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Simon Otto to direct ‘Love Actually’ writer-director Richard Curtis children’s book adaptation ‘That Christmas’.

Simon Otto, best known for his animation work on the How To Train Your Dragon franchise, is to make his feature directorial debut on Locksmith Animation’s That Christmas.

The film, previously known as The Empty Stocking, is based on a trio of children’s books by Love Actually writer/director Richard Curtis and is in development at Locksmith Animation’s studios in London. Curtis is writing the screenplay with Peter Souter.

Swiss-born Otto is known for his work at US animation studio DreamWorks, where...

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A BBC review set up to establish the facts around the decision to appoint Martin Bashir as religious affairs correspondent in September 2016 has found that the tainted journalist was not re-hired to cover up the controversy around his infamous Princess Diana interview on the “Panorama” program.

The review was conducted by former BBC nations and regions director Ken MacQuarrie.

“Although there were some shortcomings in the process by which he was re-employed, I am satisfied that that he was ultimately appointed because his knowledge and experience were considered to be the best match to the requirements for the role at that time,” MacQuarrie said. “I have found no evidence that Martin Bashir was re-hired to contain and/or cover up the events surrounding the 1995 ‘Panorama’ program. In my view, that theory is entirely unfounded.”

In May, an independent investigation into the interview found that the public broadcaster “fell short...

‘Merrylegs The Movie’ is based on cartoons by the late Norman Thelwell.

UK filmmaker Candida Brady is set to direct a live-action feature based on the classic Thelwell Ponies cartoons to be produced by her own Blenheim Films.

Merrylegs The Movie will be based on characters created by late cartoonist Norman Thelwell. Set in the remote mountains of Snowdonia, in Wales, filming will take place later in 2021 and is intended for release in 2023 to mark the centenary of Thelwell’s birth.

Casting is underway for the role of Penny, a character inspired by Thelwell’s daughter, as well as for Merrylegs the pony,...

Last remaining 35mm print of Tyneside classic Get Carter will open the event.

The inaugural Newcastle International Film Festival has revealed a line-up of more than 200 films, with the event set to run March 29 to April 1.

The festival will host 40 features, 140 shorts, including works by filmamkers from the North East. There will also be workshops, Q&A sessions and events across the city of Newcastle.

Get Carter, starring Michael Caine in an early role, will open the festival at the Tyneside Cinema on March 29. The only remaining 35mm print of one of the most renowned Newcastle-shot films will screen...

12 year old Fraser Kelly (represented by Red Hot Entertainment) leads the cast of Urban and the Shed Crew, an adaptation of the book by Bernard Hare, described as a tale of heroin and cement, set in Britain’s underclass in the 90’s, which is currently filming in Leeds.

Ex-social worker Bernard Hare is introduced to the Shed Crew – an anarchic gang of kids between the ages of ten and fourteen; joy-riding, thieving runaways, no strangers to drugs or sex

Fraser stars alongside Richard Armitage as Chop, Anna Friel as Greta, Neil Morrissey, Kathryn Drysdale, and Charlie Heaton plays Urban's brother Frank.

Twelve-year old Urban Grimshaw is Britains’ most runaway child, he’s even been on TV’s Crimewatch. His mother is a junkie and his father might as well be dead. He can’t read or write, and he doesn’t go to school. His average day is spent sitting...

Respected actor Jeremy Irons is set to co-star in the Edward R. Pressman/ Prashita Chaudhary’s Cinemorphic Entertainment Company production of The Man Who Knew Infinity, the biographic film on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan with Dev Patel starring as the revered Indian mathematician. Irons will play G.H. Hardy, the English mathematician who plucked Ramanujan from obscurity in Edwardian India and installed him in the hallowed halls of Cambridge University.

The film will be directed by Matthew Brown, who also wrote the screenplay based on the biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel. Edward R. Pressman and Prashita Chaudhary of Cinemorphic are producers along with Jim Young under his Animus Films banner and Sofia Sondervan of Dutch Tilt Film.

Announcing the casting, Pressman said, “I am delighted to be working with Jeremy again. Our last collaboration on Reversal of Fortune earned an Oscar for Jeremy,...

★★★☆☆ Having, for one reason or another, missed out on the opportunity of a UK theatrical run, British writer-director Candida Brady's 2012 human waste exposé Trashed makes its way onto DVD this week courtesy of the piece's producers, Blenheim Films. With the star power of Academy Award-winning narrator and host Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers) a primary draw, this is certainly one of the better environmentally-minded documentaries released over the last few years, whilst still falling just short of going toe-to-toe with the likes of Jeff Orlowski's seminal Sundance favourite and Oscar nominee Chasing Ice (2012). Read more »...

