“Your CV is actually insane,” Top Boy actor Ashley Walters told Daniel Kaluuya as a short clip from Judas and the Black Messiah wrapped on screen 1 at Picturehouse Central in London.
The pair were on stage together this morning as part of the London Film Festival’s popular screen talk session. Kaluuya’s career was the subject of the session. Walters was a surprise addition as moderator, and the Judas and the Black Messiah actor spent an early portion of the session praising Walters and his 2004 breakout hit Bullet Boy, which he identified as an early inspiration.
“It was Bullet Boy. That was a big one for me,” Kaluuya said. “Obviously, I knew you from So Solid and one day I was in Sainsbury’s and I looked at the Times Magazine and you were on the front cover. I thought he looked like me. I can do this.”
Kaluuya added...
The pair were on stage together this morning as part of the London Film Festival’s popular screen talk session. Kaluuya’s career was the subject of the session. Walters was a surprise addition as moderator, and the Judas and the Black Messiah actor spent an early portion of the session praising Walters and his 2004 breakout hit Bullet Boy, which he identified as an early inspiration.
“It was Bullet Boy. That was a big one for me,” Kaluuya said. “Obviously, I knew you from So Solid and one day I was in Sainsbury’s and I looked at the Times Magazine and you were on the front cover. I thought he looked like me. I can do this.”
Kaluuya added...
- 10/9/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Familiar tropes are given new life in this sensitive directorial debut starring the magnetically stoic Kieton Saunders-Browne
From Bullet Boy to Blue Story, the inescapable whirlpool of life in London’s youth gangs has been a cinematic theme for some time now – one that invariably comes with the standard-issue banging grime soundtrack. Daniel Glenn-Barbour’s low-budget debut doesn’t deviate from the norm, but it has a heightened introspection that marks it out, a kind of dull roiling despair behind the eyes, thanks to its unusually passive protagonist: Darrell who, as the title suggests, is forever acquiescing to the requests of others – and is played with terrifically repressed, bobble-hatted anti-verve by Kieton Saunders-Browne.
In his late teens, Darrell has already served a stretch in prison on behalf of one of his gangland higher-ups and decides he can no longer stomach being patronised by snooty management in a dead-end office internship.
From Bullet Boy to Blue Story, the inescapable whirlpool of life in London’s youth gangs has been a cinematic theme for some time now – one that invariably comes with the standard-issue banging grime soundtrack. Daniel Glenn-Barbour’s low-budget debut doesn’t deviate from the norm, but it has a heightened introspection that marks it out, a kind of dull roiling despair behind the eyes, thanks to its unusually passive protagonist: Darrell who, as the title suggests, is forever acquiescing to the requests of others – and is played with terrifically repressed, bobble-hatted anti-verve by Kieton Saunders-Browne.
In his late teens, Darrell has already served a stretch in prison on behalf of one of his gangland higher-ups and decides he can no longer stomach being patronised by snooty management in a dead-end office internship.
- 6/6/2022
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
The Top Boy star on making his directorial debut, becoming a grandfather and hiding his ballet skills from the boys in Peckham
London-born Ashley Walters, 38, first found fame under the moniker Asher D, a member of UK garage collective So Solid Crew. He’s now best known as an actor, with film and TV credits including Bullet Boy, Hustle, Small Island and Top Boy. He currently stars in Sky One action series Bulletproof and recently made his directorial debut with Sky Arts short film Boys.
Boys is about best friends on an east London estate. Was it inspired by teenage lads getting unfairly portrayed by the media?
Definitely. It stems from me going through that with So Solid back in the day. We were villains in the press for a long time. That’s not to say we didn’t deserve it at times. But what I’m trying to...
London-born Ashley Walters, 38, first found fame under the moniker Asher D, a member of UK garage collective So Solid Crew. He’s now best known as an actor, with film and TV credits including Bullet Boy, Hustle, Small Island and Top Boy. He currently stars in Sky One action series Bulletproof and recently made his directorial debut with Sky Arts short film Boys.
Boys is about best friends on an east London estate. Was it inspired by teenage lads getting unfairly portrayed by the media?
Definitely. It stems from me going through that with So Solid back in the day. We were villains in the press for a long time. That’s not to say we didn’t deserve it at times. But what I’m trying to...
- 1/31/2021
- by Michael Hogan
- The Guardian - Film News
An ambitious original drama about Black Tudors living in 17th-century London is in the works for U.K. streamer BritBox.
Produced by ITV Studios-backed Silverprint Pictures, “Southwark” is in paid development for the BBC and ITV-backed SVOD platform. Set in the 1600s, the series will be written by novelist and screenwriter Catherine Johnson, best known for the 2004 Ashley Walters-fronted film “Bullet Boy.”
The story, which was inspired by Miranda Kaufmann’s historical book “Black Tudors,” will combine both factual and fictional characters as well as true events to reflect a different perspective of Tudor England.
The Tudor period technically spanned the late 1400s to early 1600s, and “Black Tudors” is set towards the end of the era, in 1600. Kaufmann’s book focuses on the stories of 10 Africans who came to England from Africa, Europe and the Spanish Caribbean and lived in England during the Tudor and Stuart times.
Produced by ITV Studios-backed Silverprint Pictures, “Southwark” is in paid development for the BBC and ITV-backed SVOD platform. Set in the 1600s, the series will be written by novelist and screenwriter Catherine Johnson, best known for the 2004 Ashley Walters-fronted film “Bullet Boy.”
The story, which was inspired by Miranda Kaufmann’s historical book “Black Tudors,” will combine both factual and fictional characters as well as true events to reflect a different perspective of Tudor England.
The Tudor period technically spanned the late 1400s to early 1600s, and “Black Tudors” is set towards the end of the era, in 1600. Kaufmann’s book focuses on the stories of 10 Africans who came to England from Africa, Europe and the Spanish Caribbean and lived in England during the Tudor and Stuart times.
