John Hughes once explained why he loved stories about young people caught between childhood and adulthood. “One of the great wonders of that age is your emotions are so open and raw,” he said. “At that age it feels as good to feel bad as it does to feel good.”
The poet laureate of the coming-of-age film wasn’t wrong. These movies are built on some of the biggest feelings there are – first love! True friendship! Desperately trying to find a decent party and some booze! – and put you right back in the time when you felt everything so much, you thought you might actually burst. The arc is simple: a young person (or little gang of them) goes through some kind of quest or experience which opens their eyes to the world and shows them how innocent they were, and now never can be again. Come the credits, everyone...
The poet laureate of the coming-of-age film wasn’t wrong. These movies are built on some of the biggest feelings there are – first love! True friendship! Desperately trying to find a decent party and some booze! – and put you right back in the time when you felt everything so much, you thought you might actually burst. The arc is simple: a young person (or little gang of them) goes through some kind of quest or experience which opens their eyes to the world and shows them how innocent they were, and now never can be again. Come the credits, everyone...
- 5/18/2023
- by Tom Nicholson, Sophie Butcher, Ben Travis, Beth Webb, Alex Godfrey, Nick de Semlyen
- Empire - Movies
Franchise titles continue to dominate, with ‘Big George Foreman’ the second best performing new release.
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Apr 28-May 1)Total gross to date Week 1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal) £3.1m £47.2m 4 2. Evil Dead Rise (Studiocanal) £1.1m £3.6m 2 3. The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry (eOne) £760,000 £1m 1 4. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate) £620,444 £16.8m 6 5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (Warner Bros) £576,000 £13m 5
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Holdovers continued to dominate the UK-Ireland box office over the bank holiday weekend, with eOne’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry the only new release, and only non-franchise title, to find...
RankFilm (distributor)Three-day gross (Apr 28-May 1)Total gross to date Week 1. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal) £3.1m £47.2m 4 2. Evil Dead Rise (Studiocanal) £1.1m £3.6m 2 3. The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry (eOne) £760,000 £1m 1 4. John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate) £620,444 £16.8m 6 5. Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (Warner Bros) £576,000 £13m 5
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Holdovers continued to dominate the UK-Ireland box office over the bank holiday weekend, with eOne’s The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry the only new release, and only non-franchise title, to find...
- 5/2/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Further new releases include ’Big George Foreman’ and ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry is the widest release across the UK’s three-day bank holiday weekend, walking into 643 locations for eOne, with no franchise new releases in the mix.
Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton star in Hettie Macdonald’s feature, about a seemingly unremarkable man in his 60s who embarks on a 450-mile mission to see his friend who is dying in a hospice.
Broadbent’s last big screen outing was in Roger Michell’s The Duke, which brought in £941,975 in its first weekend for...
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry is the widest release across the UK’s three-day bank holiday weekend, walking into 643 locations for eOne, with no franchise new releases in the mix.
Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton star in Hettie Macdonald’s feature, about a seemingly unremarkable man in his 60s who embarks on a 450-mile mission to see his friend who is dying in a hospice.
Broadbent’s last big screen outing was in Roger Michell’s The Duke, which brought in £941,975 in its first weekend for...
- 4/28/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
This evening saw the capital offer a likely stop to The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry as it held its UK premiere.
Starring Academy Award® Winner Jim Broadbent as Harold and Penelope Wilton as his wife Maureen, the story is an uplifting tale of self-discovery, redemption and learning to seize the moment. Based on the bestselling book of the same name by award-winning author Rachel Joyce, who also wrote the screenplay, the film is directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald.
The film will be released in the UK and Ireland from April 28th 2023. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Premiere Interviews
Plot:
The film tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend. Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He...
Starring Academy Award® Winner Jim Broadbent as Harold and Penelope Wilton as his wife Maureen, the story is an uplifting tale of self-discovery, redemption and learning to seize the moment. Based on the bestselling book of the same name by award-winning author Rachel Joyce, who also wrote the screenplay, the film is directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald.
The film will be released in the UK and Ireland from April 28th 2023. Colin Hart and Ethan Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Premiere Interviews
Plot:
The film tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend. Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He...
