“Silk” screenwriter Peter Moffat is adapting Jonathan Freedland’s non-fiction book “The Escape Artist,” which tells the true story of two Jews who escaped from Auschwitz.
Margery Bone’s Bonafide Films has secured the rights to Freedland’s book, which is set to be made into a high-end limited series. Bonafide, who have a development and distribution deal with BBC Studios, recently produced Nicôle Lecky’s BAFTA-winning “Mood.”
“The Escape Artist” centers around nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who manages to escape Auschwitz alongside fellow internee Fred Wetzler, and warn the world about what was happening. Their actions saved the lives of at least 200,000 Jews who were facing immediate deportation from Budapest to the world’s most notorious death camp.
“This is a story of how human beings can be pushed to the outer limits, and yet still somehow endure,” said Freeland. “How the actions of one individual, even a teenage boy,...
Margery Bone’s Bonafide Films has secured the rights to Freedland’s book, which is set to be made into a high-end limited series. Bonafide, who have a development and distribution deal with BBC Studios, recently produced Nicôle Lecky’s BAFTA-winning “Mood.”
“The Escape Artist” centers around nineteen-year-old Rudolf Vrba, a Slovakian Jew who manages to escape Auschwitz alongside fellow internee Fred Wetzler, and warn the world about what was happening. Their actions saved the lives of at least 200,000 Jews who were facing immediate deportation from Budapest to the world’s most notorious death camp.
“This is a story of how human beings can be pushed to the outer limits, and yet still somehow endure,” said Freeland. “How the actions of one individual, even a teenage boy,...
- 7/13/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Peter Moffat is forging a TV adaptation of UK journalist Jonathan Freedland’s The Escape Artist with Mood production outfit Bonafide Films.
The Your Honor and Criminal Justice BAFTA winner is onboard to write the show telling the astonishing, true-life story of how Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old Slovakian Jew, along with fellow inmate Fred Wetzler, escaped from Auschwitz to warn the world about the Holocaust. The pair’s report led to the saving of 200,000 Budapest Jews from immediate deportation to Auschwitz. The project is not yet attached to a network and Bonafide has secured rights for TV.
Freedland is a highly-regarded British journalist who mainly writes on politics and international affairs for The Guardian but has also penned numerous works of fiction, some of which are under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
Margery Bone’s London-based Bonafide has previously worked with Moffat on BBC drama The Last Post, which starred Jessie Buckley...
The Your Honor and Criminal Justice BAFTA winner is onboard to write the show telling the astonishing, true-life story of how Rudolf Vrba, a 19-year-old Slovakian Jew, along with fellow inmate Fred Wetzler, escaped from Auschwitz to warn the world about the Holocaust. The pair’s report led to the saving of 200,000 Budapest Jews from immediate deportation to Auschwitz. The project is not yet attached to a network and Bonafide has secured rights for TV.
Freedland is a highly-regarded British journalist who mainly writes on politics and international affairs for The Guardian but has also penned numerous works of fiction, some of which are under the pseudonym Sam Bourne.
Margery Bone’s London-based Bonafide has previously worked with Moffat on BBC drama The Last Post, which starred Jessie Buckley...
- 7/13/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s based on a true story, set in Germany’s Weimar Republic in 1933.
UK production, financing and sales studio Anton is launching world sales at Cannes on Niels Arden Oplev’s upcoming thriller, Thirty Three.
Danish filmmaker Oplev, who directed the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well TV series Vikings: Valhalla and Mr Robot, will helm the feature with a cast including Mark Strong and Paula Beer, who won the Berlianle Silver Bear for her role in Christian Petzold’s Undine. The screenplay is by Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford.
It is is based...
UK production, financing and sales studio Anton is launching world sales at Cannes on Niels Arden Oplev’s upcoming thriller, Thirty Three.
Danish filmmaker Oplev, who directed the original version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, as well TV series Vikings: Valhalla and Mr Robot, will helm the feature with a cast including Mark Strong and Paula Beer, who won the Berlianle Silver Bear for her role in Christian Petzold’s Undine. The screenplay is by Tom Butterworth and Chris Hurford.
It is is based...
- 5/11/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories, Fifth Season and Imogen Banks’ Kindling Pictures have optioned the rights to Ewan Morrison’s novel How To Survive Everything, to adapt as a series for television.
Published in the UK by Saraband, How To Survive Everything will be published in the U.S. and Canada by Harper Perennial on November 15. A Danish translation edition will be published in January by Screaming Books.
How To Survive Everything is a chilling and darkly comic thriller about a teenage girl and her little brother abducted by their divorced father and forced to live off grid within a group of survivalists who believe the world is ending. This is one young woman’s record of the collapse of everything she knows—including her family and sanity.
Jodi Matterson, Steve Hutensky and Papandrea will executive produce for Made Up Stories, Banks will executive produce for Kindling, and...
Published in the UK by Saraband, How To Survive Everything will be published in the U.S. and Canada by Harper Perennial on November 15. A Danish translation edition will be published in January by Screaming Books.
