British TV presenter Gregg Wallace usually enjoys calm Saturdays, we are told, but he has had a less serene week, trading brickbats with the UK press, in a debacle that has highlighted the perils of the apparent “tell-all” celebrity magazine feature.
This began seven days ago, when Wallace – a familiar face on TV screens as the longtime presenter of Masterchef and a catalog of other food-related shows – was featured in The Telegraph’s regular ‘My Saturday’ slot, detailing his usual routine on the first day of each weekend.
The backlash was swift, with journalists picking up on Wallace’s various revelations, after he gave details of his home life including the time he spent with his son (commenters said not enough), time on his computer game and the fact that he hadn’t wanted his youngest child, so he cut a deal whereby the pair went on holiday alone once a year.
This began seven days ago, when Wallace – a familiar face on TV screens as the longtime presenter of Masterchef and a catalog of other food-related shows – was featured in The Telegraph’s regular ‘My Saturday’ slot, detailing his usual routine on the first day of each weekend.
The backlash was swift, with journalists picking up on Wallace’s various revelations, after he gave details of his home life including the time he spent with his son (commenters said not enough), time on his computer game and the fact that he hadn’t wanted his youngest child, so he cut a deal whereby the pair went on holiday alone once a year.
- 2/10/2024
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
Long running BBC documentary series imagine dedicates an episode to writer Russell T Davies, and we now have a confirmed airdate.
There is no denying that Doctor Who fans have a lot to thank Russell T Davies for, not least resurrecting the show in such spectacular fashion in 2005. Even to that point though, Davies’ body of work was already worthy of conversation and appreciation. Now that body of work is to go under the microscope too.
That’s because Russell T Davies – who has re-taken on the role of Doctor Who boss of course – is to be the subject of an episode of documentary series imagine.
imagine…Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me will be broadcast on BBC One at 22.40 on the 18th December it’s now been confirmed.
It will not only take viewers behind the scenes of the current run of Doctor Who at Bad Wolf Studios,...
There is no denying that Doctor Who fans have a lot to thank Russell T Davies for, not least resurrecting the show in such spectacular fashion in 2005. Even to that point though, Davies’ body of work was already worthy of conversation and appreciation. Now that body of work is to go under the microscope too.
That’s because Russell T Davies – who has re-taken on the role of Doctor Who boss of course – is to be the subject of an episode of documentary series imagine.
imagine…Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me will be broadcast on BBC One at 22.40 on the 18th December it’s now been confirmed.
It will not only take viewers behind the scenes of the current run of Doctor Who at Bad Wolf Studios,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Jameela Jamil will return to this year's London Podcast Festival with her podcast I Weigh on Friday 8 September and will be joined by Caitlin Moran. In I Weigh, Jameela challenges societal norms through conversations with thought-leaders, performers, activists, influencers, and friends about their own experiences and stories with their mental health. The podcast empowers diverse voices in an accessible way to celebrate progress, not perfection.
- 8/31/2023
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
Comedian Katherine Ryan has criticised Leonardo DiCaprio’s preference in dating younger women and called it ‘creepy’.
Leonardo, 48, split up from his long-term model girlfriend Camila Morrone last summer, a few months after she turned 25, reports ‘Mirror.co.uk’.
Since then, he has been spotted getting cosy with 27-year-old Gigi Hadid as well as with other younger models. Hollywood superstar Leo has never publicly dated anyone over the age of 25 years old.
As per ‘Mirror.co.uk’, over the years, fans have been theorising that the ‘Titanic’ actor breaks up with women when they reach their mid-twenties. After it was recently rumoured that he was getting close to 19-year-old Israeli model Eden Polani, comedian Katherine took to Twitter to comment on his dating preferences.
Quote tweeting a person mentioning his age and his new rumoured romance, Katherine said: “This is literally all I’ve talked about for Seven Years (sic...
Leonardo, 48, split up from his long-term model girlfriend Camila Morrone last summer, a few months after she turned 25, reports ‘Mirror.co.uk’.
Since then, he has been spotted getting cosy with 27-year-old Gigi Hadid as well as with other younger models. Hollywood superstar Leo has never publicly dated anyone over the age of 25 years old.
As per ‘Mirror.co.uk’, over the years, fans have been theorising that the ‘Titanic’ actor breaks up with women when they reach their mid-twenties. After it was recently rumoured that he was getting close to 19-year-old Israeli model Eden Polani, comedian Katherine took to Twitter to comment on his dating preferences.
Quote tweeting a person mentioning his age and his new rumoured romance, Katherine said: “This is literally all I’ve talked about for Seven Years (sic...
- 2/7/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Peep Showfans have reacted with delight upon realising that the actor who played Big Suze in the show, Sophie Winkleman, is a member of the royal family.
On Friday evening (16 September), the Queen’s children – King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Prince Andrew – stood by her coffin in Westminster Hall in a vigil for the late monarch.
The event was covered live on BBC One, with some viewers spotting Winkleman standing with the royals.
The actor, who is half-sister to Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman, married Lord Frederick Windsor in 2009, becoming Lady Frederick Windsor.
Lord Frederick is the son of Prince Michael of Kent, one of Queen Elizabeth II’s cousins. He is currently 52nd in line to the throne.
Caitlin Moran, a columnist for The Times, tweeted: “Just watched Prince Charles stand vigil over his dead mother whilst Big Suze from Peep Show looked on. There...
On Friday evening (16 September), the Queen’s children – King Charles III, Princess Anne, Prince Edward and Prince Andrew – stood by her coffin in Westminster Hall in a vigil for the late monarch.
The event was covered live on BBC One, with some viewers spotting Winkleman standing with the royals.
The actor, who is half-sister to Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman, married Lord Frederick Windsor in 2009, becoming Lady Frederick Windsor.
Lord Frederick is the son of Prince Michael of Kent, one of Queen Elizabeth II’s cousins. He is currently 52nd in line to the throne.
Caitlin Moran, a columnist for The Times, tweeted: “Just watched Prince Charles stand vigil over his dead mother whilst Big Suze from Peep Show looked on. There...
- 9/17/2022
- by Ellie Harrison
- The Independent - TV
He’s a bit of a legend in the UK, not as well known in the US, and now he’s starring in Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon. But who is Paddy Considine? Well, he’s a British actor and director who grew up in Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire (that’s in the West Midlands for our American friends – you’re welcome!). He’s won two BAFTA awards both as director for his short film Dog Altogether and for his feature debut Tyrannosaur which starred Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan and was one of the first movies to really introduce Colman as a heavy weight actress. In House of the Dragon Considine plays Viserys I Targaryen, the well-meaning but ineffectual leader of the Targaryen dynasty, and King of the Seven Kingdoms. Loving his performance and want to see more? Here are his best roles.
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- 8/26/2022
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
British pop icon Lily Allen is making her TV debut, joining Doctor Who star Freema Agyeman in Sky comedy Dreamland from Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman.
Dreamland is based on Sky’s BAFTA-winning 2018 short of the same name and is set in Margate, following lead Trish (Agyeman), who is pregnant for the third time with her partner Spence (Kiell Smith- Bynoe) and the rest of their family.
Allen plays Mel, her other sister, who makes an unexpected reappearance back into the family’s lives.
The Alfie and Smile singer featured in Caitlin Moran film How to Build a Girl but Dreamland is her first TV project.
