Signature Entertainment has acquired the U.K. and Irish rights to the family adventure animation film Butterfly Tale from sales company Pink Parrot. Its voice cast features Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black, She-Hulk), Mena Massoud (Aladdin, Star Wars: Ahsoka) and Tristan D. Lalla (Long Shot).
Butterfly Tale tells the story of Patrick (voiced by Massoud), “a gutsy and loveable, yet inept one-winged butterfly, who stows away in a milkweed trailer in order to be part of the migration journey of a lifetime,” according to a plot description. “Along with his best friend, a goofy caterpillar named Marty, and Jennifer (Maslany), a butterfly who is afraid of heights, Patrick will become an unlikely hero.”
The movie, produced by Marie-Claude Beauchamp (The Legend of Sarila) and Emely Christians (All Creatures Big and Small), was directed by Sophie Roy (Double Dribble) from a script written by Heidi Foss (Pup Academy) and Lienne Sawatsky (The Guava Juice Show...
Butterfly Tale tells the story of Patrick (voiced by Massoud), “a gutsy and loveable, yet inept one-winged butterfly, who stows away in a milkweed trailer in order to be part of the migration journey of a lifetime,” according to a plot description. “Along with his best friend, a goofy caterpillar named Marty, and Jennifer (Maslany), a butterfly who is afraid of heights, Patrick will become an unlikely hero.”
The movie, produced by Marie-Claude Beauchamp (The Legend of Sarila) and Emely Christians (All Creatures Big and Small), was directed by Sophie Roy (Double Dribble) from a script written by Heidi Foss (Pup Academy) and Lienne Sawatsky (The Guava Juice Show...
- 2/19/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Munich-based sales agency Global Screen has acquired “You’re Not Me,” the debut feature of the directors Moisés Romera and Marisa Crespo, for worldwide theatrical distribution. It is a dark elevated genre thriller with elements of satire, focusing on two of the filmmakers’ obsessions: family relationships and social differences.
In the film, Aitana returns home for Christmas, for the first time in three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with an unknown woman. She is her own age, sleeping in her bed, wearing her clothes, living in her house, and treated by her parents as if she were their daughter.
From that moment on, torn by jealousy, suspicion, and misunderstanding, Aitana tries to find out what is happening and who the intruder is that has taken her place in the family – until she discovers an unexpected and disturbing truth that is darker and way bloodier than she would ever have thought possible.
In the film, Aitana returns home for Christmas, for the first time in three years, to find that her parents have replaced her with an unknown woman. She is her own age, sleeping in her bed, wearing her clothes, living in her house, and treated by her parents as if she were their daughter.
From that moment on, torn by jealousy, suspicion, and misunderstanding, Aitana tries to find out what is happening and who the intruder is that has taken her place in the family – until she discovers an unexpected and disturbing truth that is darker and way bloodier than she would ever have thought possible.
- 4/28/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Buyer plans early 2023 theatrical release.
Germany’s Global Screen has reported a strong response in Toronto to Klaus Haro’s TIFF Contemporary World Cinema selection My Sailor, My Love and has struck a deal with Signature for UK & Ireland.
Härö’s English-language debut premiered last Friday (September 9) and stars James Cosmo and Bríd Brennan as a retired sea captain and the home help he falls for, much to the chagrin of his grown-up daughter who feels she has never truly known her father. Catherine Walker also stars.
Jimmy Karlsson and Kirsi Wikman wrote the screenplay. Haro’s 2015 Finnish drama The Fencer...
Germany’s Global Screen has reported a strong response in Toronto to Klaus Haro’s TIFF Contemporary World Cinema selection My Sailor, My Love and has struck a deal with Signature for UK & Ireland.
Härö’s English-language debut premiered last Friday (September 9) and stars James Cosmo and Bríd Brennan as a retired sea captain and the home help he falls for, much to the chagrin of his grown-up daughter who feels she has never truly known her father. Catherine Walker also stars.
Jimmy Karlsson and Kirsi Wikman wrote the screenplay. Haro’s 2015 Finnish drama The Fencer...
- 9/16/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kathryn Hays, who played Kim on CBS’ As the World Turns for 38 years, died on March 25 in Fairfield, Conn. She was 87.
No cause of death has yet been stated.
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Hays’ career began in the early 1960s, with roles on series such as Hawaiian Eye, Dr. Kildare, Route 66, Bonanza and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In 1966, in The Road West, she landed the role of Elizabeth Reynolds,...
