A day will come, when the slaves will break their chains and when the wretched will join forces to raise their cry of rebellion. This week Netflix dropped the first trailer for a new original series: a French language, alt-history drama set during late 18th-century France. But La Révolution does not appear […]
The post Brotherhood and Blue Blood: Netflix Drops Trailer For New Series ‘La Révolution’ Based on The French Revolution appeared first on Cinelinx | Movies. Games. Geek Culture..
The post Brotherhood and Blue Blood: Netflix Drops Trailer For New Series ‘La Révolution’ Based on The French Revolution appeared first on Cinelinx | Movies. Games. Geek Culture..
- 9/16/2020
- by Jess Salafia Ward
- Cinelinx
Writer Bill Gallagher took on the daunting task of turning his six-part, 360-minute miniseries Conviction into a 90-minute film entitled Blood. It’s a tale about family, mankind’s capacity to do wrong, and the psychology involved in growing up with impossible expectations and the knowledge they’ll never be met. No matter how good Joe (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie [...]...
- 8/7/2013
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The history of the British police movie is not a glorious one. Perhaps it's because (for the most part) U.K. coppers aren't allowed to carry firearms, which somewhat reduces the capacity for squib-happy action sequences. Or maybe it's the lack of glamorous locations for said shootouts, which can hardly compete with Manhattan or L.A. But after Edgar Wright imported the cop movie to rural Britain with "Hot Fuzz," we've seen a string of more straight-faced takes on the genre from the U.K., including the Jason Statham vehicle "Blitz," '70s remake "The Sweeney," and this spring's "Welcome To The Punch." Of course, you could take a different approach, a more realistic and unglamorous one, where not a single bullet flies and no car chases another. And that's pretty much what "Blood" does. Executive-produced by Sam Mendes, adapted from a mid-'00s BBC series called "Conviction" by original...
- 8/7/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Paul Bettany stars in this week's British crime drama Blood as Joe, a veteran cop who's driven to violence after a murder suspect he believes to be guilty is released without charge.
Digital Spy sat down with Bettany and director Nick Murphy (The Awakening) to discuss the film's portrayal of family, and its striking setting on the Lancashire coast.
Bettany also discussed the casting of Stephen Graham, who he had been hoping to work with for several years, as Joe's more sensitive brother Chrissie.
Mark Strong, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper and Ben Crompton are among the supporting cast of Blood, which was adapted by Bill Gallagher from his own 2004 BBC series Conviction.
Blood is out now in UK cinemas.
Digital Spy sat down with Bettany and director Nick Murphy (The Awakening) to discuss the film's portrayal of family, and its striking setting on the Lancashire coast.
Bettany also discussed the casting of Stephen Graham, who he had been hoping to work with for several years, as Joe's more sensitive brother Chrissie.
Mark Strong, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper and Ben Crompton are among the supporting cast of Blood, which was adapted by Bill Gallagher from his own 2004 BBC series Conviction.
Blood is out now in UK cinemas.
- 5/31/2013
- Digital Spy
Director: Nick Murphy; Screenwriter Bill Gallagher; Starring: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Stephen Graham, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper; Running time: 92 mins; Certificate: 15
You don't need to have seen Bill Gallagher's 2004 BBC series Conviction to recognise the small-screen roots of Blood, which begins in a relatively standard Sunday evening telly vein. After a 12-year-old girl is murdered, hardened and emotionally distant copper Joe Fairburn (Paul Bettany) becomes obsessed with tracking down her killer, with the case reminding him of an unsolved one from his past.
The police arrest Jason (an unsettling Ben Crompton), a smug and unrepentant creep with a history of child abuse. Joe and his more sensitive brother Chrissie (Stephen Graham) are convinced of his guilt, but he's released due to lack of evidence. This does not sit well with the increasingly unpredictable Joe, and an impulsive act of vigilante justice sends both brothers spiralling into moral decline.
Despite the limitations of Gallagher's script,...
