Netflix brings us the trailer for a sports film with an interesting twist. The Beautiful Game is based on a true story of a soccer event, The Homeless World Cup. The film stars Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Susan Wokoma, Callum Scott Howells, Kit Young, Sheyi Cole, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robin Nazari, Aoi Okuyama, Cristina Rodlo, Tadashi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama and Valeria Golino.
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“Mal is the manager of England’s homeless football team, taking his players to Rome with the hope of being crowned champions of the Homeless World Cup, a global street soccer tournament. At the last minute he decides to bring with them a talented striker Vinny, who could give them a real chance at winning, but only if he’s ready to let go of his past and become part of the team. Made with the support of the Homeless World Cup, The Beautiful Game...
The official synopsis from Netflix reads,
“Mal is the manager of England’s homeless football team, taking his players to Rome with the hope of being crowned champions of the Homeless World Cup, a global street soccer tournament. At the last minute he decides to bring with them a talented striker Vinny, who could give them a real chance at winning, but only if he’s ready to let go of his past and become part of the team. Made with the support of the Homeless World Cup, The Beautiful Game...
- 2/29/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Netflix has set a March 29 global launch for Homeless World Cup movie The Beautiful Game, which stars Oscar nominee Bill Nighy (Living) and BAFTA winner Micheal Ward (Top Boy).
The movie will follow Mal (Nighy), the manager of England’s homeless soccer team, who takes his players to Rome with the hope of being crowned champions of the Homeless World Cup, a global street tournament. At the last minute he decides to bring talented striker Vinny (Ward), who could give them a real chance at winning, but Vinny must overcome personal demons and embrace the team to give them a chance at winning the tournament. Above is a first-look image from the movie.
Also starring are Susan Wokoma, Callum Scott Howells, Kit Young, Sheyi Cole, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robin Nazari, Aoi Okuyama, Cristina Rodlo, Tadashi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama and Valeria Golino.
The long-gestating project, which began filming in 2021, has been produced by Graham Broadbent,...
The movie will follow Mal (Nighy), the manager of England’s homeless soccer team, who takes his players to Rome with the hope of being crowned champions of the Homeless World Cup, a global street tournament. At the last minute he decides to bring talented striker Vinny (Ward), who could give them a real chance at winning, but Vinny must overcome personal demons and embrace the team to give them a chance at winning the tournament. Above is a first-look image from the movie.
Also starring are Susan Wokoma, Callum Scott Howells, Kit Young, Sheyi Cole, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Robin Nazari, Aoi Okuyama, Cristina Rodlo, Tadashi Watanabe, Kazuhiro Muroyama and Valeria Golino.
The long-gestating project, which began filming in 2021, has been produced by Graham Broadbent,...
- 1/16/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson have joined the cast of the 3-part Amazon series ‘A Very Royal Scandal.’
Based on the infamous interview with Prince Andrew, the series will follow Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis. the series will also star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
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Jeremy Brock and Julian Jarrold are collaborating on a the new series with Brock as the scribe and Jarrold as director. The show is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. The executive producers of the series are Karen Thrussell,...
Based on the infamous interview with Prince Andrew, the series will follow Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis. the series will also star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
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Jeremy Brock and Julian Jarrold are collaborating on a the new series with Brock as the scribe and Jarrold as director. The show is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. The executive producers of the series are Karen Thrussell,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson are leading the cast of A Very Royal Scandal, Prime Video’s upcoming limited series about Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis, in which he explained his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. The series is currently in production in the UK.
According to the description, the three-part limited series, written by Jeremy Brock, will follow Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).
Cast also includes Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings as Sir Edward Young and Éanna Hardwicke as Stewart Maclean.
Julian Jarrold directs the series, which is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios, and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. Karen Thrussell, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, Jeremy Brock, Jarrold, and Maitlis herself serve as executive producers. Josh Hyams serves as a producer on the series.
According to the description, the three-part limited series, written by Jeremy Brock, will follow Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).
Cast also includes Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings as Sir Edward Young and Éanna Hardwicke as Stewart Maclean.
Julian Jarrold directs the series, which is produced by Blueprint Television for Amazon MGM Studios, and distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Television. Karen Thrussell, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Diarmuid McKeown, Jeremy Brock, Jarrold, and Maitlis herself serve as executive producers. Josh Hyams serves as a producer on the series.
- 11/20/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Another Scandal is heading to Prime Video: Michael Sheen and Ruth Wilson will star in the streamer’s A Very Royal Scandal which will chronicle Emily Maitlis’ revealing interview with Prince Andrew. The news was first reported by our sister site Variety Monday.
According to the official description, the three-part limited series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).”
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According to the official description, the three-part limited series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ (Wilson) professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew (Sheen).”
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- 11/20/2023
- by Nick Caruso
- TVLine.com
Amazon is making a limited series about Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis, Variety has learned.
Production is underway in the U.K. on the three-part series, titled “A Very Royal Scandal.” Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis.
According to the official description, the series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Along with Sheen and Wilson, the series will star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
The series follows on Amazon’s past successes with “A Very English Scandal” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and “A Very British Scandal” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Jeremy Brock is writing “A Very Royal Scandal” with Julian Jarrold directing.
Production is underway in the U.K. on the three-part series, titled “A Very Royal Scandal.” Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis.
According to the official description, the series will follow “Emily Maitlis’ professional and personal journey as a Newsnight journalist, leading up to her acclaimed interview with Prince Andrew.”
