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After taking 2020 off, BAFTA’s Children’s Awards are set to return in November 2022 following a review starting in May of last year. The upcoming awards will place a stronger focus on engaging young audiences through updated categories and a ceremony to be held at the end of a larger weekend of BAFTA Kids activities. Entry to the awards will open in May of next year with an extended eligibility period reaching back to July 1, 2019. Details for the revised categories, eligibility and rules will be announced in due time. BAFTA was recently recognized, alongside children’s mental health charity Place2B, by Action for Children’s Arts with an outstanding contribution award.
Documentary
Discovery Plus has commissioned a new docuseries with former England striker-turned-pundit and podcaster Peter Crouch, “Save Our Beautiful Game.” Banijay’s Workerbee will produce the eight-part series, which follows Crouch as he returns to grassroots soccer...
After taking 2020 off, BAFTA’s Children’s Awards are set to return in November 2022 following a review starting in May of last year. The upcoming awards will place a stronger focus on engaging young audiences through updated categories and a ceremony to be held at the end of a larger weekend of BAFTA Kids activities. Entry to the awards will open in May of next year with an extended eligibility period reaching back to July 1, 2019. Details for the revised categories, eligibility and rules will be announced in due time. BAFTA was recently recognized, alongside children’s mental health charity Place2B, by Action for Children’s Arts with an outstanding contribution award.
Documentary
Discovery Plus has commissioned a new docuseries with former England striker-turned-pundit and podcaster Peter Crouch, “Save Our Beautiful Game.” Banijay’s Workerbee will produce the eight-part series, which follows Crouch as he returns to grassroots soccer...
- 6/23/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jordan A.Nash, Keira Chansa | Written by Marissa Kate Goodhill | Directed by Brenda Chapman
Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Angelina Jolie and Kallus from Star Wars: Rebels sounds like a cracking Sunday afternoon to me… It has been a while since I got to see a decent movie based around the whole Peter Pan tale. I always thought 2003s Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs as Hook was far and away the best version, well outside of Hook obviously. Whenever a new film comes round, be it animated or live action, I am always keen to see how this one is going to play out and how they are going to make it fresh, original and different enough to warrant my attention.
I wouldn’t say I had the loftiest aspirations for Come Away to be honest; after all on the surface it kinda...
Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Angelina Jolie and Kallus from Star Wars: Rebels sounds like a cracking Sunday afternoon to me… It has been a while since I got to see a decent movie based around the whole Peter Pan tale. I always thought 2003s Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs as Hook was far and away the best version, well outside of Hook obviously. Whenever a new film comes round, be it animated or live action, I am always keen to see how this one is going to play out and how they are going to make it fresh, original and different enough to warrant my attention.
I wouldn’t say I had the loftiest aspirations for Come Away to be honest; after all on the surface it kinda...
- 4/8/2021
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Stars: Angelina Jolie, David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jordan A.Nash, Keira Chansa | Written by Marissa Kate Goodhill | Directed by Brenda Chapman
Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Angelina Jolie and Kallus from Star Wars: Rebels sounds like a cracking Sunday afternoon to me… It has been a while since I got to see a decent movie based around the whole Peter Pan tale. I always thought 2003s Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs as Hook was far and away the best version, well outside of Hook obviously. Whenever a new film comes round, be it animated or live action, I am always keen to see how this one is going to play out and how they are going to make it fresh, original and different enough to warrant my attention.
I wouldn’t say I had the loftiest aspirations for Come Away to be honest; after all on the surface it kinda...
Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, Angelina Jolie and Kallus from Star Wars: Rebels sounds like a cracking Sunday afternoon to me… It has been a while since I got to see a decent movie based around the whole Peter Pan tale. I always thought 2003s Peter Pan with Jason Isaacs as Hook was far and away the best version, well outside of Hook obviously. Whenever a new film comes round, be it animated or live action, I am always keen to see how this one is going to play out and how they are going to make it fresh, original and different enough to warrant my attention.