You don't need to have seen Bill Gallagher's 2004 BBC series Conviction to recognise the small-screen roots of Blood, which begins in a relatively standard Sunday evening telly vein. After a 12-year-old girl is murdered, hardened and emotionally distant copper Joe Fairburn (Paul Bettany) becomes obsessed with tracking down her killer, with the case reminding him of an unsolved one from his past.
The police arrest Jason (an unsettling Ben Crompton), a smug and unrepentant creep with a history of child abuse. Joe and his more sensitive brother Chrissie (Stephen Graham) are convinced of his guilt, but he's released due to lack of evidence. This does not sit well with the increasingly unpredictable Joe, and an impulsive act of vigilante justice sends both brothers spiralling into moral decline.
Despite the limitations of Gallagher's script,...
- 5/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Amid all the Cannes madness, here's a more homegrown effort for you: the new trailer for Blood, a thriller starring Paul Bettany and Stephen Grahams as Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, cops and brothers investigating the murder of a young girl. But the problem here isn't just finding out who was responsible, but covering up what happened next. For more on that, watch the trailer below. brightcove.createExperiences();As you can see, the film also stars Brian Cox as the brothers' father, a police legend who's just beginning his descent into dementia. The brothers are under pressure to live up to their father's reputation - which may lead to recklessness. Mark Strong plays fellow policeman Robert, who's soon putting pressure on the brothers as he investigates a related crime.Bill Gallagher, of TV series Blackout and Conviction, wrote the script, and Nick Murphy, who directed Rebecca Hall chiller The Awakening called the shots here.
- 5/17/2013
- EmpireOnline
Los Angeles, Nov. 3: Leading independent financing, production and sales company Im Global is co-financing, with BBC Films (who developed the film), dramatic thriller Blood. The film will be produced by Neal Street Productions, the company of Oscar winning director Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Jarhead) and Nicola Shindler’s Red Productions (Bedlam, Queer as Folk), it was announced today by Im Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford. Nick Murphy (The Awakening) will direct the project from a script by Bill Gallagher, based on his original, award winning TV series, Conviction. It will star Paul Bettany (Legion, The Da Vinci Code), Brian Cox (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Red, The Bourne Supremacy) and Stephen Graham (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This is England). Blood is the story of a father and his two sons who are all by-the-book cops, but after a young girl is brutally murdered...
- 11/3/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Downton Abbey star Rob James Collier has signed up for a lead role in ITV's new romantic drama Love Life. He will star opposite Dci Banks actress Andrea Lowe in the show, the broadcaster announced today. Love Life, which has been written by Lark Rise to Candleford and Conviction scribe Bill Gallagher, focuses on the relationship between Collier's character Joe and Lowe's Lucy. After Lucy pressures him to settle down, Joe goes travelling for a year - but when he returns, he discovers that Lucy is now (more)...
- 11/1/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
[1] Good things keep coming for the stars of Animal Kingdom, as Jacki Weaver lands a role in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook. Weaver will play Bradley Cooper's mother in the film, based on Matthew Quick's novel about a former high school teacher (Cooper) who’s just been released from a four-year stint at a mental institution into the care of his mother. Upon his release, the protagonist initially tries to win back his ex-wife but eventually falls into a romance with an eccentric young widow (Jennifer Lawrence). Also signed on for the project is Robert De Niro in an unnamed part. Chris Tucker was said to be in talks [2] for the part of Cooper's pal from the institution, but the latest reports don't mention him, so I'm guessing he's out. The Silver Linings Playbook is set to begin shooting this fall. [The Hollywood Reporter [3]] After the jump, Paul Bettany...
- 9/28/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Until recently, writer-director Nick Murphy’s credits mostly included a few episodes of the odd TV series or documentary. He’s now starting to make a big name for himself with his first feature film, The Awakening, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, due out in November.
Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again for another feature, Blood, which is to be an adaptation of the Bill Gallagher’s TV series, Conviction, which Gallagher will himself adapt, ScreenDaily report.
