20th May 2012, Cannes: After a certain accepting in Cannes for Rufus Norris’ acclaimed Broken which non-stop Critics Week, BBC Films has denounced their brand brand brand brand brand new slate, reaffirming their joining to nurturing relations with filmmakers as well as building brand brand brand brand brand new talent.
BBC Films is anxious to be welcoming behind former collaborators upon a series of sparkling projects this year. Following An Education and many not long ago Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet, BBC Films will be operative again with Finola Dwyer as well as Amanda Posey of Wildgaze upon dual projects. Colm Toibin’s best-selling novel, Brooklyn will star Rooney Mara as well as has been blending by Academy Award nominated Nick Hornby. Hornby’s novel A Long Way Down, has been blending by Jack Thorne as well as will be destined by Pascal Chaumeil (Heartbreaker). It will star Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, as well as Emile Hirsch.
Having worked formerly with Jeremy Thomas on Glastonbury and right away Julien Temple’s Kinks’ film You Really Got Me, BBC Films will additionally be collaborating again with him on Dom Hemingway , a London-set black humerous party starring Jude Law as well as Richard E. Grant to be directed by Richard Sheppard (Matador). Law will fool around Dom Hemingway, a criminal with a lax compound who after twelve years in jail travels with his many appropriate crony (played by Grant) to pick up what he’s due for not ratting upon crime bosses.
Once again, BBC Films will stick upon forces with Ruby Films on Saving Mr Banks which is set to fire after this year with Disney as well as stars Tom Hanks as well as Emma Thompson. Scripted by Kelly Marcel, a movie tells of a longstanding argument in between Walt Disney as well as writer P.L. Travers to acquire a rights to what was to turn a single of cinema’s family classics, Mary Poppins.
BBC Films is vehement to be operative in partnership with Steve Coogan as well as Armando Iannucci to move Alan Partridge to a large shade subsequent year with The Alan Partridge Movie (working title) that starts sharpened in a Autumn. Produced by Baby Cow, Kevin Loader, Henry Normal as well as Armando Iannucci, a movie is destined by Declan Lowney.
Having worked with Simon Curtis upon My Week With Marilyn, BBC Films is gay to be operative with him upon a brand brand brand brand brand new project, The Golden Lady. Written by acclaimed playwright Alexi Kaye Campbell, as well as constructed by David Thompson (Origin Pictures), it tells a implausible la mode story of Maria Altmann who,with forward immature counsel Randy Schoenberg, fought to retrieve multiform universe important Klimt paintings, together with his many important golden mural of Maria’s aunt Adele Bloch-Bauer, that had been stolen from her family by a Nazis.
BBC Films’ attribute with David Heyman as well as Heyday Films continues with Testament of Youth, Juliette Towhidi’s instrumentation of Vera Brittain’s distressing First World War memoir. We have been anxious to make known now that Saoirse Ronan is right away trustworthy to fool around Vera.
Ralph Fiennes follows his directorial entrance with BBC Films, BAFTA nominated Coriolanus, with Invisible Woman. Currently sharpened as well as blending by Abi Morgan, a movie stars Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas as well as Tom Hollander. It is about a lady lost by history, a adore so dark it competence never have existed: this is a story of Nelly Ternan’s tip adore event with Charles Dickens.
Having formerly worked with Andrew Eaton on A Cock as well as Bull Story, BBC Films has teamed up again on Good Vibrations which is carrying a universe premiere during a opening night of a Belfast Film Festival as well as is now screening in a marketplace during Cannes. The moving story of Belfast’s in advance insurgent as well as song partner Terri Hooley, it is destined by Lisa Barros D’Sa as well as Glenn Leyburn, created by Glenn Patterson as well as Colin Carberry as well as constructed by Eaton as well as Chris Martin.
Following The Awakening, BBC Films has collaborated with Nick Murphy upon a mental thriller Blood, with a screenplay by Bill Gallagher. Paul Bettany as well as Stephen Graham star as dual brothers in a downwards turn of guilt, mental disorder as well as drop with Mark Strong, Brian Cox as well as Natasha Little co-starring.
Blood has not long ago wrapped as has Sally Potter’s most brand brand new underline as well as Mat Whitecross’ Spike Island.
Potter’s untitled film, set in London, 1962 as a Cold War meets a passionate revolution, tells a story of dual teenage girls whose lifelong loyalty is in jeopardy by a strife of enterprise as well as a integrity to survive. Rising stars Elle Fanning as well as Alice Englert take a executive roles, to one side Christina Hendricks, Timothy Spall, Annette Bening, Alessandro Nivola as well as Oliver Platt. Artificial Eye will discharge in a UK.
Coming of age drama, Spike Island, is a sentimental image of Britain in a early 1990s. To be distributed in a UK by Revolver as well as shaped upon a Stone Roses’ many iconic performance, a movie focuses upon a organisation of immature estate boys who have shaped their own indie stone rope as well as transport to see their prime band’s 1990 Spike Island gig. Written by Chris Coghill, a movie stars immature British bent together with Elliot Tittensor as well as Matthew McNulty.
“A winning multiple of prohibited brand brand brand brand brand new bent as well as some-more gifted high-profile filmmakers as well as artists creates this year’s line-up a honestly rich, different as well as sparkling proposition,” pronounced Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films. “I’d quite similar to to thank my tiny as well as dedicated group during BBC Films who go upon to work with genuine passion as well as resourcefulness to yield fresh, strange as well as constrained party for a Great British public.”
BBC Films additionally has a clever joining to brand brand brand brand brand new filmmakers as well as supports Film London’s Microwave scheme. Most not long ago they have worked with Jules Bishop on Borrowed Time and Ben Drew (aka Plan B) upon his rarely expected directorial debut, iLL Manors, that is out in June.
In a year that will see all eyes upon London with a Olympic Games this summer, BBC Films is vehement to be operative upon a series of projects in partnership with a London 2012 Festival.
BBC Films will benefaction 4 reduced drive-in theatre in a singular partnership with Film4 as well as LOCOG for a London 2012 Festival, where any association has consecrated as well as co-funded dual projects. BBC Films has corroborated acclaimed writer/director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk about Kevin) on Swimmer, a elegant tour by a waterways as well as seashore of a British Isles, as well as directing twin Max Giwa as well as Dania Pasquini (Streetdance) on What If with Vertigo Films Production a jubilee of civic girl enlightenment as well as London featuring Noel Clarke as well as a many appropriate of UK giveaway running, skateboarding, BMXing as well as civic art.
They have been additionally operative with mythological director, Julien Temple, who will write, approach as well as produce London – The Modern Babylon a time-travelling tour to a heart of his hometown for BBC Films as well as BFI,with a await of BBC Archive as well as BFI National Archive. Reaching behind to a emergence of movie in London during a begin of a 20th century, a story unfolds in movie archive, voices of Londoners past as well as benefaction as well as a upsurge of renouned song opposite a century; a tide of civic consciousness, similar to a stream that flows by a heart.
Following a good year with a releases of a critically acclaimed We Need to Talk about Kevin, Jane Eyre, My Week With Marilyn, Coriolanus, Project Nim and Salmon Fishing in a Yemen, BBC Films is gay to see a recover of Ol Parker’s teen romance Now is Good, James Marsh’s heart slashing thriller Shadow Dancer, Dustin Hoffman’s waggish directorial debut Quartet and Mike Newell’s wealthy Dickens’ classic Great Expectations in a subsequent twelve months.