How To Survive Everything is a chilling and darkly comic thriller about a teenage girl and her little brother abducted by their divorced father and forced to live off grid within a group of survivalists who believe the world is ending. This is one young woman’s record of the collapse of everything she knows—including her family and sanity.
Jodi Matterson, Steve Hutensky and Papandrea will executive produce for Made Up Stories, Banks will executive produce for Kindling, and...
- 11/15/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
An adaptation of the forthcoming novel by “Brick Lane” author Monica Ali is in the works at the BBC, Variety can reveal.
Sources indicate that All3Media-owned production company New Pictures is in early development on “Love Marriage” with the corporation. The book is set to be published in February by Virago Press in the U.K. and Scribner in the U.S. Ali will be adapting the book for TV herself.
Ali’s debut Man Booker Prize-nominated 2003 novel “Brick Lane,” which is named after the London neighborhood at the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi community, was made into a 2007 film (pictured) directed by Sarah Gavron and produced by Film4 and Ruby Pictures. The movie, written by Abi Morgan and Laura Jones, premiered at Telluride.
“Love Marriage” is centred on young doctor Yasmin Ghorami, who is engaged to fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as their wedding day draws closer...
Sources indicate that All3Media-owned production company New Pictures is in early development on “Love Marriage” with the corporation. The book is set to be published in February by Virago Press in the U.K. and Scribner in the U.S. Ali will be adapting the book for TV herself.
Ali’s debut Man Booker Prize-nominated 2003 novel “Brick Lane,” which is named after the London neighborhood at the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi community, was made into a 2007 film (pictured) directed by Sarah Gavron and produced by Film4 and Ruby Pictures. The movie, written by Abi Morgan and Laura Jones, premiered at Telluride.
“Love Marriage” is centred on young doctor Yasmin Ghorami, who is engaged to fellow doctor Joe Sangster. But as their wedding day draws closer...
- 11/16/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: New Pictures, the All3Media-backed producer behind Catherine The Great and Des, is to adapt Booker Prize-shortlisted author Monica Ali’s upcoming novel, Love Marriage.
New Pictures will work with Ali to develop a television series based on the book, which tells the story of 26-year-old medic Yasmin Ghorami whose life unravels when her family is brought into contact with her fiancée’s firebrand feminist mother.
While Yasmin has to dismantle her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she’s also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a “love marriage” actually means.
Published in March 2022 by Virago, the novel is an exploration of the psychology of relationships, bringing together flawed characters stitched together by largely good intentions into a rich tapestry, frayed by misunderstandings and secrets. What starts as a striking social comedy develops into a story of two cultures,...
New Pictures will work with Ali to develop a television series based on the book, which tells the story of 26-year-old medic Yasmin Ghorami whose life unravels when her family is brought into contact with her fiancée’s firebrand feminist mother.
While Yasmin has to dismantle her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear, she’s also forced to ask herself what she really wants in a relationship and what a “love marriage” actually means.
Published in March 2022 by Virago, the novel is an exploration of the psychology of relationships, bringing together flawed characters stitched together by largely good intentions into a rich tapestry, frayed by misunderstandings and secrets. What starts as a striking social comedy develops into a story of two cultures,...
- 5/17/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Studiocanal and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel producer Blueprint Pictures have optioned film rights to Matt Haig’s bestseller The Midnight Library.
The project is now in early development with writer Haig set to executive produce. The book is Haig’s seventh adult novel and his first since How To Stop Time (2017), which is also under option with Studiocanal.
In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived. The book has sold into 25 territories worldwide, and the audiobook is read by Carey Mulligan.
The deal was negotiated by Nick Marston and Katie Battcock at Curtis Brown. Haig is represented for his books by Clare Conville of C&w.
Studiocanal and Blueprint are in post-production on Haig’s Father Christmas origin story A Boy Called Christmas, starring Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones,...
The project is now in early development with writer Haig set to executive produce. The book is Haig’s seventh adult novel and his first since How To Stop Time (2017), which is also under option with Studiocanal.
In The Midnight Library, Nora Seed finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived. The book has sold into 25 territories worldwide, and the audiobook is read by Carey Mulligan.
The deal was negotiated by Nick Marston and Katie Battcock at Curtis Brown. Haig is represented for his books by Clare Conville of C&w.
Studiocanal and Blueprint are in post-production on Haig’s Father Christmas origin story A Boy Called Christmas, starring Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Toby Jones,...
- 9/22/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Imagine a world where humans lose the capacity to store long-term recollections and instead are issued a government memory chip. This is the world of In Memoriam, a new drama in development at HBO Max.
The series comes from rising British playwright Charley Miles and Mr Robot director Niels Arden Oplev.
Produced by Buccaneer Media, whose Anna Friel-fronted drama Marcella is in its third season at Netflix, and Participant, the thriller is a returnable, serialised series set in the UK.
Miles, who was the Channel 4 Playwright-in-Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017, writes and Oplev, who also helmed the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie, directs.
