In his latest podcast/interview, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks to David Nicholas Wilkinson, director of the epic documentary Getting Away With Murder(s). After its theatrical release in 2021, it was 17th in The Guardian’s 50 Best Films Of 2021.
More 4 will broadcast Getting Away With Murder(s) on UK TV. Part 1 on 27th January – Holocaust Memorial Day at 21:00. They have, with David’s full blessing, decided, rather than broadcast the full 175 minutes, which is tough going, to put it over two nights. Part 2 follows on Saturday, 28th January, at the same time. It will also be on All 4.
Channel 4 have taken the almost unprecedented step of broadcasting each part without any adverts… This film is two decades plus in the making with a tiny budget.
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More 4 will broadcast Getting Away With Murder(s) on UK TV. Part 1 on 27th January – Holocaust Memorial Day at 21:00. They have, with David’s full blessing, decided, rather than broadcast the full 175 minutes, which is tough going, to put it over two nights. Part 2 follows on Saturday, 28th January, at the same time. It will also be on All 4.
Channel 4 have taken the almost unprecedented step of broadcasting each part without any adverts… This film is two decades plus in the making with a tiny budget.
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- 1/24/2023
- by Stuart Wright
- Nerdly
James Bond blockbuster will look to break £20m on opening weekend.
Universal’s James Bond blockbuster No Time To Die will look to break the £20m mark on its first weekend in cinemas, as it receives the widest opening of any title in the history of the UK-Ireland box office.
The 25th film in the Eon Productions Bond franchise is playing in 772 cinemas this weekend, comfortably surpassing the previous record-holder – Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker in 2019 with 744.
With a few sites still to come in, Universal is reporting the film has taken £4.89m on its opening day.
Universal’s James Bond blockbuster No Time To Die will look to break the £20m mark on its first weekend in cinemas, as it receives the widest opening of any title in the history of the UK-Ireland box office.
The 25th film in the Eon Productions Bond franchise is playing in 772 cinemas this weekend, comfortably surpassing the previous record-holder – Disney’s Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker in 2019 with 744.
With a few sites still to come in, Universal is reporting the film has taken £4.89m on its opening day.
- 10/1/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
"99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?" Guerilla Films in the UK has unveiled a trailer for a provocative new documentary film called Getting Away with Murder(s), the latest from English doc director David Wilkinson. If you think that title is referring to the Holocaust, you're right. That's exactly what it's asking about. Everyone knows about the Nuremberg Trials, and the London Agreement of August 1945. But why were so many of those involved with the Nazis never prosecuted? Discover the profound and distressing untold story of the Holocaust... Being released 75 years to the day of the International Military Tribunal sentencing. This looks like an uncomfortable film to watch because it's going to poke and prod at questions that none of us want to answer, including whether being complicit in something that everyone else is complicit in really makes them worthy of being prosecuted.
- 9/17/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Apple is producing 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room, a new documentary special that tells the story of 9/11 through the eyes of the Presidency by gaining unprecedented access to the key decision makers who responded for the nation. Narrated by Jeff Daniels, the doc recounts the 12 hours after the strike on that momentous day, offering rare and unique insight into the dilemmas of decision making against the clock, as those involved provide intimate, revealing, and heartfelt details for the first time.
Apple will co-produce the project with BBC and the documentary will make its global debut on Apple TV+ and BBC One this September, marking the 20th anniversary of the attack.
The documentary special will feature never-before-heard testimony with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral...
Apple will co-produce the project with BBC and the documentary will make its global debut on Apple TV+ and BBC One this September, marking the 20th anniversary of the attack.
The documentary special will feature never-before-heard testimony with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral...
- 7/8/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Apple TV Plus and the BBC will present “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” in September.
Narrated by Jeff Daniels, the documentary specials tells the story of 9/11 through the eyes of the U.S. presidency through unprecedented access to the key decision makers who responded to the attacks. It recounts the 12 hours after the strike and dives into the dilemmas of against-the-clock-decision making.
“9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” will feature interviews with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral Deborah Loewer (Head of Situation Room), Josh Bolten (Deputy Chief of Staff), Ari Fleischer (Press Secretary), Karl Rove (Senior Advisor to the President), Mary Matalin (advisor to Cheney), Karen Hughes (Special Advisor to the President), Mike Morrell...
