Broadway’s Prima Face, the Suzie Miller play staring Jodie Comer, has recouped its $4.1 million capitalization costs as of June 18, ten weeks after the start of performances.
The recoup announcement by lead producer James Bierman of Empire Street Productions follows a strong post-Tony week at the box office: For the week ending June 18, Prima Facie set an eight-performance house record at the Golden Theatre with $1,107,829.96.
The previous record was set by Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, which grossed $1,077,919 for the week ending June 17, 2018.
Prima Facie began performances on April 11 and opened April 23. The production ends its limited engagement on Sunday, July 2.
The recoup announcement by lead producer James Bierman of Empire Street Productions follows a strong post-Tony week at the box office: For the week ending June 18, Prima Facie set an eight-performance house record at the Golden Theatre with $1,107,829.96.
The previous record was set by Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, which grossed $1,077,919 for the week ending June 17, 2018.
Prima Facie began performances on April 11 and opened April 23. The production ends its limited engagement on Sunday, July 2.
- 6/20/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Broadway production of Prima Facie has recouped its $4.1 million capitalization costs as of June 18 and broke a house box office record on the way.
The one-woman play, starring Jodie Comer, recouped its Broadway capitalization in 10 weeks of performances — a quick turnaround for any production — and grossed $1,107,829 last week, a record for any eight-show week at the Golden Theatre. This beat the previous box office record at the Golden Theatre held by Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, starring Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf, which grossed $1,077,919 in the week ending June 17, 2018.
Prima Facie began performances on April 11 and runs through July 2. The production has grossed close to $1 million for several weeks of its run, with an average ticket price hovering around $150 and capacity close to 100 percent.
The recoupment comes a week after Comer won the Tony Award for best lead actress in a play. In Prima Facie, written by Suzie Miller...
The one-woman play, starring Jodie Comer, recouped its Broadway capitalization in 10 weeks of performances — a quick turnaround for any production — and grossed $1,107,829 last week, a record for any eight-show week at the Golden Theatre. This beat the previous box office record at the Golden Theatre held by Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, starring Glenda Jackson and Laurie Metcalf, which grossed $1,077,919 in the week ending June 17, 2018.
Prima Facie began performances on April 11 and runs through July 2. The production has grossed close to $1 million for several weeks of its run, with an average ticket price hovering around $150 and capacity close to 100 percent.
The recoupment comes a week after Comer won the Tony Award for best lead actress in a play. In Prima Facie, written by Suzie Miller...
- 6/20/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the play Prima Facie, Jodie Comer is alone on stage for the full length of the show’s 100 minutes, starting as a brash, bloviating barrister, then turning to a quieter, more vulnerable woman trying to find justice for herself in the very legal system that had previously propped her up.
Before making her West End debut in the play last year, the Killing Eve star says she hadn’t appeared on stage (aside from a play in a “very, very small theater” in Scotland when she was 16 years old). And so taking on this marathon role not only required intense dedication and memorization, but also a recalibration of her acting style in order to emote to an 800-plus seat theater, rather than to the camera.
In the drama, written by Suzie Miller, Comer plays Tessa Ensler, a talented, young lawyer who defends individuals accused of sexual assault and then...
Before making her West End debut in the play last year, the Killing Eve star says she hadn’t appeared on stage (aside from a play in a “very, very small theater” in Scotland when she was 16 years old). And so taking on this marathon role not only required intense dedication and memorization, but also a recalibration of her acting style in order to emote to an 800-plus seat theater, rather than to the camera.
In the drama, written by Suzie Miller, Comer plays Tessa Ensler, a talented, young lawyer who defends individuals accused of sexual assault and then...
- 5/13/2023
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jodie Comer has caught the “stage bug.” Having triumphed in her debut performance in Prima Facie, she’s avidly seeking to follow up with another production in coming years.
“I’ll definitely do more theater,” the Killing Eve and Free Guy star told Deadline at the Olivier Awards after-party held at the Natural History Museum in Kensington, London just a hop, skip and a jump from the Royal Albert Hall, where earlier Sunday night the theater world’s luminaries gathered to give themselves a well-earned pat on the back.
The actress pointed to Prima Facie producer James Bierman and said, “I’m going to cling to him. I’ll follow him because he gave me this opportunity.”
Comer’s blistering performance as an attorney who defends rapists and is then sexually assaulted by a colleague has won her a stash of best actress hardware, including a statuette at the Olivier...
