All too often we hear the cliché of a sporting event that ‘had everything’, but in the case of the 2017 Grand Slam of Darts, this was almost literally the case. The highlight of the Wolverhampton Civic Hall calendar is not a ranking event, but as the last major tournament before the World Championship it represents a golden opportunity to lay down a marker for December – and of course, it’s also where the Pdc and Bdo collide.
Players such as Robert Thornton, Ian White and even Adrian Lewis were shock absentees this year, but it didn’t matter a bit. Day one could well go down as the finest curtain-raisers the game has ever seen. Both the afternoon and evening sessions provided quality in spades; the standout performers being reigning Lakeside champ Glen Durrant and the fast-emerging Rob Cross. Oh, and Michael Van Gerwen played pretty well too.
Although the group phase continued to impress,...
Players such as Robert Thornton, Ian White and even Adrian Lewis were shock absentees this year, but it didn’t matter a bit. Day one could well go down as the finest curtain-raisers the game has ever seen. Both the afternoon and evening sessions provided quality in spades; the standout performers being reigning Lakeside champ Glen Durrant and the fast-emerging Rob Cross. Oh, and Michael Van Gerwen played pretty well too.
Although the group phase continued to impress,...
- 11/20/2017
- by Dan Green
- The Cultural Post
English-language noir thriller is currently in pre-production.
Singapore-based media fund and distribution outfit Silver Media Group has partnered with Cambodia’s The Rock Production to launch global distribution on Cambodia-Singapore co-production Before the Fall.
The deal was facilitated by the recently established Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association.
Directed by Ian White, the English-language noir thriller is set during the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. A beautiful singer is trying to escape from the capital when a former French lover manages to find her and forbidden passion leads to a treacherous web of political, financial and romantic intrigue.
Currently in pre-production, the film is set to start shooting in July. Saava described it as “the first commercial Khmer-led feature production created for international distribution”.
Executive producer Oknha Kith Theing of The Rock Production said: “I’m very happy to embark on this project together with our regional partners. This is a particularly exciting time for Cambodian...
Singapore-based media fund and distribution outfit Silver Media Group has partnered with Cambodia’s The Rock Production to launch global distribution on Cambodia-Singapore co-production Before the Fall.
The deal was facilitated by the recently established Southeast Asian Audio-Visual Association.
Directed by Ian White, the English-language noir thriller is set during the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. A beautiful singer is trying to escape from the capital when a former French lover manages to find her and forbidden passion leads to a treacherous web of political, financial and romantic intrigue.
Currently in pre-production, the film is set to start shooting in July. Saava described it as “the first commercial Khmer-led feature production created for international distribution”.
Executive producer Oknha Kith Theing of The Rock Production said: “I’m very happy to embark on this project together with our regional partners. This is a particularly exciting time for Cambodian...
- 3/26/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Two films about Cambodia's infamous Khmer Rouge are on the way.
The first is Ian White's "Before the Fall," an English-language noir thriller is set against the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.
Currently in pre-production ahead of a July shoot, the story follows a beautiful singer trying to escape from the capital when a former French lover manages to find her. Their forbidden passion reignites, leading to an array of devastating consequences.
The other is the just-wrapped "The Gate," from Oscar-winning "Indochine" director Regis Wargnier. The French-Cambodian co-production
The story is based on French ethnologist Francois Bizot's memoir of his Khmer Rouge imprisonment.
Source: Screen...
The first is Ian White's "Before the Fall," an English-language noir thriller is set against the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.
Currently in pre-production ahead of a July shoot, the story follows a beautiful singer trying to escape from the capital when a former French lover manages to find her. Their forbidden passion reignites, leading to an array of devastating consequences.
The other is the just-wrapped "The Gate," from Oscar-winning "Indochine" director Regis Wargnier. The French-Cambodian co-production
The story is based on French ethnologist Francois Bizot's memoir of his Khmer Rouge imprisonment.
Source: Screen...
- 3/26/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Metro Manila | Diana | The Call | Ripd | Kelly + Victor | Hawking | Cold Comes The Night | A Belfast Story | Harrigan | InRealLife | 9.79* | Mademoiselle C | Phata Poster Nikla Hero
Metro Manila (15)
(Sean Ellis, 2013, UK/Phi) Jake Macapagal, Althea Vega, John Arcilla. 115 mins
Street-level social drama slyly develops into gripping crime thriller in this resourceful Anglo-Asian movie, a distinctive spin on the familiar theme of innocent country folk in the corrupting city. The squalor of modern-day Manila is vividly evoked, as our goodly, hard-up couple struggle to gain a foothold, but the opportunities they get only lead them into the moral shadows.