Narrated by Jeff Daniels, the documentary specials tells the story of 9/11 through the eyes of the U.S. presidency through unprecedented access to the key decision makers who responded to the attacks. It recounts the 12 hours after the strike and dives into the dilemmas of against-the-clock-decision making.
“9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” will feature interviews with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor), Colin Powell (Secretary of State), Andy Card (Chief of Staff), Dan Bartlett (Director of Communications), Rear Admiral Deborah Loewer (Head of Situation Room), Josh Bolten (Deputy Chief of Staff), Ari Fleischer (Press Secretary), Karl Rove (Senior Advisor to the President), Mary Matalin (advisor to Cheney), Karen Hughes (Special Advisor to the President), Mike Morrell...
- 7/8/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
David Wilkinson on why he is bringing Postcards from the 48% to the big screen.
The television of my childhood had only two, and later three TV channels. The BBC started broadcasting the news at midday, followed by Watch With Mother, and then the screens went black. Around 4:40pm, programming resumed until about midnight, after which it all went off-air until the following day. ITV was very much the same.
Yet in those days of far less choice, primetime, hard-hitting news and current affairs strands were available to viewers such as World In Action, This Week and Panorama as well as single documentaries, often covering significant political topics effecting the entire nation, usually providing poles-apart perspectives from the government-of-the-day’s point of view.
In 2018, there are circa 400-500-600 TV channels available, via terrestrial, cable or satellite broadcasting.
The television of my childhood had only two, and later three TV channels. The BBC started broadcasting the news at midday, followed by Watch With Mother, and then the screens went black. Around 4:40pm, programming resumed until about midnight, after which it all went off-air until the following day. ITV was very much the same.
Yet in those days of far less choice, primetime, hard-hitting news and current affairs strands were available to viewers such as World In Action, This Week and Panorama as well as single documentaries, often covering significant political topics effecting the entire nation, usually providing poles-apart perspectives from the government-of-the-day’s point of view.
In 2018, there are circa 400-500-600 TV channels available, via terrestrial, cable or satellite broadcasting.
- 7/15/2018
- by David Wilkinson
- Pure Movies
Starting at the White Cliffs of Dover, David Wilkinson’s thoughtful documentary takes a tour of Britain to assess the consequences of leaving the EU
‘Fin” reads the closing title here, with European flair – very much not what the agony of Remainers (if that’s the right collective noun) who line up in Postcards from the 48% hope this film will be. In calm, vicarly manner, Guerrilla Films honcho David Wilkinson gathers and binds a pretty much unarguable case for persisting in trying to overturn Brexit.
Starting on the brink of the White Cliffs of Dover, chez Miriam Margoyles, who apparently owns the closest English house to France, Wilkinson canvases writers, campaigners, captains of industry, Holocaust survivors, and works his way around the country calculating the possible consequences of leaving the EU in his doomsday book – from industrial and infrastructure subsidies, to the spectre of a new hard border in Ireland,...
‘Fin” reads the closing title here, with European flair – very much not what the agony of Remainers (if that’s the right collective noun) who line up in Postcards from the 48% hope this film will be. In calm, vicarly manner, Guerrilla Films honcho David Wilkinson gathers and binds a pretty much unarguable case for persisting in trying to overturn Brexit.
Starting on the brink of the White Cliffs of Dover, chez Miriam Margoyles, who apparently owns the closest English house to France, Wilkinson canvases writers, campaigners, captains of industry, Holocaust survivors, and works his way around the country calculating the possible consequences of leaving the EU in his doomsday book – from industrial and infrastructure subsidies, to the spectre of a new hard border in Ireland,...
- 7/4/2018
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Review by Roger Carpenter
So here is a rather unique little film. Put together as a short second feature for the monstrous 1981 hit Dead and Buried, The Orchard End Murder runs right at 50 minutes and, while greatly fictionalized, was based on an actual murder.
The story centers on a young woman, Pauline Cox (Tracy Hyde), who wanders off from her boyfriend’s cricket match to explore an apple orchard. She makes her way through the orchard into the yard of the railway gatekeeper who invites her in for tea. As she is enjoying the break from the heat, a huge mountain of a man—who happens to have a mind as small as his muscles are large—walks in. He works in the orchard and does odd jobs for the gatekeeper, himself a bit of a pariah because of his hunched back. As the tea break becomes more and more...
