‘Liaison’ Producer Ringside Studios Hires ‘Industry’ Exec
British drama house Ringside Studios has hired Industry and No Escape exec Lee Thomas. He’ll work alongside company founder Gub Neal and Kate Bennetts on Ringside Studios projects and others from investment arm Ringside Media. He’ll also continue to develop his own projects, with Ringside set to produce. Thomas is coming off of No Escape, the Paramount+ thriller series shot in Thailand. His credits also include season one of HBO and BBC drama Industry and ITV true crime series White House Farm. He has produced Shola Amoo’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated drama feature The Last Tree through his Prodigal label and produced an Oscar-nominated short, The Voorman Problem, which is based on an extract from David Mitchell novel Number9Dream. Ringside Studios, a joint venture between Neal and Newen Content, recently produced Apple TV+ series Liaison, a UK-France co-production starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel.
British drama house Ringside Studios has hired Industry and No Escape exec Lee Thomas. He’ll work alongside company founder Gub Neal and Kate Bennetts on Ringside Studios projects and others from investment arm Ringside Media. He’ll also continue to develop his own projects, with Ringside set to produce. Thomas is coming off of No Escape, the Paramount+ thriller series shot in Thailand. His credits also include season one of HBO and BBC drama Industry and ITV true crime series White House Farm. He has produced Shola Amoo’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-nominated drama feature The Last Tree through his Prodigal label and produced an Oscar-nominated short, The Voorman Problem, which is based on an extract from David Mitchell novel Number9Dream. Ringside Studios, a joint venture between Neal and Newen Content, recently produced Apple TV+ series Liaison, a UK-France co-production starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel.
- 6/29/2023
- by Jesse Whittock and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Raine Allen-Miller makes her acclaimed feature debut with this primary-coloured romance bursting with wit, grit and charm
British director Raine Allen-Miller, who became the toast of Sundance in January, has jokingly characterised her praise-laden debut feature (from a script by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia) as a tale of two people spending a day together and having a lovely time. That’s a deceptively simple description of a hugely enjoyable romp that effortlessly combines the “limited time” romcom format of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy with the in-your-face visual cheekiness of Peep Show. Unfolding against the vibrantly photographed backdrop of sunny south London locales, Rye Lane blends the warmth and charm of a formulaic love story with the colourfully street-smart grit of Brit pics such as Shola Amoo’s A Moving Image or more recently Reggie Yates’s Pirates, creating something that is at once playful, poignant and personal.
British director Raine Allen-Miller, who became the toast of Sundance in January, has jokingly characterised her praise-laden debut feature (from a script by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia) as a tale of two people spending a day together and having a lovely time. That’s a deceptively simple description of a hugely enjoyable romp that effortlessly combines the “limited time” romcom format of Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy with the in-your-face visual cheekiness of Peep Show. Unfolding against the vibrantly photographed backdrop of sunny south London locales, Rye Lane blends the warmth and charm of a formulaic love story with the colourfully street-smart grit of Brit pics such as Shola Amoo’s A Moving Image or more recently Reggie Yates’s Pirates, creating something that is at once playful, poignant and personal.
- 3/19/2023
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Universal International Studios has struck a first-look deal with Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee’s production company Home Team.
The exclusive deal will see Home Team develop and produce premium TV projects with Uis for the U.K. and global market, with a focus on championing underrepresented creatives, new voices and ground-breaking on-screen talent.
Projects include “Flick,” written by Emilie Robson, an exploration of female friendships set against the coastal backdrop of North East England. Also on the slate is a period fantasy series about the legendary Warrior Queen Mother of the Ashanti Empire, Yaa Asantewaa. Co-created by Kara Smith (“Anansi Boys”), Rienkje Attoh (“You Don’t Know Me”) and McGhee, the series weaves action, magic and drama. Smith also serves as writer on the project, and it will be produced with Attoh’s company So & So Productions.
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee formed Home Team in September 2020 with backing from Calculus Capital,...
The exclusive deal will see Home Team develop and produce premium TV projects with Uis for the U.K. and global market, with a focus on championing underrepresented creatives, new voices and ground-breaking on-screen talent.
Projects include “Flick,” written by Emilie Robson, an exploration of female friendships set against the coastal backdrop of North East England. Also on the slate is a period fantasy series about the legendary Warrior Queen Mother of the Ashanti Empire, Yaa Asantewaa. Co-created by Kara Smith (“Anansi Boys”), Rienkje Attoh (“You Don’t Know Me”) and McGhee, the series weaves action, magic and drama. Smith also serves as writer on the project, and it will be produced with Attoh’s company So & So Productions.
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee formed Home Team in September 2020 with backing from Calculus Capital,...
- 11/30/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
When Kary Antholis in 2019 stepped down as President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, to launch Crime Story Media, his exit package included him staying on as executive producer on projects he had developed at the network that tackle crime and criminal justice. That included David Simon and George Pelecanos’ limited series We Own This City, which premiered April 25, and Dennis Lehane’s Black Bird, which ended up moving to Apple TV+. Headlined by Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser and featuring Ray Liotta in his final TV role, the series premieres July 8.
Crime Story, dedicated to content that explores the criminal legal process, quickly made its mark in the podcast arena with The Crime Story Podcast, hosted by Antholis, which has produced 370 episodes so far; Firebug; as well as Jury Duty distributed by Acast, which has amassed 3.2 million downloads to date with its three seasons focused on the Robert Durst trial,...
Crime Story, dedicated to content that explores the criminal legal process, quickly made its mark in the podcast arena with The Crime Story Podcast, hosted by Antholis, which has produced 370 episodes so far; Firebug; as well as Jury Duty distributed by Acast, which has amassed 3.2 million downloads to date with its three seasons focused on the Robert Durst trial,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The Academy awards fellowships for both the US and international.
Four Screen UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow have been selected as finalists for the Gold Fellowship for Women, an award offered for emerging female filmmakers by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
Fellowships will be given in two categories: one for the US, and one for international. Six finalists have been selected for the domestic fellowship, with five – including all four former Screen Stars – for the international award.
Among them are producer Farah Abushwesha, a Screen Star in 2017, who is creative director at emerging talent showcase Rocliffe and...
Four Screen UK & Ireland Stars of Tomorrow have been selected as finalists for the Gold Fellowship for Women, an award offered for emerging female filmmakers by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS).
Fellowships will be given in two categories: one for the US, and one for international. Six finalists have been selected for the domestic fellowship, with five – including all four former Screen Stars – for the international award.
Among them are producer Farah Abushwesha, a Screen Star in 2017, who is creative director at emerging talent showcase Rocliffe and...
- 12/3/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
BFI London Film Festival has revealed its line-up for its second Works-in-Progress showcase, including a documentary about Hong Kong’s draconian National Security law and a TV narrative feature starring Sir Lenny Henry and Malachi Kirby (pictured above).
The showcase will take place on Oct. 9.
It consists of seven recently completed or in production/post-production audio-visual projects from emerging British talent made for cinema, television and immersive platforms.
The audience will include international buyers, festival programmers and, via a secure digital platform, a number of other industry professionals.