I wouldn’t say I had the loftiest aspirations for Come Away to be honest; after all on the surface it kinda...
- 12/8/2020
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
For some, the prospect of former Pixar director Brenda Chapman (“Brave”) making her live-action debut will make “Come Away” seem exciting. For others, it’s the film’s literary conceit that appeals: What if Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan had been siblings? And then there’s the casting of Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo as the parents, which suggests certain possibilities in terms of how the story might deal with certain seldom-examined social dynamics within its period setting — possibilities that internet trolls have targeted with racist comments.
Alas, “Come Away” squanders all of these opportunities on a ponderous family drama that even Netflix (where concept is everything and quality is often beside the point) wasn’t interested in acquiring when it premiered at Sundance back in January. At the festival, the film was overshadowed by “Wendy,” but even in the straight-to-streaming doldrums of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s hard...
Alas, “Come Away” squanders all of these opportunities on a ponderous family drama that even Netflix (where concept is everything and quality is often beside the point) wasn’t interested in acquiring when it premiered at Sundance back in January. At the festival, the film was overshadowed by “Wendy,” but even in the straight-to-streaming doldrums of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s hard...
- 11/13/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
For her first live-action feature, Oscar-winning filmmaker Brenda Chapman was determined to play the hits, but with the kind of personal twist she’s put on animated classics like “The Lion King,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “Brave” throughout her career. A fairy tale obsessive from the jump — she literally grew up reading Classics Illustrated Junior comic books featuring stories like “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast” — Chapman’s “Come Away” is a perfect fit for her talents and interests, plotting an inventive mash-up of both “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland” in a family-centric package.
The film, written by Marissa Kate Goodhill, serves as something of a prequel to the beloved stories involving the boy who wouldn’t grow up and the girl who falls into a wacky world through a rabbit hole. “Come Away” supposes, what if they were siblings? From there, the film weaves a...
The film, written by Marissa Kate Goodhill, serves as something of a prequel to the beloved stories involving the boy who wouldn’t grow up and the girl who falls into a wacky world through a rabbit hole. “Come Away” supposes, what if they were siblings? From there, the film weaves a...
- 11/13/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Neon will bring some passionate romance in Ammonite this weekend. The period pic starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan opened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September where it immediately garnered buzz as an Oscar favorite.
Written and directed by Francis Lee, Ammonite is set in the 1840s and follows once-acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning (Winslet), who works alone on the Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. With the days of her fame behind her, she’s stern and doesn’t exactly like the company of others. She spends her time digging up common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother (Gemma Jones).
Enter geologist James McArdle (Roderick Murchison) who arrives in Lyme with his wife Charlotte (Ronan). He asks Mary to keep his wife company who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. The two are from totally different worlds Mary struggles while...
Written and directed by Francis Lee, Ammonite is set in the 1840s and follows once-acclaimed paleontologist Mary Anning (Winslet), who works alone on the Southern English coastline of Lyme Regis. With the days of her fame behind her, she’s stern and doesn’t exactly like the company of others. She spends her time digging up common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself and her ailing widowed mother (Gemma Jones).
Enter geologist James McArdle (Roderick Murchison) who arrives in Lyme with his wife Charlotte (Ronan). He asks Mary to keep his wife company who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. The two are from totally different worlds Mary struggles while...
- 11/13/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland form the basis of Brenda Chapman’s fantastical children’s film Come Away. I say “children’s,” not “family,” because it’s unlikely anyone older than 12 will find much magic in this supremely surface-level story. It’s strange then that Chapman and scribe Marissa Kate Goodhill spend so much time lingering on the dark world of adults: gambling, debt collection, alcoholism, even child death. It’s unlikely kids will understand these issues, though they aren’t treated with enough complexity to engage adults. I’m struggling to work out for whom Come Away appeals.
Its premise—what if Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland were brother and sister?—is a bit contrived but leaves room for plenty of visual wonder, being that both stories concern imagination. Chapman (making her live-action debut after The Prince of Egypt and Brave) visualizes the imagination of her child protagonists,...
