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Journey’s End takes home 2 prestigious Tiantan Awards

02 May 2018 in Films, News, Press

Female filmmakers stole the show at the 2018 Beijing International Film Festival, with women taking home all of the major accolades. Georgian director Ana Urushadze’s critically acclaimed debut Scary Mother was named best picture while her fellow Georgian filmmaker Mariam Khatchvani won best director for Dede. British actor Joe Cole won best actor for his performance in Kim Nguyen’s long-distance romance Eye On Juliet, while Sam Claflin’s war drama Journey’s End went home with the best supporting actor award for Paul Bettany and best music for composer Hildur Gudnadottir and Natalie Holt. Best supporting actress prize went to Mina Sadati from Iranian drama...

Samuel Goldwyn Films acquires ‘Zoo’

04 April 2018 in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Colin McIvor’s family adventure Zoo. Art Parkinson, Penelope Wilton, and Toby Jones star in the story of friends during the Second World War who fight to save a baby elephant during the Belfast Blitz bombings in 1941. Katy Jackson and John Leslie of Wee Buns produced alongside Dominic Wright, and Jacqueline Kerrin at Ripple World Productions. Metro International Entertainment handles international sales. Piccadilly Pictures’ Christopher Figg and Robert Whitehouse served as executive producers alongside Lisa Lambert and Kevin Jackson. “This is a film the whole family can enjoy together,” Samuel Goldwyn Films president Peter Goldwyn,...

John Cusack joins Irish western ‘Never Grow Old’ (exclusive)

16 January 2018 in News, Press, Screen Daily, Uncategorized

"John Cusack has joined the cast of western Never Grow Old alongside Emile Hirsch, Deborah Francois and Antonia Campbell-Hughes. Being John Malkovich actor Cusack co-stars as malevolent villain Dutch Albert with Hirsch (Lone Survivor) in the lead role as the reluctant hero Patrick Tate. Shoot has been underway in Ireland since November 6. Launched by Metro International Entertainment at the AFM, the film is written and directed by Ivan Kavanagh (The Canal). Rezo Films has taken French-speaking territories. The film was developed by Ripple World Pictures with the assistance of Creative Europe and the Irish Film Board who also provided production finance for...

Sam Claflin nominated for Best Actor at the Evening Standard British Film Awards

16 January 2018 in News, Press, Screen Daily, Uncategorized

"Discover all the nominations for this year's Evening Standard British Film Awards Jodie Whittaker is among the stars in the running for this year’s Evening Standard British Film Awards. The new star of Doctor Who is up for best actress for her performance as the wife of Paddy Considine’s brain-damaged fighter in boxing drama Journeyman. Whittaker, the first actress to play The Doctor in the BBC series, is shortlisted alongside Saoirse Ronan, recognised for Lady Bird, The Shape Of Water star Sally Hawkins and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, for The Party. Emily Beecham completes the list for her role as Daphne in the film...

Screen International’s “films that popped at Venice and Toronto”, featuring Journey’s End.

13 October 2017 in News, Press, Screen Daily, Uncategorized

The October issue of Screen features Sam Claflin as its front cover, in character as Captain Stanhope from Journey's End. This follows on from previous Screen articles praising the film, with Fionnuala Halligan including Journey's End as one of her "10 films that stood out at the Venice and Toronto film festivals", and Allan Hunter's fantastic review, which reads as follows: "R.C. Sheriff’s landmark play Journey’s End was first staged in 1928 and filmed in 1930. It has been revived, revisited and remade by successive generations, which rather begs the question of whether the world needs yet another version of this old...

First look at Sam Claflin in WWI drama ‘Journey’s End’

02 February 2017 in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily, Uncategorized

Screen can reveal the first production still of Sam Claflin in Saul Dibb’s adaptation. Screen can reveal the first production still of Sam Claflin in World War One drama Journey’s End, of which Metro International will show first footage at next week’s EFM in Berlin. Director Saul Dibb’s adaptation of R.C Sheriff’s classic play about trench warfare follows young recruit Raleigh (Asa Butterfield) who pulls strings to join his childhood friend and hero Captain Stanhope (Claflin) on the front line. However, a much-changed Stanhope is horrified by Raleigh’s arrival given that they are anticipating a massive German advance. Also starring are Paul Bettany, Stephen...

15 UK films to tempt festival directors in 2017

12 January 2017 in Films, Press, Screen Daily

11 January, 2017 | By Screen staff From Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here to Asif Kapadia’s Maradona doc, Screen profiles a selection of hot UK projects in 2017. Beast Dir Michael Pearce Former Screen International Star of Tomorrow Pearce makes his feature debut with Beast (working title), described as “a love story trapped inside of a horror film”. Jessie Buckley stars as a young woman who starts to suspect her new boyfriend could be involved in a spate of killings on the island of Jersey. Contact: Stray Bear Productions lauren@straybearfilms.co.uk Dark River Dir Clio Barnard Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean star in Barnard’s Yorkshire-set drama...

BFI boards Saul Dibb-Sam Claflin war-drama ‘Journey’s End’

28 November 2016 in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily, Uncategorized

EXCLUSIVE: Shoot underway on adaptation of WWI classic; Asa Butterfield, Paul Bettany, Toby Jones co-star. The BFI has boarded production finance on director Saul Dibb’s (Suite Française) adaptation of the classic British stage play Journey’s End. Principal photography is underway in Cardiff and Ipswich on the feature which stars Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games) in the lead role alongside Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind), Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire) Asa Butterfield (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Tom Sturridge (Far From the Madding Crowd). Simon Reade’s adaptation of R.C. Sherriff’s 1928 play also draw’s on the latter’s...

AFM: Metro International heads ‘Into The Rainbow’

03 November 2016 in Films, News, Press, Screen Daily

EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit boards 3D family fantasy with Willow Shields. Metro International has boarded sales on completed UK-China-New Zealand family adventure movie Into The Rainbow (formerly The Wonder). The Hunger Games’ Willow Shields, Chinese star Leo Wu, Taiwanese actress Joe Chen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta and Archie Kao star in the story of two teenagers who travel inside a super-powered rainbow to China. Norman Stone (Shadowlands) and Gary Wing-Lun Mak (My Beautiful Kingdom) direct the 3D feature written by Ashley Sidaway, Robert Sidaway and Lindsay Edmonds. Producers include Richard Fletcher (Boy) and Iain Brown (Indian Summer). The English-language production is part-financed by Tien Ran...

Filming of ‘Elephant angel’ film Zoo starts on Belfast streets

21 September 2016 in Films, News, Press

STREETS around Belfast city centre were transformed into the Blitz era on Tuesday as filming took place for a movie about a Belfast zoo keeper. The cameras were rolling in Union Street and Little Donegall Street for the film Zoo, a new movie based on one of Northern Ireland's most famous wartime stories. Zoo is based on the true story of Denise Austin, a keeper at Belfast Zoo during the Blitz in 1941 known as the 'elephant angel'. Denise secretly walked Sheila from the zoo each evening to the backyard of her terraced home on the Whitewell Road in the north of the...