Exclusive: Screen Gems is looking to reunite with its Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City helmer Johannes Roberts, as sources tell Deadline the studio has set him to direct Atomic Monster’s Border Patrol. James Wan & Michael Clear are producing, with Judson Scott executive producing for Wan’s Atomic Monster. Starlight Media’s Peter Luo and Nancy Xu are executive producing.
The studio acquired the spec script written by Noah Griffith and Daniel Stewart. It is being rewritten by Gregg Hurwitz and Philip Eisner. Plot details are being kept under wraps as the film is still in development.
Roberts has been a director on the rise since breaking out with his shark thriller 47 Meters Down, which overperformed at the box office on a low budget and put Roberts on the map. His work on that helped him land the rebooted Resident Evil pic, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
The studio acquired the spec script written by Noah Griffith and Daniel Stewart. It is being rewritten by Gregg Hurwitz and Philip Eisner. Plot details are being kept under wraps as the film is still in development.
Roberts has been a director on the rise since breaking out with his shark thriller 47 Meters Down, which overperformed at the box office on a low budget and put Roberts on the map. His work on that helped him land the rebooted Resident Evil pic, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.
- 10/31/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Russian model and actor Sasha Luss has signed on to star in Latency, a gamer action thriller written and directed by James Croke.
The film is set to begin production November 21 in Bangkok, Thailand, with international sales handled by Red Sea Media at the upcoming American Film Market.
The flick follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new device to enhance her game by interpreting her brain activity, she begins to wonder if the device is reading her mind or now actually controlling it. Alexis Ren is also set to star.
Producers include Scott Clayton, Wych Kaosayananda, Gary A. Hirsch and Jordan Gertner, best known for producing films such as Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Larry Clark’s Bully and Spring Breakers directed by Harmony Korine.
Croke has worked in the Australian film and television industry as a production designer and art director.
The film is set to begin production November 21 in Bangkok, Thailand, with international sales handled by Red Sea Media at the upcoming American Film Market.
The flick follows Hana, a professional gamer who suffers from acute agoraphobia. When Hana receives a new device to enhance her game by interpreting her brain activity, she begins to wonder if the device is reading her mind or now actually controlling it. Alexis Ren is also set to star.
Producers include Scott Clayton, Wych Kaosayananda, Gary A. Hirsch and Jordan Gertner, best known for producing films such as Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Larry Clark’s Bully and Spring Breakers directed by Harmony Korine.
Croke has worked in the Australian film and television industry as a production designer and art director.
- 10/31/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
A follow-up to the 130M-plus grossing movie Law Abiding Citizen is happening with producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer returning, as well as Gerard Butler and his G-Base partner Alan Siegel reprising their roles as producers.
The storyline is being kept secrets. The first movie starred Butler and Jamie Foxx and was directed by F. Gary Gray, and followed assistant district attorney Nick Rice’s (Foxx) pursuit of Clyde Shelton (Butler), a frustrated father who implements an elaborate and twisted plan to bring down the entire judicial system in Philadelphia after a plea bargain sets free the man who murdered his wife and daughter. The pic in December on Netflix became one of the top three most viewed movies alongside Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds’ Red Notice and Sandra Bullock’s The Unforgivable.
Rivulet Films’ Rob Paris and Mike Witherill are producing alongside Foster and Wimmer. Foster will produce under his Warp Films banner.
The storyline is being kept secrets. The first movie starred Butler and Jamie Foxx and was directed by F. Gary Gray, and followed assistant district attorney Nick Rice’s (Foxx) pursuit of Clyde Shelton (Butler), a frustrated father who implements an elaborate and twisted plan to bring down the entire judicial system in Philadelphia after a plea bargain sets free the man who murdered his wife and daughter. The pic in December on Netflix became one of the top three most viewed movies alongside Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds’ Red Notice and Sandra Bullock’s The Unforgivable.
Rivulet Films’ Rob Paris and Mike Witherill are producing alongside Foster and Wimmer. Foster will produce under his Warp Films banner.
- 5/21/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
A sequel is in the works to F. Gary Gray’s 2009 action thriller “Law Abiding Citizen,” which starred Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx.
No cast has been set for “Law Abiding Citizen 2,” but Butler will return as a producer on the film along with his partner Alan Siegel for G-Base, and the film’s original producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer will also be reprising their creative roles on the sequel.
Village Roadshow Pictures and financier and producer Rivulet Films are working on the sequel, with Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill serving as producers. Foster will produce for his Warp Films banner. And Village Roadshow Pictures’ Tristen Tuckfield and Jillian Apfelbaum will executive produce.