- 10/14/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The Rocks writer and playwright plans to fly her guests across the London skyline to sip rum punch while watching Babymother and Bullet Boy
Entry is free, but only if you can perfectly spit any verse from 21 Seconds by So Solid Crew. When I was younger, I used to watch the video on repeat, with all the cool people wearing leather and climbing over fences into no man’s land. I worked hard to memorise every lyric. Anyone who can match me deserves my respect.
Entry is free, but only if you can perfectly spit any verse from 21 Seconds by So Solid Crew. When I was younger, I used to watch the video on repeat, with all the cool people wearing leather and climbing over fences into no man’s land. I worked hard to memorise every lyric. Anyone who can match me deserves my respect.
- 8/28/2020
- by As told to Rich Pelley
- The Guardian - Film News
Anne-Marie Duff and Rafe Spall will star in “Salisbury,” the fact-based BBC drama about the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the southwestern English city.
Duff (“Shameless”) and Spall (“The War of the Worlds”) will star alongside Mark Addy (“Game of Thrones”), Annabel Scholey (“Britannia”), Johnny Harris (“Jawbone”) and MyAnna Buring (“Ripper Street”).
The alleged assassination attempt on the Skripals, using the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, caused an international uproar. Britain accused Russia of being behind the attack, which the Skripals survived, but the Kremlin denied involvement. The incident led to the pullout of diplomats from Russia by several Western countries in solidarity with Britain.
The three-part TV drama will focus on the impact the incident had on the local community and recount the story of how ordinary people and public services reacted to the crisis on their doorstep.
“It’s a privilege...
Duff (“Shameless”) and Spall (“The War of the Worlds”) will star alongside Mark Addy (“Game of Thrones”), Annabel Scholey (“Britannia”), Johnny Harris (“Jawbone”) and MyAnna Buring (“Ripper Street”).
The alleged assassination attempt on the Skripals, using the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, caused an international uproar. Britain accused Russia of being behind the attack, which the Skripals survived, but the Kremlin denied involvement. The incident led to the pullout of diplomats from Russia by several Western countries in solidarity with Britain.
The three-part TV drama will focus on the impact the incident had on the local community and recount the story of how ordinary people and public services reacted to the crisis on their doorstep.
“It’s a privilege...
- 10/24/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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
In Britain we’re finally witnessing, and appreciating, more diversity on screen – and much of that is down to the wave of television series and films that were produced at the turn of the century. The likes of Kildulthood and Bullet Boy were at the forefront of this movement, and can be accredited as being huge forces in the changing face of entertainment in this country – and stars Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters were, and still are, integral to this progression.
The pair now collaborate in new Sky One series Bulletproof, which follows two best friends and police officers, as they strive to keep the streets safe, and their relationship in tact. We had the pleasure of meeting the two lead stars, and creators, to discuss the way they’ve seen the industry change and develop across the years.
They also speak about the idea behind the show and the creative process,...
The pair now collaborate in new Sky One series Bulletproof, which follows two best friends and police officers, as they strive to keep the streets safe, and their relationship in tact. We had the pleasure of meeting the two lead stars, and creators, to discuss the way they’ve seen the industry change and develop across the years.
They also speak about the idea behind the show and the creative process,...
- 5/14/2018
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
TV drama reunites Tom Hardy with Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders, Locke).
Drama series Taboo, starring Tom Hardy, is to begin filming in London this week and new additions to the cast have been revealed.
The eight-part drama series has been created by Steven Knight, who previously worked with Hardy on TV series Peaky Blinders and feature Locke, and isdirected by Kristoffer Nyholm (Danish TV series The Killing, The Enfield Haunting) for BBC One and FX.
Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney who returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father. Driven to wage war on those who have wronged him, Delaney finds himself in a face-off against the East India Company, whilst playing a dangerous game between two warring nations – Britain and America.
Alongside Hardy’s protagonist is Michael Kelly (House of Cards, Everest), who plays Us doctor Dumbarton, Jonathan Pryce (Pirates...
Drama series Taboo, starring Tom Hardy, is to begin filming in London this week and new additions to the cast have been revealed.
The eight-part drama series has been created by Steven Knight, who previously worked with Hardy on TV series Peaky Blinders and feature Locke, and isdirected by Kristoffer Nyholm (Danish TV series The Killing, The Enfield Haunting) for BBC One and FX.
Hardy plays James Keziah Delaney who returns to 1814 London after 10 years in Africa to discover that he has been left a mysterious legacy by his father. Driven to wage war on those who have wronged him, Delaney finds himself in a face-off against the East India Company, whilst playing a dangerous game between two warring nations – Britain and America.
Alongside Hardy’s protagonist is Michael Kelly (House of Cards, Everest), who plays Us doctor Dumbarton, Jonathan Pryce (Pirates...
- 11/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Venice - NBC's "The Office" rang frequent laughs from Dwight Schrute's beet farm, with glimpses of backwards Cousin Mose and his feral antics proving particularly fertile ground for comedy ("And as of this morning, we are completely wireless here at Schrute Farms, but as soon as I find out where Mose hid all the wires, we'll get all that power back on.") This kind of vaguely unsettling boys-on-the-farm vibe is played straight in "The Goob", a character piece that has atmosphere to spare, and whose minimal plot is helped along by the happily original setting; this might be the first film shot in Norfolk to premiere at Venice. Self-described as "a psychological Western" and set largely on farmland of sorts in the flat formerly marshy Fens in the East of England (think the reclaimed bits of the Everglades without the redeeming features of exotic wildlife or sunshine), The Goob is...
- 8/26/2014
- by Catherine Bray
- Hitfix
Exclusive: Salt inks multi-territory deal with eOne for action-thriller starring Lars Mikkelsen and Michelle Fairley.
UK producer Moli Films’ action-thriller Montana has sold to 14 territories for The Salt Company, including a multi-territory deal with distributor Entertainment One.
eOne has picked up rights in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Scandinavia, Switzerland and South Africa.
The deals were negotiated by James Norrie of Salt and Joel Kennedy and Jo Sweby of eOne, which will distribute directly in the UK and sub-distribute in the other territories.
Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones), Adam Deacon (Anuvahood), Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy) and newcomer Mckell David star in director Mo Ali’s crime-thriller about a steely eastern European hitman who arrives in London to avenge the death of his family but is held up after stumbling on a 14 year-old runaway.