So here is a rather unique little film. Put together as a short second feature for the monstrous 1981 hit Dead and Buried, The Orchard End Murder runs right at 50 minutes and, while greatly fictionalized, was based on an actual murder.
The story centers on a young woman, Pauline Cox (Tracy Hyde), who wanders off from her boyfriend’s cricket match to explore an apple orchard. She makes her way through the orchard into the yard of the railway gatekeeper who invites her in for tea. As she is enjoying the break from the heat, a huge mountain of a man—who happens to have a mind as small as his muscles are large—walks in. He works in the orchard and does odd jobs for the gatekeeper, himself a bit of a pariah because of his hunched back. As the tea break becomes more and more...
- 4/26/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Were the first ever moving pictures made in Leeds by Louis Le Prince? David Nicholas Wilkinson’s intriguing documentary makes a convincing case
What starts as a somewhat creaky investigation into the blue-plaque claim that Louis Le Prince “probably” made the world’s first short films in Leeds in 1888 mutates into something altogether more moving and mysterious as director/presenter David Nicholas Wilkinson is consumed by the magic of the moving image. Arguing convincingly that Le Prince’s experiments beat both Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers to the punch, Wilkinson traces the strange story of his subject’s disappearance from the world, and from the history books. Although some of his on-screen discoveries seem staged (“Look, here it is!”), there’s no faking the passion and sincerity that Wilkinson brings to the few fleeting seconds of footage at the heart of this story. Anyone who enjoyed Thomas Lawes’s...
What starts as a somewhat creaky investigation into the blue-plaque claim that Louis Le Prince “probably” made the world’s first short films in Leeds in 1888 mutates into something altogether more moving and mysterious as director/presenter David Nicholas Wilkinson is consumed by the magic of the moving image. Arguing convincingly that Le Prince’s experiments beat both Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers to the punch, Wilkinson traces the strange story of his subject’s disappearance from the world, and from the history books. Although some of his on-screen discoveries seem staged (“Look, here it is!”), there’s no faking the passion and sincerity that Wilkinson brings to the few fleeting seconds of footage at the heart of this story. Anyone who enjoyed Thomas Lawes’s...
- 7/5/2015
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Louis le Prince made the world’s first film, claims David Nicholas Wilkinson, who makes a convincing documentary argument that Leeds is the cradle of cinema
David Nicholas Wilkinson is a man on a mission. He is the Leeds-born film distributor who, for years, has been struggling to convince the world that the first ever film was made in Leeds. Never mind Thomas Edison; never mind the Lumière brothers and their train arriving in La Ciotat; never mind William Friese-Greene. The real pioneer was Frenchman Louis le Prince, who filmed a scene on Leeds bridge and in a Leeds garden, where some Victorians skittishly frolicked – in 1888. But Le Prince did not have the Lumières’ showmanship or Edison’s legal, patent-enforcing muscle; he died before he could develop a projection technique, and so faded from history. There was something else. In 1890, he boarded a train at Dijon and disappeared; his body was never found.
David Nicholas Wilkinson is a man on a mission. He is the Leeds-born film distributor who, for years, has been struggling to convince the world that the first ever film was made in Leeds. Never mind Thomas Edison; never mind the Lumière brothers and their train arriving in La Ciotat; never mind William Friese-Greene. The real pioneer was Frenchman Louis le Prince, who filmed a scene on Leeds bridge and in a Leeds garden, where some Victorians skittishly frolicked – in 1888. But Le Prince did not have the Lumières’ showmanship or Edison’s legal, patent-enforcing muscle; he died before he could develop a projection technique, and so faded from history. There was something else. In 1890, he boarded a train at Dijon and disappeared; his body was never found.
- 7/2/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Under continuous pressure from cat film fans worldwide, online distributor Distrify has finally introduced a fully translated version of the Distrify player in Lingua Feline. Cats are fiercely independent creatures and this innovation allows them to select and watch films without the help of their owners for the first time in history.
"With the rising popularity of cat videos online, we realized we had to meet the demand and make the video player available in a language that our fans could understand," said Distrify's CEO Peter Gerard.
