Exclusive: British-American actress Riann Steele, on the cusp of her American television breakthrough, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas. The signing comes on the heels of NBC last week giving a series order to sci-fi drama Debris, which marks Steele’s first U.S. series regular role.
Steele is the female lead opposite Jonathan Tucker in Debris, from writer J.H. Wyman, Legendary Television & Universal Television. Echoing The X-Files and Men In Black, in Debris, two agents — played by Steele and Tucker — from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Steele’s previous TV credits include arcs on CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans and Syfy’s The Magicians as well as Netflix’s Lovesick and Crazyhead, and BBC One’s Dr. Who, Holby City and Death in Paradise.
On the film side,...
Steele is the female lead opposite Jonathan Tucker in Debris, from writer J.H. Wyman, Legendary Television & Universal Television. Echoing The X-Files and Men In Black, in Debris, two agents — played by Steele and Tucker — from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Steele’s previous TV credits include arcs on CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans and Syfy’s The Magicians as well as Netflix’s Lovesick and Crazyhead, and BBC One’s Dr. Who, Holby City and Death in Paradise.
On the film side,...
- 7/6/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
When you watch the seventh episode in the first season of Netflix's breakout hit, Glow, then you'll likely find yourself hearing a very familiar voice. Rhonda, the bubbly, big-banged British member of the show's all-female wrestling group, comes up with a rap to hype up the crowd during the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling's first match with a live studio audience. "Glow, Glow, that's the name; women's wrestling is our game," she chants in the middle of the ring. "If we play rough, please don't blame us; our style is wild, and you know you can't tame us!" If Rhonda's voice gives you a major case of déjà-vu in that scene, might I ask if you're a fan of the 2007 song "Foundations"? Or "Merry Happy"? Because Rhonda (aka Britannica) is actually played by British singer-songwriter Kate Nash!
Since charming the music scene with her debut album in 2007, Made of Bricks...
Since charming the music scene with her debut album in 2007, Made of Bricks...
- 7/8/2018
- by Quinn Keaney
- Popsugar.com
Jason Lives, the sixth installment in the Friday the 13th franchise, turns 30 in August and to celebrate, O Cinema and Popcorn Frights Film Festival are having a screening of the film. Read on for more details. Also: Madballs #1 preview pages, The Horde release details, and Warlash: Zombie Mutant Genesis #1 preview pages.
Friday the 13th Part VI Screening: From O Cinema and Popcorn Frights Film Festival: “O Cinema and Popcorn Frights Film Festival are proud to present the 30th Anniversary of the sixth chapter in the Friday the 13th series, Jason Lives.
Retro video game table. Play the classic Nintendo 8-bit “Friday the 13th” video game before the movie (10 pm) 30th Anniversary Screening of “Friday the 13th: Jason Lives” (11 pm)
As most horror fans know, the fourth Friday the 13th film was intended to truly be The Final Chapter. However, since it wound up being the highest grossing film in the series,...
Friday the 13th Part VI Screening: From O Cinema and Popcorn Frights Film Festival: “O Cinema and Popcorn Frights Film Festival are proud to present the 30th Anniversary of the sixth chapter in the Friday the 13th series, Jason Lives.
Retro video game table. Play the classic Nintendo 8-bit “Friday the 13th” video game before the movie (10 pm) 30th Anniversary Screening of “Friday the 13th: Jason Lives” (11 pm)
As most horror fans know, the fourth Friday the 13th film was intended to truly be The Final Chapter. However, since it wound up being the highest grossing film in the series,...
- 4/18/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
‘Locked Box’ scheme has previously been tapped into by UK producers.
UK writers, directors and producers are now to share an equal third of the BFI’s ‘Locked Box’ recoupment.
Directors UK, Pact and The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain have struck a deal to ensure that directors and writers of feature films supported with Lottery funding through the BFI Film Fund will share with producers in the BFI’s ‘Locked Box’, a pool of recouped income up to 37%, which is held by the BFI and then can be used for developing and producing future films.
The recouped income that is held in the Locked Box will be split with directors, writers and producers each guaranteed a minimum share of 12.5%.
While producers have been tapping into the pool since 2012, the UK writers and directors trade bodies had yet to strike a deal with Pact.
To date fifteen productions have drawn down money from the ‘Locked Box’, including...
UK writers, directors and producers are now to share an equal third of the BFI’s ‘Locked Box’ recoupment.
Directors UK, Pact and The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain have struck a deal to ensure that directors and writers of feature films supported with Lottery funding through the BFI Film Fund will share with producers in the BFI’s ‘Locked Box’, a pool of recouped income up to 37%, which is held by the BFI and then can be used for developing and producing future films.