The story is set in the near future. Whilst humanity was busy uploading photos to the cloud and digitising every book ever written, the human brain was quietly evolving, and we lost the capacity to store long-term memory. But...
The series comes from rising British playwright Charley Miles and Mr Robot director Niels Arden Oplev.
Produced by Buccaneer Media, whose Anna Friel-fronted drama Marcella is in its third season at Netflix, and Participant, the thriller is a returnable, serialised series set in the UK.
Miles, who was the Channel 4 Playwright-in-Residence at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2017, writes and Oplev, who also helmed the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo movie, directs.
The story is set in the near future. Whilst humanity was busy uploading photos to the cloud and digitising every book ever written, the human brain was quietly evolving, and we lost the capacity to store long-term memory. But...
- 6/25/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Former Curtis Brown CEO Ben Hall has joined Troika as executive chairman, Variety can reveal.
Hall, who stepped down from Curtis Brown and parent company Original Talent Group in April 2019, will operate alongside Troika’s existing leadership, spearheading the agency’s development and growth in the U.K. and U.S. as it becomes further integrated into owners Ymu Group.
Hall was among a group of five agents — including Jonny Geller, Jonathan Lloyd, Peter Robinson and Nick Marston — who bought the 121-year-old Curtis Brown from existing management in 2002 and began growing the company into a powerhouse literary and talent agency alongside agents Sarah Spear and Jacquie Drew. The firm, whose clients include Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh and Paul Mescal, also expanded into production in 2008 with the formation of “McMafia” producer Cuba Pictures.
Hall ran Curtis Brown as CEO from 2012 until 2018. He served as joint CEO of Original Talent following its...
Hall, who stepped down from Curtis Brown and parent company Original Talent Group in April 2019, will operate alongside Troika’s existing leadership, spearheading the agency’s development and growth in the U.K. and U.S. as it becomes further integrated into owners Ymu Group.
Hall was among a group of five agents — including Jonny Geller, Jonathan Lloyd, Peter Robinson and Nick Marston — who bought the 121-year-old Curtis Brown from existing management in 2002 and began growing the company into a powerhouse literary and talent agency alongside agents Sarah Spear and Jacquie Drew. The firm, whose clients include Robert Pattinson, Florence Pugh and Paul Mescal, also expanded into production in 2008 with the formation of “McMafia” producer Cuba Pictures.
Hall ran Curtis Brown as CEO from 2012 until 2018. He served as joint CEO of Original Talent following its...
- 5/18/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct.
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct a feature adaptation of stage play Love for BBC Two.
The project is a collaboration between BBC Films, BBC Arts, Arts Council England, Cuba Pictures and the National Theatre, and will air on BBC Two in late autumn as part of the BBC’s Performance Live strand.
Love starts its two-week shoot in London this week. The cast includes Nick Holder, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, reprising the roles they originated on stage.
The play opened...
National Theatre artist in residence Alexander Zeldin will write and direct a feature adaptation of stage play Love for BBC Two.
The project is a collaboration between BBC Films, BBC Arts, Arts Council England, Cuba Pictures and the National Theatre, and will air on BBC Two in late autumn as part of the BBC’s Performance Live strand.
Love starts its two-week shoot in London this week. The cast includes Nick Holder, Anna Calder-Marshall, Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, reprising the roles they originated on stage.
The play opened...
- 7/10/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
David Schwimmer is exec producing a television adaptation of British stage play Love for the BBC. The Friends star is one of the team behind the feature-length film, which is being produced by McMafia producer Cuba Pictures.
Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the story of families brought together and placed in temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
It follows Colin, a middle-aged man, played by Nick Holder, who starred in ABC’s Galavant and C4’s Coalition, and his elderly mother Barbara, played by Wuthering Heights star Anna Calder-Marshall, who are relocated from their previous housing, and a young couple – Dean and Emma – preparing to welcome a new child into their family. Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, who were in the original stage play, reprise their roles as Dean and Emma.
The play originally opened at the National Theatre in...
Love, written and directed by National Theatre Artist in Residence Alexander Zeldin, tells the story of families brought together and placed in temporary accommodation in the run up to Christmas.
It follows Colin, a middle-aged man, played by Nick Holder, who starred in ABC’s Galavant and C4’s Coalition, and his elderly mother Barbara, played by Wuthering Heights star Anna Calder-Marshall, who are relocated from their previous housing, and a young couple – Dean and Emma – preparing to welcome a new child into their family. Luke Clarke and Janet Etuk, who were in the original stage play, reprise their roles as Dean and Emma.
The play originally opened at the National Theatre in...
- 7/10/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated to clarify: BBC One has ordered an eight-episode second season of Russian crime drama McMafia. The series airs on AMC in the U.S, but the network has not yet made a decision on a renewal.
BBC said that it was the UK public broadcaster’s biggest new drama launch this year as well as one of its most popular shows on its digital platform iPlayer.
The series, from Cuba Pictures, charts the journey of Alex Godman, played by James Norton, as he plunges deeper and deeper into the world of organized crime, eventually finding himself unable to resist the lures of corruption.
