Looks like “Star Wars: Episode IX” is getting a fresh pair of eyes. The Hollywood Reporter reports that rising British screenwriter Jack Thorne will be contributing rewrites to the script of the upcoming ninth installment of the beloved franchise. While Thorne is a relatively new name in Hollywood, he’s already having a big year: his “Wonder” will arrive on November 17.
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As THR notes, “Trevorrow and his writing partner, Derek Connolly, have been working on the script, but sources say a fresh set of eyes was needed. It is unclear how extensive the rewrites will be.” THR is also quick to note that, despite previous reports, the script for “Episode IX” is not based on a treatment from filmmaker Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Read MoreColin Trevorrow Explains Why He Should Still Direct ‘Star Wars’ Despite That Whole ‘Book of Henry’ Thing
As THR notes, “Trevorrow and his writing partner, Derek Connolly, have been working on the script, but sources say a fresh set of eyes was needed. It is unclear how extensive the rewrites will be.” THR is also quick to note that, despite previous reports, the script for “Episode IX” is not based on a treatment from filmmaker Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
- 8/2/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Colcoa is keeping up with the times. Now in its twenty-first year, the lauded French film festival, sponsored by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, has added a pair of forward-thinking new categories for its newest edition. This year will include a virtual reality program and a web series competition, in addition to its Cinema, Television and Shorts competitions.
“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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“These two new popular formats offer more opportunities to showcase the creativity of French producers and filmmakers as well as the diversity of French production,” said François Truffart, Colcoa Executive Producer and Artistic Director. “While entertainment is still the key word for the program, with a balanced mix of comedies and dramas, several topical issues will cover the program this year, including the environment, discrimination, racism, terrorism, and the role of the artist in society. More than ever, Colcoa will offer a unique opportunity to see these universal topics from different angles.”
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- 4/6/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Don’t Breathe and Blood Father to close genre fest; world premiere of the late Pascal Chaumeil’s last film; Brandon Cronenberg project in works-in-progress strand; genre Vr panel set.
The Fantasia International Film Festival’s (July 14 - August 3) 20th edition will close with Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson.
In Don’t Breathe, three friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man with unexpected consequences.
The film is produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, along with Alvarez. Sony Pictures will release in North America in late August, 2016.
Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father will make its North American premiere as part of the festival’s closing night events and as the official closing film of the Action! Section.
The thriller, which first premiered at Cannes in May, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-con who reunites with his estranged 16-year old daughter to protect her from...
The Fantasia International Film Festival’s (July 14 - August 3) 20th edition will close with Fede Alvarez’s Don’t Breathe and Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father, starring Mel Gibson.
In Don’t Breathe, three friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man with unexpected consequences.
The film is produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, along with Alvarez. Sony Pictures will release in North America in late August, 2016.
Jean-Francois Richet’s Blood Father will make its North American premiere as part of the festival’s closing night events and as the official closing film of the Action! Section.
The thriller, which first premiered at Cannes in May, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-con who reunites with his estranged 16-year old daughter to protect her from...
- 7/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Donald Sutherland, Arnaud Desplechin, Vanessa Paradis among those to join president George Miller.
The 69th Cannes Film Festival jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will be made up of eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, will comprise a collection of directors, actors and writers. They will decide on the prizes for the 21 films in Competition.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got...
The 69th Cannes Film Festival jury, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will be made up of eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, will comprise a collection of directors, actors and writers. They will decide on the prizes for the 21 films in Competition.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got...
- 4/25/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Donald Sutherland, Arnaud Desplechin, Vanessa Paradis among those to join president George Miller.
The 69th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will comprise eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, comprises directors, actors and writers.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, which introduced a new generation of actors. The artists in his films have regularly been awarded the most...
The 69th Cannes Film Festival, presided over by Mad Max director George Miller, will comprise eight luminaries of world cinema, from Iran, Denmark, United States, Italy, France, Canada and Hungary.
The jury, made up of four women and four men, comprises directors, actors and writers.
The jury:
George Miller – President
(Director, Writer, Producer – Australia)
Arnaud Desplechin (Director, Writer – France)
Kirsten Dunst (Actress– United States)
Valeria Golino (Actress, Director, Writer, Producer – Italia)
Mads Mikkelsen (Actor – Denmark)
László Nemes (Director, Writer – Hungaria)
Vanessa Paradis (Actress, Singer – France)
Katayoon Shahabi (Producer – Iran)
Donald Sutherland (Actor – Canada)
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel, his first feature film. He then made My Sex Life… or How I Got into an Argument, which introduced a new generation of actors. The artists in his films have regularly been awarded the most...
- 4/25/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
We have what should now be the full line-up for the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, featuring many of our most-anticipated films of the year. Coming next in line is the announcement of the competition jury, which director George Miller will be presiding over, returning to Cannes after delivering one of the best films of the festival last year, Mad Max: Fury Road.
Made up of four women and five men, they include Arnaud Desplechin (returning after last year’s My Golden Days), Kristen Dunst, Italian actress Valeria Golino, Mad Mikkelsen (Cannes Best Actor winner for The Hunt), Grand Prix-winning Son of Saul director László Nemes, actress/singer Vanessa Paradis, Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, as well as actor Donald Sutherland. Check out their biographies below as we look forward to seeing what they award the Palme d’Or, and beyond.
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel,...
Made up of four women and five men, they include Arnaud Desplechin (returning after last year’s My Golden Days), Kristen Dunst, Italian actress Valeria Golino, Mad Mikkelsen (Cannes Best Actor winner for The Hunt), Grand Prix-winning Son of Saul director László Nemes, actress/singer Vanessa Paradis, Iranian producer Katayoon Shahabi, as well as actor Donald Sutherland. Check out their biographies below as we look forward to seeing what they award the Palme d’Or, and beyond.
Arnaud Desplechin, Director, Writer (France)
Arnaud Desplechin became an official competitor at Cannes with The Sentinel,...
- 4/25/2016
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Emma de Caunes joins the jury for the 26th British Film Festival in Dinard Photo: Richard Mowe
Actress Emma de Caunes (daughter of former Eurotrash host Antoine de Caunes) will join president Jean Rochefort as a member of this year’s jury at the 26th edition of Dinard British Film Festival, it was announced today (13 Sept).
Among the other jurors at the event from 30 September until 4 October will be actress Melanie Doutey, Virginia Efra, Amara Karan, Alexandra Lamy, actor Bernard Lecoq and producer Bertrand Favre with a few names still to be confirmed. Among the awards to be deliberated will be the top accolade the Golden Hitchcock.
A Long Way Down, directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Pierce Brosnan, will be presented as a tribute to the director in the opening slot at the Dinard British Film Festival
The opening film will be A Long Way Down, directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Pierce Brosnan,...