No cause of death has yet been stated.
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Hays’ career began in the early 1960s, with roles on series such as Hawaiian Eye, Dr. Kildare, Route 66, Bonanza and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. In 1966, in The Road West, she landed the role of Elizabeth Reynolds,...
- 4/8/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: 3D Family animation Two By Two: Overboard (aka Ooops! The Adventure Continues) has sold to Momentum Pictures for the U.S. and Canada.
Toby Genkel directed the prequel to the box office success Ooops! Noah Is Gone (aka All Creatures Big And Small), which grossed $28M globally. The new film has already been released in the UK, where it topped the box office chart in November 2020, Germany, where it was in the top three last year, and Norway, where it has been number one for the last three weeks.
Momentum struck the deal with Munich-based sales company Global Screen. The latter has also struck fresh deals on the film for Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Middle East (Selim Ramio & Co), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Belgium/The Netherlands (Just4Kids), and Taiwan (Benchmark).
Two By Two: Overboard centers on the young Nestrian Finny and his best mate Leah, a Grymp, who are...
Toby Genkel directed the prequel to the box office success Ooops! Noah Is Gone (aka All Creatures Big And Small), which grossed $28M globally. The new film has already been released in the UK, where it topped the box office chart in November 2020, Germany, where it was in the top three last year, and Norway, where it has been number one for the last three weeks.
Momentum struck the deal with Munich-based sales company Global Screen. The latter has also struck fresh deals on the film for Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Middle East (Selim Ramio & Co), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Belgium/The Netherlands (Just4Kids), and Taiwan (Benchmark).
Two By Two: Overboard centers on the young Nestrian Finny and his best mate Leah, a Grymp, who are...
- 4/28/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Entertainment One U.K.’s animated kids title “Two by Two: Overboard!” remained at the top of the U.K./Ireland box office, collecting £190,761 in its second weekend, according to final numbers from Comscore.
The film, which now has a running total of £955,370, is a sequel to 2015 hit “All Creatures Big and Small,” and is also known by the title “Ooops – The Adventure Continues.”
The territory is operating a vastly reduced box office with cinemas across Ireland, Wales, Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland remaining closed as part of lockdown measures to counter the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Cinemas across England will close from Nov. 5 through Dec. 2 for the same reason. However, Welsh cinemas will reopen next week as they emerge from lockdown.
In this depleted scenario, the Park Circus re-release of Kenny Ortega’s 1993 film “Hocus Pocus,” starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, collected £186,063 in its fourth weekend,...
The film, which now has a running total of £955,370, is a sequel to 2015 hit “All Creatures Big and Small,” and is also known by the title “Ooops – The Adventure Continues.”
The territory is operating a vastly reduced box office with cinemas across Ireland, Wales, Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland remaining closed as part of lockdown measures to counter the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Cinemas across England will close from Nov. 5 through Dec. 2 for the same reason. However, Welsh cinemas will reopen next week as they emerge from lockdown.
In this depleted scenario, the Park Circus re-release of Kenny Ortega’s 1993 film “Hocus Pocus,” starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, collected £186,063 in its fourth weekend,...
- 11/3/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
New releases included ‘Blumhouse’s The Craft: Legacy’ and ‘Mogul Mowgli’.
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 30-Nov 1) Total gross to date Week 1 Two By Two: Overboard! (eOne) £190,761 £955,370 2 2 Hocus Pocus (Park Circus) £186,063 £446,287 4 3 Honest Thief (Signature Entertainment) £152,555 £573,597 2 4 The Secret Garden (Sky Cinema/Altitude) £142,101 £615,981 2 5 Tenet (Warner Bros) £98,794 £17.36m 10
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31
eOne’s Two By Two: Overboard! has floated to the top of the UK box office while a re-release of 1993’s Hocus Pocus scored second place over the Halloween weekend.
The cumulative total for the top five films from October 30 to November 1 was £770,274, which is down on the previous...
Rank Film (Distributor) Three-day gross (Oct 30-Nov 1) Total gross to date Week 1 Two By Two: Overboard! (eOne) £190,761 £955,370 2 2 Hocus Pocus (Park Circus) £186,063 £446,287 4 3 Honest Thief (Signature Entertainment) £152,555 £573,597 2 4 The Secret Garden (Sky Cinema/Altitude) £142,101 £615,981 2 5 Tenet (Warner Bros) £98,794 £17.36m 10
Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.31
eOne’s Two By Two: Overboard! has floated to the top of the UK box office while a re-release of 1993’s Hocus Pocus scored second place over the Halloween weekend.
