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RoboCop 2 4K Uhd from Scream Factory
RoboCop 2 will protect the innocent on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sequel has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.
Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) directs from a script by comic book legend Frank Miller and Walon Green (Eraser). Peter Weller returns to star with Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon.
Special features include: commentaries by CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon and the RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians; Corporate Wars: The Making of RoboCop 2; Machine Parts: The FX of RoboCop 2; Ocp Declassified; and more.
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RoboCop 2 4K Uhd from Scream Factory
RoboCop 2 will protect the innocent on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sequel has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.
Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) directs from a script by comic book legend Frank Miller and Walon Green (Eraser). Peter Weller returns to star with Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon.
Special features include: commentaries by CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon and the RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians; Corporate Wars: The Making of RoboCop 2; Machine Parts: The FX of RoboCop 2; Ocp Declassified; and more.
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- 4/5/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Michael Cowan, previously of UK outfit Phoenix Worldwide Entertainment, has set up shop with a fresh venture offering sales, distribution and minimum guarantees, Blue Eyes Film.
Projects on Blue Eyes Film’s sales slate include two features from Ray Burdis: completed comedy Miss The Kiss, starring John Hannah, Martin Kemp, Sadie Frost and Patsy Kensit, plus heist feature The Last Tandem In Paris, with Laëtitia Eïdo, Will Young and Michelle Collins attached to star, with shooting to commence in May in Belgium, Paris and London.
Further pick-ups include international sales, excluding Canada, on Darrell Dennis’s Canadian indigenous teenage...
Projects on Blue Eyes Film’s sales slate include two features from Ray Burdis: completed comedy Miss The Kiss, starring John Hannah, Martin Kemp, Sadie Frost and Patsy Kensit, plus heist feature The Last Tandem In Paris, with Laëtitia Eïdo, Will Young and Michelle Collins attached to star, with shooting to commence in May in Belgium, Paris and London.
Further pick-ups include international sales, excluding Canada, on Darrell Dennis’s Canadian indigenous teenage...
- 2/19/2024
- ScreenDaily
U.K. production studio Content Kings is expanding to the Middle East with a new office in Dubai, Variety can confirm.
Darren Arturi has been tapped to lead the office, joining the company as director of Middle East and Asia operations.
“We are eager to embrace the rich cultural tapestry and untapped potential of this region,” said Arturi. “Our aim is to create content that not only entertains but also resonates with the local audience, and we are eager to collaborate with the creative talent in the Middle East to bring our vision to life.”
With a plan to bring high-quality storytelling and entertainment to the United Arab Emirates’ content landscape, Content Kings are already working on their first project in the region. The show, which goes into production in Saudi Arabia in Jan. 2024, will see contestants compete for a “massive cash prize.”
Another project in the works involves a “major U.
Darren Arturi has been tapped to lead the office, joining the company as director of Middle East and Asia operations.
“We are eager to embrace the rich cultural tapestry and untapped potential of this region,” said Arturi. “Our aim is to create content that not only entertains but also resonates with the local audience, and we are eager to collaborate with the creative talent in the Middle East to bring our vision to life.”
With a plan to bring high-quality storytelling and entertainment to the United Arab Emirates’ content landscape, Content Kings are already working on their first project in the region. The show, which goes into production in Saudi Arabia in Jan. 2024, will see contestants compete for a “massive cash prize.”
Another project in the works involves a “major U.
- 11/13/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Sound Unseen, the music documentary festival held in Minneapolis, is returning with a slew of rock docs including Alison Ellwood’s Cyndi Lauper film Let the Canary Sing and the North American premiere of Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin about the Libertines co-founder.
The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.
Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”
Federation...
The 24th iteration of the festival runs between November 8-12.
Let The Canary Sing will open the festival on Wednesday November 8 and Katia de Vidas’s Doherty film closes the festival on Sunday November 12.
“We’re thrilled to be bringing some of the best and most buzzed about music documentaries and fiction films of the year to Minneapolis”, said Sound Unseen Festival Director Jim Brunzell. “The entire team has done an incredible job and after the success of last year’s festival, we hope the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota audiences will bring the same energy and excitement to Sound Unseen more than ever.”
Federation...