Actress Emma de Caunes (daughter of former Eurotrash host Antoine de Caunes) will join president Jean Rochefort as a member of this year’s jury at the 26th edition of Dinard British Film Festival, it was announced today (13 Sept).
Among the other jurors at the event from 30 September until 4 October will be actress Melanie Doutey, Virginia Efra, Amara Karan, Alexandra Lamy, actor Bernard Lecoq and producer Bertrand Favre with a few names still to be confirmed. Among the awards to be deliberated will be the top accolade the Golden Hitchcock.
A Long Way Down, directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Pierce Brosnan, will be presented as a tribute to the director in the opening slot at the Dinard British Film Festival
The opening film will be A Long Way Down, directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Pierce Brosnan,...
- 9/13/2015
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The French film director died last week after a battle with cancer.
Pascal Chaumeil’s A Long Way Down is to open the 26th Dinard British Film Festival (30 Sept - 4 Oct).
The comedy drama, which stars Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots and Aaron Paul, was the penultimate production for the French director, who died last Thursday aged 54 following a battle with cancer.
The film, which premiered at the 2014 Berlinale, was the final English-language film for Chaumeil, who was in post-production on his final feature Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot) when he died.
Competition
The festival also revealed the titles that will compete for the festival’s Golden Hitchock award, including Owen Harris’ Kill Your Friends, an adaptation of John Niven’s 2008 novel of the same name starring Nicholas Hoult, Ed Skrein, James Corden and Rosanna Arquette.
Other films vying for the top prize are Craig Roberts’ directorial debut Just Jim, Andrew Steggall’s [link...
Pascal Chaumeil’s A Long Way Down is to open the 26th Dinard British Film Festival (30 Sept - 4 Oct).
The comedy drama, which stars Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots and Aaron Paul, was the penultimate production for the French director, who died last Thursday aged 54 following a battle with cancer.
The film, which premiered at the 2014 Berlinale, was the final English-language film for Chaumeil, who was in post-production on his final feature Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot) when he died.
Competition
The festival also revealed the titles that will compete for the festival’s Golden Hitchock award, including Owen Harris’ Kill Your Friends, an adaptation of John Niven’s 2008 novel of the same name starring Nicholas Hoult, Ed Skrein, James Corden and Rosanna Arquette.
Other films vying for the top prize are Craig Roberts’ directorial debut Just Jim, Andrew Steggall’s [link...
- 9/1/2015
- ScreenDaily
French director Pascal Chaumeil died in Paris on Thursday. The filmmaker, who had been suffering from cancer, was 54.Chaumeil is perhaps best known to British audiences for his French-language romantic-comedy Heartbreaker, a huge hit in France, and more recently a Hollywood debut in A Long Way Down. In the former, he gave Romain Duris and Vanessa Paradis a Mediterranean-side stage to flaunt their comedy chops, chemistry and Dirty Dancing skills; while the latter offered a first taste of directing in English. That Nick Hornby adaptation combined Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots and Aaron Paul as four suicidal strangers.Chaumeil’s long-standing passion for filmmaking was sharpened on the sets of Régis Wargnier - I'm The King Of The Castle in 1989 - and Luc Besson. He worked as assistant director on Léon before being promoted to second unit director on The Fifth Element.From there, he secured directorial gigs working...
- 9/1/2015
- EmpireOnline
French film-maker had just completed Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot).
French director Pascal Chaumeil, best known for the 2010 romantic comedy hit Heartbreaker (L’Arnacoeur), has died aged 54.
“He died from on Thursday (August 27) from cancer,” his widow Camille Chaumeil told Agence France Presse on Monday.
“He really lived for cinema. He dreamt of being a director from the age of 15.”
Chaumeil was in the throes of completing post-production on his final film Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot) when he died, starring Romain Duris as an unemployed factory worker who takes on a hitman job to make ends meet.
Gaumont International, which launched sales on the film in Cannes, told ScreenDaily that first images would be available at the American Film Market (Afm) in November and that the feature was expected to released in France in January 2016.
Chaumeil cut his directing teeth on the sets of Régis Wargnier and Luc Besson in the 1990s, working as the...
French director Pascal Chaumeil, best known for the 2010 romantic comedy hit Heartbreaker (L’Arnacoeur), has died aged 54.
“He died from on Thursday (August 27) from cancer,” his widow Camille Chaumeil told Agence France Presse on Monday.
“He really lived for cinema. He dreamt of being a director from the age of 15.”
Chaumeil was in the throes of completing post-production on his final film Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot) when he died, starring Romain Duris as an unemployed factory worker who takes on a hitman job to make ends meet.
Gaumont International, which launched sales on the film in Cannes, told ScreenDaily that first images would be available at the American Film Market (Afm) in November and that the feature was expected to released in France in January 2016.
Chaumeil cut his directing teeth on the sets of Régis Wargnier and Luc Besson in the 1990s, working as the...
- 9/1/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Other new titles on slate include Pattaya and Critics’ Week screener Learn by Heart.
Gaumont has launched sales on Pascal Chaumeil’s upcoming Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot), achieving a first early deal to Pathé Switzerland on the eve of the Cannes market.
The production unites Chaumeil with Romain Duris, co-star of his 2010 hit Heartbreaker, as a down-on-his-luck unemployed factory worker who takes on a job as a hitman.
The film is based on Iain Levison’s novel Since the Lay-Offs adapted to the big screen by actor Michel Blanc who also appears in the film.
Described as a black comedy, combining the absurdity of the Coen Brothers and the tenderness of Ken Loach’s social comedies, the film is currently shooting in Mallorca.
Other new titles include Franck Gastambide’s comedy Pattaya in which he stars alongside Malik Bentalhal as two friends who set off on a madcap trip to a notorious Thai beach resort...
Gaumont has launched sales on Pascal Chaumeil’s upcoming Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot), achieving a first early deal to Pathé Switzerland on the eve of the Cannes market.
The production unites Chaumeil with Romain Duris, co-star of his 2010 hit Heartbreaker, as a down-on-his-luck unemployed factory worker who takes on a job as a hitman.
The film is based on Iain Levison’s novel Since the Lay-Offs adapted to the big screen by actor Michel Blanc who also appears in the film.
Described as a black comedy, combining the absurdity of the Coen Brothers and the tenderness of Ken Loach’s social comedies, the film is currently shooting in Mallorca.
Other new titles include Franck Gastambide’s comedy Pattaya in which he stars alongside Malik Bentalhal as two friends who set off on a madcap trip to a notorious Thai beach resort...
- 5/13/2015
- ScreenDaily
New film from Pascal Chaumeil, director of A Long Way Down, secures biggest support of more than $500,000; next film in the Department Q series also receives support.
Eurimages is to plough $4.7m (€4,444,000) into 18 feature films and two documentaries, following its latest meeting in London from March 9-12.