The cumulative total for the top five films from October 30 to November 1 was £770,274, which is down on the previous...
- 11/2/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Entertainment One U.K.’s animated kids title “Two by Two: Overboard!,” released to coincide with the school half-term holidays, debuted at the top of the U.K./Ireland box office with £329,265, according to final numbers from Comscore.
The film is a sequel to 2015 hit “All Creatures Big and Small,” and is also known by the title “Ooops – The Adventure Continues.”
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” moved down to fourth position with £134,968 in its ninth weekend, after eight consecutive weeks atop the box office. The Warner Bros. release now has a running total of £17,122,299 in the territory.
In a market starved of Hollywood films due to big ticket releases being postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, now in its second wave, action crime drama “Honest Thief,” starring Liam Neeson, bowed in second place. The Signature Entertainment release collected £254,267.
Debuting in third place was another family title, “The Secret Garden,” from Sky Cinema.
The film is a sequel to 2015 hit “All Creatures Big and Small,” and is also known by the title “Ooops – The Adventure Continues.”
Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” moved down to fourth position with £134,968 in its ninth weekend, after eight consecutive weeks atop the box office. The Warner Bros. release now has a running total of £17,122,299 in the territory.
In a market starved of Hollywood films due to big ticket releases being postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, now in its second wave, action crime drama “Honest Thief,” starring Liam Neeson, bowed in second place. The Signature Entertainment release collected £254,267.
Debuting in third place was another family title, “The Secret Garden,” from Sky Cinema.
- 10/27/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Fairies, dragons, a trip to the moon and the fall of the Berlin Wall are just some of the family-friendly highlights in German and European animation this year.
While the current crop of animated pics offer historical themes and adaptations of beloved books, a popular German toy line serves as the basis for one highly anticipated film. The European Film Market is buzzing with animation.
Produced by leading Hamburg-based animation house Ulysses Films, maker of recent hits like “Luis and the Aliens” and “Ooops! Noah Is Gone…” (a.k.a. “All Creatures Big and Small”), “Bayala” explores a fantasy world populated by elves, fairies, unicorns and dragons based on the hot-selling figurines manufactured by German toymaker Schleich.
The film follows two fairy princesses who embark on a journey with a dragon egg to save their magical kingdom.
“‘Bayala’ is everything that small humans aged 5 to 10 just love,” a timeless story of “fantasy,...
While the current crop of animated pics offer historical themes and adaptations of beloved books, a popular German toy line serves as the basis for one highly anticipated film. The European Film Market is buzzing with animation.
Produced by leading Hamburg-based animation house Ulysses Films, maker of recent hits like “Luis and the Aliens” and “Ooops! Noah Is Gone…” (a.k.a. “All Creatures Big and Small”), “Bayala” explores a fantasy world populated by elves, fairies, unicorns and dragons based on the hot-selling figurines manufactured by German toymaker Schleich.
The film follows two fairy princesses who embark on a journey with a dragon egg to save their magical kingdom.
“‘Bayala’ is everything that small humans aged 5 to 10 just love,” a timeless story of “fantasy,...
- 2/8/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Soon, Jane the Virgin star Justin Baldoni expects his home to descend into “chaos” with the arrival of his second child. Luckily, though, baby boy Baldoni has a “calming” space ready and waiting for him.
The actor and his wife Emily worked with Target to design a “light and bright and clean” nursery for their son — and they’re giving People an exclusive inside look.
“Being parents of a toddler , we’re learning that the house can get really messy really fast, so to have a nursery filled with toys and books, we just wanted to keep the room light and bright,...
The actor and his wife Emily worked with Target to design a “light and bright and clean” nursery for their son — and they’re giving People an exclusive inside look.
“Being parents of a toddler , we’re learning that the house can get really messy really fast, so to have a nursery filled with toys and books, we just wanted to keep the room light and bright,...
- 10/5/2017
- by Lindsay Kimble
- PEOPLE.com
Majority of production loans have gone to female directors.