- 4/18/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The first titles to be released under the deal will be Cannes 2022 selection Godland.
Scanbox Entertainment has added Aurora Studios as its exclusive Finnish theatrical distribution partner through its distribution subsidiary Cinemanse.
The deal covers all Scanbox titles, both acquisitions (usually made on a pan-Nordic basis) and its in-house productions, which are ramping up.
The collaboration will boost Scanbox’s connections to local productions in Finland while giving Aurora and Cinemanse an expansion of their theatrical slate.
The first titles to be released under the deal will be Cannes 2022 selection Godland by Hlynur Pálmason followed by The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Hettie Macdonald.
Scanbox Entertainment has added Aurora Studios as its exclusive Finnish theatrical distribution partner through its distribution subsidiary Cinemanse.
The deal covers all Scanbox titles, both acquisitions (usually made on a pan-Nordic basis) and its in-house productions, which are ramping up.
The collaboration will boost Scanbox’s connections to local productions in Finland while giving Aurora and Cinemanse an expansion of their theatrical slate.
The first titles to be released under the deal will be Cannes 2022 selection Godland by Hlynur Pálmason followed by The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Hettie Macdonald.
- 2/9/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Entertainment One has debuted the first trailer and poster for ‘The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,’ in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from April 28th 2023.
Based on the bestselling book of the same name by award-winning author Rachel Joyce, who also wrote the screenplay, the film is directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald.
The film tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend. Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He’s an unremarkable man who has failed at all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. Now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. But when Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a...
Based on the bestselling book of the same name by award-winning author Rachel Joyce, who also wrote the screenplay, the film is directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald.
The film tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend. Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He’s an unremarkable man who has failed at all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. Now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. But when Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a...
- 2/2/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
‘Normal People’ Star Daisy Edgar-Jones on ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ and the ‘Strangeness’ of Stardom
One of the breakout stars of the pandemic, Daisy Edgar-Jones, was finally out and about at Locarno Film Festival, where she picked up the Leopard Club Award and introduced her latest film “Where the Crawdads Sing,” based on a novel by Delia Owens.
“The whole idea of being a ‘breakout star’ is a strange thing to comprehend anyway. The strangeness of that, happening in tandem with the strangeness of the pandemic, meant that those things will be forever mixed up together for me,” she tells Variety, recalling “Normal People’s” triumphant unveiling during the lockdown.
“In reality, nothing in my life was changing. I was still in my bedroom on Zoom. This year, I have been all the more grateful for being able to promote the projects I worked on and actually be with the people I made them with.”
Her new film, set in the South and starting all...
“The whole idea of being a ‘breakout star’ is a strange thing to comprehend anyway. The strangeness of that, happening in tandem with the strangeness of the pandemic, meant that those things will be forever mixed up together for me,” she tells Variety, recalling “Normal People’s” triumphant unveiling during the lockdown.
“In reality, nothing in my life was changing. I was still in my bedroom on Zoom. This year, I have been all the more grateful for being able to promote the projects I worked on and actually be with the people I made them with.”
Her new film, set in the South and starting all...
- 8/7/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Conversations With Friends and Normal People would have attracted a “tiny audience” if they had been made as features instead of TV shows, according to director Lenny Abrahamson, who said program-makers should trust audiences to enjoy “arthouse TV.”
On the eve of BBC Three/Hulu’s Conversations With Friends’ release, the Oscar-nominated Room and Frank director reflected on how the independent film and high-end TV sectors have developed drastically in the past decade, blurring the boundaries and allowing “classical arthouse” to make its way to the small screen.
“The wisdom a decade ago was that high-end TV had to be sexy to keep people from changing the channel but it’s remarkable now how people are prepared to commit to something thoughtful and arthouse in its execution,” he told Deadline.
“Had we done Normal People or Conversations With Friends as a long feature it would have had a tiny audience.
On the eve of BBC Three/Hulu’s Conversations With Friends’ release, the Oscar-nominated Room and Frank director reflected on how the independent film and high-end TV sectors have developed drastically in the past decade, blurring the boundaries and allowing “classical arthouse” to make its way to the small screen.
“The wisdom a decade ago was that high-end TV had to be sexy to keep people from changing the channel but it’s remarkable now how people are prepared to commit to something thoughtful and arthouse in its execution,” he told Deadline.
