Exclusive: Line Of Duty star Anna Maxwell Martin and Vigil actor Shaun Evans are to headline an ITV true crime series about a woman who escapes a near-fatal relationship with a murderer.
BAFTA-winner Maxwell Martin will star as Delia Balmer, a woman who fell for murderer John Sweeney (Evans) and overcame a horrific attack to provide vital evidence in the prosecution against her former lover.
Delia Balmer (working title) is produced by ITV Studios-backed World Productions, which made Bodyguard and Line of Duty. Based on Balmer’s book Living with a Serial Killer, the four-part series is written by Nick Stevens, who penned Luke Evans drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.
Balmer, an agency nurse, met Sweeney in a London pub in 1991. His artistic, anti-establishment persona gave way to menacingly violent attacks on Balmer, during which he confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in an Amsterdam canal.
Sweeney...
BAFTA-winner Maxwell Martin will star as Delia Balmer, a woman who fell for murderer John Sweeney (Evans) and overcame a horrific attack to provide vital evidence in the prosecution against her former lover.
Delia Balmer (working title) is produced by ITV Studios-backed World Productions, which made Bodyguard and Line of Duty. Based on Balmer’s book Living with a Serial Killer, the four-part series is written by Nick Stevens, who penned Luke Evans drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.
Balmer, an agency nurse, met Sweeney in a London pub in 1991. His artistic, anti-establishment persona gave way to menacingly violent attacks on Balmer, during which he confessed to killing his ex-girlfriend and dumping her body in an Amsterdam canal.
Sweeney...
- 2/15/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Free Turn Entertainment has announced the arrival of Robbie Ashcroft as Managing Partner, formerly International Development Partner at Dentsu’s The Story Lab, Robbie will join the leadership team and focus on continuing to grow Free Turn’s original audio slate, drive their entertainment innovation pipeline across emerging platforms, as well forge new partnerships for the company's film and television slate.
Free Turn Entertainment, was set up in 2020 by BAFTA winning director Nick Hamm, his executive producer brother Jon Hamm and ex Wpp alumni Gemma Batterby to produce premium film, television and immersive audio for global audiences. Recent credits include last year's hit feature film “Gigi and Nate” starring Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, Charlie Rowe, Josephine Langford, Zoe Colleti, Hannah Alligood, Jim Belushi and Diane Ladd, the film was released by Roadside in the U.S. in 2022. The company has grown significantly in the last 18 months with a number...
Free Turn Entertainment, was set up in 2020 by BAFTA winning director Nick Hamm, his executive producer brother Jon Hamm and ex Wpp alumni Gemma Batterby to produce premium film, television and immersive audio for global audiences. Recent credits include last year's hit feature film “Gigi and Nate” starring Oscar winner Marcia Gay Harden, Charlie Rowe, Josephine Langford, Zoe Colleti, Hannah Alligood, Jim Belushi and Diane Ladd, the film was released by Roadside in the U.S. in 2022. The company has grown significantly in the last 18 months with a number...
- 2/2/2023
- Podnews.net
A high-end TV series that will delve into the 2017 assassination of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia is being developed by New York’s Topic Studios in partnership with U.S. incubator Vespucci Group and Italy’s Indiana Production.
Prominent Israeli film and TV writer Noah Stollman is on board to pen the screenplay, giving the project strong cachet.
The as yet untitled series is based on the book “Murder on the Malta Express” co-authored by British investigative journalist John Sweeney with Italy’s Carlo Bonini (“Suburra”) and Maltese journalist-blogger Manuel Delia.
“Through Manuel, John, and Carlo we have unprecedented access to an extremely timely story set against the backdrop of the global threat on journalism,” producer Daniel Turcan (“Marjorie Prime”) co-founder of Vespucci Group said in a joint statement.
The book investigating who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia published by Maltese imprint Midsea Books will be released on Sunday, October...
Prominent Israeli film and TV writer Noah Stollman is on board to pen the screenplay, giving the project strong cachet.
The as yet untitled series is based on the book “Murder on the Malta Express” co-authored by British investigative journalist John Sweeney with Italy’s Carlo Bonini (“Suburra”) and Maltese journalist-blogger Manuel Delia.
“Through Manuel, John, and Carlo we have unprecedented access to an extremely timely story set against the backdrop of the global threat on journalism,” producer Daniel Turcan (“Marjorie Prime”) co-founder of Vespucci Group said in a joint statement.
The book investigating who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia published by Maltese imprint Midsea Books will be released on Sunday, October...
