Pierce Brosnan, Lilly Singh and Brendan Gleeson will lend their voices to the animated feature Riverdance: The Animated Adventure.
The co-production between UK animation studio Aniventure and River Productions is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and features Bill Whelan’s musical score. Brosnan will voice the role of King of the Megaloceros Giganteus, while Gleeson and fellow Irish actor John Kavanagh will voice villain characters.
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure follows an Irish boy named Keegan and a Spanish girl named Moya as they journey into the mythical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus and learn to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration ...
The co-production between UK animation studio Aniventure and River Productions is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and features Bill Whelan’s musical score. Brosnan will voice the role of King of the Megaloceros Giganteus, while Gleeson and fellow Irish actor John Kavanagh will voice villain characters.
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure follows an Irish boy named Keegan and a Spanish girl named Moya as they journey into the mythical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus and learn to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration ...
- 9/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Pierce Brosnan, Lilly Singh and Brendan Gleeson will lend their voices to the animated feature Riverdance: The Animated Adventure.
The co-production between UK animation studio Aniventure and River Productions is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and features Bill Whelan’s musical score. Brosnan will voice the role of King of the Megaloceros Giganteus, while Gleeson and fellow Irish actor John Kavanagh will voice villain characters.
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure follows an Irish boy named Keegan and a Spanish girl named Moya as they journey into the mythical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus and learn to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration ...
The co-production between UK animation studio Aniventure and River Productions is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and features Bill Whelan’s musical score. Brosnan will voice the role of King of the Megaloceros Giganteus, while Gleeson and fellow Irish actor John Kavanagh will voice villain characters.
Riverdance: The Animated Adventure follows an Irish boy named Keegan and a Spanish girl named Moya as they journey into the mythical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus and learn to appreciate Riverdance as a celebration ...
- 9/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UK animation studio Aniventure has signed with CAA.
The London-based cartoon producer has also enlisted CAA Media Finance to help find new partners as Aniventure expands in the global family entertainment content space. The studio’s first three animated projects financed and in production include Riverdance: An Animated Adventure, a co-production with River Productions that is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and featuring Bill Whelan’s musical score.
The animated Riverdance musical comedy will see a young Irish boy named Keegan and his Spanish friend named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus, who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as ...
The London-based cartoon producer has also enlisted CAA Media Finance to help find new partners as Aniventure expands in the global family entertainment content space. The studio’s first three animated projects financed and in production include Riverdance: An Animated Adventure, a co-production with River Productions that is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and featuring Bill Whelan’s musical score.
The animated Riverdance musical comedy will see a young Irish boy named Keegan and his Spanish friend named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus, who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as ...
UK animation studio Aniventure has signed with CAA.
The London-based cartoon producer has also enlisted CAA Media Finance to help find new partners as Aniventure expands in the global family entertainment content space. The studio’s first three animated projects financed and in production include Riverdance: An Animated Adventure, a co-production with River Productions that is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and featuring Bill Whelan’s musical score.
The animated Riverdance musical comedy will see a young Irish boy named Keegan and his Spanish friend named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus, who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as ...
The London-based cartoon producer has also enlisted CAA Media Finance to help find new partners as Aniventure expands in the global family entertainment content space. The studio’s first three animated projects financed and in production include Riverdance: An Animated Adventure, a co-production with River Productions that is based on the Riverdance stage show franchise and featuring Bill Whelan’s musical score.
The animated Riverdance musical comedy will see a young Irish boy named Keegan and his Spanish friend named Moya journey into a magical world of the Megaloceros Giganteus, who teach them to appreciate Riverdance as ...
Aniventure, the London based animation production studio, has unveiled its first slate of titles. The company has also signed a representation deal with CAA, which it says will help to identify and develop global partners so it can expand further into the family market.
On the slate are three feature projects:
Riverdance: An Animated Adventure (produced by Aniventure and River Productions) based on the stage show phenomenon of the same name and featuring Bill Whelan’s multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning music, currently in post-production.