Its premise—what if Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland were brother and sister?—is a bit contrived but leaves room for plenty of visual wonder, being that both stories concern imagination. Chapman (making her live-action debut after The Prince of Egypt and Brave) visualizes the imagination of her child protagonists,...
- 11/10/2020
- by Orla Smith
- The Film Stage
Planned theatrical release in December 2020.
Independent distributor Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights to family adventure Come Away starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie.
It is planning a wide theatrical release for December although the exact date is yet to be confirmed.
Signature acquired the title from US sales agent Capstone Group.
Come Away premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January. Directed by Brenda Chapman (director and co-writer of Pixar’s Brave), it follows siblings Alice and Peter who transform into Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland in a bid to help their parents overcome the tragedy of losing their eldest son.
Independent distributor Signature Entertainment has acquired UK and Ireland rights to family adventure Come Away starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie.
It is planning a wide theatrical release for December although the exact date is yet to be confirmed.
Signature acquired the title from US sales agent Capstone Group.
Come Away premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January. Directed by Brenda Chapman (director and co-writer of Pixar’s Brave), it follows siblings Alice and Peter who transform into Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland in a bid to help their parents overcome the tragedy of losing their eldest son.
- 10/15/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Come Away Trailer — Brenda Chapman‘s Come Away (2020) movie trailer has been released by Relativity Media and stars Angelina Jolie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Caine, Derek Jacobi, Anna Chancellor, David Oyelowo, Clarke Peters, David Gyasi, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Damian O’Hare, Keira Chansa, Jordan A. Nash, Jack Veal, and Reece Yates. Crew Marissa Kate [...]
Continue reading: Come Away (2020) Movie Trailer: Angelina Jolie stars in the Re-imagined Origin Story for Peter Pan & Alice In Wonderland...
Continue reading: Come Away (2020) Movie Trailer: Angelina Jolie stars in the Re-imagined Origin Story for Peter Pan & Alice In Wonderland...
- 10/14/2020
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
A new trailer has debuted for the Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan origin mash-up feature ‘Come Away’ starring David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie.
In this origin story of two of the most beloved characters in literature – Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland – eight-year-old Alice (Keira Chansa), her mischievous brother Peter (Jordan A. Nash) and their brilliant older sibling David (Reece Yates) let their imaginations run wild one blissful summer in the English countryside.
Encouraged by their parents Jack and Rose (David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie), the kids’ make-believe tea parties, sword fights and pirate ship adventures come to an abrupt end when tragedy strikes. Peter, eager to prove himself a hero to his grief-stricken and financially-struggling parents, journeys with Alice to London, where they try to sell a treasured heirloom to the sinister pawnshop owner known as C.J. (David Gyasi). Returning home, Alice seeks temporary refuge in a...
In this origin story of two of the most beloved characters in literature – Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland – eight-year-old Alice (Keira Chansa), her mischievous brother Peter (Jordan A. Nash) and their brilliant older sibling David (Reece Yates) let their imaginations run wild one blissful summer in the English countryside.
Encouraged by their parents Jack and Rose (David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie), the kids’ make-believe tea parties, sword fights and pirate ship adventures come to an abrupt end when tragedy strikes. Peter, eager to prove himself a hero to his grief-stricken and financially-struggling parents, journeys with Alice to London, where they try to sell a treasured heirloom to the sinister pawnshop owner known as C.J. (David Gyasi). Returning home, Alice seeks temporary refuge in a...
- 10/12/2020
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
'Come Away' trailer has been released and it does seemingly look like a typical fairytale.
Relativity Media has unveiled the official trailer for the forthcoming fantasy drama film and is now planning to release the film in theaters and on VOD.
'Come Away' features a unique take on the origin stories of popular fictional characters Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland.
The film, penned by Marissa Kate Goodhill, looks like a typical Disney fairy-tale movie showing magic and exotic locations. The difference is, the film features black actors playing important characters and it is not a Disney movie.