The talent selected for the workshop will also, with assistance from the British Council as well as the BFI Lff, get an opportunity to network with various industry players such as buyers, commissioners, producers and programmers via a number of initiatives including a reception for new talent and a producers’ lunch.
2021 marks the workshop’s second year. Last year’s projects included...
The showcase will take place on Oct. 9.
It consists of seven recently completed or in production/post-production audio-visual projects from emerging British talent made for cinema, television and immersive platforms.
The audience will include international buyers, festival programmers and, via a secure digital platform, a number of other industry professionals.
The talent selected for the workshop will also, with assistance from the British Council as well as the BFI Lff, get an opportunity to network with various industry players such as buyers, commissioners, producers and programmers via a number of initiatives including a reception for new talent and a producers’ lunch.
2021 marks the workshop’s second year. Last year’s projects included...
- 10/4/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The second edition of the showcase will take place on October 9.
The second edition of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff)’s Work-in-Progress showcase has selected seven projects from emerging British talent, to present to an invited audience of international buyers and festival programmers at the event on October 9.
The in-person showcase will include extracts screened from each project, followed by a Q&a with the director and producer. Projects include cinema, television and immersive works; all are recently completed or in production or post-production.
The works include Dionne Edwards’ debut feature Pretty Red Dress, backed by BBC Film and the BFI,...
The second edition of the BFI London Film Festival (Lff)’s Work-in-Progress showcase has selected seven projects from emerging British talent, to present to an invited audience of international buyers and festival programmers at the event on October 9.
The in-person showcase will include extracts screened from each project, followed by a Q&a with the director and producer. Projects include cinema, television and immersive works; all are recently completed or in production or post-production.
The works include Dionne Edwards’ debut feature Pretty Red Dress, backed by BBC Film and the BFI,...
- 10/4/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Yazzmin Newell (The Last Tree) is set as a series regular opposite Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan and Ayelet Zurer in AMC’s utopian drama series Moonhaven.
Created, written and executive produced by Peter Ocko, Moonhaven is about a utopian colony on the moon that might hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous. The series, produced by AMC Studios, is set to debut on AMC and AMC+ next year.
The suspense thriller focuses on Bella Sway (McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence...
Created, written and executive produced by Peter Ocko, Moonhaven is about a utopian colony on the moon that might hold the keys to preserving life on Earth, which has become increasingly perilous. The series, produced by AMC Studios, is set to debut on AMC and AMC+ next year.
The suspense thriller focuses on Bella Sway (McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence...
- 9/27/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Home Team, the UK indie production house founded by Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee, has hired Jessica Hill as Senior Development Executive.
Hill joins from Sister where she spent three years working in roles including script executive on HBO/Sky’s upcoming drama Landscapers, and script editor for BBC and Netflix’s international series Giri/Haji.
The company said Hill’s role will support its founders’ ambition to bring under-represented talent into the mainstream through the development and production of high-end, wholly inclusive international feature films and television series.
Home Team was launched in September 2020 with backing from Calculus Capital and Stargrove Pictures’ Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund. It is run by The End of The F***ing World exec producer Buchanan and Mogul Mowgli producer McGhee. The company’s slate includes Shola Amoo’s follow-up to The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha and Danielle...
Hill joins from Sister where she spent three years working in roles including script executive on HBO/Sky’s upcoming drama Landscapers, and script editor for BBC and Netflix’s international series Giri/Haji.
The company said Hill’s role will support its founders’ ambition to bring under-represented talent into the mainstream through the development and production of high-end, wholly inclusive international feature films and television series.
Home Team was launched in September 2020 with backing from Calculus Capital and Stargrove Pictures’ Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund. It is run by The End of The F***ing World exec producer Buchanan and Mogul Mowgli producer McGhee. The company’s slate includes Shola Amoo’s follow-up to The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha and Danielle...
- 3/22/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Hill will oversee development.
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee’s film and TV outfit Home Team has hired Sister Pictures executive Jessica Hill to oversee its development slate.
Hill joins the company as senior development executive. Working across development and production on film and TV projects, she will support Buchanan and McGhee in their ambition to bring under-represented talent into the mainstream.
During three years at Sister, Hill worked as script editor on BBC thriller series Giri/Haji, and was script executive on upcoming HBO/Sky drama Landscapers starring Olivia Colman.
“Jess joins us at this early and vital stage of the company,...
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee’s film and TV outfit Home Team has hired Sister Pictures executive Jessica Hill to oversee its development slate.
Hill joins the company as senior development executive. Working across development and production on film and TV projects, she will support Buchanan and McGhee in their ambition to bring under-represented talent into the mainstream.
During three years at Sister, Hill worked as script editor on BBC thriller series Giri/Haji, and was script executive on upcoming HBO/Sky drama Landscapers starring Olivia Colman.
“Jess joins us at this early and vital stage of the company,...
- 3/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton¬Max Goldbart Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Jessica Hill will oversee development.
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee’s film and TV outfit Home Team has hired Sister Pictures executive Jessica Hill to oversee its development slate.
Hill joins the company as senior development executive. Working across development and production on film and TV projects, she will support Buchanan and McGhee in their ambition to bring under-represented talent into the mainstream.
During three years at Sister, Hill worked as script editor on BBC thriller series Giri/Haji, and was script executive on upcoming HBO/Sky drama Landscapers starring Olivia Colman.
“Jess joins us at this early and vital stage of the company,...
Dominic Buchanan and Bennett McGhee’s film and TV outfit Home Team has hired Sister Pictures executive Jessica Hill to oversee its development slate.
Hill joins the company as senior development executive. Working across development and production on film and TV projects, she will support Buchanan and McGhee in their ambition to bring under-represented talent into the mainstream.
During three years at Sister, Hill worked as script editor on BBC thriller series Giri/Haji, and was script executive on upcoming HBO/Sky drama Landscapers starring Olivia Colman.
“Jess joins us at this early and vital stage of the company,...
- 3/22/2021
- by Ben Dalton¬Max Goldbart Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
In today’s Global Bulletin, Marc Anthony and Jc Acosta plan a MipTV keynote, “My Name Is Leon” reveals casting details, Rubicon announced spring delivery for its Norwegian drama series “Nach” and Cpl Productions extends its multi-year deal with Red Arrow Studios.
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MipTV and ViacomCBS International Studios have revealed that singer, songwriter, producer Marc Anthony and Vis & Networks Americas president Jc Acosta will host a keynote address at April’s MipTV titled “Behind the Curtain – A Conversation With Marc Anthony” at the entirely-online event.
Acosta will interview Anthony and briefly recap the musician’s 30-year career in the entertainment industry. The two will also use the opportunity to announce several new projects their companies are working on together.
In November of last year, Anthony’s Magnus Studios signed a first-look deal with Vis to focus on the development, creation and production of digital video content, film and TV production,...
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MipTV and ViacomCBS International Studios have revealed that singer, songwriter, producer Marc Anthony and Vis & Networks Americas president Jc Acosta will host a keynote address at April’s MipTV titled “Behind the Curtain – A Conversation With Marc Anthony” at the entirely-online event.
