Emmy-winning United States of Tara alum Toni Collette is set to star in Wanderlust, a new drama series for Netflix and BBC One that explores the relationships of a multi-generational family. Produced by Drama Republic, the six-episode hourlong show is written by British playwright Nick Payne (Constellations), in his TV debut, and directed by Luke Snellin (The A Word). Wanderlust it looks at how we build and maintain happy relationships and asks whether lifelong monogamy…...
- 11/8/2017
- Deadline TV
Toni Collette is giving in to her “Wanderlust.”
Playwright Nick Payne is writing the six-part drama project that will debut in the U.K. on BBC One and throughout the rest of the globe on Netflix, the companies announced Tuesday.
“Wanderlust” centers on a multi-generational family led by therapist Joy Richards (Collette), who is trying to rekindle her romance with her husband after a cycling accident. Filming is underway in Manchester, England.
Playwright Nick Payne is writing the six-part drama project that will debut in the U.K. on BBC One and throughout the rest of the globe on Netflix, the companies announced Tuesday.
“Wanderlust” centers on a multi-generational family led by therapist Joy Richards (Collette), who is trying to rekindle her romance with her husband after a cycling accident. Filming is underway in Manchester, England.
- 11/8/2017
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Wrap
Just as Oscar voters rewarded Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, and many others for roles that demanded body-shifting training or weight change, they also lean into performers who limit their mobility or twist themselves under duress. Perhaps the most infamous example is Daniel Day Lewis’s shoot-long stint in a wheelchair as cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in “My Left Foot,” which earned Lewis his first Oscar and cost him two broken ribs.
Eddie Redmayne could barely articulate his dialogue as Als survivor Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” and took home the 2015 Oscar. Mental hardship counts, too: Tom Hanks won as a mentally disabled hero in “Forrest Gump” and Julianne Moore won as an early-onset Alzheimer’s victim in “Still Alice.”
Now, joining a rather weak Best Actor field so far, here’s Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, the 2013 Boston marathon survivor...
Eddie Redmayne could barely articulate his dialogue as Als survivor Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” and took home the 2015 Oscar. Mental hardship counts, too: Tom Hanks won as a mentally disabled hero in “Forrest Gump” and Julianne Moore won as an early-onset Alzheimer’s victim in “Still Alice.”
Now, joining a rather weak Best Actor field so far, here’s Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, the 2013 Boston marathon survivor...
- 9/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Just as Oscar voters rewarded Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, and many others for roles that demanded body-shifting training or weight change, they also lean into performers who limit their mobility or twist themselves under duress. Perhaps the most infamous example is Daniel Day Lewis’s shoot-long stint in a wheelchair as cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in “My Left Foot,” which earned Lewis his first Oscar and cost him two broken ribs.
Eddie Redmayne could barely articulate his dialogue as Als survivor Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” and took home the 2015 Oscar. Mental hardship counts, too: Tom Hanks won as a mentally disabled hero in “Forrest Gump” and Julianne Moore won as an early-onset Alzheimer’s victim in “Still Alice.”
Now, joining a rather weak Best Actor field so far, here’s Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, the 2013 Boston marathon survivor...
Eddie Redmayne could barely articulate his dialogue as Als survivor Stephen Hawking in “The Theory of Everything,” and took home the 2015 Oscar. Mental hardship counts, too: Tom Hanks won as a mentally disabled hero in “Forrest Gump” and Julianne Moore won as an early-onset Alzheimer’s victim in “Still Alice.”
Now, joining a rather weak Best Actor field so far, here’s Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, the 2013 Boston marathon survivor...
- 9/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: Relationship dramedy produced by See-Saw Films will be directed by Notting Hill’s Roger Michell.
See-Saw Films and writer Nick Hornby are teaming up on a TV series about marriage counselling.
State Of The Union will be directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and is made up of ten ten-minute episodes.
The series follows a middle-aged couple who meet in the pub before going into marriage counselling each week. Each episode shows the ten minutes before they face the counsellor.
State Of The Union will shoot in London this autumn with the cast and broadcast partner set to be announced soon.
See-Saw told Screen that they expect the show to be aired both online and by a TV broadcaster.