Dreamland was commissioned by Jon Mountague, Director of Comedy, Sky Studios and Alex Moody, Commissioning Editor, Sky Studios, for Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content, Sky UK.
The series is executive produced by Clelia Mountford, Horgan for Merman with Jane Bell as...
Dreamland is based on Sky’s BAFTA-winning 2018 short of the same name and is set in Margate, following lead Trish (Agyeman), who is pregnant for the third time with her partner Spence (Kiell Smith- Bynoe) and the rest of their family.
Allen plays Mel, her other sister, who makes an unexpected reappearance back into the family’s lives.
The Alfie and Smile singer featured in Caitlin Moran film How to Build a Girl but Dreamland is her first TV project.
Dreamland was commissioned by Jon Mountague, Director of Comedy, Sky Studios and Alex Moody, Commissioning Editor, Sky Studios, for Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content, Sky UK.
The series is executive produced by Clelia Mountford, Horgan for Merman with Jane Bell as...
- 7/15/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Update: This story is being updated this week as the new longlists are unveiled. Today (November 20) the Best Documentary longlist has been published, see below.
Previously, November 17: Organizers of the British Independent Film Awards have confirmed their upcoming ceremony will delay from its traditional end-of-year dates to February, 2021, moving in line with this year’s major awards shows.
This week, the BIFAs will unveil its various longlists of awards, which will be whittled down to its final nominations, to be revealed on December 9.
Today, the New Talent awards longlists have been unveiled, featuring a total of 46 directors, writers and producers. Each of the below will participate in BIFA’s Springboard scheme, a tailored program of professional development and peer to peer support.
Best Documentary
The Art Of Political Murder Paul Taylor, Teddy Leifer, Regina K. Scully
The Australian Dream Daniel Gordon, Stan Grant, Sarah Thomson, Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell,...
Previously, November 17: Organizers of the British Independent Film Awards have confirmed their upcoming ceremony will delay from its traditional end-of-year dates to February, 2021, moving in line with this year’s major awards shows.
This week, the BIFAs will unveil its various longlists of awards, which will be whittled down to its final nominations, to be revealed on December 9.
Today, the New Talent awards longlists have been unveiled, featuring a total of 46 directors, writers and producers. Each of the below will participate in BIFA’s Springboard scheme, a tailored program of professional development and peer to peer support.
Best Documentary
The Art Of Political Murder Paul Taylor, Teddy Leifer, Regina K. Scully
The Australian Dream Daniel Gordon, Stan Grant, Sarah Thomson, Nick Batzias, Virginia Whitwell,...
- 11/20/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
“Saint Maud,” “White Riot” and “Calm With Horses” are among the leading titles on the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) longlists announced Tuesday.
Riz Ahmed, star and co-writer of Berlin-winner “Mogul Mowgli” is on the longlist in the debut screenwriter long list, alongside Billie Piper for “Rare Beasts.”
Rose Glass, director of “Saint Maud,” which won an honorable mention at the BFI London Film Festival in 2019, makes it to the BIFA debut director and screenwriter longlist, as does producer Oliver Kassma, in the breakthrough producer category.
“White Riot” won awards at Berlin, London, Krakow and IndieLisboa, and director Rubika Shah duly makes it to the debut director list and Ed Gibbs in the breakthrough producer category.
“Calm With Horses” won at the Irish Film and Television Awards, and director Nick Rowland finds a place in the director longlist, Joseph Murtagh in the debut screenwriting category and Daniel Emmerson as breakthrough producer.
Riz Ahmed, star and co-writer of Berlin-winner “Mogul Mowgli” is on the longlist in the debut screenwriter long list, alongside Billie Piper for “Rare Beasts.”
Rose Glass, director of “Saint Maud,” which won an honorable mention at the BFI London Film Festival in 2019, makes it to the BIFA debut director and screenwriter longlist, as does producer Oliver Kassma, in the breakthrough producer category.
“White Riot” won awards at Berlin, London, Krakow and IndieLisboa, and director Rubika Shah duly makes it to the debut director list and Ed Gibbs in the breakthrough producer category.
“Calm With Horses” won at the Irish Film and Television Awards, and director Nick Rowland finds a place in the director longlist, Joseph Murtagh in the debut screenwriting category and Daniel Emmerson as breakthrough producer.
- 11/17/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Twenty-seven films have been longlisted across three new talent categories.
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) has moved its ceremony from its traditional early December slot to February 2021 as it announces the longlists for six categories this week.
The nominations will be announced on December 9 and winners revealed “in early February”, according to BIFA. An exact date and format of the ceremony has yet to be announced.
Scroll down for the New Talent longlists
Rose Glass’ horror Saint Maud and Nick Rowland’s drama Calm With Horses are two of six films included in all three longlists for the BIFA 2020 New Talent categories.
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) has moved its ceremony from its traditional early December slot to February 2021 as it announces the longlists for six categories this week.
The nominations will be announced on December 9 and winners revealed “in early February”, according to BIFA. An exact date and format of the ceremony has yet to be announced.
Scroll down for the New Talent longlists
Rose Glass’ horror Saint Maud and Nick Rowland’s drama Calm With Horses are two of six films included in all three longlists for the BIFA 2020 New Talent categories.
- 11/17/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Wobbly Wolverhampton accent and all, American actor Beanie Feldstein carries this hard-to-resist adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s bestselling roman-a-clef
“What do you do when you build yourself, only to realise that you built yourself with the wrong things?” That’s the question at the heart of this entertainingly ramshackle coming-of-age story, adapted by screenwriter Caitlin Moran from her autobiographically inspired bestseller. The story of a working-class Wolverhampton teenager who lands a job writing for the London music press, it’s a cautionary yet empowering tale about following your dreams, even when they turn into nightmares. At its centre is an irrepressible soul who learns to her cost that spiteful criticism is easier to sell than honest enthusiasm. It’s a theme that will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever experienced the empty thrill of a vicious put-down, or been ridiculed for simply loving something without reservation.
Beanie Feldstein,...
“What do you do when you build yourself, only to realise that you built yourself with the wrong things?” That’s the question at the heart of this entertainingly ramshackle coming-of-age story, adapted by screenwriter Caitlin Moran from her autobiographically inspired bestseller. The story of a working-class Wolverhampton teenager who lands a job writing for the London music press, it’s a cautionary yet empowering tale about following your dreams, even when they turn into nightmares. At its centre is an irrepressible soul who learns to her cost that spiteful criticism is easier to sell than honest enthusiasm. It’s a theme that will strike a chord with anyone who’s ever experienced the empty thrill of a vicious put-down, or been ridiculed for simply loving something without reservation.
Beanie Feldstein,...
- 7/26/2020
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Caitlin Moran is kind of a big deal. A multi-award winning journalist, a highly influential feminist after her non-fiction book How To Be A Woman, and now a successful movie screenwriter as her novel How To Build A Girl Comes to the big screen. Or rather it would have, were it not for COVID19, instead the movie lands on Amazon Prime after it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year.
How To Build A Girl is the semi-autobiographical story of Johanna Morrigan, a 16-year-old from a big family growing up in Wolverhampton in the ‘90s. With How To Be A Woman and the TV series Raised By Wolves Moran has told stories of her childhood before but this particular version is centred on her early career as a music journalist. Johanna, played with considerable charm by Beanie Feldstein, is an idealistic teenager who is close to her musician father...
