We've known for a few years that there are dueling Fred Astaire films in development — one starring Tom Holland playing the legendary entertainer, the other featuring Jamie Bell as Astaire and Margaret Qualley as Ginger Rogers. Both are seeing some new moves today, with The Hollywood Reporter bringing word that the Holland film now has Paddington's Paul King as director and Lee Hall re-writing the script.
The untitled, Holland-starring film has Lee Hall also now on board as writer. It'll focus on Astaire and his sister, Adele Astaire. The two were inseparable for more than 20 years, moving out of a simple Midwestern vaudeville act in the early part of the 20th Century to Broadway and London’s West end in the 1920s. Adele Astaire was initially the face of the act but eventually, Fred Astaire’s consummate stage skills eclipsed hers. The duo parted in 1932 when his sister married, which was a blow to Fred,...
The untitled, Holland-starring film has Lee Hall also now on board as writer. It'll focus on Astaire and his sister, Adele Astaire. The two were inseparable for more than 20 years, moving out of a simple Midwestern vaudeville act in the early part of the 20th Century to Broadway and London’s West end in the 1920s. Adele Astaire was initially the face of the act but eventually, Fred Astaire’s consummate stage skills eclipsed hers. The duo parted in 1932 when his sister married, which was a blow to Fred,...
- 2/13/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Exclusive: Black Bear International has launched international sales on Fred & Ginger, the musical about the passionate and explosive relationship between Hollywood dance legends, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
The project was formerly set up at Amazon but is hitting the open market with Black Bear and financier 30West (The Triangle Of Sadness) now aboard. UTA Independent Film Group and 30West will co-rep U.S. rights.
As was previously known, BAFTA-winner Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) will play Astaire, the technically-driven perfectionist, opposite Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as the naturally gifted Rogers. The film is aiming to start production later this year.
Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F*cking World) will direct from a script by writer Arash Amel (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare).
Hollywood icons Astaire and Rogers starred in ten movies together, starting with Flying Down to Rio in 1933 and ending with The Barkleys of Broadway...
The project was formerly set up at Amazon but is hitting the open market with Black Bear and financier 30West (The Triangle Of Sadness) now aboard. UTA Independent Film Group and 30West will co-rep U.S. rights.
As was previously known, BAFTA-winner Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot) will play Astaire, the technically-driven perfectionist, opposite Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) as the naturally gifted Rogers. The film is aiming to start production later this year.
Jonathan Entwistle (The End of the F*cking World) will direct from a script by writer Arash Amel (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare).
Hollywood icons Astaire and Rogers starred in ten movies together, starting with Flying Down to Rio in 1933 and ending with The Barkleys of Broadway...
- 2/13/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Three soldiers marooned in the desert try to rescue a wounded girl.
Australian actor Luke Hemsworth will star in Nick Robertson’s supernatural war thriller Recoil, with UK agency Evolutionary Films boarding worldwide sales on the title.
The film is set to shoot later this year in Lake George, Goulburn, and Broken Hill, in New South Wales, Australia.
Hemsworth, Danielle Cormack, and Daniel Webber will lead the story of three Australian infantry soldiers marooned in the Afghan desert trying to rescue a wounded girl. They find themselves trapped in a never-ending battle with a mysterious enemy.
Recoil will be the...
Australian actor Luke Hemsworth will star in Nick Robertson’s supernatural war thriller Recoil, with UK agency Evolutionary Films boarding worldwide sales on the title.
The film is set to shoot later this year in Lake George, Goulburn, and Broken Hill, in New South Wales, Australia.
Hemsworth, Danielle Cormack, and Daniel Webber will lead the story of three Australian infantry soldiers marooned in the Afghan desert trying to rescue a wounded girl. They find themselves trapped in a never-ending battle with a mysterious enemy.
Recoil will be the...
- 9/12/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries come in al shapes and sizes. Some are groundbreaking works from experimental art world heavyweights while others are rudimentary pieces of filmmaking that are elevated by a captivating subject or theme.
