Irish actor Michael Fassbender wins Best Actor at 68th Venice Film Festival for his performance in 'Shame'. Dp Robbie Ryan wins for 'Wuthering Heights'. 'Shame' reunites McQueen and Fassbender for a second time since McQueen's debut feature 'Hunger'. The film shot in New York over six weeks in 2010, and was written by McQueen and Abi Morgan (Royal Wedding Irish Cinematographer Robbie Ryan won the Best Cinematographer for Andrea Arnold's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Ryan, a graduate of Iadt, had previously worked with Andrea Arnold in 2006 on her award-winning film 'Red Road'.
- 9/12/2011
- IFTN
The BBC have debuted the first trailer for their new BBC Four drama based on Douglas Adams’ cult novel, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
Anti-hero Dirk Gently operates his eponymous detective agency based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Perpetually broke, hopelessly chaotic and utterly infuriating, most people suspect Dirk is nothing more than a cheap conman. And they might be right – but nevertheless his methods, though unusual, do often produce surprising results. When Dirk sets out to solve an apparently simple and harmless disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house, he unwittingly uncovers a double murder which, in turn, leads to a host of even more extraordinary events.
Dirk Gently stars Stephen Mangan as the eponymous hero, alongside Darren Boyd (Royal Wedding, Little Dorrit) as his unwitting sidekick Richard Macduff and Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet, Friends) as Richard’s girlfriend Susan in the adaptation by Bafta-winning Howard Overman (Misfits,...
Anti-hero Dirk Gently operates his eponymous detective agency based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Perpetually broke, hopelessly chaotic and utterly infuriating, most people suspect Dirk is nothing more than a cheap conman. And they might be right – but nevertheless his methods, though unusual, do often produce surprising results. When Dirk sets out to solve an apparently simple and harmless disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house, he unwittingly uncovers a double murder which, in turn, leads to a host of even more extraordinary events.
Dirk Gently stars Stephen Mangan as the eponymous hero, alongside Darren Boyd (Royal Wedding, Little Dorrit) as his unwitting sidekick Richard Macduff and Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet, Friends) as Richard’s girlfriend Susan in the adaptation by Bafta-winning Howard Overman (Misfits,...
- 12/8/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan are set to star in a movie called “Shame”. The movie centers around Fassbender’s character who is unable to control his sex life. Kerry man Michael Fassbender and writer and director Steve McQueen, who worked together on “Hunger” are to be re-united in January 2011 on the set of a new project “Shame” in New York City. “Shame” has been written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan (“Royal Wedding” and will center around Fassbender’s character, Brandon, his sexual escapades and what happens when his younger sister moves in with him. James Badge Dale, from “The Departed” will also star. The movie will shoot in New York for six weeks starting in January. The project will be worked on cinematographer Sean Bobbit, who worked on “Hunger” with Fassbender and McQueen. McQueen’s 2008 hit, “Hunger” starred Fassbender as Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands. It led...
- 11/25/2010
- IrishCentral
Michael Fassbender will be reunited with his 'Hunger' director, Steve McQueen in January 2011 when they commence production on the New York set of new project, 'Shame'. The feature film, written by Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan (Royal Wedding) will centre around Michael Fassbender's character, a man in his 30s who is unable to control his sex life. Fassbender's co-stars will include Carey Mulligan (An Education) and James Badge Dale (The Departed) and will shoot in New York for six weeks.
- 11/25/2010
- IFTN
The BBC have announced that actor Stephen Mangan (Free Agents, Green Wing) is to play Douglas Adams’ eccentric detective Dirk Gently in a new BBC Four drama based on the author’s cult novel, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
Anti-hero Dirk Gently operates his eponymous detective agency based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Perpetually broke, hopelessly chaotic and utterly infuriating, most people suspect Dirk is nothing more than a cheap conman. And they might be right – but nevertheless his methods, though unusual, do often produce surprising results. When Dirk sets out to solve an apparently simple and harmless disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house, he unwittingly uncovers a double murder which, in turn, leads to a host of even more extraordinary events.
He is joined by Darren Boyd (Royal Wedding, Little Dorrit) as his unwitting sidekick Richard Macduff and Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet,...
Anti-hero Dirk Gently operates his eponymous detective agency based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Perpetually broke, hopelessly chaotic and utterly infuriating, most people suspect Dirk is nothing more than a cheap conman. And they might be right – but nevertheless his methods, though unusual, do often produce surprising results. When Dirk sets out to solve an apparently simple and harmless disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house, he unwittingly uncovers a double murder which, in turn, leads to a host of even more extraordinary events.