The plot for the sequel is being kept under wraps.
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No cast has been set for “Law Abiding Citizen 2,” but Butler will return as a producer on the film along with his partner Alan Siegel for G-Base, and the film’s original producer Lucas Foster and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer will also be reprising their creative roles on the sequel.
Village Roadshow Pictures and financier and producer Rivulet Films are working on the sequel, with Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill serving as producers. Foster will produce for his Warp Films banner. And Village Roadshow Pictures’ Tristen Tuckfield and Jillian Apfelbaum will executive produce.
The plot for the sequel is being kept under wraps.
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- 5/21/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Chambers producer Andrew Nunnelly is adapting The Lost Voices From The Titanic: The Definitive Oral History, the non-fiction tome written by Dr. Nicholas Barratt, for Sreda Global.
The limited series titled Dead Reckoning is a thriller set amidst the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic that combines horror and supernatural elements with a never before told true story revealing the truth of what really sunk down the ship — and the otherworldly, haunting details that defy explanation to this day.
Characters in Dead Reckoning will include historical figures, heads of state, titans of industry — from Churchill, Jp Morgan, and Hg Wells to the halls of Congress and the White House — as they play world chess with the Titanic… While survivors and victims, their stories untold until now, have their voices heard for the first time.
Nunnelly will write the script. Production is currently searching for a director. Alexander Tsekalo...
The limited series titled Dead Reckoning is a thriller set amidst the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic that combines horror and supernatural elements with a never before told true story revealing the truth of what really sunk down the ship — and the otherworldly, haunting details that defy explanation to this day.
Characters in Dead Reckoning will include historical figures, heads of state, titans of industry — from Churchill, Jp Morgan, and Hg Wells to the halls of Congress and the White House — as they play world chess with the Titanic… While survivors and victims, their stories untold until now, have their voices heard for the first time.
Nunnelly will write the script. Production is currently searching for a director. Alexander Tsekalo...
- 12/15/2021
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
John Boorman’s feature film debut sends the pop band on a zany adventure that serves as a potent time capsule of 1960s celebrity PR
A year after Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night, and a year before the Monkees were grown in TV’s pop culture lab, director John Boorman made his feature debut with this very English madcap pop lark from 1965, scripted by Peter Nichols and starring the Dave Clark Five as themselves. Or almost. They’re not supposed to be musicians, but rather stunt-men who live together in a wacky shared flat (evidently a converted church organ loft) that is dominated by gigantic posters of the sort generally collected by wealthy pop-art enthusiasts.
Dave Clark plays handsome Steve, first among equals in the gang, and they’re filming a TV commercial for the meat-marketing board starring It -girl and supermodel Dinah (Barbara Ferris). She’s so...
A year after Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night, and a year before the Monkees were grown in TV’s pop culture lab, director John Boorman made his feature debut with this very English madcap pop lark from 1965, scripted by Peter Nichols and starring the Dave Clark Five as themselves. Or almost. They’re not supposed to be musicians, but rather stunt-men who live together in a wacky shared flat (evidently a converted church organ loft) that is dominated by gigantic posters of the sort generally collected by wealthy pop-art enthusiasts.
Dave Clark plays handsome Steve, first among equals in the gang, and they’re filming a TV commercial for the meat-marketing board starring It -girl and supermodel Dinah (Barbara Ferris). She’s so...
- 4/1/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Jessica Rhoades’ Pacesetter and Alexander Tsekalo’s Sreda Global have secured the rights to David Hill’s praised 2020 book The Vapors for television, with The Loudest Voice executive producer/showrunner Alex Metcalf attached to pen the series adaptation.
A lifelong personal passion of Metcalf’s, The Vapors tells the unknown story of Hot Springs, Arkansas – America’s forgotten capital of vice. Home to healing waters, dozens of churches, and America’s original national park as well as illegal gambling, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals. For decades, Hot Springs was a pocket of sin in the buckle of the Bible Belt. This is the story of gangsters gone good, believers gone bad and the growth of Black Broadway, supported by a burgeoning African-American middle class in the center of the Jim Crow South.
Metcalf, Rhoades, and Hill will...
A lifelong personal passion of Metcalf’s, The Vapors tells the unknown story of Hot Springs, Arkansas – America’s forgotten capital of vice. Home to healing waters, dozens of churches, and America’s original national park as well as illegal gambling, countless backrooms and brothels, and some of the country’s most bald-faced criminals. For decades, Hot Springs was a pocket of sin in the buckle of the Bible Belt. This is the story of gangsters gone good, believers gone bad and the growth of Black Broadway, supported by a burgeoning African-American middle class in the center of the Jim Crow South.
