Exclusive: $13m project from Salon Pictures will chart story of soldier who suffered severe burns during the Falklands War; Embankment to sell.
The story of Simon Weston, the British army veteran who endured severe burns during the Falklands War, is to be told in an ambitious new film which has Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) attached to direct.
Salon Pictures is producing the feature.
Weston came back from the brink of death to rebuild his life. He wrote best-selling autobiographies, campaigned tirelessly for charity and is regarded by many as a symbol of Britain’s war in the Falklands.
During the Falklands War in 1982 Weston was a young soldier on the ship Rfa Sir Galahad when an Argentine Skyhawk dropped a 500lb bomb, killing most of his platoon. His fight for survival and recovery took him to a dark abyss.
Teplitzky will direct from a screenplay by Alex Von Tunzelmann (Churchill) with the picture due to shoot...
The story of Simon Weston, the British army veteran who endured severe burns during the Falklands War, is to be told in an ambitious new film which has Jonathan Teplitzky (The Railway Man) attached to direct.
Salon Pictures is producing the feature.
Weston came back from the brink of death to rebuild his life. He wrote best-selling autobiographies, campaigned tirelessly for charity and is regarded by many as a symbol of Britain’s war in the Falklands.
During the Falklands War in 1982 Weston was a young soldier on the ship Rfa Sir Galahad when an Argentine Skyhawk dropped a 500lb bomb, killing most of his platoon. His fight for survival and recovery took him to a dark abyss.
Teplitzky will direct from a screenplay by Alex Von Tunzelmann (Churchill) with the picture due to shoot...
- 9/28/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK and Ireland deal for bare knuckle fighter doc The Guv’nor.
Metrodome has scored UK rights to documentary Lenny Mclean – The Guv’nor for all UK and Ireland.
The origins story explores the champion bare knuckle fighter’s relationship with his son Jamie and his crippling obsessive compulsive disorders.
Mclean appeared in Guy Ritchie’s iconic gangster film Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
The film is directed by Paul van Carter (Gascoigne) and produced by Nick Taussig (Anuvahood) of Salon Pictures and Jamie Mclean.
Christopher Reynolds is executive producer (Gascoigne). The film is currently in production and Metrodome intends to release in autumn 2016.
The deal was negotiated between Nick Taussig and Paul van Carter for Salon and Jezz Vernon, managing director of Metrodome.
A feature film is also in the works, with Ron Scalpello (Offender) set to direct...
Metrodome has scored UK rights to documentary Lenny Mclean – The Guv’nor for all UK and Ireland.
The origins story explores the champion bare knuckle fighter’s relationship with his son Jamie and his crippling obsessive compulsive disorders.
Mclean appeared in Guy Ritchie’s iconic gangster film Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
The film is directed by Paul van Carter (Gascoigne) and produced by Nick Taussig (Anuvahood) of Salon Pictures and Jamie Mclean.
Christopher Reynolds is executive producer (Gascoigne). The film is currently in production and Metrodome intends to release in autumn 2016.
The deal was negotiated between Nick Taussig and Paul van Carter for Salon and Jezz Vernon, managing director of Metrodome.
A feature film is also in the works, with Ron Scalpello (Offender) set to direct...
- 2/12/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Brian Welsh to direct drama about lead up to D-Day landing.
Brian Cox (The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is newly attached to star in Churchill, a UK drama about the build up to the D-Day landings.
Brian Welsh, director of Bifa-winning feature In Our Name and TV series The Escape Artist, will direct historian Alex von Tunzelmann’s script, which is being sold at Afm by Embankment Films.
UK producers Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon Pictures produce the story of the tense build up to the D-Day landings and the relationship between British Prime Minister Churchill and his wife Clemmie.
Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, the script depicts Churchill as a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he’ll be remembered as the architect of carnage.
Only the unflinching support of his unflappable wife Clementine...
Brian Cox (The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is newly attached to star in Churchill, a UK drama about the build up to the D-Day landings.
Brian Welsh, director of Bifa-winning feature In Our Name and TV series The Escape Artist, will direct historian Alex von Tunzelmann’s script, which is being sold at Afm by Embankment Films.
UK producers Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon Pictures produce the story of the tense build up to the D-Day landings and the relationship between British Prime Minister Churchill and his wife Clemmie.
Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, the script depicts Churchill as a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he’ll be remembered as the architect of carnage.
Only the unflinching support of his unflappable wife Clementine...
- 11/4/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Brian Welsh to direct drama about lead up to D-Day landing.
Brian Cox (The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is newly attached to star in Churchill, a UK drama about the build up to the D-Day landings.
Brian Welsh, director of Bifa-winning feature In Our Name and TV series The Escape Artist, will direct historian Alex von Tunzelmann’s script, which is being sold at Afm by Embankment Films.
UK producers Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon Pictures produce the story of the tense build up to the D-Day landings and the relationship between British Prime Minister Churchill and his wife Clemmie.
Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, the script depicts Churchill as a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he’ll be remembered as the architect of carnage.
Only the unflinching support of his unflappable wife Clementine...
Brian Cox (The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes) is newly attached to star in Churchill, a UK drama about the build up to the D-Day landings.
Brian Welsh, director of Bifa-winning feature In Our Name and TV series The Escape Artist, will direct historian Alex von Tunzelmann’s script, which is being sold at Afm by Embankment Films.