The film has also sold to Australia and New Zealand (Eagle Entertainment), Greece (Odeon), Malaysia (Roarlion), the Middle East (Front...
UK producer Moli Films’ action-thriller Montana has sold to 14 territories for The Salt Company, including a multi-territory deal with distributor Entertainment One.
eOne has picked up rights in the UK, France, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Scandinavia, Switzerland and South Africa.
The deals were negotiated by James Norrie of Salt and Joel Kennedy and Jo Sweby of eOne, which will distribute directly in the UK and sub-distribute in the other territories.
Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing), Michelle Fairley (Game of Thrones), Adam Deacon (Anuvahood), Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy) and newcomer Mckell David star in director Mo Ali’s crime-thriller about a steely eastern European hitman who arrives in London to avenge the death of his family but is held up after stumbling on a 14 year-old runaway.
The film has also sold to Australia and New Zealand (Eagle Entertainment), Greece (Odeon), Malaysia (Roarlion), the Middle East (Front...
- 12/11/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
To mark the release of Top Boy Season 2 on DVD Now, we’ve been given 3 copies of the show to give away.
Exposing the harsh reality of a drug-fuelled underworld, the second season of BAFTA award-winning crime drama Top Boy presents a frighteningly realistic depiction gang life on London’s streets. This gritty and gripping drama is released on DVD on 16 September 2013.
Returning cast from the critically acclaimed first season includes; Ashley Walters (Outcasts, Hustle, Bullet Boy) as Top Boy ‘Dushane’; Kane Robinson (one of the UK’s rising Grime artists) as Sully; Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Bad Girls, Eastenders) as Lisa; David Hayman (Trial and Retribution, The Domino Effect) as Joe; Giacomo Mancini as Gem; Malcolm Kamulete as Ra’Nell; Shone Romulus as Dris and Xavien Russell as Michael. Joining the cast is the brilliant Lorraine Burroughs who plays Dushane’s new love interest Rihanna.
Please note: This competition is open...
Exposing the harsh reality of a drug-fuelled underworld, the second season of BAFTA award-winning crime drama Top Boy presents a frighteningly realistic depiction gang life on London’s streets. This gritty and gripping drama is released on DVD on 16 September 2013.
Returning cast from the critically acclaimed first season includes; Ashley Walters (Outcasts, Hustle, Bullet Boy) as Top Boy ‘Dushane’; Kane Robinson (one of the UK’s rising Grime artists) as Sully; Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Bad Girls, Eastenders) as Lisa; David Hayman (Trial and Retribution, The Domino Effect) as Joe; Giacomo Mancini as Gem; Malcolm Kamulete as Ra’Nell; Shone Romulus as Dris and Xavien Russell as Michael. Joining the cast is the brilliant Lorraine Burroughs who plays Dushane’s new love interest Rihanna.
Please note: This competition is open...
- 9/16/2013
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ashley Walters and John Dagleish will join Stephen Tompkinson in new BBC One drama Truckers.
The Bullet Boy and Beaver Falls stars have been cast in the five-part drama from writer William Ivory.
Truckers will follow the lives of truck drivers working for a haulage yard in Nottingham.
Harry Treadaway (Control), Sian Breckin (Tyrannosaur) and Jenn Murray (The Fades) will also star in the hour-long series.
Polly Hill, Head of Independent Drama, BBC, said: "It's great to see Billy's scripts attract such a terrific cast. This is a beautifully written series that is bold, funny and moving and we have a fantastic cast to pull this off."
Steve Lightfoot - executive producer for Company Pictures - added: "William Ivory has written a group of wonderful blue collar characters who leap off the page, with lives we can all relate to - and this cast of exciting actors inhabit them brilliantly...
The Bullet Boy and Beaver Falls stars have been cast in the five-part drama from writer William Ivory.
Truckers will follow the lives of truck drivers working for a haulage yard in Nottingham.
Harry Treadaway (Control), Sian Breckin (Tyrannosaur) and Jenn Murray (The Fades) will also star in the hour-long series.
Polly Hill, Head of Independent Drama, BBC, said: "It's great to see Billy's scripts attract such a terrific cast. This is a beautifully written series that is bold, funny and moving and we have a fantastic cast to pull this off."
Steve Lightfoot - executive producer for Company Pictures - added: "William Ivory has written a group of wonderful blue collar characters who leap off the page, with lives we can all relate to - and this cast of exciting actors inhabit them brilliantly...
- 5/15/2013
- Digital Spy
BBC sports presenter, praised for knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012, wins achievement of the year
Capping a summer that was almost as golden for her as it was for the winning athletes, Clare Balding was recognised on Friday for the Olympic and Paralympic coverage that prompted national admiration of her presenting skills, as she collected achievement of the year at the Women in Film and Television awards.
The sports presenter – praised for her knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012 – was the best known of three women honoured for their roles in broadcasting the Olympic Games.
Joining her on the awards podium were Tracey Seaward, who took the producer award for her work on Danny Boyle's spectacular opening ceremony, while Barbara Slater, the BBC's first female director of sport, won the inspirational woman award.
"I take the award on behalf of all of the women in sports television," Balding said after accepting her award.
Capping a summer that was almost as golden for her as it was for the winning athletes, Clare Balding was recognised on Friday for the Olympic and Paralympic coverage that prompted national admiration of her presenting skills, as she collected achievement of the year at the Women in Film and Television awards.
The sports presenter – praised for her knowledgeable, engaging style during London 2012 – was the best known of three women honoured for their roles in broadcasting the Olympic Games.
Joining her on the awards podium were Tracey Seaward, who took the producer award for her work on Danny Boyle's spectacular opening ceremony, while Barbara Slater, the BBC's first female director of sport, won the inspirational woman award.
"I take the award on behalf of all of the women in sports television," Balding said after accepting her award.