Metcalf, Rhoades, and Hill will...
- 2/2/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Amblin Television’s TV series based on “Rashomon” has landed at HBO Max for development.
The project, which has been in the works since late 2018, will not be a direct adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film, but will retain the key plot device. It is described as a drama centering around a grisly sexual assault and murder, and the unraveling mystery seen through multiple characters’ competing narratives.
The series has Billy Ray, whose recent credits include “Captain Philips” and “The Comey Rule,” and Virgil Williams writing. Amblin co-presidents of TV Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will executive produce, along with Mark Canton of Atmosphere Entertainment, Leigh Ann Burton of Opus7 Entertainment, and David Hopwood.
“I am delighted to work with Amblin Partners and HBO Max to reimagine Rashomon for today’s audience. I am excited to see my dad’s vision through this inspirational story kept alive and made accessible to a new generation,...
The project, which has been in the works since late 2018, will not be a direct adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic film, but will retain the key plot device. It is described as a drama centering around a grisly sexual assault and murder, and the unraveling mystery seen through multiple characters’ competing narratives.
The series has Billy Ray, whose recent credits include “Captain Philips” and “The Comey Rule,” and Virgil Williams writing. Amblin co-presidents of TV Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey will executive produce, along with Mark Canton of Atmosphere Entertainment, Leigh Ann Burton of Opus7 Entertainment, and David Hopwood.
“I am delighted to work with Amblin Partners and HBO Max to reimagine Rashomon for today’s audience. I am excited to see my dad’s vision through this inspirational story kept alive and made accessible to a new generation,...
- 9/24/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
HBO Max has boarded a television drama inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon.
The series, which is in development at the streamer, is being written by Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Virgil Williams (Mudbound) and produced by Amblin Television.
The project has been in the works for about two years after the television arm of Steven Spielberg’s company announced that it had secured the rights to create a new series inspired by the film.
Opus7 Entertainment’s Leigh Ann Burton and Mark Canton, founder of Atmosphere Entertainment and exec producer of Starz’s Power, initially approached Amblin with the opportunity, and it was Burton who the producer said “successfully navigated the complex negotiation” and secured the blessing of the Kurosawa family.
The series will not be an adaptation but will retain the key plot device of the Kurosawa film – a drama centering on a grisly sexual assault and...
The series, which is in development at the streamer, is being written by Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) and Virgil Williams (Mudbound) and produced by Amblin Television.
The project has been in the works for about two years after the television arm of Steven Spielberg’s company announced that it had secured the rights to create a new series inspired by the film.
Opus7 Entertainment’s Leigh Ann Burton and Mark Canton, founder of Atmosphere Entertainment and exec producer of Starz’s Power, initially approached Amblin with the opportunity, and it was Burton who the producer said “successfully navigated the complex negotiation” and secured the blessing of the Kurosawa family.
The series will not be an adaptation but will retain the key plot device of the Kurosawa film – a drama centering on a grisly sexual assault and...
- 9/24/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures and Sk Global have acquired the film rights to “Crazy Rich Asians” author Kevin Kwan’s new novel “Sex and Vanity” after a fierce bidding war, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
Published by Doubleday, the book became an instant New York Times bestseller after its release on June 30. “Sex and Vanity” was also selected as “Good Morning America’s” Book Club Pick for July and is Kwan’s first novel since the release of his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed box office smash hit earning $240 million worldwide.
“Sex and Vanity” is a glittering tale that centers on a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the Waspy fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
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Published by Doubleday, the book became an instant New York Times bestseller after its release on June 30. “Sex and Vanity” was also selected as “Good Morning America’s” Book Club Pick for July and is Kwan’s first novel since the release of his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed box office smash hit earning $240 million worldwide.
“Sex and Vanity” is a glittering tale that centers on a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the Waspy fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
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- 7/9/2020
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
After a fierce bidding war, Sony Pictures and Sk Global have acquired the film rights to bestselling author Kevin Kwan’s new novel “Sex and Vanity,” which became an instant New York Times bestseller after its release on June 30.
Published by Doubleday, this is Kwan’s first novel since the release of his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy, which became a worldwide phenomenon and was adapted into a critically acclaimed and box office hit film earning $240 million worldwide.