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Gangs Of Wasseypur Part 2 (18)

(Anurag Kashyap, 2012, Ind) Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Zeishan Quadri, Aditya Kumar, Huma Qureshi. 160 mins

It's over five hours long in all, but there's barely a slack moment in this exhilarating Indian epic as it races through generations of smalltown criminal, industrial and political enmity. Yes, it's violent, but like all great crime stories it's also a vibrant tapestry of family life and modern history, closer to Leone, Coppola or Tarantino than Bollywood.

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(Park Chan-wook, 2013, Us/UK) Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode. 99 mins

The Oldboy director gives us a sensual, tantalisingly ambiguous thriller, centred on Wasikowska and her shifty smalltown family.

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(Nicholas Jarecki, 2012, Us) Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling.

If you were to view the documentary Trashed without audio, the visuals alone would leave a strong impression: Our globe, as captured by the camera’s sweeping gaze, is loaded with staggering amounts of waste. Household rubbish, rotting animals, matted paper and plastic form mountains many yards high, towering ominously over oceans and towns. Steam drifts from the mounds, like great animals giving off heat. According to Trashed, we throw away 200 billion plastic bottles and 58 billion disposable cups every year — figures we’ve likely heard before, but easily forget for lack of visual perspective. Candida Brady’s film provides just …...

Title: Trashed Director: Candida Brady Featuring: Jeremy Irons A vividly sketched documentary of environmental warning which deploys co-producer Jeremy Irons as its inquisitive guide, “Trashed” sets out to discover the full extent of the world’s waste management problem, and diagnose its dangerous and rapidly increasing consequences for humankind. Directed by Candida Brady, the movie serves as a compelling indictment of modern profligacy, and a call to action for both aggressive macro reforms and sensible but pointed overhauls in individual behavior. “Trashed” opens in Lebanon, where Irons, serving as an interviewer and audience escort, not unlike Keanu Reeves in this year’s “Side by Side,” visits a seaside Beirut suburb where 80 [ Read More ]

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Oscar-winning actor explains why he travelled around the world to highlight the environmental problems caused by our waste

Jeremy Irons, the Oscar-winning actor, has teamed up with the British filmmaker Candida Brady to produce a new feature-length documentary called Trashed. It sets out to "discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution".

Ahead of its first theatrical screenings in the Us later this month, Irons answered my questions about the film via email...

We are used to actors/singers/celebrities, etc, highlighting a particular environmental cause, or narrating a documentary. But it is unusual to see someone such as yourself getting quite so involved in a project liked Trashed. [Irons was also executive producer.] How did you come to be involved so intimately in this film?

I wanted to help create a film on a subject of real social importance. Candida Brady...

They might only have a trio of Out of Competition items in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me and You, Laurent Bouzereau’s Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir, and Trashed by Candida Brady, but there are some definite September Film Festival titles in Phil Morrison long awaited return since Junebug with Lucky Dog and Martin Mcdonagh’s Seven Psychopaths (see pic above) that have both us and buyers buzzing.

Lucky Dog by Phil Morrison

Me And You (Io E Te) by Bernardo Bertolucci

Seven Psychopaths by Martin McDonagh

Anton Corbijn Inside Out by Klaartje Quirijns

Diana Vreeland : The Eye Has To Travel by Lisa Immordino Vreeland

Girls’ Night Out by Michael Hoffman

God Help The Girl by Stuart Murdoch

Great Expectations by Mike Newell

Kon Tiki by Joachim Roenning

Quartet by Dustin Hoffman

Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir by Laurent Bouzereau

Trashed by Candida Brady

Woody Allen: A Documentary by...

Looking at the Cannes Film Festival Competition titles, the top international sales agents are Wild Bunch with with 3 films: The Angel’s Share by Ken Loach, Beyond the Hills by Cristian Mungiu and Holy Motors by Leos Carax. Wild Bunch actually has 12 films in all the festival sections including Critic's Week and not yet counting Director's Fortnight. MK2 follows with 3 in Competition: After the Battle by Yousry Nasrallah, Like Someone in Love by Abbas Kiarostami, On the Road by Walter Salles and 4 in all sections. FilmNation follows with 2 in Compeitition: Lawless by John Hillcoat and Mud by Jeff Nichols.

U.S. has 5 indies in Competition. Wes Anderson’s opening film Moonrise Kingdom (Isa: Focus), Jeff Nichols’ Mud (Isa: FilmNation), Lee Daniels' The Paperboy (Isa: Nu Image/ Millenium), whose last feature Precious screened in Un Certain Regard in 2009, New Zealand director Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly, Australia-born John Hillcoat’s Lawless (formerly titled The Wettest County). If you add Philip Kaufman's Hemingway and Gellhorn (HBO TV) which is out of competition, U.S. has 6.

