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Signature, Carnaby team on ‘Footsoldier’ prequel, ‘Krays’ feature

Rise Of The Footsoldier: The Beginning will act as a prequel to 2007 crime feature Rise Of The Footsoldier, charting the story of the Essex Range Rover murders and gang member Pat Tate.

The film will see the return of Craig Fairbrass (St. George’s Day) as Tate as well as Julian Gilbey (A Lonely Place To Die) who wrote and directed the original film as writer and producer. Zackary Adler (The Rise Of The Krays) will direct.

Signature will distribute in the first quarter of 2017 after striking a deal with Carnaby which is handling world sales rights.

Commenting on the deal, Signature owner and MD Marc Goldberg said: “Everybody at Signature and Carnaby are delighted to be working together again on this iconic British franchise.

“Rise of the Footsoldier Part II was an enormous UK success selling more than 45,000 physical units in its first week of release, beating multi-million pound box-office releases including Sinister 2 and The TransporterRefuelled and going on to win the best British movie at this year’s National Film Awards.”

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Meanwhile Krays And The Mafia, will chart the story of the East End twins’ hunt for vengeance after their thriving business empire is rocked when a brutal murder leads them to suspect rival gang, The Richardson’s, are to blame.

The film marks the first co-production between Signature and Carnaby, who will distribute and sell, respectively. It follows on from home entertainment hits Rise Of The Krays – released in 2015 – and Fall Of The Krays – released in March this year.

Krays And The Mafia will reunite filmmakers Craig Tuohy and Zackary Adler and actors Simon Cotton and Kevin Leslie as the infamous East End twins.

Commenting on the co-production Carnaby International’s Andy Loveday commented: “Rise and Fall Of The Kraysbroke home entertainment records in the UK and both have sold more than 200,000 DVD’s and 200,000 digital transactions to date. The outstanding results are testament to the compelling story and quality filmmaking that will be delivered once again in Krays And The Mafia.”

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Review round-up: BLOOD ORANGE

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Empire:

“Slickly staged and shot, this neo-noir deftly exploits its clichés… it teasingly intrigues, while Iggy Pop steals every scene.”

The Guardian:

“An entertainingly oversexed chamber piece with echoes of A Bigger Splash or La Piscine, the film unpeels layers of intrigue along with the clothes of its cast. It’s a promising debut for first-time director Toby Tobias.”

The Hollywood Reporter:

“There are echoes of Roman Polanski, Sam Peckinpah and Patricia Highsmith in these seductively amoral characters and their sexualized power games. Sergio Leone’s Spanish-shot spaghetti Westerns also exert an influence, notably in scenes of Pop wandering the parched sierra in cowboy hat and stubble, coolly blasting rabbits with a shotgun. “

 

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Casual Encounters — out now!

Courtesy of Lionsgate, Casual Encounters is now available on all Video on Demand platforms (iTunes, Amazon, Google/YouTube, Cable V.O.D.) as well as DVD.

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After Justin (Taran Killam) gets unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend, his friends Sammy (David Krumholtz) and Louis (David Arquette) encourage him to sign up for the dating site Casual Encounters. Justin embarks on a series of disastrous and hilarious hook-ups before he realizes that he likes his coworker Laura (Brooklyn Decker). Unfortunately, what happens on Casual Encounters doesn’t always stay there and the road to Justin and Laura getting together and pursuing their respective dreams isn’t as smooth as they hoped.
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Carnaby at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2016

The line-up for the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has been unveiled by artistic director Mark Adams.

This year’s EIFF (June 15-26) will comprise a total 161 features from 46 countries including: 22 world premieres, five international premieres, 17 European premieres and 85 UK premieres.

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Highlights include the UK premiere of Disney-Pixar animation Finding Dory, in-person events that include US indie filmmaker Kevin Smith and Sex & The City actress Kim Cattrall, and the opening and closing gala world premieres of the previously announced Tommy’s Honourand Whisky Galore!.

Old classics will be re-imagined with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra performing the score to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial live at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre and the world premiere of the newly-restored 4K version of Highlander, celebrating its 30th anniversary with star Clancy Brown in attendance.

The Best Of British strand will include 12 titles that will compete for the Michael Powell Award (see below), including opening film Tommy’s Honour and The Library Suicides, the debut feature of director Euros Lyn, whose TV work includes Daredevil, Sherlock, Black Mirror and Doctor Who.