Along with Sheen and Wilson, the series will star Joanna Scanlan as Amanda Thirsk, Alex Jennings (“Your Christmas or Mine?”) as Sir Edward Young, and Éanna Hardwicke (“The Sixth Commandment”) as Stewart Maclean.
The series follows on Amazon’s past successes with “A Very English Scandal” starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw and “A Very British Scandal” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany.
Jeremy Brock is writing “A Very Royal Scandal” with Julian Jarrold directing.
- 11/20/2023
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Searchlight Pictures’ theatrical trailer for All of Us Strangers teases the fantasy/drama without completely spoiling the storyline. Following the film’s successful festival run – it currently sits at 94% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes – All of Us Strangers is set to open in theaters on December 22, 2023.
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
Paul Mescal (Aftersun), Andrew Scott (Fleabag), Jamie Bell (Shining Girls), and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in the drama based on the novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada. Andrew Haigh adapted Yamada’s novel and directs, with Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Sarah Harvey producing. Diarmuid Mckeown, Ben Knight, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, and Farhana Bhula serve as executive producers.
Searchlight Pictures offer this synopsis:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories...
- 9/21/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
All of Us Strangers, the new drama from Fox Searchlight Pictures, has just released its trailer and shows that even if it’s incredibly painful or filled with sorrow, you can go home again.
The official synopsis from Fox Searchlight Pictures reads,
“One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.”
The cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Sarah Harvey are serving as the producers on the film.
The official synopsis from Fox Searchlight Pictures reads,
“One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.”
The cast includes Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Jamie Bell and Claire Foy. Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Sarah Harvey are serving as the producers on the film.
- 9/21/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Deadline has an exclusive 3-track sampler from Carter Burwell’s score to The Banshees of Inisherin, which is set for release on all major digital platforms tomorrow via Hollywood Records, as the film debuts in theaters via Searchlight Pictures.
The dark comedy reuniting writer-director Martin McDonagh with his In Bruges stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson is set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, amidst the Irish Civil War. It follows lifelong friends Pádraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson), who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán (Kerry Condon) and troubled young islander Dominic (Barry Keoghan), endeavors to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer. But Pádraic’s repeated efforts only strengthen his former friend’s resolve — and when Colm delivers a desperate ultimatum, events swiftly escalate, with shocking consequences.
The dark comedy reuniting writer-director Martin McDonagh with his In Bruges stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson is set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, amidst the Irish Civil War. It follows lifelong friends Pádraic (Farrell) and Colm (Gleeson), who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán (Kerry Condon) and troubled young islander Dominic (Barry Keoghan), endeavors to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer. But Pádraic’s repeated efforts only strengthen his former friend’s resolve — and when Colm delivers a desperate ultimatum, events swiftly escalate, with shocking consequences.
- 10/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell have joined the cast of filmmaker ‘Andrew Haigh’s feature film ‘Strangers.’
The story follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbour Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died over 30 years ago.
The ‘Lean on Pete’ filmmaker takes the helm on the picture which he also adapted from the award-winning novel by Taichi Yamada.
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Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin are producing for Blueprint, along with Sarah Harvey. Blueprint’s Ben Knight and...
The story follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbour Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the day they died over 30 years ago.
The ‘Lean on Pete’ filmmaker takes the helm on the picture which he also adapted from the award-winning novel by Taichi Yamada.
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Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin are producing for Blueprint, along with Sarah Harvey. Blueprint’s Ben Knight and...
- 7/1/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Andrew Haigh, acclaimed filmmaker behind queer festival darling “Weekend” and A24’s “Lean on Pete,” has assembled four U.K. heavyweights for his next feature film.
“Fleabag” breakout star Andrew Scott, “Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal, “The Crown” O.G. Elizabeth II Claire Foy, and “Rocketman” actor Jamie Bell are all on deck for “Strangers” — which Haigh has adapted and will direct. Searchlight Pictures, Film4 and Blueprint Pictures are partnering on the project, loosely based on an award-winning novel by Taichi Yamada.
“Strangers” follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the...
“Fleabag” breakout star Andrew Scott, “Normal People” heartthrob Paul Mescal, “The Crown” O.G. Elizabeth II Claire Foy, and “Rocketman” actor Jamie Bell are all on deck for “Strangers” — which Haigh has adapted and will direct. Searchlight Pictures, Film4 and Blueprint Pictures are partnering on the project, loosely based on an award-winning novel by Taichi Yamada.
“Strangers” follows screenwriter Adam (Scott) who, one night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, has a chance encounter with his mysterious neighbor Harry (Mescal) that punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As Adam and Harry get closer, Adam is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers that his long-dead parents (Foy and Bell) are both living and look the same age as the...
- 6/30/2022
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Project is loosely based on the English translation of a Japanese novel by Taichi Yamada
Andrew Haigh is to direct Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell in Strangers, with the UK’s Blueprint Pictures producing for Searchlight Pictures and Film4.
Production has already begun in the UK.
Haigh wrote the film’s script, loosely based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada. The story follows a screenwriter (to be played by Scott) who, after an encounter with a mysterious neighbour, is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers his long-dead...
Andrew Haigh is to direct Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell in Strangers, with the UK’s Blueprint Pictures producing for Searchlight Pictures and Film4.
Production has already begun in the UK.
Haigh wrote the film’s script, loosely based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Japanese writer Taichi Yamada. The story follows a screenwriter (to be played by Scott) who, after an encounter with a mysterious neighbour, is pulled back to his childhood home where he discovers his long-dead...