Diana (12A)
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2013, UK/Fra/Bel/Swe/Moz) Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews. 113 mins
History repeats itself as farce in this unintentionally laughable rendition of Diana's final years and her "secret" affair. It's no deeper or better informed than your average celebrity mag.
The Call (15)
(Brad Anderson, 2013, Us) Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund.
Metro Manila (15)
(Sean Ellis, 2013, UK/Phi) Jake Macapagal, Althea Vega, John Arcilla. 115 mins
Street-level social drama slyly develops into gripping crime thriller in this resourceful Anglo-Asian movie, a distinctive spin on the familiar theme of innocent country folk in the corrupting city. The squalor of modern-day Manila is vividly evoked, as our goodly, hard-up couple struggle to gain a foothold, but the opportunities they get only lead them into the moral shadows.
Diana (12A)
(Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2013, UK/Fra/Bel/Swe/Moz) Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews. 113 mins
History repeats itself as farce in this unintentionally laughable rendition of Diana's final years and her "secret" affair. It's no deeper or better informed than your average celebrity mag.
The Call (15)
(Brad Anderson, 2013, Us) Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Michael Eklund.
- 9/21/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
More than $200,000 (£135,000) Invested in London-based artist film-makers through Flamin Productions.
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) are investing $206,000 (£135,000) of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Mark Leckey, Simon Martin, Gail Pickering and Grace Schwindt have been commissioned through Flamin Productions, which provides artists with the opportunity to produce “ambitious and original moving image works”.
Supported by Arts Council England, Flamin Productions is dedicated to funding large scale, single screen works which represent “a significant step forward in an artist’s practice”.
It provides development and production funding as well as bespoke training, advice and professional mentoring.
To date the scheme has produced a range of artworks, including Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, which was released theatrically and recently acquired by Channel 4, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which was part of the exhibition for which she won the Turner Prize in 2012 and Hilary Koob-Sassen’s Transcalar Investment Vehicles which...
Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (Flamin) are investing $206,000 (£135,000) of production funding in four new moving image projects from London-based artists.
Mark Leckey, Simon Martin, Gail Pickering and Grace Schwindt have been commissioned through Flamin Productions, which provides artists with the opportunity to produce “ambitious and original moving image works”.
Supported by Arts Council England, Flamin Productions is dedicated to funding large scale, single screen works which represent “a significant step forward in an artist’s practice”.
It provides development and production funding as well as bespoke training, advice and professional mentoring.
To date the scheme has produced a range of artworks, including Ben Rivers’ award-winning feature length Two Years at Sea, which was released theatrically and recently acquired by Channel 4, Elizabeth Price’s West Hinder, which was part of the exhibition for which she won the Turner Prize in 2012 and Hilary Koob-Sassen’s Transcalar Investment Vehicles which...
- 7/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Peter Greenaway, Pavel Lungin and Valeria Gai Germanika are among 18 feature films selected to be pitched at the fifth edition of Moscow Business Square’s Co-Production Forum.
This will be the second time that Greenaway is at the Forum after presenting his project Food Of Love, based on Thomas Mann’s novella Death In Venice, there last year. His pitch then won him the $40,000 (€30,000) Best Pitch award sponsored by the new Moscow production complex Glavkino.
This time the Welsh-born director will be introducing Eisenstein In Guanajuato, which recounts the time the 33-year-old Russian director fell briefly, but intensely in love in a small Mexican town while researching for the never completed picture Que viva México! in Mexico between 1929-1931.
At last year’s Odessa International Film Festival, Greenaway told ScreenDaily that “99% of the financing” was in place for this project and he hoped at the time to shoot in Mexico at the end of...
This will be the second time that Greenaway is at the Forum after presenting his project Food Of Love, based on Thomas Mann’s novella Death In Venice, there last year. His pitch then won him the $40,000 (€30,000) Best Pitch award sponsored by the new Moscow production complex Glavkino.
This time the Welsh-born director will be introducing Eisenstein In Guanajuato, which recounts the time the 33-year-old Russian director fell briefly, but intensely in love in a small Mexican town while researching for the never completed picture Que viva México! in Mexico between 1929-1931.