- 10/4/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
1185 will provide gap funding, secured against minimum guarantees, equity investment and tax break/expenditure credit cashflow.
UK post-production and VFX outfit 1185 is moving into film finance by offering financial and funding support to filmmakers using its facilities.
1185 will provide gap funding, secured against minimum guarantees, equity investment and tax break/expenditure credit cashflow to producers with whom it works.
Projects in which 1185 is involved as producer/financier include Paul Duane’s horror film All You Need Is Death, recently picked up by XYZ Films and Ray Burdis’s gangster comedy Miss The Kiss starring John Hannah and Patsy Kensit.
“It...
UK post-production and VFX outfit 1185 is moving into film finance by offering financial and funding support to filmmakers using its facilities.
1185 will provide gap funding, secured against minimum guarantees, equity investment and tax break/expenditure credit cashflow to producers with whom it works.
Projects in which 1185 is involved as producer/financier include Paul Duane’s horror film All You Need Is Death, recently picked up by XYZ Films and Ray Burdis’s gangster comedy Miss The Kiss starring John Hannah and Patsy Kensit.
“It...
- 5/23/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Documentary charts the station’s rise from pirate outfit to Britpop champion, featuring alumni including Ricky Gervais and Steve Lamacq
This account of the rise and fall of radio station Xfm (by Ray Burdis and co-director Ian Jefferies) will bring rheumy tears of nostalgic wistfulness to the eyes of Gen Xers and older millennials who were living in London in the 1990s. Not that it’s especially sad: if anything it’s a classic story of cool kids who get to live the dream then either sell out to the man or be betrayed by the guys who sold out, but still end up doing all right in the end. Nobody dies, apart from poor Princess Diana who was killed the morning that Xfm was starting its first day of legal broadcasting, thus rather dampening the exultant mood.
Founder Sammy Jacob recalls the station’s roots in pirate radio, operating...
This account of the rise and fall of radio station Xfm (by Ray Burdis and co-director Ian Jefferies) will bring rheumy tears of nostalgic wistfulness to the eyes of Gen Xers and older millennials who were living in London in the 1990s. Not that it’s especially sad: if anything it’s a classic story of cool kids who get to live the dream then either sell out to the man or be betrayed by the guys who sold out, but still end up doing all right in the end. Nobody dies, apart from poor Princess Diana who was killed the morning that Xfm was starting its first day of legal broadcasting, thus rather dampening the exultant mood.
Founder Sammy Jacob recalls the station’s roots in pirate radio, operating...
- 8/31/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Kick Out the Jams: The Story of Xfm, from director Ray Burdis, is a retelling of the birth and development of a fledgling pirate radio station and those passionate few that would pave their own way in the pursuit of giving a voice to the growing popularity of the indie Britpop scene in the 1990s. More than that this is a snapshot of the revolutionisation of the airwaves from the voices of the DJs at ground level, the friendships formed and careers made. Even more than that this doc is a love letter to a moment in time, a year not to be forgotten and a feeling of true optimism and unbridled excitement.
Now, I do love a good documentary, especially ones that tell the stories of a time that although I wasn’t exactly well in the know about what was happening, I was aware something was happening. Music...
Now, I do love a good documentary, especially ones that tell the stories of a time that although I wasn’t exactly well in the know about what was happening, I was aware something was happening. Music...
- 8/24/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Stars: Sam Gittins, Leslie Ash, Perry Benson, Marc Wingett, Toyah Willcox, Scott Peden | Written by Ray Burdis, Pete Meadows | Directed by Ray Burdis
I have only ever seen Quadrophenia once in my life and honestly I wasn’t that enamoured with the movie, I’m not exactly a fan of The Who and I am a child of the late 80s early 90s, so the whole scooters and Mod subculture is kind of lost on me to be completely honest… it was more of a thing that people’s dads were into! However I have seen enough movies or TV shows that have touched on the era (This is England for example) to know it was, and to many will always be, an important part of history.
Luckily though, this movie didn’t have to appeal to my nostalgia bone. I didn’t press play because I have a huge love of everything Mod.
I have only ever seen Quadrophenia once in my life and honestly I wasn’t that enamoured with the movie, I’m not exactly a fan of The Who and I am a child of the late 80s early 90s, so the whole scooters and Mod subculture is kind of lost on me to be completely honest… it was more of a thing that people’s dads were into! However I have seen enough movies or TV shows that have touched on the era (This is England for example) to know it was, and to many will always be, an important part of history.