- 6/30/2022
- by John Hazelton¬Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Paul Bettany and Claire Foy are sparring as the Duke and Duchess of Argyll in the first trailer for Prime Video’s “A Very British Scandal.”
The drama series, which hails from the creators of “A Very English Scandal,” follows the couple’s divorce in the 1960s, which proved to be one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century.
Foy plays Margaret, the Duchess of Argyll, who was famed for her beauty and charisma before the Duke (Bettany) exposed her to the press with accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture.
The trailer begins with a rather tense interaction between the two in which Bettany’s Duke greets his Duchess with “Hello, Satan.”
“You bastard,” she replies, before the video cuts to their first meeting, where they quickly become enamored of each other. It isn’t long...
The drama series, which hails from the creators of “A Very English Scandal,” follows the couple’s divorce in the 1960s, which proved to be one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century.
Foy plays Margaret, the Duchess of Argyll, who was famed for her beauty and charisma before the Duke (Bettany) exposed her to the press with accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture.
The trailer begins with a rather tense interaction between the two in which Bettany’s Duke greets his Duchess with “Hello, Satan.”
“You bastard,” she replies, before the video cuts to their first meeting, where they quickly become enamored of each other. It isn’t long...
- 3/22/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Karen Thrussell has joined “A Very British Scandal” producer Blueprint Television as head of television. She will oversee the development and production of all series.
Thrussell replaces Dominic Treadwell-Collins, who now runs Happy Prince, a new drama label under ITV Studios. She joins from Mammoth Screen, where she executive produced five seasons of BAFTA winning series “Poldark” and the Sarah Phelps Agatha Christie adaptations “And Then There Were None,” “Ordeal by Innocence” and “The Witness for the Prosecution” for BBC One.
Blueprint Television is a sister company to Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin’s Blueprint Pictures. Blueprint Television also produced Emmy and BAFTA winning series “A Very English Scandal” (2018), starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. “A Very British Scandal,” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany was broadcast on BBC One in the U.K. in Dec. 2021 and will be released on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., Canada, Australia...
Thrussell replaces Dominic Treadwell-Collins, who now runs Happy Prince, a new drama label under ITV Studios. She joins from Mammoth Screen, where she executive produced five seasons of BAFTA winning series “Poldark” and the Sarah Phelps Agatha Christie adaptations “And Then There Were None,” “Ordeal by Innocence” and “The Witness for the Prosecution” for BBC One.
Blueprint Television is a sister company to Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin’s Blueprint Pictures. Blueprint Television also produced Emmy and BAFTA winning series “A Very English Scandal” (2018), starring Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw. “A Very British Scandal,” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany was broadcast on BBC One in the U.K. in Dec. 2021 and will be released on Amazon Prime Video in the U.S., Canada, Australia...
- 1/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
BBC One and Amazon Studios have revealed the first trailer for upcoming series “A Very British Scandal,” featuring Claire Foy, two-time Emmy winner for Netflix’s “The Crown.”
Foy stars as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, alongside Paul Bettany (“WandaVision”) as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and Julia Davis (“Nighty Night”) as Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Written by Sarah Phelps (“The Pale Horse”), the series is from the makers of the award-winning “A Very English Scandal,” Blueprint Pictures. It focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture that was to haunt her for the rest of her life.
“A Very British Scandal...
Foy stars as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, alongside Paul Bettany (“WandaVision”) as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and Julia Davis (“Nighty Night”) as Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Written by Sarah Phelps (“The Pale Horse”), the series is from the makers of the award-winning “A Very English Scandal,” Blueprint Pictures. It focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture that was to haunt her for the rest of her life.
“A Very British Scandal...
- 12/10/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The first-look images have been released for BBC One and Amazon Studios’ A Very British Scandal, from the makers of the award-winning A Very English Scandal, Blueprint Pictures.
The new photos feature Claire Foy as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, Paul Bettany as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and Julia Davis as Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Both companies also jointly released new casting details. The new faces joining the project are:
- Amanda Drew
- Richard McCabe
- Phoebe Nicholls
- Camilla Rutherford
- Timothy Renouf
- Sophia Myles
- Sophie Ward
- Tim Steed
- Katherine Manners.
A Very British Scandal focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery,...
The new photos feature Claire Foy as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, Paul Bettany as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and Julia Davis as Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Both companies also jointly released new casting details. The new faces joining the project are:
- Amanda Drew
- Richard McCabe
- Phoebe Nicholls
- Camilla Rutherford
- Timothy Renouf
- Sophia Myles
- Sophie Ward
- Tim Steed
- Katherine Manners.
A Very British Scandal focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious, extraordinary, and brutal legal cases of the 20th century. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery,...
- 10/25/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
BBC One and Amazon Studios have revealed several first look images from upcoming series “A Very British Scandal,” featuring Claire Foy, two-time Emmy winner for Netflix’s “The Crown.”
Foy stars as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, alongside Paul Bettany (“WandaVision”) as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and Julia Davis (“Nighty Night”) as Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Written by Sarah Phelps (“The Pale Horse”), the series is from the makers of the award-winning “A Very English Scandal,” Blueprint Pictures. It focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture that was to haunt her for the rest of her life.
“A Very British Scandal...
Foy stars as Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, alongside Paul Bettany (“WandaVision”) as Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and Julia Davis (“Nighty Night”) as Maureen, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
Written by Sarah Phelps (“The Pale Horse”), the series is from the makers of the award-winning “A Very English Scandal,” Blueprint Pictures. It focuses on the divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, one of the most notorious legal cases of the 20th century. Famed for her charisma, beauty, and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as the divorce exposed accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture that was to haunt her for the rest of her life.