Hakan Kousetta, COO of television at See-Saw, said: “Because it’s a completely different format, it lends itself to something a broadcaster can play with. It’s not just a piece of digital television, it’s a proper...
See-Saw Films and writer Nick Hornby are teaming up on a TV series about marriage counselling.
State Of The Union will be directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and is made up of ten ten-minute episodes.
The series follows a middle-aged couple who meet in the pub before going into marriage counselling each week. Each episode shows the ten minutes before they face the counsellor.
State Of The Union will shoot in London this autumn with the cast and broadcast partner set to be announced soon.
See-Saw told Screen that they expect the show to be aired both online and by a TV broadcaster.
Hakan Kousetta, COO of television at See-Saw, said: “Because it’s a completely different format, it lends itself to something a broadcaster can play with. It’s not just a piece of digital television, it’s a proper...
- 8/1/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Relationship dramedy will be directed by Notting Hill’s Roger Michell.
See-Saw Films and writer Nick Hornby are teamig up on a TV series about marriage counselling.
State Of The Union will be directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and is made up of ten ten-minute episodes.
The series follows a middle-aged couple who meet in the pub before going into marriage counselling each week. Each episode shows the ten minutes before they face the counsellor.
State Of The Union will shoot in London this autumn with the cast and broadcast partner set to be announced soon.
See-Saw told Screen that they expect the show to be aired both online and by a TV broadcaster.
Hakan Kousetta, COO of television at See-Saw, said: “Because it’s a completely different format, it lends itself to something a broadcaster can play with. It’s not just a piece of digital television, it’s a proper...
See-Saw Films and writer Nick Hornby are teamig up on a TV series about marriage counselling.
State Of The Union will be directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill) and is made up of ten ten-minute episodes.
The series follows a middle-aged couple who meet in the pub before going into marriage counselling each week. Each episode shows the ten minutes before they face the counsellor.
State Of The Union will shoot in London this autumn with the cast and broadcast partner set to be announced soon.
See-Saw told Screen that they expect the show to be aired both online and by a TV broadcaster.
Hakan Kousetta, COO of television at See-Saw, said: “Because it’s a completely different format, it lends itself to something a broadcaster can play with. It’s not just a piece of digital television, it’s a proper...
- 8/1/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Jim Broadbent gives a droll, well-judged performance in this adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Booker-winner about a blast from the past of a grumpy divorcee
Jim Broadbent gives an engaging and sympathetic performance in this movie, directed by Ritesh Batra (known for his Mumbai-set heartwarmer The Lunchbox) and adapted by Nick Payne from the 2011 Booker-winning novel by Julian Barnes, who is to be glimpsed fleetingly in the background of a pub scene.
It is a film with an intriguing premise and it’s never anything other than watchable and well acted. But, considering that the story is about suicide and forbidden love, it is oddly desiccated, detached, even passionless sometimes. Despite the title, and despite the emphasis on the lead character’s supposed attainment of emotional closure, there is no satisfying sense of an ending. The flashbacks to the leading character’s 1960s youth are important for giving the story depth and drama,...
Jim Broadbent gives an engaging and sympathetic performance in this movie, directed by Ritesh Batra (known for his Mumbai-set heartwarmer The Lunchbox) and adapted by Nick Payne from the 2011 Booker-winning novel by Julian Barnes, who is to be glimpsed fleetingly in the background of a pub scene.
It is a film with an intriguing premise and it’s never anything other than watchable and well acted. But, considering that the story is about suicide and forbidden love, it is oddly desiccated, detached, even passionless sometimes. Despite the title, and despite the emphasis on the lead character’s supposed attainment of emotional closure, there is no satisfying sense of an ending. The flashbacks to the leading character’s 1960s youth are important for giving the story depth and drama,...
- 4/5/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
As Hollywood falls back in love with movie musicals, bolstered by the reception of such recent blockbusters like “La La Land” and last week’s record-smashing live-action “Beauty and the Beast,” the industry will inevitably be on the hunt for performers who can keep up with demands of the genre. One obvious actor who could go the movie musical route is Jake Gyllenhaal, currently cycling between both film and Broadway.