Selected as “Good Morning America’s” Book Club Pick for July, “Sex and Vanity” is the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the Wasp-y fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
“I am overjoyed to be embarking on this cinematic adventure with Sony Pictures and Sk Global. Sony Pictures has produced so...
Published by Doubleday, this is Kwan’s first novel since the release of his “Crazy Rich Asians” trilogy, which became a worldwide phenomenon and was adapted into a critically acclaimed and box office hit film earning $240 million worldwide.
Selected as “Good Morning America’s” Book Club Pick for July, “Sex and Vanity” is the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men: the Wasp-y fiancé of her family’s dreams and George Zao, the man she is desperately trying to avoid falling in love with.
“I am overjoyed to be embarking on this cinematic adventure with Sony Pictures and Sk Global. Sony Pictures has produced so...
- 7/9/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Wood also wrote ‘The Charge Of The Light Brigade’ and Beatles movie ‘Help!’.
Film and theatre director Richard Eyre has paid tribute to his former collaborator, screenwriter and playwright Charles Wood, who died on February 1 aged 87.
“[Wood] was one of the foremost screenwriters of the last 50 years,” Eyre told Screen. “He absolutely loved cinema.”
Born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, Wood began his screenwriting career in the early 1960s and scripted films including Richard Lester’s The Knack… And How To Get It (1965), Beatles movie Help! (1965), Tony Richardson’s The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968) and Mike Newell’s An Awfully Big Adventure...
Film and theatre director Richard Eyre has paid tribute to his former collaborator, screenwriter and playwright Charles Wood, who died on February 1 aged 87.
“[Wood] was one of the foremost screenwriters of the last 50 years,” Eyre told Screen. “He absolutely loved cinema.”
Born on Guernsey in the Channel Islands, Wood began his screenwriting career in the early 1960s and scripted films including Richard Lester’s The Knack… And How To Get It (1965), Beatles movie Help! (1965), Tony Richardson’s The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1968) and Mike Newell’s An Awfully Big Adventure...
- 2/6/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Peter Nichols, the British playwright whose play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg provided Albert Finney with his 1968 Broadway debut and did the same in 2003 for Eddie Izzard, died Sept. 7 in Oxford, England. He was 92.
His death was announced on Twitter by agent Alan Brodie Representation. A cause of death was not given.
In addition to Joe Egg, his most familiar play, Nichols’ credits include the 1972 film version starring Alan Bates and 1966’s Swinging London touchstone Georgy Girl starring Lynne Redgrave, Bates, Charlotte Rampling and James Mason.
Based on his own difficult experience as the father of a daughter born with severe disabilities, Nichols’ A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg – Joe was short for Josephine – used broad, music-hall style comedy to tell the story of a married couple struggling to care for their daughter with cerebral palsy. With the jarring use of dark comedy to avoid sentimentality,...
His death was announced on Twitter by agent Alan Brodie Representation. A cause of death was not given.
In addition to Joe Egg, his most familiar play, Nichols’ credits include the 1972 film version starring Alan Bates and 1966’s Swinging London touchstone Georgy Girl starring Lynne Redgrave, Bates, Charlotte Rampling and James Mason.
Based on his own difficult experience as the father of a daughter born with severe disabilities, Nichols’ A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg – Joe was short for Josephine – used broad, music-hall style comedy to tell the story of a married couple struggling to care for their daughter with cerebral palsy. With the jarring use of dark comedy to avoid sentimentality,...
- 9/9/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
“Bones” stars and executive producers were awarded $179 million earlier this month in a profit participation lawsuit with Fox that ended up in arbitration — but don’t expect a sudden surge of copycat lawsuits, experts tell TheWrap. At least, not successful ones.
One prominent dealmaker told TheWrap that although this judgement — which ruled in favor of “Bones” stars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, executive producer Barry Josephson and Kathy Reichs, the forensic anthropologist whose books inspired the show — may lead other hit shows to hire someone to scrutinize how their studio shared profits, not everyone will have the right situation or the finances to take it to court.
“It’s the confluence of a successful show, where people are underpaid, where there are enough points that reside with one or two or three people such that it’s worth it to take on Fox,” the dealmaker, who requested anonymity due to...
One prominent dealmaker told TheWrap that although this judgement — which ruled in favor of “Bones” stars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, executive producer Barry Josephson and Kathy Reichs, the forensic anthropologist whose books inspired the show — may lead other hit shows to hire someone to scrutinize how their studio shared profits, not everyone will have the right situation or the finances to take it to court.
“It’s the confluence of a successful show, where people are underpaid, where there are enough points that reside with one or two or three people such that it’s worth it to take on Fox,” the dealmaker, who requested anonymity due to...