Thierry Fremaux says, “What I also think is interesting is that none of these films are shot in New York or Los Angeles but rather in the South… they show another America.”

Latin America is represented by Mexico's favorite arthouse director (in Europe at least) Carlos Reygadas and his Post Tenebras Lux. Brazil's Walter Salles has made a French Brazilian English language film of American icon Jack Kerouac (On the Road) which might count on the Latin America scorecard. So. Korea has two films: The Taste of Money by Sang-Soo Im and In Another Country by Sang Soo Hong. No women are represented.

Late Addition (April 30): 1 Female Director Added Out of Competition: Candida Brady whose documentary Trashed (U.K.) has no international representation. That Makes 2 films without international sales representation. Midnight Screenings include The Sapphires by Wayne Blair (Australia), Maniac by Franck Khalfoun (U.S.) (Isa: Wild Bunch) Making 7 U.S. films.

Looking at Un Certain Regard sidebar of the Cannes Film Festival, 17 films hold a berth. 2 female directors are included: French Catherine Corsini of Trois Mondes and French Sylvie Verheyde of Confessions of a Child of the Century. Latin American films include La Playa the debut of Juan Andrés Arango (Brazil, Colombia, France), Después de Lucia by Michel Franco (France, Mexico), Elefante Blanco of Pablo Trapero (Argentina, France and Spain), A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim by Nelson Pereira Dos Santos (Brazil), Villegas by Gonzalo Tobal (Argentina, France, Netherlands).and if you can count the French production 7 Dias en la Habana by directors Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noé, Laurent Cantet, that will make a total of 6. 2 American indies are Beasts of the Southern Wild by Benh Zeitlin and The Central Park Five by directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David Mcmahon. Late Additions (April 30): Djeca – Children of Sarajevo by Aida Bejic ♀ (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey) Makes 3 female directors, and Gimme the Loot by Adam Leon (U.S.) Makes 3 U.S. indies. Closing night film will be Renoir by Gilles Bourdo (France) (Isa: Wild Bunch)

Looking at the Critic's Week, there are no women in Competition. All 7 Competition films are debuts by males. Two French female directors have films in Special Screenings by themselves in their own exclusive ghetto. Sandrine Bonnaire's second feature (but first fiction feature) J'enrage a son absence (I am Enraged by His Absence) (Isa: Films Distribution), and Alice Winocour's debut Augustine. 2 films are from Latin America: Argentinian Los Salvages (The Wild Ones) and Mexican-Spanish-u.S. coproduction Aqui y Alla. That is the only U.S. film. The sales agent with the most (2) films is Films Boutique. 4 Films have no international sales agents.

Looking at Directors Fortnight, Latin American films take the center stage in honor of the recently deceased Chilean director Raoul Ruiz. His most recent film The Night in Front (La Noche en Frente) will be premiered in a special tribute session.

"We have seen many good films from Latin America," said Fortnight artistic director Edouard Waintrop when introducing the 2012 selection to press in Paris. One of four scheduled debates will focus on Latin American cinema, with Waintrop saying this year's selection was "more sensitive to Latin American cinema than Asian [films]."

Of the 7 Latino films to make the list, two are Chilean -- Ruiz's The Night in Front and Pablo Larrain's No, a Chilean-American film starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The other five come from Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia with 3 films La Playa, La Sirga (both by Burning Blue Productions! ♀) and a short film Jonathan Ceballos' short The Children of the Clouds (Los Ahijiados de las Nubes).

Films from South Korea, China, India, Algeria and Iran, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg are also included in the selection. The United States was involved in the production of three of this year's movies, including Michael Gondry's The We and I, which opens the event.

Noemi Livovsky (Camille Rewinds from France) is one of two women directors! The second which makes hr the 4th in all Cannes Festivals is also the only non-French one. Yulene Olaizola (Fogo) is from Mexico.

For the Rights Roundup, you can begin watching sales of titles in Cannes here, organized by international sales agent. There will be daily updates throughout Cannes. It's interesting to see that sales on several Competition titles have already been made as presales.

Winners of the International Sales Agent with the Most Films in The Different Cannes Selections:

1st Place: Wild Bunch with 12

2nd Place: Pyramide with 5

3rd Place: MK2 with 3 which it also co-produced.

Honorable Mention: FilmNation with 2.

An Australian film has been added to the Cannes Film Festival’s Official Selection.

The Sapphires, produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight and Kylie du Fresne and first time feature director Wayne Blair has been accepted to screen in official selection, out of competition in a midnight screening.

The film is Australia’s only feature film to be selected by the festival this year.