Blazing Samurai (Aniventure and Blazing Productions), based on Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles and directed by Mark Koetsier (The Grinch) and overseen and produced by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King).
Hitpig (Aniventure), from Pulitzer Prize-winner Berkeley Breathed who is serving as executive producer and production designer on the film directed by Cinzia Angelini (Minions) and Maurizio Parimbelli (Peter Rabbit).
Riverdance, Blazing Samurai and Hitpig will be delivered in 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively.
On the slate are three feature projects:
Riverdance: An Animated Adventure (produced by Aniventure and River Productions) based on the stage show phenomenon of the same name and featuring Bill Whelan’s multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning music, currently in post-production.
Blazing Samurai (Aniventure and Blazing Productions), based on Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles and directed by Mark Koetsier (The Grinch) and overseen and produced by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King).
Hitpig (Aniventure), from Pulitzer Prize-winner Berkeley Breathed who is serving as executive producer and production designer on the film directed by Cinzia Angelini (Minions) and Maurizio Parimbelli (Peter Rabbit).
Riverdance, Blazing Samurai and Hitpig will be delivered in 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively.
- 9/2/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Irish acting star Liam Neeson has described his latest role in “The Grey” as one of his toughest shoots. Belfast born Neeson told how freezing temperatures in British Columbia made it very tough for the team during their daily routine. However, he insisted it was an unbelievable experience. “We were up in a place called Smithers, some little village, but it’s about 200 miles north-east of Vancouver. The first week it was minus 40 degrees [Fahrenheit]. . If you went out for a pee-pee, that was interesting (because it froze)... There's no CGI, all that weather stuff, it's all the real deal,” Contact Music reports. "The snow would be (waist) deep and you'd have to walk from here to the camera and it became like a two-hour work-out. It really did. It was unbelievable. It was one of the toughest (shoots) I've ever done. ______________ Read More: Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson play prepares...
- 1/17/2012
- IrishCentral
More details about the sequel to Liam Neeson’s 2009 hit ‘Taken’ have begun to emerge. The sequel, which is set to begin filming this month, is yet unnamed and has a release date of October 5, 2012, according to the Examiner. Liam Neeson will again be undertaking his role of Bryan Mills, whose daughter was kidnapped and forced into human trafficking while in France in the first film. By the end of the film, Mills had killed his daughter’s kidnapper and brought her to safety in a whirlwind thriller. _____________ Read More: Liam Neeson and Gabriel Byrne present Irish Arts Center's Spirit Award to Bill Whelan Liam Neeson opens New York’s third annual Cinemagic Festival Trailer for Liam Neeson’s tense adventure movie ‘The Grey’ - Video _____________ The sequel, however, turns the tables as it is Neeson’s character and his wife, played again by Famke Janssen, who will be the ones kidnapped by Murad,...
- 10/18/2011
- IrishCentral
Following Colm Toibin's introduction on Morning Ireland, a number of celebrated Irish artists came together to launch The National Campaign For the Arts. Singer, Mary Black, actress and star of 'In America' and 'The Tudors', Sarah Bolger, comedian Risteard Cooper, singer/songwriter Damian Dempsey, Mercury Prize nominee Lisa Hannigan, actress and novelist Amy Huberman, Oscar and Ifta winning director Neil Jordan, internationally acclaimed composer Bill Whelan, television star Don Wycherly and other representatives of Ireland's music, film, theatre, literary and visual arts industries were there to give their support to a campaign highlighting the value of the arts to Ireland's economic and social recovery.
- 9/24/2009
- IFTN
The Irish Film & Television Academy (Ifta) has announced details for their inaugural Ifta Music Forum, focusing on Music for the Moving Image, which will take place in Dublin on 4 September 2009. Guests include Oscar winning composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement); Maggie Rodford, MD of the Air Edel Group, one of the world's leading music publishing and production companies; music supervisor/score co-ordinator and director of Hot House Music Becky Bentham, whose credits include 'Mamma Mia!', 'Hotel Rwanda', 'Blood Diamond' and Neil Jordan's latest 'Ondine'; and acclaimed Irish director Kirsten Sheridan, whose feature August Rush received a Grammy and Oscar nomination for its original soundtrack; along with representatives of Oscar winning, ultra low budget feature film 'Once', David Collins (tbc). Other participants and guests include a range of Irish composers from the Music chapter of the Academy and invited experts such as: Ifta...