- 3/1/2019
- by Tony Maglio and Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Jay Basu has been tapped to rewrite the screenplay for “Battlestar Galactica,” Universal Pictures’ reimagining of the 1978 television series created by Glen Larson, individuals with knowledge of the project exclusively tell TheWrap. An earlier draft of the script was written by Lisa Joy (“Westworld”).
Francis Lawrence will direct the film. Dylan Clark will produce for his Dylan Clark Productions alongside Michael De Luca through his Michael De Luca Productions. Scott Stuber will executive produce.
Like “Star Wars,” “Battlestar Galactica” was a 1970s space opera that traded on special effects, amazing hair, and a strange world. The show was a response to the success of George Lucas’ film, with its own space battles and spooky, robotic bad guys. Time Magazine listed it as one of the 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time.
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Francis Lawrence will direct the film. Dylan Clark will produce for his Dylan Clark Productions alongside Michael De Luca through his Michael De Luca Productions. Scott Stuber will executive produce.
Like “Star Wars,” “Battlestar Galactica” was a 1970s space opera that traded on special effects, amazing hair, and a strange world. The show was a response to the success of George Lucas’ film, with its own space battles and spooky, robotic bad guys. Time Magazine listed it as one of the 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time.
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- 12/18/2018
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Lynn Redgrave burst to stardom with this fine study of romance vs. reality in swinging London circa 1966. Georgy thinks of herself as a plain Jane next to her popular roommate, played by Charlotte Rampling. Alan Bates is the flighty boyfriend and James Mason the old millionaire making indecent proposals. How can a good girl get somewhere in life? As sometimes happens, the song by The Seekers has retained more fame than the movie.
Georgy Girl
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1966 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date November 26, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Bill Owen.
Cinematography: Ken Higgins
Film Editor: John Bloom
Art Direction: Tony Woollard
Original Music: Alexander Faris
Written by Peter Nichols, Margaret Forster from her novel
Produced by Robert A. Goldston, Otto Plaschkes
Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Georgy Girl likely first existed in our minds as a hit song, with...
Georgy Girl
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1966 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 99 min. / Street Date November 26, 2018 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £14.99
Starring: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Bill Owen.
Cinematography: Ken Higgins
Film Editor: John Bloom
Art Direction: Tony Woollard
Original Music: Alexander Faris
Written by Peter Nichols, Margaret Forster from her novel
Produced by Robert A. Goldston, Otto Plaschkes
Directed by Silvio Narizzano
Georgy Girl likely first existed in our minds as a hit song, with...
- 11/20/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
CBS has given a put pilot commitment to multi-camera comedy The Emperor of Malibu, from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan; former 2 Broke Girls executive producer Michelle Nader; and Warner Bros. TV, where Nader is under an overall deal.
Written by Kwan and David Sangalli with Nader supervising, The Emperor of Malibu revolves around two very different families — one from Shanghai with new money and one from the U.S. East Coast with old money — who learn to co-exist when their children get married.
Kwan and Sangalli executive produce with Nader and Christina Lee, who will both showrun, and Danielle Stokdyk.
This is Kwan’s second recent sale as he makes a foray into TV. Also partnered with Sangalli, he has a script-to-series commitment for an untitled drama project at Amazon via STXtv, described as a globe-hopping drama set among Hong Kong’s most influential and powerful family.
Kwan’s...
Written by Kwan and David Sangalli with Nader supervising, The Emperor of Malibu revolves around two very different families — one from Shanghai with new money and one from the U.S. East Coast with old money — who learn to co-exist when their children get married.
Kwan and Sangalli executive produce with Nader and Christina Lee, who will both showrun, and Danielle Stokdyk.
This is Kwan’s second recent sale as he makes a foray into TV. Also partnered with Sangalli, he has a script-to-series commitment for an untitled drama project at Amazon via STXtv, described as a globe-hopping drama set among Hong Kong’s most influential and powerful family.
Kwan’s...
- 10/26/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Studios has given a script-to-series order to a drama series project from Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan and STXtv, the television studio of Robert Simonds’ Stx Entertainment.
Co-created and co-written by Kwan, in his first foray into TV, and David Sangalli, the yet-to-be titled series, which STXtv took in for development last year, is a globe-hopping drama set amongst Hong Kong’s most influential and powerful family and the business empire they control.
Mozart in the Jungle executive producer Will Graham has come on board to supervise the project via his company Field Trip Productions’s first-look deal at Amazon Studios. The company’s Hailey Wierengo will co-executive produce.
