Showing posts with label andrea riseborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label andrea riseborough. Show all posts
Sunday, June 23, 2013
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Friday, February 1, 2013
5 New Photos From 'Welcome To The Punch' Starring James McAvoy, Mark Strong & Andrea Riseborough NEWS BY OLIVER LYTTELTON (THE PLAYLIST)
"Hot Fuzz" aside, the history of the British cop/action film is not a glorious one. Indeed, it's hard to think of a truly successful picture that plays it straight, especially with recent disappointments like "Blitz" and "The Sweeney" fresh in the memory. But there's one sneaking up that we've had high hopes for for some time.
"Welcome To The Punch" marks the sophomore feature from director Eran Creevy, whose 2008 flick "Shifty" marked one of the more impressive British debuts of the last few years. And it won him a much bigger canvas to play with the second time around, with Ridley Scott producing his action-thriller, inspired by films like "Heat" and "The Last Boy Scout." And he's assembled an impressive cast, many of whom are featured in five new images from the film recently released, including James McAvoy, Mark Strong, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, Johnny Harris and Ruth Sheen, with David Morrissey, Daniel Mays, Elyes Gabrel and Daniel Kaluuya also among those who'll crop up in the film.
READ MORE; http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/5-new-welcome-to-punch-photos-starring-james-mcavoy-mark-strong-andrea-riseborough-20130201
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
X-Men star James McAvoy and Ridley Scott team up for Welcome to the Punch By David Bentley on January 30, 2013 5:23 PM (COVENTRY TELEGRAPH)
The story sees ex-criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) forced to return to London when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. This gives his nemesis, detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy), one last chance to catch the man he's always been after.
Welcome to the Punch is released on March 15, 2013. A trailer is included below.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Clive Owen On Avoiding The British Agent Cliche In 'Shadow Dancer' And His Own Memories Of Irish Troubles The Huffington Post UK |
Clive Owen plays Mac in 'Shadow Dancer', here seen recruiting Collette McVeigh (Andrea Riseborough)
Clive Owen is a Brit undoubtedly done well in Hollywood, acclaimed for his versatility ('Closer', 'Children of Men', 'The Bourne Identity'), most recently for his Golden Globe-nominated turn with Nicole Kidman in the HBO telemovie 'Hemingway and Gelhorn'.
But he was persuaded to return to the genre he's probably most associated with, that of the political thriller for the lead role in 'Shadow Dancer', adapted by ITN News Correspondent Tom Bradby from his own novel.
Owen plays Mac, a weary British agent, responsible for running informers at the height of the Troubles in 1990s Northern Ireland. This brings him into contact with Collette (Andrea Riseborough on top form), who is tasked with betraying her family if she wants her own freedom.
Here, Owen explains how the Irish Troubles affected him personally, and the sympathies he feels for his own character caught in a no-win situation...
What were your views on the British-Irish conflict as a young man, living in the UK at the time the film is set?
Well, obviously I grew up with it being part of our lives and that threat being in the air and every night hearing some report on the news about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I actually went to Belfast during that time. I did a play and stayed in Belfast for a week during the Troubles and it was rough, it was a war zone. And it was only when I went into the production office for this film and saw all the pictures they'd put on the wall from that time that I was like, "Wow, they've come a long way." Because it's not that long ago and it was a very different place then.
READ MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/18/clive-owen-shadow-dancer-northern-ireland_n_2501532.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Clive Owen: James Marsh’s 'Shadow Dancer' Wins Dinard Prize 11:46 AM PDT 10/6/2012 by Stuart Kemp (THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER)
LONDON – James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer won the Golden Hitchcock Award as this year's Dinard British Film Festival came to a close.
A star-studded jury including Celia Imrie, Stephen Dillane and jury president Patrick Bruel under the watchful eye of this year's 'hommage' recipient, Brit acting legend Tom Courtenay, plumped for Marsh's film starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough.
The Golden Hitchcock nod comprises of financial help to the French distributor and the filmmaker and also The Cine+ Award, which offers a promotional campaign on France's Ciné+ channels at the time of release.
Shadow Dancer also won the Prix Public chosen by the festival’s audiences.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
EIFF 2012: Shadow Dancer James Marsh’s IRA thriller is an accomplished, slow-burning drama Source: The List (Issue 698) Date: 21 June 2012 Written by: Tom Dawson (LIST FILMS)
Like the late Alan Clarke’s remarkable television film Elephant, which depicted a series of senseless killings in Northern Ireland during the era of the so-called Troubles, director James Marsh’s Belfast-set drama shows sectarian murders being perpetrated in domestic suburban locations.
Andrea Riseborough excels in the lead role of Colette, a member of an IRA active service unit in 1993, who is arrested mid-mission by the British authorities in London. She is given a stark choice by Clive Owen’s MI5 officer Mac: either she returns to her mother (Brid Brennan) in West Belfast and secretly informs on the movements of her own IRA-combatant brothers (Aidan Gillen and Domhnall Gleeson), or she will be sent to an English jail, and thus separated from her young son.