How To Build A Girl is the semi-autobiographical story of Johanna Morrigan, a 16-year-old from a big family growing up in Wolverhampton in the ‘90s. With How To Be A Woman and the TV series Raised By Wolves Moran has told stories of her childhood before but this particular version is centred on her early career as a music journalist. Johanna, played with considerable charm by Beanie Feldstein, is an idealistic teenager who is close to her musician father...
- 7/24/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
To celebrate the release of How To Build A Girl, which makes its way to Amazon Prime Video, we sat down with some of the cast and filmmakers to chat about bringing the best-selling book to the screen.
Based on Moran’s novel of the same name, the semi-autobiographical film sees a gutsy, working-class teenager from Wolverhampton, Johanna Morrigan, played by Beanie Feldstein, enter the world of early 90s music journalism where she is forced to learn industry ropes and how to be a decent person.
Chatting to us, Giedroyc about translating the book to the screen with Moran’s complete involvement, filming in Wolverhampton and the challenges they faced, while Feldstein talks about the challenges of the accent and being the “perfect” choice for the lead role, something she was desperate to throw herself into. Indeed, they all agree that the film, while funny, has an important message for...
Based on Moran’s novel of the same name, the semi-autobiographical film sees a gutsy, working-class teenager from Wolverhampton, Johanna Morrigan, played by Beanie Feldstein, enter the world of early 90s music journalism where she is forced to learn industry ropes and how to be a decent person.
Chatting to us, Giedroyc about translating the book to the screen with Moran’s complete involvement, filming in Wolverhampton and the challenges they faced, while Feldstein talks about the challenges of the accent and being the “perfect” choice for the lead role, something she was desperate to throw herself into. Indeed, they all agree that the film, while funny, has an important message for...
- 7/23/2020
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In the middle of our conversation with journalist and author Caitlin Moran, she turns around to reveal a storyboard for her next project – a utopian sci-fi described as a cross between Weird Science and The Handmaid’s Tale. Whether that sounds appealing will depend largely on whether you’ve found yourself enraptured by Moran’s unique blend of whimsy and wit before.
“All sci-fi films are dystopian. It’s always about the future and how technology has bombed us and we’re all fucked. I think that’s because generally, men make them, but technology is amazing, particularly for women,” she says.
“Every time we have a piece of technology that allows us to compete on an equal field because it’s just about your brains rather than the physicality or whether we’re looking after children or parents or are a carer that’s a benefit for us and I...
“All sci-fi films are dystopian. It’s always about the future and how technology has bombed us and we’re all fucked. I think that’s because generally, men make them, but technology is amazing, particularly for women,” she says.
“Every time we have a piece of technology that allows us to compete on an equal field because it’s just about your brains rather than the physicality or whether we’re looking after children or parents or are a carer that’s a benefit for us and I...
- 7/23/2020
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
This week sees the streaming debut of director Coky Diedroyc’s film adaptation of How to Build a Girl, written by music journalist turned author/screenwriter Caitlin Moran. Moran’s semi-autobiographical script (adapted from her own novel) sees a gutsy, working-class teenager from Wolverhampton, Johanna Morrigan, played by Beanie Feldstein, enter the world of early 90s music journalism where she is forced to learn industry ropes and how to be a decent person.
Set during the during pre-Britpop indie rock scene, the story takes us to a time that feels long ago but is far from forgotten in the minds and hearts of music fans. Htbag also boasts an impressive supporting cast including Paddy Considine, Emma Thompson, Michael Sheen, Gemma Arterton, Chris O’Dowd and Alfie Allen amongst many others.
Back in 2018, Heyuguys visited the Htbag shoot in Dollis Hill, North West London, where a working man’s club doubled up for a grubby gig venue.
Set during the during pre-Britpop indie rock scene, the story takes us to a time that feels long ago but is far from forgotten in the minds and hearts of music fans. Htbag also boasts an impressive supporting cast including Paddy Considine, Emma Thompson, Michael Sheen, Gemma Arterton, Chris O’Dowd and Alfie Allen amongst many others.
Back in 2018, Heyuguys visited the Htbag shoot in Dollis Hill, North West London, where a working man’s club doubled up for a grubby gig venue.
- 7/21/2020
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A teenage fan persuades her idols to let her manage them – before it all goes wrong on a tour of the Cotswolds
This insipid confection about a 17-year-old A-level student who passes herself off as older in order to manage a band she admires is so blandly wholesome and inoffensive, given the music-scene milieu, you can only assume it’s intended for the pre-teen market. Perhaps it’s meant to access the little sisters and brothers of the demographic that will go for How to Build a Girl, a considerably naughtier, wittier music-themed coming-of-age flick adapted from Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel that comes out next week. The comparison is perhaps unfair because this film is about as accurate a reflection of how people break into the music business as In the Night Garden is about temperate-zone forest habitats.
This insipid confection about a 17-year-old A-level student who passes herself off as older in order to manage a band she admires is so blandly wholesome and inoffensive, given the music-scene milieu, you can only assume it’s intended for the pre-teen market. Perhaps it’s meant to access the little sisters and brothers of the demographic that will go for How to Build a Girl, a considerably naughtier, wittier music-themed coming-of-age flick adapted from Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel that comes out next week. The comparison is perhaps unfair because this film is about as accurate a reflection of how people break into the music business as In the Night Garden is about temperate-zone forest habitats.
- 7/15/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
I’ll declare my interest. I’m a Brummie, so any film set in my home city, or the West Midlands, is going to grab my interest. Especially when it comes to the cast’s efforts to reproduce that accent. It’s the one I’ve spent most of my life trying to shake off, the one that always comes last in popularity polls because it sounds like one long whinge – and the one that’s notoriously difficult to imitate convincingly.
It’s Beanie Feldstein who finds herself in the dock. Her 16 year old Johanna in How To Build A Girl lives on a council estate in Wolverhampton, has half a bedroom to herself and goes to the local comprehensive, where she’s regarded as something of an oddity. But she has big dreams of getting out of what she considers to be a life beneath her and she blags...
It’s Beanie Feldstein who finds herself in the dock. Her 16 year old Johanna in How To Build A Girl lives on a council estate in Wolverhampton, has half a bedroom to herself and goes to the local comprehensive, where she’s regarded as something of an oddity. But she has big dreams of getting out of what she considers to be a life beneath her and she blags...
- 7/7/2020
- by Freda Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Amazon Prime UK has debuted a new trailer for the comedy ‘How To Build A Girl’ starring Beanie Feldstein.
It’s 1993, and there’s only one way for a curvy, bright, funny, working-class sixteen year old (Beanie Feldstein) to break out of her tiny, crowded house in Wolverhampton, and go on the somehow noble sex-quest she desires – to reinvent herself as swashbuckling, top-hat-wearing rock critic Dolly Wilde, and explode all over London. The only question is – was Dolly Wilde the right girl to build?
Directed by British director Coky Giedroyć and written by Caitlin Moran, based on her beloved number one Sunday Times bestseller of the same name, the film also stars Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Chris O’Dowd, Emma Thompson, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Joanna Scanlan, Arinzé Kene, Frank Dillane, Tadhg Murphy and Ziggy Heath.