Created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and based on the book by Misha Glenny, Amini and Watkins said that they were keen to “cast more light on the shady intersections of transnational criminals”.
Watkins told an audience at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy event in La...
BBC said that it was the UK public broadcaster’s biggest new drama launch this year as well as one of its most popular shows on its digital platform iPlayer.
The series, from Cuba Pictures, charts the journey of Alex Godman, played by James Norton, as he plunges deeper and deeper into the world of organized crime, eventually finding himself unable to resist the lures of corruption.
Created by Hossein Amini and James Watkins and based on the book by Misha Glenny, Amini and Watkins said that they were keen to “cast more light on the shady intersections of transnational criminals”.
Watkins told an audience at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmy event in La...
- 5/1/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Author: Zehra Phelan
StudioCanal has teamed up with Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, SunnyMarch (who are currently filming The Current War), to acquire the rights to bestselling author, Matt Haig’s upcoming novel How To Stop Time, which will see Cumberbatch not only star in the leading role but play a part as executive producer.
Doctor Strange and Sherlock actor Cumberbatch will play Tom Hazard, a 41-year-old man who looks great considering he has been alive for centuries, we will be taken on a journey of love that covers many of the era’s he has lived through across the world.
Matt Haig comments “The prospect of Benedict Cumberbatch playing Tom Hazard is a hugely exciting one and I could not be happier about working with Adam and Jamie, and to be reunited with Studiocanal.”
If you fancy reading the novel before the film hits the big screens you will...
StudioCanal has teamed up with Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company, SunnyMarch (who are currently filming The Current War), to acquire the rights to bestselling author, Matt Haig’s upcoming novel How To Stop Time, which will see Cumberbatch not only star in the leading role but play a part as executive producer.
Doctor Strange and Sherlock actor Cumberbatch will play Tom Hazard, a 41-year-old man who looks great considering he has been alive for centuries, we will be taken on a journey of love that covers many of the era’s he has lived through across the world.
Matt Haig comments “The prospect of Benedict Cumberbatch playing Tom Hazard is a hugely exciting one and I could not be happier about working with Adam and Jamie, and to be reunited with Studiocanal.”
If you fancy reading the novel before the film hits the big screens you will...
- 3/15/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Doctor Strange star will play the lead role in adaptation of Matt Haig’s novel.
Benedict Cumberbatch will star in StudioCanal’s adaptation of Matt Haig’s forthcoming novel How To Stop Time.
StudioCanal is fully financing and will distribute in their territories, UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, and will be handling international sales.
Cumberbatch will also executive produce through his SunnyMarch production company alongside Jamie Byng, CEO of Canongate Books. Canongate will publish the novel in July this year.
How To Stop Time tells the story of Tom Hazard (Cumberbatch), a man who may look like an ordinary 41-year-old but, owing to an extremely rare condition, has been alive for centuries.
The story is described as a wildly imagined love story that spans centuries and continents.
The deal was negotiated between SunnyMarch’s Managing Director Adam Ackland who will produce the film and Nick Marston of Curtis Brown who brokered the deal on behalf...
Benedict Cumberbatch will star in StudioCanal’s adaptation of Matt Haig’s forthcoming novel How To Stop Time.
StudioCanal is fully financing and will distribute in their territories, UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand, and will be handling international sales.
Cumberbatch will also executive produce through his SunnyMarch production company alongside Jamie Byng, CEO of Canongate Books. Canongate will publish the novel in July this year.
How To Stop Time tells the story of Tom Hazard (Cumberbatch), a man who may look like an ordinary 41-year-old but, owing to an extremely rare condition, has been alive for centuries.
The story is described as a wildly imagined love story that spans centuries and continents.
The deal was negotiated between SunnyMarch’s Managing Director Adam Ackland who will produce the film and Nick Marston of Curtis Brown who brokered the deal on behalf...
- 3/14/2017
- by orlando.parfitt@screendaily.com (Orlando Parfitt)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Protagonist to handle sales and Element secures distribution rights to Parallel Films production backed by IFB and BFI.
The Delinquent Season, the directorial debut of Mark O’Rowe that stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight), has secured worldwide and UK deals.
Protagonist Pictures will handle worldwide sales for the project, a character-driven drama set in suburban Dublin, while Element Pictures Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland.
The film, supported by the Irish Film Board, RTE and the BFI, centers on two couples whose apparently solid marriages come under strain. Catherine Walker (Critical) and Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn) co-star.
Director O’Rowe is well-known for his stage plays, including Our Few and Evil Days and screenplays including Irish crime drama Intermission, starring Murphy and Colin Farrell, crime drama Perrier’s Bounty, with Murphy and Brendan Gleeson and Boy A, starring Andrew Garfield.
Murphy is a regular collaborator with O’Rowe, having starred...
The Delinquent Season, the directorial debut of Mark O’Rowe that stars Andrew Scott (Sherlock) and Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight), has secured worldwide and UK deals.