“I’ll definitely do more theater,” the Killing Eve and Free Guy star told Deadline at the Olivier Awards after-party held at the Natural History Museum in Kensington, London just a hop, skip and a jump from the Royal Albert Hall, where earlier Sunday night the theater world’s luminaries gathered to give themselves a well-earned pat on the back.
The actress pointed to Prima Facie producer James Bierman and said, “I’m going to cling to him. I’ll follow him because he gave me this opportunity.”
Comer’s blistering performance as an attorney who defends rapists and is then sexually assaulted by a colleague has won her a stash of best actress hardware, including a statuette at the Olivier...
- 4/3/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
It is the directorial debut of Prasanna Puwanarajah and the first leading film role from Northern Irish TV presenter Patrick Kielty.
UK filmmaker Prasanna Puwanarajah’s directorial debut Ballywalter has been picked up for release in the UK and Ireland, with Break Out Pictures releasing in the Republic and Northern Ireland, and CAA-backed Elysian Film Group distributing in Great Britain.
UK sales outfit Bankside Films represents worldwide sales, and are selling the title at the European Film Market (EFM).
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017 Seána Kerslake stars alongside Northern Irish presenter Patrick Kielty in his first leading film role, and...
UK filmmaker Prasanna Puwanarajah’s directorial debut Ballywalter has been picked up for release in the UK and Ireland, with Break Out Pictures releasing in the Republic and Northern Ireland, and CAA-backed Elysian Film Group distributing in Great Britain.
UK sales outfit Bankside Films represents worldwide sales, and are selling the title at the European Film Market (EFM).
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017 Seána Kerslake stars alongside Northern Irish presenter Patrick Kielty in his first leading film role, and...
- 2/17/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
So, here’s the good news. Martha Plimpton has packed up her home in New York to live and work in London. Pooches to follow.
Her first gig? Playing Jacque in Shakespeare’s As You Like It on the stage of @sohoplace, the West End’s first purpose-built theatre in half a century. That Plimpton should deliver, with aplomb, the ‘All the world’s a stage’ monologue in Josie Rourke’s lively festive production, seems wholly appropriate because the same viewpoint applies elsewhere in town.
Related: Deadline’s Broadway Critic Picks The Best Of 2022, And Looks Ahead To 2023
Martha Plimpton in ‘As You Like It’. Photo by Johan Perrson
To watch Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) make the Harold Pinter Theatre’s stage her world in Australian writer Suzie Miller’s legal twister Prima Facie confirms that she’s one of her generation’s best thespians. It was also her debut professional theatre performance.
Her first gig? Playing Jacque in Shakespeare’s As You Like It on the stage of @sohoplace, the West End’s first purpose-built theatre in half a century. That Plimpton should deliver, with aplomb, the ‘All the world’s a stage’ monologue in Josie Rourke’s lively festive production, seems wholly appropriate because the same viewpoint applies elsewhere in town.
Related: Deadline’s Broadway Critic Picks The Best Of 2022, And Looks Ahead To 2023
Martha Plimpton in ‘As You Like It’. Photo by Johan Perrson
To watch Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) make the Harold Pinter Theatre’s stage her world in Australian writer Suzie Miller’s legal twister Prima Facie confirms that she’s one of her generation’s best thespians. It was also her debut professional theatre performance.
- 12/25/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) won the best actress prize at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her West End debut performance playing a criminal barrister specialising in defending rapists — who is then sexually assaulted herself.
Comer won critical and public acclaim for the solo role in Prima Facie, which is written by Suzie Miller and directed by Justin Martin. James Bierman’s Empire Street Productions will launch the courtroom drama at Broadway’s Golden Theatre from April 11, 2023.
Stephen Graham (The Irishman), like Comer a Liverpudlian, presented Comer with the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress, named in honor of the star who died in 2009.
Comer told guests, who included Richardson’s mother Dame Vanessa Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson, that her experience in Prima Facie had been “utterly terrifying, having never trained,” added: “I didn’t know if I could execute this.”
However, she praised the production’s creative team for supporting her,...
Comer won critical and public acclaim for the solo role in Prima Facie, which is written by Suzie Miller and directed by Justin Martin. James Bierman’s Empire Street Productions will launch the courtroom drama at Broadway’s Golden Theatre from April 11, 2023.