Among the titles to receive support is Walking To Paris, from British auteur Peter Greenaway, which received $300,000 (€280,000).
The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer Kees Kasander. The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
The film is due to begin shooting this month in Switzerland.
Speaking to ScreenDaily about the feature early this year, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building...
Eurimages is to plough $4.7m (€4,444,000) into 18 feature films and two documentaries, following its latest meeting in London from March 9-12.
Among the titles to receive support is Walking To Paris, from British auteur Peter Greenaway, which received $300,000 (€280,000).
The biopic of sculptor Constantin Brancusi is being made with Dutch producer Kees Kasander. The film will focus on the 18 months when a 27-year-old Brancusi walked through Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France.
The film is due to begin shooting this month in Switzerland.
Speaking to ScreenDaily about the feature early this year, Greenaway said: “Along the way, living off the land as his years of being a shepherd boy had taught him, he had adventures - comic, violent, sexual and romantic - and certainly formative of his future sculpture, constantly building...
- 3/18/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Toni Collette, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, James Franco and Morgan Freeman can all draw crowds but their latest films are not being released in cinemas in Australia.
Distributors say there are multiple factors which compel them to send films straight to DVD and VoD, not least when titles bomb in the Us.
But the slashing of pay TV license fees for movies, rising marketing costs, the continued decline of the DVD market, the mainstream programming of chains such as Dendy and the proliferation of festivals and alternate content in cinemas are pushing many small to medium-size films out of cinemas.
Distributors calculate that it costs a minimum of $1.3 million to market a broad theatrical release, which means it will need to gross $4.5 million to break-even. Any less and the distributor loses money.
Universal Pictures International Australia MD Mike Baard says the fragmentation of audiences means distributors have to...
Distributors say there are multiple factors which compel them to send films straight to DVD and VoD, not least when titles bomb in the Us.
But the slashing of pay TV license fees for movies, rising marketing costs, the continued decline of the DVD market, the mainstream programming of chains such as Dendy and the proliferation of festivals and alternate content in cinemas are pushing many small to medium-size films out of cinemas.
Distributors calculate that it costs a minimum of $1.3 million to market a broad theatrical release, which means it will need to gross $4.5 million to break-even. Any less and the distributor loses money.
Universal Pictures International Australia MD Mike Baard says the fragmentation of audiences means distributors have to...
- 8/14/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Lost in Translation: Chaumeil’s English Language Debut a Wretched Operation
While his 2010 feature debut, Heartbreaker, which starred Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris, managed to breathe an essence of effervescent charm into an already overproduced narrative, director Pascal Chaumeil followed up with the execrable Dany Boon rom-com Un Plan Parfait. Somehow, he’s managed to top the ineptitude of that with his first dip into English language with A Long Way Down. Butchering its Nick Hornby based source material (the author behind such works that would become films like High Fidelity, About a Boy, and An Education), the end result is an aggravating chore to sit through, a series of awkward and falsely staged interactions, leaving one to sift through multiple ironies in relation to the end product and the unintentionally apt title.
One cold New Year’s Eve in London, four depressed people meet on a rooftop they...
While his 2010 feature debut, Heartbreaker, which starred Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris, managed to breathe an essence of effervescent charm into an already overproduced narrative, director Pascal Chaumeil followed up with the execrable Dany Boon rom-com Un Plan Parfait. Somehow, he’s managed to top the ineptitude of that with his first dip into English language with A Long Way Down. Butchering its Nick Hornby based source material (the author behind such works that would become films like High Fidelity, About a Boy, and An Education), the end result is an aggravating chore to sit through, a series of awkward and falsely staged interactions, leaving one to sift through multiple ironies in relation to the end product and the unintentionally apt title.
One cold New Year’s Eve in London, four depressed people meet on a rooftop they...
- 7/9/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
To make a movie that is about four people who just happen to attempt suicide on the same day - and become best friends over the strange coincidence - work, you have to organize a topnotch cast. For A Long Way Down, which is based on the novel by Nick Hornsby, director Pascal Chaumeil has done just that: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette (who has worked in Hornsby territory before with About A Boy), Imogen Poots and "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul play the lost souls who find...
- 7/8/2014
- by Eric Walkuski
- JoBlo.com
A Long Way Down Magnolia Pictures Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: C- Director: Pascal Chaumeil Screenplay: Jack Thorne, based on Nick Hornby’s novel Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Rosamund Pike, Sam Neill Screened at: Dolby24, NYC, 6/25/14 Opens: July 11, 2014 Nothing makes much sense. Is “A Long Way Down” a comedy about depression, suicide, and paralytic disease? Does having suicidal impulses in common make for solid friendships? Is there anything in the script that adds up to more than banal chatter among four people with little in common? Who knows? Pascal Chaumeil’s adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel—the volume available [ Read More ]
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- 7/7/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Title: A Long Way Down Director: Pascal Chaumeil Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul, Sam Neil. The director of ‘Heartbreaker’ comes back with a heartfelt and heart-moving story of lost souls, who find each other for healing, adapting with mastery the novel by Nick Hornby ‘A Long Way Down.’ The story is written in the first-person narrative from the points of view of the four main characters, Martin (Pierce Brosnan), Maureen (Toni Collette), Jess (Imogen Poots)and Jj aka John Julius (Aaron Paul). These four strangers happen to meet on the roof of a high building called Toppers’ House in London on New Year’s Eve, each with the [ Read More ]
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- 6/30/2014
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Downton Abbey's Brendan Coyle is to star in a new series for French premium channel Canal+.
Spotless is described as a "sexy one-hour crime drama peppered with black humour".
The 10-part first season - set in London - will tell the story of Jean, a troubled man whose life is turned upside down by the re-emergence of his outlaw brother Martin.
Spooks actress Miranda Raison will appear opposite Coyle and Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds).
Spotless has been co-created by Ed McCardie (Shameless) and Corinne Marrinan (CSI) with the first two episodes to be directed by French filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil (A Long Way Down).
"We love Pascal Chaumeil's work and are excited that he will be directing the first two episodes, starting the series off in a quirky, off-beat style," said Fabrice de la Patellière, director of French drama and co-productions for Canal+.
Spotless will begin principal photography in...
Spotless is described as a "sexy one-hour crime drama peppered with black humour".
The 10-part first season - set in London - will tell the story of Jean, a troubled man whose life is turned upside down by the re-emergence of his outlaw brother Martin.
Spooks actress Miranda Raison will appear opposite Coyle and Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds).
Spotless has been co-created by Ed McCardie (Shameless) and Corinne Marrinan (CSI) with the first two episodes to be directed by French filmmaker Pascal Chaumeil (A Long Way Down).
"We love Pascal Chaumeil's work and are excited that he will be directing the first two episodes, starting the series off in a quirky, off-beat style," said Fabrice de la Patellière, director of French drama and co-productions for Canal+.