The recouped income that is held in the Locked Box will be split with directors, writers and producers each guaranteed a minimum share of 12.5%.
While producers have been tapping into the pool since 2012, the UK writers and directors trade bodies had yet to strike a deal with Pact.
To date fifteen productions have drawn down money from the ‘Locked Box’, including...
- 3/27/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
BFI chief executive Amanda Nevill and Film Fund head Ben Roberts talk about why the controversial 7% profitability statistic doesn’t reflect the full picture of UK film success.
Amanda Nevill, the BFI’s chief executive, said that the 7% statistic (original story here) that has been recently bandied about is “pretty misleading if you understand how a film is funded”.
She also noted that the statistic shouldn’t scare away potential film investors as “before a film even goes into profits, the financiers have gotten their money back”.
Even if a film doesn’t go into net profits, it’s still “a beneficial economic activity,” she reminds the industry. “Cast and crew have been paid, VFX houses have been paid, exhibitors have made their cut.”
“The starkness of only 7% profits completely eclipses the fact that many, many films - before they even wash their face - have put in profits and salaries for people in that chain,” she added...
Amanda Nevill, the BFI’s chief executive, said that the 7% statistic (original story here) that has been recently bandied about is “pretty misleading if you understand how a film is funded”.
She also noted that the statistic shouldn’t scare away potential film investors as “before a film even goes into profits, the financiers have gotten their money back”.
Even if a film doesn’t go into net profits, it’s still “a beneficial economic activity,” she reminds the industry. “Cast and crew have been paid, VFX houses have been paid, exhibitors have made their cut.”
“The starkness of only 7% profits completely eclipses the fact that many, many films - before they even wash their face - have put in profits and salaries for people in that chain,” she added...
- 12/19/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Disney's family-friendly movie tops the UK box-office charts, as rival animation Free Birds' fortunes take a dive
• More on the UK box office
• Frozen – review
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – review
The winner
Pushing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire aside after its two weeks at the top spot, Disney's Frozen opened with £4.70m. That's by no means the top number for an animation this year – Despicable Me 2 debut gathered £14.82m, including £4.87m in previews in June – but it's a solid start for a film presumed to play to the Christmas audience. Family films targeting the Christmas market have a knack of playing strongly right through until Christmas Eve, and if the festive association is not too strong can, continue to play beyond that date.
Two years ago, Aardman's Arthur Christmas debuted with a so-so £2.11m, but by Christmas Day had managed £19.66m, and eventually reached £20.84m. (A re-release...
• More on the UK box office
• Frozen – review
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – review
The winner
Pushing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire aside after its two weeks at the top spot, Disney's Frozen opened with £4.70m. That's by no means the top number for an animation this year – Despicable Me 2 debut gathered £14.82m, including £4.87m in previews in June – but it's a solid start for a film presumed to play to the Christmas audience. Family films targeting the Christmas market have a knack of playing strongly right through until Christmas Eve, and if the festive association is not too strong can, continue to play beyond that date.
Two years ago, Aardman's Arthur Christmas debuted with a so-so £2.11m, but by Christmas Day had managed £19.66m, and eventually reached £20.84m. (A re-release...
- 12/11/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Up-and-coming director Mj Delaney takes a raunchy but realistic peep behind the door where no man can venture
Getting the female perspective across in mainstream cinema has been a long slog. It is still unusual to find a young woman behind the camera as well as in front of it. But, at 27, director Mj Delaney has now put the unvarnished truth on screen. Her new film, Powder Room, which stars Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone in an adaptation of a play by Rachel Hirons, expresses an unapologetic disregard for the meek, self-effacing heroines that commonly earn screen time.
Yet this was not what drew her to the story. "I just thought it was funny, honest and truthful, as well as refreshingly realistic and grimy," she told the Observer this weekend.
The idea that the plot, which revolves around the ladies' loo in a nightclub, might alienate male cinema-goers did not occur to her.
Getting the female perspective across in mainstream cinema has been a long slog. It is still unusual to find a young woman behind the camera as well as in front of it. But, at 27, director Mj Delaney has now put the unvarnished truth on screen. Her new film, Powder Room, which stars Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone in an adaptation of a play by Rachel Hirons, expresses an unapologetic disregard for the meek, self-effacing heroines that commonly earn screen time.
Yet this was not what drew her to the story. "I just thought it was funny, honest and truthful, as well as refreshingly realistic and grimy," she told the Observer this weekend.
The idea that the plot, which revolves around the ladies' loo in a nightclub, might alienate male cinema-goers did not occur to her.