Over the past few years, the actor has balanced his time between his big screen work and a series of theatrical offerings. The life-long theater lover first dipped his toe in the legit world when he starred in a 2012 Off-Broadway production of Nick Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” followed in 2014 with his Broadway debut in “Constellations,” opposite fellow Broadway newbie Ruth Wilson.
“I think it’s where I am most joyous,” the actor told...
Over the past few years, the actor has balanced his time between his big screen work and a series of theatrical offerings. The life-long theater lover first dipped his toe in the legit world when he starred in a 2012 Off-Broadway production of Nick Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” followed in 2014 with his Broadway debut in “Constellations,” opposite fellow Broadway newbie Ruth Wilson.
“I think it’s where I am most joyous,” the actor told...
- 3/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The Olivier Awards introduced some magic into the spring theater season with the March 6 announcement of their nominations recognizing the best of the London stage. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the West End-dominating hit from J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, received a record-breaking 11 nods, a new record for a play. “In a year of global change, the nominees for this year’s awards demonstrate London theatre’s ability to challenge our perceptions, stir our emotions, and entertain us,” said Julian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatre, the producing body behind the awards. Nominated in the new play category alongside the Potter stage sequel are Nick Payne’s “Elegy,” Annie Baker’s “The Flick,” and “One Night In Miami...” by Kemp Powers. Competing for the prize for best new musical will be “Dreamgirls,” “School of Rock the Musical,” “The Girls,” and the Broadway-bound “Groundhog Day.
- 3/6/2017
- backstage.com
Lynne Meadow and Barry Grove have announced two added weeks of performances for Incognito, the American premiere of the new play written by Nick Payne Constellations and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes The Father, Doubt, Outside Mullingar, which opened last Tuesday, May 24 to rave reviews at Mtc at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th Street. The limited engagement will now play through Sunday, July 10.
- 6/1/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
A more apt title for Nick Payne’s new play “Incognito” would be “The Story of Two Brains.” The British playwright’s follow-up to his hugely successful 65-minute sliver of an acting exercise “Constellations” opened Tuesday at Mtc’s City Center Stage 1. As titles go, “Incognito” is so slylishly enigmatic, and tells us next to nothing. Also not helpful are the gerunds that make up the titles of the three acts — “Encoding,” “Storing,” and “Retrieving” — even though Payne’s play is only 85 minutes. Scott Pask’s set design — a bare circular stage and cyclorama — telegraphs from the get-go that...
- 5/25/2016
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
Incognito, the American premiere of the new play written by Nick Payne Constellations and directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes The Father, Doubt, Outside Mullingar, is currently in previews and will open on Tuesday, May 24 at Mtc at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th Street. The cast of the limited engagement features Tony Award nominee and Theatre World Award winner Geneva Carr Hand To God, Charlie Cox Netflix's 'Daredevil', Heather Lind AMC's 'Turn Washington's Spies', and Drama Desk Award nominee Morgan Spector Ironbound.Check out a first look at the cast in action below...
- 5/23/2016
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Charlie Cox, Heather Lind, Geneva Carr, and Morgan Spector will soon star in Nick Payne's new play Incognito at Manhattan Theatre Club. Tony winner Doug Hughes The Father, Doubt, Outside Mullingar will take the helm. Incognito will begin its limited run on Tuesday, May 3 ahead of an official opening night of May 24 at Mtc at New York City Center - Stage I 131 West 55th Street. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge dropped by the rehearsal studio to meet the company - check out the footage here...
- 4/10/2016
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Old Globe presents Nick Payne's Broadway hit play Constellations, arriving April 9, directed by the Globe's own Richard Seer. Christian Coulson and Victoria Frings will star in the two-person play. Constellations will run April 9 through May 8, 2016, in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Opening night is Friday, April 14 at 800 p.m. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below...
- 4/6/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
“Daredevil” star Charlie Cox will appear opposite Heather Lind (“Demolition”) in British playwright Nick Payne’s new drama “Incognito,” which will have its American debut this spring at Off Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club. Tony winner Doug Hughes will direct the show, which begins previews on May 3 before an official May 24 premiere. Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks. The drama weaves together the story of a pathologist who steals the brain of Albert Einstein, a neuropsychologist embarking on her first romance with another woman, and a seizure patient who forgets everything except for his love for his girlfriend.