- 8/27/2009
- IFTN
Riverdance, the thunderous celebration of Irish music, song and dance that has tapped its way onto the world stage thrilling millions of people around the globe, will play five Farewell Performances at the Orpheum Theatre February 20-22. Tickets for Riverdance are now on sale. Tickets range from $20 to $70 and are available at the Orpheum box office, or by calling 901-525-3000. The performance schedule is as follows: Fri, Feb 20, 2009 8:00 Pm Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:00 Pm (mat.) / 8:00 Pm (eve.) Sun, Feb 22, 2009 1:30 Pm (mat.) / 7:00 Pm (eve.) "Since 1996, the success of Riverdance in North America has gone beyond our wildest dreams," said producer Moya Doherty. "The fact that the show continues to draw and excite audiences 13 years after its debut in Dublin is a tribute to every dancer, singer, musician, staff and crew member who have dedicated themselves to the show." Composed by Bill Whelan, produced by Moya Doherty and directed by John McColgan,...
- 1/21/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
NEW YORK -- An adaptation of the hugely acclaimed Brian Friel play, "Dancing at Lughnasa" demonstrates the risks of transferring poetic theatrical material to the big screen.
Although intelligently adapted, beautifully acted and gorgeously photographed, the movie never quite soars the way the theatrical production did, and it is unlikely to reap the same kind of critical success. The presence of Meryl Streep -- who gets to deliver an Irish accent -- should help, as will the film's pedigree, but boxoffice prospects don't look particularly green.
Adapted by famed Irish playwright Frank McGuinness ("Someone Who'll Watch Over Me"), "Lughnasa" is a memory piece set in rural Ireland in 1936 about the five unmarried, Catholic Mundy sisters, who live in a small house in the hills outside the Donegal village of Ballybeg. Together, they take care of Michael Darrell Johnston), the 8-year-old love child of Christina (Catherine McCormack). The other sisters are Kate (Streep), a teacher at the local Catholic school who is about to lose her job because of falling attendance; Agnes (Brid Brennan, the only holdover from the original theatrical cast), who has assumed the role of caretaker; Rose (Sophie Thompson), gentle, sweet and mentally impaired; and Maggie (Kathy Burke), irrepressibly cheerful and profane.
The plot, such as it is, mainly revolves around a pair of arrivals -- the sisters' long-absent and rather addled older brother Jack (Michael Gambon), fresh from a decades-long stint as a missionary in Africa, and Gerry (Rhys Ifans), Michael's father, who is on his way to fight for anti-Franco forces in Spain. The title refers to an annual pagan ritual that is the town's social highlight of the year.
In its translation to the screen, "Dancing at Lughnasa" has somehow lost something, and it's hard to say exactly what. Certainly, the play's highly poetic language doesn't fully translate. And the much-heralded episode in which the sisters spontaneously burst into a joyous dance -- the highlight of the stage version -- falls flat on screen. Here, the story comes across as simply a series of minor but picturesque episodes, with the chief attributes being the excellent performances and gorgeous photography of the Irish countryside.
Streep has been so good for so long that it's easy to take her for granted, but she delivers another excellent performance as a curmudgeonly character who in lesser hands would be lessened to caricature. McCormack is luminous as the sensual Christina, and the three other female leads deliver superbly nuanced work. Ifans is highly appealing as a young man so high-spirited that he whoops and hollers at the prospect of going to war. Although one misses Gambon's usual mesmerizing intensity, he gives a well-modulated, quiet performance that is perfectly apt.
Director Pat O'Connor obviously knows his way around Ireland, but his command of the material is less sure, resulting in awkward tonal shifts and passages. The excellent soundtrack is provided by composer Bill Whelan, best known for the worldwide "Riverdance" sensation.