New projects from Neil Jordan, Neasa Hardiman (both pictured) and John Butler are among those supported by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
In an apparent nod to recent pledges by the Ifb to commit to gender parity in its funded projects, three of the four production loans in this quarter were given to films with female directors.
Filmmaker Neasa Hardiman, whose television credits include Happy Valley and Tracy Beaker Returns, will make her feature directorial debut with Sea Fever, which has been given a provisional offer of commitment by the Ifb.
The film, centred on a science student who becomes isolated from her superstitious trawler crew as they struggle to overcome a deadly parasite in their water supply, was also written by Hardiman and will be produced by Fantastic Films.
The End of Romance, written and directed by Trish McAdam, based on the...
New projects from Neil Jordan, Neasa Hardiman (both pictured) and John Butler are among those supported by the Irish Film Board in its latest round of funding decisions.
In an apparent nod to recent pledges by the Ifb to commit to gender parity in its funded projects, three of the four production loans in this quarter were given to films with female directors.
Filmmaker Neasa Hardiman, whose television credits include Happy Valley and Tracy Beaker Returns, will make her feature directorial debut with Sea Fever, which has been given a provisional offer of commitment by the Ifb.
The film, centred on a science student who becomes isolated from her superstitious trawler crew as they struggle to overcome a deadly parasite in their water supply, was also written by Hardiman and will be produced by Fantastic Films.
The End of Romance, written and directed by Trish McAdam, based on the...
- 1/31/2017
- ScreenDaily
As the old Rob Base/DJ E-z Rock song so eloquently put it, it takes two to make a thing go right (never mind to make it outta sight!). And nowhere is that truer than in the uncertain, post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead.
PhotosWalking Dead‘s 22 Most Painful Deaths
Two by two, time and again, members of the AMC series’ intrepid troupe of survivors have paired up, either simply as friends, as friends with benefits or as something deeper still. And, inevitably, along the way, we’ve become as attached to a few of the duos as they’ve been to each other.
PhotosWalking Dead‘s 22 Most Painful Deaths
Two by two, time and again, members of the AMC series’ intrepid troupe of survivors have paired up, either simply as friends, as friends with benefits or as something deeper still. And, inevitably, along the way, we’ve become as attached to a few of the duos as they’ve been to each other.
- 7/10/2016
- TVLine.com
• only 22% of 2015’s movies had female protagonists
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
The Where Are the Women? project was designed to drill deep down into the films of 2015 in order to determine how well — or how poorly — they represented women. The project has now come to its end, and you can examine the final ranking here. The ranking includes 270 films released in the Us, Canada, and the UK, in both limited and wide release (including every wide-release North American film and most of the UK wide-release films). The...
• best and worst representations of women on film in 2015 (and the average Watw score for the year)
• critics are slightly more likely to rate a film highly if it represents women well
• mainstream moviegoers are not turned off by films with female protagonists
• movies that represent women well are just as likely to be profitable as movies that don’t, and are less risky as business propositions
The Where Are the Women? project was designed to drill deep down into the films of 2015 in order to determine how well — or how poorly — they represented women. The project has now come to its end, and you can examine the final ranking here. The ranking includes 270 films released in the Us, Canada, and the UK, in both limited and wide release (including every wide-release North American film and most of the UK wide-release films). The...
- 4/11/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s A Storm In The Stars and comedy Halal Daddy among those supported in latest funding round.
A culture-clash comedy set in Ireland’s first Halal meat factory is among the productions backed by the Irish Film Board (Ifb) in its latest round of funding decisions, which totals more than €3m.
Halal Daddy - the story of a young Muslim’s struggle to manage a rundown abattoir in the West of Ireland - has received a production funding commitment of €500,000.
It is one of a number of comedies backed by the Ifb as it faces the challenge of building on what has been a buoyant period for the Irish film industry, with a number of projects performing strongly throughout awards season. Comedy traditionally performs well with domestic audiences.
Halal Daddy will begin shooting in Sligo in early summer and was written by Conor McDermottroe (Swansong: Story Of Occi Byrne) and Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul...
A culture-clash comedy set in Ireland’s first Halal meat factory is among the productions backed by the Irish Film Board (Ifb) in its latest round of funding decisions, which totals more than €3m.
Halal Daddy - the story of a young Muslim’s struggle to manage a rundown abattoir in the West of Ireland - has received a production funding commitment of €500,000.