- 12/8/2012
- by Vicky Frost
- The Guardian - Film News
London – Former BBC high-flying producer Ruth Caleb is joining forces with independent production banner Argonon's drama arm Leopardrama. Caleb, whose resume boasts movies Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort, Dominic Savage's Bullet Boy and TV's A Short Stay in Switzerland starring Emmy-award winner Julie Walters, will be working on Leopardrama's existing projects including a movie about the life of flamboyant Irish-born entertainer Danny La Rue, once billed as the world's most famous female impersonator. Caleb will also work on the much-anticipated Terence Davies movie, Mother of Sorrows, and will be tasked with developing new dramas for
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- 10/31/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
'I had to snog Heather Graham once – that was pretty cool'
Jaime Winstone, 27, was raised in north London and Essex, by parents Elaine McCausland and the actor Ray Winstone. She was cast in the film Bullet Boy in 2004 and two years later appeared in Noel Clarke's Kidulthood. In 2010 she was in the award-winning film Made In Dagenham and appeared in the BBC drama Five Daughters. Earlier this year she played the lead in Elfie Hopkins, a film she produced.
When were you happiest?
At work, doing what I do best.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing the people I love.
What is your earliest memory?
Dancing around in my nappy to Girls On Film by Duran Duran.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
My Nanny Frances, my mum's mum.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I put myself under immense pressure.
What is...
Jaime Winstone, 27, was raised in north London and Essex, by parents Elaine McCausland and the actor Ray Winstone. She was cast in the film Bullet Boy in 2004 and two years later appeared in Noel Clarke's Kidulthood. In 2010 she was in the award-winning film Made In Dagenham and appeared in the BBC drama Five Daughters. Earlier this year she played the lead in Elfie Hopkins, a film she produced.
When were you happiest?
At work, doing what I do best.
What is your greatest fear?
Losing the people I love.
What is your earliest memory?
Dancing around in my nappy to Girls On Film by Duran Duran.
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
My Nanny Frances, my mum's mum.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I put myself under immense pressure.
What is...
- 8/17/2012
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
Plan B's debut feature tries too hard to send a moral message
The American crime movie was established before the industry moved west to Hollywood and had its first golden age in the 1930s. Partly through our rigid censorship, partly because of middle-class domination, the British crime film didn't become established in our native cinema until the mid-1940s. This was the era of the corruptly alluring spiv, the postwar black market and the reaction against socialist austerity fostered by a combination of the rightwing press and the subversive Ealing Comedy.
At this point the working class emerged as a serious subject for moviemakers, and lower-class criminals began to embrace the ambivalent glamour they had in America and on the continent. A dramatis personae of underworld types was established and a geography of crime mapped out. Their main sphere of activity became London's East End. But a sleazily alluring...
The American crime movie was established before the industry moved west to Hollywood and had its first golden age in the 1930s. Partly through our rigid censorship, partly because of middle-class domination, the British crime film didn't become established in our native cinema until the mid-1940s. This was the era of the corruptly alluring spiv, the postwar black market and the reaction against socialist austerity fostered by a combination of the rightwing press and the subversive Ealing Comedy.
At this point the working class emerged as a serious subject for moviemakers, and lower-class criminals began to embrace the ambivalent glamour they had in America and on the continent. A dramatis personae of underworld types was established and a geography of crime mapped out. Their main sphere of activity became London's East End. But a sleazily alluring...
- 6/9/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Winstone Brawled At Movie Tryout
British actress Jaime Winstone was so determined to land the role of a tough street kid in Bullet Boy she started a brawl at the audition.
Winstone, daughter of veteran actor Ray Winstone, applied for the part of Natalie in the gritty 2004 drama and was invited to a meeting with casting directors to try out for the role.
And she was so obsessed with proving she could play the part of a street-hardened youngster, she let her fists do the talking.
Winstone tells You magazine, "I was pretty outspoken, and this casting director invited me to audition for Bullet Boy as a street kid. I ended up getting into a punch-up in the audition, which I think helped me get hired - they saw that I had a genuine anger and passion."...
Winstone, daughter of veteran actor Ray Winstone, applied for the part of Natalie in the gritty 2004 drama and was invited to a meeting with casting directors to try out for the role.
And she was so obsessed with proving she could play the part of a street-hardened youngster, she let her fists do the talking.
Winstone tells You magazine, "I was pretty outspoken, and this casting director invited me to audition for Bullet Boy as a street kid. I ended up getting into a punch-up in the audition, which I think helped me get hired - they saw that I had a genuine anger and passion."...
- 3/26/2012
- WENN
'My earliest memory? Eating under my grandmother's dining table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10'
Ashley Walters, 29, was born in London, where he went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School. As a teenager, he performed in the West End and had roles in the television series The Bill and Grange Hill; he was also part of the rap collective So Solid Crew. In 2004 he starred in the National Theatre's production Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads and the acclaimed film Bullet Boy. Last year he starred in Channel 4's Top Boy series and he is in the new BBC drama Inside Men, which will be on air in February.
When were you happiest?
My primary school years.
What is your greatest fear?
That I won't succeed. Other than that, I'm scared of birds.
What is your earliest memory?
I used to eat...
Ashley Walters, 29, was born in London, where he went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School. As a teenager, he performed in the West End and had roles in the television series The Bill and Grange Hill; he was also part of the rap collective So Solid Crew. In 2004 he starred in the National Theatre's production Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads and the acclaimed film Bullet Boy. Last year he starred in Channel 4's Top Boy series and he is in the new BBC drama Inside Men, which will be on air in February.
When were you happiest?
My primary school years.
What is your greatest fear?
That I won't succeed. Other than that, I'm scared of birds.
What is your earliest memory?
I used to eat...
- 1/28/2012
- by Rosanna Greenstreet
- The Guardian - Film News
Jaime Winstone and Russell Tovey are old friends, and about to co-star in a new play about a one-night stand. They talk to Maddy Costa
Like all coincidences, it feels both bizarre and perfectly obvious that Russell Tovey and Jaime Winstone have known each other for years. The two actors spent their adolescence in Essex, though they were hardly neighbours: Tovey grew up in Billericay, and Winstone moved from London to Roydon in her early teens. But he happened to go to the same drama club as Winstone's older sister, Lois. "She's been in my parents' house, in the garden," he says, nodding over his teriyaki lunch at Jaime, a dishevelled figure sitting beside him. "She was so cool. I remember I saw you once in a club, you had a pair of snowboots on, and I thought: 'She knows what she's doing.'"