- 12/8/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
This Ain't California | Nebraska | Frozen | Kill Your Darlings | Oldboy | Powder Room | Homefront | Getaway | The Patience Stone | Big Bad Wolves | Black Nativity | Floating Skyscrapers | Klown | Rough Cut | A Long Way From Home | Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf's
This Ain't California (Tbc)
(Marten Perseil, 2012, Ger) 90 mins
Just as its East German teen subjects took skateboarding behind the Iron Curtain, so this "documentary" smuggles faked footage into its true 1980s history. The result is a fascinating parallel pop-cultural history with a moving (but imaginary) human centre. Working out what's true and what's not only adds to the fun.
Nebraska (15)
(Alexander Payne, 2013, Us) Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb. 115 mins
Stubborn old Dern and son take a quixotic road trip back into family, and American, history.
Frozen (PG)
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2013, Us) Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel. 108 mins
Disney's classy, sparkly assault on the Christmas holidays, with wintry vistas, musical numbers and a sister-powered fairytale.
This Ain't California (Tbc)
(Marten Perseil, 2012, Ger) 90 mins
Just as its East German teen subjects took skateboarding behind the Iron Curtain, so this "documentary" smuggles faked footage into its true 1980s history. The result is a fascinating parallel pop-cultural history with a moving (but imaginary) human centre. Working out what's true and what's not only adds to the fun.
Nebraska (15)
(Alexander Payne, 2013, Us) Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb. 115 mins
Stubborn old Dern and son take a quixotic road trip back into family, and American, history.
Frozen (PG)
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2013, Us) Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel. 108 mins
Disney's classy, sparkly assault on the Christmas holidays, with wintry vistas, musical numbers and a sister-powered fairytale.
- 12/7/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★☆☆☆In recent years we've seen British actress Sheridan Smith step away from the image she crafted for herself in the Beeb's Two Pints of Larger and a Packet of Crisps, making headway with an impressive - not to mention award-winning - career in theatre, most notably in the West End adaptation of Legally Blonde. It seems odd, then, that Smith would return to a role that seems beneath her in Mj Delaney's Powder Room (2013). Based on Rachel Heron's Fringe play When Women Wee, Delaney's debut feature gathers together Oona Chaplin, singer-songwriter Kate Nash and Jaime Winstone alongside Smith.
- 12/6/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The HeyUGuys Interview: YouTube sensation M.J. Delaney on making the move into film with Powder Room
Upon entering into a room playing Christmas songs on a loop to interview debut director M.J. Delaney ahead of her farcical comedy Powder Room, it’s fair to say her appearance was somewhat surprising, as a stylish and glamorous young woman, who comes across more as a star of the screen, rather than the creative force behind it.
Perhaps it’s because we associate the craft typically with older, more well-versed figures, with the impression that in order to get the financial backing to be trusted with a feature film, you need to have been around the block a fair few times. However this opportunist 26-year-old represents a new breed of filmmakers, as an innovator of the ‘YouTube generation’ – of young, self-taught directors who are taking their cyber-space skill set, and bringing it to life on the big screen, enforcing an inspiring, do-it-yourself approach to filmmaking.
“I’m one of...
Perhaps it’s because we associate the craft typically with older, more well-versed figures, with the impression that in order to get the financial backing to be trusted with a feature film, you need to have been around the block a fair few times. However this opportunist 26-year-old represents a new breed of filmmakers, as an innovator of the ‘YouTube generation’ – of young, self-taught directors who are taking their cyber-space skill set, and bringing it to life on the big screen, enforcing an inspiring, do-it-yourself approach to filmmaking.
“I’m one of...
- 12/6/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A cackhanded attempt to do a British Bridesmaids is pure ITV2
Oh, here we go: the semi-inevitable cackhanded British attempt to summon up one-gazillionth of the interest generated by Bridesmaids or Girls. Mj Delaney's film explores various resistible ways of opening out Rachel Hirons' stageplay When Women Wee, set over one evening in a Croydon nightclub's loos: attitudinous musical interludes, in-yer-face puking inserts, cutaways to Kate Nash snorting coke to the accompaniment of a comedy bugle. When the pottymouthing stops, it emerges that Hirons has points to make about female status anxiety – but Powder Room is only as empowering as anything else that might go out on ITV2 after the watershed.
Rating: 2/5
DramaJaime WinstoneMike McCahill
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Oh, here we go: the semi-inevitable cackhanded British attempt to summon up one-gazillionth of the interest generated by Bridesmaids or Girls. Mj Delaney's film explores various resistible ways of opening out Rachel Hirons' stageplay When Women Wee, set over one evening in a Croydon nightclub's loos: attitudinous musical interludes, in-yer-face puking inserts, cutaways to Kate Nash snorting coke to the accompaniment of a comedy bugle. When the pottymouthing stops, it emerges that Hirons has points to make about female status anxiety – but Powder Room is only as empowering as anything else that might go out on ITV2 after the watershed.
