New openers include eOne’s ‘Nativity Rocks!’, Sony’s Girl In The Spider’s Web, and Lionsgate’s Robin Hood.
Warner Bros’ Harry Potter spin-off sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald took off with a strong £12.3m three-day opening last weekend at the UK box office.
While the takings were down on predecessor Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’s £15.3m opening in November 2016, the number still saw the film debut comfortably at the top of the chart and it will be tough to beat this weekend.
There are several new openers vying for the crown but no...
Warner Bros’ Harry Potter spin-off sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald took off with a strong £12.3m three-day opening last weekend at the UK box office.
While the takings were down on predecessor Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’s £15.3m opening in November 2016, the number still saw the film debut comfortably at the top of the chart and it will be tough to beat this weekend.
There are several new openers vying for the crown but no...
- 11/23/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
New openers include eOne’s ‘Nativity Rocks!’, Sony’s Girl In The Spider’s Web, and Lionsgate’s Robin Hood.
Warner Bros’ Harry Potter spin-off sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald took off with a strong £12.3m three-day opening last weekend at the UK box office.
While the takings were down on predecessor Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’s £15.3m opening in November 2016, the number still saw the film debut comfortably at the top of the chart and it will be tough to beat this weekend.
There are several new openers vying for the crown but no...
Warner Bros’ Harry Potter spin-off sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald took off with a strong £12.3m three-day opening last weekend at the UK box office.
While the takings were down on predecessor Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them’s £15.3m opening in November 2016, the number still saw the film debut comfortably at the top of the chart and it will be tough to beat this weekend.
There are several new openers vying for the crown but no...
- 11/23/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Postcards From London arrives in UK cinemas this week, and it’s a creatively inclined, stylistic endeavour that marks another fantastic role for the rising star Harris Dickinson. To celebrate the film’s release we sat down with the man himself, alongside the writer/director Steve McLean.
Dickinson explained what attracted him to getting involved in this project, while McLean told us of the genesis of the idea. We speak about London and how Soho has changed, before Dickinson talks about his choices, and moving from studio films to indie films, and on how he approached this differently to his stunning turn in Beach Rats.
McLean speaks about how the film is a celebration of art, and on its relatable themes, before finally we ask Dickinson about his role in Danny Boyle’s TV series Trust, and his thoughts on fame, and whether he is ready for what’s in store.
Dickinson explained what attracted him to getting involved in this project, while McLean told us of the genesis of the idea. We speak about London and how Soho has changed, before Dickinson talks about his choices, and moving from studio films to indie films, and on how he approached this differently to his stunning turn in Beach Rats.
McLean speaks about how the film is a celebration of art, and on its relatable themes, before finally we ask Dickinson about his role in Danny Boyle’s TV series Trust, and his thoughts on fame, and whether he is ready for what’s in store.
- 11/22/2018
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A beautiful teenager’s strange artistic affliction is revealed after he is drawn into a coterie of Caravaggio connoisseurs
Here is a diverting, self-conscious fantasy sketch of gay life and gay sensibility composed of what the film-maker imagines or remembers of bygone Soho’s lost bohemianism. Its creator is Steve McLean, a former video director returning to cinema after a long personal hiatus following his last feature, Postcards from America in 1994, based on the writings of artist David Wojnarowicz. Both the dialogue and the mise-en-scène of this new film are stylised and theatrical, shot entirely in a darkened studio space, and there are echoes of Derek Jarman. For some, this might be borderline insufferable, but I found it interestingly innocent and high-minded – and aspirational, too, in an unexpected way.
Harris Dickinson plays Jim, an Essex teenager with an interest in art history who arrives in London hoping to make his fortune,...