Also in Best of British is the world premiere of Chris Foggin’s coming-of-age drama KIDS IN LOVE, starring Will Poulter and Cara Delevingne; Jane Gull’s Down’s syndrome drama My Feral Heart; the world premiere of Graeme Maley’s Nordic noir A Reykjavik Porno; Simon Dixon’s mercenary drama Tiger Raid; and Benjamin Turner’s Ibiza-set crime thriller White Island, also a world premiere.

As previously announced, the festival will open with the world premiere of Tommy’s Honour, starring Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden, and will close with the world premiere of Whisky Galore!, starring Gregor Fisher, James Cosmo and Eddie Izzard.

Scottish actor Rose Leslie will star alongside Ray Liotta and Gina Rodriguez in family drama STICKY NOTES, from director Amanda Sharp.

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Screen: ‘Kids In Love’ sets UK release

Coming-of-age feature to world premiere at Edinburgh festival.

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Kids In Love, starring Will Poulter (The Revenant), Alma Jodorowsky (Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Cara Delevingne (Suicide Squad), is set for release in UK theatres and on demand on August 26.

Signature Entertainment, which is handling the release of the coming-of-age British feature in theatres, will then release the film on DVD on August 29.

It will receive its world premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival in June, where it will feature in the Best of British strand.

In Kids in Love, Poulter plays a young man drifting through his ‘gap year’ when a chance encounter with a beautiful woman (Jodorowsky) swerves his life radically off course. He quickly becomes caught up in a whirlwind of all-day parties and wild nights in London’s hidden dives with her charismatic friends.

The cast also includes Sebastian De Souza (The Borgias) and Jamie Blackley (Snow White And The Huntsman), Preston Thompson and Gala Gordon (White Island).

Chris Foggin makes his directorial debut on the feature, which is produced by Barnaby Thompson and Ben Latham-Jones. Screenplay is from Preston Thompson and Sebastian De Souza.

London-based Carnaby International is handling worldwide rights and previously sold the feature to Factoris Films for France.

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Iggy Pop compares BLOOD ORANGE composer to David Bowie and stars in his new video

Iggy Pop has compared the composer of his new film’s soundtrack to David Bowie.

Iggy stars in new film Blood Orange, playing an ageing rock star troubled by his promiscuous wife (Kacey Barnfield) reigniting her romance with an ex-boyfriend (Ben Lamb).

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The music Iggy Pop performs in the film is composed by Tim Arnold, a veteran independent singer-songwriter who has self-released 13 albums.

Arnold told NME: “I know the people who made Blood Orange, but Iggy handpicked my music as the pieces he wanted to perform in the film. That’s very flattering.”

Iggy compared Arnold’s theme song for the film, Money Kills Love, to his old friend Bowie’s 1977 album ‘Low’, which Iggy sang backing vocals on.

Pop said: “They sent along a demo which Tim had done in a home studio. It had a noir, detective movie guitar riff that comes and goes, but mainly four notes of a very plaintive, simple saxophone theme, just four forlorn notes.”

“It could have been an outtake from ‘Kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis, or maybe side two of ‘Low’ by Bowie and Brian Eno. I liked it and they redid it with real musicians, which roughened it up. It reminded me a little of some things that Chet Baker did. I thought it was a real nice theme, effective for the film.”

Iggy Pop also appears in the video for ‘Money Kills Love’, which can be seen below.

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Arnold, who was the singer in Britpop-era band Jocasta, said: “It’s amazing that Iggy took the time to time to listen to my music, let alone compare it to David Bowie. I don’t know if he realised that apart from writing it, I performed and produced it too. As an artist, it’s really reinforced my self-belief.”

The singer added that he gave Iggy Pop a copy of his William Shakespeare-themed album ‘Sonnet 155’ after hearing that The Stooges vocalist is a Shakespeare fan.

Arnold and Iggy both appear at the Isle Of Wight Festival on June 11.

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Casting Cara Delevingne as Notting Hill party girl was ‘simple’ choice, says director

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The team behind Cara Delevingne’s new film said it was a “simple” decision to cast her to play a Bohemian west London party girl.

The model-turned-actress plays one of a pair of sisters whose house becomes home to a crowd of well-heeled young Londoners in Kids In Love which was shot in and around Notting Hill and at celebrity hangout The Box.

Preston Thompson, who co-wrote the script with Sebastian De Souza, said casting Delevingne was part of the “dreamy experience” of making their first film.

He said: “She auditioned and she was the best, it was as simple as that.

“I wasn’t surprised, we had heard so many great things about her so we sent the script to her and she came in and auditioned and was great.”

Soho’s The Box stands in for fictional club The Drambuie, and Thompson added: “We filmed there the morning after a Snoop Dogg gig.”