He is joined by Darren Boyd (Royal Wedding, Little Dorrit) as his unwitting sidekick Richard Macduff and Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet,...
- 10/6/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Emily Blunt, Rebecca Hall and Robert Pattinson have made it. Stuart Heritage tries to sift the stars from the waiters at the Screen International Stars of Tomorrow reception
Walking into the Screen International Stars of Tomorrow reception is a supremely disconcerting experience. If history is any indication – previous events helped to launch the careers of Robert Pattinson, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt – then you know you're about to share oxygen with actors who will soon become world-conquering celebrities. The problem, for me at least, is figuring out who any of them are.
I deliberately chose to go into the event blind; partly because I thought it'd be fun to treat the whole thing as a big game of Cluedo, and partly because I couldn't spot talent if it attacked me with a hammer. At the 2009 Baftas, I saw Dev Patel running up and down the red carpet and assumed that...
Walking into the Screen International Stars of Tomorrow reception is a supremely disconcerting experience. If history is any indication – previous events helped to launch the careers of Robert Pattinson, James McAvoy and Emily Blunt – then you know you're about to share oxygen with actors who will soon become world-conquering celebrities. The problem, for me at least, is figuring out who any of them are.
I deliberately chose to go into the event blind; partly because I thought it'd be fun to treat the whole thing as a big game of Cluedo, and partly because I couldn't spot talent if it attacked me with a hammer. At the 2009 Baftas, I saw Dev Patel running up and down the red carpet and assumed that...
- 7/29/2010
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
Film4 biopic would feature Jim Broadbent as nm0857116 autoDenis Thatcher[/link] and be directed by Mamma Mia's Phyllida Lloyd
Meryl Streep is in talks to play Margaret Thatcher in a Film4 biopic.
Streep is being lined up to star in the film alongside Jim Broadbent as Thatcher's husband, Denis.
The Thatcher biopic would reunite Streep with Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd.
It was reported by Hollywood Reporter that BBC Films was developing the project with Pathé. However Film4, Channel 4's movie production arm, will be producing the film rather than the BBC.
The filim is based on a script by UK screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose TV drama credits include the recent Royal Wedding, White Girl, Brick Lane and Sex Traffic.
In a statement Pathe and Film4 said the story "concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and...
Meryl Streep is in talks to play Margaret Thatcher in a Film4 biopic.
Streep is being lined up to star in the film alongside Jim Broadbent as Thatcher's husband, Denis.
The Thatcher biopic would reunite Streep with Mamma Mia! director Phyllida Lloyd.
It was reported by Hollywood Reporter that BBC Films was developing the project with Pathé. However Film4, Channel 4's movie production arm, will be producing the film rather than the BBC.
The filim is based on a script by UK screenwriter Abi Morgan, whose TV drama credits include the recent Royal Wedding, White Girl, Brick Lane and Sex Traffic.
In a statement Pathe and Film4 said the story "concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and...
- 7/1/2010
- by Jason Deans
- The Guardian - Film News
Wall Street sequel joins The A-Team and Karate Kid for festival where Us is selling nostalgia to audiences in 30s and 40s
Gordon Gekko, Oliver Stone's poster boy for 1980s acquisitiveness, is striding the streets of New York once again. This time, he is fresh from a prison sentence for insider dealing and fraud, and promoting his prophetic book on the financial crisis, cheekily titled Is Greed Good?
This is the starting point for the follow-up to Stone's 1987 film Wall Street, which premiered at the Cannes film festival last night.
In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the year is 2008, and banks are tumbling. Gekko, from his book-tour podium, declares that "greed got greedier". Stone's subjects are moral bankruptcy and insatiability. Asked what figure he would settle for – the figure that would allow him to stop trading, to live in comfort for the rest of his life, one investment banker...
Gordon Gekko, Oliver Stone's poster boy for 1980s acquisitiveness, is striding the streets of New York once again. This time, he is fresh from a prison sentence for insider dealing and fraud, and promoting his prophetic book on the financial crisis, cheekily titled Is Greed Good?
This is the starting point for the follow-up to Stone's 1987 film Wall Street, which premiered at the Cannes film festival last night.
In Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, the year is 2008, and banks are tumbling. Gekko, from his book-tour podium, declares that "greed got greedier". Stone's subjects are moral bankruptcy and insatiability. Asked what figure he would settle for – the figure that would allow him to stop trading, to live in comfort for the rest of his life, one investment banker...
- 5/14/2010
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
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