“A Very British Scandal...
- 10/25/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
BAFTA and Golden Globe Award winner actor Bill Nighy and BAFTA Rising Star award-winning actor Micheal Ward (Top Boy, Small Axe- Lovers Rock), will lead the cast of ‘The Beautiful Game’, a new Netflix Film from director Thea Sharrock.
Joining Nighy and Ward are Valeria Golino on the cast are, Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin), Kit Young (Shadow & Bone), Sheyi Cole (Small Axe – Alex Wheatle), Robin Nazari (Snabba Cash), Tom Vaughan – Lawlor (Avengers Infinity War, The Infiltrator), Susan Wokoma (Chewing Gum, Enola Holmes), Layo-Christina Akinlude (The End of the F**king World) and Cristina Rodlo (No One Gets Out Alive).
The film follows a team of English homeless footballers, led by their coach Mal (Bill Nighy), who travel from London to Rome to compete in a global annual football tournament – The Homeless World Cup. At the last minute, they decide to bring with them a talented striker...
Joining Nighy and Ward are Valeria Golino on the cast are, Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin), Kit Young (Shadow & Bone), Sheyi Cole (Small Axe – Alex Wheatle), Robin Nazari (Snabba Cash), Tom Vaughan – Lawlor (Avengers Infinity War, The Infiltrator), Susan Wokoma (Chewing Gum, Enola Holmes), Layo-Christina Akinlude (The End of the F**king World) and Cristina Rodlo (No One Gets Out Alive).
The film follows a team of English homeless footballers, led by their coach Mal (Bill Nighy), who travel from London to Rome to compete in a global annual football tournament – The Homeless World Cup. At the last minute, they decide to bring with them a talented striker...
- 8/3/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Small Axe and Top Boy star Micheal Ward and Emma actor Bill Nighy have been set to lead The Beautiful Game, a Netflix film about a group of English homeless footballers who compete in the Homeless World Cup.
Thea Sharrock (Me Before You) is directing from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (The Railway Man). Producers are Blueprint Pictures’ Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin with Anita Overland.
Also starring are Valeria Golino (Morning Show), Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin), Kit Young (Shadow & Bone), Sheyi Cole (Small Axe), Robin Nazari (Snabba Cash), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers Infinity War), Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Layo-Christina Akinlude (The End of the F**king World) and Cristina Rodlo (No One Gets Out Alive).
Led by their coach Mal (Bill Nighy), the film follows the soccer team as they travel from London to Rome for the Homeless World Cup. At the last minute they decide to...
Thea Sharrock (Me Before You) is directing from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (The Railway Man). Producers are Blueprint Pictures’ Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin with Anita Overland.
Also starring are Valeria Golino (Morning Show), Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin), Kit Young (Shadow & Bone), Sheyi Cole (Small Axe), Robin Nazari (Snabba Cash), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers Infinity War), Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Layo-Christina Akinlude (The End of the F**king World) and Cristina Rodlo (No One Gets Out Alive).
Led by their coach Mal (Bill Nighy), the film follows the soccer team as they travel from London to Rome for the Homeless World Cup. At the last minute they decide to...
- 8/3/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
A Very English Scandal is returning for a second season at the BBC and Amazon with two of the biggest stars around.
Written by Sarah Phelps (The Pale Horse; Dublin Murders), A Very British Scandal focuses on the divorce of the Duke (Paul Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Claire Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th century.
"Famed for her charisma, beauty and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as a divorce featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery and an explicit polaroid picture - all played out in the white-hot glare of the 1960s media.," reads the character descirption.
A Very British Scandal turns this scandal inside out in order to explore the social and political climate of post-war Britain, looking at attitudes towards women, and asking whether institutional misogyny was widespread at the time.
As her contemporaries,...
Written by Sarah Phelps (The Pale Horse; Dublin Murders), A Very British Scandal focuses on the divorce of the Duke (Paul Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Claire Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th century.
"Famed for her charisma, beauty and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as a divorce featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery and an explicit polaroid picture - all played out in the white-hot glare of the 1960s media.," reads the character descirption.
A Very British Scandal turns this scandal inside out in order to explore the social and political climate of post-war Britain, looking at attitudes towards women, and asking whether institutional misogyny was widespread at the time.
As her contemporaries,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Claire Foy and Paul Bettany are set as the stars of Amazon and BBC One’s “A Very British Scandal,” a followup to the Hugh Grant-led “A Very English Scandal.”
Written by Sarah Phelps, the three, 60-minute episodes focus “on the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th Century.”
Per Amazon, “Famed for her charisma, beauty and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as a divorcee featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit polaroid picture all played out in the white-hot glare of the 1960s media. ‘A Very British Scandal’ turns this scandal inside out in order to explore the social and political climate of post-war Britain, looking at attitudes toward women, and asking whether institutional misogyny was widespread at the time. As her contemporaries,...
Written by Sarah Phelps, the three, 60-minute episodes focus “on the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th Century.”
Per Amazon, “Famed for her charisma, beauty and style, Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, dominated the front pages as a divorcee featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit polaroid picture all played out in the white-hot glare of the 1960s media. ‘A Very British Scandal’ turns this scandal inside out in order to explore the social and political climate of post-war Britain, looking at attitudes toward women, and asking whether institutional misogyny was widespread at the time. As her contemporaries,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Claire Foy and Paul Bettany have been cast in the lead roles of “A Very British Scandal,” a followup to “A Very English Scandal,” Variety has learned.