Here is a diverting, self-conscious fantasy sketch of gay life and gay sensibility composed of what the film-maker imagines or remembers of bygone Soho’s lost bohemianism. Its creator is Steve McLean, a former video director returning to cinema after a long personal hiatus following his last feature, Postcards from America in 1994, based on the writings of artist David Wojnarowicz. Both the dialogue and the mise-en-scène of this new film are stylised and theatrical, shot entirely in a darkened studio space, and there are echoes of Derek Jarman. For some, this might be borderline insufferable, but I found it interestingly innocent and high-minded – and aspirational, too, in an unexpected way.
Harris Dickinson plays Jim, an Essex teenager with an interest in art history who arrives in London hoping to make his fortune,...
- 11/22/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The stream of fall rollouts continues, although at a bit slower pace on the specialty box office front compared with recent weekends. Among them however is the Coen brothers’ anticipated The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, with Netflix beginning a very limited theatrical run today in New York at The Landmark 57 West, at The Landmark Los Angeles and the Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco.
Buster Scruggs is one of three Netflix films — along with Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and Susanne Bier’s Bird Box — to get a rare pre-streaming theatrical release as the company looks to to boost awareness for its awards-season fare. This film is also screening this weekend at AFI Fest and will be available via the service next week.
As per Netflix, the company doesn’t plan to release box office figures for its films.
Among the other specialty newcomers opening Friday are Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano,...
Buster Scruggs is one of three Netflix films — along with Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and Susanne Bier’s Bird Box — to get a rare pre-streaming theatrical release as the company looks to to boost awareness for its awards-season fare. This film is also screening this weekend at AFI Fest and will be available via the service next week.
As per Netflix, the company doesn’t plan to release box office figures for its films.
Among the other specialty newcomers opening Friday are Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano,...
- 11/9/2018
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline Film + TV
Steve McLean’s first film, “Postcards From America,” was also his last, made way back in 1994. But with his follow-up, “Postcards From London,” it seems no time has passed at all: the film is so steeped in stylized mannerisms and dialogue that it might have been made 25 years ago.
“I’m searching for a world full of mystery and possibilities,” 18-year-old Jim announces after arriving in London from the relative backwater of Essex, where he’s long dreamed of adventure. His wish serves as a sort of motto for a movie built upon declarations.
Jim quickly falls in with a group of hipster escorts, who see their work as art. They charge big bucks primarily for their post-coital conversational skills, in which they debate art and literature with the men who hire them.
Also Read: Broadcast TV's Lgbtq Characters of Color Outnumber White Ones for the First Time Ever
Jim willingly joins their ranks,...
“I’m searching for a world full of mystery and possibilities,” 18-year-old Jim announces after arriving in London from the relative backwater of Essex, where he’s long dreamed of adventure. His wish serves as a sort of motto for a movie built upon declarations.
Jim quickly falls in with a group of hipster escorts, who see their work as art. They charge big bucks primarily for their post-coital conversational skills, in which they debate art and literature with the men who hire them.
Also Read: Broadcast TV's Lgbtq Characters of Color Outnumber White Ones for the First Time Ever
Jim willingly joins their ranks,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Elizabeth Weitzman
- The Wrap
What critic B. Ruby Rich dubbed the “New Queer Cinema” encountered little but praise (plus some attention-getting damnation from political conservatives) with such early ’90s titles as “Swoon,” “My Own Private Idaho,” “The Living End,” “Paris Is Burning,” and so forth. But by mid-decade the vogue had run long enough that even gay audiences felt less inclined to embrace every creative effort, giving a relatively cold shoulder to Steve McLean’s “Postcards From America” (1994) and Todd Verow’s “Frisk.” Both were adapted from edgy gay lit figures — the former from autobiographical writings by David Wojnarowicz (who’d died of AIDS), the latter from a typically violent, queasy novel by Dennis Cooper.
These films look better now than most critics or viewers allowed then. The revulsion “Frisk” was greeted with (at a time when gay films were expected to provide some measure of reassuring uplift) only emboldened Verow as a since-highly-prolific director of microbudget features,...
These films look better now than most critics or viewers allowed then. The revulsion “Frisk” was greeted with (at a time when gay films were expected to provide some measure of reassuring uplift) only emboldened Verow as a since-highly-prolific director of microbudget features,...