Also in trailers – New trailer debuts for rom-com ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’
The film is...
It’s 1993, and there’s only one way for a curvy, bright, funny, working-class sixteen year old (Beanie Feldstein) to break out of her tiny, crowded house in Wolverhampton, and go on the somehow noble sex-quest she desires – to reinvent herself as swashbuckling, top-hat-wearing rock critic Dolly Wilde, and explode all over London. The only question is – was Dolly Wilde the right girl to build?
Directed by British director Coky Giedroyć and written by Caitlin Moran, based on her beloved number one Sunday Times bestseller of the same name, the film also stars Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Chris O’Dowd, Emma Thompson, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Joanna Scanlan, Arinzé Kene, Frank Dillane, Tadhg Murphy and Ziggy Heath.
Also in trailers – New trailer debuts for rom-com ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’
The film is...
- 6/23/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: A BBC insider has told us the decision to reprimand Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis on Wednesday over her comments about Dominic Cummings was “weak and embarrassing.”
In a blistering attack, the well-placed BBC news source, who works on one of the corporation’s flagship shows, said: “BBC bosses couldn’t have handled this situation any worse. Rushing to judgment in order to hang one of its prized assets out to dry is frankly weak and embarrassing.“
They added that the decision has caused “dismay and anger” within the Newsnight ranks: “The mood among the team is of dismay and anger at this decision. We stand behind Emily and the editor Esmé [Wren] in support of them on this. The decision by BBC management will only act to undermine Newsnight’s award-winning journalism during a crucial time when it’s needed most.”
Maitlis clarified last night that, contrary to reports, she...
In a blistering attack, the well-placed BBC news source, who works on one of the corporation’s flagship shows, said: “BBC bosses couldn’t have handled this situation any worse. Rushing to judgment in order to hang one of its prized assets out to dry is frankly weak and embarrassing.“
They added that the decision has caused “dismay and anger” within the Newsnight ranks: “The mood among the team is of dismay and anger at this decision. We stand behind Emily and the editor Esmé [Wren] in support of them on this. The decision by BBC management will only act to undermine Newsnight’s award-winning journalism during a crucial time when it’s needed most.”
Maitlis clarified last night that, contrary to reports, she...
- 5/28/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC presenter Emily Maitlis has been reprimanded by the broadcaster for comments made on last night’s edition of flagship news and current affairs program Newsnight about a controversial lockdown trip taken by government aide Dominic Cummings.
Deadline has confirmed that Maitlis will not be hosting Wednesday’s edition of the program, which is due to go out at 22.45Pm UK time (2:45Pm Pt). UK Editor Katie Razzall will instead be in the main chair.
The BBC is denying that it has enforced the change. A tweet from an account claiming to be Newsnight editor Esme Wren stated that Maitlis “hasn’t been replaced in response to the statement” and that Razzall was “part of the team”, inferring that a shift in host was not out of the ordinary.
Razzall also tweeted saying, “Just for the record, Emily Maitlis has not been asked by the BBC to take tonight...
Deadline has confirmed that Maitlis will not be hosting Wednesday’s edition of the program, which is due to go out at 22.45Pm UK time (2:45Pm Pt). UK Editor Katie Razzall will instead be in the main chair.
The BBC is denying that it has enforced the change. A tweet from an account claiming to be Newsnight editor Esme Wren stated that Maitlis “hasn’t been replaced in response to the statement” and that Razzall was “part of the team”, inferring that a shift in host was not out of the ordinary.
Razzall also tweeted saying, “Just for the record, Emily Maitlis has not been asked by the BBC to take tonight...
- 5/27/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has decided to cancel its 2021 awards, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The guild’s chair Lisa Holdsworth said the industries its members work within face an “existential threat,” and the guild needed to focus on protecting their rights.
The red-carpet, gala event was due to take place at London’s Royal College of Physicians in January in a special ceremony to mark their 60th anniversary.
Holdsworth said: “Our awards happen because of two things: the generous support of our loyal sponsors, and the same collective strength our union is founded on. Wggb members, all working writers, volunteer their time and energy to sit on juries, shortlist entries, and pull endless strings behind the scenes to make the event the glittering success it is every year.”
“This year, those same members are working tirelessly to protect writers’ rights in industries which are facing an unprecedented,...
The red-carpet, gala event was due to take place at London’s Royal College of Physicians in January in a special ceremony to mark their 60th anniversary.
Holdsworth said: “Our awards happen because of two things: the generous support of our loyal sponsors, and the same collective strength our union is founded on. Wggb members, all working writers, volunteer their time and energy to sit on juries, shortlist entries, and pull endless strings behind the scenes to make the event the glittering success it is every year.”
“This year, those same members are working tirelessly to protect writers’ rights in industries which are facing an unprecedented,...
- 5/20/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
With North American moviegoing slowly coming back to life, IFC’s horror movie “The Wretched” is leading the weekend with $85,000 at 21 drive-in movie theaters.
“The Wretched,” written and directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce, follows a young boy who discovers an evil witch in the nearby woods. The cast include John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Zarah Mahler, Azie Tesfai and Jamison Jones.
The horror, which premiered at the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival, has scared up a total of $296,954 since launching on May 1 at 11 drive-ins, including the Mission Tiki in Montclair, Calif., where it had an informal premiere. Friday night’s showing at the Mission Tiki was sold out.
IFC also reported its Beanie Feldstein comedy “How to Build a Girl” took in $36,000 at nine drive-in locations and had a 10-day total of $55,802. The film is an adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s 2014 semi-autobiographical novel about an awkward teen who becomes a music critic.
“The Wretched,” written and directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce, follows a young boy who discovers an evil witch in the nearby woods. The cast include John-Paul Howard, Piper Curda, Zarah Mahler, Azie Tesfai and Jamison Jones.
The horror, which premiered at the 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival, has scared up a total of $296,954 since launching on May 1 at 11 drive-ins, including the Mission Tiki in Montclair, Calif., where it had an informal premiere. Friday night’s showing at the Mission Tiki was sold out.
IFC also reported its Beanie Feldstein comedy “How to Build a Girl” took in $36,000 at nine drive-in locations and had a 10-day total of $55,802. The film is an adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s 2014 semi-autobiographical novel about an awkward teen who becomes a music critic.
- 5/17/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Movie theaters in the North America are slowly coming back to life with about 200 locations open as of Friday — nearly double last weekend’s total, Comscore is reporting.
Drive-in movie locations are dominating the landscape with about 150 of the nation’s 306 drive-in locations now open, acccoding to Comscore. About 50 brick-and-mortar locations are now open.
Texas has by far the biggest number of open locations with 29 including several brick-and-mortar locations. Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma and South Dakota — where the state governments have begun easing social distancing requirements stemming from the coronavirus pandemic — have also opened brick-and-mortar locations.
The nation’s three largest chains — AMC, Regal and Cinemark — closed in mid-March as concerns grew about the pandemic. Most theaters are not expected to open until mid-summer with no major releases set to launch until July 17 when Warner Bros. is currently scheduled to open Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” Disney plans to open its live-action...
Drive-in movie locations are dominating the landscape with about 150 of the nation’s 306 drive-in locations now open, acccoding to Comscore. About 50 brick-and-mortar locations are now open.