“This series is precisely the type of East-meets-West material that Stx is uniquely positioned to develop across all of our divisions. We are so pleased to be able to partner with Amazon, whose established relationship with Kevin and support...
Co-created and co-written by Kwan, in his first foray into TV, and David Sangalli, the yet-to-be titled series, which STXtv took in for development last year, is a globe-hopping drama set amongst Hong Kong’s most influential and powerful family and the business empire they control.
Mozart in the Jungle executive producer Will Graham has come on board to supervise the project via his company Field Trip Productions’s first-look deal at Amazon Studios. The company’s Hailey Wierengo will co-executive produce.
“This series is precisely the type of East-meets-West material that Stx is uniquely positioned to develop across all of our divisions. We are so pleased to be able to partner with Amazon, whose established relationship with Kevin and support...
- 8/3/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Phoebe Waller-Bridge and producing partner Vicky Jones working on series.
Entertainment One has boarded a new series from Fleabag creators Phoebe Waller-Bridge and producing partner Vicky Jones.
Romantic thriller Run follows ex-lovers who made a pact 15 years ago that if they ever needed to escape life, they could text one another the word ‘run’ and disappear together. The story will follow the aftermath of the plan.
Jones and Waller-Bridge will exec produce for their DryWrite indie, alongside Emily Leo of Wigwam Films. The series will be spearheaded by eOne vice-president of scripted programming Carolyn Newman and vice-president of scripted development Polly Williams.
Waller-Bridge is the creative force behind BBC America’s forthcoming spy thriller Killing Eve, produced by Sid Gentle Films and co-written by Jones.
No broadcaster is yet attached to the project. Entertainment One will handle worldwide sales of the series.
Jones said: “In eOne, we found a team passionate about storytelling and committed to making...
Entertainment One has boarded a new series from Fleabag creators Phoebe Waller-Bridge and producing partner Vicky Jones.
Romantic thriller Run follows ex-lovers who made a pact 15 years ago that if they ever needed to escape life, they could text one another the word ‘run’ and disappear together. The story will follow the aftermath of the plan.
Jones and Waller-Bridge will exec produce for their DryWrite indie, alongside Emily Leo of Wigwam Films. The series will be spearheaded by eOne vice-president of scripted programming Carolyn Newman and vice-president of scripted development Polly Williams.
Waller-Bridge is the creative force behind BBC America’s forthcoming spy thriller Killing Eve, produced by Sid Gentle Films and co-written by Jones.
No broadcaster is yet attached to the project. Entertainment One will handle worldwide sales of the series.
Jones said: “In eOne, we found a team passionate about storytelling and committed to making...
- 2/22/2018
- by Manori Ravindran Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Actors, producer and former Pact head of diversity among those honoured.
Source: Paul Grover
Nik Powell
Game Of Thrones actor James Cosmo and former producer and Nfts director Nik Powell were among screen industry professionals awarded titles in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours list.
Veteran Scottish actor Cosmo, known for playing Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones and films including Braveheart, Trainspotting and Highlander, was honoured with an MBE.
Powell, who received an OBE, stepped down from his position as director of the National Film and Television School in 2017 after 14 years in the role. In the early 1970s he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in 1982 he partnered with fellow-producer Stephen Woolley to form the Palace companies, where he served as executive producer on titles including Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, Scandal and The Crying Game. He went on to produce films such as Backbeat, The Neon Bible,...
Source: Paul Grover
Nik Powell
Game Of Thrones actor James Cosmo and former producer and Nfts director Nik Powell were among screen industry professionals awarded titles in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours list.
Veteran Scottish actor Cosmo, known for playing Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones and films including Braveheart, Trainspotting and Highlander, was honoured with an MBE.
Powell, who received an OBE, stepped down from his position as director of the National Film and Television School in 2017 after 14 years in the role. In the early 1970s he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in 1982 he partnered with fellow-producer Stephen Woolley to form the Palace companies, where he served as executive producer on titles including Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, Scandal and The Crying Game. He went on to produce films such as Backbeat, The Neon Bible,...
- 1/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Screen Daily Test
Actors, producer and former Pact head of diversity among those honoured.
Source: Paul Grover
Nik Powell
Game Of Thrones actor James Cosmo and former producer and Nfts director Nik Powell were among screen industry professionals awarded titles in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours list.
Veteran Scottish actor Cosmo, known for playing Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones and films including Braveheart, Trainspotting and Highlander, was honoured with an MBE.