Stephen Graham (The Irishman), like Comer a Liverpudlian, presented Comer with the Natasha Richardson Award for Best Actress, named in honor of the star who died in 2009.
Comer told guests, who included Richardson’s mother Dame Vanessa Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson, that her experience in Prima Facie had been “utterly terrifying, having never trained,” added: “I didn’t know if I could execute this.”
However, she praised the production’s creative team for supporting her,...
- 12/12/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Prasanna Puwanarajah as an actor has appeared in Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned, Ten Percent and Patrick Melrose, and he’ll next pop up in two episodes of The Crown‘s upcoming fifth season portraying Martin Bashir, the controversial journalist who conducted the infamous BBC interview with Princess Diana. However, on Thursday he’ll wear a different hat when the Belfast Film Festival opens with the world premiere of Ballywalter, which marks his feature directing debut.
The film stars Northern Irish comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty — husband of So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley — in his first major acting role playing Shane who, broken after the collapse of his marriage, chooses to rehabilitate by joining a stand-up comedy course; and Seana Kerslake as Eileen, a sharp-tongued Ballywalter local who has moved back home with her mum and pregnant sister, and borrowed her ex’s battered Toyota...
The film stars Northern Irish comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty — husband of So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley — in his first major acting role playing Shane who, broken after the collapse of his marriage, chooses to rehabilitate by joining a stand-up comedy course; and Seana Kerslake as Eileen, a sharp-tongued Ballywalter local who has moved back home with her mum and pregnant sister, and borrowed her ex’s battered Toyota...
- 11/1/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Killing Eve star Jodie Comer received an instant standing ovation and roars of approval from the audience attending the penultimate preview Monday night of Prima Facie, a one-person play about sexual assault that also marks Comer’s West End stage debut. Above and below are exclusive first-look images from the production.
And what a truly stunning debut it is. Comer is phenomenal and commands the stage.
The powerful drama, by Australian-based attorney turned playwright Suzi Miller, has its official opening night on Wednesday.
Comer, 29, gives a fearless, faultless performance as Tessa, a criminal barrister who specialise at defending rapists. Tessa, described in Miller’s play as a ‘thoroughbred’ lawyer, has used her skills not just to defend men, but also to denigrate their victims.
She is then sexually assaulted herself and forced to rail against the very system she used to her advantage in the past, where victims of sexual assault are often disbelieved.
And what a truly stunning debut it is. Comer is phenomenal and commands the stage.
The powerful drama, by Australian-based attorney turned playwright Suzi Miller, has its official opening night on Wednesday.
Comer, 29, gives a fearless, faultless performance as Tessa, a criminal barrister who specialise at defending rapists. Tessa, described in Miller’s play as a ‘thoroughbred’ lawyer, has used her skills not just to defend men, but also to denigrate their victims.
She is then sexually assaulted herself and forced to rail against the very system she used to her advantage in the past, where victims of sexual assault are often disbelieved.
- 4/26/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Jodie Comer is set to make her UK stage debut in the premiere of Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie.
The Killing Eve star will play Tessa in this one-person play, a young, brilliant barrister who loves to win and has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game, prosecuting, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces here to confront the lines where patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
Prima Facie is directed by Justin Martin and performances begin on Friday April 15 at the Harold Pinter Theatre for a strict limited 9-week season.
Comer has most recently starred in 20th Century Studios’ Free Guy and The Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott. She first hit the international scene with her role in Killing Eve. Next year she’s reunited...
The Killing Eve star will play Tessa in this one-person play, a young, brilliant barrister who loves to win and has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game, prosecuting, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces here to confront the lines where patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.
Prima Facie is directed by Justin Martin and performances begin on Friday April 15 at the Harold Pinter Theatre for a strict limited 9-week season.
Comer has most recently starred in 20th Century Studios’ Free Guy and The Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott. She first hit the international scene with her role in Killing Eve. Next year she’s reunited...
- 10/1/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup may yet again be thin on British movies but UK public financiers the BFI, Film4 and BBC Film have joined with the British Council to launch the fourth edition of their ‘Great 8’ program, which will showcase emerging Brit filmmakers to international distributors and fest programmers. Scroll down for the full list.
In previous years, the ‘Great 8’ was launched during the physical Cannes festival but this year the event will be streamed on June 17 in advance of the Cannes virtual market at the end of the month. Buyers and festival programmers will have exclusive access to unseen footage from each of the titles, which will be introduced by their filmmakers and made available across five different time zones.