Rating: 2/5
DramaJaime WinstoneMike McCahill
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- 12/6/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
The term ‘ladette’ is out-modish but once upon a time would have been apt in describing the female characters in debut director M.J. Delaney’s new Brit chick flick, Powder Room. All-female comedy has come a long way since, without the need for a weepy and superfluous romance. This is a cack-handed confidence boost in the guise of an upfront, no-frills drama, set in (and out) of a girls’ nightclub loo.
Sam (Sheridan Smith) is invited out with an old college friend, Michelle (Kate Nash) and her friend, Jess (Oona Chaplin) to a local dive of a South London nightclub. Glamorous Michelle and Jess seem to have it all, living and working in Paris. Keen to improve her lot in the world, Sam pretends she’s more than she is, not wanting to appear that she’s not made much of her life since studying. All goes to plan until...
Sam (Sheridan Smith) is invited out with an old college friend, Michelle (Kate Nash) and her friend, Jess (Oona Chaplin) to a local dive of a South London nightclub. Glamorous Michelle and Jess seem to have it all, living and working in Paris. Keen to improve her lot in the world, Sam pretends she’s more than she is, not wanting to appear that she’s not made much of her life since studying. All goes to plan until...
- 12/4/2013
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The HeyUGuys Interview: Sheridan Smith & Jaime Winstone discuss ladies’ toilets ahead of Powder Room
It’s not everyday you have the opportunity to sit down and legitimately discuss the ongoings in a ladies’ nightclub toilet, and then call it “work” – but that’s exactly what we had the pleasure of doing with the talented and charming duo, Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone, ahead of their upcoming comedy Powder Room.
Directed by M.J. Delaney, Powder Room predominantly takes place in the toilets of a busy nightclub, where Sam (Smith) is caught between two conflicting groups of friends and lifestyles, in a raucous and hilarious farcical comedy. We compare the differences between ladies’ toilets and mens’ toilets, and they tell us just how accurate a depiction this film really is.
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Directed by M.J. Delaney, Powder Room predominantly takes place in the toilets of a busy nightclub, where Sam (Smith) is caught between two conflicting groups of friends and lifestyles, in a raucous and hilarious farcical comedy. We compare the differences between ladies’ toilets and mens’ toilets, and they tell us just how accurate a depiction this film really is.
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- 12/3/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Screen Film Summit: As Mj Delaney’s low-budget Powder Room heads into its opening weekend with all investment already recouped, producer Damian Jones has confirmed that his next project will be a remake of TV perennial Dad’s Army.
Jones and Delaney also told the Screen Film Summit that despite a tough 19-day shoot for the £175,000 Powder Room, they were planning to work with each other again on a big-screen adaptation of Apples, Richard Milward’s cult 2007 novel about teenage life on a Middlesborough housing estate with Milward set to adapt.
Award-winning producer Jones (The Iron Lady) told the conference that he was now focused on Dad’s Army, for which he holds the rights, although no further details were forthcoming.
Jones was principal producer and also principle financier on Powder Room through the BFI’s “Locked Box” producer equity scheme. When Universal took world rights at Cannes, the Mg paid out all investment and the film...
Jones and Delaney also told the Screen Film Summit that despite a tough 19-day shoot for the £175,000 Powder Room, they were planning to work with each other again on a big-screen adaptation of Apples, Richard Milward’s cult 2007 novel about teenage life on a Middlesborough housing estate with Milward set to adapt.
Award-winning producer Jones (The Iron Lady) told the conference that he was now focused on Dad’s Army, for which he holds the rights, although no further details were forthcoming.
Jones was principal producer and also principle financier on Powder Room through the BFI’s “Locked Box” producer equity scheme. When Universal took world rights at Cannes, the Mg paid out all investment and the film...
- 12/2/2013
- by halliganfinn@gmail.com (Fionnuala Halligan)
- ScreenDaily
Leviathan | Saving Mr Banks | Carrie | Jeune & Jolie | Marius, Fanny | Saving Santa | The Best Man Holiday | Free Birds | Day Of The Flowers | Life's A Breeze
Leviathan (12A)
(Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, 2012, Fra/UK/Us) 87 mins
An arthouse fishing-trawler documentary sounds like a practical joke, but this takes us to places we've never before – into the ocean depths and back out on to the decks with the catch. It's a series of dark, semi-abstract tableaux full of flapping fish, clanking machinery and tattooed fishermen doing wet, gory work. It's easy to forget this is real life you're watching.
Saving Mr Banks (PG)
(John Lee Hancock, 2013, Us) Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson. 125 mins
How Walt Disney came to make Mary Poppins was hardly a pressing movie mystery, and one suspects a spoonful of drama has been added, but the leads are eminently watchable.