- 6/28/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
The film premiered at the BFI Flare Film Festival in London in March.
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Steve McLean’s Postcards From London, about a teenager who leaves his insular hometown for the bright lights of London where he falls in with a group of elite rent boys in the city’s legendary district of Soho.
The deal was brokered by Jon Gerrans at Strand Releasing and Rym Hachimi at Paris-based The Bureau Sales, which is handling world sales on the title.
Strand Releasing also released McLean’s previous film, Postcards From America which was...
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Steve McLean’s Postcards From London, about a teenager who leaves his insular hometown for the bright lights of London where he falls in with a group of elite rent boys in the city’s legendary district of Soho.
The deal was brokered by Jon Gerrans at Strand Releasing and Rym Hachimi at Paris-based The Bureau Sales, which is handling world sales on the title.
Strand Releasing also released McLean’s previous film, Postcards From America which was...
- 5/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Line-up includes introductions from Hugh Grant and Rupert Everett.
The BFI Flare: London Lgbtq+ Film Festival has announced its industry programme, which will run alongside the wider festival, March 21 to April 1.
The Makers, a strand of conversations with prominent individuals in Lgbtq+ cinema, returns with speakers Robin Campillo (director of Bpm (Beats Per Minute), which screens at the Festival, Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol producer) and Francis Lee (God’s Own Country writer/director).
Also included in the programme is Anatomy Of An Episode: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, in which writer/executive producer Tom Rob Smith will discuss...
The BFI Flare: London Lgbtq+ Film Festival has announced its industry programme, which will run alongside the wider festival, March 21 to April 1.
The Makers, a strand of conversations with prominent individuals in Lgbtq+ cinema, returns with speakers Robin Campillo (director of Bpm (Beats Per Minute), which screens at the Festival, Elizabeth Karlsen (Carol producer) and Francis Lee (God’s Own Country writer/director).
Also included in the programme is Anatomy Of An Episode: The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, in which writer/executive producer Tom Rob Smith will discuss...
- 3/20/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
UK doc A Deal With The Universe is festival’s Centrepiece Screening.
The BFI Flare: Lgbtq+ London Film Festival has announced its full programme for its 32nd edition.
The festival, which runs from Wednesday 21 March to Sunday 1 April, will include over 50 features, more than 90 shorts plus special events including guest appearances, discussions, workshops and club nights.
A Deal With The Universe, a UK feature documentary from former BFI Flare programmer Jason Barker about his gender transition and becoming a parent, will have its World Premiere at the Festival as the Centrepiece Screening.
Robin Campillo’s Bpm (Beats Per Minute), about French activists fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, is the Special Presentation, while the Special Event in collaboration with The Art Machine is Rise: Qtipoc Representation And Visibility In Film, a single-day series of talks and workshops examining inclusion and stories of queer people of colour on and off screen.
Fresh from its Sundance...
The BFI Flare: Lgbtq+ London Film Festival has announced its full programme for its 32nd edition.
The festival, which runs from Wednesday 21 March to Sunday 1 April, will include over 50 features, more than 90 shorts plus special events including guest appearances, discussions, workshops and club nights.
A Deal With The Universe, a UK feature documentary from former BFI Flare programmer Jason Barker about his gender transition and becoming a parent, will have its World Premiere at the Festival as the Centrepiece Screening.
Robin Campillo’s Bpm (Beats Per Minute), about French activists fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, is the Special Presentation, while the Special Event in collaboration with The Art Machine is Rise: Qtipoc Representation And Visibility In Film, a single-day series of talks and workshops examining inclusion and stories of queer people of colour on and off screen.
Fresh from its Sundance...
- 2/21/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Postcards From London to close 32nd edition of London Lgbt Film Festival.
The 32nd edition of the BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival has announced its opening and closing titles ahead of the event in March.