The hour-long, three-episode series focuses on the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th Century. It was infamous for featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture. The series will examine how the Duchess refused to go quietly as she was betrayed by her friends and publicly shamed by a society that reveled in her fall from grace.
The hour-long, three-episode series will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K. and on Amazon in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Filming will take place across the U.K. later this year.
Sarah Phelps will write and executive produce,...
The hour-long, three-episode series focuses on the divorce of the Duke (Bettany) and Duchess of Argyll (Foy), one of the most notorious, extraordinary and brutal legal cases of the 20th Century. It was infamous for featuring accusations of forgery, theft, violence, drug-taking, secret recording, bribery, and an explicit Polaroid picture. The series will examine how the Duchess refused to go quietly as she was betrayed by her friends and publicly shamed by a society that reveled in her fall from grace.
The hour-long, three-episode series will premiere on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the U.K. and on Amazon in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Filming will take place across the U.K. later this year.
Sarah Phelps will write and executive produce,...
- 3/11/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC and Amazon have signed up The Crown’s Claire Foy and WandaVision star Paul Bettany to headline the long-awaited second season of A Very English Scandal.
Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed up to write Season 2. The three-part second will be titled A Very British Scandal given its Scottish subject, and production is set to commence later this year.
A Very British Scandal will move on from the story of Jeremy Thorpe to become an anthology series, focusing on a new crisis that gripped the British establishment. The second season centers on a 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. During a messy divorce from her second husband, he seized images of Campbell performing a sex act on an unknown man and she became known as “The Dirty Duchess.
Deadline revealed last March that Sarah Phelps, the British scribe behind Agatha Christie adaptations including The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, had signed up to write Season 2. The three-part second will be titled A Very British Scandal given its Scottish subject, and production is set to commence later this year.
A Very British Scandal will move on from the story of Jeremy Thorpe to become an anthology series, focusing on a new crisis that gripped the British establishment. The second season centers on a 1963 sex scandal involving Margaret Campbell, the Duchess of Argyll. During a messy divorce from her second husband, he seized images of Campbell performing a sex act on an unknown man and she became known as “The Dirty Duchess.
- 3/11/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon will remake its documentary from this year’s “The Painter and the Thief” as a narrative feature film along with Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures, the studio announced Monday.
“The Painter and the Thief,” from director Benjamin Ree, made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance, and the new fictional film will be an adaptation of the story of the Czech artist who befriends the criminal who stole two of her paintings.
A writer, director and cast have yet to be attached to the project.
“The Painter and the Thief” has been called strange and beguiling in how it begins as the story of an unlikely friendship as the artist looks for answers, only for the thief to become severely hurt in a car crash and require the artist’s full time care and assistance, even as the paintings are not found. The stakes change in even more unexpected ways from there.
“The Painter and the Thief,” from director Benjamin Ree, made its world premiere at this year’s Sundance, and the new fictional film will be an adaptation of the story of the Czech artist who befriends the criminal who stole two of her paintings.
A writer, director and cast have yet to be attached to the project.
“The Painter and the Thief” has been called strange and beguiling in how it begins as the story of an unlikely friendship as the artist looks for answers, only for the thief to become severely hurt in a car crash and require the artist’s full time care and assistance, even as the paintings are not found. The stakes change in even more unexpected ways from there.
- 11/2/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
A remake of Benjamin Rees’ documentary “The Painter and the Thief” is in the works with Neon, who is co-developing the project with Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures
The Norwegian film follows the artist Barbora Kysilkova and her friendship with Karl Bertil-Nordland, a man who stole her artwork. Neon acquired the remake rights along with the documentary following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won for “Creative Storytelling” award.
“The Painter and the Thief” has received very positive reviews from critics. Variety’s Peter Debruge said in his review, “Incredible. That’s the word that comes to mind with Benjamin Ree’s ‘The Painter and the Thief,’ a stranger-than-fiction friendship story in which vérité techniques produce unbelievable results.”
The film has won multiple awards across the festival circuit, most recently taking the best documentary feature” award out of the BFI London Film Festival. It received two Critics...
The Norwegian film follows the artist Barbora Kysilkova and her friendship with Karl Bertil-Nordland, a man who stole her artwork. Neon acquired the remake rights along with the documentary following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won for “Creative Storytelling” award.
“The Painter and the Thief” has received very positive reviews from critics. Variety’s Peter Debruge said in his review, “Incredible. That’s the word that comes to mind with Benjamin Ree’s ‘The Painter and the Thief,’ a stranger-than-fiction friendship story in which vérité techniques produce unbelievable results.”
The film has won multiple awards across the festival circuit, most recently taking the best documentary feature” award out of the BFI London Film Festival. It received two Critics...
- 11/2/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Festival favourite recently earned two Critics’ Choice nods.
Neon, Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are partnering on a narrative remake of Sundance award winner The Painter And The Thief.
The US distributor picked up worldwide rights to the documentary from Autlook in Berlin last February after it premiered in Sundance and won the World Cinema Documentary special jury prize for creative storytelling.
The Painter And The Thief more recently played at BFI London Film Festival, and has earned two Critics’ Choice nominations.
Benjamin Ree directed the original documentary about a Czech artist who befriends the career criminal who stole two of her paintings.
Neon, Studiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are partnering on a narrative remake of Sundance award winner The Painter And The Thief.