The project is already taking shape nicely, with three fantastic lead actors attached in the form of Paul Bettany (Priest), Brian Cox (X-Men 2), and Stephen Graham (Snatch), the last of which Murphy has already worked with on the 2009 TV series, Occupation.
Neal Street Productions, whose credits include Jarhead, Starter For 10, The Kite Runner, and Revolutionary Road, has already secured funding from BBC Films and the BFI, which is terrific news,...
Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again for another feature, Blood, which is to be an adaptation of the Bill Gallagher’s TV series, Conviction, which Gallagher will himself adapt, ScreenDaily report.
The project is already taking shape nicely, with three fantastic lead actors attached in the form of Paul Bettany (Priest), Brian Cox (X-Men 2), and Stephen Graham (Snatch), the last of which Murphy has already worked with on the 2009 TV series, Occupation.
Neal Street Productions, whose credits include Jarhead, Starter For 10, The Kite Runner, and Revolutionary Road, has already secured funding from BBC Films and the BFI, which is terrific news,...
- 9/28/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In 2004, BBC aired a miniseries titled Conviction, which centered on “two policemen who kill a murder suspect and are then plunged into chaos when they are forced to investigate their own crime.” While I’m sure that the show was a respectable effort, it’s receiving something of an upgrade — according to ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist), a film version of this same story will begin shooting in January, with a cast that includes Brian Cox, Paul Bettany, and Stephen Graham. You probably know who the first two are, but Graham has appeared in some nice stuff over his career, ranging from Snatch to Public Enemies, with a recurring role as Al Capone on Boardwalk Empire currently occupying his time.
Directed by Nick Murphy, helmer of The Awakening, it’s being written by Bill Gallagher, the screenwriter of the original series. This isn’t the only connection between the two tellings, as Red Production Company are involved,...
Directed by Nick Murphy, helmer of The Awakening, it’s being written by Bill Gallagher, the screenwriter of the original series. This isn’t the only connection between the two tellings, as Red Production Company are involved,...
- 9/23/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Paul Bettany, Brian Cox and Stephen Graham have all become attached to Nick Murphy’s thriller "Blood" at Neal Street Productions and Red Production Company says Screen Daily.
The feature is an adaptation of BAFTA-nominated 2004 BBC TV series "Conviction", and the story follows two policemen who kill a murder suspect and are then plunged into chaos when they are forced to investigate their own crime.
Bill Gallagher ("The Prisoner") scripted the feature based on his own series. Pippa Harris will produce and shooting gets underway in January in the UK.
The feature is an adaptation of BAFTA-nominated 2004 BBC TV series "Conviction", and the story follows two policemen who kill a murder suspect and are then plunged into chaos when they are forced to investigate their own crime.
Bill Gallagher ("The Prisoner") scripted the feature based on his own series. Pippa Harris will produce and shooting gets underway in January in the UK.
- 9/23/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Screen Daily reports that Paul Bettany, Brian Cox and Stephen Graham will lead a big screen adaptation of an acclaimed 2004 BBC mini-series originally called “Conviction,” now simply retitled “Blood,” set to shoot this January. Screenwriter Bill Gallagher will pen an adaptation of his own material, which centered on two policemen in the Criminal Investigation Department or Cid being thrown into chaos by the murder of a twelve year-old girl and exploring, rather loftily, "the notion that everyone has the ability to kill and what it is that can trigger that reaction in any of us." By anyone’s standards the…...
- 9/23/2011
- The Playlist
Nick Murphy, director of The Awakening, the supernatural thriller just debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, has cast a trio of thesps including Paul Bettany, Brian Cox and Stephen Graham to his fresh thriller movie entitled Blood. Bill Gallagher signs on to pen an adaptation of his own the BAFTA-nominated police drama Conviction. The [...]
Continue reading Nick Murphy’s New Thriller Blood Adds Bettany, Cox and Graham on FilmoFilia
Related posts:Stephen Graham Joins Pirates of The Caribbean 4 Kilmer, Gershon and Liotta on Board for an Indie Thriller Breathless Argo Adds Three New Thesps to the Film’s Cast...