The festival will begin with Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days Of Mercy on Wednesday 21 March, and close with Steve McLean’s Postcards From London on Saturday 31 March.
From Princess director Shaolm-Ezer and starring Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Freeheld) and Kate Mara (House Of Cards, The Martian), My Days Of Mercy is a love story between two women who differ in both their backgrounds and political perspectives.
The film is written by BAFTA nominated writer Joe Barton (The Ritual, iBoy), with Page and Mara producing alongside Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa. Great Point Media are handling international sales.
Postcards From London will have its European Premiere at the Festival; McClean’s first film since his 1994 Sundance hit Postcards From America is about Jim...
The 32nd edition of the BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival has announced its opening and closing titles ahead of the event in March.
The festival will begin with Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days Of Mercy on Wednesday 21 March, and close with Steve McLean’s Postcards From London on Saturday 31 March.
From Princess director Shaolm-Ezer and starring Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Freeheld) and Kate Mara (House Of Cards, The Martian), My Days Of Mercy is a love story between two women who differ in both their backgrounds and political perspectives.
The film is written by BAFTA nominated writer Joe Barton (The Ritual, iBoy), with Page and Mara producing alongside Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa. Great Point Media are handling international sales.
Postcards From London will have its European Premiere at the Festival; McClean’s first film since his 1994 Sundance hit Postcards From America is about Jim...
- 2/15/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Postcards From London to close 32nd edition of London Lgbt Film Festival.
The 32nd edition of the BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival has announced its opening and closing titles ahead of the event in March.
The festival will begin with Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days Of Mercy on Wednesday 21 March, and close with Steve McLean’s Postcards From London on Saturday 31 March.
From Princess director Shaolm-Ezer and starring Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Freeheld) and Kate Mara (House Of Cards, The Martian), My Days Of Mercy is a love story between two women who differ in both their backgrounds and political perspectives.
The film is written by BAFTA nominated writer Joe Barton (The Ritual, iBoy), with Page and Mara producing alongside Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa. Great Point Media are handling international sales.
Postcards From London will have its European Premiere at the Festival; McClean’s first film since his 1994 Sundance hit Postcards From America is about Jim...
The 32nd edition of the BFI Flare: London Lgbt Film Festival has announced its opening and closing titles ahead of the event in March.
The festival will begin with Tali Shalom-Ezer’s My Days Of Mercy on Wednesday 21 March, and close with Steve McLean’s Postcards From London on Saturday 31 March.
From Princess director Shaolm-Ezer and starring Ellen Page (Juno, Inception, Freeheld) and Kate Mara (House Of Cards, The Martian), My Days Of Mercy is a love story between two women who differ in both their backgrounds and political perspectives.
The film is written by BAFTA nominated writer Joe Barton (The Ritual, iBoy), with Page and Mara producing alongside Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa. Great Point Media are handling international sales.
Postcards From London will have its European Premiere at the Festival; McClean’s first film since his 1994 Sundance hit Postcards From America is about Jim...
- 2/15/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
IndieWire’s Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention.
For his first feature, British actor and filmmaker Harris Dickinson didn’t shy away from some significant challenges. As the star of Eliza Hittman’s Sundance premiere “Beach Rats,” Dickinson appears in nearly every frame, tasked with striking a delicate balance between rough-and-tumble teen and a young man struggling with his sexuality. His Frankie lives out parallel existences that threaten to not just bump up against each other, but with annihilation.
“Beach Rats” follows Frankie over the course of one summer, a season spent alternately lazing around with his rabble-rousing pals at the beach and exploring visits to gay chatrooms that steadily go from digital-only to all-too-real. When Frankie meets Simone (Madeline Weinstein), he gets a glimpse of what his life could be like, but that’s a choice that could mean denying his real feelings.
For his first feature, British actor and filmmaker Harris Dickinson didn’t shy away from some significant challenges. As the star of Eliza Hittman’s Sundance premiere “Beach Rats,” Dickinson appears in nearly every frame, tasked with striking a delicate balance between rough-and-tumble teen and a young man struggling with his sexuality. His Frankie lives out parallel existences that threaten to not just bump up against each other, but with annihilation.