At last year’s Odessa International Film Festival, Greenaway told ScreenDaily that “99% of the financing” was in place for this project and he hoped at the time to shoot in Mexico at the end of...
- 6/12/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
If you have not done, so please read last week’s article. Thanks.
I’ve encountered quite a few things in my Hollywood journey. Some great some not so great and some that really sucked.
Really sucked.
I once sold a show on a Monday morning and by Monday night the show was gone and so was my deal.
I once had a great idea for a reality show. I took the idea to a huge Hollywood player with the intention of making him the host of the show. He loved my idea. He loved my idea so much he tried to sue me and take the show. The show I created and asked him to be a part of.
One of the fun things about Hollywood is finding project financing. That’s always the highlight of any deal…not.
My partner in one particular deal was the fantastic writer,...
I’ve encountered quite a few things in my Hollywood journey. Some great some not so great and some that really sucked.
Really sucked.
I once sold a show on a Monday morning and by Monday night the show was gone and so was my deal.
I once had a great idea for a reality show. I took the idea to a huge Hollywood player with the intention of making him the host of the show. He loved my idea. He loved my idea so much he tried to sue me and take the show. The show I created and asked him to be a part of.
One of the fun things about Hollywood is finding project financing. That’s always the highlight of any deal…not.
My partner in one particular deal was the fantastic writer,...
- 5/29/2012
- by Michael Davis
- Comicmix.com
Photo by Chris Breeze
Sometimeswe can really relate to Carl Fredricksen in Up’sdesire to strap balloons onto his house and float away to an exotic island. Butwe never imaged the technology would work.
Good newsfor anyone who’d do anything to escape. A group of engineers from the NationalGeographic series How Hard Can It Be?just went to great lengths to prove that Carl’s animated experiment couldactually work.
The gang,led by series’ Producer Ian White and Executive Producer Ben Bowie, spent twoweeks designing, building and launching a home in the California desert. Thestructure was actually a light weight 16 x 16 foot house that weighed about2,000 pounds.
The nightbefore lift off, staff gathered in the middle of nowhere and filled 300, eightfeet tall balloons with a tank of helium each. The house not only made it offthe ground, it soared to heights of 10,000 feet. The structure’s unmannedvoyage lasted for...
Sometimeswe can really relate to Carl Fredricksen in Up’sdesire to strap balloons onto his house and float away to an exotic island. Butwe never imaged the technology would work.
Good newsfor anyone who’d do anything to escape. A group of engineers from the NationalGeographic series How Hard Can It Be?just went to great lengths to prove that Carl’s animated experiment couldactually work.
The gang,led by series’ Producer Ian White and Executive Producer Ben Bowie, spent twoweeks designing, building and launching a home in the California desert. Thestructure was actually a light weight 16 x 16 foot house that weighed about2,000 pounds.
The nightbefore lift off, staff gathered in the middle of nowhere and filled 300, eightfeet tall balloons with a tank of helium each. The house not only made it offthe ground, it soared to heights of 10,000 feet. The structure’s unmannedvoyage lasted for...
- 3/23/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
Colm McCarthy's Outcast is a low-budget British genre production that manages to be visually attractive, relatively naturalistic and features some wonderfully deft plotting which, while relatively predictable, still carries a refreshing level of moral ambiguity. It treats its fantasy milieu (cribbing from legends of the Sidhe, the ancient race of Gaelic folklore) as Serious Business yet it never appears particularly melodramatic or campy, which is a minor triumph all by itself.
Part thriller, part horror, part psychodrama, Outcast is far from perfect, but it's the kind of debut that could have fallen horribly flat and McCarthy deserves to be applauded for holding it all together.
Kate Dickie and Niall Bruton play Mary and Fergal, a mother and son arriving at a run-down housing estate where it becomes apparent they're in hiding from people who want to do them both harm. Liam (Ciarán McMenamin) and Cathal (James Nesbitt) are the hunters on their trail,...
Part thriller, part horror, part psychodrama, Outcast is far from perfect, but it's the kind of debut that could have fallen horribly flat and McCarthy deserves to be applauded for holding it all together.
Kate Dickie and Niall Bruton play Mary and Fergal, a mother and son arriving at a run-down housing estate where it becomes apparent they're in hiding from people who want to do them both harm. Liam (Ciarán McMenamin) and Cathal (James Nesbitt) are the hunters on their trail,...
- 9/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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