Cats around the world are now able to paw at their tablets and start streaming classic films like Cat Ladies, The Lion King, The Aristocats, Garfield, Cat People, Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Fritz the Cat, The Cat in the Hat, as well as watch the glamorous A-listers such as Blofeld’s right-hand in the Bond films, Jonesy in Alien, Snowbell in Stuart Little, Mr Bigglesworth in Austin Powers, Sassy in Homeward Bound, Cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Mir Jinx in Meet the Parents, Jake in The Cat From Outer Space, all from the comfort of their own litter box or sofa.
When asked for comment Bali, a film aficionado from Barnet enthusiastically said, "Meow meow meow Distrify meow. Meow, meow, awards, meow, meow, Palm Dog, meow, discrimination, meow, puurrrrrrrrr."
Distrify have curated a special collection of films in Lingua Feline
All cat lovers check out
For further information:
Distrify is the fast-growing online cinema with integrated viral marketing tools offering filmmakers and distributors the opportunity to reach audiences worldwide.
The Distrify model turns every trailer for a film into an instant VoD player allowing the customer on discovering a film to click ‘rent’ or ‘buy’. Film fans are rewarded for sharing trailers with their contacts and film critics, online publishers and film fans are able to curate their favourite film collections and earn money for their efforts. Not only does Distrify offer international distribution, but it also ensures that the majority of the revenue earned back by films is passed back to the filmmaker.
Distrify has announced a number of audience development projects in recent weeks all showing how the platform is pioneering direct-to-fan online film distribution.
Distrify is setting up an online platform for the BFI Production Board Collection which will offer audiences worldwide to classics from the collection of 300 films. Creative Scotland is using Distrify to promote and offer the Scottish Film Collection to national and international audiences. The Bangalore-based portal hometalkies.com is using Distrify to premiere films to the Indian diaspora. The Glasgow Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Filmhouse are using Distrify to explore cinema-curated Video on Demand (VoD) for a slate of six films. Distrify has provided the platform for Lgbt film distributor Wolfe Video’s WolfeOnDemand.com. Distrify is partnering The Guardian and international film distributors to offer films such as Terry’s Gilliam’s The Wholly Family.
The Distrify model and technology has been pioneered by co-founders Peter Gerard and Andy Green.
Peter Gerard is an award-winning film producer whose films played at festivals, sold for international broadcast, and downloaded tens of thousands of times. He has also specialised in Rich Internet Applications development and has designed and programmed award-winning eCommerce and eCommunity applications for large financial institutions, governmental organisations, and commercial clients. He built the website for The D-Word online community of documentary professionals and is regularly invited to speak on panels throughout Europe and the Us.
Andy Green is an award-winning film editor and producer whose experience includes promos, commercials, broadcast documentaries and short dramas. As an independent producer his films have won several awards including Best Short Documentary prizes at the Palm Springs and San Francisco film festivals. Having developed three screenplays, all of which were funded, Andy has been featured as an up-and-coming producer at the Eiff/Scottish Executive “Features Scotland” Expo.
Distrify chairman David Nicholas Wilkinson, founder of the Guerilla companies, has an award-winning track record in film/TV and theatre production; cinema/DVD/VOD/airline/TV/online distribution; book publishing, as well as event management. An award-winning actor, he has starred in film/TV/theatre productions, has produced and/or distributed almost 150 feature films and has advised on financing for more than 300 feature film projects.
"With the rising popularity of cat videos online, we realized we had to meet the demand and make the video player available in a language that our fans could understand," said Distrify's CEO Peter Gerard.
Cats around the world are now able to paw at their tablets and start streaming classic films like Cat Ladies, The Lion King, The Aristocats, Garfield, Cat People, Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Fritz the Cat, The Cat in the Hat, as well as watch the glamorous A-listers such as Blofeld’s right-hand in the Bond films, Jonesy in Alien, Snowbell in Stuart Little, Mr Bigglesworth in Austin Powers, Sassy in Homeward Bound, Cat in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Mir Jinx in Meet the Parents, Jake in The Cat From Outer Space, all from the comfort of their own litter box or sofa.