Carrie (15)
(Kimberly Peirce, 2013, Us) Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore. 100 mins
Brian De Palma...
Leviathan (12A)
(Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel, 2012, Fra/UK/Us) 87 mins
An arthouse fishing-trawler documentary sounds like a practical joke, but this takes us to places we've never before – into the ocean depths and back out on to the decks with the catch. It's a series of dark, semi-abstract tableaux full of flapping fish, clanking machinery and tattooed fishermen doing wet, gory work. It's easy to forget this is real life you're watching.
Saving Mr Banks (PG)
(John Lee Hancock, 2013, Us) Tom Hanks, Emma Thompson. 125 mins
How Walt Disney came to make Mary Poppins was hardly a pressing movie mystery, and one suspects a spoonful of drama has been added, but the leads are eminently watchable.
Carrie (15)
(Kimberly Peirce, 2013, Us) Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore. 100 mins
Brian De Palma...
- 11/30/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Public inquiry into expansion plan underway; studio confirms Teddington departure date.
Pinewood Studio’s unaudited interim results for the six months ended Sept 30 reveal an increase in revenue and net debt as facilities growth increases.
Revenue increased to £36.6m in 2013 from £27.1m for the six months ending September 30 2012.
Basic earnings per share rose from 4.2p to 6.8p.
However, net debt stands at £55.1m compared to £41.9m for the same period last year. This is largely a result of facilities investments.
The company’s television revenues in the period were £3.2m, up from £2.5m.
In the results document, the studio also confirmed its exit from Teddington Studios on 24 December 2014.
Key developments at Pinewood in the last six months include the completion of the 45,000 sq ft Q Stage as well as the opening of Pinewood Indomina in the Dominican Republic and the arrival of Camelot in TV3 from last month.
Construction is underway on Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
However, in May...
Pinewood Studio’s unaudited interim results for the six months ended Sept 30 reveal an increase in revenue and net debt as facilities growth increases.
Revenue increased to £36.6m in 2013 from £27.1m for the six months ending September 30 2012.
Basic earnings per share rose from 4.2p to 6.8p.
However, net debt stands at £55.1m compared to £41.9m for the same period last year. This is largely a result of facilities investments.
The company’s television revenues in the period were £3.2m, up from £2.5m.
In the results document, the studio also confirmed its exit from Teddington Studios on 24 December 2014.
Key developments at Pinewood in the last six months include the completion of the 45,000 sq ft Q Stage as well as the opening of Pinewood Indomina in the Dominican Republic and the arrival of Camelot in TV3 from last month.
Construction is underway on Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
However, in May...
- 11/26/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Public inquiry into expansion plan underway; studio confirms Teddington departure date.
Pinewood Studio’s unaudited interim results for the six months ended Sept 30 reveal an increase in revenue and net debt as facilities growth increases.
Revenue increased to £36.6m in 2013 from £27.1m for the six months ending September 30 2012.
Basic earnings per share rose from 4.2p to 6.8p.
However, net debt stands at £55.1m compared to £41.9m for the same period last year. This is largely a result of facilities investments.
The company’s television revenues in the period were £3.2m, up from £2.5m.
In the results document, the studio also confirmed its exit from Teddington Studios on 24 December 2014.
Key developments at Pinewood in the last six months include the completion of the 45,000 sq ft Q Stage as well as the opening of Pinewood Indomina in the Dominican Republic and the arrival of Camelot in TV3 from last month.
Construction is underway on Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
However, in May...
Pinewood Studio’s unaudited interim results for the six months ended Sept 30 reveal an increase in revenue and net debt as facilities growth increases.
Revenue increased to £36.6m in 2013 from £27.1m for the six months ending September 30 2012.
Basic earnings per share rose from 4.2p to 6.8p.
However, net debt stands at £55.1m compared to £41.9m for the same period last year. This is largely a result of facilities investments.
The company’s television revenues in the period were £3.2m, up from £2.5m.
In the results document, the studio also confirmed its exit from Teddington Studios on 24 December 2014.
Key developments at Pinewood in the last six months include the completion of the 45,000 sq ft Q Stage as well as the opening of Pinewood Indomina in the Dominican Republic and the arrival of Camelot in TV3 from last month.
Construction is underway on Pinewood Atlanta Studios.
However, in May...
- 11/26/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Graham Norton Show: 10.35pm, BBC One
So far this series, Graham Norton has had some massive names on the sofa with him, and tonight's episode is no exception.
Joining him for a chat will be Emma Thompson, who will be talking about her new film Saving Mr Banks, as well as comedian Jimmy Carr. Meanwhile Doctor Who fans can get excited at not one but two Time Lords talking to Graham in the form of Matt Smith and David Tennant.