"Oh my God, them really chavvy Diors!
Like all coincidences, it feels both bizarre and perfectly obvious that Russell Tovey and Jaime Winstone have known each other for years. The two actors spent their adolescence in Essex, though they were hardly neighbours: Tovey grew up in Billericay, and Winstone moved from London to Roydon in her early teens. But he happened to go to the same drama club as Winstone's older sister, Lois. "She's been in my parents' house, in the garden," he says, nodding over his teriyaki lunch at Jaime, a dishevelled figure sitting beside him. "She was so cool. I remember I saw you once in a club, you had a pair of snowboots on, and I thought: 'She knows what she's doing.'"
"Oh my God, them really chavvy Diors!
- 1/24/2012
- by Maddy Costa
- The Guardian - Film News
This year's UK riots made gritty dramas such as Kidulthood and Shank look all too real. But could these films be part of the problem, asks Live magazine's Zindzi Rocque-Drayton
It looked a little like a movie. Cars on fire. Groups of youths in hoodies, their faces covered, running from corner to corner. Shop windows being smashed, and people climbing inside to fetch trainers or TVs or designer cloths. Was it Shank? Kidulthood? Who's starring in this one?
What unfolded on the nation's TV screens between 6 and 10 August wasn't a Sky Movies season of British urban cinema, of course, but the English riots, leaving five people dead and causing an estimated £200m worth of damage to property. And even as they unfolded, there were voices linking the violence to popular culture. On Newsnight, for example, the historian David Starkey huffed and puffed: "What has happened is that the substantial section...
It looked a little like a movie. Cars on fire. Groups of youths in hoodies, their faces covered, running from corner to corner. Shop windows being smashed, and people climbing inside to fetch trainers or TVs or designer cloths. Was it Shank? Kidulthood? Who's starring in this one?
What unfolded on the nation's TV screens between 6 and 10 August wasn't a Sky Movies season of British urban cinema, of course, but the English riots, leaving five people dead and causing an estimated £200m worth of damage to property. And even as they unfolded, there were voices linking the violence to popular culture. On Newsnight, for example, the historian David Starkey huffed and puffed: "What has happened is that the substantial section...
- 12/16/2011
- by Zindzi Rocque-Drayton
- The Guardian - Film News
Hit social comedies such as Intouchables are being billed as commercial movies, but they're still more subversive than any of Britain's multicultural offerings
There's money in multiculturalism. That's very clear a month after the release in France of Intouchables, a comedy-drama phenomenon that hops across Paris's social divide the second Philippe, a white aristocrat paralysed in a paragliding accident, hires Driss, a French African carer from the banlieues: cue hilarious culture clashes and life-affirming discovery of common ground. The "Intouchables tsunami", as Libération put it, has surely now made it the country's No 1 film for 2011, propelled by blinding bouche-à-oreille to nearly $90m in box office returns already.
Cue much Gallic chin-stroking in the press about the significance of it all. "The film spins out a generous social metaphor, which shows all the advantages of the association between Old France paralysed by its privileges and the vital dynamism of immigrant youth,...
There's money in multiculturalism. That's very clear a month after the release in France of Intouchables, a comedy-drama phenomenon that hops across Paris's social divide the second Philippe, a white aristocrat paralysed in a paragliding accident, hires Driss, a French African carer from the banlieues: cue hilarious culture clashes and life-affirming discovery of common ground. The "Intouchables tsunami", as Libération put it, has surely now made it the country's No 1 film for 2011, propelled by blinding bouche-à-oreille to nearly $90m in box office returns already.
Cue much Gallic chin-stroking in the press about the significance of it all. "The film spins out a generous social metaphor, which shows all the advantages of the association between Old France paralysed by its privileges and the vital dynamism of immigrant youth,...
- 12/8/2011
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
The former So Solid Crew member has a burgeoning acting career. But how much does his portrayal of young black men draw on his own troubled background – and does he worry about being typecast?
Is Ashley Walters afraid of being typecast? In his new film, Sket, he plays a violent gang leader on a London housing estate. In Top Boy, a Channel 4 drama soon to be screened, he plays a drug dealer on a London housing estate. In another new film – because Walters is about to be everywhere – Demons Never Die, he plays a police officer; it must have come as something of a relief. After Bullet Boy, the 2004 film that kick-started his movie career – in which he played a young man involved in gun crime on a London housing estate – it seemed as if he could be in danger of becoming the go-to man for gritty, urban dramas.
Is Ashley Walters afraid of being typecast? In his new film, Sket, he plays a violent gang leader on a London housing estate. In Top Boy, a Channel 4 drama soon to be screened, he plays a drug dealer on a London housing estate. In another new film – because Walters is about to be everywhere – Demons Never Die, he plays a police officer; it must have come as something of a relief. After Bullet Boy, the 2004 film that kick-started his movie career – in which he played a young man involved in gun crime on a London housing estate – it seemed as if he could be in danger of becoming the go-to man for gritty, urban dramas.
- 10/21/2011
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
You may remember some casting calls posted on Screenterrier back in January. The Channel 4 series it was for, Top Boy, is about to hit our screens.
Top Boy is Ronan Bennett's new four-part drama about young people living on the edge and, for the most part, out of sight in east London today. Directed by Yann Demange, Top Boy showcases a fresh and dynamic line up of first-time actors, brought together through extensive talent searches across London.
Newcomer Malcolm Kamulete stars as 13-year-old Ra'Nell who has to "step up and be a man" when his mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) has a breakdown and is hospitalised. At the same time his mum's friend Heather (Kierston Wareing), enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her unborn baby the chances she never had - "even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place.
Top Boy is Ronan Bennett's new four-part drama about young people living on the edge and, for the most part, out of sight in east London today. Directed by Yann Demange, Top Boy showcases a fresh and dynamic line up of first-time actors, brought together through extensive talent searches across London.