'Come Away' follows the story of iconic fairy tale characters Peter and Alice, as a sibling pair who escape into a world of fantasy after their parents are struck by tragedy as their oldest sibling dies. Now, is up to Alice and Peter to help their parents overcome the tragedy.
Relativity Media has unveiled the official trailer for the forthcoming fantasy drama film and is now planning to release the film in theaters and on VOD.
'Come Away' features a unique take on the origin stories of popular fictional characters Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland.
The film, penned by Marissa Kate Goodhill, looks like a typical Disney fairy-tale movie showing magic and exotic locations. The difference is, the film features black actors playing important characters and it is not a Disney movie.
'Come Away' follows the story of iconic fairy tale characters Peter and Alice, as a sibling pair who escape into a world of fantasy after their parents are struck by tragedy as their oldest sibling dies. Now, is up to Alice and Peter to help their parents overcome the tragedy.
- 10/12/2020
- by Omkar Padte
- GlamSham
The new Relativity Media studio has picked up the Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo-starring fantasy adventure Come Away for its first commercial release.
The studio acquired the U.S. rights to the imagined prequel to the classics Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan from Endurance Media after a world premiere at Sundance. Relativity Media has also dropped the latest trailer to Brave director Brenda Chapman’s live action feature, which imagines a young Alice before Wonderland, played by Keira Chansa, and Peter (Jordan A. Nash) before he became Pan.
The mischievous siblings are seen leaving the safety of their parents, played by Jolie and Oyelowo,...
The studio acquired the U.S. rights to the imagined prequel to the classics Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan from Endurance Media after a world premiere at Sundance. Relativity Media has also dropped the latest trailer to Brave director Brenda Chapman’s live action feature, which imagines a young Alice before Wonderland, played by Keira Chansa, and Peter (Jordan A. Nash) before he became Pan.
The mischievous siblings are seen leaving the safety of their parents, played by Jolie and Oyelowo,...
- 10/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The new Relativity Media studio has picked up the Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo-starring fantasy adventure Come Away for its first commercial release.
The studio acquired the U.S. rights to the imagined prequel to the classics Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan from Endurance Media after a world premiere at Sundance. Relativity Media has also dropped the latest trailer to Brave director Brenda Chapman’s live action feature, which imagines a young Alice before Wonderland, played by Keira Chansa, and Peter (Jordan A. Nash) before he became Pan.
The mischievous siblings are seen leaving the safety of their parents, played by Jolie and Oyelowo,...
The studio acquired the U.S. rights to the imagined prequel to the classics Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan from Endurance Media after a world premiere at Sundance. Relativity Media has also dropped the latest trailer to Brave director Brenda Chapman’s live action feature, which imagines a young Alice before Wonderland, played by Keira Chansa, and Peter (Jordan A. Nash) before he became Pan.
The mischievous siblings are seen leaving the safety of their parents, played by Jolie and Oyelowo,...
- 10/9/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Urbanworld Film Festival will open its 24th edition with David Oyelowo’s directorial debut “The Water Man” on Sept. 23.
Oyelowo stars in the fantasy-adventure film that follows a boy who sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers. A conversation with Oyelowo, Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis and Amiah Miller moderated by Ava DuVernay will immediately follow the screening, as well as a special music performance by Alice Smith. “The Water Man” will premiere on Sept. 19 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
“In an unimaginable year of change, we remain inspired by the creativity, culture and community that prevail in this brave new virtual world,” said Gabrielle Glore, festival director and head of programming. “Powerful storytelling is now more important than ever and Urbanworld is proud to be a consistent platform that brings Black, Indigenous and...
Oyelowo stars in the fantasy-adventure film that follows a boy who sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers. A conversation with Oyelowo, Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis and Amiah Miller moderated by Ava DuVernay will immediately follow the screening, as well as a special music performance by Alice Smith. “The Water Man” will premiere on Sept. 19 at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
“In an unimaginable year of change, we remain inspired by the creativity, culture and community that prevail in this brave new virtual world,” said Gabrielle Glore, festival director and head of programming. “Powerful storytelling is now more important than ever and Urbanworld is proud to be a consistent platform that brings Black, Indigenous and...