“Had we done Normal People or Conversations With Friends as a long feature it would have had a tiny audience.
- 5/9/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
126 domestic UK features contributed £221m to the total film production spend of £1.55bn.
The post-lockdown boom in UK film and high-end TV (Hetv) production was confirmed today by official BFI statistics showing that total spend reached £5.64bn in 2021, a new record.
The combined production spend by film and Hetv during 2021 is £1.27bn higher than for the pre-pandemic year 2019, according to figures from the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit.
Hetv was largely responsible for driving overall production levels to the new record, topping £4.09bn, nearly double pre-pandemic 2019 levels. This figure includes £737m from an increased number of single long-form ‘film...
The post-lockdown boom in UK film and high-end TV (Hetv) production was confirmed today by official BFI statistics showing that total spend reached £5.64bn in 2021, a new record.
The combined production spend by film and Hetv during 2021 is £1.27bn higher than for the pre-pandemic year 2019, according to figures from the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit.
Hetv was largely responsible for driving overall production levels to the new record, topping £4.09bn, nearly double pre-pandemic 2019 levels. This figure includes £737m from an increased number of single long-form ‘film...
- 2/4/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
126 domestic UK features contributed £221m to the total film production spend of £1.55bn.
The post-lockdown boom in UK film and high-end TV (Hetv) production was confirmed today by official BFI statistics showing that total spend reached £5.64bn in 2021, a new record.
The combined production spend by film and Hetv during 2021 is £1.27bn higher than for the pre-pandemic year 2019, according to figures from the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit.
Hetv was largely responsible for driving overall production levels to the new record, topping £4.09bn, nearly double pre-pandemic 2019 levels. This figure includes £737m from an increased number of single long-form ‘film...
The post-lockdown boom in UK film and high-end TV (Hetv) production was confirmed today by official BFI statistics showing that total spend reached £5.64bn in 2021, a new record.
The combined production spend by film and Hetv during 2021 is £1.27bn higher than for the pre-pandemic year 2019, according to figures from the BFI’s Research and Statistics Unit.
Hetv was largely responsible for driving overall production levels to the new record, topping £4.09bn, nearly double pre-pandemic 2019 levels. This figure includes £737m from an increased number of single long-form ‘film...
- 2/4/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Here’s our annual rundown of the 10 largest awards given out by the British Film Institute’s Film Fund across 2021. Backed by National Lottery money, the grants are a key supporter of indie cinema in the UK.
This year also saw long-time Film Fund chief Ben Roberts, now BFI CEO, hand over the keys to the fund to new director Mia Bays.
Top of the list is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s popular novel about a man who embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the belief that his journey will save the life of an old friend. Jim Broadbent is starring in the pic, which Joyce is adapting herself. Hettie Macdonald, who helmed Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is directing. Producers are Kevin Loader with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom.
Second on the list is Typist Artist Pirate King[/link], the...
This year also saw long-time Film Fund chief Ben Roberts, now BFI CEO, hand over the keys to the fund to new director Mia Bays.
Top of the list is The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, an adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s popular novel about a man who embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the belief that his journey will save the life of an old friend. Jim Broadbent is starring in the pic, which Joyce is adapting herself. Hettie Macdonald, who helmed Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is directing. Producers are Kevin Loader with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom.
Second on the list is Typist Artist Pirate King[/link], the...
- 12/27/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Shooting is taking place across the UK, from Devon to Northumberland.
Production is underway on The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, with shooting beginning on location in the UK on Monday (September 27), in Devon.
Linda Bassett, star of East Is East and Kinky Boots, has joined the previously announced cast of Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
The high-budget independent feature is the first work from director Hettie Macdonald since BBC series Normal People (for which she directed 6 of the 12 episodes), and is based on Rachel Joyce’s 2012 novel of the same. Joyce has also penned the screenplay.
The story follows...
Production is underway on The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry, with shooting beginning on location in the UK on Monday (September 27), in Devon.
Linda Bassett, star of East Is East and Kinky Boots, has joined the previously announced cast of Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton.
The high-budget independent feature is the first work from director Hettie Macdonald since BBC series Normal People (for which she directed 6 of the 12 episodes), and is based on Rachel Joyce’s 2012 novel of the same. Joyce has also penned the screenplay.