Acosta will interview Anthony and briefly recap the musician’s 30-year career in the entertainment industry. The two will also use the opportunity to announce several new projects their companies are working on together.
In November of last year, Anthony’s Magnus Studios signed a first-look deal with Vis to focus on the development, creation and production of digital video content, film and TV production,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The Criterion Channel has unveiled their March 2021 lineup, which includes no shortage of remarkable programming. Highlights from the slate include eight gems from Preston Sturges, Elaine May’s brilliant A New Leaf, a series featuring Black Westerns, Ann Hui’s Boat People, the new restoration of Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi.
They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.
Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.
The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963
Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972
Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...
They will also add films from their Essential Fellini boxset, series on Dirk Bogarde and Nelly Kaplan, and Luchino Visconti’s The Damned and Death in Venice, and more. In terms of recent releases, there’s also Matthew Rankin’s The Twentieth Century and Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In.
Check out the lineup below, along with the teaser for the Black Westerns series. For weekly streaming updates across all services, bookmark this page.
The Adventurer, Charles Chaplin, 1917
Bandini, Bimal Roy, 1963
Behind the Screen, Charles Chaplin, 1916
Black Jack, Ken Loach, 1979
Black Rodeo, Jeff Kanew, 1972
Blood Simple, Joel and Ethan Coen,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
HBO is in development on a limited series based on the third season of Sarah Koenig’s podcast “Serial,” with LeBron James among the executive producers.
The series will examine the criminal justice system at work in Cleveland, Ohio. Following a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it illuminates the deeply flawed inner workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts every person it touches: cops, lawyers and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.
James is a native of nearby Akron, Ohio, and played 11 seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Shola Amoo will write and direct the series, with Koenig executive producing as well. Other executive producers include Emmanuel Dzotsi and Alissa Shipp of Serial Productions, Maverick Carter, Kary Antholis for Crime Story Media and Eric Oberland and Jamal Henderson from The SpringHill Company.
The “Serial” podcast became a hit in 2014 when Koenig dove...
The series will examine the criminal justice system at work in Cleveland, Ohio. Following a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it illuminates the deeply flawed inner workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts every person it touches: cops, lawyers and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.
James is a native of nearby Akron, Ohio, and played 11 seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Shola Amoo will write and direct the series, with Koenig executive producing as well. Other executive producers include Emmanuel Dzotsi and Alissa Shipp of Serial Productions, Maverick Carter, Kary Antholis for Crime Story Media and Eric Oberland and Jamal Henderson from The SpringHill Company.
The “Serial” podcast became a hit in 2014 when Koenig dove...
- 1/26/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
HBO is developing the third season of the hit podcast “Serial” as a limited series, with LeBron James onboard the project as an executive producer.
The potential series will examine the criminal justice system at work in Cleveland, Ohio. Following a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it dives into the inner workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts every person it touches: cop, lawyer, and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.
Shola Amoo is attached to write, direct, and executive produce. James will executive produce under his SpringHill Company banner along with Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson, and Eric Oberland. Sarah Koenig, Emmanuel Dzotsi, and Alissa Shipp of Serial Productions will also executive produce alongside Kary Antholis for Crime Story Media, LLC.
Should the project go to series, it would not be the first time that “Serial” has been brought to HBO.
The potential series will examine the criminal justice system at work in Cleveland, Ohio. Following a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it dives into the inner workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts every person it touches: cop, lawyer, and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.
Shola Amoo is attached to write, direct, and executive produce. James will executive produce under his SpringHill Company banner along with Maverick Carter, Jamal Henderson, and Eric Oberland. Sarah Koenig, Emmanuel Dzotsi, and Alissa Shipp of Serial Productions will also executive produce alongside Kary Antholis for Crime Story Media, LLC.
Should the project go to series, it would not be the first time that “Serial” has been brought to HBO.
- 1/26/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
The podcast-to-tv boom continues with HBO adapting the third season of Serial as a limited series.
The network is developing the remake with rising writer/director Shola Amoo and exec produced by Lebron James and former HBO exec Kary Antholis.
The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland justice system. Unlike the first two seasons, which featured one case, it looked at the system overall with focuses on cases before the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas such as a woman who accidentally hits a police officer after being assaulted in a bar and a young African American man who is assaulted by police officers for being in possession of marijuana.
The television adaptation will follow a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it illuminates the deeply flawed inner workings...
The network is developing the remake with rising writer/director Shola Amoo and exec produced by Lebron James and former HBO exec Kary Antholis.
The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion the current boom for non-fiction audio series, was set in the Cleveland justice system. Unlike the first two seasons, which featured one case, it looked at the system overall with focuses on cases before the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas such as a woman who accidentally hits a police officer after being assaulted in a bar and a young African American man who is assaulted by police officers for being in possession of marijuana.
The television adaptation will follow a young cop and the man he’s accused of beating, it illuminates the deeply flawed inner workings...
- 1/26/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Searchlight is developing a feature film centered on Muhammad Ali’s refusal to be inducted into the U.S. Army in 1967 during the Vietnam War, Variety has learned exclusively.
The project is based on Leigh Montville’s “Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. The United States of America.” The book centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali’s refusal of service in the military on the basis of his Islamic beliefs. It also shows the key moments in a life in exile from the ring as he risks losing everything — his boxing license, his career, even his freedom as he’s forced to take a stand in a battle for racial equality.
“The Last Tree” director Shola Amoo has been signed to direct the film from a script by Phillip Howze, whose credits include Netflix’s “Mindhunter” and “The Eddy.” Alix Madigan (Amazon’s “The Lie”) is producing.
The project is based on Leigh Montville’s “Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. The United States of America.” The book centers on the cultural and political implications of Ali’s refusal of service in the military on the basis of his Islamic beliefs. It also shows the key moments in a life in exile from the ring as he risks losing everything — his boxing license, his career, even his freedom as he’s forced to take a stand in a battle for racial equality.
“The Last Tree” director Shola Amoo has been signed to direct the film from a script by Phillip Howze, whose credits include Netflix’s “Mindhunter” and “The Eddy.” Alix Madigan (Amazon’s “The Lie”) is producing.
- 12/15/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
The firm will focus on under-represented creatives.
UK producers Dominic Buchanan, whose credits include The End Of The F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, who produced Mogul Mowgli, have launched Home Team, a new production company focusing on under-represented creative voices.
The company has recieved backing from the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the BFI to help generate a new wave of investors in the UK screen industries. Finance specialists Stargrove Pictures acts as adviser to the fund, and sourced the Home Team investment opportunity.
The company will develop and produce feature films and high-end television series,...
UK producers Dominic Buchanan, whose credits include The End Of The F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, who produced Mogul Mowgli, have launched Home Team, a new production company focusing on under-represented creative voices.
The company has recieved backing from the Calculus Creative Content Eis Fund, which was launched in June 2019 in association with the BFI to help generate a new wave of investors in the UK screen industries. Finance specialists Stargrove Pictures acts as adviser to the fund, and sourced the Home Team investment opportunity.