Newcomer Malcolm Kamulete stars as 13-year-old Ra'Nell who has to "step up and be a man" when his mother Lisa (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) has a breakdown and is hospitalised. At the same time his mum's friend Heather (Kierston Wareing), enlists his help in a dangerous plan she has concocted to give her unborn baby the chances she never had - "even if it means doing one wrong thing to get to the right place.
- 10/13/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The latest bit of psycho-driven fun from our friends across the pond has gotten a makeover. A title change has turned the film once known as Suicide Kids into the less edgy Demons Never Die. We even have a new quad one-sheet for ya. Dig it!
Written and directed by one of the UK’s most exciting new filmmakers, Arjun Rose (Diversity 3D, Swift), and produced by Golden Globe Nominee Idris Elba ("The Wire", 28 Weeks Later, RocknRolla), Demons Never Die boasts an impressive ensemble cast that brings together the freshest stars of the latest generation of British acting talent.
The genre busting cast includes British Independent Film Award winnner Ashley Walters (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Stormbreaker, Bullet Boy), Andrew Ellis (This is England), Arnold Oceng (Adulthood, 4,3,2,1), Jacob Anderson (Chatroom, 4,3,2,1), Reggie Yates (Doctor Who), Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks), Femi Oyineran (Kidulthood, Adulthood, Annuvahood), Jack Doolon (Cemetery Junction), Peter Baladi (Streetdance 3D,...
Written and directed by one of the UK’s most exciting new filmmakers, Arjun Rose (Diversity 3D, Swift), and produced by Golden Globe Nominee Idris Elba ("The Wire", 28 Weeks Later, RocknRolla), Demons Never Die boasts an impressive ensemble cast that brings together the freshest stars of the latest generation of British acting talent.
The genre busting cast includes British Independent Film Award winnner Ashley Walters (Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Stormbreaker, Bullet Boy), Andrew Ellis (This is England), Arnold Oceng (Adulthood, 4,3,2,1), Jacob Anderson (Chatroom, 4,3,2,1), Reggie Yates (Doctor Who), Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks), Femi Oyineran (Kidulthood, Adulthood, Annuvahood), Jack Doolon (Cemetery Junction), Peter Baladi (Streetdance 3D,...
- 8/29/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
To mark the release of Anuvahood on DVD and Blu-ray 4th July, Revolver have given us three copies of the DVD to give away along with a t-shirt and a stickers.
Following the recent conveyor belt of gritty and dramatic urban films, Anuvahood is a comedic coming of age story that adds a refreshing air of levity to the urban genre. Shot on-location in West-London, Anuvahood is a hysterical trip through London’s concrete jungle; featuring a host of colourful, comical characters along the way where their well-intentioned antics inevitably result in hysterical consequences.
Deacon brings together a strong ensemble cast of both rising and established British talent, including Femi Oyeniran (Kidulthood/Shank), Ollie Barbieri (Skins), Jazzie Zonzolo , Michael Vu, Richie Campbell (The Silence/The Firm), Linda Robson (Birds Of A Feather) and Jaime Winstone (Kidulthood/Made In Dagenham), with cameos from Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy/Dead Man Running), Perry Benson...
Following the recent conveyor belt of gritty and dramatic urban films, Anuvahood is a comedic coming of age story that adds a refreshing air of levity to the urban genre. Shot on-location in West-London, Anuvahood is a hysterical trip through London’s concrete jungle; featuring a host of colourful, comical characters along the way where their well-intentioned antics inevitably result in hysterical consequences.
Deacon brings together a strong ensemble cast of both rising and established British talent, including Femi Oyeniran (Kidulthood/Shank), Ollie Barbieri (Skins), Jazzie Zonzolo , Michael Vu, Richie Campbell (The Silence/The Firm), Linda Robson (Birds Of A Feather) and Jaime Winstone (Kidulthood/Made In Dagenham), with cameos from Ashley Walters (Bullet Boy/Dead Man Running), Perry Benson...
- 6/24/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From the director of Kidulthood, Everywhere & Nowhere comes to cinemas on 6 May. The film is a raw, powerful and funny coming-of-age drama focusing on the identity struggles of Ash a young British Asian who is torn between the traditions of suburban family life and his passion for DJ’ing. To mark the release, we have 3 posters signed by cast members James Floyd, Shivani Ghai, Simon Webbe, and director Menhaj Huda to give away!
Exciting new talent James Floyd (The Infidel, Tormented) leads the cast which also includes Adam Deacon (Kidulthood, Adulthood, 4.3.2.1., Shank, Anuvahood), top Bollywood star Alyy Khan, and singer-songwriter Simon Webbe. The film also features acting legends Art Malik and Saeed Jaffrey and Inbetweeners star James Buckley.
Young, good-looking and educated, Ash has a privileged life but he’s trapped between a clash of cultures: hedonistic, multi-cultural London with his friends and a traditional Asian family upbringing in the middle class suburbs.
Exciting new talent James Floyd (The Infidel, Tormented) leads the cast which also includes Adam Deacon (Kidulthood, Adulthood, 4.3.2.1., Shank, Anuvahood), top Bollywood star Alyy Khan, and singer-songwriter Simon Webbe. The film also features acting legends Art Malik and Saeed Jaffrey and Inbetweeners star James Buckley.
Young, good-looking and educated, Ash has a privileged life but he’s trapped between a clash of cultures: hedonistic, multi-cultural London with his friends and a traditional Asian family upbringing in the middle class suburbs.
- 4/28/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
More psycho-driven fun has hit our radar coming from our friends across the pond so we figured we'd share. You know. We always make nice. Especially when kids are involved. Check it!
From the Press Release
Set against a gritty London backdrop, Suicide Kids is a terrifying urban horror, written and directed by one of the UK’s most exciting new filmmakers, Arjun Rose (Diversity 3-D, Swift). Produced by Golden Globe Nominee Idris Elba (The Wire, 28 Weeks Later, RocknRolla), Suicide Kids boasts an impressive ensemble cast that brings together the freshest stars of the latest generation of British acting talent.