The story follows...
- 10/1/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
October’s here and it’s time to get spooked. After last year’s superb “’70s Horror” lineup, the Criterion Channel commemorates October with a couple series: “Universal Horror,” which does what it says on the tin (with special notice to the Spanish-language Dracula), and “Home Invasion,” which runs the gamut from Romero to Oshima with Polanski and Haneke in the mix. Lest we disregard the programming of Cindy Sherman’s one feature, Office Killer, and Jennifer’s Body, whose lifespan has gone from gimmick to forgotten to Criterion Channel. And if you want to stretch ideas of genre just a hair, their “True Crime” selection gets at darker shades of human nature.
It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...
It’s not all chills and thrills, mind. October also boasts a Kirk Douglas repertoire, movies by Doris Wishman and Wayne Wang, plus Manoel de Oliveira’s rarely screened Porto of My Childhood. And Edgar Wright gets the “Adventures in Moviegoing” treatment,...
- 9/24/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Downton Abbey and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel star Penelope Wilton is joining Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) in Hettie Macdonald’s (Normal People) upcoming feature The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
Wilton will play Maureen, the wife who is left bereft and bewildered when Harold doesn’t come home one day. The Duke and Lady In the Van star Broadbent will play the eponymous Harold, an ordinary man who has passed through life living on the sidelines until he goes to post a letter one day…and just keeps walking.
The character embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the simple belief that his journey will save the life of his old friend Queenie who is dying in a hospice. Step by step, a spark is ignited in Harold’s hibernating soul as he rediscovers the majesty of the world, reflects on his mistakes, and finally...
Wilton will play Maureen, the wife who is left bereft and bewildered when Harold doesn’t come home one day. The Duke and Lady In the Van star Broadbent will play the eponymous Harold, an ordinary man who has passed through life living on the sidelines until he goes to post a letter one day…and just keeps walking.
The character embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the simple belief that his journey will save the life of his old friend Queenie who is dying in a hospice. Step by step, a spark is ignited in Harold’s hibernating soul as he rediscovers the majesty of the world, reflects on his mistakes, and finally...
- 6/21/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
By any terms, Berlin’s 2021 European Film Market will deliver its smallest pre-sales market in years. Covid-19 has put back productions, created distribution bottlenecks, and provoked huge uncertainty about cinema theater re-openings.
But there will still be titles – in development, in production and complete – across a broad gamut to whet buyers’ appetites, even at times have them reaching for their wallets.
The following are a curated selection of buzz titles, ranging from big budget to accessible arthouse.
Top Sellers
“The Actor”
Director: Duke Johnson
Writers: Duke Johnson, Stephen Cooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling
Producers: Gosling, Ken Kao (Waypoint Entertainment), Johnson, Abigail Spencer (Innerlight Films), Paul Young (Make Good Banner)
New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a small town, he struggles to get back home, and piece together his life.
Sales: CAA Media Finance, Endeavor Content
“Black Flies...
But there will still be titles – in development, in production and complete – across a broad gamut to whet buyers’ appetites, even at times have them reaching for their wallets.
The following are a curated selection of buzz titles, ranging from big budget to accessible arthouse.
Top Sellers
“The Actor”
Director: Duke Johnson
Writers: Duke Johnson, Stephen Cooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling
Producers: Gosling, Ken Kao (Waypoint Entertainment), Johnson, Abigail Spencer (Innerlight Films), Paul Young (Make Good Banner)
New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a small town, he struggles to get back home, and piece together his life.
Sales: CAA Media Finance, Endeavor Content
“Black Flies...
- 3/1/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Broadbent (“The Duke”) will lead the cast of “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,” an adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s bestselling novel.
Broadbent will play the eponymous Harold, who embarks upon a 450-mile walk across the U.K. in the belief that his journey will save the life of his old friend Queenie who is dying in a hospice.
BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald (“Normal People”) will direct.
“Rachel’s beautiful story is made for cinema: a raw and emotional portrait of a man battling long-buried feelings of grief and guilt in a vast landscape,” said Macdonald. “I find Harold’s journey across England and his belief that he can make a difference extraordinarily moving and inspiring. I am enormously excited to be working with Jim Broadbent who I know will use his warmth, range and sensitivity to create an onscreen Harold who will...