The company will develop and produce feature films and high-end television series,...
- 9/9/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
UK producers Dominic Buchanan (The End of The F***ing World) and Bennett McGhee (Mogul Mowgli) are launching film and TV firm Home Team with a focus on development and production of high-end features and TV series.
The company is aiming to identify and develop under-represented creatives and new voices – primarily, but not restricted to, filmmakers of color and women filmmakers of all ethnicities, through interactive as well as traditional film and TV platforms.
Projects on the development slate include a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to feature The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (The End of the F***ing World) and Danielle Ward (In the Long Run); Nadia Latif and Omar El-Khairy’s (White Girl) feature debut, which is the upcoming horror film Welcome, currently being developed with Film4 and the BFI; Rohan Blair-Mangat’s (Centrepiece) docu-series The Boombox Project, adapted...
The company is aiming to identify and develop under-represented creatives and new voices – primarily, but not restricted to, filmmakers of color and women filmmakers of all ethnicities, through interactive as well as traditional film and TV platforms.
Projects on the development slate include a collaboration with BBC Films on Shola Amoo’s follow-up to feature The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny Ekaragha (The End of the F***ing World) and Danielle Ward (In the Long Run); Nadia Latif and Omar El-Khairy’s (White Girl) feature debut, which is the upcoming horror film Welcome, currently being developed with Film4 and the BFI; Rohan Blair-Mangat’s (Centrepiece) docu-series The Boombox Project, adapted...
- 9/9/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Dominic Buchanan, best known as the BAFTA-winning producer of Netflix/Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, producer of the Riz Ahmed-starring Berlinale 2020 Fipresci winner Mogul Mowgli, have launched a new film and TV production company, Home Team.
The central aim of Home Team, announced Wednesday, is to identity and develop underrepresented creatives, primarily — but not restricted — filmmakers of colour and women filmmakers of all ethnicities.
The banner’s initial development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films of Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed feature, The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny ...
The central aim of Home Team, announced Wednesday, is to identity and develop underrepresented creatives, primarily — but not restricted — filmmakers of colour and women filmmakers of all ethnicities.
The banner’s initial development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films of Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed feature, The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny ...
Dominic Buchanan, best known as the BAFTA-winning producer of Netflix/Channel 4 series The End of the F***ing World, and Bennett McGhee, producer of the Riz Ahmed-starring Berlinale 2020 Fipresci winner Mogul Mowgli, have launched a new film and TV production company, Home Team.
The central aim of Home Team, announced Wednesday, is to identity and develop underrepresented creatives, primarily — but not restricted — filmmakers of colour and women filmmakers of all ethnicities.
The banner’s initial development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films of Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed feature, The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny ...
The central aim of Home Team, announced Wednesday, is to identity and develop underrepresented creatives, primarily — but not restricted — filmmakers of colour and women filmmakers of all ethnicities.
The banner’s initial development slate includes a collaboration with BBC Films of Shola Amoo’s follow-up to the critically-acclaimed feature, The Last Tree; a new BFI-backed film project directed by Destiny ...
The Last Tree ArtMattan Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Shola Amoo Screenwriter: Shola Amoo Cast: Sam Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Denise Black, Tai Golding, Nicholas Pinnock, Ruthxjiah Bellenea Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 6/23/20 Opens: June 26, 2020 Distributed by Artmattan Films which boasts” films about the […]
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- 7/2/2020
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
In what has been one hell of an election year, Jon Stewart is cutting through all of it with his biting political comedy Irresistible starring Steve Carell, Rose Byrne and Chris Cooper. The Focus Features film was originally set to hit theaters on May 29, but like all films impacted by the pandemic, it pivoted to PVOD and drops today.
Written by Stewart, Irresistible follows a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired Marine colonel (Cooper) run for mayor against a Republican rival (Byrne) in a small Wisconsin town. This marks a reunion of sorts for Stewart and Carell, who was a recurring correspondent on The Daily Show between 1999 and 2005. The film is also Stewart’s latest outing as a feature film director. His first pic, Rosewater, was released in 2014 and told the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who was accused and brutally interrogated by Iranian forces for being a spy.
Written by Stewart, Irresistible follows a Democrat political consultant (Carell) who helps a retired Marine colonel (Cooper) run for mayor against a Republican rival (Byrne) in a small Wisconsin town. This marks a reunion of sorts for Stewart and Carell, who was a recurring correspondent on The Daily Show between 1999 and 2005. The film is also Stewart’s latest outing as a feature film director. His first pic, Rosewater, was released in 2014 and told the story of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who was accused and brutally interrogated by Iranian forces for being a spy.
- 6/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
A Tree Grows in London: Amoo Charts Familiar Coming of Age Drama Through Urban Pitfalls
Cycles of violence and heartache in disenfranchised urban communities are certainly not new subjects in cinema, and director Shola Amoo puts his own intimate spin on a coming-of-age drama with his sophomore effort The Last Tree. Like his 2016 debut, A Moving Image, Amoo revisits the notion of returning to one’s community following absence or removal. Unlike the gentrification issues at the heart of his last feature, however, Amoo focuses on class and economic disparity with a tale of young Nigerian immigrant boy removed from his white foster mother in Lincolnshire and returned to his biological mother in the less than desirable climes of inner London.…...
Cycles of violence and heartache in disenfranchised urban communities are certainly not new subjects in cinema, and director Shola Amoo puts his own intimate spin on a coming-of-age drama with his sophomore effort The Last Tree. Like his 2016 debut, A Moving Image, Amoo revisits the notion of returning to one’s community following absence or removal. Unlike the gentrification issues at the heart of his last feature, however, Amoo focuses on class and economic disparity with a tale of young Nigerian immigrant boy removed from his white foster mother in Lincolnshire and returned to his biological mother in the less than desirable climes of inner London.…...
- 6/24/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Award-winner Shola Amoo adapted novel; Kibwe Tavares makes feature directorial debut.
13 Films will kick off Cannes virtual market talks on BBC Drama’s coming-of-age feature My Name Is Leon, set against the backdrop of the 1980s UK race riots.
Kibwe Tavares, an executive producer on BBC show Noughts + Crosses, makes his directorial debut on the feature adaptation, based on Kit de Waal’s bestseller My Name Is Leon.
Shola Amoo, whose Last Tree played in competition at Sundance 2019 and separately earned the Writers Guild of Great Britain award for best screenplay, adapted the novel.
The story follows the titular,...
13 Films will kick off Cannes virtual market talks on BBC Drama’s coming-of-age feature My Name Is Leon, set against the backdrop of the 1980s UK race riots.
Kibwe Tavares, an executive producer on BBC show Noughts + Crosses, makes his directorial debut on the feature adaptation, based on Kit de Waal’s bestseller My Name Is Leon.
Shola Amoo, whose Last Tree played in competition at Sundance 2019 and separately earned the Writers Guild of Great Britain award for best screenplay, adapted the novel.
The story follows the titular,...
- 6/22/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The BBC has declared its commitment to being the “primary incubator of story-telling talent in the UK”.