- 3/9/2016
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
Single tickets are on sale today for Manhattan Theatre Club's three productions presented as part of the 2015-2016 season at New York City Center - Stage I Ripcord, the world premiere comedy by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by Tony and Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce Prodigal Son, the world premiere play written and directed by Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley and the American premiere of Incognito, the new play by Nick Payne, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes.
- 9/8/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Emily Mortimer and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) have all joined the cast of The Lunchbox director Ritesh Batra’s The Sense of Ending. They join the previously announced Jim Broadbent in the big screen adaptation of 2011 Man Booker Prize winner by Julian Barnes. Playwright Nick Payne (Constellations) is adapting the book. Also joining for the cast are Billy Howle (soon to be seen opposite Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan…...
- 8/7/2015
- Deadline
With a title like Heisenberg, and a plot that begins with a smooch between an old man and a much younger woman, Simon Stephens’s terrific new play might seem to be a cross between Nick Payne’s Constellations and Craig Lucas’s Prelude to a Kiss. Like the former, it takes a mainstay concept in contemporary physics and applies it to relationships; like the latter, it imagines the ripple effects of a surprise encounter whose nature is never fully explained. Also like the latter, it stars Mary-Louise Parker, who (after a few costume-drama misfires) is once again beyond terrific in a role that suits her talents perfectly. Georgie, a New Jersey transplant in London, is (or appears to be) an obnoxious oversharer with boundary problems, a cousin to Cecily Strong’s “The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With at a Party” character on Saturday Night Live.
- 6/4/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
This week’s biggest upcoming project was one so weird that we needed a few days to process it. It has been called Godzilla meets Being John Malkovich and Adaptation (possibly even Lost in Translation for good measure), and if it seems like those two titles don’t add up in anyway whatsoever, you’re not far off.
The movie is Colossal, and THR reports is set to star Anne Hathaway. Hathaway plays a woman returning to her hometown from New York after losing her job. Upon returning home, she discovers that a giant lizard is attacking Tokyo, and she feels strangely connected to the incident via her mind.
Colossal isn’t even some tongue-in-cheek Spike Jonze project but coming from Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), and aiming to be sold at this year’s Cannes Film Festival market. “Colossal is my most ambitious script so far, and probably also the most personal one.
The movie is Colossal, and THR reports is set to star Anne Hathaway. Hathaway plays a woman returning to her hometown from New York after losing her job. Upon returning home, she discovers that a giant lizard is attacking Tokyo, and she feels strangely connected to the incident via her mind.
Colossal isn’t even some tongue-in-cheek Spike Jonze project but coming from Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes), and aiming to be sold at this year’s Cannes Film Festival market. “Colossal is my most ambitious script so far, and probably also the most personal one.
- 5/14/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Ritesh Batra nabbed attention at Cannes 2013 with his Critics' Week drama "The Lunchbox," released by Sony Pictures Classics in February 2014 and a 2015 Baft nominee. Now the Indian director is returning to the Croisette with Cannes market title "The Sense of an Ending," lifted from Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel. Jim Broadbent is attached to star. Penned by Nick Payne, whose Broadway play "Constellations" led by Jake Gyllenhaal got a Tony nomination, the film follows a retired man who receives an unexpected letter from a lawyer that forces him to confront his own past — and unfulfilling present — including the suicide of his childhood best friend. The film marks Payne's first screenplay. FilmNation, which has a spate of Cannes market titles this year including films from Tom Ford and Pedro Almodovar, holds worldwide rights and will co-finance with BBC Films. Origin Pictures’ David Thompson ("Woman in Gold") and Ed Rubin are.
- 5/11/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
The success of plays like Nick Payne’s “Constellations” and Jennifer Haley’s “The Nether”—both West End transfers—proves there’s a hunger for intellectual and science-based theater. Playwrights based in the U.K. are taking the charge, but Los Angeles is spearheading a movement on this side of the pond with the start of Sci-Fest La: the Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival. Founded by actor David Dean Bottrell (“Boston Legal”) and seasoned theater producers Michael Blaha and Lee Costello, the festival debuted in May of last year to rave reviews from the likes of La Weekly and the Huffington Post. The festival’s lineup of 15-minute sci-fi theater productions included work from Ursula K. Le Guin and Ray Bradbury, with plays featuring actors from franchises such as “Star Trek,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and “Supernatural.” “Both the critical response and the support we received last year from the L.