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Sony Pictures Classics
Credits: Director: Pat O'Connor; Producer: Noel Pearson; Screenplay: Frank McGuinness; Director of photography: Kenneth MacMillan; Editor: Humphrey Dixon; Music: Bill Whelan. Cast: Kate Mundy: Meryl Streep; Father Jack Mundy: Michael Gambon; Christina Mundy: Catherine McCormack; Maggie Mundy: Kathy Burke; Rose Mundy: Sophie Thompson; Agnes Mundy: Brid Brennan; Gerry Evans: Rhys Ifans; Michael Mundy: Darrell Johnston. MPAA rating: PG. Color/stereo. Running time -- 94 minutes.
Although intelligently adapted, beautifully acted and gorgeously photographed, the movie never quite soars the way the theatrical production did, and it is unlikely to reap the same kind of critical success. The presence of Meryl Streep -- who gets to deliver an Irish accent -- should help, as will the film's pedigree, but boxoffice prospects don't look particularly green.
Adapted by famed Irish playwright Frank McGuinness ("Someone Who'll Watch Over Me"), "Lughnasa" is a memory piece set in rural Ireland in 1936 about the five unmarried, Catholic Mundy sisters, who live in a small house in the hills outside the Donegal village of Ballybeg. Together, they take care of Michael Darrell Johnston), the 8-year-old love child of Christina (Catherine McCormack). The other sisters are Kate (Streep), a teacher at the local Catholic school who is about to lose her job because of falling attendance; Agnes (Brid Brennan, the only holdover from the original theatrical cast), who has assumed the role of caretaker; Rose (Sophie Thompson), gentle, sweet and mentally impaired; and Maggie (Kathy Burke), irrepressibly cheerful and profane.
The plot, such as it is, mainly revolves around a pair of arrivals -- the sisters' long-absent and rather addled older brother Jack (Michael Gambon), fresh from a decades-long stint as a missionary in Africa, and Gerry (Rhys Ifans), Michael's father, who is on his way to fight for anti-Franco forces in Spain. The title refers to an annual pagan ritual that is the town's social highlight of the year.
In its translation to the screen, "Dancing at Lughnasa" has somehow lost something, and it's hard to say exactly what. Certainly, the play's highly poetic language doesn't fully translate. And the much-heralded episode in which the sisters spontaneously burst into a joyous dance -- the highlight of the stage version -- falls flat on screen. Here, the story comes across as simply a series of minor but picturesque episodes, with the chief attributes being the excellent performances and gorgeous photography of the Irish countryside.
Streep has been so good for so long that it's easy to take her for granted, but she delivers another excellent performance as a curmudgeonly character who in lesser hands would be lessened to caricature. McCormack is luminous as the sensual Christina, and the three other female leads deliver superbly nuanced work. Ifans is highly appealing as a young man so high-spirited that he whoops and hollers at the prospect of going to war. Although one misses Gambon's usual mesmerizing intensity, he gives a well-modulated, quiet performance that is perfectly apt.
Director Pat O'Connor obviously knows his way around Ireland, but his command of the material is less sure, resulting in awkward tonal shifts and passages. The excellent soundtrack is provided by composer Bill Whelan, best known for the worldwide "Riverdance" sensation.
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Sony Pictures Classics
Credits: Director: Pat O'Connor; Producer: Noel Pearson; Screenplay: Frank McGuinness; Director of photography: Kenneth MacMillan; Editor: Humphrey Dixon; Music: Bill Whelan. Cast: Kate Mundy: Meryl Streep; Father Jack Mundy: Michael Gambon; Christina Mundy: Catherine McCormack; Maggie Mundy: Kathy Burke; Rose Mundy: Sophie Thompson; Agnes Mundy: Brid Brennan; Gerry Evans: Rhys Ifans; Michael Mundy: Darrell Johnston. MPAA rating: PG. Color/stereo. Running time -- 94 minutes.
- 11/17/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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