READ MORE: http://film.list.co.uk/article/42956-eiff-2012-shadow-dancer/
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Video: Movie Trailer for 'Shadow Dancer' Starring Clive Owen (OPPOSING VIEWS)
Submitted by I Need My Fix on Jun 6, 2012
It’s been since the middle of February, just after its appearance at the Berlinale, that we had anything on James Marsh’s Shadow Dancer, a film I’m really looking forward to. Today we have a UK trailer (since the film opens there on 24th August.), thanks to FilmStage. Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman (Andrea Riseborough, W.E.) is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
When a widowed mother (and active member of the IRA) is arrested in an aborted bomb plot, she falls into the hands of a British intelligence officer (Clive Owen). After the MI5 agent offers her an ultimatum, she must make hard choices to protect her son in this heart-wrenching thriller.
Shadow Dancer stars along with Owen and Riseborough, Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones), Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 and part 2 and son of Brendan) and Gillian Anderson.
READ MORE: http://www.opposingviews.com/i/entertainment/video-movie-trailer-shadow-dancer-starring-clive-owen-0#
Friday, February 3, 2012
Brits Seen: Emma Watson, Nicholas Hoult, Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman, Christian Bale, Clive Owen, Henry Cavill, & Loads More! (Britscene)
The Dark Knight Rises has been everywhere in anticipation of its blockbuster summer 2012 release. That means pictures of Christian Bale as Batman, Tom Hardy as the villain, Bane, and Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon have been appearing everywhere, and the latest images even include Bale all pumped up in his Bat suit. Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), better known as Catwoman, will also star and you can see this one July 20, 2012. (Source: HeyUGuys & Digital Spy)
Only a few days ago we announced that British movie Shadow Dancer had been picked up for a US release. Starring British actors Andrea Riseborough (W.E.) and Clive Owen (Intruders), Shadow Dancer was highly praised among the foreign films at Sundance when it premiered there earlier this week.The story centres on an Irish woman (Riseborough), who is captured by the British authorities following a failed terrorist act, and offered a deal by a British intelligence officer (Owen) to become an informant. As she reluctantly agrees, she must betray her Republican family or else go to prison. No release date for this one yet. (Souce: The Playlist)
Read the entire article: http://www.britscene.com/2012/02/brits-seen-11/31562
Monday, January 30, 2012
Sundance film festival hands prizes to 'dark and grim' films (Guardian)
Ben Child
Outside the competition, there was British success for Oscar-winning UK film-maker James Marsh, whose film Shadow Dancer was well-received. It tells the story of an Irish mother from an IRA-supporting family who is encouraged to become an informant by MI5. Starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough, it was described by Wise as a "film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs".
Sundance, which was founded as the Utah/US film festival in Salt Lake City in August 1978 and took on its present moniker in 1991 following several years of Redford's involvement and sponsorship, has become known as the premier US event for independent film-making. Recent years have seen films such as An Education, Precious and Little Miss Sunshine, all of which screened at the festival, go on to win major awards.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/30/sundance-festival-prizes-dark-grim
Outside the competition, there was British success for Oscar-winning UK film-maker James Marsh, whose film Shadow Dancer was well-received. It tells the story of an Irish mother from an IRA-supporting family who is encouraged to become an informant by MI5. Starring Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough, it was described by Wise as a "film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs".
Sundance, which was founded as the Utah/US film festival in Salt Lake City in August 1978 and took on its present moniker in 1991 following several years of Redford's involvement and sponsorship, has become known as the premier US event for independent film-making. Recent years have seen films such as An Education, Precious and Little Miss Sunshine, all of which screened at the festival, go on to win major awards.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/30/sundance-festival-prizes-dark-grim
Saturday, January 28, 2012
James McAvoy: "Welcome to the Punch" (Cinema Blend)
MOVIE NEWS
Welcome to the Punch opens September 7, 2012 in the U.K. It should hit North American cinemas sometime this year. It stars McAvoy, Strong, Peter Mullan (awesome) and the lovely Andrea Riseborough.
First Look At James McAvoy In British Thriller Welcome To The Punch
Jesse Carp
Read More: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/First-Look-James-McAvoy-British-Thriller-Welcome-Punch-29094.html
Welcome to the Punchnot only features a great cast, headed by McAvoy and the sensational Mark Strong, but also a really interesting action premise. The film follows Detective Max Lewinsky (McAvoy) who's still steaming about the one that got away, namely, criminal Jacob Sternwood (Strong) who successfully fled to an Icelandic hideout. But when Jacob's son finds himself in some trouble, Papa Sternwood has to come back to London to sort everything out. Hearing about his return, Lewinsky jumps at his final chance to bring the man to justice, that is, until something forces them to put aside their differences, work together and uncover an even larger conspiracy. Weren't expecting that part were you?