Broadbent will play the eponymous Harold, who embarks upon a 450-mile walk across the U.K. in the belief that his journey will save the life of his old friend Queenie who is dying in a hospice.
BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald (“Normal People”) will direct.
“Rachel’s beautiful story is made for cinema: a raw and emotional portrait of a man battling long-buried feelings of grief and guilt in a vast landscape,” said Macdonald. “I find Harold’s journey across England and his belief that he can make a difference extraordinarily moving and inspiring. I am enormously excited to be working with Jim Broadbent who I know will use his warmth, range and sensitivity to create an onscreen Harold who will...
- 2/12/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a hot one out of Blighty. Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent is set to star in the movie adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s genuinely best-selling novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
BAFTA-winner Hettie Macdonald, who directed BBC and Hulu hit Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is aboard to direct, and BAFTA-winner Kevin Loader (The Death Of Stalin) will produce with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom. Embankment have launched worldwide sales ahead of the virtual EFM.
Broadbent, who teamed with Loader on box office hit The Lady in the Van and recently starred in Venice Film Festival hit The Duke, will play the eponymous Harold, an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day…and just keeps walking.
The character embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the simple belief that his journey will...
BAFTA-winner Hettie Macdonald, who directed BBC and Hulu hit Normal People with Lenny Abrahamson, is aboard to direct, and BAFTA-winner Kevin Loader (The Death Of Stalin) will produce with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom. Embankment have launched worldwide sales ahead of the virtual EFM.
Broadbent, who teamed with Loader on box office hit The Lady in the Van and recently starred in Venice Film Festival hit The Duke, will play the eponymous Harold, an ordinary man who has passed through life, living on the side lines, until he goes to post a letter one day…and just keeps walking.
The character embarks on a 450-mile walk across the UK in the simple belief that his journey will...
- 2/12/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In filming the surprise hit young love story “Normal People” for the BBC and Hulu, cinematographer Suzie Lavelle departed from the big-scale war dramas and multi-camera TV work she had done previously to create a more intimate, essential Irish-set story, she tells Variety.
Working with directors Hettie Macdonald (“Howards End”) and Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”), while adapting scenes from the source book by Sally Rooney, Lavelle discovered after seeing the subtle power of actors Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal that she needed to be light and quick on her feet, she says. Filming shortform episodes seemed a challenging fit for such an intense drama, says the Dp, but she came to realize that this approach actually offered real advantages.
“Normal People” screens in the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s First Look – TV Pilots competition in Torun, Poland this week.
Variety‘s interview with Lavelle follows:
So how did you handle creating this...
Working with directors Hettie Macdonald (“Howards End”) and Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”), while adapting scenes from the source book by Sally Rooney, Lavelle discovered after seeing the subtle power of actors Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal that she needed to be light and quick on her feet, she says. Filming shortform episodes seemed a challenging fit for such an intense drama, says the Dp, but she came to realize that this approach actually offered real advantages.
“Normal People” screens in the EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s First Look – TV Pilots competition in Torun, Poland this week.
Variety‘s interview with Lavelle follows:
So how did you handle creating this...
- 11/13/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
To mark the release of Normal People, out now, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD.
An exquisite and compulsive modern love story about how two people profoundly impact each other’s lives, Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small west of Ireland town to their undergraduate years at Trinity College Dublin. This critically acclaimed 12-part series explores just how complicated intimacy and young love can be.
Sally Rooney adapted her coming-of-age book with Alice Birch along with Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe. Normal People is directed by the Oscar-nominated film-maker Lenny Abrahamson and English director Hettie Macdonald and is produced by the Oscar® and BAFTA® award-winning production company Element Pictures.
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An exquisite and compulsive modern love story about how two people profoundly impact each other’s lives, Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small west of Ireland town to their undergraduate years at Trinity College Dublin. This critically acclaimed 12-part series explores just how complicated intimacy and young love can be.
Sally Rooney adapted her coming-of-age book with Alice Birch along with Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe. Normal People is directed by the Oscar-nominated film-maker Lenny Abrahamson and English director Hettie Macdonald and is produced by the Oscar® and BAFTA® award-winning production company Element Pictures.