Spotless will begin principal photography in...
- 6/24/2014
- Digital Spy
With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? This is the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? Or cancer? Or toast that falls to the floor buttered side down? I hadn’t previously thought that there might be an arms race to find the most horrific concept possible that might be labeled, with a straight face, “romantic” and “funny,” but maybe such a race is on. If so, it has been won byA Perfect Plan, the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure.
The genre works — or doesn’t — because you get so enrapt in the possibility of happiness for a couple that you forgive all the strained...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
With rom-coms like this, who needs warcrimes? Or cancer? Or toast that falls to the floor buttered side down? I hadn’t previously thought that there might be an arms race to find the most horrific concept possible that might be labeled, with a straight face, “romantic” and “funny,” but maybe such a race is on. If so, it has been won byA Perfect Plan, the most cruel, most contrived romantic comedy I have ever had the displeasure to endure.
The genre works — or doesn’t — because you get so enrapt in the possibility of happiness for a couple that you forgive all the strained...
- 6/13/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Pascal Chaumeil’s preceding endeavour Heartbreaker, is one of the more creative, enchanting and charmingly idealistic French comedies in recent years. Expectations had therefore been raised for the similarly-toned A Perfect Plan – however with the disastrous comedy A Long Way Down, released somewhere in between, any such fervent anticipation has since been lowered dramatically, which, as it turns out, was for good reason.
The film stars Diane Kruger as Isabelle, a woman so desperate to break her family curse of first marriages always ending in disaster – that she sets off to find a short-term husband– to free herself of the spell before marrying her one true love, Pierre (Robert Plagnol). Initially, she flies to Denmark, where it’s legal to get divorced instantly after a wedding, as she intends on paying somebody to marry and divorce her in a day. However after she gets stood up, she sets her sights...
The film stars Diane Kruger as Isabelle, a woman so desperate to break her family curse of first marriages always ending in disaster – that she sets off to find a short-term husband– to free herself of the spell before marrying her one true love, Pierre (Robert Plagnol). Initially, she flies to Denmark, where it’s legal to get divorced instantly after a wedding, as she intends on paying somebody to marry and divorce her in a day. However after she gets stood up, she sets her sights...
- 6/12/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sometimes you don't have to speak to make an impact. Just watch Aaron Paul in the exclusive clip up above from "A Long Way Down" and you will see what we mean. The movie, based on a Nick Hornby novel of the same name, follows four individuals who meet while attempting to commit suicide at the same spot on New Year's Eve. The four folks—played by Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and Aaron Paul—end up opting to, at minimum, delay their plans for a few weeks and form something of a non-traditional family. The particular clip above has them playing the famous "three wishes" game – wondering what they would each do if they were granted three wishes. Sadly, we don't hear from Aaron Paul's J.J. in the clip, but he does have a number of choice reaction shots, including the one at the end after...
- 6/11/2014
- by Josh Lasser
- Hitfix
Four people go up to a rooftop at the same time to commit suicide, and wind up forging friendships instead and a pact to stay alive. Yes, that's the basic summary of "A Long Way Down," the upcoming comedy (really) from Pascal Chaumeil, the director behind French rom-com "Heartbreaker" that put him on the map a few years back. Though, this might take him off it. A promising cast has been assembled for this one with Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Imogen Poots and Toni Collette in the lead roles, with the movie based off a boy by Nick Hornby (the dude who brought us "High Fidelity" and "About A Boy"). So what could go wrong? Apparently a lot. Reviewing the film out of Berlin, our Jessica Kiang says it's "galling to think of all that time and effort and talent being put to waste on a project as lacking in merit as this one.
- 6/5/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Imagine this: It’s New Year’s Eve and you’re feeling down. So down that you’ve actually decided to end your life. You get to the top of the high rise, you’re ready to jump, and… there are a bunch of other suicidal folks up there trying to do the same thing. What do you?
In A Long Way Down, strangers J.J. (Aaron Paul), Jess (Imogen Poots), Martin (Pierce Brosnan), and Maureen (Toni Collette) decide to just delay “the end” for six weeks. Their pact causes a media frenzy and the oddball group are turned into unlikely celebrities.
In A Long Way Down, strangers J.J. (Aaron Paul), Jess (Imogen Poots), Martin (Pierce Brosnan), and Maureen (Toni Collette) decide to just delay “the end” for six weeks. Their pact causes a media frenzy and the oddball group are turned into unlikely celebrities.
- 6/5/2014
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Having weathered a less-than-stellar reception in the UK after its March release, Magnolia Pictures have released a new trailer for A Long Way Down, ahead of its appearance on VOD and in Us theatres.
The film, based on the Nick Hornby novel, is directed by Pascal Chaumeil and written by Jack Thorne, of This Is England fame. The main cast is made up of Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia!), Toni Collete (Enough Said), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Imogen Poots (Filth). They are supported by Rosamund Pike (The World’s End, Gone Girl) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Tudors). There is, in theory, no weak link in this chain of talent. So why was it received so poorly in the UK then? Did it simply buckle under the weight of expectation?
The story follows four strangers whose paths unexpectedly cross on the roof of a London skyscraper on New Year’s Eve,...
The film, based on the Nick Hornby novel, is directed by Pascal Chaumeil and written by Jack Thorne, of This Is England fame. The main cast is made up of Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia!), Toni Collete (Enough Said), Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Imogen Poots (Filth). They are supported by Rosamund Pike (The World’s End, Gone Girl) and Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Tudors). There is, in theory, no weak link in this chain of talent. So why was it received so poorly in the UK then? Did it simply buckle under the weight of expectation?
The story follows four strangers whose paths unexpectedly cross on the roof of a London skyscraper on New Year’s Eve,...
- 4/26/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: UK comedy-drama also starring Toni Collette readies for September 2014 shoot.
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
- 4/22/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK comedy-drama also starring Toni Collette readies for September 2014 shoot.
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz have newly boarded UK comedy-drama Miss You Already from writer Morwenna Banks.
Weisz will star alongside previously announced Toni Collette as vivacious best friends, inseparable since childhood, whose relationship is tested when one becomes pregnant and the other sick.
The UK production, due to shoot in September 2014, is produced by Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen of Embargo Films, producers of I, Anna, The Sweeney and Still Life.
The Salt Company is selling the film internationally with CAA co-repping North America. Salt, Exponential Media and Maven Pictures are co-producing.
Director Hardwicke said of Banks’ script: “When I met Morwenna Banks, and read her script, I really felt her passion for this story - this is something she lived through. She managed to take real life and turn it into a powerful, laugh- and cry-out-loud...
- 4/22/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Us producer and writer Frank Spotnitz hits Croisette with multiple announcements. YouTube head of Entertainment Alex Carloss examines platform’s pulling power.