The BBC has declared its commitment to being the “primary incubator of story-telling talent in the UK” by commissioning a quartet of first-time TV writers, along with another Sally Rooney adaptation.
Drama controller Piers Wenger revealed a single film adaptation of Kit de Waal’s My Name Is Leon written by The Last Tree director Shola Amoo, revolving around a mixed-race boy growing up in 1980s Britain. It is directed by Kibwe Tavares (a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2012) and is being produced...
The BBC has declared its commitment to being the “primary incubator of story-telling talent in the UK” by commissioning a quartet of first-time TV writers, along with another Sally Rooney adaptation.
Drama controller Piers Wenger revealed a single film adaptation of Kit de Waal’s My Name Is Leon written by The Last Tree director Shola Amoo, revolving around a mixed-race boy growing up in 1980s Britain. It is directed by Kibwe Tavares (a Screen Star of Tomorrow in 2012) and is being produced...
- 2/25/2020
- by 1101315¦Max Goldbart Broadcast¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The BBC has commissioned a slate of four dramas from first-time TV writers, including a police series starring The Hobbit and Sherlock actor Martin Freeman as a night shift officer in the British city of Liverpool.
The Responder is written by Tony Schumacher, a former police officer who is fulfilling a lifelong ambition to write for the screen. He has been mentored by Accused scribe Jimmy McGovern and been part of the BBC Writers Room emerging writers initiative.
His six-part BBC Two series features Freeman as cop Chris, who works night shifts with his new rookie partner, Rachel. Each episode centers on a different shift, and the series is described as “wildly funny and painfully tragic.” Chris is dealing with a marriage that is breaking down while policing Liverpool’s criminal underbelly, and the show deals with the realities of policing in Britain and the complexities of Freeman’s character.
The Responder is written by Tony Schumacher, a former police officer who is fulfilling a lifelong ambition to write for the screen. He has been mentored by Accused scribe Jimmy McGovern and been part of the BBC Writers Room emerging writers initiative.
His six-part BBC Two series features Freeman as cop Chris, who works night shifts with his new rookie partner, Rachel. Each episode centers on a different shift, and the series is described as “wildly funny and painfully tragic.” Chris is dealing with a marriage that is breaking down while policing Liverpool’s criminal underbelly, and the show deals with the realities of policing in Britain and the complexities of Freeman’s character.
- 2/25/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...
- 1/29/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Carey Mulligan and Himesh Patel among talent spotlighting issue.
British filmmakers and actors have named the women and people of colour they believe should have nominated for a Bafta in the wake of a recent diversity row.
Time’s Up UK has called on talent including Carey Mulligan and Yesterday star Himesh Patel to suggest who they believe should have been recognised in the Bafta Film Awards nominations, in which the four acting categories were all white and no female filmmakers were selected for best director.
The organisation has launched a social media campaign today to celebrate those who they feel should have been nominated,...
British filmmakers and actors have named the women and people of colour they believe should have nominated for a Bafta in the wake of a recent diversity row.
Time’s Up UK has called on talent including Carey Mulligan and Yesterday star Himesh Patel to suggest who they believe should have been recognised in the Bafta Film Awards nominations, in which the four acting categories were all white and no female filmmakers were selected for best director.
The organisation has launched a social media campaign today to celebrate those who they feel should have been nominated,...
- 1/27/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
London-based firm lands investment from Us-based Mc Credit Partners.
The UK’s Great Point Media has secured $100m from Us-based institutional investor Mc Credit Partners (McCp) to launch a film and TV content fund.
The first projects to benefit from the investment are set to be announced early next year with an aim to finance larger independent films and TV productions.
London-based Great Point Media is the financing, sales and distribution outfit behind Shola Amoo’s Sundance title The Last Tree, Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh, and BBC/Amazon TV project King Lear.
Funds managed by McCp will invest up...
The UK’s Great Point Media has secured $100m from Us-based institutional investor Mc Credit Partners (McCp) to launch a film and TV content fund.
The first projects to benefit from the investment are set to be announced early next year with an aim to finance larger independent films and TV productions.
London-based Great Point Media is the financing, sales and distribution outfit behind Shola Amoo’s Sundance title The Last Tree, Lady Macbeth, starring Florence Pugh, and BBC/Amazon TV project King Lear.
Funds managed by McCp will invest up...
- 12/12/2019
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
“The Personal History of David Copperfield” won five awards Sunday at the British Independent Film Awards while Renee Zellweger walked away with the best actress prize for her star turn as Judy Garland in “Judy.” David Livingstone of “Judy” producer Calamity Films accepted it on her behalf.
Feature documentary “For Sama” scooped four awards, including the night’s biggest honor, best British independent film. An intimate portrait of a young mother’s experience of the Syrian civil war, it also won best director for the duo of Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts and for best documentary. It had already taken best editing in the previously announced craft awards.
“The Personal History of David Copperfield” had also already scored three wins in the craft categories. It added two more awards on Sunday night: best supporting actor for Hugh Laurie, who plays Mr. Dick in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic novel,...
Feature documentary “For Sama” scooped four awards, including the night’s biggest honor, best British independent film. An intimate portrait of a young mother’s experience of the Syrian civil war, it also won best director for the duo of Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts and for best documentary. It had already taken best editing in the previously announced craft awards.
“The Personal History of David Copperfield” had also already scored three wins in the craft categories. It added two more awards on Sunday night: best supporting actor for Hugh Laurie, who plays Mr. Dick in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic novel,...
- 12/1/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Bifa Winners: ‘For Sama’, ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’, Renée Zellweger Among Victors
Documentary For Sama, the intimate and scarring portrait of a young mother’s experience of the Syrian civil war, has scored Best British Independent Film, Best Director and Best Documentary at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards ceremony in London. Scroll down for a full list of winners.
The film’s three awards announced this evening were added to the previously announced win for Best Editing. Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts direct the Channel4 and PBS Frontline feature, which has played at festivals the world over.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield won two awards on the night: Best Supporting Actor for Hugh Laurie, who plays Mr Dick in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of the Dickens classic, and Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films for writers Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell. Previously announced had been the film’s awards for Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society of America and Spotlight, Best Costume Design,...
The film’s three awards announced this evening were added to the previously announced win for Best Editing. Waad Al-Khateab and Edward Watts direct the Channel4 and PBS Frontline feature, which has played at festivals the world over.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield won two awards on the night: Best Supporting Actor for Hugh Laurie, who plays Mr Dick in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of the Dickens classic, and Best Screenplay sponsored by BBC Films for writers Armando Iannucci and Simon Blackwell. Previously announced had been the film’s awards for Best Casting sponsored by Casting Society of America and Spotlight, Best Costume Design,...
- 12/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
’The Personal History Of David Copperfield’ finished with five awards, the highest of the night, from 11 nominations.
For Sama and The Personal History Of David Copperfield were the big winners at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).
The ceremony was hosted by actress and comedian Aisling Bea and held at London’s Old Billingsgate tonight (Dec 1).
Syrian civil war documentary For Sama scooped the night’s top prize, best British independent film, as well as best director for Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, best documentary, and best editing at the previously announced craft awards last month.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield...