When asked for comment Bali, a film aficionado from Barnet enthusiastically said, "Meow meow meow Distrify meow. Meow, meow, awards, meow, meow, Palm Dog, meow, discrimination, meow, puurrrrrrrrr."
Distrify have curated a special collection of films in Lingua Feline
All cat lovers check out
For further information:
Distrify is the fast-growing online cinema with integrated viral marketing tools offering filmmakers and distributors the opportunity to reach audiences worldwide.
The Distrify model turns every trailer for a film into an instant VoD player allowing the customer on discovering a film to click ‘rent’ or ‘buy’. Film fans are rewarded for sharing trailers with their contacts and film critics, online publishers and film fans are able to curate their favourite film collections and earn money for their efforts. Not only does Distrify offer international distribution, but it also ensures that the majority of the revenue earned back by films is passed back to the filmmaker.
Distrify has announced a number of audience development projects in recent weeks all showing how the platform is pioneering direct-to-fan online film distribution.
Distrify is setting up an online platform for the BFI Production Board Collection which will offer audiences worldwide to classics from the collection of 300 films. Creative Scotland is using Distrify to promote and offer the Scottish Film Collection to national and international audiences. The Bangalore-based portal hometalkies.com is using Distrify to premiere films to the Indian diaspora. The Glasgow Film Theatre and the Edinburgh Filmhouse are using Distrify to explore cinema-curated Video on Demand (VoD) for a slate of six films. Distrify has provided the platform for Lgbt film distributor Wolfe Video’s WolfeOnDemand.com. Distrify is partnering The Guardian and international film distributors to offer films such as Terry’s Gilliam’s The Wholly Family.
The Distrify model and technology has been pioneered by co-founders Peter Gerard and Andy Green.
Peter Gerard is an award-winning film producer whose films played at festivals, sold for international broadcast, and downloaded tens of thousands of times. He has also specialised in Rich Internet Applications development and has designed and programmed award-winning eCommerce and eCommunity applications for large financial institutions, governmental organisations, and commercial clients. He built the website for The D-Word online community of documentary professionals and is regularly invited to speak on panels throughout Europe and the Us.
Andy Green is an award-winning film editor and producer whose experience includes promos, commercials, broadcast documentaries and short dramas. As an independent producer his films have won several awards including Best Short Documentary prizes at the Palm Springs and San Francisco film festivals. Having developed three screenplays, all of which were funded, Andy has been featured as an up-and-coming producer at the Eiff/Scottish Executive “Features Scotland” Expo.
Distrify chairman David Nicholas Wilkinson, founder of the Guerilla companies, has an award-winning track record in film/TV and theatre production; cinema/DVD/VOD/airline/TV/online distribution; book publishing, as well as event management. An award-winning actor, he has starred in film/TV/theatre productions, has produced and/or distributed almost 150 feature films and has advised on financing for more than 300 feature film projects.
- 4/1/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
UK's largest independent home entertainment distributor hit by major stock loss after Enfield warehouse torched in London riots
• Music news story: Independent record labels fear ruinous stock loss in London riots fire
Britain's small and independent film distributors are today facing serious financial problems in the wake of last night's fire at the Pias/Sony distribution centre in Enfield. A large portion of the DVD stock belonging to UK film distributors has been destroyed, including films released by the BFI, Artificial Eye and Dogwoof.
The three-storey, 20,000 square metre warehouse, owned by Pias - the UK's largest independent home entertainment distributor - was burned to the ground last night amid the rioting that has spread across London over the last three days.
The BFI, the leading body for film in the UK, which also has a retail arm selling classic films on DVD, says it has lost all stock held at the warehouse,...
• Music news story: Independent record labels fear ruinous stock loss in London riots fire
Britain's small and independent film distributors are today facing serious financial problems in the wake of last night's fire at the Pias/Sony distribution centre in Enfield. A large portion of the DVD stock belonging to UK film distributors has been destroyed, including films released by the BFI, Artificial Eye and Dogwoof.
The three-storey, 20,000 square metre warehouse, owned by Pias - the UK's largest independent home entertainment distributor - was burned to the ground last night amid the rioting that has spread across London over the last three days.
The BFI, the leading body for film in the UK, which also has a retail arm selling classic films on DVD, says it has lost all stock held at the warehouse,...
- 8/9/2011
- by Henry Barnes, Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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