Old and New Media were out in force at Miptv on Tuesday (8) as veteran producers and writers unveiled projects and new media heavyweights YouTube and Twitter discussed the pulling power of their platforms for traditional content creators as well as newcomers.
A round-up of the day 2 events:
Previews
Us writer and producer Frank Spotnitz joined Olivier Bibas, producer and managing director of Paris-based Atlantique Productions, for a breakfast preview of the second series of Transporter adapted from Luc Besson’s popular film franchise.
UK actor Chris Vance returns as the no-nonsense extreme courier Frank Martin opposite Italian actress and singer Violante Placido in a new character role as his right-hand woman.
“We want to keep the identity of the original but also deepen Frank’s world,” said Spotnitz, noting each episode...
Old and New Media were out in force at Miptv on Tuesday (8) as veteran producers and writers unveiled projects and new media heavyweights YouTube and Twitter discussed the pulling power of their platforms for traditional content creators as well as newcomers.
A round-up of the day 2 events:
Previews
Us writer and producer Frank Spotnitz joined Olivier Bibas, producer and managing director of Paris-based Atlantique Productions, for a breakfast preview of the second series of Transporter adapted from Luc Besson’s popular film franchise.
UK actor Chris Vance returns as the no-nonsense extreme courier Frank Martin opposite Italian actress and singer Violante Placido in a new character role as his right-hand woman.
“We want to keep the identity of the original but also deepen Frank’s world,” said Spotnitz, noting each episode...
- 4/8/2014
- ScreenDaily
Canal Plus has given an 10-episode order to one-hour crime drama Spotless. Co-created by Shameless UK producer and writer Ed McCardie and Corinne Marrinan (CSI, Crossing Lines), the series is produced by Studiocanal’s Tandem Communications in association with Rosetta Media for Canal+ Original Programming. The London-set drama is billed as irreverant, sexy and dangerous. It’s the story of a troubled man whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother crash lands into his world, and gets both of them involved in the deadly dynamics of organized crime as their dysfunctional family struggles to gain control over life, business and shared destiny. Principal photography is targeted to begin this summer in London. The first two episodes will be directed by Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker) and casting is underway. McCardie is head writer and Marrinan is writer and co-executive producer. Executive producers include Tandem’s Rola Bauer, Jonas Bauer and Suzanne Berger,...
- 4/8/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
The big-screen version of Hornby's black comedy about suicidal strangers who bond on the roof of a tower block lacks edge
This adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel has an agreeably morbid comic premise: four strangers meet on top of a tower block, all intending to jump to their deaths. Their plans scuppered, they reschedule – giving them enough time for them to improbably bond and to help each other rediscover the joys of life. Pascal Chaumeil, who made French romcom Heartbreaker, directs unfussily, and gives the leads space to do their individual things, for better or worse. Aaron Paul, from Breaking Bad and Need For Speed, is woefully inert, while Toni Collette is more gawkily mannered than ever. As a disgraced talkshow host, Pierce Brosnan glides through insouciantly as if wearing his comfiest slippers, but expands his range with a how's-yer-father demeanour and curious undertones of Michael Barrymore. Imogen Poots,...
This adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel has an agreeably morbid comic premise: four strangers meet on top of a tower block, all intending to jump to their deaths. Their plans scuppered, they reschedule – giving them enough time for them to improbably bond and to help each other rediscover the joys of life. Pascal Chaumeil, who made French romcom Heartbreaker, directs unfussily, and gives the leads space to do their individual things, for better or worse. Aaron Paul, from Breaking Bad and Need For Speed, is woefully inert, while Toni Collette is more gawkily mannered than ever. As a disgraced talkshow host, Pierce Brosnan glides through insouciantly as if wearing his comfiest slippers, but expands his range with a how's-yer-father demeanour and curious undertones of Michael Barrymore. Imogen Poots,...
- 3/23/2014
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Starred Up | Labor Day | Yves Saint Laurent | Gbf | The Robber | The Machine | Salvo | The Unknown Known | A Long Way Down
Starred Up (18)
(David Mackenzie, 2013, UK) Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend. 106 mins
We've seen enough prison movies to know the drill, but this is closer to A Prophet than The Great Escape – a bracing mix of brutal thriller, institutional critique and complex character drama. Conviction is key, both in the day-to-day details and the natural performances, particularly O'Connell – a young offender violent enough to be housed with the grown-ups, including his own father. It feels like things could kick off with every scene.
Labor Day (12A)
(Jason Reitman, 2013, Us) Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith. 111 mins
The Juno director tries nuanced domestic drama – and it doesn't really suit him. Erotic tremors are a given when Brolin's escaped convict shacks up with Winslet's lonely single mum, but you'll need to park your disbelief.
Starred Up (18)
(David Mackenzie, 2013, UK) Jack O'Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend. 106 mins
We've seen enough prison movies to know the drill, but this is closer to A Prophet than The Great Escape – a bracing mix of brutal thriller, institutional critique and complex character drama. Conviction is key, both in the day-to-day details and the natural performances, particularly O'Connell – a young offender violent enough to be housed with the grown-ups, including his own father. It feels like things could kick off with every scene.
Labor Day (12A)
(Jason Reitman, 2013, Us) Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith. 111 mins
The Juno director tries nuanced domestic drama – and it doesn't really suit him. Erotic tremors are a given when Brolin's escaped convict shacks up with Winslet's lonely single mum, but you'll need to park your disbelief.
- 3/22/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A suicide-club meet-cute? It shouldn’t work, but it does, as wonderfully sardonic British humor and as a reminder that you’re not alone in being messed up in this insane world. I’m “biast” (pro): I’ve liked other flicks based on Nick Hornby’s novels
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It shouldn’t work: this is, after all, a platonic meet-cute among four people who’d planned to throw themselves off the London rooftop where they all run into one another on a particularly despairing New Year’s Eve for each of them. But it works: as wonderfully sardonic British humor (for us), as something to cling to in the face of misery (for them), as a reminder that it’s okay to be fucked up in this insane world...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
It shouldn’t work: this is, after all, a platonic meet-cute among four people who’d planned to throw themselves off the London rooftop where they all run into one another on a particularly despairing New Year’s Eve for each of them. But it works: as wonderfully sardonic British humor (for us), as something to cling to in the face of misery (for them), as a reminder that it’s okay to be fucked up in this insane world...
- 3/21/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Pierce Brosnan returns to our screens this weekend in A Long Way Down, a dark comedy based loosely on the novel by Nick Hornby (About a Boy). Set on New Year’s Eve, the film features four characters who meet on a London rooftop, each of them intending to commit suicide. Directed by Luc Besson protégé Pascal Chaumeil, the film could be just the hit that Brosnan could do with late in his career.