- 10/14/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
In 1993 Dominick Dunne was already famous for saying “he did it” whenever it came to a high-profile murder case he reported on for Vanity Fair. He almost always sided with the prosecution against the defendant, and he did so with the same unbridled partiality he honed a decade earlier when, making his debut in Vanity Fair, he covered the trial of John Sweeney, the Ma Maison chef who strangled to death Dunne’s 22-year-old actress-daughter, Dominique. Erik and Lyle Menendez were on trial for double murder in 1993. The two young men and their two middle-aged victims were not celebrities,...
- 4/18/2017
- by Robert Hofler
- The Wrap
This week's episode of Scientology and the Aftermath was supposedly prompted by accusations that host and former church member Leah Remini has "incited hate crimes" against the organization. Eager to find out more, she and fellow defector Mike Rinder paid a visit to one of the people who supposedly committed the hate crimes that Remini incited. Here's what she – and we – learned from her visit with the Brandon Reisdorf and his family, as well as three journalists who’ve spent their careers writing about, and allegedly enduring harassment, from the organization.
- 1/11/2017
- Rollingstone.com
The second episode of Scientology and the Aftermath, Leah Remini's A&E documentary series about the Church of Scientology (which she left in 2013), focused largely on the story of Mike Rinder, the organization's former spokesperson. Rinder was a Scientologist for 46 years and worked alongside current Church leader David Miscavige for 25 years before "blowing" — the Scientology equivalent of "see ya!" — in 2007. He no longer has contact with his children, who remain devout Scientologists. As a former high-level executive, Rinder claims that he was both party to and victim of what...
- 12/7/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Shoes (1916) screens along with the short film Suspense (10 minutes – 1910) Sunday December 11th beginning at 7:30pm at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood).
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of two of Lois Weber’s most important films, Milestone Films has released restored versions of Shoes and The Dumb Girl Of Portici. Working with the Netherland’s Eye Filmmuseum, the Library of Congress, archivist Lori Raskin and composers Donald Sosin and John Sweeney, these films will both be screening at Webster University. The small but magnificent ensemble Shoes, with Weber’s star discovery Mary MacLaren was released the same year as her epic blockbuster The Dumb Girl Of Portici featuring the legendary dancer, Anna Pavlova. The two films show brilliantly the tremendous range Weber had as a film director.
“Lois Weber was the most successful of all the women directors in the first quarter of the 20th century and, at the time,...
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of two of Lois Weber’s most important films, Milestone Films has released restored versions of Shoes and The Dumb Girl Of Portici. Working with the Netherland’s Eye Filmmuseum, the Library of Congress, archivist Lori Raskin and composers Donald Sosin and John Sweeney, these films will both be screening at Webster University. The small but magnificent ensemble Shoes, with Weber’s star discovery Mary MacLaren was released the same year as her epic blockbuster The Dumb Girl Of Portici featuring the legendary dancer, Anna Pavlova. The two films show brilliantly the tremendous range Weber had as a film director.
“Lois Weber was the most successful of all the women directors in the first quarter of the 20th century and, at the time,...
- 12/5/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Dumb Girl Of Portici (1916) Screens Sunday December 4th at 7:30pm at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood).
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of two of Lois Weber’s most important films, Milestone Films has released restored versions of Shoes and The Dumb Girl Of Portici. Working with the Netherland’s Eye Filmmuseum, the Library of Congress, archivist Lori Raskin and composers Donald Sosin and John Sweeney, these films will both be screening at Webster University. The small but magnificent ensemble Shoes, with Weber’s star discovery Mary MacLaren was released the same year as her epic blockbuster The Dumb Girl Of Portici featuring the legendary dancer, Anna Pavlova. The two films show brilliantly the tremendous range Weber had as a film director.
“Lois Weber was the most successful of all the women directors in the first quarter of the 20th century and, at the time, was placed...
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of two of Lois Weber’s most important films, Milestone Films has released restored versions of Shoes and The Dumb Girl Of Portici. Working with the Netherland’s Eye Filmmuseum, the Library of Congress, archivist Lori Raskin and composers Donald Sosin and John Sweeney, these films will both be screening at Webster University. The small but magnificent ensemble Shoes, with Weber’s star discovery Mary MacLaren was released the same year as her epic blockbuster The Dumb Girl Of Portici featuring the legendary dancer, Anna Pavlova. The two films show brilliantly the tremendous range Weber had as a film director.
“Lois Weber was the most successful of all the women directors in the first quarter of the 20th century and, at the time, was placed...