Agents of Shield: 8pm, Channel 4
Tonight's edition of the Marvel series continues on from Thor: The Dark World, as the team are required to clean up after the events of the film.
After uncovering a plot to piece together an Asgardian Berserker Staff they enlist the help of Dr Elliot Randolph (Peter MacNicol), who helps them get to Ireland and Spain as part of their mission.
So far this series, Graham Norton has had some massive names on the sofa with him, and tonight's episode is no exception.
Joining him for a chat will be Emma Thompson, who will be talking about her new film Saving Mr Banks, as well as comedian Jimmy Carr. Meanwhile Doctor Who fans can get excited at not one but two Time Lords talking to Graham in the form of Matt Smith and David Tennant.
Agents of Shield: 8pm, Channel 4
Tonight's edition of the Marvel series continues on from Thor: The Dark World, as the team are required to clean up after the events of the film.
After uncovering a plot to piece together an Asgardian Berserker Staff they enlist the help of Dr Elliot Randolph (Peter MacNicol), who helps them get to Ireland and Spain as part of their mission.
- 11/22/2013
- Digital Spy
December 6, 2013
Frozen
Director: Juliet McKoen
Starring: Kristen Bell, Alan Tudyk, Idina Menzel
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate: PG
Getaway
Director: Courtney Solomon
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight
Running time: 90 mins
Certificate: 12A
Homefront
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder
Running time: 100 mins
Certificate: 15
Kill Your Darlings
Director: John Krokidas
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C Hall
Running time: 104 mins
Certificate: 15
Nebraska
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb
Running time: 115 mins
Certificate: 15
Old Boy
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L Jackson
Running time: 104 mins
Certificate: 18
Powder Room
Director: Mj Delaney
Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash
Running time: 86 mins
Certificate: 15
December 13, 2013
Cinema Paradiso
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
Running time: 171 mins
Certificate: PG
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage
Running...
Frozen
Director: Juliet McKoen
Starring: Kristen Bell, Alan Tudyk, Idina Menzel
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate: PG
Getaway
Director: Courtney Solomon
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez, Jon Voight
Running time: 90 mins
Certificate: 12A
Homefront
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder
Running time: 100 mins
Certificate: 15
Kill Your Darlings
Director: John Krokidas
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C Hall
Running time: 104 mins
Certificate: 15
Nebraska
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb
Running time: 115 mins
Certificate: 15
Old Boy
Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L Jackson
Running time: 104 mins
Certificate: 18
Powder Room
Director: Mj Delaney
Starring: Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Kate Nash
Running time: 86 mins
Certificate: 15
December 13, 2013
Cinema Paradiso
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
Running time: 171 mins
Certificate: PG
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage
Running...
- 11/19/2013
- Digital Spy
A new British comedy focuses on the very modern frustrations of a group of female friends, but says more about life today – for men and women – than most battle-of-the-sexes movies do
A new British film, Powder Room, released next month, features an all-female five-piece rock band, Fake Club. Which, if you watched a lot of editions of Top of the Pops in the 1970s, is nice. Back then, though female singers existed, no women actually played musical instruments, apart from Suzi Quatro. Though lots of the men had long hair, or wore makeup, presumably in compensation.
That, however, is not the only respect in which Powder Room is notable, gender-wise. It's being described as the British Bridesmaids, since it's a comedy about and for women. But, unlike Bridesmaids, it has no male lead characters – just a couple of tiny walk-on parts. This is not surprising, bearing in mind that nearly...
A new British film, Powder Room, released next month, features an all-female five-piece rock band, Fake Club. Which, if you watched a lot of editions of Top of the Pops in the 1970s, is nice. Back then, though female singers existed, no women actually played musical instruments, apart from Suzi Quatro. Though lots of the men had long hair, or wore makeup, presumably in compensation.
That, however, is not the only respect in which Powder Room is notable, gender-wise. It's being described as the British Bridesmaids, since it's a comedy about and for women. But, unlike Bridesmaids, it has no male lead characters – just a couple of tiny walk-on parts. This is not surprising, bearing in mind that nearly...
- 10/18/2013
- by Deborah Orr
- The Guardian - Film News
Powder Room has premiered its first trailer exclusively through Digital Spy.
Sheridan Smith leads the cast of the British comedy as Sam, who experiences a turbulent night out with close friends Chanel (Jaime Winstone), Saskia (Sarah Hoare) and Paige (Riann Steele).
Kate Nash and Game of Thrones star Oona Chaplin also feature in the cast for the movie, which is based on the play When Women Wee.