Powell, who received an OBE, stepped down from his position as director of the National Film and Television School in 2017 after 14 years in the role. In the early 1970s he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in 1982 he partnered with fellow-producer Stephen Woolley to form the Palace companies, where he served as executive producer on titles including Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, Scandal and The Crying Game. He went on to produce films such as Backbeat, The Neon Bible, Last Orders and [link=tt...
Source: Paul Grover
Nik Powell
Game Of Thrones actor James Cosmo and former producer and Nfts director Nik Powell were among screen industry professionals awarded titles in the Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours list.
Veteran Scottish actor Cosmo, known for playing Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones and films including Braveheart, Trainspotting and Highlander, was honoured with an MBE.
Powell, who received an OBE, stepped down from his position as director of the National Film and Television School in 2017 after 14 years in the role. In the early 1970s he set up Virgin Records with Richard Branson and in 1982 he partnered with fellow-producer Stephen Woolley to form the Palace companies, where he served as executive producer on titles including Company Of Wolves, Mona Lisa, Scandal and The Crying Game. He went on to produce films such as Backbeat, The Neon Bible, Last Orders and [link=tt...
- 1/2/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
Actor who played many major Shakespearean roles on the stage
Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).
Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.
The Homecoming...
Few actors played as many major Shakespearean roles as did Paul Rogers, a largely forgotten and seriously underrated performer, who has died aged 96. It was as though he was barnacled in those parts, undertaken at the Old Vic in the 1950s, by the time he played his most famous role, the vicious paterfamilias Max in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming at the Aldwych theatre in 1965 (and filmed in 1973).
Staunch, stolid and thuggish, with eyes that drilled through any opposition, Rogers's Max was a grumpy old block of granite, hewn on an epic scale, despite the flat cap and plimsolls – horribly real. Peter Hall's production for the Royal Shakespeare Company was monumental; everything was grey, chill and cheerless in John Bury's design, set off firstly by a piquant bowl of green apples and then by the savage acting.
The Homecoming...
- 10/15/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Vibrant actor who achieved success in Bollywood films, West End musicals and on Coronation Street
Sophiya Haque's performance in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade, which opened last month at the Noël Coward theatre, marked a high point in the beautiful British Asian actor's West End career, launched 10 years ago with Andrew Lloyd Webber's presentation of Bombay Dreams. As the lustrous Welsh Eurasian Sylvia Morgan, Haque held her own among the knobbly-kneed privates, led by Simon Russell Beale's outrageous Captain Terri Dennis. However, illness forced her to withdraw from the production before the end of the year and she has died of cancer at the age of 41.
Born in Portsmouth, Haque was the youngest of three daughters. She was raised by her mother, Thelma, a divorced schoolteacher. She attended Priory comprehensive school and took dance lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's...
Sophiya Haque's performance in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade, which opened last month at the Noël Coward theatre, marked a high point in the beautiful British Asian actor's West End career, launched 10 years ago with Andrew Lloyd Webber's presentation of Bombay Dreams. As the lustrous Welsh Eurasian Sylvia Morgan, Haque held her own among the knobbly-kneed privates, led by Simon Russell Beale's outrageous Captain Terri Dennis. However, illness forced her to withdraw from the production before the end of the year and she has died of cancer at the age of 41.
Born in Portsmouth, Haque was the youngest of three daughters. She was raised by her mother, Thelma, a divorced schoolteacher. She attended Priory comprehensive school and took dance lessons from the age of two and a half at Mary Forrester's...
- 1/19/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Outstanding actor of stage and screen who made his name as Bri in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
The British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded to make satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which transformed the way disability was discussed on the stage. It made the names overnight of its author, the director Michael Blakemore, and Melia. Albert Finney took over the role of Bri on Broadway.
Flat-footed, slightly hunched, always leaning towards a point of view, Melia, who has died aged 77, was a distinctive and compassionate actor who brought a strain of the music hall to the stage, a sense of being an outsider.
The British theatre changed for ever when Joe Melia, as the sardonic teacher Bri, pushed a severely disabled 10-year-old girl in a wheelchair on to the stage of the Glasgow Citizens in May 1967 and proceeded to make satirical jokes about the medical profession while his marriage was disintegrating. The play was Peter Nichols's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, which transformed the way disability was discussed on the stage. It made the names overnight of its author, the director Michael Blakemore, and Melia. Albert Finney took over the role of Bri on Broadway.
Flat-footed, slightly hunched, always leaning towards a point of view, Melia, who has died aged 77, was a distinctive and compassionate actor who brought a strain of the music hall to the stage, a sense of being an outsider.