While we may have seen many good and bad guys form unlikely partnerships (3:10 to Yuma and next month's Safe House instantly come to mind) the prospect of McAvoy and Strong as an on-screen pair is incredibly enticing. Screen Daily was able to catch up with the creative team behind the project, detailing the entire journey from putting Shifty together to approaching this second film without worrying so much about budgetary limitations. On the screenplay, Creevy said that “We wanted to be as ambitious as possible. People are held back by a budget and a concept sometimes, but I knew that if I made it good enough it wouldn’t matter.” And good it must be since the script for Punch placed third on the 2010 Brit List (the British version of the Black List).
Clive Owen: Shadow Dancer earns high praise at Sundance (Reuters)
PARK CITY, Utah |
(Reuters) - A tense thriller about a mother deeply entrenched in the IRA and forced to choose between the organization and the family she loves has earned high praise among the foreign films at this week's Sundance Film festival.
"Shadow Dancer," set against a backdrop of a Northern Ireland in transition, gave the festival a lift after it premiered earlier this week following some of the higher-profile U.S. fiction films that have failed to live up to pre-festival hype.
The film stars Andrea Riseborough as a Belfast mother who, along with two of her brothers, is active in the Irish Republican Army when she gets offered a deal by an British intelligence officer (Clive Owen) to turn against her colleagues and become an informant or else go to prison.
James Marsh, who made Oscar-winning documentary "Man On Wire," directed "Shadow Dancer" which 1990s Northern Ireland TV correspondent Tom Bradby adapted from his book of the same name. Marsh said he was initially reluctant to work on the movie but ultimately won over by the idea of telling a more personal story of the conflict.
"In Britain you have this sort of exhausted sense of the Northern Irish troubles," he told Reuters. "But I quickly got caught up in the premise of the story where you take a young single mother and you go and force her to spy on her own family. It's an impossible bargain."
The moral quandary of Riseborough's character -- choosing between loved ones and dealing with the guilt of betrayal -- are themes most audiences could relate to, said Marsh.
Read More: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/28/uk-sundance-shadowdancer-idUKTRE80R01W20120128
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Clive Owen: Shadow Dancer Review (Damon Wise, The Guardian)
Sundance 2012: Shadow Dancer – review
Andrea Riseborough stars in a slow-burning but brilliant thriller about an IRA sympathiser forced to become an informant by MI5
Heart of darkness … Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough in Shadow Dancer
"The Troubles" is a euphemistic phrase for a still-raw piece of modern British history. Director James Marsh has decided not to excavate the specifics of the period for his second dramatic feature, in which a Northern Irish woman is forced to choose between her (presumably) IRA-supporting family and the British secret services trying to recruit her. Instead, it is a film that will surprise those who know Marsh only from his docs – the Oscar-winning Man on Wire and Bafta-nominated Project Nim – and also cement the director's reputation as one of the UK's leading auteurs.
Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as Colette McVeigh, whom we first meet as a child in the early 70s in a suburban Belfast family setting. Her father needs some cigarettes and asks his daughter to get them, but she sends her little brother instead. He returns lifeless and smothered in blood, caught in the crossfire of sectarian violence, which is where this taut and somewhat unforgiving drama gets its fire. We then flash forward 20 years, to where Colette, now a woman, is riding the London tube with a handbag that may or may not contain a bomb. The ensuing sequence, like the film, is long, tense and surprisingly wordless.
Colette is arrested and given an ultimatum by the authorities, in the guise of MI5 operative Mac (Clive Owen), who tells her that, unless she cooperates, her young son will be take from her. Colette, we learn, is from a known Republican family, and her brothers are lethally passionate about the cause. She herself, though, is at a crossroads, and Mac tries to exploit this crisis of confidence. The two begin an awkward but professional relationship, with Colette cast as the reluctant informer and Mac as an even more reluctant father figure, trying to push her into the role of mole in order to break the accompanying culture of violence.
To read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/25/sundance-2012-shadow-dancer-review
Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as Colette McVeigh, whom we first meet as a child in the early 70s in a suburban Belfast family setting. Her father needs some cigarettes and asks his daughter to get them, but she sends her little brother instead. He returns lifeless and smothered in blood, caught in the crossfire of sectarian violence, which is where this taut and somewhat unforgiving drama gets its fire. We then flash forward 20 years, to where Colette, now a woman, is riding the London tube with a handbag that may or may not contain a bomb. The ensuing sequence, like the film, is long, tense and surprisingly wordless.
Colette is arrested and given an ultimatum by the authorities, in the guise of MI5 operative Mac (Clive Owen), who tells her that, unless she cooperates, her young son will be take from her. Colette, we learn, is from a known Republican family, and her brothers are lethally passionate about the cause. She herself, though, is at a crossroads, and Mac tries to exploit this crisis of confidence. The two begin an awkward but professional relationship, with Colette cast as the reluctant informer and Mac as an even more reluctant father figure, trying to push her into the role of mole in order to break the accompanying culture of violence.
To read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/25/sundance-2012-shadow-dancer-review
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