- 12/1/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Minnesota Timberwolves's Kevin Garnett had quite the homecoming last Wednesday with a special dance tribute from his biggest fan. Known as "Jiggly Boy," John Sweeney became a crowd favorite back in 2003 after ripping off his shirt to reveal Garnett's initials and "Wolves" painted on his body. Now that Garnett's back after playing for the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets, is there a better reason to dance? A hilarious YouTube clip, which has garnered more than a million views, shows a rather demure Sweeney sitting in the stands with his family during Garnett's return game on Feb. 25. As the Timberwolves played the Washington Wizards,...
- 3/1/2015
- by Michelle Ward
- PEOPLE.com
Above: Max Ophüls' Komedie om geld. Image courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna.
The 26th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato is over—like the end of a dream. If you are lucky enough, and not so fond of sleeping and eating, and also have little social bonds that allow you the minimum of lingering with fellow cinephiles, then you would be able to see only 10 percent of the films shown at the festival. As much as it's a festival of discovery and cinephilia, it’s also a festival of guilt and regrets since you ineluctably miss many things.
Il Cinema Ritrovato is a miniature of life that among all the beautiful things you have to choose, and every decision grants you a piece of the truth. But all the images, all the pieces of this broken mirror in which we see ourselves is as valid as what the person next to me,...
The 26th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato is over—like the end of a dream. If you are lucky enough, and not so fond of sleeping and eating, and also have little social bonds that allow you the minimum of lingering with fellow cinephiles, then you would be able to see only 10 percent of the films shown at the festival. As much as it's a festival of discovery and cinephilia, it’s also a festival of guilt and regrets since you ineluctably miss many things.
Il Cinema Ritrovato is a miniature of life that among all the beautiful things you have to choose, and every decision grants you a piece of the truth. But all the images, all the pieces of this broken mirror in which we see ourselves is as valid as what the person next to me,...
- 7/6/2012
- MUBI
BooBoo Stewart - Seth Clearwater in Taylor Lautner's Wolf Pack in the Twilight franchise - has landed a role in House of the Damned 3D, reports Market Saw. Penned by Sebastian Locke and Joe Knetter, "Five friends band together to save the historic part of their town and inadvertently become targets of a serial killer after uncovering the truth behind a series of grisly murders that went unsolved... until now!" Producers Michael George, David Forbes, Ethan Terra, Nick Smith, and John Sweeney are currently locking cast and in talks with the legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike. Filming is set to begin late March in Baton Rouge and Clinton, Louisiana.
- 2/7/2012
- bloody-disgusting.com
Never in our lives did we ever think that we'd be writing a news story about our very own asstastic Joe Knetter having anything at all to do with anyone from The Twilight Saga, but alas, stranger things have happened.
According to Market Saw, teen idol BooBoo Stewart, known for his role as Seth Clearwater in Taylor Lautner's Wolf Pack in the Twilight franchise, is set to sink his fangs into House of the Damned 3D, which was written by Sebastian Locke and Joe Knetter.
As of press time producers Michael George, David Forbes, Ethan Terra, Nick Smith, and John Sweeney are currently locking cast and in talks with the legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike. Filming is set to begin late March in Baton Rouge and Clinton, Louisiana.
Synopsis
Five friends band together to save the historic part of their town and inadvertently become targets of a serial killer...
According to Market Saw, teen idol BooBoo Stewart, known for his role as Seth Clearwater in Taylor Lautner's Wolf Pack in the Twilight franchise, is set to sink his fangs into House of the Damned 3D, which was written by Sebastian Locke and Joe Knetter.
As of press time producers Michael George, David Forbes, Ethan Terra, Nick Smith, and John Sweeney are currently locking cast and in talks with the legendary Japanese director Takashi Miike. Filming is set to begin late March in Baton Rouge and Clinton, Louisiana.
Synopsis
Five friends band together to save the historic part of their town and inadvertently become targets of a serial killer...
- 2/7/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Sugar Ray Leonard and Mayor Antonio Varagosa attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Inaugural Awards Ceremony. Photo copyright Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Sugar Ray Leonard and Lou Sweet Johnson attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Inaugural Awards Ceremony. Photo copyright Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Don Newcombe, Judge Joe Brown and Lee Bailey attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Inaugural Awards Ceremony. Photo copyright Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Sugar Ray Leonard, Lou Sweet Johnson and John Sweeney attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Inaugural Awards Ceremony. Photo copyright Koi Sojer / PR Photos. Sugar Ray Leonard, Mayor Antonio Varagosa and Don Newcombe attend Thurgood Marshall College Fund's Inaugural Awards Ceremony. Photo copyright Koi Sojer / PR Photos. 11/17/2011 - Sugar Ray Leonard...