All titles are now in post-production and are available to buyers during the online Cannes Marché, which takes place June 21-25. Movies selected in previous years...
In previous years, the ‘Great 8’ was launched during the physical Cannes festival but this year the event will be streamed on June 17 in advance of the Cannes virtual market at the end of the month. Buyers and festival programmers will have exclusive access to unseen footage from each of the titles, which will be introduced by their filmmakers and made available across five different time zones.
All titles are now in post-production and are available to buyers during the online Cannes Marché, which takes place June 21-25. Movies selected in previous years...
- 6/10/2021
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Now in its fourth edition, the showcase is funded and run by the BFI and the British Council, in partnership with BBC Film and Film4.
New films from Harry Wootliff, the directors of Notes On Blindness and Yardie star Aml Ameen are among the titles selected for this year’s Great 8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors.
The selected filmmakers will present unseen footage from their films to international buyers and festival programmers online on June 17. All eight films are in post-production and will be available to buyers at the pre-Cannes screenings virtual market (June...
New films from Harry Wootliff, the directors of Notes On Blindness and Yardie star Aml Ameen are among the titles selected for this year’s Great 8, the annual Cannes buyers’ showcase of UK films from emerging directors.
The selected filmmakers will present unseen footage from their films to international buyers and festival programmers online on June 17. All eight films are in post-production and will be available to buyers at the pre-Cannes screenings virtual market (June...
- 6/10/2021
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Bankside is selling Prasanna Puwanarajah’s debut, which stars Seána Kerslake and Patrick Kielty.
Filming has finished on location in Northern Ireland on Ballywalter, the feature directorial debut of doctor-turned-director Prasanna Puwanarajah.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first-look at the film.
Ballywalter follows a university drop-out living with her mum and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, who picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up.
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017 Seána Kerslake stars alongside Northern Irish comedian and TV personality Patrick Kielty in his first leading film role. The script was written by Stacey Gregg,...
Filming has finished on location in Northern Ireland on Ballywalter, the feature directorial debut of doctor-turned-director Prasanna Puwanarajah.
Screen can reveal an exclusive first-look at the film.
Ballywalter follows a university drop-out living with her mum and making money as an unlicensed minicab driver, who picks up a budding stand-up comic whose marriage has recently broken up.
Screen Star of Tomorrow 2017 Seána Kerslake stars alongside Northern Irish comedian and TV personality Patrick Kielty in his first leading film role. The script was written by Stacey Gregg,...
- 1/28/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: His Dark Materials producer Bad Wolf is developing a gritty drugs, sex and nightclubs drama set in London’s Soho in the aftermath of World War One.
Soho 1918 comes from rising playwright, screenwriter and director Polly Stenham and Alex Warren, director of Ruth Wilson-fronted short Eleanor.
Bad Wolf, which makes A Discovery of Witches for Sky and is prepping Lena Dunham’s Industry for HBO, is in the midst of pitching the drama to global streamers and international broadcasters.
It follows the birth of the nightclub scene in Soho and tells the true story of a conservative, god-fearing 42-year old single mother, Kate Meyrick (above), who builds a nightclub empire and criminal family enterprise, becoming the most dangerous woman in London as well as a competitor to Brilliant Chang, the baron of Soho’s gritty underworld. Fueled by drugs and alcohol, Meyrick’s criminal empire allows a new...
Soho 1918 comes from rising playwright, screenwriter and director Polly Stenham and Alex Warren, director of Ruth Wilson-fronted short Eleanor.
Bad Wolf, which makes A Discovery of Witches for Sky and is prepping Lena Dunham’s Industry for HBO, is in the midst of pitching the drama to global streamers and international broadcasters.
It follows the birth of the nightclub scene in Soho and tells the true story of a conservative, god-fearing 42-year old single mother, Kate Meyrick (above), who builds a nightclub empire and criminal family enterprise, becoming the most dangerous woman in London as well as a competitor to Brilliant Chang, the baron of Soho’s gritty underworld. Fueled by drugs and alcohol, Meyrick’s criminal empire allows a new...
- 9/9/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Bankside handling sales in Afm on comedy feature.
Screen can unveil the first trailer for Rudolph Herzog’s comedy How To Fake A War (previously How To Sell A War), which stars Jay Pharoah (Ride Along).
