Has it really been 20 years? We hadn't noticed. Prepare to feel old, because this week romantic comedy classic Four Weddings and a Funeral celebrates a landmark anniversary.
The Richard Curtis-penned film delivered exactly what its title promised and so much more. It was funny, charming and packed with brilliant performances from a stellar Brit cast. Without it Hugh Grant would never have hit the Hollywood A-list and Wet Wet Wet wouldn't have spent what felt like an eternity at the top of the UK singles chart.
But what are the cast up to two decades on? We take a look at the key players then and now below...
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant was a respected supporting actor in the Brit film industry prior to Four Weddings thanks to roles in Remains of the Day and Sirens. Things changed overnight after his role as the ever-so-British and lovelorn Charles.
Leading...
The Richard Curtis-penned film delivered exactly what its title promised and so much more. It was funny, charming and packed with brilliant performances from a stellar Brit cast. Without it Hugh Grant would never have hit the Hollywood A-list and Wet Wet Wet wouldn't have spent what felt like an eternity at the top of the UK singles chart.
But what are the cast up to two decades on? We take a look at the key players then and now below...
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant was a respected supporting actor in the Brit film industry prior to Four Weddings thanks to roles in Remains of the Day and Sirens. Things changed overnight after his role as the ever-so-British and lovelorn Charles.
Leading...
- 5/15/2014
- Digital Spy
Hungry? Let Jan Jarventaus cook up the perfect ingredients for cinematic explorations of the culinary arts
Cookery shows used to be a sterile affair, a simple Ikea assembly manual of what to do, to the letter. Then the small screen invented gastroporn and life has never tasted the same. Cinema, however, has always had a healthy fascination with the sensual aspects of this transformation of raw material into a heady brew – a fascination undoubtedly nurtured in part in earlier days by taboos and proscriptions on what could be considered appropriate expressions of sensual delights.
The food recipe also has strong metaphorical links with the notion of alchemy: a skilled practitioner performs a feat of magical transmutation of base elements which are mere lumps of lead in the hands of the non-adept.
There are obvious cases in cinema where hard-to-swallow themes are leavened by a love of food entering the equation.
Cookery shows used to be a sterile affair, a simple Ikea assembly manual of what to do, to the letter. Then the small screen invented gastroporn and life has never tasted the same. Cinema, however, has always had a healthy fascination with the sensual aspects of this transformation of raw material into a heady brew – a fascination undoubtedly nurtured in part in earlier days by taboos and proscriptions on what could be considered appropriate expressions of sensual delights.
The food recipe also has strong metaphorical links with the notion of alchemy: a skilled practitioner performs a feat of magical transmutation of base elements which are mere lumps of lead in the hands of the non-adept.
There are obvious cases in cinema where hard-to-swallow themes are leavened by a love of food entering the equation.
- 4/7/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- Upcoming British director Dominic Murphy is teaming with veteran finance and production house Film & Music Entertainment, headed by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, on a slate of projects under the resurrected banner Mass Prods.
Murphy previously partnered with F&Me's Downey and Taylor on his debut feature, "White Lightnin'," which is due to unspool at Sundance in January, and the pact marks an extension to that relationship.
The deal is for "a slate of projects" and will kick off with "Jesus Christ Airlines," which is being written by Kit Peel. Downey said F&Me and Murphy have taken a 50-50 stake in the company and will aim to produce two movies a year initially.
Peel, a former journalist, is set to deliver his version of the events in the lives of one family set against the backdrop of the Biafra Airlift. For nearly two years, the pilots of...
Murphy previously partnered with F&Me's Downey and Taylor on his debut feature, "White Lightnin'," which is due to unspool at Sundance in January, and the pact marks an extension to that relationship.
The deal is for "a slate of projects" and will kick off with "Jesus Christ Airlines," which is being written by Kit Peel. Downey said F&Me and Murphy have taken a 50-50 stake in the company and will aim to produce two movies a year initially.
Peel, a former journalist, is set to deliver his version of the events in the lives of one family set against the backdrop of the Biafra Airlift. For nearly two years, the pilots of...
- 12/5/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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