Protagonist Pictures will handle worldwide sales for the project, a character-driven drama set in suburban Dublin, while Element Pictures Distribution will release in the UK and Ireland.
The film, supported by the Irish Film Board, RTE and the BFI, centers on two couples whose apparently solid marriages come under strain. Catherine Walker (Critical) and Eva Birthistle (Brooklyn) co-star.
Director O’Rowe is well-known for his stage plays, including Our Few and Evil Days and screenplays including Irish crime drama Intermission, starring Murphy and Colin Farrell, crime drama Perrier’s Bounty, with Murphy and Brendan Gleeson and Boy A, starring Andrew Garfield.
Murphy is a regular collaborator with O’Rowe, having starred...
- 1/11/2017
- ScreenDaily
Happy Valley star will lead the eight-part series about organised crime in London.
James Norton, star of Happy Valley and War And Peace, will play the lead role in big budget BBC drama series McMafia.
The eight-part programme will be produced by Paul Ritchie and directed by Bastille Day (2016) director James Watkins.
Inspired by Misha Glenny’s bestselling book of the same name, McMafia will centre on a Russian family in London and will provide a look at the far-reaching influence of global crime. The writing team is led by Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini and director Watkins.
Norton will play the lead role of Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian exiles with a mafia past. When his family’s murderous history returns to threaten him and his girlfriend, Alex is drawn into the criminal world and forced to confront his values to protect those he loves.
The series is exec produced by Amini and Watkins along Misha...
James Norton, star of Happy Valley and War And Peace, will play the lead role in big budget BBC drama series McMafia.
The eight-part programme will be produced by Paul Ritchie and directed by Bastille Day (2016) director James Watkins.
Inspired by Misha Glenny’s bestselling book of the same name, McMafia will centre on a Russian family in London and will provide a look at the far-reaching influence of global crime. The writing team is led by Drive screenwriter Hossein Amini and director Watkins.
Norton will play the lead role of Alex Godman, the English-raised son of Russian exiles with a mafia past. When his family’s murderous history returns to threaten him and his girlfriend, Alex is drawn into the criminal world and forced to confront his values to protect those he loves.
The series is exec produced by Amini and Watkins along Misha...
- 8/4/2016
- ScreenDaily
Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to "The Ones Below," the debut feature from British playwright and theater director David Farr. Starring Clemence Poesy ("Harry Potter") and David Morrissey ("The Walking Dead"), the psychological thriller focuses on a young suburban couple engaged in a battle of wills with their new neighbors. It world premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Read More: "Scandinavia Stands Tall in 2015 Oscar Race" Set in contemporary London, "The Ones Below" follows Kate (Poesy) and Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore), affluent parents-to-be whose lives are upended when Teresa (Laura Bim) and Jon (Morrissey), also expecting, move into the apartment downstairs. "The Ones Below" is produced by Nikki Parrott of Tigerlily Films in association with Protagonist Pictures, with funding from BBC Films and BFI. Executive producers are Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba...
- 11/9/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Mark Gatiss has signed up to play Labour politician Peter Mandelson in new Channel 4 political drama Coalition.
The Sherlock and League of Gentlemen actor will be joined by Babylon's Bertie Carvel as Nick Clegg, The Bletchley Circle's Mark Dexter as David Cameron and Ian Grieve (The Confessions of Gordon Brown) as Gordon Brown.
Coalition follows the moments which led to Clegg rising from outsider in the 2010 general election to the man who would decide the political fate of the country.
As a politician who was living in the shadow of Cameron and Brown, Clegg found himself in the powerful position of having to choose whether to ally his party with Labour or the Conservatives following the public's election votes.
Coalition is written by James Graham, who previously worked on Privacy, This House and Tory Boyz.
BAFTA-winning director Alex Holmes, who helmed Dunkirk and House of Saddam, will direct the 90-minute single drama.
The Sherlock and League of Gentlemen actor will be joined by Babylon's Bertie Carvel as Nick Clegg, The Bletchley Circle's Mark Dexter as David Cameron and Ian Grieve (The Confessions of Gordon Brown) as Gordon Brown.
Coalition follows the moments which led to Clegg rising from outsider in the 2010 general election to the man who would decide the political fate of the country.
As a politician who was living in the shadow of Cameron and Brown, Clegg found himself in the powerful position of having to choose whether to ally his party with Labour or the Conservatives following the public's election votes.
Coalition is written by James Graham, who previously worked on Privacy, This House and Tory Boyz.
BAFTA-winning director Alex Holmes, who helmed Dunkirk and House of Saddam, will direct the 90-minute single drama.
- 10/26/2014
- Digital Spy
Hanna co-writer David Farr is making his feature directing debut with The Ones Below, a psychological thriller that’s just kicked off principal photography in London. Not to be confused with Legendary and Universal’s current catacombs pic As Above/So Below, The Ones Below focuses on two affluent couples living above and below each other whose lives become fatally interlinked. Clémence Poésy (The Tunnel, Harry Potter), David Morrissey (The Walking Dead), Stephen Campbell Moore (The History Boys) and Finnish actress Laura Birn (A Walk Among The Tombstones) star in the ensemble that’s also scripted by Farr.