Texas has by far the biggest number of open locations with 29 including several brick-and-mortar locations. Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma and South Dakota — where the state governments have begun easing social distancing requirements stemming from the coronavirus pandemic — have also opened brick-and-mortar locations.
The nation’s three largest chains — AMC, Regal and Cinemark — closed in mid-March as concerns grew about the pandemic. Most theaters are not expected to open until mid-summer with no major releases set to launch until July 17 when Warner Bros. is currently scheduled to open Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” Disney plans to open its live-action...
- 5/16/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Beanie Feldstein is following stay-at-home orders at her parents’ house in Los Angeles.
When she’s not watching “Ozark,” she’s hanging out with the family’s 90-pound English bulldog Jackie or Zoom-ing with friends.
“We’ve been doing some trivia in my friend group,” Feldstein says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “Two people have to come up with a quiz and then we all take it — and you have to show up in costume — and then the losing teams have to donate to the charity of the game masters’ choice.”
“It’s like nice to see all your friends, and to have an activity, and have it be fun,” she continues. “And then it’s always like, whenever we’re losing, we’re like, ‘But then we get to give to charity.’ It’s great. It’s all good losing methods because you’re like,...
When she’s not watching “Ozark,” she’s hanging out with the family’s 90-pound English bulldog Jackie or Zoom-ing with friends.
“We’ve been doing some trivia in my friend group,” Feldstein says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “Two people have to come up with a quiz and then we all take it — and you have to show up in costume — and then the losing teams have to donate to the charity of the game masters’ choice.”
“It’s like nice to see all your friends, and to have an activity, and have it be fun,” she continues. “And then it’s always like, whenever we’re losing, we’re like, ‘But then we get to give to charity.’ It’s great. It’s all good losing methods because you’re like,...
- 5/14/2020
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
As the author of a number of books about growing up, Caitlin Moran is no stranger to telling a coming-of-age tale. One of her most successful twists on her own story, How To Build A Girl, is even in select theaters and on VOD now, and was penned for the screen by Moran herself. The A.V. Club thought the author and UK…...
- 5/12/2020
- by Marah Eakin on Film, shared by Marah Eakin to The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Exclusive: Deadline has learned that IFC Films has set Aug. 7 for the release of the Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson heart-warming movie Made in Italy. The pic, which reps the feature directorial debut of Dunkirk actor James D’Arcy, will hit drive-ins, those theaters that are open, and on-demand.
IFC Films is arguably the only distributor out there that’s making fresh titles available to those theaters that are open right now during some states’ early reopenings as the Covid-19 crisis calms. To date IFC has put five titles in drive-ins since March – Swallow, Resistance, True History of the Kelly Gang, How To Build A Girl, and The Wretched.
IFC took U.S. rights to HanWay Films’ Made in Italy back in February. In the pic, Liam Neeson plays Robert, a bohemian London artist who returns to Tuscany, Italy with his estranged son played by Micheál Richardson, to sell the house...
IFC Films is arguably the only distributor out there that’s making fresh titles available to those theaters that are open right now during some states’ early reopenings as the Covid-19 crisis calms. To date IFC has put five titles in drive-ins since March – Swallow, Resistance, True History of the Kelly Gang, How To Build A Girl, and The Wretched.
IFC took U.S. rights to HanWay Films’ Made in Italy back in February. In the pic, Liam Neeson plays Robert, a bohemian London artist who returns to Tuscany, Italy with his estranged son played by Micheál Richardson, to sell the house...
- 5/11/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Best known for her novels “How to Build a Girl” and “How to Build a Woman” and her prominent work as a journalist and feminist, Caitlin Moran is poised to break into the world of the big screen. Even though she created a television series with her sister Caroline Moran in 2014, her adaption of “How to Build a Girl” starring Beanie Feldstein marks her first foray into screenwriting – and she’s already working on more.
Continue reading Caitlin Moran Talks ‘How To Build A Girl’ And Adapting Your Own Work For The Screen [Interview] at The Playlist.
Continue reading Caitlin Moran Talks ‘How To Build A Girl’ And Adapting Your Own Work For The Screen [Interview] at The Playlist.
- 5/9/2020
- by Ally Johnson
- The Playlist
The Girl Most Likely To…: Giedroyc Returns with Novel Coming-of-Age Dramedy
In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new—a cross between Louisa May Alcott and Amy Schumer in Trainwreck as it deliberates on female authorship and a young woman learning to find her authentic self. Based on the novel/memoir by Caitlin Moran, the project is a return to narrative filmmaking for Coky Giedroyc, who has worked in television for the past two decades, last on hand in the cinema with 1999’s Women Talking Dirty (a title which could have worked here also based on a novel concerning an outspoken woman who transforms those around her) and presents Beanie Feldstein with a novel opportunity to play a 1990s British teen outsider who breaks into music journalism with a bombastic alter ego.…...
In several respects, the trajectory of How to Build a Girl isn’t inherently new—a cross between Louisa May Alcott and Amy Schumer in Trainwreck as it deliberates on female authorship and a young woman learning to find her authentic self. Based on the novel/memoir by Caitlin Moran, the project is a return to narrative filmmaking for Coky Giedroyc, who has worked in television for the past two decades, last on hand in the cinema with 1999’s Women Talking Dirty (a title which could have worked here also based on a novel concerning an outspoken woman who transforms those around her) and presents Beanie Feldstein with a novel opportunity to play a 1990s British teen outsider who breaks into music journalism with a bombastic alter ego.…...
- 5/9/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
by Chris Feil
Beanie Feldstein has spent her time in coming-of-age comedies sharing the screen, whether in a tandem spotlight in Booksmart or stealing scenes in smaller doses in Lady Bird. With Coky Giedroyc’s early-90s-rock infused How to Build a Girl, she gets her own showcase this time. While the actress makes good on her potential to carry her own vehicle, the film itself offers more modest results.
From Caitlin Moran’s popular and semi-autobiographical novel, Feldstein stars as Johanna Morrigan, a teenage music obsessive and writer with dreams outsized to her family’s low income. After an embarrassing public attempt at sharing her writing, she adopts a brash exterior as Dolly Wilde to pursue a journalism career and sexual liberation. As she is confronted by the ingrained sexism of a male dominated industry, Johanna develops Dolly’s voice into caustic extreme to establish herself, reaping success through persona.
Beanie Feldstein has spent her time in coming-of-age comedies sharing the screen, whether in a tandem spotlight in Booksmart or stealing scenes in smaller doses in Lady Bird. With Coky Giedroyc’s early-90s-rock infused How to Build a Girl, she gets her own showcase this time. While the actress makes good on her potential to carry her own vehicle, the film itself offers more modest results.
From Caitlin Moran’s popular and semi-autobiographical novel, Feldstein stars as Johanna Morrigan, a teenage music obsessive and writer with dreams outsized to her family’s low income. After an embarrassing public attempt at sharing her writing, she adopts a brash exterior as Dolly Wilde to pursue a journalism career and sexual liberation. As she is confronted by the ingrained sexism of a male dominated industry, Johanna develops Dolly’s voice into caustic extreme to establish herself, reaping success through persona.
- 5/8/2020
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on May 5th, 2020, discussing new releases “The Half of It” and “How to Build a Girl.”
