cast which includes Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys and Cillian Murphy.
Organizers said Knightley, Miller, Rhys and Maybury are expected to attend the gala event June 18.
This year's Edinburgh film shindig is the first time it will unfold in June having previously always occupied an August slot. The festival runs June 18-29.
Maybury's romantic love triangle film is produced by Rebekah Gilbertson and Sarah Radclyffe, co-produced by Huw Penallt Jones and Bill Godfrey and executive produced by David Berstein, Linda James, Hannah Leader, Joe Oppenheimer, Tim Smith and David M. Thompson.
"It's a film that I personally adore, and opening with it is the perfect expression of our commitment to intelligent, impassioned, exciting new filmmaking," festival artistic director Hannah McGill said.
- 4/10/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys have signed on to star opposite Keira Knightley and Lindsay Lohan in The Best Time of Our Lives for Capitol Films. John Maybury is on board to direct.
Penned by Sharman Macdonald, the film chronicles the relationships between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Rhys), his wife Caitlin (Lohan), his childhood friend Vera Phillips (Knightley) and her eventual husband William Killick (Murphy).
Capitol is financing and handling worldwide sales. Rebekah Gilbertson and Sarah Radclyffe are producing.
Murphy's credits include Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Batman Begins, Red Eye and Breakfast on Pluto. He also leads the ensemble cast of Fox Searchlight's upcoming Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle.
He is repped by UTA and attorney David Weber.
Rhys co-stars as Kevin Walker on ABC's Brother & Sisters. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, his credits also include Julie Taymor's adaptation of Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins, and David Leland's upcoming Virgin Territory.
He is represented by Management 360.
Penned by Sharman Macdonald, the film chronicles the relationships between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (Rhys), his wife Caitlin (Lohan), his childhood friend Vera Phillips (Knightley) and her eventual husband William Killick (Murphy).
Capitol is financing and handling worldwide sales. Rebekah Gilbertson and Sarah Radclyffe are producing.
Murphy's credits include Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Batman Begins, Red Eye and Breakfast on Pluto. He also leads the ensemble cast of Fox Searchlight's upcoming Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle.
He is repped by UTA and attorney David Weber.
Rhys co-stars as Kevin Walker on ABC's Brother & Sisters. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, his credits also include Julie Taymor's adaptation of Titus, starring Anthony Hopkins, and David Leland's upcoming Virgin Territory.
He is represented by Management 360.
- 3/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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