Luckily though, this movie didn’t have to appeal to my nostalgia bone. I didn’t press play because I have a huge love of everything Mod.
- 8/12/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
The list of celebrities taking part in the latest Pointless specials has been announced.
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman will be joined by famous faces for six new primetime episodes of the hit game show, kicking off on Saturday, April 12.
The first special will have a 1970s theme, with Wizzard and Yes stars Roy Wood and Rick Wakeman facing actors Paul Henry and Madeleine Smith, and Sally Thomsett and Anna Karen, and children's television stars Ed Stewart and Sally James.
Elsewhere, Sir Geoff Hurst and George Cohen MBE will team up in the World Cup special, facing Peter Shilton and Steve Bull, Hope Powell and Casey Stoney, and Graeme Le Saux and commentator Jonathan Pearce.
The Eurovision Pointless special is a thing to behold, with Bucks Fizz's Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan trying to prove their wits against Martin Lee and Sonia Evans, Dana and Johnny Logan, and Jemini's Chris Cromby and Gemma Abbey.
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman will be joined by famous faces for six new primetime episodes of the hit game show, kicking off on Saturday, April 12.
The first special will have a 1970s theme, with Wizzard and Yes stars Roy Wood and Rick Wakeman facing actors Paul Henry and Madeleine Smith, and Sally Thomsett and Anna Karen, and children's television stars Ed Stewart and Sally James.
Elsewhere, Sir Geoff Hurst and George Cohen MBE will team up in the World Cup special, facing Peter Shilton and Steve Bull, Hope Powell and Casey Stoney, and Graeme Le Saux and commentator Jonathan Pearce.
The Eurovision Pointless special is a thing to behold, with Bucks Fizz's Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan trying to prove their wits against Martin Lee and Sonia Evans, Dana and Johnny Logan, and Jemini's Chris Cromby and Gemma Abbey.
- 4/2/2014
- Digital Spy
News from Universe Films, Intandem, Global Screen, Studio 100, Jinga, Stealth, Roar Entertainment and more.
Us deal for Run & Jump
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights from UTA to Run & Jump, Steph Green’s directorial debut sold internationally by Global Screen. The cast features Maxine Peake, Sharon Horgan and Will Forte.
Intandem adopts Dog
Intandem Films has come on board for sales of Martin Kemp’s Top Dog, a gang story currently shooting in London with a cast led by Leo Gregory.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Buyers spark to...
Us deal for Run & Jump
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights from UTA to Run & Jump, Steph Green’s directorial debut sold internationally by Global Screen. The cast features Maxine Peake, Sharon Horgan and Will Forte.
Intandem adopts Dog
Intandem Films has come on board for sales of Martin Kemp’s Top Dog, a gang story currently shooting in London with a cast led by Leo Gregory.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Buyers spark to...
- 11/8/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
News from Universe Films, Intandem, Global Screen, Studio 100, Jinga, Stealth, Roar Entertainment and more.
Us deal for Run & Jump
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights from UTA to Run & Jump, Steph Green’s directorial debut sold internationally by Global Screen. The cast features Maxine Peake, Sharon Horgan and Will Forte.
Intandem adopts Dog
Intandem Films has come on board for sales of Martin Kemp’s Top Dog, a gang story currently shooting in London with a cast led by Leo Gregory.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Buyers spark to...
Us deal for Run & Jump
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights from UTA to Run & Jump, Steph Green’s directorial debut sold internationally by Global Screen. The cast features Maxine Peake, Sharon Horgan and Will Forte.
Intandem adopts Dog
Intandem Films has come on board for sales of Martin Kemp’s Top Dog, a gang story currently shooting in London with a cast led by Leo Gregory.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Buyers spark to...
- 11/8/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
News from Universe Films, Intandem, Global Screen, Studio 100, Jinga, Stealth, Roar Entertainment and more.
Us deal for Run & Jump
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights from UTA to Run & Jump, Steph Green’s directorial debut sold internationally by Global Screen. The cast features Maxine Peake, Sharon Horgan and Will Forte.