- 11/7/2012
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Grandage will direct Jude Law, Judi Dench, David Walliams, Daniel Radcliffe and many more at the Noel Coward theatre
Michael Grandage, who for a decade led the pocket-size theatre the Donmar Warehouse to a string of stage triumphs, from Michael Sheen as David Frost to Rachel Weisz as Blanche DuBois, is to return to the London theatre – this time with his own star-filled company for a 15-month season of plays in the West End. Tickets will cost as little as £10.
The five-play season will feature Jude Law as Henry V, Judi Dench opposite Ben Whishaw in a new play, David Walliams as Bottom opposite Sheridan Smith's Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Simon Russell Beale as a cross-dressing army captain in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade. The lineup is completed by Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe. All will be directed by Grandage.
Michael Grandage, who for a decade led the pocket-size theatre the Donmar Warehouse to a string of stage triumphs, from Michael Sheen as David Frost to Rachel Weisz as Blanche DuBois, is to return to the London theatre – this time with his own star-filled company for a 15-month season of plays in the West End. Tickets will cost as little as £10.
The five-play season will feature Jude Law as Henry V, Judi Dench opposite Ben Whishaw in a new play, David Walliams as Bottom opposite Sheridan Smith's Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Simon Russell Beale as a cross-dressing army captain in Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade. The lineup is completed by Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, starring Daniel Radcliffe. All will be directed by Grandage.
- 6/15/2012
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
Shakespearean actor who played many familiar roles on film and television
Few actors can claim to have played most of Shakespeare's clowns and made some of them funny, but Geoffrey Hutchings, who has died of meningitis aged 71, did just that. An associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played Launce, Bottom, Feste, one of the Dromios and even the impossible Lavache in Trevor Nunn's great "Crimean war" All's Well That Ends Well, with Peggy Ashcroft making her RSC farewell as the Countess of Rousillon. Hutchings brought an individual quality of asperity and crackle to everything he did, and was noted early on as a character actor of uncommon personality: small, slight, but always ferocious, he was like a terrier with a dangerous bark.
He grasped Autolycus, for instance, that wandering snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, in Ronald Eyre's 1981 The Winter's Tale at Stratford-upon-Avon, and transformed him into a...
Few actors can claim to have played most of Shakespeare's clowns and made some of them funny, but Geoffrey Hutchings, who has died of meningitis aged 71, did just that. An associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played Launce, Bottom, Feste, one of the Dromios and even the impossible Lavache in Trevor Nunn's great "Crimean war" All's Well That Ends Well, with Peggy Ashcroft making her RSC farewell as the Countess of Rousillon. Hutchings brought an individual quality of asperity and crackle to everything he did, and was noted early on as a character actor of uncommon personality: small, slight, but always ferocious, he was like a terrier with a dangerous bark.
He grasped Autolycus, for instance, that wandering snapper-up of unconsidered trifles, in Ronald Eyre's 1981 The Winter's Tale at Stratford-upon-Avon, and transformed him into a...
- 7/11/2010
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Beguiling Japanese star of fringe theatre and popular television
The Japanese actor Eiji Kusuhara, who has died of cancer aged 63, played the sadistic Lieutenant Sato in the television series Tenko (1981-85), was one of the narrators on the cult show Banzai (2001) and appeared on stages across the UK and Europe in a variety of beguiling roles. He was one of the first professional Japanese actors active in London in the 1970s and enjoyed something of a monopoly on roles until he starred alongside a fellow countryman, Togo Igawa, in The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984). Eiji spent most of his adult life in Britain. He always seemed relieved to have left his home country but was also perplexed by British culture. A natural comedian, he thought he was a misfit and constructed an endlessly playful persona for himself.
He was born in Tokyo shortly after the second world war, a time...
The Japanese actor Eiji Kusuhara, who has died of cancer aged 63, played the sadistic Lieutenant Sato in the television series Tenko (1981-85), was one of the narrators on the cult show Banzai (2001) and appeared on stages across the UK and Europe in a variety of beguiling roles. He was one of the first professional Japanese actors active in London in the 1970s and enjoyed something of a monopoly on roles until he starred alongside a fellow countryman, Togo Igawa, in The Man Who Shot Christmas (1984). Eiji spent most of his adult life in Britain. He always seemed relieved to have left his home country but was also perplexed by British culture. A natural comedian, he thought he was a misfit and constructed an endlessly playful persona for himself.
He was born in Tokyo shortly after the second world war, a time...
- 5/27/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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