The film is the fiction feature debut of documentary director Rudolph Herzog (son of Werner). Pharoah plays a vain and arrogant rock star who is due to lead a global charity concert in a warzone. When a ceasefire is called four days before the event, his PR consultant sets off on a mission to create a fake news story letting the world know that the war is back on.
Screen can unveil the first trailer for Rudolph Herzog’s comedy How To Fake A War (previously How To Sell A War), which stars Jay Pharoah (Ride Along).
The film is the fiction feature debut of documentary director Rudolph Herzog (son of Werner). Pharoah plays a vain and arrogant rock star who is due to lead a global charity concert in a warzone. When a ceasefire is called four days before the event, his PR consultant sets off on a mission to create a fake news story letting the world know that the war is back on.
- 11/1/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Rudolph Herzog’s fiction feature debut wrapped shooting this week.
Screen can unveil a first look at Jay Pharoah (Ride Along) in How To Sell A War, the fiction feature debut of documentary director Rudolph Herzog, which wrapped this week after shooting in Dublin and Georgia.
In the film, Pharoah plays vain and arrogant rock star Harry Hope who is due to lead a global charity concert in a warzone. When a ceasefire is called four days before the event, Hope’s PR consultant sets off on a mission to create a fake news story letting the world know that the war is back on.
Screen can unveil a first look at Jay Pharoah (Ride Along) in How To Sell A War, the fiction feature debut of documentary director Rudolph Herzog, which wrapped this week after shooting in Dublin and Georgia.
In the film, Pharoah plays vain and arrogant rock star Harry Hope who is due to lead a global charity concert in a warzone. When a ceasefire is called four days before the event, Hope’s PR consultant sets off on a mission to create a fake news story letting the world know that the war is back on.
- 5/9/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Shooting is now underway in Georgia on the project.
Jay Pharoah, recognised for his recent roles in Unsane and Ride Along, has joined Lily Newmark and Katherine Parkinson in Rudolph Herzog’s How To Sell A War.
Bankside Films is handling sales on the project, which is now shooting in Georgian capital Tbilisi before moving to Dublin, Ireland.
Author and documentary filmmaker Rudolph Herzog (The Paedophile Next Door), who is the son of Werner Herzog, makes his fictional feature debut on the film, which follows a PR consultant and her naïve new intern working for a global charity concert. They...
Jay Pharoah, recognised for his recent roles in Unsane and Ride Along, has joined Lily Newmark and Katherine Parkinson in Rudolph Herzog’s How To Sell A War.
Bankside Films is handling sales on the project, which is now shooting in Georgian capital Tbilisi before moving to Dublin, Ireland.
Author and documentary filmmaker Rudolph Herzog (The Paedophile Next Door), who is the son of Werner Herzog, makes his fictional feature debut on the film, which follows a PR consultant and her naïve new intern working for a global charity concert. They...
- 4/6/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
The F&Me production, which starts shooting in March, is directed by Rudolph Herzog.
Source: F&Me
Lily Newmark, Katherine Parkinson
International sales outfit Bankside Films have boarded Rudolph Herzog’s How To Sell A War, which will start shooting March 16 in Georgia and also shoot in Dublin.
Samantha Taylor and Mike Downey produce for their Dublin-based Film and Music Entertainment (Ire) with key financing from the UK’s Quickfire and Helsinki-based Ipr.Vc. This is the sixth project to come through F&Me’s Dublin-based outfit since it was established in 2016.
The film was developed by Creative England, Ipr.Vc and F&Me.
Author and documentary filmmaker Rudolph Herzog (The Paedophile Next Door), who is the son of Werner Herzog, makes his fictional feature debut and the cast is led by Katherine Parkinson (The It Crowd) and Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion).
The story follows a PR consultant, and her naïve new intern, working for a global...
Source: F&Me
Lily Newmark, Katherine Parkinson
International sales outfit Bankside Films have boarded Rudolph Herzog’s How To Sell A War, which will start shooting March 16 in Georgia and also shoot in Dublin.
Samantha Taylor and Mike Downey produce for their Dublin-based Film and Music Entertainment (Ire) with key financing from the UK’s Quickfire and Helsinki-based Ipr.Vc. This is the sixth project to come through F&Me’s Dublin-based outfit since it was established in 2016.
The film was developed by Creative England, Ipr.Vc and F&Me.