Intandem adopts Dog
Intandem Films has come on board for sales of Martin Kemp’s Top Dog, a gang story currently shooting in London with a cast led by Leo Gregory.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Buyers spark to...
Us deal for Run & Jump
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights from UTA to Run & Jump, Steph Green’s directorial debut sold internationally by Global Screen. The cast features Maxine Peake, Sharon Horgan and Will Forte.
Intandem adopts Dog
Intandem Films has come on board for sales of Martin Kemp’s Top Dog, a gang story currently shooting in London with a cast led by Leo Gregory.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Buyers spark to...
- 11/8/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
News from Jinga, Stealth, Roar Entertainment and more.
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Iron Sky gets Director’s Cut release
4Digital Media has picked up UK rights to the director’s cut of Timo Vuorensola’s cult action-comedy Iron Sky from Stealth Media. The ‘dictator’s cut’, which will showcase an additional 20 minutes, will be released in February. The distributor is planning Iron Sky Invasion Week, a series of fan events to mark the release, including a handful of theatrical screenings. The Berlin 2012 debut follows the premise that Nazis set up...
Hansel & Gretel travel for Jinga
Jinga Films has sold Hansel And Gretel & The 4:20 Witch to Adler Entertainment for Italy, Flashstar for Latin America and Thanks & Love for Korea. The cast features Lara Flynn Boyle, Cary Elwes, Molly Quinn and Michael Welch. Previous deals for the film include Peppermint for Germany, Pinnacle for Australia and Tribeca for North America, where the film was released under the title Hansel & Gretel Get Baked.
Iron Sky gets Director’s Cut release
4Digital Media has picked up UK rights to the director’s cut of Timo Vuorensola’s cult action-comedy Iron Sky from Stealth Media. The ‘dictator’s cut’, which will showcase an additional 20 minutes, will be released in February. The distributor is planning Iron Sky Invasion Week, a series of fan events to mark the release, including a handful of theatrical screenings. The Berlin 2012 debut follows the premise that Nazis set up...
- 11/8/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell) andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
★★☆☆☆ The latest in a long line of north-of-the-border, 'gritty' British crime dramas, Ray Burdis' The Wee Man (2013) has arguably more charm and invention than most, yet still stumbles into the same routine clichés and pitfalls that have blighted the gangster movie over the last few decades. Sweet Sixteen star Martin Compston puts in a solid, no-frills performance as titular, real life Glaswegian gangbanger Paul Ferris, who reverts to a life of crime after years of brutal bullying and violent abuse throughout his formative childhood. There's even a scene where an innocent dog gets kicked to death, just to cover all bases.
Raised during the 1960s by two very decent parents in the notorious Glasgow suburb of Blackhill - and perpetually warned by his protective father of the dangers of the city's initially alluring crime culture - Ferris is forced to do his first round of porridge after a frenzied...
Raised during the 1960s by two very decent parents in the notorious Glasgow suburb of Blackhill - and perpetually warned by his protective father of the dangers of the city's initially alluring crime culture - Ferris is forced to do his first round of porridge after a frenzied...
- 7/9/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Django Unchained | The Sessions | Everyday | V/H/S | The Wee Man | Ballroom Dancer | Monsters Inc 3D
Django Unchained (18)
(Quentin Tarantino, 2012, Us) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington. 165 mins
Few directors would have the imagination, the guts or the resources to reimagine America's slaving past as a spaghetti western/blaxploitation thriller, but the result is Tarantino's most politically provocative movie, and one of his most entertaining – up to a point. Foxx's odyssey from captive slave to mythical avenger, enabled by Waltz's liberal German "dentist", is often an exhilarating ride, though the action is constantly slowed up by Tarantino's love of his own dialogue – if only he'd kept that chained in.
The Sessions (15)
(Ben Lewin, 2012, Us) John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H Macy. 93 mins
Severely disabled man seeks first–time sexual experience. It doesn't sound too promising but there are plenty of riches in this open–hearted drama: the performances,...