“Beach Rats” follows Frankie over the course of one summer, a season spent alternately lazing around with his rabble-rousing pals at the beach and exploring visits to gay chatrooms that steadily go from digital-only to all-too-real. When Frankie meets Simone (Madeline Weinstein), he gets a glimpse of what his life could be like, but that’s a choice that could mean denying his real feelings.
- 1/24/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Soho shoot is now underway on Steve Mclean’s Postcards From London.
Steve McLean’s follow-up to his 1994 Sundance and Indie Spirit-nominated drama Postcards From America has commenced a four-week shoot in Soho, London.
Postcards From London tells the story of a teenage boy who travels from his small hometown to the English capital in search of fame and fortune.
The project is funded with support from the BFI and Creativity Capital. Soledad Gatti Pascual of Diablo Films produces. The Bureau Sales has boarded international sales rights and London-based Peccaddillo Pictures will distribute in the UK and Ireland.
Harris Dickinson stars alongside Jonah Hauer-King and Richard Durden.
Producer Soledad Gatti Pascual commented: “Postcards is a love letter to the Soho of my youth where on any given night you’d party with straight men in skirts, and transgenders in neon pink outfits and 6” killer heels. It was fun, eccentric but most of all safe for people...
Steve McLean’s follow-up to his 1994 Sundance and Indie Spirit-nominated drama Postcards From America has commenced a four-week shoot in Soho, London.
Postcards From London tells the story of a teenage boy who travels from his small hometown to the English capital in search of fame and fortune.
The project is funded with support from the BFI and Creativity Capital. Soledad Gatti Pascual of Diablo Films produces. The Bureau Sales has boarded international sales rights and London-based Peccaddillo Pictures will distribute in the UK and Ireland.
Harris Dickinson stars alongside Jonah Hauer-King and Richard Durden.
Producer Soledad Gatti Pascual commented: “Postcards is a love letter to the Soho of my youth where on any given night you’d party with straight men in skirts, and transgenders in neon pink outfits and 6” killer heels. It was fun, eccentric but most of all safe for people...
- 11/28/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Open Casting Call for UK Feature Film developed with the BFI
Postcards From London
Rose Wicksteed | Casting is looking for a Lead Male for a British feature film supported by the BFI.
Jim - Age 18-24
Attractive. He should have an edge to him, a sexiness and charisma. Everyone falls in love with him.
Shooting May/June 2013 in London.
No acting experience necessary. Can be from anywhere in the UK.
Paid
_________
The Writer/Director is Steve Mclean whose first feature film was nominated in the Us at the Independent Spirit Awards & at Sundance Film Festival. This will be his second feature.
The Producer is Gavin Emerson who has previously been nominated for 3 BAFTA awards.
_________
If you would like to be considered, please email us a recent photo and the following details as soon as possible.
1) Full Name
2) Date of Birth
3) Age
4) Where you live i.e village, town, city.
Email to: casting@rosewicksteed.
Postcards From London
Rose Wicksteed | Casting is looking for a Lead Male for a British feature film supported by the BFI.
Jim - Age 18-24
Attractive. He should have an edge to him, a sexiness and charisma. Everyone falls in love with him.
Shooting May/June 2013 in London.
No acting experience necessary. Can be from anywhere in the UK.
Paid
_________
The Writer/Director is Steve Mclean whose first feature film was nominated in the Us at the Independent Spirit Awards & at Sundance Film Festival. This will be his second feature.
The Producer is Gavin Emerson who has previously been nominated for 3 BAFTA awards.
_________
If you would like to be considered, please email us a recent photo and the following details as soon as possible.
1) Full Name
2) Date of Birth
3) Age
4) Where you live i.e village, town, city.
Email to: casting@rosewicksteed.
- 1/30/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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