It’s fair to say that none of the six actors to date who have played James Bond have gone on to sustain those levels of public prominence (though with Daniel Craig it is perhaps too early to say). Some, like George Lazenby and Roger Moore, have little by little eschewed the film business and diversified their interests; others, like Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton, have taken on work that deliberately distanced them from 007. Brosnan’s...
It’s fair to say that none of the six actors to date who have played James Bond have gone on to sustain those levels of public prominence (though with Daniel Craig it is perhaps too early to say). Some, like George Lazenby and Roger Moore, have little by little eschewed the film business and diversified their interests; others, like Sean Connery and Timothy Dalton, have taken on work that deliberately distanced them from 007. Brosnan’s...
- 3/21/2014
- by Daniel Mumby
- Obsessed with Film
Director: Pascal Chaumeil; Screenwriter: Jack Thorne; Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots; Running time: 96 mins; Certificate: 15
There is a lot to dislike about A Long Way Down. It's the sort of cloying Brit-com at which Richard Curtis would balk even in his lowest moment, it makes a series of unnecessary and wrongheaded changes from Nick Hornby's genuinely dark, interesting novel, and it squanders the talents of a strong, likeable cast.
But the really unforgivable thing about the film is that it uses suicide as a MacGuffin. Despite an opening scene that entails four separate attempts, the dramatic stakes could not possibly feel lower. You don't believe for a moment that any of these people genuinely want to die, because Jack Thorne's smug, smarmy script doesn't make even a token attempt to explore the realities of mental illness.
On New Year's Eve, four disparate strangers meet...
There is a lot to dislike about A Long Way Down. It's the sort of cloying Brit-com at which Richard Curtis would balk even in his lowest moment, it makes a series of unnecessary and wrongheaded changes from Nick Hornby's genuinely dark, interesting novel, and it squanders the talents of a strong, likeable cast.
But the really unforgivable thing about the film is that it uses suicide as a MacGuffin. Despite an opening scene that entails four separate attempts, the dramatic stakes could not possibly feel lower. You don't believe for a moment that any of these people genuinely want to die, because Jack Thorne's smug, smarmy script doesn't make even a token attempt to explore the realities of mental illness.
On New Year's Eve, four disparate strangers meet...
- 3/21/2014
- Digital Spy
Pierce Brosnan might still be best known for playing suave super spy James Bond, but the Irish actor tackles a very different role in the new movie adaptation of Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down.
Cast as Martin Sharp - a former TV host plagued by a sex scandal - Brosnan stars alongside Imogen Poots, Toni Collette and Aaron Paul in the tale of four suicidal strangers who find new meaning in life through their interactions.
Digital Spy spoke to Brosnan about playing Martin and rocking out to Radiohead with "hip" co-star Paul.
Imogen Poots talks A Long Way Down, Terrence Malick and payday projects
Aaron Paul is the rock star of his day
"I'd known of Nick Hornby's work, so when my agent called me, I read this script and really enjoyed it. The project had all the ingredients - Nick Hornby, [director] Pascal Chaumeil, the wonderful, brilliant,...
Cast as Martin Sharp - a former TV host plagued by a sex scandal - Brosnan stars alongside Imogen Poots, Toni Collette and Aaron Paul in the tale of four suicidal strangers who find new meaning in life through their interactions.
Digital Spy spoke to Brosnan about playing Martin and rocking out to Radiohead with "hip" co-star Paul.
Imogen Poots talks A Long Way Down, Terrence Malick and payday projects
Aaron Paul is the rock star of his day
"I'd known of Nick Hornby's work, so when my agent called me, I read this script and really enjoyed it. The project had all the ingredients - Nick Hornby, [director] Pascal Chaumeil, the wonderful, brilliant,...
- 3/20/2014
- Digital Spy
Pierce Brosnan has revealed that he took inspiration from Richard Madeley for his role in A Long Way Down.
The actor plays disgraced chat show host Martin Sharp in Pascal Chaumeil's black comedy, based on Nick Hornby's novel of the same name. Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots also star.
"I think it's his sheer ebullience and enthusiasm," Brosnan told The Huffington Post UK of Madeley.
Speaking about the profession of a chat show host, he continued: "You have to be almost shamanic to do it, really, and really believe in yourself.
"And it's a thin line between being affable and being really annoying. So it takes a brave soul, really."
Brosnan, Collette, Paul and Poots portray four suicidal people who meet on top of a London skyscraper on New Year's Eve, and begin to form a surrogate family.
A Long Way Down will be released on March 21 in the UK,...
The actor plays disgraced chat show host Martin Sharp in Pascal Chaumeil's black comedy, based on Nick Hornby's novel of the same name. Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots also star.
"I think it's his sheer ebullience and enthusiasm," Brosnan told The Huffington Post UK of Madeley.
Speaking about the profession of a chat show host, he continued: "You have to be almost shamanic to do it, really, and really believe in yourself.
"And it's a thin line between being affable and being really annoying. So it takes a brave soul, really."
Brosnan, Collette, Paul and Poots portray four suicidal people who meet on top of a London skyscraper on New Year's Eve, and begin to form a surrogate family.
A Long Way Down will be released on March 21 in the UK,...
- 3/19/2014
- Digital Spy
Following on from his delightfully whimsical comedy Heartbreaker, French director Pascal Chaumeil has now tried his hand in the English language, adapting Nick Hornby’s novel A Long Way Down. Teaming up with writer Jack Thorne – who penned the incredibly devastating This is England TV series, it’s fair to say that their contrasting styles was always going to make for quite a gamble. Regrettably, it’s not one that has paid off. Two rights, in this instance, have made one hell of a wrong.
The films opens with Pierce Brosnan’s Martin Sharp, a disgraced television personality contemplating suicide on the roof of a high-rise, London building, on a cold, bitter New Year’s Eve. His willingness to end his life stems from the fact he was caught having an affair with an underage girl, resulting in a hounding from the British press. However on the roof he bumps into lonely,...
The films opens with Pierce Brosnan’s Martin Sharp, a disgraced television personality contemplating suicide on the roof of a high-rise, London building, on a cold, bitter New Year’s Eve. His willingness to end his life stems from the fact he was caught having an affair with an underage girl, resulting in a hounding from the British press. However on the roof he bumps into lonely,...
- 3/17/2014
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
BBC Films and Shine Pictures have acquired the rights to Child 44 author Tom Rob Smith’s new psychological thriller, The Farm.
The mystery novel set in London and Sweden reached number two in the UK bestseller charts during its opening month and also proved a bestseller in Australia, Germany and Israel.
It is the latest book from Tom Rob Smith, whose Child 44 trilogy has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, the first of which has been made as a film directed by Daniel Espinosa and starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, and is due for release this year. He also created the five-part BBC backed mini-series, London Spy, which will air in 2015.