Django Unchained (18)
(Quentin Tarantino, 2012, Us) Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington. 165 mins
Few directors would have the imagination, the guts or the resources to reimagine America's slaving past as a spaghetti western/blaxploitation thriller, but the result is Tarantino's most politically provocative movie, and one of his most entertaining – up to a point. Foxx's odyssey from captive slave to mythical avenger, enabled by Waltz's liberal German "dentist", is often an exhilarating ride, though the action is constantly slowed up by Tarantino's love of his own dialogue – if only he'd kept that chained in.
The Sessions (15)
(Ben Lewin, 2012, Us) John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H Macy. 93 mins
Severely disabled man seeks first–time sexual experience. It doesn't sound too promising but there are plenty of riches in this open–hearted drama: the performances,...
- 1/19/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Assembling a host of esteemed Scottish performers, Ray Burdis presents The Wee Man, a cinematic depiction of the real-life story of infamous gangster Paul Ferris. This perturbing tale has finally been brought to our attention, having been something of a notorious story already up in Scotland, yet one that has failed to fully reach out to a further demographic. Well, it certainly has now – and rightly so.
Martin Compston takes on the role of Ferris – and we watch on as a life of crime takes hold of this impressionable youngster. Growing up in 70’s Glasgow, a young Ferris has to learn that the streets can be a rough place, and despite taking strong advice from his father (Denis Lawson), years of torment at the hands of a local group of thugs sends Ferris down the wrong path.
A few years on and Ferris – now a young adult – finally gives in...
Martin Compston takes on the role of Ferris – and we watch on as a life of crime takes hold of this impressionable youngster. Growing up in 70’s Glasgow, a young Ferris has to learn that the streets can be a rough place, and despite taking strong advice from his father (Denis Lawson), years of torment at the hands of a local group of thugs sends Ferris down the wrong path.
A few years on and Ferris – now a young adult – finally gives in...
- 1/18/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It's Glasgow gangsters this time, not Cockneys, but Britflick director Ray Burdis doesn't show much improvement
Ray Burdis co-directed and appeared in the grisly mockney-geezer Britflicks Final Cut (1998) and Love, Honour and Obey (2000), and this clumsy, cliched crime thriller, written and directed by Burdis, has some echoes of those, despite being set in Glasgow. It is worryingly like the many ropey London-estuary gangland movies that are allegedly "true stories" – that is, based on the self-pitying and self-serving books by ex-criminals who explain how their crime career began with standing up to bullies, and how they were never the really bad ones. This has a great cast: Martin Compston plays Paul Ferris, a young Glasgow tough guy who gets involved in the crime empire run by local godfather Arthur Thompson (Patrick Bergin). Denis Lawson gives the film a touch of humanity and class as Ferris's weary dad. But as a whole,...
Ray Burdis co-directed and appeared in the grisly mockney-geezer Britflicks Final Cut (1998) and Love, Honour and Obey (2000), and this clumsy, cliched crime thriller, written and directed by Burdis, has some echoes of those, despite being set in Glasgow. It is worryingly like the many ropey London-estuary gangland movies that are allegedly "true stories" – that is, based on the self-pitying and self-serving books by ex-criminals who explain how their crime career began with standing up to bullies, and how they were never the really bad ones. This has a great cast: Martin Compston plays Paul Ferris, a young Glasgow tough guy who gets involved in the crime empire run by local godfather Arthur Thompson (Patrick Bergin). Denis Lawson gives the film a touch of humanity and class as Ferris's weary dad. But as a whole,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The gangster film is one of the genres we tend to do better than anyone else here in the UK, and The Wee Man is shaping up to be a very promising entry into that genre.
Hitting UK cinemas in just over a month’s time, the film sees Martin Compston (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) star in the lead, based on the true story of reformed Glaswegian gangster, Paul Ferris. And with just a few weeks left to wait, we’ve had an impressive new trailer and poster sent our way to share with you.
“The story begins in the sixties. At the age of just eleven, Paul has already learned that life on the street is tough. Everybody knows his place. Poverty breeds corruption, crime, violence and bullying. Blackhill was the most notorious area of all.
The film charts the way in which Paul was bullied as a child,...
Hitting UK cinemas in just over a month’s time, the film sees Martin Compston (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) star in the lead, based on the true story of reformed Glaswegian gangster, Paul Ferris. And with just a few weeks left to wait, we’ve had an impressive new trailer and poster sent our way to share with you.