- 5/6/2015
- backstage.com
Armando Iannucci is to work on a film adaptation of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield with the BBC.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
- 3/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Armando Iannucci is to work on a film adaptation of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield with the BBC.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
The writer and director will team with producer Simon Blackwell on the movie, one of the new works announced as part of BBC Films' 25-year anniversary plans.
Iannucci previously worked with BBC Films on 2009 satire In the Loop.
Also announced is an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct the project, while playwright Nick Payne provides the screenplay.
As part of the anniversary season, Sophia Fiennes will also make the documentary Grace Jones - The Musical of My Life, taking a closer look at the career of the singer.
Ricky Gervais will also work with the BBC on Life on the Road. The film will find his character David Brent as a travelling salesman attempting to become a rock star.
- 3/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Ricky Gervais, James Marsh, Armando Iannucci films on slate.
BBC Films has revealed details of its upcoming slate, which includes new projects from Ricky Gervais, Armando Iannucci, James Marsh and Ritesh Batra.
The slate of projects was revealed during an event in London to celebrate the 25th birthday of BBC Films, whose first first theatrical production, Truly Madly Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella, was released in 1990.
As previously reported, Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
The adaptation is the debut screenplay of award-winning playwright Nick Payne and tells the story of Tony Webster, whose comfortable world is rocked to its foundations by the emergence of an explosive letter from his careless youth.
David Thompson will produce for Origin Pictures.
Rafe Spall is confirmed for Swallows and Amazons, a reinvention of Arthur Ransome’s classic. Written by Andrea Gibb, the film will...
BBC Films has revealed details of its upcoming slate, which includes new projects from Ricky Gervais, Armando Iannucci, James Marsh and Ritesh Batra.
The slate of projects was revealed during an event in London to celebrate the 25th birthday of BBC Films, whose first first theatrical production, Truly Madly Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella, was released in 1990.
As previously reported, Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) will direct an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Man Booker Prize winning novel The Sense of an Ending.
The adaptation is the debut screenplay of award-winning playwright Nick Payne and tells the story of Tony Webster, whose comfortable world is rocked to its foundations by the emergence of an explosive letter from his careless youth.
David Thompson will produce for Origin Pictures.
Rafe Spall is confirmed for Swallows and Amazons, a reinvention of Arthur Ransome’s classic. Written by Andrea Gibb, the film will...
- 3/25/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer just announced two productions for Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2015-2016 theatrical season. Mtc's Off-Broadway season at New York City Center 131 West 55th Street will feature the American premiere of Incognito by Nick Payne, directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes and Important Hats of the Twentieth Century, the world premiere comedy by Nick Jones, directed by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel.
- 3/18/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Hot projects new to Screenbase include Nicolas Winding Refn feature The Neon Demon, Pope Francis biopic Francisco, Brady Corbet’s directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader and a new adaptation by Wim Wenders.Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
Elle Fanning, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcote and Jena Malone have signed on to co-star in Nicolas Winding Refn’s next feature.
“After making Drive and falling madly in love with the electricity of Los Angeles, I knew I had to return to tell the story of The Neon Demon,” Winding Refn said.
Principal photography will begin in Los Angeles on March 30. Gaumont and Wild Bunch are co-selling the title.
Wim Wenders’ Les Beaux Jours D’Aranjuez
This adaptation of the play by Peter Handke was announced by Alfama’s Paulo Branco during the Efm. It will star Reda Kateb and Sophie Semin. Wenders is expected to shoot in June.
Brady Corbet’s [link...
- 2/18/2015
- by maud.le-rest@sciencespo-toulouse.net (Maud Le Rest)
- ScreenDaily
Ritesh Batra, director of Indian hit The Lunchbox, is in advanced talks to direct an adaptation of award-winning novel The Sense of An Ending.
The film, based on Julian Barnes story of a retired man looking back on an old friendship, is in advanced development with UK production outfit Origin Pictures and is also backed by BBC Films.
The adaptation has been scripted by Nick Payne.
Origin boss David Thompson said of the project: “We’ve been overwhelmed by offers and we are going to be making that this year.”
Also on Origin’s Efm slate is crime drama Silencers, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh and billed as “a thrilling story of a unit of young policemen who combat gun crime”.
Also backed by BBC Films, the drama is likely to shoot this year, directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders).
Meanwhile, Origin’s Charles Dickens’ adaptation A Tale Of Two Cities, scripted by [link...
The film, based on Julian Barnes story of a retired man looking back on an old friendship, is in advanced development with UK production outfit Origin Pictures and is also backed by BBC Films.
The adaptation has been scripted by Nick Payne.
Origin boss David Thompson said of the project: “We’ve been overwhelmed by offers and we are going to be making that this year.”
Also on Origin’s Efm slate is crime drama Silencers, scripted by Matt Greenhalgh and billed as “a thrilling story of a unit of young policemen who combat gun crime”.
Also backed by BBC Films, the drama is likely to shoot this year, directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders).
Meanwhile, Origin’s Charles Dickens’ adaptation A Tale Of Two Cities, scripted by [link...
- 2/8/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
British works dominate the field in the 2014-15 race for Best Play at the Tony Awards. The current frontrunner is "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," Simon Stephens's adaptation of the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon, while Nick Payne's "Constellations" is its strongest currently-running rival. Jez Butterworth's "The River" may sneak in, but its main attraction is star Hugh Jackman's biceps, rather than the slight story of a fisherman (Jackman) bringing various girlfriends to his remote cabin; also working against it is the fact that it closes on Feb. 8. -Break- Tony Awards preview: What is ahead for Best Musical? But these shows can expect competition from yet-to-open English imports about royalty: Peter Morgan's "The Audience," which details Queen Elizabeth II's meetings with her prime ministers, and "Wolf Hall, Parts I and II," Mike Poulton's two-part adaptation o...'...
- 1/26/2015
- Gold Derby
Jake Gyllenhaal will not be joining the cast of DC Comics movie Suicide Squad.
The actor was thought to be in line to replace Tom Hardy in the film, following the British actor's recent exit.
However, sources have told Variety that Gyllenhaal has turned down an offer to play supervillain Rick Flag, alongside Jared Leto as The Joker, Will Smith as Deadshot and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn.
Producers need to find an actor to replace Hardy before April, when the film enters production.
Despite citing scheduling conflicts as the reason for his exit, it has been reported that Hardy left the project due to problems with the script.
Suicide Squad follows supervillains who are organised by the Us government to work together as a black ops team in exchange for redemption.
David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch) is writing and directing the movie.
Suicide Squad, which is part of DC's new interconnected film universe,...
The actor was thought to be in line to replace Tom Hardy in the film, following the British actor's recent exit.
However, sources have told Variety that Gyllenhaal has turned down an offer to play supervillain Rick Flag, alongside Jared Leto as The Joker, Will Smith as Deadshot and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn.
Producers need to find an actor to replace Hardy before April, when the film enters production.
Despite citing scheduling conflicts as the reason for his exit, it has been reported that Hardy left the project due to problems with the script.
Suicide Squad follows supervillains who are organised by the Us government to work together as a black ops team in exchange for redemption.
David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch) is writing and directing the movie.
Suicide Squad, which is part of DC's new interconnected film universe,...
- 1/22/2015
- Digital Spy
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe winner for Showtime's 'The Affair' BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther', opened on Broadway last night, January 13 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. BroadwayWorld 's Richard Ridge was there for opening night, and below, you can check out interviews with Wilson, Gyllenhaal, Payne and Longhurst after the curtain went down...
- 1/15/2015
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe winner for Showtime's 'The Affair' BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther', opened on Broadway last night, January 13 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the opening night after party below...
- 1/14/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe winner for Showtime's 'The Affair' BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther', opened on Broadway last night, January 13 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from ithe red carpet arrivals below...
- 1/14/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nomineeJake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe winner for Showtime's 'The Affair' BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther', opened on Broadway last night, January 13 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the opening night bows below...