The Half of Us, the recent Best U.S. Narrative at the online 2020 Tribeca Film Festival is the second feature film by Alice Wu, and creates a tasty palette combining teenage coming-of-age films, love triangles and fluid genderism without preaching or being trite.
How to Build a Girl is released through IFC Films, and available on May 8th for rental on various streaming platforms (see below).
“The Half of It” is currently streaming on Netflix. Featuring Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer and Alexxis Lemire. Written and directed by Alice Wu. Rated “PG-13” “How to Build a Girl” is available for download May 8th on Amazon, Apple TV, YouTube, Vudu, Xfinity, Xbox and more. Featuring Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine,...
The Half of Us, the recent Best U.S. Narrative at the online 2020 Tribeca Film Festival is the second feature film by Alice Wu, and creates a tasty palette combining teenage coming-of-age films, love triangles and fluid genderism without preaching or being trite.
How to Build a Girl is released through IFC Films, and available on May 8th for rental on various streaming platforms (see below).
“The Half of It” is currently streaming on Netflix. Featuring Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer and Alexxis Lemire. Written and directed by Alice Wu. Rated “PG-13” “How to Build a Girl” is available for download May 8th on Amazon, Apple TV, YouTube, Vudu, Xfinity, Xbox and more. Featuring Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine,...
- 5/8/2020
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each other, soldiers who return home scarred for life etc., all of which we’ve seen put on the big screen time and again. But wars are of course collective nightmares, tears in the fabric of history that leave no one–men, women, children–unscathed. This is the premise of Russian writer–director Kantemir Balagov’s second feature Beanpole, a radical relationship drama that examines the trauma of war from a distinctly female perspective. – Zhuo-Ning Su (full review)
Where to...
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each other, soldiers who return home scarred for life etc., all of which we’ve seen put on the big screen time and again. But wars are of course collective nightmares, tears in the fabric of history that leave no one–men, women, children–unscathed. This is the premise of Russian writer–director Kantemir Balagov’s second feature Beanpole, a radical relationship drama that examines the trauma of war from a distinctly female perspective. – Zhuo-Ning Su (full review)
Where to...
- 5/8/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
In just a few short years, Beanie Feldstein has become a comedic force in the business. After first making an impression in the surprisingly great sequel Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Feldstein of course turned in an incredible supporting performance in Lady Bird. Last year, she blew us away with a central turn in Booksmart, and now, she gets a starring role all her own. How to Build a Girl, which premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Festival, is a charming movie with more glorious work from the actress. She’s going to be a huge star, that’s a given. This is just an example of her taking a good flick and elevating it to nearly a great one. The film is a coming of age story, focused on small town girl Johanna Morrigan (Feldstein). Living in Wolverhampton with her very poor family, she dreams of a life more glamorous,...
- 5/7/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Even in strange times, Beanie Feldstein remains relatable. The actress is spending the lockdown engaging in the kind of activities that may feel familiar to many: She’s holed up in her childhood home in Los Angeles alongside her parents. She’s bingeing “Ozark” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” working out, and keeping up with pals via Zoom happy hours. She’s enjoying spending time with her family, but misses her girlfriend, and she’s not sleeping very well. Social media has proven to be something of a salve, and she’s carefully sharing important news items and trying to spread information about best practices during the pandemic.
It’s that accessible quality that has turned Feldstein into the coming-of-age comedy’s most reliable contemporary star. Between roles in Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and Olivia Wilde’s “Booksmart,” Feldstein’s best work has found her playing complex teens on the cusp of something more.
It’s that accessible quality that has turned Feldstein into the coming-of-age comedy’s most reliable contemporary star. Between roles in Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” and Olivia Wilde’s “Booksmart,” Feldstein’s best work has found her playing complex teens on the cusp of something more.
- 5/6/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
“I’ve read every book in this library,” says frustrated 16-year-old Johanna Morrigan in the opening scene of “How to Build a Girl.” “But I can’t find a story about a girl like me.” That line sets up the movie even as it winks at the audience, which knows it’s about to see a movie about a girl exactly like Johanna.
And that means it’s about a girl a lot like Caitlin Moran, a British journalist and broadcaster who wrote the script based on her own semi-autobiographical novel about her days as a teenage rock critic in the early 1990s. Think of it as “Almost Famous” 20 years later, if Cameron Crowe had been British and female – and much, much snottier.
“How to Build a Girl,” which premieres on demand on Friday, May 8 after losing its IFC theatrical release to the coronavirus, is the first theatrical feature in 24 years for Coky Giedroyc,...
And that means it’s about a girl a lot like Caitlin Moran, a British journalist and broadcaster who wrote the script based on her own semi-autobiographical novel about her days as a teenage rock critic in the early 1990s. Think of it as “Almost Famous” 20 years later, if Cameron Crowe had been British and female – and much, much snottier.
“How to Build a Girl,” which premieres on demand on Friday, May 8 after losing its IFC theatrical release to the coronavirus, is the first theatrical feature in 24 years for Coky Giedroyc,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This film adaptation of Caitlin Moran semi-autobiographical 2014 novel How To Build a Girl, about a teen rock critic who learns to grow past her own cosmetically-applied cynicism, is never as wicked, winning and bruisingly comic as it needs to be. But lead actress Beanie Feldstein is all that and more. If you haven’t yet fallen under her spell courtesy of Booksmart, Lady Bird or her singing to Stephen Sondheim during his YouTube-streamed 90th birthday celebration, here’s your chance. She gives wings to this smartass U.K. comedy set in the early 1990s,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
How To Build A Girl Will Be Available In Select Theaters, Digital And Cable VOD May 8th
The critics love How To Build A Girl!
Beanie Feldstein is incandescent.”
Katey Rich, Vanity Fair
“It’s a joyful thing to behold. As fun as a night in the mosh pit with your best mate”
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“A loving tribute to young women with overactive imaginations and a desire to reinvent themselves. Beanie Feldstein is as charming as ever.”
Anne Cohen, REFINERY29
Check Out the trailer:
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
The critics love How To Build A Girl!
Beanie Feldstein is incandescent.”
Katey Rich, Vanity Fair
“It’s a joyful thing to behold. As fun as a night in the mosh pit with your best mate”
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
“A loving tribute to young women with overactive imaginations and a desire to reinvent themselves. Beanie Feldstein is as charming as ever.”
Anne Cohen, REFINERY29
Check Out the trailer:
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
- 5/1/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
An ITV continuity announcer mistakenly referred to Michael Sheen as American actor “Martin Sheen” when introducing the second episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? drama Quiz on Tuesday night.
Micheal Sheen was among those who noticed the on-screen gaffe, tweeting: “Hey @ITV the least you can do is get my name right in your trailers Ffs.” He later changed his Twitter name to “Martin Sheen.”
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Hey @ITV the least you can do is get my name right in your trailers Ffs.
— martin sheen (@michaelsheen) April 14, 2020
Others also picked up on the error. Raised By Wolves writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: “ITV announced him as “Martin Sheen.” But to be fair,...
Micheal Sheen was among those who noticed the on-screen gaffe, tweeting: “Hey @ITV the least you can do is get my name right in your trailers Ffs.” He later changed his Twitter name to “Martin Sheen.”