The story follows upstairs couple Kate (Poésy) and Justin (Campbell Moore) who are expecting their first baby, and Jon (Morrissey) and Teresa (Birn) who move in downstairs and are also expecting a child. In contrast to Kate, Teresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. Pregnancy brings the women together in shared confidence,...
The story follows upstairs couple Kate (Poésy) and Justin (Campbell Moore) who are expecting their first baby, and Jon (Morrissey) and Teresa (Birn) who move in downstairs and are also expecting a child. In contrast to Kate, Teresa is full of joy at the prospect of imminent motherhood. Pregnancy brings the women together in shared confidence,...
- 9/30/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
- 9/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
- 9/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
David Farr’s psychological thriller starts shooting with Clemence Poesy, David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy [pictured], David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
Principal photography has started in London on David Farr’s directorial debut The Ones Below.
The psychological thriller is about two affluent couples living above and below each other, with both wives expecting babies. A tragic accident throws the couples into “a nightmare of psychological terror.”
The cast is led by Clemence Poesy [pictured], David Morrisey, Stephen Campbell Moore and Laura Birn.
Farr is the screenwriter of Hanna and a veteran of theatre including as artistic director of The Gate, Bristol Old Vic and Lyric Hammersmith and associate director of The Royal Shakespeare Company.
Nikki Parrott produces for Cuba Pictures in association with Tigerlily Films. Executive producers are Dixie Linder with Nick Marston and Ben Hall of Cuba Pictures, Christine Langan and Joe Oppenheimer for BBC Films with Lizzie Francke as the lead executive for the BFI. The film is...
- 9/30/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Theatre’s first film investment is controversial musical about Ipswich murders starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman.
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Theatre’s first film investment is controversial musical about Ipswich murders starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman.
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sir Ronald Harwood, writer of Oscar-winner The Pianist, in talks to script film for The Ink Factory.
UK and Us production outfit The Ink Factory has signed a deal for the film rights to Thomas Harding’s Second World War book Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz, about the young Jewish soldier who tracked down and arrested Nazi Rudolf Hoss.
The company is now in talks with The Pianist writer Sir Ronald Harwood to adapt the true story, which is currently non-fiction Book of the Month for May in Waterstones.
Ink Factory co-founder Simon Cornwell agreed the rights deal with film agents Nick Marston and Camilla Young at Curtis Brown, acting on behalf of Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh.
Hanns and Rudolf, previously shortlisted for the biography section of the Costa prize, charts the twin lives from childhood of Rudolf Höss and Hanns Alexander, respectively the Kommandant...
UK and Us production outfit The Ink Factory has signed a deal for the film rights to Thomas Harding’s Second World War book Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz, about the young Jewish soldier who tracked down and arrested Nazi Rudolf Hoss.
The company is now in talks with The Pianist writer Sir Ronald Harwood to adapt the true story, which is currently non-fiction Book of the Month for May in Waterstones.
Ink Factory co-founder Simon Cornwell agreed the rights deal with film agents Nick Marston and Camilla Young at Curtis Brown, acting on behalf of Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh.
Hanns and Rudolf, previously shortlisted for the biography section of the Costa prize, charts the twin lives from childhood of Rudolf Höss and Hanns Alexander, respectively the Kommandant...
- 5/8/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Way back in April we got word that BBC America is expanding its "Supernatural Saturday" lineup in 2014 to include a seven-part "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" miniseries, based on the novel by Susanna Clarke. Today we know who the cast members are.
From the Press Release:
Eddie Marsan (pictured; "Ray Donovan," The Worlds End) and Olivier award-winning Bertie Carvel (Restless, "Primeval") have been cast in BBC America’s co-production "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?). The new seven-part drama series is to premiere as part of the channel’s Supernatural Saturday.
Further casting includes Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa, Beautiful Creatures), Marc Warren ("The Good Wife," "Hustle"), Samuel West ("Mr Selfridge," "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond"), Charlotte Riley (Wuthering Heights, Easy Virtue), Enzo Cilenti ("Prisoners Wives," "Rome"), and Paul Kaye ("Game of Thrones,...
From the Press Release:
Eddie Marsan (pictured; "Ray Donovan," The Worlds End) and Olivier award-winning Bertie Carvel (Restless, "Primeval") have been cast in BBC America’s co-production "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell," based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?). The new seven-part drama series is to premiere as part of the channel’s Supernatural Saturday.
Further casting includes Alice Englert (Ginger & Rosa, Beautiful Creatures), Marc Warren ("The Good Wife," "Hustle"), Samuel West ("Mr Selfridge," "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond"), Charlotte Riley (Wuthering Heights, Easy Virtue), Enzo Cilenti ("Prisoners Wives," "Rome"), and Paul Kaye ("Game of Thrones,...
- 10/25/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
BBC America has announced that it is coproducing a seven-part adaptation of the giant book that has been sitting on my shelf for years, that I will now avoid until after the series airs in 2014, entitled Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, as an upcoming segment of its Supernatural Saturdays programming block.