The pair took their cast and cameras on to the streets of Notting Hill to capture the atmosphere of the carnival.

The film, which also stars Will Poulter and French actress Alma Jodorowsky, is out on August 26.

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Cannes 2016: Antonio Banderas to Play Aging Rocker in Simon West’s ‘Salty’

Antonio Banderas is set to put his swashbuckling skills to the test once more, although perhaps in a rather different manner than the efforts he displayed in The Mask of Zorro, Puss in Boots or, most recently, as Burger Beard in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.

The actor is set to take the lead in action-comedy Salty, directed by Simon West (Con Air,Tomb Raider, The Expendables 2), playing an aging rock star and reformed sex addict married to a supermodel who is abducted by pirates. The film is being sold in the Cannes market by London-based Carnaby.

Billed as “The Hangover-meets-Spinal Tap” and adapted from the novel by Mark Haskell Smith — the story will see Banderas star as Turk Henry, a bassist for a recently split mega-platinum band who takes his pampered wife on an exotic luxury holiday to Chile only for her to be snatched by a group of renegade ship-less buccaneers trying to raise money to buy a boat. Despite having never organized anything more challenging than a club sandwich from room service, Turk embarks on a rescue mission, navigating the back alleys of Santiago through to the jungles of South America.

Principal photography in set to kick off in Chile in June.

Produced by Simon West Productions, Salty is being produced by Jib Polhemus (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Expendables 2, When a Stranger Calls, The Mechanic, Wild Card) and Harry Stourton (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), with Smith having written the screenplay from his own novel alongside Toby Davies (The Mitchell and Webb Look, Yonderland). Exec producers include Rene Besson (The Mechanic, Drive Angry, Homefront), Hannah Leader (Damascus Cover, Lucky Number Slevin, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) and Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Lawless, Blue Valentine).Carnaby’s Sean O’Kelly (Iron Sky, Damascus Cover, Kids in Love) and Andy Loveday (The Wee Man,Rise of the Footsoldier, Rise of the Krays) are also exec producing.

“Finally three of my passions together — cinema, music and humor” Banderas told The Hollywood Reporter.

Added West: “I’m going to shoot Salty in a style that will exude energy, fun and glamor with elaborate and exciting action sequences very much in the vein of my previous films. With Antonio on board, it’s going to be a phenomenal picture.”

Salty broke U.K. records last year when it became largest equity crowdfunded film of all time, inviting members of the British public to own a stake in the film’s profits. It’s the first significant Hollywood film to be funded in this way.

Alongside Salty, West also has The Blob remake — starring Samuel L. Jackson — and Iraqi war actioner Thunder Run on his upcoming slate of projects.

 

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First look at director Simon West scouting some spectacular locations in Chile!

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Variety’s First Look: Aneurin Barnard Plays Mozart in ‘Interlude in Prague’

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Variety has been given exclusive access to the first-look images for “Interlude in Prague,” which is shooting in the Czech capital. The film, which portrays a few turbulent months in the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, stars Aneurin Barnard, James Purefoy and Samantha Barks.

Barnard, whose credits include “The White Queen” and “War & Peace,” plays the composer at a time when has been brought to Prague by the vain and self-obsessed Baron Saloka. The evil aristocrat is played by Purefoy, who was serial killer Joe Carroll in Fox’s “The Following,” and is a slave owner in the “Roots” reboot.

Rising star Morfydd Clark, who appeared recently in Whit Stillman’s “Love and Friendship,” plays the beautiful soprano Zuzanna Luptak, who is betrothed to Saloka but falls in love with Mozart. Saloka, a psychopath, sexual predator and serial rapist, develops an overwhelming hatred that results in callous brutality and murder. Samantha Barks, whose credits include “Les Miserables,” is Josefa.

At the start of the shoot, director John Stephenson said: “A love story and a tragedy of epic proportions, the characters, the passions, heartbreak and awful outcome could just as easily exist in a contemporary story. I intend to shoot this with fast-moving camera and use modern post-production techniques to capture the energy and atmosphere of a modern thriller. The result will be a glorious heart-in-mouth solar plexus knockout.”

The film is produced by Productive International’s Huw Penallt Jones and Hannah Leader, and production design is by Luciana Arrighi.

London-based Carnaby Intl. is handling worldwide sales rights for the film, and will be taking it to market at next month’s Cannes Film Festival.

 

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‘Interlude in Prague’ round-up! Social media highlights as production continues

As the upcoming Mozart drama Interlude in Prague continues production in the Golden City, check out some highlights from Social-savvy cast & crew: