Exclusive: M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, the film financing company that has credits including Terence Davies’ recent Toronto premiere Benediction, screening in San Sebastian this week, and Call Me By Your Name, is opening an office in Singapore as it eyes a move into Asian projects.
The all-female company founded by Margarethe Baillou has presences in New York and London; Baillou will now move to Singapore.
“Cultural diplomacy is now more important than ever. Cross-cultural misconceptions and racial prejudice are absolutely unacceptable. At M.Y.R.A., we gravitate toward stories that benefit global audiences, hence the ambition to familiarize ourselves with foreign cultures, be it geographically, sociologically or simply topic-related,” Baillou told Deadline.
“Having recently gone into animation, a genre elevated by outstanding talent across Asia, M.Y.R.A. hopes to learn from our Asian colleagues. Singapore will be the perfect gateway to the continent for us on the search for...
The all-female company founded by Margarethe Baillou has presences in New York and London; Baillou will now move to Singapore.
“Cultural diplomacy is now more important than ever. Cross-cultural misconceptions and racial prejudice are absolutely unacceptable. At M.Y.R.A., we gravitate toward stories that benefit global audiences, hence the ambition to familiarize ourselves with foreign cultures, be it geographically, sociologically or simply topic-related,” Baillou told Deadline.
“Having recently gone into animation, a genre elevated by outstanding talent across Asia, M.Y.R.A. hopes to learn from our Asian colleagues. Singapore will be the perfect gateway to the continent for us on the search for...
- 9/21/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Fronczak’s story is true, but it is filled with the kind of wild twists and turns that you might expect from an overstuffed detective novel.
At age 10, Fronczak happened across a trove of newspaper clippings about his parents, Dora and Chester, who made international headlines when their baby was kidnapped from his hospital bed and found two years later. After confronting his mother, Fronczak discovered that he was the kidnapped toddler in the articles. But his story didn’t end there. In fact, as a new documentary “The Lost Sons” recounts, that was only the start of a decades-long quest. With the help of DNA testing and some intrepid sleuthing, Fronczak discovered that he was not Dora and Chester’s biological son and that the real Paul Fronczak was living in Manton, Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty. And, Fronczak found out that he was actually Jack Rosenthal...
At age 10, Fronczak happened across a trove of newspaper clippings about his parents, Dora and Chester, who made international headlines when their baby was kidnapped from his hospital bed and found two years later. After confronting his mother, Fronczak discovered that he was the kidnapped toddler in the articles. But his story didn’t end there. In fact, as a new documentary “The Lost Sons” recounts, that was only the start of a decades-long quest. With the help of DNA testing and some intrepid sleuthing, Fronczak discovered that he was not Dora and Chester’s biological son and that the real Paul Fronczak was living in Manton, Mich. having been rechristened Kevin Baty. And, Fronczak found out that he was actually Jack Rosenthal...
- 3/16/2021
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
UK filmmaker Alan Parker died aged 76 on Friday.
Tributes from across the industry have been paid to filmmaker Alan Parker, who died on Friday (July 31), aged 76.
Former colleagues talked warmly of Parker’s achievements as a filmmaker, his work for public bodies including the BFI and the UK Film Council, his loyalty to friends and his encouragement of young talent.
“Alan was my oldest and closest friend,” said producer David Puttman, Parker’s long-time collaborator with whom he first worked at Collett Dickenson Pearce (Cdp) in what was later called ‘the golden age of advertising’ in the 1960s. “I was...
Tributes from across the industry have been paid to filmmaker Alan Parker, who died on Friday (July 31), aged 76.
Former colleagues talked warmly of Parker’s achievements as a filmmaker, his work for public bodies including the BFI and the UK Film Council, his loyalty to friends and his encouragement of young talent.
“Alan was my oldest and closest friend,” said producer David Puttman, Parker’s long-time collaborator with whom he first worked at Collett Dickenson Pearce (Cdp) in what was later called ‘the golden age of advertising’ in the 1960s. “I was...
- 8/3/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
Acclaimed UK director Alan Parker, a towering figure in the UK industry, passed away this morning following a lengthy illness, the British Film Institute has confirmed.
Two-time Oscar nominee Parker was best known for directing classic films including Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning and The Commitments, as well as big-budget Madonna movie Evita.
Parker was a passionate supporter of the UK film industry and a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain. He was the founding Chairman of the UK Film Council in 2000, a position he held for five years, and prior to that he was Chairman of the BFI. He received a Cbe in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He was also an Officier des Arts et Letters (France).
Parker was born in Islington, London, February 14, 1944. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter but quickly graduated to writing and directing commercials. By the late 1960s...
Two-time Oscar nominee Parker was best known for directing classic films including Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning and The Commitments, as well as big-budget Madonna movie Evita.
Parker was a passionate supporter of the UK film industry and a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain. He was the founding Chairman of the UK Film Council in 2000, a position he held for five years, and prior to that he was Chairman of the BFI. He received a Cbe in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He was also an Officier des Arts et Letters (France).
Parker was born in Islington, London, February 14, 1944. He began his career in advertising as a copywriter but quickly graduated to writing and directing commercials. By the late 1960s...
- 7/31/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In G2 Arts (13 October), you quote Alan Parker as saying he wrote The Evacuees. Alan Parker would never claim such a thing, so it has to be a mistake. The Emmy-award-winning play was written by the late, great playwright, Jack Rosenthal, at the behest of the late, great head of Granada TV’s drama department, Peter Eckersley, in the days when ideas were suggested, assessed and commissioned. It was Alan’s first TV play as a director and my first TV play as an actress playing her own mother-in-law.
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- 10/14/2015
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
Producer and director Michael Apted pays tribute to the former Granada TV chairman who died last week
When I joined Granada in 1963, I was part of a small group straight out of university (which included Mike Newell) chosen by Sir Denis Forman, in his role as head of programmes, to train at the company. It was the place to be – ahead of the field in current affairs, drama, light entertainment and comedy. I doubt any of us has any idea of how lucky we were to be asked to join.
Granada was a small company, with neither the space nor resources for serious training, so ours was on-the-job. I did news, some small documentaries, football matches, church services, World In Action, then on to Coronation Street and eventually into drama, working with some to the best writers of their generation: Jack Rosenthal, Arthur Hopcraft and Colin Welland. In those early years,...
When I joined Granada in 1963, I was part of a small group straight out of university (which included Mike Newell) chosen by Sir Denis Forman, in his role as head of programmes, to train at the company. It was the place to be – ahead of the field in current affairs, drama, light entertainment and comedy. I doubt any of us has any idea of how lucky we were to be asked to join.
Granada was a small company, with neither the space nor resources for serious training, so ours was on-the-job. I did news, some small documentaries, football matches, church services, World In Action, then on to Coronation Street and eventually into drama, working with some to the best writers of their generation: Jack Rosenthal, Arthur Hopcraft and Colin Welland. In those early years,...
- 3/4/2013
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
He's a feted Hollywood director, whose career started with a bunch of children in Seven Up! And he is still charting their lives 49 years later in a landmark of documentary broadcasting
They understand longevity at Manchester's ITV Granada, which was Granada Television and is the only survivor of the original four independent TV franchisees awarded in 1954. Not only does it make Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, but this week sees the return of its Up series, which may be the world's longest-running documentary.
The first Up programme was the brainchild of Tim Hewat, the brilliant Australian producer behind the World In Action strand. Legend has it he walked into the World in Action office and quoted the Jesuit motto cited at the beginning of the film: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." And then instructed a young trainee...
They understand longevity at Manchester's ITV Granada, which was Granada Television and is the only survivor of the original four independent TV franchisees awarded in 1954. Not only does it make Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, but this week sees the return of its Up series, which may be the world's longest-running documentary.
The first Up programme was the brainchild of Tim Hewat, the brilliant Australian producer behind the World In Action strand. Legend has it he walked into the World in Action office and quoted the Jesuit motto cited at the beginning of the film: "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man." And then instructed a young trainee...
- 5/12/2012
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
The actor talks about her family
My mother, Zelma, was an influence on my career. When I was six or seven I started singing, imitating people like Eartha Kitt, and putting on my own Sunday Night at the London Palladium. My mother encouraged me to perform for her friends. I still have in my mind's eye that circle of smartly dressed, approving – and occasionally disapproving – women.
I used to get my children to do tricks too. Amy would pout with her top lip when she was teething and so I taught her to say Marlon Brando's speech from On the Waterfront: "I could have been a contender … now all I've got is a one-way ticket to Palookaville." She was two. It was hysterically funny.
I adored my father because he was dry and witty and funny. He would stand in the door of his shop greeting everybody and...
My mother, Zelma, was an influence on my career. When I was six or seven I started singing, imitating people like Eartha Kitt, and putting on my own Sunday Night at the London Palladium. My mother encouraged me to perform for her friends. I still have in my mind's eye that circle of smartly dressed, approving – and occasionally disapproving – women.
I used to get my children to do tricks too. Amy would pout with her top lip when she was teething and so I taught her to say Marlon Brando's speech from On the Waterfront: "I could have been a contender … now all I've got is a one-way ticket to Palookaville." She was two. It was hysterically funny.
I adored my father because he was dry and witty and funny. He would stand in the door of his shop greeting everybody and...
- 3/26/2011
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
TV favourite Ruby Bentall takes stage role with director who cast her mother 30 years ago in the classic comedy Abigail's Party
The distinctive plays and films of Mike Leigh have introduced many strong female characters to audiences down the years. In fact, the director has often returned to work with a small group of actresses whom he can trust to create memorable roles – Alison Steadman, Sheila Kelley, Lesley Manville and Imelda Staunton.
But this year, as he works on a new play for the National Theatre, Leigh has found a new star – the daughter of one of his funniest muses.
Ruby Bentall, whose mother is actress Janine Duvitski, will have a lead role at the National in the new play, which so far has no name or an announced subject, but will be written and directed by Leigh. Bentall is already known to viewers for playing Minnie in BBC1's...
The distinctive plays and films of Mike Leigh have introduced many strong female characters to audiences down the years. In fact, the director has often returned to work with a small group of actresses whom he can trust to create memorable roles – Alison Steadman, Sheila Kelley, Lesley Manville and Imelda Staunton.
But this year, as he works on a new play for the National Theatre, Leigh has found a new star – the daughter of one of his funniest muses.
Ruby Bentall, whose mother is actress Janine Duvitski, will have a lead role at the National in the new play, which so far has no name or an announced subject, but will be written and directed by Leigh. Bentall is already known to viewers for playing Minnie in BBC1's...
- 1/30/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Veteran actress Maureen Lipman has revealed that she has found a second soulmate. The 63-year-old TV and stage star's first husband Jack Rosenthal, to whom she was married for 30 years, died of bone marrow cancer in 2004. However, in a new interview with Yours magazine, Lipman revealed that she has found love for a second time with Italian-born Guido Castro. "I am totally sorted. I'm very happy with my gentleman friend. And I am also very grateful to have met two soulmates in my one life," she said. "Sometimes I think these things are out of our control and are ordained (more)...
- 5/5/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Classics scholar whose multi-faceted career was dominated by his 1970 novel Love Story
The American writer Erich Segal, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, will be best, and most misleadingly, remembered as the author of Love Story (1970). The success he earned from his first novel and its Hollywood film adaptation would be accolade enough for most authors. But while it made him rich, the skewed fame that it brought him shouldered aside a litany of other accomplishments: as classics scholar and teacher, literary critic and sports commentator, essayist and scriptwriter, historian and practitioner of comedy.
When Erich wrote the book that changed his life, he was 32. He was a classics professor at Yale University, having earned his master's and PhD from Harvard four years earlier. He left Harvard as class poet and "Latin salutary orator", a twin honour equalled only by one other student, Ts Eliot. In his academic career,...
The American writer Erich Segal, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, will be best, and most misleadingly, remembered as the author of Love Story (1970). The success he earned from his first novel and its Hollywood film adaptation would be accolade enough for most authors. But while it made him rich, the skewed fame that it brought him shouldered aside a litany of other accomplishments: as classics scholar and teacher, literary critic and sports commentator, essayist and scriptwriter, historian and practitioner of comedy.
When Erich wrote the book that changed his life, he was 32. He was a classics professor at Yale University, having earned his master's and PhD from Harvard four years earlier. He left Harvard as class poet and "Latin salutary orator", a twin honour equalled only by one other student, Ts Eliot. In his academic career,...
- 1/20/2010
- by Ned Temko
- The Guardian - Film News
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