Somewhere in the middle is Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan.
Directed by Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger, Restless Creature introduces viewers to Wendy Whelan, prime ballerina and tenured member of the New York City Ballet. With three decades of professional work under her belt, Whelan has worked with a who’s who of ballet greats, with legendary choreographers like Christopher Wheeldon even crafting roles specifically for her. However, when we meet Whelan, it’s not as she’s taking a bow after yet another superb performance. Instead this story is one as much about the human spirit and it’s resilience as it is specifically about Whelan and her work.
Blending archival materials from Whelan’s youth and present-set...
Somewhere in the middle is Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan.
Directed by Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger, Restless Creature introduces viewers to Wendy Whelan, prime ballerina and tenured member of the New York City Ballet. With three decades of professional work under her belt, Whelan has worked with a who’s who of ballet greats, with legendary choreographers like Christopher Wheeldon even crafting roles specifically for her. However, when we meet Whelan, it’s not as she’s taking a bow after yet another superb performance. Instead this story is one as much about the human spirit and it’s resilience as it is specifically about Whelan and her work.
Blending archival materials from Whelan’s youth and present-set...
- 5/30/2017
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Exclusive: Laurent Lafitte, Raphaël Personnaz, Louis Hofmann also board project.
Ralph Fiennes has joined the cast of The White Crow, his project about Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Fiennes will play Nureyev’s teacher and mentor, Pushkin, who helped launch Nureyev’s career out of St Petersburg, and will also direct the feature.
As previously reported, professional dancer Oleg Ivenko will play the lead role of Nureyev, while fellow dancer Sergei Polunin, Blue Is The Warmest Colour star Adèle Exarchopoulos and Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova are among the cast.
The production has now also attached Elle star Laurent Lafitte, The French Minister star Raphaël Personnaz, Personal Shopper actor Calypso Valois and Land Of Mine star Louis Hofmann ahead of its summer 2017 shoot in St Petersburg and Paris, with locations including the Mariinsky Theatre and the Palais Garnier.
Two-time Oscar-nominee David Hare (The Hours, The Reader) has adapted the screenplay from Julie Kavanagh’s book Rudolf Nureyev, which...
Ralph Fiennes has joined the cast of The White Crow, his project about Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.
Fiennes will play Nureyev’s teacher and mentor, Pushkin, who helped launch Nureyev’s career out of St Petersburg, and will also direct the feature.
As previously reported, professional dancer Oleg Ivenko will play the lead role of Nureyev, while fellow dancer Sergei Polunin, Blue Is The Warmest Colour star Adèle Exarchopoulos and Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova are among the cast.
The production has now also attached Elle star Laurent Lafitte, The French Minister star Raphaël Personnaz, Personal Shopper actor Calypso Valois and Land Of Mine star Louis Hofmann ahead of its summer 2017 shoot in St Petersburg and Paris, with locations including the Mariinsky Theatre and the Palais Garnier.
Two-time Oscar-nominee David Hare (The Hours, The Reader) has adapted the screenplay from Julie Kavanagh’s book Rudolf Nureyev, which...
- 5/3/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Full casting is announced for Christopher Wheeldon's stunning reinvention of the Oscarwinningfilm that starred Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. An American in Paris features the sublime music and lyrics of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a new book by Craig Lucas. Directly following celebrated engagements in Paris and New York, this critically acclaimed and multi award-winning new musical bursts into life in the West End from Saturday 4 March 2017 with the official opening night on Tuesday 21 March 2017 at the Dominion Theatre.
- 9/9/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Joffrey Ballet will offer the public a rare glimpse into the rehearsal studio when it streams a live, first look of the highly anticipated world premiere production of The Nutcracker by Christopher Wheeldon, winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Choreography for the Broadway hit, An American in Paris. Seeing the master at work and watching the impeccably trained dancers of The Joffrey Ballet is a one-day-only opportunity, Today, September 8, 1130 am - 130 pm Ct and is accessible via the Joffrey's online YouTube channel.