BBC America To Co-produce Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seven part series for Supernatural Saturday is based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke
New York – Monday, April 8 – Announced today, BBC America is co-producing for Supernatural Saturday a new drama series, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness (Wallander, Is Anybody There?), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
BBC America To Co-produce Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Seven part series for Supernatural Saturday is based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke
New York – Monday, April 8 – Announced today, BBC America is co-producing for Supernatural Saturday a new drama series, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness (Wallander, Is Anybody There?), Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
- 4/9/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
BBC America is expanding its "Supernatural Saturday" lineup in 2014, and we have all the early details for its upcoming seven-part "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" miniseries, based on the novel by Susanna Clarke.
From the Press Release:
BBC America is co-producing a new drama series, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell." Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?), "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
The series is produced by Cuba Pictures (Boy A, Broken) for the BBC and co-produced by BBC America, in association with Feel Film, Bell Media’s Space, Far Moor, and Screen Yorkshire. It is distributed by Endemol Worldwide Distribution.
Toby Haynes ("Doctor Who," "Sherlock," "Wallander") directs, Nick Hirschkorn...
From the Press Release:
BBC America is co-producing a new drama series, "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell." Based on the bestselling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Peter Harness ("Wallander," Is Anybody There?), "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" (7 x 60) is set during the Napoleonic Wars in an England where magic once existed and is about to return. The series will premiere in 2014 as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday programming block.
The series is produced by Cuba Pictures (Boy A, Broken) for the BBC and co-produced by BBC America, in association with Feel Film, Bell Media’s Space, Far Moor, and Screen Yorkshire. It is distributed by Endemol Worldwide Distribution.
Toby Haynes ("Doctor Who," "Sherlock," "Wallander") directs, Nick Hirschkorn...
- 4/8/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
BBC America announced today that it would be co-producing "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell," a new seven-part drama series to join the ranks of the network's already crowded, popular Supernatural Saturday lineup. BBC One first announced the series in November of last year -- BBC America's participation means that the drama will have a home in the U.S. and will likely have its planned 2014 premiere close to the U.K. air date. Based on the bestselling novel by British author Susanna Clarke, the series is set in an alternate English history at the time of the Napoleonic Wars, one in which magic exists. The BBC is keeping things in house for "Strange & Norrell," with "Wallander" writer Peter Harness doing the adaptation and "Doctor Who" and "Sherlock" stalwart helmer Toby Haynes directing. Filming is set to start soon, with Nick Marston of producer Cuba Pictures ("Boy A") saying, “The production...
- 4/8/2013
- by Mark Lukenbill
- Indiewire
Ramping up its event drama output, BBC One has commissioned three new series for 2013. Period fantasy drama Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell is a six-part series based on the best-selling novel by Susanna Clarke and adapted by Wallander‘s Peter Harness. The book is an alternate history of England set during the Napoleonic Wars and focusing on a magician and his apprentice who use their powers to help the government but who are ultimately pitted against one another. New Line optioned the movie rights back in 2005 with Christopher Hampton adapting, but the film was never made. The series is produced by Cuba Pictures in association with Feel Film and Farmoor. Cuba recently produced Rufus Norris’ well-received festival title Broken. Toby Haynes, who directed the Season 2 Sherlock finale, The Reichenbach Fall, is helming. Nick Hirschkorn and Nick Marston are producers, Justin Thomson-Glover, Patrick Irwin and Matthew Read are exec producers. Teaming with Carnival Films,...
- 11/30/2012
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
The European Film Academy and Fipresci have announced the five nominations for this year’s Discovery Award / Prix Fipresci and making the cut we find Angelina Nikonova’s outstanding Twilight Portrait (Venice and Tiff in 2011 – pic above) which will measure itself against Mads Matthiesen’s Teddy Bear (Sundance 2012 – read review), Boudewijn Koole’s Kauwboy and Jan Speckenbach’s Reported Missing (2012′s Berlin Film Fest) and Rufus Norris’ Broken (Critics’ Week opener in Cannes this year – see our coverage). The 25th European Film Awards will take place in Malta on 1 December 2012. Since this specific award has existed, previous winners include some worthy winners in 1997′s Bruno Dumont (La vie de Jésus), 2003′s Andrei Zvyagintsev (The Return), 2008′s Steve McQueen (Hunger), 2009′s Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga), 2010′s Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) and last year, 2011′s Hans Van Nuffel (Oxygen).
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)
Denmark, 92 min
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Written by: Mads Matthiesen...
10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)
Denmark, 92 min
Directed by: Mads Matthiesen
Written by: Mads Matthiesen...