Author and documentary filmmaker Rudolph Herzog (The Paedophile Next Door), who is the son of Werner Herzog, makes his fictional feature debut and the cast is led by Katherine Parkinson (The It Crowd) and Lily Newmark (Pin Cushion).
The story follows a PR consultant, and her naïve new intern, working for a global...
- 2/5/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Lionsgate has acquired the Us rights to hot Cannes market title, literary biopic "Genius," starring Colin Firth ("The King's Speech"), Jude Law ("Spy"), Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"), Laura Linney ("The Big C"), Guy Pearce ("The Rover") and Dominic West ("The Affair"). The Affair). John Logan ("Penny Dreadful," "The Aviator") adapted the A.Scott Berg biography of editor-to-the-stars Maxwell Perkins. Tony-winning theater director Michael Grandage ("Red," "Frost/Nixon") makes his feature film debut. Producers are James Bierman, Grandage and Logan with Deepak Nayar, Nik Bower, James J. Bagley, Berg, Tim Bevan, Steve Christian, Ivan Dunleavy and Arielle Tepper Madover serving as executive producers. The film was financed by Riverstone Pictures and Pinewood Pictures. The film "Genius" centers on the real-life relationship between Perkins (Colin Forth) and...
- 5/13/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
• Guy Pearce and Dominic West have signed on for Genius, joining Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Laura Linney. Michael Grandage is directing the film, marking his feature debut. John Logan adapted A. Scott Berg’s book for the screen. Pearce will play F. Scott Fitzgerald, while West will portray Ernest Hemingway. The film will relay the true, complicated relationship between novelist Thomas Wolfe (Law) and his editor, Max Perkins (Firth). Kidman will play Aline Bernstein, with Linney as Louise Perkins. Genius comes as the third collaboration between Grandage, producing partner James Bierman, and John Logan. Filming kicks off...
- 9/26/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Guy Pearce and Dominic West are set to join Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney in Michael Grandage’s feature debut, Genius. Emmy Award-winning Guy Pearce (Mildred Pierce, The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech) will play F. Scott Fitzgerald along-side Golden Globe nominee Dominic West (The Hour, The Wire, Pride) as Ernest Hemmingway.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall, The Aviator, Gladiator) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Law) and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins (Firth). Kidman plays Aline Bernstein and Linney is Louise Perkins. Genius will commence filming next month at Shepperton Studios and on location in the UK.
The film marks the third collaboration between director Grandage, his producing partner James Bierman and John Logan following the hugely successful stage productions of Red, inspired by artist Mark Rothko,...
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall, The Aviator, Gladiator) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe (Law) and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins (Firth). Kidman plays Aline Bernstein and Linney is Louise Perkins. Genius will commence filming next month at Shepperton Studios and on location in the UK.
The film marks the third collaboration between director Grandage, his producing partner James Bierman and John Logan following the hugely successful stage productions of Red, inspired by artist Mark Rothko,...
- 9/26/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
Cast already includes Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Guy Pearce and Dominic West have joined the cast of Michael Grandage’s Genius, announced today by Desert Wolf Productions and the Michael Grandage Company.
It bolsters an already strong cast that includes Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Pearce, best known for roles in Memento and more recently Iron Man 3, will play the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside The Wire star Dominic West, currently seen in Pride, as Ernest Hemmingway.
The film makes the debut feature of celebrated theatre director Grandage and shooting will commence this October at Shepperton Studios and on location in the UK.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins.
Law stars as Wolfe opposite Firth as Perkins...
Guy Pearce and Dominic West have joined the cast of Michael Grandage’s Genius, announced today by Desert Wolf Productions and the Michael Grandage Company.
It bolsters an already strong cast that includes Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Pearce, best known for roles in Memento and more recently Iron Man 3, will play the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside The Wire star Dominic West, currently seen in Pride, as Ernest Hemmingway.
The film makes the debut feature of celebrated theatre director Grandage and shooting will commence this October at Shepperton Studios and on location in the UK.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins.
Law stars as Wolfe opposite Firth as Perkins...
- 9/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Cast already includes Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Guy Pearce and Dominic West have joined the cast of Michael Grandage’s Genius, announced today by Desert Wolf Productions and the Michael Grandage Company.
It bolsters an already strong cast that includes Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Pearce, best known for roles in Memento and more recently Iron Man 3, will play the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside The Wire star Dominic West, currently seen in Pride, as Ernest Hemmingway.