- 9/17/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Sundance Film Festival isn’t just a market for independent movies and a place to discover new talent — it’s also a barometer of current moods.
In 2020, an election year, it’s not always easy to separate politics from art — and maybe it shouldn’t be, not at Sundance. Hillary Clinton will visit Park City to premiere “Hillary,” a four-hour Hulu docu-series with unparalleled access to the first woman to capture a major political party’s nomination for president of the United States. This year’s lineup of more than 100 movies also features a Gloria Steinem biopic, non-fiction films about the Aclu and March for Our Lives and a horror movie about a killer black weave that doubles as an allegory about racial inequality.
As buyers and movie fans gather in the snow for another edition of Sundance, here are Variety’s picks for the 17 buzziest movies that could be...
In 2020, an election year, it’s not always easy to separate politics from art — and maybe it shouldn’t be, not at Sundance. Hillary Clinton will visit Park City to premiere “Hillary,” a four-hour Hulu docu-series with unparalleled access to the first woman to capture a major political party’s nomination for president of the United States. This year’s lineup of more than 100 movies also features a Gloria Steinem biopic, non-fiction films about the Aclu and March for Our Lives and a horror movie about a killer black weave that doubles as an allegory about racial inequality.
As buyers and movie fans gather in the snow for another edition of Sundance, here are Variety’s picks for the 17 buzziest movies that could be...
- 1/23/2020
- by Kate Aurthur and Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
Derek Jacobi and Fleabag‘s Jenny Galloway have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy Peter Pan-Alice in Wonderland origin story movie that stars Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo. Brave Oscar winner Brenda Chapman is directing the script from Marissa Kate Goodhill. The pic has been shooting in the UK before moving to Los Angeles in October.
Meanwhile, ahead of a sales push at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, Steve Richards has joined the project as producer, with his Endurance Media, Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce’s Hammerstone Studios and Christian Mercuri’s Capstone Group joining Fred Films and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions as production partners. Additional financing is coming from Ace Pictures, Creasun Entertainment USA and Tin Res Entertainment..
Capstone is now set to launch international sales oronto, where UTA and Wme are repping domestic rights.
The pic is set before Alice went to Wonderland and Peter became Pan,...
Meanwhile, ahead of a sales push at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, Steve Richards has joined the project as producer, with his Endurance Media, Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce’s Hammerstone Studios and Christian Mercuri’s Capstone Group joining Fred Films and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions as production partners. Additional financing is coming from Ace Pictures, Creasun Entertainment USA and Tin Res Entertainment..
Capstone is now set to launch international sales oronto, where UTA and Wme are repping domestic rights.
The pic is set before Alice went to Wonderland and Peter became Pan,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Crown‘s Anna Chancellor and The Wire‘s Clarke Peters have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy drama starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo that is serving as the live-action debut of Brave director Brenda Chapman. The pic has just started filming in the UK for seven weeks, followed by three weeks in Los Angeles.
As Deadline scooped in May, the pic, from UK-based Fred Films and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions, is imagined as a prequel to Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan and was scripted by Marissa Kate Goodhill.
The plot: Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister who live an idyllic childhood with parents Jack and Rose (Oyelowo and Jolie) and older brother David. Fate turns their games of tea parties, pirates and lost boys upside down, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
As Deadline scooped in May, the pic, from UK-based Fred Films and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions, is imagined as a prequel to Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan and was scripted by Marissa Kate Goodhill.
The plot: Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister who live an idyllic childhood with parents Jack and Rose (Oyelowo and Jolie) and older brother David. Fate turns their games of tea parties, pirates and lost boys upside down, setting the stage for their iconic journeys into Wonderland and Neverland.
- 8/10/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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