- 1/14/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Would you like to see a two-hander in which Jake Gyllenhaal plays a hunky but bashful British beekeeper, hemming and half-smiling, while Ruth Wilson, so recently embaubled with a Golden Globe for The Affair, plays a charmingly ditzy astrophysicist? Would you like to watch the pair meet cute at a barbecue, grope their way toward romance, survive infidelity, and face tragedy together? I would; it sounds like an engaging play. Unfortunately it’s not the one now running at the Manhattan Theatre Club under the title Constellations, even though all those things do happen in it. But since Nick Payne, the author, is unwilling to give us that romantic trifle, this delightful, beautifully acted, and infuriating new drama is so much more, and less.The more and the less both stem from the gimmick with which Payne attempts to lift the material to an intellectual plane. We can at once...
- 1/14/2015
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
Manhattan Theatre Club announces the upcoming Sloan Panel Discussion on Constellations, which will be held following the Thursday, January 15 performance of the play at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street, and is open to anyone attending the evening's performance. The panel, which will be presented in partnership with the World Science Festival, will focus on the role of science in the play and will feature playwright Nick Payne and Brian Greene, professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University and co-founder of the World Science Festival. Social commentator Faith Salie will moderate.
- 1/13/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe winner for Showtime's 'The Affair' BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther', opens on Broadway tonight, January 13 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
- 1/13/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe winner for Showtime's The Affair BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated Luther, opens on Broadway tomorrow, Tuesday, January 13 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
- 1/12/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The first look at Jake Gyllenhaal's Broadway debut alongside The Affair's Ruth Wilson is finally here! The two star in Nick Payne's play, Constellations, which features a couple navigating through the various paths and options within their relationship. During a guest appearance on this morning's Today show, the actors opened up about their upcoming project and how excited they are to be costars on such a highly anticipated play. "It's a real honor, it's pretty cool to be up there" he explained to Savannah Guthrie. "It's a love story in every different possible universe. All the possibilities that one love can take and that the world can bring to it and that...
- 12/30/2014
- E! Online
Manhattan Theatre Club Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director Barry Grove, Executive Producer and the Royal Court Theatre, by special arrangement with Ambassador Theatre Group and Dodger Properties, will present the American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed byMichael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth WilsonBBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated Luther, Showtime's The Affair on Broadway. The limited engagement of Constellations will open Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street. BroadwayWorld brings you first look at the cast in action below...
- 12/29/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Performances begin tonight, December 16, for the American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Golden Globe nominee for Nightcrawler Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson Golden Globe nominee for Showtime's 'The Affair' BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther'. Constellations stars Gyllenhaal and Wilson are featured in the January 2015 issue of Vogue Magazine - scroll down for their portrait...
- 12/17/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther,' Showtime's 'The Affair', plays a 13-week engagement, beginning previews tonight, December 16, 2014 for a January 13, 2015 opening night at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.
- 12/16/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rehearsals are currently underway for the American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther,' Showtime's 'The Affair'. This strictly limited 13-week engagement will begin tomorrow, December 16, 2014 for a Tuesday, January 13, 2015 opening night at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.Check out photos of the marquee at the Friedman Theatre below...
- 12/15/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rehearsals are currently underway for the American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake GyllenhaalNightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther,' Showtime's 'The Affair'. This strictly limited 13-week engagement will begin previews Tuesday, December 16, 2014 for a Tuesday, January 13, 2015 opening night at Mtc'sSamuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.The cast met the press earlier today and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was on hand to chat with the whole gang. Check out what they had to say below...
- 11/18/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Rehearsals are currently underway for the American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst, starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal Nightcrawler, Brokeback Mountain and two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated 'Luther,' Showtime's 'The Affair'. This strictly limited 13-week engagement will begin previews Tuesday, December 16, 2014 for a Tuesday, January 13, 2015 opening night at Mtc's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street.The cast met the press earlier today and you can check out a photo preview from the festivities below. Check back later for full coverage...
- 11/18/2014
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Several Oscar contenders are heading to New York and the Broadway stage as the Oscar season progresses in Hollywood. With projects on both coasts, these contenders could score both Tony and Oscar nominations during the upcoming awards season.
Director Bob Fosse won two Tony Awards and an Oscar in 1973. The two Tonys were for direction and choreography for Pippin and the Oscar was for directing Cabaret. Director Stephen Daldry won an Oscar for The Reader and a Tony for Billy Elliot the Musical in 2009.
Five actresses have won both awards in the same year: Shirley Booth won a Tony for The Time of the Cuckoo and an Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba in 1953; Audrey Hepburn won a Tony for Ondine and an Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1954; Ellen Burstyn won a Tony for Same Time, Next Year and an Oscar for Alice Doesn’t...
Managing Editor
Several Oscar contenders are heading to New York and the Broadway stage as the Oscar season progresses in Hollywood. With projects on both coasts, these contenders could score both Tony and Oscar nominations during the upcoming awards season.
Director Bob Fosse won two Tony Awards and an Oscar in 1973. The two Tonys were for direction and choreography for Pippin and the Oscar was for directing Cabaret. Director Stephen Daldry won an Oscar for The Reader and a Tony for Billy Elliot the Musical in 2009.
Five actresses have won both awards in the same year: Shirley Booth won a Tony for The Time of the Cuckoo and an Oscar for Come Back, Little Sheba in 1953; Audrey Hepburn won a Tony for Ondine and an Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1954; Ellen Burstyn won a Tony for Same Time, Next Year and an Oscar for Alice Doesn’t...
- 11/18/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Open Road Films latest release Nightcrawler is already getting a lot of attention for the amazing performance given by leading man Jake Gyllenhaal… and the film doesn’t open until next Friday!
Read Michael Haffner’s Fantastic Fest review Here.
Last week Wamg sat down with Gyllenhaal (in a small roundtable) to discuss the film. Check it out below.
Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news,...
Read Michael Haffner’s Fantastic Fest review Here.
Last week Wamg sat down with Gyllenhaal (in a small roundtable) to discuss the film. Check it out below.
Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news,...
- 10/23/2014
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Receiving a Tony Award to go with her Oscar is no longer next on Lupita Nyong'o's to-do list. The Academy Award-winning 12 Years a Slave star has turned down the chance for a Broadway debut in Nick Payne's Constellations opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Reportedly, she turned it down so she could appear in the next Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode VII.
- 10/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Manhattan Theatre Club Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director Barry Grove, Executive Producer and the Royal Court Theatre, by special arrangement with Ambassador Theatre Group and the Dodgers, just announced that two-time Olivier Award winner Ruth Wilson BBC's and PBS' Emmy nominated Luther, Showtime's The Affair will star opposite previously announced Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal in the American premiere of Constellations, the acclaimed new play by Nick Payne, directed by Michael Longhurst.
- 10/1/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Exclusive: Origin Pictures, Paines Plough, BBC Films launch writing scheme
Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.
Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.
The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.
The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.
Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.
Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...
Origin Pictures is teaming with theatre company Paines Plough on a scheme to develop playwrights’ screen-writing skills.
Origin, producers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and TV series Jamaica Inn, is launching the scheme with backing from its BFI Vision Award and in collaboration with BBC Films.
The partnership will support four playwrights in their writing across film and theatre over six months through workshops, mentoring and editorial support.
The selected writers are Alia Bano, Stacey Gregg, Ali Taylor and Alexandra Wood.
Bano won the Charles Wintour Award in 2009 for Most Promising Playwright at the Evening Standard Awards for her play Shades, which ran at the Royal Court that year. Her play Gap was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for their Connections 2011 season.
Wood, whose plays include The Eleventh Capital (Royal Court), The Lion’s Mouth (Rough Cuts/Royal Court), Unbroken (Gate Theatre), Decade (co-writer/Headlong...
- 7/29/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
They're big heels to fill, but Andrew Rannells is up to the task. The Girls and The New Normal star, 35, will take over the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on Broadway when Neil Patrick Harris - this year's Tony winner for best actor for the role - finishes his run in August, Variety reports. Rannells is hardly a Broadway newbie, though. He earned a Tony nomination himself for his work as Elder Price in 2011's The Book of Mormon, and has also appeared in musicals including Jersey Boys and Hairspray. And in fact, he's played Hedwig before - in a 2001 Austin,...
- 6/13/2014
- by Tim Nudd
- PEOPLE.com
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