- 9/8/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Earlier this week, the Tony Award winning hit musical, An American In Paris teamed up with Steps Dance School to offer a free dance class for kids ages 8 to 12. The classallowed the kids to make their 'Broadway debuts' on stage at the Palace Theatre. Conducted by Associate DirectorChoreographer Dontee Kiehn and assisted by cast members from An American In Paris including Tony nominee Leanne Cope and Associate Choreographer Sean Kelly, the students learned some of the actual Tony Award-winning choreography by Christopher Wheeldon featured in the musical.BroadwayWorld was on hand for the special day and you can check out photos below...
- 8/12/2016
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Joffrey Ballet will offer the public a rare glimpse into the rehearsal studio when it streams a live, first look of the highly anticipated world premiere production of The Nutcracker by Christopher Wheeldon, winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Choreography for the Broadway hit, An American in Paris. Seeing the master at work and watching the impeccably trained dancers of The Joffrey Ballet is a one-day-only opportunity, Thursday, September 8, 1130 am - 130 pm Ct and is accessible via the Joffrey's online YouTube channel.
- 8/10/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
In celebration of Bastille Day, Tony Award-winning An American In Paris directorchoreographer Christopher Wheeldon will be featured on Reddit.com's Ask Me Anything Ama on Thursday, July 14 at 1200pm Est. Mr. Wheeldon will be standing by on www.Reddit.com and available to answer questions about the hit musical and his body of work in the dance world. The hit musical An American In Paris is now playing at the Palace Theatre 47th Street and 7th Avenue.
- 7/12/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Brit producers Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon of Territorial Film Developments have pacted with Oz producer Michael Robertson (ProdigyMovies) to make supernatural thriller Road Train. The Duel-style Road Train is about a group of youngsters menaced by a driverless road train in the Australian outback. First-timer Dean Francis is set to direct from a screenplay by Clive Hopkins. The project is backed by the Australian Film Commissions IndiVision Production Fund, which supports first-time feature directors. Production outfits Tfd and ProdigyMovies re-team after a successful collaboration on last years Black Water, a film about three young people whose fishing trip goes horribly wrong when their boat is attacked by crocodiles in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
- 6/2/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
LONDON -- Longtime production executives Paul Cowan and Chris Wheeldon have united to form U.K. production banner Territorial Film Developments, the duo said Tuesday.
TFD aims to finance and produce "at least three in-house, low-budget movies per year in the horror-thriller and comedy genres," the parties said.
The debut movie, penciled in to be titled Black Water, was being presold at last week's European Film Market by U.K. sales outfit AV Pictures.
Billed as "a terrifying tale of human survival against all odds," the movie, via a two-minute promo, was sold to 11 territories, including Japan, Brazil, Spain and Benelux.
AV Pictures said Black Water, a collaboration between TFD and the Australian Film Commission, will be completed in time for May's Festival de Cannes and now is in postproduction in Sydney by the writer-director team of Andrew Trauki and David Nerlich.
Produced locally in Sydney with Michael Robertson at the helm, the story is based on a series of true events. The film follows three young people on a fishing tour whose boat is attacked by a saltwater crocodile in the mangrove swamps of northern Australia.
TFD aims to finance and produce "at least three in-house, low-budget movies per year in the horror-thriller and comedy genres," the parties said.
The debut movie, penciled in to be titled Black Water, was being presold at last week's European Film Market by U.K. sales outfit AV Pictures.
Billed as "a terrifying tale of human survival against all odds," the movie, via a two-minute promo, was sold to 11 territories, including Japan, Brazil, Spain and Benelux.
AV Pictures said Black Water, a collaboration between TFD and the Australian Film Commission, will be completed in time for May's Festival de Cannes and now is in postproduction in Sydney by the writer-director team of Andrew Trauki and David Nerlich.
Produced locally in Sydney with Michael Robertson at the helm, the story is based on a series of true events. The film follows three young people on a fishing tour whose boat is attacked by a saltwater crocodile in the mangrove swamps of northern Australia.
- 2/21/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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