Brought into Shine Pictures by head of literary acquisitions Sue Swift, The Farm will be produced by Ollie Madden for Shine Pictures, with Christine Langan executive producing for BBC Films.
Madden, head of film at Shine, said: “I’ve been...
The mystery novel set in London and Sweden reached number two in the UK bestseller charts during its opening month and also proved a bestseller in Australia, Germany and Israel.
It is the latest book from Tom Rob Smith, whose Child 44 trilogy has sold more than 4 million copies worldwide, the first of which has been made as a film directed by Daniel Espinosa and starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, and is due for release this year. He also created the five-part BBC backed mini-series, London Spy, which will air in 2015.
Brought into Shine Pictures by head of literary acquisitions Sue Swift, The Farm will be produced by Ollie Madden for Shine Pictures, with Christine Langan executive producing for BBC Films.
Madden, head of film at Shine, said: “I’ve been...
- 3/10/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
March 7, 2014
300: Rise of an Empire
Director: Noam Munro
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green
Running time: 102 mins
Certificate 15
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton
Running time: 99 mins
Certificate 15
Paranoia
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate 12
The Stag
Director: John Butler
Starring: Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate 15
March 14, 2014
Need for Speed
Director: Scott Waugh
Starring: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Scott Mescudi
Running time: 130 mins
Certificate 12A
Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate 15
Veronica Mars
Director: Rob Thomas
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate Tbc
The Zero Theorem
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis
Running time: 107 mins
Certificate 15
March 21, 2014
About Last Night
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Kevin Hart,...
300: Rise of an Empire
Director: Noam Munro
Starring: Sullivan Stapleton, Rodrigo Santoro, Eva Green
Running time: 102 mins
Certificate 15
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton
Running time: 99 mins
Certificate 15
Paranoia
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Gary Oldman, Harrison Ford
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate 12
The Stag
Director: John Butler
Starring: Andrew Scott, Hugh O'Conor, Peter McDonald
Running time: 94 mins
Certificate 15
March 14, 2014
Need for Speed
Director: Scott Waugh
Starring: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Scott Mescudi
Running time: 130 mins
Certificate 12A
Under the Skin
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Paul Brannigan
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate 15
Veronica Mars
Director: Rob Thomas
Starring: Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni
Running time: 110 mins
Certificate Tbc
The Zero Theorem
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis
Running time: 107 mins
Certificate 15
March 21, 2014
About Last Night
Director: Steve Pink
Starring: Kevin Hart,...
- 2/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Valentine’s Day is always a mixed proposition: a celebration for those in love or doom’s day for the lonely singletons desperate for companionship. At least, that’s what most romance films want us to believe — not to mention the lists. All sorts of lists: the top 10 romance films, the top 50 romance films or the best romance films of all time inevitably pollute the internet on Cupid’s day. This year, however, an alternative message has landed with "A Long Way Down," director Pascal Chaumeil’s adaptation of Nick Hornby's acclaimed novel, which premiered this week at the Berlin International Film Festival. Combining morose and joyful ingredients in an unlikely package, "A Long Way Down" follows a conscience-stricken ex-television presenter (Pierce Brosnan), a struggling single mother (Toni Collette), a angst-riddled teen (Imogen Poots) and a downbeat musician (Aaron Paul) who form a suicide pact: After they all run...
- 2/14/2014
- by Tara Karajica
- Indiewire
Oh dear. [D]. Sort of tempted to leave the review at that, to be honest, but what would the internet do with all of that white space? So here is a bunch more words about it, and no matter how haphazardly they’re arranged we can take some comfort in the fact that it’s with seemingly more care than went into a certain screenplay. Because the problems with “A Long Way Down,” from director Pascal Chaumeil (of 2010’s French-language “Heartbreaker”) which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival this week, go deep — like archaeologically deep. Based on Nick Hornby’s bestseller, which we have to believe, is infinitely better than the film version if we’re to retain any faith in the book-buying public, the story of four suicidal strangers coming round to choosing life would need incredible insight and sensitivity to convince at all, let alone to work as a comedy.
- 2/12/2014
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
Berlin - To briefly compare two comedies that have no obvious points of comparison whatsoever, "A Long Way Down" gets precisely one thing right that "M*A*S*H" does not: suicide is not painless. Not for viewers of the former, at any rate, as each mirthless minute of Pascal Chaumeil's wretched suicide-club farce prompts a fresh and previously unfamiliar grimace; rarely has such a comic premise been so exhaustively milked, as if to perversely prove its breathtaking lack of potential. "Still not laughing? Good. Now, try this cerebral palsy joke!" The list of subjects that can't be made funny in the blackest of...
- 2/11/2014
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Four strangers planning on killing themselves, played by Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots, meet at a famous London suicide spot on New Year’s Eve and form an ad hoc support group in A Long Way Down, a horrible misfire of a movie which starts off badly and just keeps getting worse. Directed by Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker, Le plan parfait), and adapted from a popular novel by Nick Hornby (Fever Pitch, About a Boy), the film forms a near-perfect storm of misjudged decisions, with its implausible plot, irritating or outright-dislikeable characters, and strained attempts at
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- 2/10/2014
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nick Hornby's bittersweet four-hander about four would-be suicides is recalibrated into a genial, lightweight farce, with a perfectly cast Pierce Brosnan
Nick Hornby's 2005 novel about four would-be suicides has become an amiable, undemanding comedy that is unlikely, it is fair to say, to repeat the success of An Education, the last film he found himself involved in. That film, scripted by Hornby but adapted from Lynn Barber's memoir, was bolstered by a career-making performance from Carey Mulligan; A Long Way Down, by contrast, shares the acting duties equally between the four leads.
Pierce Brosnan, adopting a dubious mockney accent, plays disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp, who has toiled to the top of a rundown tower block to end it all on New Year's Eve. He is interrupted by, in turn, mousy single mother Maureen (Toni Collette), who is overwhelmed by caring for her disabled son; mouthy teenager...
Nick Hornby's 2005 novel about four would-be suicides has become an amiable, undemanding comedy that is unlikely, it is fair to say, to repeat the success of An Education, the last film he found himself involved in. That film, scripted by Hornby but adapted from Lynn Barber's memoir, was bolstered by a career-making performance from Carey Mulligan; A Long Way Down, by contrast, shares the acting duties equally between the four leads.
Pierce Brosnan, adopting a dubious mockney accent, plays disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp, who has toiled to the top of a rundown tower block to end it all on New Year's Eve. He is interrupted by, in turn, mousy single mother Maureen (Toni Collette), who is overwhelmed by caring for her disabled son; mouthy teenager...
- 2/10/2014
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Story charts the relationship between a UK divorcee and Us novelist through their shared love of food.
BBC Films has optioned Deborah McKinlay’s novel That Part Was True. Christine Langan, head of BBC Films, described the book as “a stunning novel”.