“The story begins in the sixties. At the age of just eleven, Paul has already learned that life on the street is tough. Everybody knows his place. Poverty breeds corruption, crime, violence and bullying. Blackhill was the most notorious area of all.
The film charts the way in which Paul was bullied as a child,...
- 12/11/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
It's a lack of pretension that makes Ray Winstone so likable – so long as we don't start getting fancy notions of him as 'an actor'
I suspect Ray Winstone usually knows a good film from a bad one, but he has a world-weary calm that sees no need to let us in on the secret. Perhaps he has an inkling of how pleased we are to see him, and since he has had to declare bankruptcy twice so far as a professional actor he may take a certain gloomy pleasure in just being employed. There are actors well versed in elaborate, erudite answers to the question, "Why did you take this part?", but Winstone has the battered patience of a bloke who has seldom believed in "taking" a part rather than having the good/bad luck of ending up with it. It is that lack of pretension that leaves him so natural and likable,...
I suspect Ray Winstone usually knows a good film from a bad one, but he has a world-weary calm that sees no need to let us in on the secret. Perhaps he has an inkling of how pleased we are to see him, and since he has had to declare bankruptcy twice so far as a professional actor he may take a certain gloomy pleasure in just being employed. There are actors well versed in elaborate, erudite answers to the question, "Why did you take this part?", but Winstone has the battered patience of a bloke who has seldom believed in "taking" a part rather than having the good/bad luck of ending up with it. It is that lack of pretension that leaves him so natural and likable,...
- 11/18/2011
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
BBC's raunchy comedy Manchild has been adopted by ABC and Touchstone Television. The network and the studio are developing a U.S. version of the hot British show, often referred to as "the male answer to Sex and the City" with the original series' creator-writer-producer Nick Fisher attached to write and executive produce and its producer Linda Seifert on board as producer. Manchild centers on four 49-year-old male friends in the midst of their midlife crises who speak their minds on a wide range of topics, but most of all sex. Ray Burdis, Anthony Head, Don Warrington and Nigel Havers (who also narrates) star in the original series, which premiered in the United States on BBC America this summer to strong reviews. ABC has given a premium script commitment to the project, which had piqued the interest of least one other network. Fisher's TV credits also include Channel Four's Screaming Rebels and One Hour With Jonathan Ross and Granada Television's Children's Ward. On the feature side, he wrote Virtual Sexuality. Fisher and Seifert are repped by Paradigm.
- 11/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
During the next few months, about half a dozen British crime films are due for local release, but first out of the barrel is "Love, Honour and Obey", a fascinating blend of violence and humor that features some of the United Kingdom's best young acting talent, including Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Rhys Ifans and Sadie Frost. The film works in fits and starts, and while well publicized in Britain, it will probably make a limited impact. UIP distributes here as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
"Love, Honour and Obey" is written, produced and directed by the team of Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis, who developed their improvisational style in the television comedy series "Operation Good Guys" and their first film "Final Cut" (1997), again starring Law, Frost and Winstone. Possibly to make the improv work easier for their actors, many of the film's characters have the same first name as the actor.
Jonny Jonny Lee Miller), who works in a dead-end job as a courier, persuades his best friend, Jude (Jude Law), to help him join the North London gang of Jude's Uncle Ray (Ray Winstone). Jonny takes to the gangster life with gusto and especially enjoys the conflict with the rival South London gang, led by Sean (Sean Pertwee). Jonny takes an especially strong dislike to one of Sean's bodyguards, Matthew Rhys Ifans, who played Spike in "Notting Hill").
Jonny and Matthew's personal battle eventually draws in both gangs and escalates in violence. This leads to a shootout at Ray's wedding to Sadie (yes, Sadie Frost), with Matthew killing one of Ray's men. Eventually, Ray and Sean decide to sacrifice the two men for the sake of peace between the rival gangs.
Though there is plenty of violence -- both physical and verbal -- most of it is off-screen. The aspects that work best are the humor and the ability of some of the supporting cast to have an impact on the story. The loose improv nature means that lesser cast members can develop easily. It is often their stories that bring the most satisfaction, with scenes between Anciano (as bouncer Dom) and Burdis (as bouncer Burdis) especially amusing as they discuss problems of Burdis' sex life.