- 11/20/2011
- by M&C
- Monsters and Critics
Making for quite the difficult situation, Ted Koppel has lost his son Andrew Koppel after a reported drinking binge in New York City.
The 40-year-old son of the esteemed broadcast journalist was found dead early Tuesday morning (June 1) in a run-down apartment in Washington Heights
A source tells that Andrew Koppel was accompanied to the apartment by a 32-year-old waiter named Russell Wimberly - whom he had met at a Hell's Kitchen bar much earlier in the day.
An apartment resident tells the AP that Koppel "was just really messed up when he came in. He was very drunk." After finding Koppel not breathing at 1Am, just a few hours after returning home, Wimberly and the fellow resident called 9-1-1.
Shortly thereafter, police detective John Sweeney informed press that Koppel was declared dead at around 1:30Am with the cause of death yet to have been determined.
The 40-year-old son of the esteemed broadcast journalist was found dead early Tuesday morning (June 1) in a run-down apartment in Washington Heights
A source tells that Andrew Koppel was accompanied to the apartment by a 32-year-old waiter named Russell Wimberly - whom he had met at a Hell's Kitchen bar much earlier in the day.
An apartment resident tells the AP that Koppel "was just really messed up when he came in. He was very drunk." After finding Koppel not breathing at 1Am, just a few hours after returning home, Wimberly and the fellow resident called 9-1-1.
Shortly thereafter, police detective John Sweeney informed press that Koppel was declared dead at around 1:30Am with the cause of death yet to have been determined.
- 6/1/2010
- GossipCenter
Johnny Marr will give his first lecture as visiting professor of music at Salford University in the venue he played in 1986 with The Smiths. The band's amplifiers had to be tied down because the floor of Maxwell Hall kept bouncing. John Sweeney, of the School of Media, Music And Performance, joked that the hall has been "specially reinforced" for the guitarist's return. "We're delighted that Johnny will be returning to Maxwell Hall after such (more)...
- 10/23/2008
- by By Sarah Rollo
- Digital Spy
Leaders of SAG and AFTRA are finally on the same page.
Unfortunately, the newfound harmony comes not on the subject of SAG's long-stalled contract negotiations with Hollywood studios but rather the actors unions' next round of talks with advertising industry groups.
AFTRA leaders have told SAG president Alan Rosenberg that AFTRA would be willing to bargain jointly with SAG on their respective memberships' next commercials contracts.
"We have been authorized to extend an offer to return to joint negotiations for the upcoming commercials contracts under the terms of the Phase One agreement," AFTRA president Roberta Reardon and national executive director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth said in a letter disclosed Monday.
For decades, Phase One had provided for joint bargaining on all sorts of SAG and AFTRA contracts, until AFTRA shelved the agreement before the start of film and TV talks with the studios this year.
But on Monday, SAG and AFTRA were arguing only on whose idea it was to get back together for the commercials negotiations. SAG said Monday that AFTRA's letter to Rosenberg was in response to an offer SAG made to its sister union in July regarding the prospect of joint negotiating on the commercials contract.
"In spite of the fact that Aftrta did not respond prior to our July 26, 2008, board meeting, as we requested, the SAG national board of directors authorized Screen Actors Guild to participate in a Phase One joint negotiation," Rosenberg and SAG national exec director Doug Allen said in a letter to AFTRA leadership Monday.
The current contracts covering SAG and AFTRA members on commercials work expire on Oct. 28. In 2006, the unions granted a two-year extension to current agreements with the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies to allow time for a study on new-media compensation that was jointly commmissioned with the ad groups.
"Despite our institutional differences -- characterized grossly inaccurately and with great hosility by you in your letter -- our offer to negotiate together stands," the SAG leaders wrote. "We await your response."
Meanwhile, it also was disclosed that Reardon and Roberts Hedgpeth had contacted AFL-CIO president John Sweeney to seek federation mediation in lingering disagreements between AFTRA and SAG.
The squabbles trace to turf disputes over the past couple years that ultimately derailed Phase One and AFTRA's joint bargaining with SAG on a new primetime TV contract. AFTRA hammered out an agreement on its own, which was passed by members despite SAG efforts to defeat the pact.