The US distributor picked up worldwide rights to the documentary from Autlook in Berlin last February after it premiered in Sundance and won the World Cinema Documentary special jury prize for creative storytelling.
The Painter And The Thief more recently played at BFI London Film Festival, and has earned two Critics’ Choice nominations.
Benjamin Ree directed the original documentary about a Czech artist who befriends the career criminal who stole two of her paintings.
- 11/2/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Martin McDonagh, the director of “In Bruges” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” will direct his next film at Searchlight Pictures, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
The untitled film reunites him with both Disney’s Searchlight after the Oscar-nominated “Three Billboards” and also the UK-based production company Film4, with whom McDonagh has worked on all four of his films.
McDonagh’s new project is set on a remote Irish isle where two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for the both of them. No cast has yet been set for the film, but production is expected to begin later this year.
Also Read: Searchlight Closes Worldwide Rights Deal for Rebecca Hall Thriller 'The Night House'
McDonagh will write, direct and produce, and Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin will also produce via their banner Blueprint Pictures.
The untitled film reunites him with both Disney’s Searchlight after the Oscar-nominated “Three Billboards” and also the UK-based production company Film4, with whom McDonagh has worked on all four of his films.
McDonagh’s new project is set on a remote Irish isle where two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for the both of them. No cast has yet been set for the film, but production is expected to begin later this year.
Also Read: Searchlight Closes Worldwide Rights Deal for Rebecca Hall Thriller 'The Night House'
McDonagh will write, direct and produce, and Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin will also produce via their banner Blueprint Pictures.
- 2/18/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Three years after the release of his Oscar best picture nominee “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” director Martin McDonagh has lined up his next project, an untitled feature film about a friendship gone sour in Ireland.
McDonagh is reuniting with Disney’s Searchlight and the UK-based Film4, the companies behind “Three Billboards” and Academy Award winner “The Favourite” starring Olivia Colman. Searchlight has worldwide distribution rights on the project.
A cast has not been finalized yet on McDonagh’s new film, according to sources, but production is set to begin this year. The movie follows two lifelong pals on a remote Irish isle. At an impasse, one abruptly ends the friendship, resulting in alarming consequences for both.
McDonagh will serve as writer and director, and produce with Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin through their Blueprint Pictures. Executive producers include Diarmuid McKeown, Ben Knight, Daniel Battsek, and Ollie Madden.
Film4 has backed McDonagh his entire career,...
McDonagh is reuniting with Disney’s Searchlight and the UK-based Film4, the companies behind “Three Billboards” and Academy Award winner “The Favourite” starring Olivia Colman. Searchlight has worldwide distribution rights on the project.
A cast has not been finalized yet on McDonagh’s new film, according to sources, but production is set to begin this year. The movie follows two lifelong pals on a remote Irish isle. At an impasse, one abruptly ends the friendship, resulting in alarming consequences for both.
McDonagh will serve as writer and director, and produce with Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin through their Blueprint Pictures. Executive producers include Diarmuid McKeown, Ben Knight, Daniel Battsek, and Ollie Madden.
Film4 has backed McDonagh his entire career,...
- 2/18/2020
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
“We are nothing but a pair of old queens,” Hugh Grant tells his dining companion in the House of Commons near the start of Amazon’s new limited series “A Very English Scandal.” The frankness is startling given what we know about Grant, the leading man in any number of straight romantic comedies. And it comes to seem yet more striking as Grant’s character, the real-life member of Parliament Jeremy Thorpe, obfuscates endlessly about his desire through the series’s three-hour running time. He’s rarely ever open about desire, treating it as an embarrassing biological fact to be sated on brief hiatuses from heterosexual life.
The series, which first aired overseas on BBC One in May and comes to Amazon June 29, comes by its title honestly. U.K. talent (including director Stephen Frears and stars Grant and Ben Whishaw) suffuse the proceedings with a curious reticence, an enigmatic...
The series, which first aired overseas on BBC One in May and comes to Amazon June 29, comes by its title honestly. U.K. talent (including director Stephen Frears and stars Grant and Ben Whishaw) suffuse the proceedings with a curious reticence, an enigmatic...
- 6/20/2018
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Spt buys stake in TV arm of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel producer.
Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has announced that it has taken a minority stake in London-based Blueprint Television.
The new venture led by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures will focus on high end, returning drama series that originate in the UK and can travel internationally, with Spt distributing around the globe.
Blueprint is launching the TV division on the back of the success of films including global box-office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, as well as last year’s BBC1 drama The Outcast.
The company has one show in production - fantasy adventure drama The Last Dragonslayer for Sky1 - and three series in development.
The investment further builds on Spt’s strategy to increase its drama footprint in order to meet the increasing demand for high...
Sony Pictures Television (Spt) has announced that it has taken a minority stake in London-based Blueprint Television.
The new venture led by Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent of Blueprint Pictures will focus on high end, returning drama series that originate in the UK and can travel internationally, with Spt distributing around the globe.
Blueprint is launching the TV division on the back of the success of films including global box-office hit The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, as well as last year’s BBC1 drama The Outcast.
The company has one show in production - fantasy adventure drama The Last Dragonslayer for Sky1 - and three series in development.
The investment further builds on Spt’s strategy to increase its drama footprint in order to meet the increasing demand for high...