It is one of a number of comedies backed by the Ifb as it faces the challenge of building on what has been a buoyant period for the Irish film industry, with a number of projects performing strongly throughout awards season. Comedy traditionally performs well with domestic audiences.
Halal Daddy will begin shooting in Sligo in early summer and was written by Conor McDermottroe (Swansong: Story Of Occi Byrne) and Mark O’Halloran (Adam & Paul...
- 1/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Australian films looks like maintaining their impressive momentum at cinemas after the premieres last weekend of Oddball and Blinky Bill: The Movie.
Stuart McDonald.s comedy inspired by the true story of chicken farmer Swampy Marsh, who deploys his sheepdog.to protect an endangered Fairy Penguin population, starring Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook, Coco Gillies.and Alan Tudyk,.rang up $1.07 million in its first four days on 289 screens, including limited previews. . Deane Taylor.s animated movie which features the voices of.Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries, took $335,000 on 266 screens, with previews. . Both are positioned to cash in on the two weeks school vacation with.Oddball appealing to families and Blinky Bill drawing young folk and their parents or carers, so their figures should lift during the week. . Steve Kearney, who produced Oddball with Richard Keddie and Sheila Hanahan Taylor,...
Stuart McDonald.s comedy inspired by the true story of chicken farmer Swampy Marsh, who deploys his sheepdog.to protect an endangered Fairy Penguin population, starring Shane Jacobson, Sarah Snook, Coco Gillies.and Alan Tudyk,.rang up $1.07 million in its first four days on 289 screens, including limited previews. . Deane Taylor.s animated movie which features the voices of.Ryan Kwanten, Toni Collette, Robin McLeavy, David Wenham, Rufus Sewell, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Barry Otto and Barry Humphries, took $335,000 on 266 screens, with previews. . Both are positioned to cash in on the two weeks school vacation with.Oddball appealing to families and Blinky Bill drawing young folk and their parents or carers, so their figures should lift during the week. . Steve Kearney, who produced Oddball with Richard Keddie and Sheila Hanahan Taylor,...
- 9/21/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
On Saturday, September 12, 2015, William V. Madison, author of Madeline Kahn Being the Music, A Life University Press of Mississippi, 2015, will host a musical tribute to the late singing actress as part of Metropolitan Room's Gone Too Soon series, produced by Joseph Macchia. Directed by Peter Napolitano, The Music Of Madeline Kahn will feature several friends amp colleagues of the comic legend, including her co-stars from Richard Rodgers' Two by Two, Walter Willison and Joan Copeland, with Lawrence Leritz, guest star on 'Cosby'. They will be joined by performers from theatre, cabaret amp opera who have been inspired by Kahn, including Ann Harada Avenue Q, Smash. Jeff Cubeta serves as music director.
- 9/3/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Avengers: Age of Ultron has triumphed at the box office for the second consecutive weekend.
Marvel's superhero blockbuster pulled in £8.5 million over the Bank Holiday weekend, taking its total earnings past the £32 million mark in the UK.
Age of Ultron is now closing in on Fast & Furious 7 as the highest-earning film in the UK in 2015. The Vin Diesel-led action sequel has made more than £36 million, while Fifty Shades of Grey sits just behind it in third place with £34.8 million.
Elsewhere in this week's box office top 10, Far from the Madding Crowd is the highest new entry at number two with £1.4 million. Carey Mulligan's period drama charts just ahead of horror Unfriended, which made £1.3 million.
Fast & Furious 7 and Home complete the top five, with animation Two by Two the only other new release to make the top 10.
The UK box office top 10 in full:
1. (1) Avengers: Age of Ultron...
Marvel's superhero blockbuster pulled in £8.5 million over the Bank Holiday weekend, taking its total earnings past the £32 million mark in the UK.
Age of Ultron is now closing in on Fast & Furious 7 as the highest-earning film in the UK in 2015. The Vin Diesel-led action sequel has made more than £36 million, while Fifty Shades of Grey sits just behind it in third place with £34.8 million.
Elsewhere in this week's box office top 10, Far from the Madding Crowd is the highest new entry at number two with £1.4 million. Carey Mulligan's period drama charts just ahead of horror Unfriended, which made £1.3 million.
Fast & Furious 7 and Home complete the top five, with animation Two by Two the only other new release to make the top 10.
The UK box office top 10 in full:
1. (1) Avengers: Age of Ultron...
- 5/6/2015
- Digital Spy
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