For Sama and The Personal History Of David Copperfield were the big winners at the 2019 British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs).
The ceremony was hosted by actress and comedian Aisling Bea and held at London’s Old Billingsgate tonight (Dec 1).
Syrian civil war documentary For Sama scooped the night’s top prize, best British independent film, as well as best director for Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, best documentary, and best editing at the previously announced craft awards last month.
The Personal History Of David Copperfield...
- 12/1/2019
- by 1101184¦Orlando Parfitt¦38¦
- ScreenDaily
Great Point Media has boarded sales on “Gwledd,” Lee Haven Jones’ Welsh horror movie.
The film stars Annes Elwy (“Little Women”), Nia Roberts (“Under Milk Wood”) and Julian Lewis Jones (“Justice League”), alongside Steffan Cennydd (“Last Summer”) and Sion Alun Davies (“The Left Behind”). Filmed in Welsh, the picture follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.
Jones has helmed episodes of numerous TV shows, including “Doctor Who,” “The Bay,” and “Vera.” “Gwledd,” which means “feast” in Welsh, is his feature directorial debut. It was written and produced by Roger Williams (“Bang”) and produced through Ffilm Cymru, Wales’ cinema initiative.
U.K.-based film and TV producer, financier, and sales outfit Great Point will be selling world rights to “Gwledd,” starting at Afm. Its market slate...
The film stars Annes Elwy (“Little Women”), Nia Roberts (“Under Milk Wood”) and Julian Lewis Jones (“Justice League”), alongside Steffan Cennydd (“Last Summer”) and Sion Alun Davies (“The Left Behind”). Filmed in Welsh, the picture follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper.
Jones has helmed episodes of numerous TV shows, including “Doctor Who,” “The Bay,” and “Vera.” “Gwledd,” which means “feast” in Welsh, is his feature directorial debut. It was written and produced by Roger Williams (“Bang”) and produced through Ffilm Cymru, Wales’ cinema initiative.
U.K.-based film and TV producer, financier, and sales outfit Great Point will be selling world rights to “Gwledd,” starting at Afm. Its market slate...
- 10/30/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Inspired by his own experiences, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s drama about black children adopted by white UK families is gruelling but intensely heartfelt
No punches are pulled in this gruelling film about racism – and incipient fascism – in late-60s Britain, which is also a parable for what people of colour have to do to fit in and get on. It’s an intensely personal, autobiographical work from actor-turned-director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, inspired by his own childhood being “farmed”, or adopted, as many children with a Nigerian background were in the 60s and 70s, with white, working-class families in the UK. A little like Shola Amoo’s recent The Last Tree, Farming touches on the alienated experience of fostering and the culture shock of going back to Nigeria.
Damson Idris plays Enitan, who was once a shy, dreamy kid but has grown into an angry teenager, bullied by racist skinheads; his foster mum,...
No punches are pulled in this gruelling film about racism – and incipient fascism – in late-60s Britain, which is also a parable for what people of colour have to do to fit in and get on. It’s an intensely personal, autobiographical work from actor-turned-director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, inspired by his own childhood being “farmed”, or adopted, as many children with a Nigerian background were in the 60s and 70s, with white, working-class families in the UK. A little like Shola Amoo’s recent The Last Tree, Farming touches on the alienated experience of fostering and the culture shock of going back to Nigeria.
Damson Idris plays Enitan, who was once a shy, dreamy kid but has grown into an angry teenager, bullied by racist skinheads; his foster mum,...
- 10/10/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Shannon Murphy’s debut feature has its UK launch at London Film Festival.
Picturehouse Entertainment has picked up UK rights to Shannon Murphy’s debut feature Babyteeth from Celluloid Dreams. It follows the film’s world premiere in Competition at Venice last month.
Murphy’s film is making its UK premiere in the first feature competition at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday, October 6.
The comedy drama stars Eliza Scanlen as a seriously ill teenager who falls in love with small-time drug dealer, played by Toby Wallace, to the horror of her parents. The Babadook star Essie Davis and...
Picturehouse Entertainment has picked up UK rights to Shannon Murphy’s debut feature Babyteeth from Celluloid Dreams. It follows the film’s world premiere in Competition at Venice last month.
Murphy’s film is making its UK premiere in the first feature competition at the BFI London Film Festival on Sunday, October 6.
The comedy drama stars Eliza Scanlen as a seriously ill teenager who falls in love with small-time drug dealer, played by Toby Wallace, to the horror of her parents. The Babadook star Essie Davis and...
- 10/4/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
A slow weekend for new titles.
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Sept 27-29)Total gross to date Week 1 Downton Abbey (Universal) £2.7m £19.4m 3 2 Ad Astra (20th Century Fox) £1.3m £4.5m 2 3 Hustlers (Stx) £1m £5m 3 4 It: Chapter Two (Warner Bros) £940,000 £17.8m 4 5 Ready Or Not (20th Century Fox) £697,488 £947,018 1
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23
Universal
Period drama Downton Abbey topped the UK box office for the third weekend, grossing £2.7m from Friday to Sunday to take it to £19.4m so far.
That result is an 18.5% drop on its previous session, roughly half of the first drop of 36% and suggests the film can...
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Sept 27-29)Total gross to date Week 1 Downton Abbey (Universal) £2.7m £19.4m 3 2 Ad Astra (20th Century Fox) £1.3m £4.5m 2 3 Hustlers (Stx) £1m £5m 3 4 It: Chapter Two (Warner Bros) £940,000 £17.8m 4 5 Ready Or Not (20th Century Fox) £697,488 £947,018 1
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23
Universal
Period drama Downton Abbey topped the UK box office for the third weekend, grossing £2.7m from Friday to Sunday to take it to £19.4m so far.
That result is an 18.5% drop on its previous session, roughly half of the first drop of 36% and suggests the film can...
- 9/30/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
A slow weekend for new titles.
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Sept 27-29)Total gross to date Week 1 Downton Abbey (Universal) £2.7m £19.4m 3 2 Ad Astra (20th Century Fox) £1.3m £4.5m 2 3 Hustlers (Stx) £1m £5m 3 4 It: Chapter Two (Warner Bros) £940,000 £17.8m 4 5 Ready Or Not (20th Century Fox) £697,488 £947,018 1
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23
Universal
Period drama Downton Abbey topped the UK box office for the third weekend, grossing £2.7m from Friday to Sunday to take it to £19.4m so far.
That result is an 18.5% drop on its previous session, roughly half of the first drop of 36% and suggests the film can...
RankFilm (Distributor)Three-day gross (Sept 27-29)Total gross to date Week 1 Downton Abbey (Universal) £2.7m £19.4m 3 2 Ad Astra (20th Century Fox) £1.3m £4.5m 2 3 Hustlers (Stx) £1m £5m 3 4 It: Chapter Two (Warner Bros) £940,000 £17.8m 4 5 Ready Or Not (20th Century Fox) £697,488 £947,018 1
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.23
Universal
Period drama Downton Abbey topped the UK box office for the third weekend, grossing £2.7m from Friday to Sunday to take it to £19.4m so far.