Continue reading Nick Murphy’s New Thriller Blood Adds Bettany, Cox and Graham on FilmoFilia
Related posts:Stephen Graham Joins Pirates of The Caribbean 4 Kilmer, Gershon and Liotta on Board for an Indie Thriller Breathless Argo Adds Three New Thesps to the Film’s Cast...
- 9/22/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
ITV has ordered a new drama called Love Life. The three-part series focuses on the relationship between Lucy and Joe, who split up when Joe decides to travel the world after Lucy suggests having a baby. While Joe is away, Lucy ends up having an affair with her married boss. She eventually breaks up with him, only for Joe to return to her life. Joe is still hoping to get back with Lucy, but he is being pursued by a woman called Alex whom he met while travelling. The drama, which has been penned by Conviction, The Prisoner and Lark Rise To Candleford writer Bill Gallagher, is expected to use flashbacks to help viewers find out what happened in the (more)...
- 9/22/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
The Prisoner, which ran for just 17 episodes in the late 1960s, has remained an enduring example of how original and groundbreaking the medium of television can be, giving the world a surreal and often nightmarish exploration of the battle between the free will of the individual and the oppression of a tyrannical regime. It was a bit of a gambit then that AMC, in concert with UK terrestrial network ITV, would seek to remake the Cold War-tinged The Prisoner for a contemporary audience. This Sunday, AMC will launch the first two hours of its miniseries version of The Prisoner (subsequent installments air on Monday and Tuesday), written by Bill Gallagher (Conviction) and directed by Nick Hurran (Bonekickers). Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Christ) plays Six, a man who discovers that he is in The Village, an all-encompassing world within the desert where nothing is as it seems. His appearance there...
- 11/13/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
- I'm not sure what to make from the Brit List. A trio of films from last year's batch (Nowhere Boy, Never Let Me Go and The Debt) that effectively received a greenlight, and are now in the can, and in the list's inaugural year, Grant Heslov's Men Who Stare at Goats was the top vote-getter. Now in its 3rd year, the "List" of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland is complied by only 40 people in the industry. You've got some attention-getting projects among the list below, that I'm sure we'll be discussing in the near future and the Playlist made a good round-up, but for the sake of getting to the cream of the crop, I'll look at the top three screenplays instead. 1. Good Luck Anthony Belcher (Ruby Films)Screenwriter: George Kay Storyline: A high-concept comedy based on an original idea by James Corden,
- 10/8/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Cabler AMC has announced that its six-hour limited series event The Prisoner, starring Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellan, will launch on Sunday, November 15th at 8 pm Et/Pt. The cabler will air three two-hour installments over three consecutive nights, with subsequent installments airing on Monday, November 16th and Tuesday, November 17th. In this remake of the classic British cult series, Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) plays Number Six, a man who finds himself the unwitting titular prisoner of The Village, a strange and surreal settlement overseen by the nefarious Number Two, played by Ian McKellan (Lord of the Rings). The Prisoner also stars Jamie Campbell-Bower (The Twilight Saga: New Moon) as Number 11-12, Hayley Atwell (Brideshead Revisited) as Number 41-5, Lennie James (Jericho) as Number 147, and Ruth Wilson (Suburban Shootout) as Number 313. The Prisoner was written by Bill Gallagher (Conviction) and directed by Nick Hurran (Little Black Book...