More from DeadlineBBC Studios To Make ITV Documentary 'Our Queen At War''Quiz': ITV & AMC's 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' Heist Drama Makes Strong Start In Ukitv Presenter Eamonn Holmes' Comments On The 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Spark 419 Complaints
Hey @ITV the least you can do is get my name right in your trailers Ffs.
— martin sheen (@michaelsheen) April 14, 2020
Others also picked up on the error. Raised By Wolves writer Caitlin Moran tweeted: “ITV announced him as “Martin Sheen.” But to be fair,...
- 4/15/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Beanie Feldstein stars along with Emma Thompson, Jameela Jamil, Lucy Punch, Chris O'Dowd and Alfie Allen in How to Build a Girl, from director Coky Giedroyc. Caitlin Moran adapted her popular novel along with screenwriter John Niven. The film is available for digital viewing on May 8.
Chris Hemsworth leads Sam Hargrav's Extraction, set for an April 24 debut on Netflix. Joe Russo penned the screenplay for the film, which also stars David Harbour and Golshifteh Farahani.
We Summon the Darkness released digitally on April 10, starring Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Logan Miller, Amy Forsyth, Austin Swift, Johnny Knoxville,...
Chris Hemsworth leads Sam Hargrav's Extraction, set for an April 24 debut on Netflix. Joe Russo penned the screenplay for the film, which also stars David Harbour and Golshifteh Farahani.
We Summon the Darkness released digitally on April 10, starring Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Logan Miller, Amy Forsyth, Austin Swift, Johnny Knoxville,...
- 4/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Beanie Feldstein stars along with Emma Thompson, Jameela Jamil, Lucy Punch, Chris O'Dowd and Alfie Allen in How to Build a Girl, from director Coky Giedroyc. Caitlin Moran adapted her popular novel along with screenwriter John Niven. The film is available for digital viewing on May 8.
Chris Hemsworth leads Sam Hargrav's Extraction, set for an April 24 debut on Netflix. Joe Russo penned the screenplay for the film, which also stars David Harbour and Golshifteh Farahani.
We Summon the Darkness released digitally on April 10, starring Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Logan Miller, Amy Forsyth, Austin Swift, Johnny Knoxville,...
Chris Hemsworth leads Sam Hargrav's Extraction, set for an April 24 debut on Netflix. Joe Russo penned the screenplay for the film, which also stars David Harbour and Golshifteh Farahani.
We Summon the Darkness released digitally on April 10, starring Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson, Maddie Hasson, Logan Miller, Amy Forsyth, Austin Swift, Johnny Knoxville,...
- 4/12/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"The thing about crossing over to the dark side is that – once you're there, it doesn't feel dark at all." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for the indie coming-of-age comedy called How to Build a Girl, the latest from filmmaker Coky Giedroyc, adapted from Caitlin Moran's novel of the same name. This premiered to rave reviews at the Toronto Film Festival last year, after first unveiling at the Glasgow Film Festival. The film charts the journey of teenager Johana Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, who moves to London, and gets a job as a budding music critic in the hope of getting away from her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. But is that truly the girl she really wants to be? Beanie Feldstein stars as Johana, with Alfie Allen, Jameela Jamil, Lucy Punch, Sharon Horgan, Paddy Considine, Chris O'Dowd, and Emma Thompson.
- 4/9/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Beanie Feldstein undergoes a complete transformation in her new film “How to Build a Girl,” and it’s not just because her character sports a British accent.
The first trailer for “How to Build a Girl,” an indie comedy starring Feldstein that premiered at Tiff last year, shows a nerdy, mopey teenage writer who finds success, fame and notoriety when she reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, a flamboyant and colorful punk rock critic. She becomes sucked into the world of the ’90s rock scene and has to contend with the existential question of whether she wants to become this person or she needs to start all over again.
“Last night, rock and roll meant nothing to me. By midnight tonight, it was the most important thing in the world,” she says in the trailer while at a rambunctious show. “These are the places where you can come and dance and...
The first trailer for “How to Build a Girl,” an indie comedy starring Feldstein that premiered at Tiff last year, shows a nerdy, mopey teenage writer who finds success, fame and notoriety when she reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, a flamboyant and colorful punk rock critic. She becomes sucked into the world of the ’90s rock scene and has to contend with the existential question of whether she wants to become this person or she needs to start all over again.
“Last night, rock and roll meant nothing to me. By midnight tonight, it was the most important thing in the world,” she says in the trailer while at a rambunctious show. “These are the places where you can come and dance and...
- 4/8/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Loosely based on beloved author Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, Coky Giedroyc’s rollicking “How to Build a Girl” is an amusing enough entry into the canon of coming-of-age teen comedies, but one made even better with another winning performance by star Beanie Feldstein. The “Booksmart” and “Lady Bird” charmer has already left her mark on the genre, and Giedroyc’s feature only allows her to continue that tradition.
Set in mid-’90s Britain, the film follows Feldstein as Johanna (a Moran stand-in), a geeky nobody desperate to make her mark on the world. After a (hilarious and also terribly cringe-y) appearance on a local television show fails to launch Johanna’s latent dreams of being a writer, she opts to pivot to something new: wild rock critic. Reinventing herself as the showy “Dolly Wilde” eventually leads to unexpected success and Johanna’s admittance to a world of hip London types,...
Set in mid-’90s Britain, the film follows Feldstein as Johanna (a Moran stand-in), a geeky nobody desperate to make her mark on the world. After a (hilarious and also terribly cringe-y) appearance on a local television show fails to launch Johanna’s latent dreams of being a writer, she opts to pivot to something new: wild rock critic. Reinventing herself as the showy “Dolly Wilde” eventually leads to unexpected success and Johanna’s admittance to a world of hip London types,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
From her charming scene-stealing turn in Lady Bird to last year’s uproarious performance as the co-lead in Booksmart, Beanie Feldstein has catapulted herself as the new star to watch. IFC Films has now unveiled the first charming trailer for her next feature, How to Build a Girl. Getting a May 8th digital release in the U.S, Coky Giedroyc’s Tiff selection also stars Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Chris O’Dowd, Lucy Punch, and Jameela Jamil.
Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by British journalist Caitlan Moran, who co-wrote the screenplay, the film conveys the trajectory of a young aspiring writer Johana Morrigan (Feldstein) who indulges in her colorful imagination by deciding to reinvent herself as the flamboyant Dolly Wilde, an impossible to please music critic.
In our review by Jared Mobarak, he praised Feldstein’s performance, saying, “Feldstein is a delight as Joanna. She never breaks from the British...
Based on the best-selling semi-autobiographical novel by British journalist Caitlan Moran, who co-wrote the screenplay, the film conveys the trajectory of a young aspiring writer Johana Morrigan (Feldstein) who indulges in her colorful imagination by deciding to reinvent herself as the flamboyant Dolly Wilde, an impossible to please music critic.
In our review by Jared Mobarak, he praised Feldstein’s performance, saying, “Feldstein is a delight as Joanna. She never breaks from the British...
- 4/8/2020
- by Margaret Rasberry
- The Film Stage
Beanie Feldstein‘s new film strikes a chord with a new generation of young girls.
In a People exclusive look at the first trailer for How to Build a Girl, Feldstein (Booksmart), 26, stars as Johanna Morrigan, a 16-year-old girl living with her large family in a working-class neighborhood in England. The film is based on Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical fiction novel.