That result is an 18.5% drop on its previous session, roughly half of the first drop of 36% and suggests the film can...
- 9/30/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
The story of a British-Nigerian boy growing up in rural Lincolnshire and inner-city London is told with compassion in Shola Amoo’s profoundly moving drama
Writer-director Shola Amoo’s “semi-autobiographical” second feature is an affecting coming-of-age tale pitched somewhere between the sublime American poetry of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and the streetwise British grit of Noel Clarke and Menhaj Huda’s Kidulthood movies. A huge leap forward from the experimental collages of 2016’s A Moving Image, The Last Tree bristles with film-making confidence, plunging us into the world of its young protagonist as he struggles to find his place in a strangely changing environment. Powerful performances, tactile visuals and an elegantly fluid score add to the impact of this impressively understated yet profoundly moving tale.
We open in Lincolnshire, with a scene of bucolic beauty reminiscent of the dreamy field-of-corn sequence in Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher. Here, 11-year-old Femi (Tai Golding...
Writer-director Shola Amoo’s “semi-autobiographical” second feature is an affecting coming-of-age tale pitched somewhere between the sublime American poetry of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight and the streetwise British grit of Noel Clarke and Menhaj Huda’s Kidulthood movies. A huge leap forward from the experimental collages of 2016’s A Moving Image, The Last Tree bristles with film-making confidence, plunging us into the world of its young protagonist as he struggles to find his place in a strangely changing environment. Powerful performances, tactile visuals and an elegantly fluid score add to the impact of this impressively understated yet profoundly moving tale.
We open in Lincolnshire, with a scene of bucolic beauty reminiscent of the dreamy field-of-corn sequence in Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher. Here, 11-year-old Femi (Tai Golding...
- 9/29/2019
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Other openers include horrors ‘Ready Or Not’, ‘Don’t Let Go’.
John Crowley’s The Goldfinch and Shola Amoo’s The Last Tree are two of the 2019 festival titles opening at the UK box office this weekend amid a field of strong holdovers.
Released by Warner Bros, The Goldfinch is an adaptation of Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel about a boy taken in by a wealthy New York family. Ansel Elgort stars as the young man whose troubled childhood leads him into the world of art forgery. Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Jeffrey Wright have supporting roles in the film...
John Crowley’s The Goldfinch and Shola Amoo’s The Last Tree are two of the 2019 festival titles opening at the UK box office this weekend amid a field of strong holdovers.
Released by Warner Bros, The Goldfinch is an adaptation of Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel about a boy taken in by a wealthy New York family. Ansel Elgort stars as the young man whose troubled childhood leads him into the world of art forgery. Nicole Kidman, Sarah Paulson, and Jeffrey Wright have supporting roles in the film...
- 9/27/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Wash Westmoreland Heads Lff Jury; Polanski Added To Efa List; Tokyo Fest Competition — Global Briefs
Colette director Wash Westmoreland will head this year’s BFI London Film Festival (Lff) main jury. He will be joined by Game Of Thrones actress Lena Headey, Egyptian writer and producer Mohamed Hefzy, I, Daniel Blake actress Hayley Squires, director Sudabeh Mortezai (whose Joy won last year’s Lff Competition) and magazine editor Jane Crowther. The Lff First Feature Competition jury will be led by Jessica Hausner, whose Little Joe screens at this year’s fest. Joining her are filmmaker Shola Amoo, whose The Last Tree was at Sundance this year, playwright Theresa Ikoko, and Lilting director Hong Khaou. The festival’s Documentary Competition will be overseen by Strong Island director Yance Ford, with outgoing DocLisboa head Cintia Gil, soon to take over at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and Skate Kitchen producer Julia Nottingham. Finally, the short film jury consists of filmmakers Amrou Al-Kadhi and Mark Jenkin, actor Alex Lawther, and actress and writer Marli Siu.
- 9/26/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Colette director Wash Westmoreland will lead the official competition jury.
Colette and Still Alice director Wash Westmoreland heads the official competition jury at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. His latest film Earthquake Bird screens in this year’s event.
The jury for the first feature competition (Sutherland award) will be led by Austrian director Jessica Hausner, whose Little Joe is also playing at Lff.
Strong Island director Yance Ford and producer Jacqui Davies head the documentary and short film competition juries respectively.
The other jurors are:
Official competition: Jane Crowther, editor of Total Film; Hayley Squires, actress; Sudabeh Mortezai,...
Colette and Still Alice director Wash Westmoreland heads the official competition jury at this year’s BFI London Film Festival. His latest film Earthquake Bird screens in this year’s event.
The jury for the first feature competition (Sutherland award) will be led by Austrian director Jessica Hausner, whose Little Joe is also playing at Lff.
Strong Island director Yance Ford and producer Jacqui Davies head the documentary and short film competition juries respectively.
The other jurors are:
Official competition: Jane Crowther, editor of Total Film; Hayley Squires, actress; Sudabeh Mortezai,...
- 9/26/2019
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Sam Adewunmi is charismatic as a Nigerian-British foster child forced back to the inner city in Shola Amoo’s second film
This sombre, yet heartfelt and warmly acted drama is from Shola Amoo, whose 2016 debut was the engaging docudrama A Moving Image, about communities in Brixton, south London. The Last Tree is about a Nigerian-British boy called Femi who was fostered out to Mary (Denise Black), a carer in the countryside, because of unspecified problems suffered by Femi’s mum – a strong performance from Gbemisola Ikumelo.
Ten-year-old Femi lives a happy, idyllic existence in this rural place, but it is all shattered when his mum shows up, now ready to take him back, and poor Femi has no choice but to comply, despite Mary having given a promise that he need never leave her. Femi now moves to a tough London neighbourhood and he finds that his mum is an...
This sombre, yet heartfelt and warmly acted drama is from Shola Amoo, whose 2016 debut was the engaging docudrama A Moving Image, about communities in Brixton, south London. The Last Tree is about a Nigerian-British boy called Femi who was fostered out to Mary (Denise Black), a carer in the countryside, because of unspecified problems suffered by Femi’s mum – a strong performance from Gbemisola Ikumelo.
Ten-year-old Femi lives a happy, idyllic existence in this rural place, but it is all shattered when his mum shows up, now ready to take him back, and poor Femi has no choice but to comply, despite Mary having given a promise that he need never leave her. Femi now moves to a tough London neighbourhood and he finds that his mum is an...
- 9/26/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A period movie with a twist, The Last Tree is the coming-of-age story of a boy struggling to find his identity in both the English countryside in which he’s raised and the Nigerian shantytown of his birth
Shola Amoo sits outside a cafe on a sun-blazed afternoon, a man with something up his sleeve. Imagine a British period movie and what you picture may not look like The Last Tree, the film he has written and directed. But that is what it is: set in the early 00s, an era whose signifiers are as precise as steam trains or bonnets – a CD Walkman and a tiny Nokia used to make calls, in a story set in rural Lincolnshire, south London and Lagos, Nigeria.
“I’m not sure a film like this has been a thing in British cinema before,” Amoo says, genial and self-contained. “But it’s a thing now.