- 9/29/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
At Sdcc, stars of AMC’s anticipated mini-series “The Prisoner,” including James Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, The Thin Red Line, Pay It Forward), Jamie Campbell-Bower (Sweeney Todd, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I) and Lennie James (“Jericho”) participated in a panel event and exclusive sneak preview of the highly anticipated six-part series. The panel also featured “The Prisoner” writer Bill Gallagher (Conviction, Clocking Off) and AMC’s Vlad Wolynetz, vice president of production. It was moderated by producer and director Robert Meyer Burnett. Check out the 4 part video of the Sdcc panel: [flashvideo filename="videos/ThePrisonerPanel1.flv" width="490" height="276" /] The Prisoner Panel Part 1 [flashvideo filename="videos/ThePrisonerPanel2.flv" width="490" height="276" /] The Prisoner Panel Part 2 [flashvideo filename="videos/ThePrisonerPanel3.flv" width="490" height="276" /] The Prisoner Panel Part 3 [flashvideo filename="videos/ThePrisonerPanel4.flv" width="490" height="276" /] The Prisoner Panel Part 4 “The Prisoner,” is a re-imagination of the 1960s cult classic created by the late Patrick McGoohan, and premieres this ...
- 8/3/2009
- by Iris
- BuzzFocus.com
I was a huge fan of the original 1960s version of this innovative and hugely entertaining series, which was created, written by and starred the fantastic Patrick McGoohan. So naturally, when AMC announced their new version, I was a bit skeptical because how could an updated version of the show ever live up to the cult classic original? Until now, there hasn’t been much info to go on to see if my suspicions are correct. But fortunately, AMC is poised to unleash a whole lot of stuff about their version of The Prisoner later this month at Comic-Con.
AMC will host a panel at Comic-Con featuring the stars and producers of its upcoming mini-series. Joining the panel will be Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, Thin Red Line, Pay It Forward), Jamie Campbell-Bower (Sweeney Todd, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and Lennie James (Jericho). The panel, which is scheduled for Friday,...
AMC will host a panel at Comic-Con featuring the stars and producers of its upcoming mini-series. Joining the panel will be Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ, Thin Red Line, Pay It Forward), Jamie Campbell-Bower (Sweeney Todd, The Twilight Saga: New Moon) and Lennie James (Jericho). The panel, which is scheduled for Friday,...
- 7/7/2009
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
AMC is getting into the sci-fi business with a remake of the 1960s series The Prisoner.
The cable network is set to co-produce with the U.K.'s Granada and Sky One a new version of the sci-fi thriller, which aired from 1967-68 on CBS. The remake will feature a similar story line to the original series, which starred Patrick McGoohan, who also was creator, producer, writer and director.
Prisoner will follow a man who finds himself inexplicably trapped in "the Village," with no memory of how he arrived. All of the inhabitants are identified by number instead of name, have no memory of a previous existence or outside civilization and are under constant surveillance. The man, Number Six, sets out to discover the truth behind the Village, why he's there and how he can escape.
The remake will be written by Bill Gallagher (BBC's Conviction, Clocking Off). Granada's Michelle Buck and Damien Timmer will produce.
Production on the hourlong series is scheduled to begin in the spring for a worldwide premiere targeted for January 2008.
The cable network is set to co-produce with the U.K.'s Granada and Sky One a new version of the sci-fi thriller, which aired from 1967-68 on CBS. The remake will feature a similar story line to the original series, which starred Patrick McGoohan, who also was creator, producer, writer and director.
Prisoner will follow a man who finds himself inexplicably trapped in "the Village," with no memory of how he arrived. All of the inhabitants are identified by number instead of name, have no memory of a previous existence or outside civilization and are under constant surveillance. The man, Number Six, sets out to discover the truth behind the Village, why he's there and how he can escape.
The remake will be written by Bill Gallagher (BBC's Conviction, Clocking Off). Granada's Michelle Buck and Damien Timmer will produce.
Production on the hourlong series is scheduled to begin in the spring for a worldwide premiere targeted for January 2008.
- 12/18/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BBC America has acquired three dramas from British television for next year. The BBC Three drama series Conviction, a thought-provoking saga about what drives people to kill, will air in January. Six one-hour episodes of Conviction were made. Another six episodes of Murder Prevention, which originally aired on Five, also were acquired. Murder is a crime drama about a special unit that solves cases before they happen. A feature-length movie from Channel 4 about Princess Margaret, The Queen's Sister, is slated to air on the cable channel next spring.
- 10/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.