The film is an adaptation of the stage musical that sees three Aboriginal singers plucked from a remote Aboriginal mission to become the next Supremes and entertain the troops in Vietnam. The film stars Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Chris O’Dowd and newcomers Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell.

De Fresnes said: “From the moment we first heard of these amazing young Aboriginal women, we knew the story of how they discovered soul music and dared to live their dream had all the ingredients to captivate and enchant cinema audiences.

The 2012 Cannes lineup doesn’t require any more heft — a statement that’s clearly a given when you’ve got some Kiarostami, a little Haneke, a dash of the Berg-s Cronen and Vinter, and Madagascar 3. But there’s a brief update on the lineup of films, with THR informing us that seven (non-competition) titles have been added to the slate in various other categories.

SXSW hit Gimme the Loot (from Adam Leon), Aida Begic‘s Decca are hoping to make a splash in Un Certain Regard, while the “latest work of art” from Gilles Bourdos, Renoir, is closing out that territory. Cannes Classics, meanwhile, will conclude with Final Cut – Hölgyeim És Uraim, a Hungarian “montage film” from director Gyorgy Palfi (Taxidermia) and producer Béla Tarr.

Wayne Blair‘s The Sapphires and Franck Khalfoun‘s (P2) Maniac will appear under the Midnight Screenings banner; neither are total unknowns, either. We...

As we already know, the Cannes Film Festival opens in France on May 16th, and a documentary about the world’s waste will get a special screening. All in all, there are seven new movies added to the official line-up, as following: Trashed, by British director Candida Brady; Australian director Wayne Blair‘s The Sapphires, a musical [...]

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The Cannes Film Festival's just announced that it's added seven films to the lineup of the Official Selection.

There'll be one new Special Screening, Candida Brady's documentary about the world's waste, Trashed. Via Anthony Kaufman, here's the site.

Two Midnight Screenings: Wayne Blair's The Sapphires, about the Australian aboriginal singing group, and Franck Khalfoun's Maniac, a 3D remake starring Elijah Wood.

Three new titles will be screening in Un Certain Regard:

Aida Begic's Djeca. Adam Leon's Gimme the Loot. See the SXSW and New Directors / New Films roundups. Gilles Bourdos's Renoir, to be screened at the closing ceremony.

And finally, György Pálfi's montage film Final Cut (Hölgyeim És Uraim), produced by Béla Tarr and created out of around 400 films, will close Cannes Classics. Trailer at the top.

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The upcoming 65th Cannes Film Festival has added seven more titles to its lineup. Among the latest additions is Adam Leon's acclaimed debut "Gimme the Loot," which premiered earlier this year at SXSW where it won the Narrative Grand Jury Prize and got picked up for distribution by Sundance Selects (it opens in the Us this summer). The film will screen in Un Certain Regard, alongside Aida Begic's "Djeca" from Bosnia and Herzegovina. [Go Here for our profile of Adam Leon, and Here for our review of "Gimme the Loot."] Other newcomers include a special screening of Candida Brady's UK documentary "Trashed"; Midnight Screenings selections "The Sapphires" directed by Australian Wayne Blair, and Franck Khalfoun's "Maniac"; Gilles Bourdo's "Renoir," which will screen at the closing ceremonies of Un Certain Regard; and the Hungarian montage film "Final Cut - Hölgyeim És...

Paris - As the Festival de Cannes gears up to celebrate its 65th birthday, fest topper Thierry Fremaux has added seven more filmmaking friends to his elite guestlist. Trashed will get a special screening of Candida Brady's U.K. documentary. Wayne Blair's Australian first film The Sapphires has been added to the Midnight Screenings along with Franck Khalfoun's Maniac. French director Gilles Bourdos' latest work of art Renoir will screen at the closing ceremonies of Un Certain Regard. Adam Leon will bring Gimme the Loot, the director’s debut feature that premiered at SXSW where it won the Narrative Feature Grand Jury Prize. Sundance Selects will release

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With the Cannes Film Festival underway in just over two weeks, the finishing touches have been put on the lineup, and while some high-profile titles (such as "The Place Beyond the Pines") had been hoped for as late-minute additions, some rather surprising and lower key fare is rounding things out.

Perhaps the biggest eye-opener is the addition of Frank Khalfoun’s 3D remake of the cult serial killer flick "Maniac" starring Elijah Wood. It's a movie we figured would've been unveiled on the genre fest circuit instead, but the addition here indicates it might be a cut above the rest. At the very least, it seems the rumored Pov perspective that the filmmaker is using for the movie has impressed the selection committe at the fest, and it certainly makes an obvious choice for the Midnight Screening slate.

Also coming on board in what is a big boost for the...