- 6/7/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Television has bought a minority stake in Blueprint Television, the newly launched drama series production arm of Pete Czernin and Graham Broadbent's U.K. producer Blueprint Pictures (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths). Financial details weren't disclosed. It is another deal designed to expand the company's business focused on high-end drama series with international appeal, with Spt set to distribute Blueprint shows globally. Blueprint co-chairmen Broadbent and Czernin and managing director Diarmuid McKeown have teamed up with executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins, who joins Blueprint as head of television following
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- 6/7/2016
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Paramount Pictures will re-release its Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning film Selma nationwide for a special encore engagement.
Directed by Ava DuVernay, the film will play in theaters across the U.S. beginning Friday, March 20th.
Tickets are on sale today online and at theater box offices. For a list of theaters and to purchase tickets, visit www.SelmaMovie.com
Moviegoers who purchase a ticket to see Selma at a participating theater can receive an additional ticket free. This limited time offer is only available at participating theater box offices.
Selma won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for “Glory” by Common & John Legend. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.
Selma,...
Directed by Ava DuVernay, the film will play in theaters across the U.S. beginning Friday, March 20th.
Tickets are on sale today online and at theater box offices. For a list of theaters and to purchase tickets, visit www.SelmaMovie.com
Moviegoers who purchase a ticket to see Selma at a participating theater can receive an additional ticket free. This limited time offer is only available at participating theater box offices.
Selma won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for “Glory” by Common & John Legend. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Golden Globe Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.
Selma,...
- 3/18/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Hailed as “extraordinary” (David Denby, The New Yorker), “deeply moving” (Claudia Puig, USA Today) and “a triumph” (A.O. Scott, New York Times), director Ava DuVernay’s powerful drama Selma debuts on Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand May 5, 2015 from Paramount Home Media Distribution.
The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD April 21, 2015.
Embraced by critics and audiences alike, Selma was named one of the best films of the year by New York Times,New York Post, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and many more. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Oscar for Best Original Song for John Legend and Common’s compelling tribute “Glory.”
Director Ava DuVernay delivers the “definitive depiction of the 1960s American civil rights movement” (Lou Lumenick, New York Post) with the incredible story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The film arrives two weeks early on Digital HD April 21, 2015.
Embraced by critics and audiences alike, Selma was named one of the best films of the year by New York Times,New York Post, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, Hollywood Reporter and many more. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won the Oscar for Best Original Song for John Legend and Common’s compelling tribute “Glory.”
Director Ava DuVernay delivers the “definitive depiction of the 1960s American civil rights movement” (Lou Lumenick, New York Post) with the incredible story of how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 3/10/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stray Bear Productions, producer of Iffr opening film War Book, has features lined-up including the story of a gay miner in 1980s Yorkshire.
Stray Bear Productions, the London-based company run by producers Ivana MacKinnon and Lauren Dark, is ramping up its development slate.
The production outfit is behind Tom Harper’s political drama War Book, which opened the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) last night.
Stray Bear, launched by MacKinnon in 2012, now several new projects edging closer toward production and aims to focus primarily on “female talent and female driven stories”.
One film close to being packaged is comedy drama Olivia And Jim from writers (and twin sisters) Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth. Stray Bear is partnering on the project with Diarmuid McKeown of Equation Pictures. The project has BFI support.
Olivia and Jim is described by MacKinnon as a “bittersweet” story about a woman in her late-30s who, following the death of her husband, goes on the...
Stray Bear Productions, the London-based company run by producers Ivana MacKinnon and Lauren Dark, is ramping up its development slate.
The production outfit is behind Tom Harper’s political drama War Book, which opened the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) last night.
Stray Bear, launched by MacKinnon in 2012, now several new projects edging closer toward production and aims to focus primarily on “female talent and female driven stories”.
One film close to being packaged is comedy drama Olivia And Jim from writers (and twin sisters) Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth. Stray Bear is partnering on the project with Diarmuid McKeown of Equation Pictures. The project has BFI support.
Olivia and Jim is described by MacKinnon as a “bittersweet” story about a woman in her late-30s who, following the death of her husband, goes on the...
- 1/22/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
An additional 12 locations have joined the growing movement led by African-American business leaders to raise funds for students across the country to see the Academy Award-nominated film “Selma,” expanding the first-of-its-kind campaign to 25 locations nationwide.
Due to the generous contributions by so many of the country’s most prominent African-American business leaders, more than 275,000 middle and high school students across the U.S. will experience the critically acclaimed film for free at participating theaters while supplies last.
The new locations joining the movement are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Central Florida/Orlando, Connecticut, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Montgomery, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, and St. Louis.
Rev. Starsky Wilson, President & CEO of the Deaconess Foundation, in St. Louis
“It is important that students are aware of this moment in history and make connections between the struggles of earlier generations and the challenges facing today’s youth,” said Rev. Starsky. “We are...
Due to the generous contributions by so many of the country’s most prominent African-American business leaders, more than 275,000 middle and high school students across the U.S. will experience the critically acclaimed film for free at participating theaters while supplies last.
The new locations joining the movement are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Central Florida/Orlando, Connecticut, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Montgomery, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, and St. Louis.
Rev. Starsky Wilson, President & CEO of the Deaconess Foundation, in St. Louis
“It is important that students are aware of this moment in history and make connections between the struggles of earlier generations and the challenges facing today’s youth,” said Rev. Starsky. “We are...
- 1/16/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Inspired by the overwhelming success in New York City, prominent members of the African-American business communities in major cities across America have teamed with Paramount Pictures to create funds for students to see the Golden Globe-nominated film Selma for free in participating theaters.
The cities joining the effort will be announced Monday, January 12th at 9:00 a.m. Et.