When Amba (N*Dubs star Tulisa Contostavlos) takes her own life, Archie Eden (Robert Sheehan – Misfits, Cherrybomb) and seven other depressed London teenagers decide to follow her lead and create a suicide pact. As the group begins to die one by one, Archie realises they have all become the target...
From the Press Release
Set against a gritty London backdrop, Suicide Kids is a terrifying urban horror, written and directed by one of the UK’s most exciting new filmmakers, Arjun Rose (Diversity 3-D, Swift). Produced by Golden Globe Nominee Idris Elba (The Wire, 28 Weeks Later, RocknRolla), Suicide Kids boasts an impressive ensemble cast that brings together the freshest stars of the latest generation of British acting talent.
When Amba (N*Dubs star Tulisa Contostavlos) takes her own life, Archie Eden (Robert Sheehan – Misfits, Cherrybomb) and seven other depressed London teenagers decide to follow her lead and create a suicide pact. As the group begins to die one by one, Archie realises they have all become the target...
- 3/22/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Following a recent post by Cynthia about the results of a british survey on stereotypes of black people in films (which you can read here, though I’ve not read it yet as I suspect it doesn’t say anything I couldn’t have told them myself) and Tambay‘s post yesterday about Attack The Block, a new British film directed by Joe Cornish that’s just won the Audience Award at SXSW, and my comment on that post, I was reminded of a piece I posted on S&A last summer (around the time I first heard about Attack The Block, incidentally) about British “urban” flicks and how they seem to provide a film career leg-up for some white filmmakers on the backs of black stereotypes.
Back in July of last year I wrote:
From the little that I hear and know, it seems black British filmmakers trying for...
Back in July of last year I wrote:
From the little that I hear and know, it seems black British filmmakers trying for...
- 3/20/2011
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
Sky Movies celebrating all things female? Now what could've triggered that...
Blue Sky thinking
Sky Movies has taken a sudden interest in films by women. A new season appeared on its schedules last week, focusing on films celebrating everything female, from "iconic actresses to glass ceiling-smashing directors". It included the films Nine to Five, Erin Brockovich and Thelma & Louise, and showcased directors including Jane Campion and Penny Marshall. Trash was even invited on to a panel to decide on the best female director (Kathryn Bigelow); UK female film exec (Christine Langan, BBC Films); female in crew (Ellen Kuras, cinematographer); female writer (Jane Goldman, Kick-Ass) and one to watch (Emma Stone, star of Easy A). Sky also part-sponsored the launch last week of the Birds Eye View film festival at London's BFI Southbank. The interest is, of course, very welcome and coincided with International Women's Day. However, could there perhaps be an ulterior motive?...
Blue Sky thinking
Sky Movies has taken a sudden interest in films by women. A new season appeared on its schedules last week, focusing on films celebrating everything female, from "iconic actresses to glass ceiling-smashing directors". It included the films Nine to Five, Erin Brockovich and Thelma & Louise, and showcased directors including Jane Campion and Penny Marshall. Trash was even invited on to a panel to decide on the best female director (Kathryn Bigelow); UK female film exec (Christine Langan, BBC Films); female in crew (Ellen Kuras, cinematographer); female writer (Jane Goldman, Kick-Ass) and one to watch (Emma Stone, star of Easy A). Sky also part-sponsored the launch last week of the Birds Eye View film festival at London's BFI Southbank. The interest is, of course, very welcome and coincided with International Women's Day. However, could there perhaps be an ulterior motive?...
- 3/13/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
The likes of Kidulthood and Shank started a new wave of films about urban British teens. Now the genre is getting its first spoof. So has it truly come of age?
There's no surer sign that a film style has matured into a fully-grown genre than when the first parody comes out. That bittersweet moment has arrived for British urban films in the shape of Anuvahood. This brashly coloured council estate jaunt follows a deluded sad case named "K" who fancies himself as a Mc-turned-drug dealer, but lacks the nous to pull it off. Marketed as the UK's answer to Us urban comedies such as Friday (1995) and House Party (1990), the title is also an obvious pastiche of Noel Clarke's Kidulthood, the 2006 film that gave rise to a slew of imitators. It's a ballsy move, especially considering co-writer, co-director and star Adam Deacon got his own break playing comic relief...
There's no surer sign that a film style has matured into a fully-grown genre than when the first parody comes out. That bittersweet moment has arrived for British urban films in the shape of Anuvahood. This brashly coloured council estate jaunt follows a deluded sad case named "K" who fancies himself as a Mc-turned-drug dealer, but lacks the nous to pull it off. Marketed as the UK's answer to Us urban comedies such as Friday (1995) and House Party (1990), the title is also an obvious pastiche of Noel Clarke's Kidulthood, the 2006 film that gave rise to a slew of imitators. It's a ballsy move, especially considering co-writer, co-director and star Adam Deacon got his own break playing comic relief...
- 3/11/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
When (or if) you think of urban UK film, you may immediately think Noel Clarke. However, while he may be the biggest fish, Clarke isn’t the only one swimming in that pool. Based on the cult novel of the same name by Q (aka Ashanti Power, aka Kwabena Manso), two years ago, Deadmeat won awards on both sides of the pond, Best British Feature at the Bfm Film Festival (London, UK), as well as an Accolade Award for Excellence (Hollywood, Us) and is now due to be released on DVD this week… in the UK, anyway.
Written, directed by and starring Q, Deadmeat is a gritty urban thriller which explores London’s gangland dark underbelly in a chilling tale of revenge killings and betrayal.
While Clarke’s earlier films, KidultHood and AdultHood, gained an avid youth following thanks mainly to their somewhat realistic potrayal of bleak UK inner city life,...
Written, directed by and starring Q, Deadmeat is a gritty urban thriller which explores London’s gangland dark underbelly in a chilling tale of revenge killings and betrayal.
While Clarke’s earlier films, KidultHood and AdultHood, gained an avid youth following thanks mainly to their somewhat realistic potrayal of bleak UK inner city life,...
- 3/6/2011
- by MsWOO
- ShadowAndAct
Open Call Casting For TV Drama
We are currently casting for a four-part drama for Channel 4 and we are holding an open call this Saturday 29th January between 12pm – 5pm at The Centerprise Trust, 136/8 Kingsland High St, Dalston, London E8 2Ns.