Miller seems unable to develop his character fully, especially in terms of his transition from no-hope courier to gun-toting, hardened thug (though he may be hampered by the fact that he has to narrate the story while dressed in a clown outfit). Law brings his expected ease. As the rival gang bosses, Winstone is a subtle combination of menace and charm, while Pertwee gives one of his best performances ever. The women in the film are given little to work with.
The film is interspersed with scenes of various cast members singing along to a karaoke machine (supposedly from Ray and Sadie's wedding), with various actors displaying fine voices, especially Winstone, Miller, Pertwee and Kathy Burke. Costumes are all spot on, and other technical credits are fine, though at times the dialogue is a little muffled.
LOVE, HONOUR AND OBEY
BBC Films presents a Fugitive production
Producer-director-writers: Dominic Anciano,
Ray Burdis
Executive producers: David M. Thompson,
Jane Tranter, Jim Beach
Associate producer: Sadie Frost
Director of photography: John Ward
Production designer: `Nick Burnell
Costume designer: Ali Brown
Editor: Rachel Meyrick
Music supervision: John Beckett
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sadie: Sadie Frost
Jonny: Jonny Lee Miller
Jude: Jude Law
Ray: Ray Winstone
Kathy: Kathy Burke
Sean: Sean Pertwee
Maureen: Denise Van Outen
Matthew: Rhys Ifans
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Love, Honour and Obey" is written, produced and directed by the team of Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis, who developed their improvisational style in the television comedy series "Operation Good Guys" and their first film "Final Cut" (1997), again starring Law, Frost and Winstone. Possibly to make the improv work easier for their actors, many of the film's characters have the same first name as the actor.
Jonny Jonny Lee Miller), who works in a dead-end job as a courier, persuades his best friend, Jude (Jude Law), to help him join the North London gang of Jude's Uncle Ray (Ray Winstone). Jonny takes to the gangster life with gusto and especially enjoys the conflict with the rival South London gang, led by Sean (Sean Pertwee). Jonny takes an especially strong dislike to one of Sean's bodyguards, Matthew Rhys Ifans, who played Spike in "Notting Hill").
Jonny and Matthew's personal battle eventually draws in both gangs and escalates in violence. This leads to a shootout at Ray's wedding to Sadie (yes, Sadie Frost), with Matthew killing one of Ray's men. Eventually, Ray and Sean decide to sacrifice the two men for the sake of peace between the rival gangs.
Though there is plenty of violence -- both physical and verbal -- most of it is off-screen. The aspects that work best are the humor and the ability of some of the supporting cast to have an impact on the story. The loose improv nature means that lesser cast members can develop easily. It is often their stories that bring the most satisfaction, with scenes between Anciano (as bouncer Dom) and Burdis (as bouncer Burdis) especially amusing as they discuss problems of Burdis' sex life.
Miller seems unable to develop his character fully, especially in terms of his transition from no-hope courier to gun-toting, hardened thug (though he may be hampered by the fact that he has to narrate the story while dressed in a clown outfit). Law brings his expected ease. As the rival gang bosses, Winstone is a subtle combination of menace and charm, while Pertwee gives one of his best performances ever. The women in the film are given little to work with.
The film is interspersed with scenes of various cast members singing along to a karaoke machine (supposedly from Ray and Sadie's wedding), with various actors displaying fine voices, especially Winstone, Miller, Pertwee and Kathy Burke. Costumes are all spot on, and other technical credits are fine, though at times the dialogue is a little muffled.
LOVE, HONOUR AND OBEY
BBC Films presents a Fugitive production
Producer-director-writers: Dominic Anciano,
Ray Burdis
Executive producers: David M. Thompson,
Jane Tranter, Jim Beach
Associate producer: Sadie Frost
Director of photography: John Ward
Production designer: `Nick Burnell
Costume designer: Ali Brown
Editor: Rachel Meyrick
Music supervision: John Beckett
Color/stereo
Cast:
Sadie: Sadie Frost
Jonny: Jonny Lee Miller
Jude: Jude Law
Ray: Ray Winstone
Kathy: Kathy Burke
Sean: Sean Pertwee
Maureen: Denise Van Outen
Matthew: Rhys Ifans
Running time -- 98 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 4/12/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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