The New York City program provided free admission for 27,000 of the city’s 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to see Selma in participating local theaters. 27 African-American business leaders contributed to the fund and activated their network of contacts to put this program into motion, creating an impromptu and innovative public-private partnership for the greater good.
The students in these cities will provide a student ID or report card at any of the participating locations for free admittance. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. on January 12 and run through January 19 (Martin Luther King,...
The cities joining the effort will be announced Monday, January 12th at 9:00 a.m. Et.
The New York City program provided free admission for 27,000 of the city’s 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to see Selma in participating local theaters. 27 African-American business leaders contributed to the fund and activated their network of contacts to put this program into motion, creating an impromptu and innovative public-private partnership for the greater good.
The students in these cities will provide a student ID or report card at any of the participating locations for free admittance. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. on January 12 and run through January 19 (Martin Luther King,...
- 1/9/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Selma,” the Golden Globe-nominated film about Martin Luther King Jr., will screen for free in the Alabama city that gave the film its title.
“With deep gratitude to the people of Selma, Alabama, we are proud to share this powerful film depicting the historic events that took place there 50 years ago,” said Oprah Winfrey on behalf of the film’s producers. Winfrey costars in the movie as an African-American worker who joins the civil rights protests. “I hope generations will watch the film and share their stories of remembrance and history together.”
The film directed by Ava DuVernay depicts the...
“With deep gratitude to the people of Selma, Alabama, we are proud to share this powerful film depicting the historic events that took place there 50 years ago,” said Oprah Winfrey on behalf of the film’s producers. Winfrey costars in the movie as an African-American worker who joins the civil rights protests. “I hope generations will watch the film and share their stories of remembrance and history together.”
The film directed by Ava DuVernay depicts the...
- 1/1/2015
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Paramount has dropped the first trailer for director Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King Jr. film Selma. Pic stars David Oyelowo as the iconic civil rights leader and tracks King’s struggle to secure voting rights for all people, culminating in the Alabama march from Selma to Montgomery and President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Starring alongside Oyelowo are Tom Wilkinson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi Common, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, with Tim Roth and Oprah Winfrey as Annie Lee Cooper. Paul Webb penned the script.
Pic is produced by Christian Colson, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Winfrey. Executive producers are Cameron McCracken, Nik Bower, Diarmuid McKeown, DuVernay, Paul Garnes, Nan Morales. Selma opens in limited release on Christmas Day before going wide on January 9.
Pic is produced by Christian Colson, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Winfrey. Executive producers are Cameron McCracken, Nik Bower, Diarmuid McKeown, DuVernay, Paul Garnes, Nan Morales. Selma opens in limited release on Christmas Day before going wide on January 9.
- 11/7/2014
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline
Shoreline is focused on discovering the best scripts from around the world. Their goal is to get these scripts into the hands of the producers and production companies who have the ability to get them made. They have the highest calibre and most respected industry judges of any screenwriting competitions out there and their judges are Oscar, Cannes & BAFTA winners and nominees.
30th June is the last day to enter your screenplay.
Feature Script – Late Deadline: 2nd June – 30th June 2013 £35 ($56 approx)
Short Script – Late Deadline: 2nd June – 30th June 2013 £25 ($40 approx)
Last years winner sold his screenplay to Christopher Figg, producer of: Hellraiser, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Dog Soldiers & many more.
There’s also over £9000 ($14000 approx.) in prizes to be won!
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To Enter Your Feature: http://www.shorelinescripts.com/shoreline-scripts-screenwriting-competition/feature/
To Enter Your Short: http://www.shorelinescripts.com/shoreline-scripts-short-script-submission/
Judges:
Oscar Nominated Producer, Stephen Woolley – The Crying Game,...
30th June is the last day to enter your screenplay.
Feature Script – Late Deadline: 2nd June – 30th June 2013 £35 ($56 approx)
Short Script – Late Deadline: 2nd June – 30th June 2013 £25 ($40 approx)
Last years winner sold his screenplay to Christopher Figg, producer of: Hellraiser, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Dog Soldiers & many more.
There’s also over £9000 ($14000 approx.) in prizes to be won!
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To Enter Your Feature: http://www.shorelinescripts.com/shoreline-scripts-screenwriting-competition/feature/
To Enter Your Short: http://www.shorelinescripts.com/shoreline-scripts-short-script-submission/
Judges:
Oscar Nominated Producer, Stephen Woolley – The Crying Game,...
- 6/30/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Shoreline Scripts, in partnership with Sound on Sight, is giving emerging independent writers and talented, new voices a chance to have their scripts put into the hands of leading producers and production companies who have the ability to get them made. This is your chance to have your screenplay read by the most respected industry judges of any screenwriting competition across the globe.
Here are the details. Best of luck to our readers who enter.
Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition is offering 1 Free Feature script submission to it’s 2013 competition. www.shorelinescripts.com - How to enter: -
All you have to do is email contact@shorelinescripts.com with your name and ‘Sound on Sight’ in the subject heading. One reader will be chosen at random and notified that they have won by next Wednesday, January 16th.
Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition is focused on discovering the best scripts from around the world.
Here are the details. Best of luck to our readers who enter.
Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition is offering 1 Free Feature script submission to it’s 2013 competition. www.shorelinescripts.com - How to enter: -
All you have to do is email contact@shorelinescripts.com with your name and ‘Sound on Sight’ in the subject heading. One reader will be chosen at random and notified that they have won by next Wednesday, January 16th.
Shoreline Scripts Screenwriting Competition is focused on discovering the best scripts from around the world.
- 1/9/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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