"This complaint arises from SAG's wholesale attempts to eliminate AFTRA as a bargaining representative for actors by launching a massive campaign to defeat the ratification of a national collective bargaining agremeent negotiated by AFTRA, undermining AFTRA's established collective bargaining relationships through raids and the solicitation of grievances and trying to persuade AFTRA employers to take work that historically has been performed under AFTRA contracts and have it performed exclusively under SAG contracts," the AFTRA leaders wrote in a letter to Sweeney circulated Monday.
Despite the allegations, the union is ready to sort out its problems with SAG, the AFTRA leaders said.
"In the interest of longer-term considerations, AFTRA is prepared to explore the remedial conditions necessary to make it possible for AFTRA to conduct joint bargaining for the commercials contract under Phase One with SAG," Reardon and Roberts Hedpeth said. "In order to have confidence that the unacceptable behavior and actions of SAG ceases -- especially while the parties are attempting to prepare and develop a healthy and effective approach to negotiations -- we are asking the AFL-CIO to resume the process."
In their letter to AFTRA leadership, Rosenberg and Allen said they were open to the idea of AFL-CIO mediation.
"We are certainly willing to engage with AFTRA in discussions with the AFL-CIO about the ongoing relationship of our organizations," the SAG duo said.
Unfortunately, the newfound harmony comes not on the subject of SAG's long-stalled contract negotiations with Hollywood studios but rather the actors unions' next round of talks with advertising industry groups.
AFTRA leaders have told SAG president Alan Rosenberg that AFTRA would be willing to bargain jointly with SAG on their respective memberships' next commercials contracts.
"We have been authorized to extend an offer to return to joint negotiations for the upcoming commercials contracts under the terms of the Phase One agreement," AFTRA president Roberta Reardon and national executive director Kim Roberts Hedgpeth said in a letter disclosed Monday.
For decades, Phase One had provided for joint bargaining on all sorts of SAG and AFTRA contracts, until AFTRA shelved the agreement before the start of film and TV talks with the studios this year.
But on Monday, SAG and AFTRA were arguing only on whose idea it was to get back together for the commercials negotiations. SAG said Monday that AFTRA's letter to Rosenberg was in response to an offer SAG made to its sister union in July regarding the prospect of joint negotiating on the commercials contract.
"In spite of the fact that Aftrta did not respond prior to our July 26, 2008, board meeting, as we requested, the SAG national board of directors authorized Screen Actors Guild to participate in a Phase One joint negotiation," Rosenberg and SAG national exec director Doug Allen said in a letter to AFTRA leadership Monday.
The current contracts covering SAG and AFTRA members on commercials work expire on Oct. 28. In 2006, the unions granted a two-year extension to current agreements with the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies to allow time for a study on new-media compensation that was jointly commmissioned with the ad groups.
"Despite our institutional differences -- characterized grossly inaccurately and with great hosility by you in your letter -- our offer to negotiate together stands," the SAG leaders wrote. "We await your response."
Meanwhile, it also was disclosed that Reardon and Roberts Hedgpeth had contacted AFL-CIO president John Sweeney to seek federation mediation in lingering disagreements between AFTRA and SAG.
The squabbles trace to turf disputes over the past couple years that ultimately derailed Phase One and AFTRA's joint bargaining with SAG on a new primetime TV contract. AFTRA hammered out an agreement on its own, which was passed by members despite SAG efforts to defeat the pact.
"This complaint arises from SAG's wholesale attempts to eliminate AFTRA as a bargaining representative for actors by launching a massive campaign to defeat the ratification of a national collective bargaining agremeent negotiated by AFTRA, undermining AFTRA's established collective bargaining relationships through raids and the solicitation of grievances and trying to persuade AFTRA employers to take work that historically has been performed under AFTRA contracts and have it performed exclusively under SAG contracts," the AFTRA leaders wrote in a letter to Sweeney circulated Monday.
Despite the allegations, the union is ready to sort out its problems with SAG, the AFTRA leaders said.
"In the interest of longer-term considerations, AFTRA is prepared to explore the remedial conditions necessary to make it possible for AFTRA to conduct joint bargaining for the commercials contract under Phase One with SAG," Reardon and Roberts Hedpeth said. "In order to have confidence that the unacceptable behavior and actions of SAG ceases -- especially while the parties are attempting to prepare and develop a healthy and effective approach to negotiations -- we are asking the AFL-CIO to resume the process."
In their letter to AFTRA leadership, Rosenberg and Allen said they were open to the idea of AFL-CIO mediation.
"We are certainly willing to engage with AFTRA in discussions with the AFL-CIO about the ongoing relationship of our organizations," the SAG duo said.
- 8/18/2008
- by By Leslie Simmons and Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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