Exclusive: Film4 backs development of Haigh’s 45 Years follow-up; Tristan Goligher to produce.
Andrew Haigh is to write and direct an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel Lean on Pete as his next film project.
Haigh will reunite with his usual producer Tristan Goligher of The Bureau. Film4 has supported development and the film is set to shoot later in 2016.
Lean on Pete is about Charley Thompson, a 15-year-old who has no stability in his life and ends up homeless in Portland, Oregon, where his best friend is a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete. He sets off an a perilous journey to find his only known relative who once lived 1,000 miles away in Wyoming.
Haigh, a former Screen International Star of Tomorrow, told Screen: “When reading the novel you can not help but care for Charley. Whatever he is faced with he keeps moving forward; he keeps running, working, driving...
Andrew Haigh is to write and direct an adaptation of Willy Vlautin’s acclaimed novel Lean on Pete as his next film project.
Haigh will reunite with his usual producer Tristan Goligher of The Bureau. Film4 has supported development and the film is set to shoot later in 2016.
Lean on Pete is about Charley Thompson, a 15-year-old who has no stability in his life and ends up homeless in Portland, Oregon, where his best friend is a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete. He sets off an a perilous journey to find his only known relative who once lived 1,000 miles away in Wyoming.
Haigh, a former Screen International Star of Tomorrow, told Screen: “When reading the novel you can not help but care for Charley. Whatever he is faced with he keeps moving forward; he keeps running, working, driving...
- 5/21/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 11, 2012
Price: DVD $24.98
Studio: Warner Home Video
If there’s one thing we’re grateful for, it’s more Absolutely Fabulous. For the TV show’s 20th birthday, Edina (Jennifer Saunders, Shrek 2) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley, Late Bloomers) returned for three new specials.
Aired in 2011 and 2012, the new Absolutely Fabulous BBC specials find the fashionistas playing their own part in the 2012 London Olympics, Eddy setting her sights on changing the career of a very big fish and one of the characters having a life-changing experience.
Also returning to the British comedy were Eddy’s bookish daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha, TV’s Cranford), Eddy’s off the wall assistant (Jane Horrocks, TV’s The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard) and Eddy’s cunning mother Mrs. Monsoon (June Whitfield, TV’s Last of the Summer Wine).
The 20-year-old television show, which was created by British comedian Saunders, originally aired...
Price: DVD $24.98
Studio: Warner Home Video
If there’s one thing we’re grateful for, it’s more Absolutely Fabulous. For the TV show’s 20th birthday, Edina (Jennifer Saunders, Shrek 2) and Patsy (Joanna Lumley, Late Bloomers) returned for three new specials.
Aired in 2011 and 2012, the new Absolutely Fabulous BBC specials find the fashionistas playing their own part in the 2012 London Olympics, Eddy setting her sights on changing the career of a very big fish and one of the characters having a life-changing experience.
Also returning to the British comedy were Eddy’s bookish daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha, TV’s Cranford), Eddy’s off the wall assistant (Jane Horrocks, TV’s The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard) and Eddy’s cunning mother Mrs. Monsoon (June Whitfield, TV’s Last of the Summer Wine).
The 20-year-old television show, which was created by British comedian Saunders, originally aired...
- 6/15/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Chicago – One of the annual gems of the Chicago movie scene is the Siskel Film Center’s unmissable European Union Film Festival. It provides local movie buffs with the opportunity to sample some of the finest achievements in world cinema. For many of the festival selections, their EU appearance will function as their sole screening in the Windy City.
This year’s edition, running from March 2nd through the 29th, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Andrea Arnold (“Wuthering Heights”), Bruce Dumont (“Hors Satan”), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (“The Fairy”), Abdellatif Kechiche (“Black Venus”) and John Landis (“Burke & Hare”). Moviegoers will have the opportunity to see the latest work from some of the world’s most acclaimed and beloved actors, including Léa Seydoux (“Belle Épine”), Tahir Rahim (“Free Men”), Colm Meaney (“Parked”), Noomi Rapace (“Beyond”), Andy Serkis (“Burke & Hare”), Isabella Rossellini (“Late Bloomers”) and Ewan McGregor...
This year’s edition, running from March 2nd through the 29th, includes high profile films from world renowned filmmakers like Andrea Arnold (“Wuthering Heights”), Bruce Dumont (“Hors Satan”), Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon (“The Fairy”), Abdellatif Kechiche (“Black Venus”) and John Landis (“Burke & Hare”). Moviegoers will have the opportunity to see the latest work from some of the world’s most acclaimed and beloved actors, including Léa Seydoux (“Belle Épine”), Tahir Rahim (“Free Men”), Colm Meaney (“Parked”), Noomi Rapace (“Beyond”), Andy Serkis (“Burke & Hare”), Isabella Rossellini (“Late Bloomers”) and Ewan McGregor...
- 2/15/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Paris -- William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini have teamed up to star in French director Julie Gavras' sexagenarian romantic comedy "Late Bloomers," the film's co-producer, Gallic distributor and international sales agent Gaumont said Friday.
Written by Gavras and Olivier Dazat, "Late Bloomers" is produced by Sylvie Pialat for Les Films du Worso and Bertrand Faivre in a co-production with Gaumont, The Bureau's Tristan Goligher and Be-Films' Christophe Louis in Belgium.
Hurt and Rossellini play an aging couple who react to their senior status in different ways. The film also co-stars U.K talents Doreen Mantle, Kate Ashfield, Joanna Jumley and Simon Callow.
The film shoots on location starting March 19 in and around London for six weeks through late April. Gaumont will handle distribution in France plus international sales.
Written by Gavras and Olivier Dazat, "Late Bloomers" is produced by Sylvie Pialat for Les Films du Worso and Bertrand Faivre in a co-production with Gaumont, The Bureau's Tristan Goligher and Be-Films' Christophe Louis in Belgium.
Hurt and Rossellini play an aging couple who react to their senior status in different ways. The film also co-stars U.K talents Doreen Mantle, Kate Ashfield, Joanna Jumley and Simon Callow.
The film shoots on location starting March 19 in and around London for six weeks through late April. Gaumont will handle distribution in France plus international sales.
- 3/19/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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