The film makes the debut feature of celebrated theatre director Grandage and shooting will commence this October at Shepperton Studios and on location in the UK.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins.
Law stars as Wolfe opposite Firth as Perkins...
Guy Pearce and Dominic West have joined the cast of Michael Grandage’s Genius, announced today by Desert Wolf Productions and the Michael Grandage Company.
It bolsters an already strong cast that includes Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney.
Pearce, best known for roles in Memento and more recently Iron Man 3, will play the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside The Wire star Dominic West, currently seen in Pride, as Ernest Hemmingway.
The film makes the debut feature of celebrated theatre director Grandage and shooting will commence this October at Shepperton Studios and on location in the UK.
Adapted by playwright and screenwriter John Logan (Skyfall) from A. Scott Berg’s book, Genius tells the true story of the complex relationship between literary giant Thomas Wolfe and Scribner’s iconic editor Max Perkins.
Law stars as Wolfe opposite Firth as Perkins...
- 9/26/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Jude Law has signed on to replace Michael Fassbender in the new drama "Genius" at FilmNation.
Based on the A. Scott Berg book "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius," the story centers on the life-changing friendship between iconic author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and his longtime editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth).
Perkins discovered other famous authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Nicole Kidman also stars though it isn't known what role she is playing.
Michael Grandage ("The Madness of King George") is directing from an adapted screenplay by John Logan ("Skyfall"). Michael Grandage and James Bierman are producing and shooting is scheduled to begin this Fall in the UK.
Source: Deadline...
Based on the A. Scott Berg book "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius," the story centers on the life-changing friendship between iconic author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) and his longtime editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth).
Perkins discovered other famous authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Nicole Kidman also stars though it isn't known what role she is playing.
Michael Grandage ("The Madness of King George") is directing from an adapted screenplay by John Logan ("Skyfall"). Michael Grandage and James Bierman are producing and shooting is scheduled to begin this Fall in the UK.
Source: Deadline...
- 4/26/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Director Michael Grandage has set Jude Law to play literary icon Thomas Wolfe alongside Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman in Genius, the John Logan-scripted adaptation of the celebrated A. Scott Berg book that recounts the relationship between Wolfe and renowned editor Max Perkins (Firth) that changed both men forever. The film’s produced by The Michael Grandage Company with shooting to begin this fall in the UK and U.S. Silver Reel is co-financing with FilmNation Entertainment handling all international sales and CAA handling domestic. Genius will be produced by Grandage and James Bierman, who first worked together at Donmar Warehouse Theatre before setting up Mgc. Logan is also producing, while Tim Bevan is exec producer. Mgc is producing with Desert Wolf Productions. Logan and Grandage previously collaborated on the Tony-winning Red and followed with Peter And Alice.
- 4/25/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Exclusive: Jude Law, riding high on reviews for his performance as a foul-mouthed gangster in Dom Hemingway, is switching gears and will play literary titan Thomas Wolfe.
Law joins Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman on the drama that reunites his co-stars after The Railway Man. FilmNation handles international sales.
Former Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage makes his feature directorial debut and production is set to commence on October 13. The film will shoot in the UK and Us.
John Logan adapted the screenplay from A Scott Berg’s biography Max Perkins: Editor Of Genius, which chronicles the complex friendship between Wolfe and Perkins.
Firth will play Perkins. Michael Fassbender had been attached to play Wolfe, however the confirmation of Law adds impetus to what bears the hallmarks of becoming a potential awards prospect for the 2015-16 season.
Grandage and James Bierman of The Michael Grandage Company (Mgc) are producing alongside Logan, with [link=nm...
Law joins Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman on the drama that reunites his co-stars after The Railway Man. FilmNation handles international sales.
Former Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage makes his feature directorial debut and production is set to commence on October 13. The film will shoot in the UK and Us.
John Logan adapted the screenplay from A Scott Berg’s biography Max Perkins: Editor Of Genius, which chronicles the complex friendship between Wolfe and Perkins.
Firth will play Perkins. Michael Fassbender had been attached to play Wolfe, however the confirmation of Law adds impetus to what bears the hallmarks of becoming a potential awards prospect for the 2015-16 season.
Grandage and James Bierman of The Michael Grandage Company (Mgc) are producing alongside Logan, with [link=nm...
- 4/25/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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