“Deborah is a wonderful storyteller whose characters leap off the page, their dilemmas subtly touching modern nerves. We’re delighted to be bringing her engrossing world to the big screen for the first time,” added Langan.
The story begins when Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books and they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship grows against the backdrop of Jackson’s unsatisfying love life and Eve’s tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter and plans are made to meet in Paris - a meeting Eve believes can never happen.
The novel will be published in the UK by Orion from this...
BBC Films has optioned Deborah McKinlay’s novel That Part Was True. Christine Langan, head of BBC Films, described the book as “a stunning novel”.
“Deborah is a wonderful storyteller whose characters leap off the page, their dilemmas subtly touching modern nerves. We’re delighted to be bringing her engrossing world to the big screen for the first time,” added Langan.
The story begins when Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books and they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship grows against the backdrop of Jackson’s unsatisfying love life and Eve’s tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter and plans are made to meet in Paris - a meeting Eve believes can never happen.
The novel will be published in the UK by Orion from this...
- 2/3/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Wiebke Andresen has been promoted to head of acquisitions at Berlin-based producer/distributor Dcm Film Distribution. Andresen, an acquisitions exec at Dcm since 2006, was responsible for securing German rights to such titles as Oscar-nominee The Great Beauty and Golden Globe-winner Behind the Candelabra. She will report directly to Dcm managing directors Christoph Daniel and Marc Schmidheiny. On the production side, Dcm is a financier on Pascal Chaumeil's hotly-anticipated Nick Hornby adaptation A Long Way Down, which stars Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Toni Collette, Pierce Brosnan and Rosamund Pike and which will have its world premiere
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- 1/30/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here is the first trailer for director Pascal Chaumeil’s (Heartbreaker) adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel A Long Way Down. The story revolves around a group of strangers who coincidentally meet on the top of a London skyscraper on New Year’s Eve where they individually had gone to commit suicide and “Instead of jumping, these four strangers make a pact to stay alive and stay together until Valentine’s Day at least”. That sounds watchable already; I never read this one but I do like me some Hornby adaptations (About a Boy, An Education, High Fidelity) so it won’t take a lot to sell me on this.
The film also stars Rosamund Pike, Sam Neill, and Tuppence Middleton. A Long Way Down opens in the U.K. on March 21st; check out the trailer after the synopsis below:
New Year’s Eve on the top of a London skyscraper.
The film also stars Rosamund Pike, Sam Neill, and Tuppence Middleton. A Long Way Down opens in the U.K. on March 21st; check out the trailer after the synopsis below:
New Year’s Eve on the top of a London skyscraper.
- 1/29/2014
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
2014 will be a huge year for fans of novelist Nick Hornby. His near future includes two screenplays in differing stages of production, NBC.s series version of About a Boy, and Pascal Chaumeil.s upcoming adaptation of the 2005 novel A Long Way Down, which dropped both its first trailer and first poster into the Internet. Will it add brightness to your day, or only misery? Depends on how dark your sense of humor gets, I suppose. A Long Way Down features a solid cast for its challenging lead characters, including the disgraced former talk show host Martin (Pierce Brosnan), the troubled mother with a disabled son Maureen (Toni Collette), the former musician J.J. (Aaron Paul) and teenager Jess (Imogen Poots), whose rebellious nature is only one of the many problems tormenting her home life. Their paths all cross one New Year.s Eve night on top of a London...
- 1/28/2014
- cinemablend.com
Bringing beloved author Nick Hornby’s work to the big screen once more, A Long Way Down is soon to begin its tour of the festival circuit out in Berlin and then Glasgow, before heading into our cinemas this spring.
Pascal Chaumeil’s adaptation of Hornby’s novel arrives in cinemas on our shores this March, and with less than two months to go before it reaches us, the first trailer has had its debut over on digitalspy.
New Year’s Eve on the top of a London skyscraper. Martin (Brosnan) is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he’s now desperate to jump. But he’s not alone. Single mother Maureen, (Collette), sassy teen Jess (Poots), and failed musician turned pizza-delivery boy Jj (Paul), have all turned up on the same roof with the same plan.
Instead of jumping, these four strangers make a pact to stay...
Pascal Chaumeil’s adaptation of Hornby’s novel arrives in cinemas on our shores this March, and with less than two months to go before it reaches us, the first trailer has had its debut over on digitalspy.
New Year’s Eve on the top of a London skyscraper. Martin (Brosnan) is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he’s now desperate to jump. But he’s not alone. Single mother Maureen, (Collette), sassy teen Jess (Poots), and failed musician turned pizza-delivery boy Jj (Paul), have all turned up on the same roof with the same plan.
Instead of jumping, these four strangers make a pact to stay...
- 1/28/2014
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sneak Peek the first trailer revealing footage from director Pascal Chaumeil's adaptation of author Nick Hornby's novel "A Long Way Down", starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Rosamund Pike, Sam Neill and Tuppence Middleton:
"....'New Year’s Eve' on the top of a London skyscraper. 'Martin' (Brosnan) is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he’s now desperate to jump. But he’s not alone. Single mother 'Maureen' (Collette), sassy teen 'Jess' (Poots) and failed musician turned pizza-delivery boy 'Jj' (Paul), have all turned up on the same roof with the same plan.
"But instead of jumping, these four strangers make a pact to stay alive and stay together until 'Valentine’s Day' (at least)..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "A Long Way Down"...
"....'New Year’s Eve' on the top of a London skyscraper. 'Martin' (Brosnan) is literally on the edge. A once-beloved TV personality, he’s now desperate to jump. But he’s not alone. Single mother 'Maureen' (Collette), sassy teen 'Jess' (Poots) and failed musician turned pizza-delivery boy 'Jj' (Paul), have all turned up on the same roof with the same plan.
"But instead of jumping, these four strangers make a pact to stay alive and stay together until 'Valentine’s Day' (at least)..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "A Long Way Down"...
- 1/28/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
We haven't heard much about A Long Way Down since its shoot in the autumn of 2012. But as it heads to the Berlin International Film Festival next month, a trailer has finally surfaced, showcasing the not inconsiderable charms of Aaron Paul, Pierce Brosnan, Imogen Poots and Toni Collette. Rosamund Pike and Sam Neill provide the support, in Pascal Chaumeil's darkly comic adapation of the Nick Hornby bestseller.It's no easy thing to craft a feelgood movie premised on multiple attempted suicides, but it looks as though all involved have found a way to do it. If you don't know the novel and didn't glean it from this trailer, the story involves four strangers - Brosnan's disgraced TV presenter, Collette's put-upon single mum, and troubled yoots Poots and Paul - meeting as they find themselves in an unexpected queue to jump from a building on New Year's Eve.Agreeing to postpone until Valentine's Day,...
- 1/28/2014
- EmpireOnline
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