“How much longer am I going to have to be here?” she asks as she bemoans her seemingly boring life. “I want to burn, I want to explode. I want to have sexual intercourse… With someone who has a car.
In a People exclusive look at the first trailer for How to Build a Girl, Feldstein (Booksmart), 26, stars as Johanna Morrigan, a 16-year-old girl living with her large family in a working-class neighborhood in England. The film is based on Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical fiction novel.
“How much longer am I going to have to be here?” she asks as she bemoans her seemingly boring life. “I want to burn, I want to explode. I want to have sexual intercourse… With someone who has a car.
- 4/8/2020
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Caitlin Moran and Coky Giedroyc on the red carpet for How To Build A Girl Photo: Glasgow Film Festival
The penultimate day of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival was the only one apart from the opening day without a free morning science fiction film, which resulted in some fans sulking that it just didn’t feel right without one of festival co-director Allan Hunter’s introductions. It also saw Frightfest get off to a rocky start, as there was a problem getting scheduled serial killer thriller Anderson Falls to play. Attempts to stream it off Vimeo straight onto the big screen were getting nowhere so the decision was eventually made to show A Night Of Horror: Nightmare Radio, which had been scheduled to be the mini-fest’s closing film, instead, but the loosely structured anthology left fans who had been spoiled by the previous night’s anthology, The Mortuary Collection,...
The penultimate day of this year’s Glasgow Film Festival was the only one apart from the opening day without a free morning science fiction film, which resulted in some fans sulking that it just didn’t feel right without one of festival co-director Allan Hunter’s introductions. It also saw Frightfest get off to a rocky start, as there was a problem getting scheduled serial killer thriller Anderson Falls to play. Attempts to stream it off Vimeo straight onto the big screen were getting nowhere so the decision was eventually made to show A Night Of Horror: Nightmare Radio, which had been scheduled to be the mini-fest’s closing film, instead, but the loosely structured anthology left fans who had been spoiled by the previous night’s anthology, The Mortuary Collection,...
- 3/9/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Glasgow Film Festival celebrated its highest ever attendance, with more than 43,000 admissions. In addition to the 43,147 attending screenings and events across the city, over 3000 people attended the first ever UK exhibition of work by legendary Hollywood photographer Susan Wood. The exhibition ran throughout the festival at The Lighthouse.
GFF20 finished in style on Sunday night with the UK premiere of How To Build A Girl, the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s memoir which was directed by Coky Giedroyc. Moran and Giedroyc were both in attendance. This year the festival also played host to a number of guests including Simon Pegg, George Mackay, Earl Cave, Simon Bird, Monica Dolan, Emily Beecham, Imogen Poots, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson, Alice Winocour and the cast of Our Ladies. International guests included Marjane Satrapi and Ingvar Sigurðsson.
Gff closed on International Women’s Day (Iwd) with a programme dedicated to female talent both...
GFF20 finished in style on Sunday night with the UK premiere of How To Build A Girl, the big screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s memoir which was directed by Coky Giedroyc. Moran and Giedroyc were both in attendance. This year the festival also played host to a number of guests including Simon Pegg, George Mackay, Earl Cave, Simon Bird, Monica Dolan, Emily Beecham, Imogen Poots, Celia Imrie, Bill Paterson, Alice Winocour and the cast of Our Ladies. International guests included Marjane Satrapi and Ingvar Sigurðsson.
Gff closed on International Women’s Day (Iwd) with a programme dedicated to female talent both...
- 3/9/2020
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Cph:dox, the Danish documentary film festival, has cancelled its opening night gala after Denmark’s government responded to the growing spread of coronavirus by asking organizers to pull events featuring more than 1,000 people. The event had been due to kick off with a screening of Kenneth Sorento’s The Fight For Greenland. The festival will otherwise go ahead as planned, with heightened hygiene procedures, unless the government introduces more severe measures to combat Covid-19, organizers said in a statement today.
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
This year’s Dublin International Film Festival closed over the weekend, with John Connors’ debut feature documentary Endless Sunshine On A Cloudy Day scooping the audience award. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself, which premiered at Sundance, closed the festival as a gala screening and also took the Human Rights Film Award. Actor Liam Cunningham received the inaugural Lifetime Contribution Award. Elsewhere, Milje Li’s Confucian Dream won in the Documentary Competition,...
- 3/9/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom O’Sullivan’s Irish famine drama received its UK premiere at the festival.
Tom O’Sullivan’s Irish famine drama Arracht won the audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff)’s closing ceremony on March 8.
The film received its UK premiere at the festival and marks the feature debut of Irish writer-director Sullivan.
Set amid the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, with dialogue in Irish Gaelic, the story centres on a fisherman who finds himself having to care for a young girl after his decision to take in a former soldier with a dark past has unexpected consequences.
Tom O’Sullivan’s Irish famine drama Arracht won the audience award at the Glasgow Film Festival (Gff)’s closing ceremony on March 8.
The film received its UK premiere at the festival and marks the feature debut of Irish writer-director Sullivan.
Set amid the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, with dialogue in Irish Gaelic, the story centres on a fisherman who finds himself having to care for a young girl after his decision to take in a former soldier with a dark past has unexpected consequences.
- 3/9/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
World premieres include Julian Jarrold’s biopic ’Sulphur And White’ and Anthony Baxter’s documentary ‘Flint’.
The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed the full programme for its 16th edition, which will run from February 26 to March 8.
The line-up features nine world premieres throughout the programme, including Julian Jarrold’s biopic Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley as real-life mountaineer and charity campaigner David Tait who faced long-buried childhood trauma.
The festival will also debut documentaries Flint, from Scottish director Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) about the Michigan city’s toxic water scandal; and Robbie Fraser’s Pictures From Afghanistan,...
The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed the full programme for its 16th edition, which will run from February 26 to March 8.
The line-up features nine world premieres throughout the programme, including Julian Jarrold’s biopic Sulphur And White, starring Mark Stanley as real-life mountaineer and charity campaigner David Tait who faced long-buried childhood trauma.
The festival will also debut documentaries Flint, from Scottish director Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) about the Michigan city’s toxic water scandal; and Robbie Fraser’s Pictures From Afghanistan,...
- 1/29/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
UK premiere of ‘Proxima’ to open 16th edition of the festival.
The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed that its 16th edition will be bookended by female-directed features for the first time.
The festival will open on February 26 with Proxima, from French filmmaker Alice Winocour, and close on March 8 with How To Build A Girl, directed by Coky Giedroyc. Both are UK premieres.
Proxima stars Eva Green as an astronaut and single mother who signs up for a year-long space mission, leaving her young daughter behind. Joining an all-male crew – played by Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger and Aleksey Fateev – she battles...
The Glasgow Film Festival has revealed that its 16th edition will be bookended by female-directed features for the first time.
The festival will open on February 26 with Proxima, from French filmmaker Alice Winocour, and close on March 8 with How To Build A Girl, directed by Coky Giedroyc. Both are UK premieres.
Proxima stars Eva Green as an astronaut and single mother who signs up for a year-long space mission, leaving her young daughter behind. Joining an all-male crew – played by Matt Dillon, Lars Eidinger and Aleksey Fateev – she battles...
- 1/9/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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