Rachel Hirons wrote the script for the film, while Damian Jones, James Cotton and Nichola Martin are serving as producers.
Mj Delaney makes her directorial debut on the project after shooting to the British film industry's attention with 'Newport State of Mind', a spoof of Jay Z's 'Empire State of Mind' that racked up more than 2.5 million views on YouTube.
Powder Room will be released in cinemas on November 29 through Vertigo Films.
Sheridan Smith leads the cast of the British comedy as Sam, who experiences a turbulent night out with close friends Chanel (Jaime Winstone), Saskia (Sarah Hoare) and Paige (Riann Steele).
Kate Nash and Game of Thrones star Oona Chaplin also feature in the cast for the movie, which is based on the play When Women Wee.
Rachel Hirons wrote the script for the film, while Damian Jones, James Cotton and Nichola Martin are serving as producers.
Mj Delaney makes her directorial debut on the project after shooting to the British film industry's attention with 'Newport State of Mind', a spoof of Jay Z's 'Empire State of Mind' that racked up more than 2.5 million views on YouTube.
Powder Room will be released in cinemas on November 29 through Vertigo Films.
- 8/19/2013
- Digital Spy
Universal’s home entertainment division takes world rights.
Vertigo Films will release Mj Delaney’s feature debut Powder Room in UK cinemas from Nov 29.
Meanwhile, producer Damian Jones’ DJ Films has sold the world rights to Universal Pictures International Entertainment.
Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Oona Chaplin and Kate Nash star in the ensemble comedy set in a nightclub toilet, introducing a group of women at various stages of love and live during the course of one crazy night out.
The film is based on the play When Women Wee, adapted for the screen by playwright Rachel Hirons. Producers are Damian Jones, James Cotton and Nichola Martin. Executive producers are Steve Norris and Ivan Dunleavy.
DJ Films financed Powder Room through the BFI’s producer equity scheme, in association with Pinewood Films.
Delaney is the director of hit YouTube video Newport State of Mind.
Vertigo Films will release Mj Delaney’s feature debut Powder Room in UK cinemas from Nov 29.
Meanwhile, producer Damian Jones’ DJ Films has sold the world rights to Universal Pictures International Entertainment.
Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Oona Chaplin and Kate Nash star in the ensemble comedy set in a nightclub toilet, introducing a group of women at various stages of love and live during the course of one crazy night out.
The film is based on the play When Women Wee, adapted for the screen by playwright Rachel Hirons. Producers are Damian Jones, James Cotton and Nichola Martin. Executive producers are Steve Norris and Ivan Dunleavy.
DJ Films financed Powder Room through the BFI’s producer equity scheme, in association with Pinewood Films.
Delaney is the director of hit YouTube video Newport State of Mind.
- 8/19/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Universal’s home entertainment division takes world rights.
Vertigo Films will release Mj Delaney’s feature debut Powder Room in UK cinemas from Nov 29.
Meanwhile, producer Damian Jones’ DJ Films has sold the world rights to Universal Pictures International Entertainment.
Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Oona Chaplin and Kate Nash star in the ensemble comedy set in a nightclub toilet, introducing a group of women at various stages of love and live during the course of one crazy night out.
The film is based on the play When Women Wee, adapted for the screen by playwright Rachel Hirons. Producers are Damian Jones, James Cotton and Nichola Martin. Executive Producers are Steve Norris and Ivan Dunleavy.
DJ Films financed Powder Room through the BFI’s producer equity scheme, in association with Pinewood Films.
Delaney is the director of hit YouTube video Newport State of Mind.
Vertigo Films will release Mj Delaney’s feature debut Powder Room in UK cinemas from Nov 29.
Meanwhile, producer Damian Jones’ DJ Films has sold the world rights to Universal Pictures International Entertainment.
Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone, Oona Chaplin and Kate Nash star in the ensemble comedy set in a nightclub toilet, introducing a group of women at various stages of love and live during the course of one crazy night out.
The film is based on the play When Women Wee, adapted for the screen by playwright Rachel Hirons. Producers are Damian Jones, James Cotton and Nichola Martin. Executive Producers are Steve Norris and Ivan Dunleavy.
DJ Films financed Powder Room through the BFI’s producer equity scheme, in association with Pinewood Films.
Delaney is the director of hit YouTube video Newport State of Mind.
- 8/19/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Around 200 European and international distributors and festival programmers are expected in London next week for the 10th edition of the London UK Film Focus (Luff), running June 24-27.
Premieres include Exclusive Media’s Formula 1 doc 1, StudioCanal’s horror thriller In Fear, the Damian Jones-produced Powder Room starring Sheridan Smith, Metro International’s raucous comedy The Stag and Altitude Film Sales’ The Hooligan Factory.
uConnect, the London-based sales outfit run by Peter Rogers, will be screening Summer In February, starring Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens.