We are looking for a 14 yr old black/mixed race London boy to play the lead role.
We cannot stress enough that;
No Previous Acting Experience Is Necessary
(just a willingness to come along and try out, nothing ventured nothing gained.) At this stage it will just be a short informal chat on camera, and we can tell you more about the process.
For those who go on to be in the series this will be fully paid work.
If you cannot make it to the open call please send a photo of yourself and your date of birth to lara@deshamilton.com and we will be in touch.
We are currently casting for a four-part drama for Channel 4 and we are holding an open call this Saturday 29th January between 12pm – 5pm at The Centerprise Trust, 136/8 Kingsland High St, Dalston, London E8 2Ns.
We are looking for a 14 yr old black/mixed race London boy to play the lead role.
We cannot stress enough that;
No Previous Acting Experience Is Necessary
(just a willingness to come along and try out, nothing ventured nothing gained.) At this stage it will just be a short informal chat on camera, and we can tell you more about the process.
For those who go on to be in the series this will be fully paid work.
If you cannot make it to the open call please send a photo of yourself and your date of birth to lara@deshamilton.com and we will be in touch.
- 1/26/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Open Call Casting For TV Drama
We are currently casting for a 4-part drama for Channel 4.
We are holding an open call on Saturday 15th January between 12pm – 5pm at The Brix at St Matthews, St Matthews Church, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1Jf
At present, we are looking for the following:
Boy – 14-16 yrs old, Black, working class Londoner.
Boy – 14-16 yrs old, of Turkish descent, working class Londoner.
We cannot stress enough that;
No Previous Acting Experience Is Necessary
(just a willingness to come along and try out, nothing ventured nothing gained.) At this stage it will just be a short informal chat on camera, and we can tell you more about the process.
For those who go on to be in the series this will be fully paid work.
Des Hamilton Casting are known in the film industry for launching the careers of kids and adults who have never acted before,...
We are currently casting for a 4-part drama for Channel 4.
We are holding an open call on Saturday 15th January between 12pm – 5pm at The Brix at St Matthews, St Matthews Church, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1Jf
At present, we are looking for the following:
Boy – 14-16 yrs old, Black, working class Londoner.
Boy – 14-16 yrs old, of Turkish descent, working class Londoner.
We cannot stress enough that;
No Previous Acting Experience Is Necessary
(just a willingness to come along and try out, nothing ventured nothing gained.) At this stage it will just be a short informal chat on camera, and we can tell you more about the process.
For those who go on to be in the series this will be fully paid work.
Des Hamilton Casting are known in the film industry for launching the careers of kids and adults who have never acted before,...
- 1/11/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The BFI's assumption of the UK Film Council's responsibilities continues a decades-long saga of chopping and changing in the British film industry
This morning's announcement by Ed Vaizey confirms the rumours that have been circulating from pretty much the moment that the UK Film Council was abolished: the British Film Institute will be picking up the reins of lottery-fund distribution to the film industry. What's remarkable is that, after over two decades of chopping and changing, we are back where we were in the late 1980s: the BFI is the only game in town.
It's especially extraordinary given the kind of rhetoric that accompanied the establishment of the UK Film Council in 2000. When John Woodward was appointed the UK Film Council's chief executive in 2000, an interview he gave to the Guardian was perceived to be a not-especially-coded attack on the kind of – largely experimental – film the BFI's production...
This morning's announcement by Ed Vaizey confirms the rumours that have been circulating from pretty much the moment that the UK Film Council was abolished: the British Film Institute will be picking up the reins of lottery-fund distribution to the film industry. What's remarkable is that, after over two decades of chopping and changing, we are back where we were in the late 1980s: the BFI is the only game in town.
It's especially extraordinary given the kind of rhetoric that accompanied the establishment of the UK Film Council in 2000. When John Woodward was appointed the UK Film Council's chief executive in 2000, an interview he gave to the Guardian was perceived to be a not-especially-coded attack on the kind of – largely experimental – film the BFI's production...
- 11/29/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
As the government calls time on the UK Film Council, where does the British movie industry go from here?
So, in a move which should have surprised no one but still shocked the film industry, the current British government has axed the UK Film Council as part of its wide-ranging cuts. Despite proportionally taking up a far smaller percentage of the budget and reaping far greater rewards (both economically and culturally), the arts have borne the highest profile brunt of the new austerity measures.
What this means for the future of the UK film industry (an industry I count as transnational cinema not yet completely homogenised by Hollywood) is debatable. Some have welcomed it as further relieving the industry of unwanted and unnecessary bureaucracy, while others have called it the death knell for an industry already on the ropes.
As for what it means for film diversity in the UK,...
So, in a move which should have surprised no one but still shocked the film industry, the current British government has axed the UK Film Council as part of its wide-ranging cuts. Despite proportionally taking up a far smaller percentage of the budget and reaping far greater rewards (both economically and culturally), the arts have borne the highest profile brunt of the new austerity measures.
What this means for the future of the UK film industry (an industry I count as transnational cinema not yet completely homogenised by Hollywood) is debatable. Some have welcomed it as further relieving the industry of unwanted and unnecessary bureaucracy, while others have called it the death knell for an industry already on the ropes.
As for what it means for film diversity in the UK,...
- 7/28/2010
- Den of Geek
- ComingSoon.net premiered the new one-sheet earlier today for Kiera Knightley's latest pic, The Duchess. A very regal looking Knightley peers out with pouty lips and a wig that will send some drag queens running for their money, dressed to the nines as the notoriously fashionable Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire. Appearing alongside the starlet will be Ralph Fiennes as her husband the Duke as well as Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper and Charlotte Rampling. Check out the one-sheet below. Quite the fashionista herself, Knightley should have no problem filling these royal shoes. An ancestor of Princess Diana, Spencer has been described as the original "It Girl," a constant topic amongst the aristocracy of her time. Knightley is no stranger to the public's attention, garnering a name for herself as she frequently appears on various "hot lists" and magazine covers. Spencer and Knightley also share their penchant for controversy
- 7/15/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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