- 10/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
The European Film Academy has nominated five films for the European Discovery 2012 Award. The Efa bestows the award on a young, up-and-coming director with a first feature-length film. The awards will be given on December 1st. This years nominees include: "10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear)" Denmark, 92 min Directed By: Mads Matthiesen Written By: Mads Matthiesen & Martin Pieter Zandvliet Produced By: Morten Kjems Juhl "Broken" UK, 90 min Directed By: Rufus Norris Written By: Mark O’Rowe Produced By: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill Kenwright "Kauwboy" The Netherlands, 81 min Directed By: Boudewijn Koole Written By: Boudewijn Koole & Jolein Laarman Produced By: Jan van der Zanden & Wilant Boekelman "Portret V Sumerkhak (Twilight Portrait)" Russia, 105 min Directed By: Angelina Nikonova Written By: Angelina Nikonova &...
- 10/16/2012
- by Maggie Lange
- Thompson on Hollywood
The European Film Academy have announced the nominees of their annual European Discovery Award, presented as part of the European Film Awards to "a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film." This year’s nominations were determined by a committee comprised of Efa Board Members Helena Danielsson (Sweden) and Els Vandevorst (the Netherlands), Efa Members Pierre-Henri Deleau (France) and Jacob Neiiendam (Denmark), as well as Alin Tasciyan (Turkey), Paulo Portugal (Portugal), and Mihai Chirilov (Romania) as members of Fipresci, the International Federation of Film Critics. The nominees are: 10 Timer Til Paradis (Teddy Bear) Denmark, 92 min Directed By: Mads Matthiesen Written By: Mads Matthiesen & Martin Pieter Zandvliet Produced By: Morten Kjems Juhl Broken UK, 90 min Directed By: Rufus Norris Written By: Mark O’Rowe Produced By: Dixie Linder, Tally Garner, Nick Marston & Bill...
- 10/16/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy and Rory Kinnear have signed on to star in a film adaptation of Daniel Clay's novel "Broken" for BBC Films and Lip Sync says The Hollywood Reporter.
Mark O’Rowe adapted the script for this story of a young North London girl who witnesses a violent attack which brings chaos to her life.
Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner and newcomer Eloise Laurence also star. Rufus Norris directs the film which begins shooting later this month in the U.K.
Dixie Linder, Nick Marston, Tally Garner and Bill Kenwright will produce.
Mark O’Rowe adapted the script for this story of a young North London girl who witnesses a violent attack which brings chaos to her life.
Robert Emms, Zana Marjanovic, Bill Milner and newcomer Eloise Laurence also star. Rufus Norris directs the film which begins shooting later this month in the U.K.
Dixie Linder, Nick Marston, Tally Garner and Bill Kenwright will produce.
- 10/7/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: While Lie To Me star Tim Roth waits for his next series that will come from the deal he signed with 20th Century Fox TV, he’ll first go back to the UK to star in a pair of films he’ll make back to back. Roth and Cillian Murphy will star with newcomer Eloise Laurence in Broken, an adaptation of the Daniel Clay novel that was scripted by Mark O’Rowe and will be directed by Rufus Norris, the British theater director whose credits include the Tony-nominated Les Liasons Dangereuses. The film will be produced by Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Tally Garner, and funded by BBC Films and the BFI in association with Lip Sync and Bill Kenwright Ltd, a Cuba Pictures Production. BBC Films developed it. Roth plays the father of an 11-year-old girl living in North London who witnesses a violent attack that changes the...
- 10/7/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
More Toronto festival news
TORONTO -- The Weinstein Co. on Friday preemptively nabbed worldwide rights (excluding U.K. TV) to the Toronto fest entry "Boy A".
John Crowley's drama, originally made for British television, is adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Trigell. It follows a 24-year-old man released from prison years after murdering another child with his young friend. His attempts to put his past behind him are helped along by his social worker but hindered by the tabloid press and his social worker's son.
The intimate Cuba Pictures drama stars Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullen, Shaun Evans and Katie Lyons. It was produced by Lynn Horsford, Nick Marston, Tally Garner and Liza Marshall.
Channel 4 majority-financed the film and has the U.K. TV distribution rights.
Weinstein Co. executives Glen Basner, Rhodri Thomas and Michal Podell negotiated the deal with attorney Jeremy Gawade of Lee and Thompson Solicitors along with producers Nick Marston and Tally Garner on behalf of Cuba Pictures.
TORONTO -- The Weinstein Co. on Friday preemptively nabbed worldwide rights (excluding U.K. TV) to the Toronto fest entry "Boy A".
John Crowley's drama, originally made for British television, is adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Trigell. It follows a 24-year-old man released from prison years after murdering another child with his young friend. His attempts to put his past behind him are helped along by his social worker but hindered by the tabloid press and his social worker's son.
The intimate Cuba Pictures drama stars Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullen, Shaun Evans and Katie Lyons. It was produced by Lynn Horsford, Nick Marston, Tally Garner and Liza Marshall.
Channel 4 majority-financed the film and has the U.K. TV distribution rights.
Weinstein Co. executives Glen Basner, Rhodri Thomas and Michal Podell negotiated the deal with attorney Jeremy Gawade of Lee and Thompson Solicitors along with producers Nick Marston and Tally Garner on behalf of Cuba Pictures.
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