“The timing is very good for us. We did think it would stand out at Luff,” said Rogers. The love triangle tale was released in the UK earlier this month by Metrodome.
Luff will return to the BFI Southbank to showcase features.
Natalie Brenner, Evp of international sales at Metro International, said: “You have the best screening rooms in London. You have an invited list of really good distributors who sit and...
Premieres include Exclusive Media’s Formula 1 doc 1, StudioCanal’s horror thriller In Fear, the Damian Jones-produced Powder Room starring Sheridan Smith, Metro International’s raucous comedy The Stag and Altitude Film Sales’ The Hooligan Factory.
uConnect, the London-based sales outfit run by Peter Rogers, will be screening Summer In February, starring Dominic Cooper and Dan Stevens.
“The timing is very good for us. We did think it would stand out at Luff,” said Rogers. The love triangle tale was released in the UK earlier this month by Metrodome.
Luff will return to the BFI Southbank to showcase features.
Natalie Brenner, Evp of international sales at Metro International, said: “You have the best screening rooms in London. You have an invited list of really good distributors who sit and...
- 6/21/2013
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Based on the hit Edinburgh festival play, When Women Wee, Powder Room is set to hit cinemas on our shores later this year.
Young director Mj Delaney makes her feature directorial debut with the British comedy, led by the ever-brilliant Sheridan Smith, who has very much been deservedly on the rise in recent years.
And after a long wait, the first teaser trailer has finally landed online.
A ribald, rowdy exposé of what goes on behind the closed doors of the ladies’ toilets, Powder Room is outrageously funny. Pulling back the curtain on a world that remains a mystery to men and is delightfully familiar to women, it has broad appeal and is surprisingly full of heart. Featuring a wide array of weird and wonderful characters, from novice teenaged party girls, to seasoned ravers this is a no-holds-barred look at women’s friendships, rivalries and romances in all their infinite variety.
Young director Mj Delaney makes her feature directorial debut with the British comedy, led by the ever-brilliant Sheridan Smith, who has very much been deservedly on the rise in recent years.
And after a long wait, the first teaser trailer has finally landed online.
A ribald, rowdy exposé of what goes on behind the closed doors of the ladies’ toilets, Powder Room is outrageously funny. Pulling back the curtain on a world that remains a mystery to men and is delightfully familiar to women, it has broad appeal and is surprisingly full of heart. Featuring a wide array of weird and wonderful characters, from novice teenaged party girls, to seasoned ravers this is a no-holds-barred look at women’s friendships, rivalries and romances in all their infinite variety.
- 5/7/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Following her fall 2012 casting in the all-woman UK indie comedy feature, Powder Room, from commercial director M.J. Delane (feature debut), Brit actress Lashana Lynch has joined that cast of BBC One’s upcoming 2-part romantic drama The 7.39. Lynch joins David Morrissey (The Governor in The Walking Dead), Sheridan Smith, Olivia Colman and Sean Maguire in a series scripted by award-winning writer David Nicholls, and John Alexander directing. The 7.39 follows Sally and Carl, who begin a conversation after fighting for a seat on their morning commute on the train, and suddenly their daily rides into work become a lot more...
- 5/6/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Interview Rachel Bowles 27 Mar 2013 - 07:15
We chatted to Sheridan Smith about her return to Jonathan Creek on Easter Monday in The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb...
In the lead up to the Jonathan Creek Easter Special The Clue of The Savant’s Thumb, I was privileged to have the chance to sit down and chat to the stars of the episode, Alan Davies, Sheridan Smith and Rik Mayall, along with the creator of Jonathan Creek; David Renwick. Despite all involved being very careful not to give any integral plot points or twists away; for a long-standing Jonathan Creek fan like me, it was a real treat to be able to hear about the close knit bond between cast and crew, along with the crucial thought process that goes behind creating some of the most elaborate and baffling tricks and mysteries on television.
First to chat to Den of Geek...
We chatted to Sheridan Smith about her return to Jonathan Creek on Easter Monday in The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb...
In the lead up to the Jonathan Creek Easter Special The Clue of The Savant’s Thumb, I was privileged to have the chance to sit down and chat to the stars of the episode, Alan Davies, Sheridan Smith and Rik Mayall, along with the creator of Jonathan Creek; David Renwick. Despite all involved being very careful not to give any integral plot points or twists away; for a long-standing Jonathan Creek fan like me, it was a real treat to be able to hear about the close knit bond between cast and crew, along with the crucial thought process that goes behind creating some of the most elaborate and baffling tricks and mysteries on television.
First to chat to Den of Geek...
- 3/26/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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