UK producers Nick Taussig and Paul Van Carter of Salon Pictures produce the story of the tense build up to the D-Day landings and the relationship between British Prime Minister Churchill and his wife Clemmie.
Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, the script depicts Churchill as a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he’ll be remembered as the architect of carnage.
Only the unflinching support of his unflappable wife Clementine...
- 11/4/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
★★★☆☆ To every lover of football, Paul Gascoigne embodies both what is good and bad about the beautiful game. A naturally gifted player forged on the streets of the North East, his loveable personality off the pitch and sublime moments on it endeared him to a nation. At the same time, an addictive personality combined with the temptation of fame led to self-destruction, leaving many to wonder what might have been. New documentary Gascoigne (2015) covers his early life, and his career up until around the end of Euro '96. With most of the documentary told in a 'one-on-one' style similar to James Toback's Tyson (2008), the fascinating moments are normally derived from glimpses into the footballer's mind.
- 6/16/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Salon Films
Rating: ★★★
At the heart of Gascoigne is a difficult subject, but an irresistible one: a wayward genius, wounded and definitively vulnerable. In football, it’s also an age-old story thanks to the vortex created at the end of playing careers, when the irreplaceable thrill of adulation makes way for a vacuum that must be filled by something else.
For Gazza, the vacuum was filled with the same kind of self-destruction that made him such a commodity for the media in his playing days. He was never one for restraint: and just as that led to some of his more notorious and controversial moments on the pitch (his catastrophic knee injury, his infamous celebrations…) it also gave rise to some of the most famous stories about the amiable Geordie.
As Gascoigne is pretty quick to establish, not only are most of the wildest and worst things you’ve heard about Gazza true,...
Rating: ★★★
At the heart of Gascoigne is a difficult subject, but an irresistible one: a wayward genius, wounded and definitively vulnerable. In football, it’s also an age-old story thanks to the vortex created at the end of playing careers, when the irreplaceable thrill of adulation makes way for a vacuum that must be filled by something else.
For Gazza, the vacuum was filled with the same kind of self-destruction that made him such a commodity for the media in his playing days. He was never one for restraint: and just as that led to some of his more notorious and controversial moments on the pitch (his catastrophic knee injury, his infamous celebrations…) it also gave rise to some of the most famous stories about the amiable Geordie.
As Gascoigne is pretty quick to establish, not only are most of the wildest and worst things you’ve heard about Gazza true,...
- 6/6/2015
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
The two minute trailer for new documentary Gascoigne couldn’t fail to give you goosebumps, whether you’re a football fan or not. For one of the first times, Paul Gascoigne has looked back on his footballing career and in some ways it’s more poignant to hear him talk about his success than the decades of alcohol abuse and tabloid drama which followed.
- 5/29/2015
- The Independent - Film
A documentary charting the life of 1990s football icon Paul Gascoigne is coming.
From the emergence of his childhood talent to his highly publicised struggle with alcoholism, it features interview snippets from peers (Gary Lineker), admiring fans (Wayne Rooney) and coaching experts (Jose Mourinho).
Alongside archive footage and tabloid headlines, the former England ace also tells his side of the story and reflects on his journey to superstardom.
Gascoigne will be released in cinemas for one night only on Monday, June 8.
It will then be available on Blu-ray, DVD and to download a week later on June 15.
From the emergence of his childhood talent to his highly publicised struggle with alcoholism, it features interview snippets from peers (Gary Lineker), admiring fans (Wayne Rooney) and coaching experts (Jose Mourinho).
Alongside archive footage and tabloid headlines, the former England ace also tells his side of the story and reflects on his journey to superstardom.
Gascoigne will be released in cinemas for one night only on Monday, June 8.
It will then be available on Blu-ray, DVD and to download a week later on June 15.
- 5/1/2015
- Digital Spy
June 5
Gascoigne
Director: Jane Preston
Starring: Paul Gascoigne
Running time: 85 mins
Certificate: Tbc
Insidious Chapter 3
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
Spy
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Morena Baccarin
Running time: 120 mins
Certificate: Tbc
Survivor
Director: James McTeigue
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson
Running time: 97 mins
Certificate: 12A
June 12
Jurassic World
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Ty Simpkins
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
London Road
Director: Rufus Norris
Starring: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Kate Fleetwood
Running time: 92 mins
Certificate: 15
June 19
Entourage
Director: Doug Ellin
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Connolly
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
The Longest Ride
Director: George Tillman Jr
Starring: Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
Mr Holmes
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
The Transporter Refueled...
Gascoigne
Director: Jane Preston
Starring: Paul Gascoigne
Running time: 85 mins
Certificate: Tbc
Insidious Chapter 3
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Angus Sampson
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
Spy
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Morena Baccarin
Running time: 120 mins
Certificate: Tbc
Survivor
Director: James McTeigue
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson
Running time: 97 mins
Certificate: 12A
June 12
Jurassic World
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Judy Greer, Ty Simpkins
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
London Road
Director: Rufus Norris
Starring: Tom Hardy, Olivia Colman, Kate Fleetwood
Running time: 92 mins
Certificate: 15
June 19
Entourage
Director: Doug Ellin
Starring: Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Connolly
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
The Longest Ride
Director: George Tillman Jr
Starring: Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
Mr Holmes
Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Hiroyuki Sanada
Running time: Tbc
Certificate: Tbc
The Transporter Refueled...
- 4/16/2015
- Digital Spy
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