Shola Amoo sits outside a cafe on a sun-blazed afternoon, a man with something up his sleeve. Imagine a British period movie and what you picture may not look like The Last Tree, the film he has written and directed. But that is what it is: set in the early 00s, an era whose signifiers are as precise as steam trains or bonnets – a CD Walkman and a tiny Nokia used to make calls, in a story set in rural Lincolnshire, south London and Lagos, Nigeria.
“I’m not sure a film like this has been a thing in British cinema before,” Amoo says, genial and self-contained. “But it’s a thing now.
- 9/19/2019
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
Picturehouse Entertainment has released a new trailer and poster for drama ‘The Last Tree’.
Directed by Shola Amoo, the film evocatively explores the subject of belonging in a fresh and poetic way. Featuring a range of standout performances from a talented cast, including Sam Adewunmi in the lead role, this beautifully shot and stunningly directed film is quite simply unmissable.
Also in trailers – David Oyelowo tries to change history in trailer for ‘Don’t Let Go’
The film hits cinemas September 20th
The Last Tree Synopsis
The Last Tree is the semi-autobiographical story of Femi (as a child played by newcomer Tai Golding), a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. In his teens, Femi (Sam Adewunmi) is struggling with the culture and values of his new environment. Femi must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take,...
Directed by Shola Amoo, the film evocatively explores the subject of belonging in a fresh and poetic way. Featuring a range of standout performances from a talented cast, including Sam Adewunmi in the lead role, this beautifully shot and stunningly directed film is quite simply unmissable.
Also in trailers – David Oyelowo tries to change history in trailer for ‘Don’t Let Go’
The film hits cinemas September 20th
The Last Tree Synopsis
The Last Tree is the semi-autobiographical story of Femi (as a child played by newcomer Tai Golding), a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. In his teens, Femi (Sam Adewunmi) is struggling with the culture and values of his new environment. Femi must decide which path to adulthood he wants to take,...
- 7/19/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Deep into the summer and looking ahead at the fall film festivals, this is also the time of year where those films that debuted at Sundance in the winter begin to arrive in theaters. And that means audiences will finally get the chance to watch some of the best the early festivals have to offer and see some of the surprising films that caught the eye of critics in January. One of those films is “The Last Tree.”
As seen in the trailer for “The Last Tree,” which premiered at Sundance, we see that the beautiful, emotionally-charged film follows the story of Femi, a young British boy of Nigerian heritage, who is being raised in foster care by a white woman.
Continue reading ‘The Last Tree’ Trailer: Director Shola Amoo’s Sundance Standout Is A Hypnotic Coming-Of-Age Tale at The Playlist.
As seen in the trailer for “The Last Tree,” which premiered at Sundance, we see that the beautiful, emotionally-charged film follows the story of Femi, a young British boy of Nigerian heritage, who is being raised in foster care by a white woman.
Continue reading ‘The Last Tree’ Trailer: Director Shola Amoo’s Sundance Standout Is A Hypnotic Coming-Of-Age Tale at The Playlist.
- 7/18/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
"A hypnotic coming-of-age story." Picturehouse Cinemas in the UK has unveiled the first official trailer for The Last Tree, an acclaimed film that first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year where it picked up a number of rave reviews. The Last Tree is the second feature film from filmmaker Shola Amoo, and is about a boy of Nigerian descent growing up in England. After initially growing up in foster care in the countryside, he moves to London with his mum, but he doesn't feel like he fits in there. The film is a semi-autobiographical second feature from Amoo, exploring what it means to be a young black man in the early 00s in London. Sam Adewunmi stars as Femi, with a cast including Nicholas Pinnock, Denise Black, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Jayden Jean-Paul-Denis, Rasaq Kukoyi, Ibrahim Jammal, Tai Golding, and Layo-Christina Akinlude. This looks incredible, I'm very much looking forward to it.
- 7/17/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Picturehouse has also bought Sundance title ‘Judy & Punch’.
Picturehouse Entertainment has confirmed it has picked up UK rights to Ira Sachs’ Cannes Competition title Frankie from Sbs International and Quentin Dupieux’s dark comedy Deerskin, the opening fllm of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, from WTFilms.
The company has also bought Australian director Mirrah Foulkes’ Sundance premiere Judy & Punch, from Cornerstone Films.
Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert as a family matriarch who gathers her clan around her for one last summer holiday in Portugal. Marisa Tomei co-stars with Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson.
Picturehouse previously released Elle, starring Huppert,...
Picturehouse Entertainment has confirmed it has picked up UK rights to Ira Sachs’ Cannes Competition title Frankie from Sbs International and Quentin Dupieux’s dark comedy Deerskin, the opening fllm of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, from WTFilms.
The company has also bought Australian director Mirrah Foulkes’ Sundance premiere Judy & Punch, from Cornerstone Films.
Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert as a family matriarch who gathers her clan around her for one last summer holiday in Portugal. Marisa Tomei co-stars with Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson.
Picturehouse previously released Elle, starring Huppert,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
Picturehouse has also bought Sundance title ‘Judy & Punch’.
Picturehouse Entertainment has confirmed it has picked up UK rights to Ira Sachs’ Cannes Competition title Frankie from Sbs International and Quentin Dupieux’s dark comedy Deerskin, the opening fllm of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, from WTFilms.
The company has also bought Australian director Mirrah Foulkes’ Sundance premiere Judy & Punch, from Cornerstone Films.
Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert as a family matriarch who gathers her clan around her for one last summer holiday in Portugal. Marisa Tomei co-stars with Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson.
Picturehouse previously released Elle, starring Huppert,...
Picturehouse Entertainment has confirmed it has picked up UK rights to Ira Sachs’ Cannes Competition title Frankie from Sbs International and Quentin Dupieux’s dark comedy Deerskin, the opening fllm of this year’s Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, from WTFilms.
The company has also bought Australian director Mirrah Foulkes’ Sundance premiere Judy & Punch, from Cornerstone Films.
Frankie stars Isabelle Huppert as a family matriarch who gathers her clan around her for one last summer holiday in Portugal. Marisa Tomei co-stars with Greg Kinnear and Brendan Gleeson.
Picturehouse previously released Elle, starring Huppert,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
This year’s event hosted 12 features transferred from the Utah-based festival.
Lulu Wang’s family drama The Farewell picked up the audience favourite award at Sundance London on Sunday, June 2.
The film had its European premiere at the event, and was one of 12 features which launched at Sundance Film Festival in January to transfer to the London offshoot.
It centres on Billi, a Chinese-American woman who returns to China when her grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis, about which her family keeps her in the dark.
Awkwafina leads the cast, which also includes Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong,...
Lulu Wang’s family drama The Farewell picked up the audience favourite award at Sundance London on Sunday, June 2.
The film had its European premiere at the event, and was one of 12 features which launched at Sundance Film Festival in January to transfer to the London offshoot.
It centres on Billi, a Chinese-American woman who returns to China when her grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis, about which her family keeps her in the dark.
Awkwafina leads the cast, which also includes Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong,...
- 6/3/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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