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- 11/2/2020
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Paul Mescal is calling from London. You can see his shit-eating grin, even through the phone. And you can see it on recent Zoom interviews for Hulu’s “Normal People,” which shot the 24-year-old actor out of a cannon and landed him an Emmy nomination for his first television series. During Mescal’s promo interview with Mick Jagger for the recent Rolling Stones video “Scarlet,” you can see the aging rock star’s dawning recognition of just how magnetic this young actor is. “I understand this is your first music video?” Jagger asks.
This does not happen every day.
It seems obvious now that Dublin-trained theater actor Mescal was perfect casting for “Normal People,” Lenny Abrahamson’s Element Pictures/BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s sexy 2018 bestseller. He plays Sligo working-class jock Connell, who keeps secret his liaison with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a posh loner over-achiever. Their relationship ebbs and flows over four years.
This does not happen every day.
It seems obvious now that Dublin-trained theater actor Mescal was perfect casting for “Normal People,” Lenny Abrahamson’s Element Pictures/BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s sexy 2018 bestseller. He plays Sligo working-class jock Connell, who keeps secret his liaison with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a posh loner over-achiever. Their relationship ebbs and flows over four years.
- 8/17/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Paul Mescal is calling from London. You can see his shit-eating grin, even through the phone. And you can see it on recent Zoom interviews for Hulu’s “Normal People,” which shot the 24-year-old actor out of a cannon and landed him an Emmy nomination for his first television series. During Mescal’s promo interview with Mick Jagger for the recent Rolling Stones video “Scarlet,” you can see the aging rock star’s dawning recognition of just how magnetic this young actor is. “I understand this is your first music video?” Jagger asks.
This does not happen every day.
It seems obvious now that Dublin-trained theater actor Mescal was perfect casting for “Normal People,” Lenny Abrahamson’s Element Pictures/BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s sexy 2018 bestseller. He plays Sligo working-class jock Connell, who keeps secret his liaison with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a posh loner over-achiever. Their relationship ebbs and flows over four years.
This does not happen every day.
It seems obvious now that Dublin-trained theater actor Mescal was perfect casting for “Normal People,” Lenny Abrahamson’s Element Pictures/BBC/Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s sexy 2018 bestseller. He plays Sligo working-class jock Connell, who keeps secret his liaison with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a posh loner over-achiever. Their relationship ebbs and flows over four years.
- 8/17/2020
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
There’s something odd about Normal People. It is, ostensibly, a show about two teenagers who fall in love, then navigate a very typical series of bust-ups and reconciliations. So far, so normal. And the show begins innocently enough. Set in Ireland, we see the popular and sporty Connell (Paul Mescal) get together with awkward school outcast Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones). But then comes this weird sorcery. As you watch the couple move from high school to college, somehow the story creeps up on you, tears out your heart, chucks it out the window, and runs it over with a bus.
Based on Sally Rooney’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, Normal People elegantly and succinctly shows us how humans mess up our relationships, how we misunderstand each other; how our defenses—designed to protect us—in fact keep us from the very things we want most in life.
Based on Sally Rooney’s New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, Normal People elegantly and succinctly shows us how humans mess up our relationships, how we misunderstand each other; how our defenses—designed to protect us—in fact keep us from the very things we want most in life.
- 7/1/2020
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
This story about Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones of “Normal People” first appeared in the Limited Series & Movies issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan, the young couple at the heart of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel “Normal People” and the Hulu miniseries based on it, can be a frustrating pair to watch — that, perhaps, is what makes them normal. They’re clearly soulmates from the time they first come together in high school, but Connell is scared to acknowledge the connection publicly, then unable again and again to tell her how he really feels. Marianne, on the other hand, has grown up so convinced that she’s not worthy of love that she continually puts herself in situations where she is abused rather than cherished.
“Normal People” is a lovely, intimate limited series that lets the on-again, off-again relationship between Connell and Marianne play out over 12 half-hour episodes,...
Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan, the young couple at the heart of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel “Normal People” and the Hulu miniseries based on it, can be a frustrating pair to watch — that, perhaps, is what makes them normal. They’re clearly soulmates from the time they first come together in high school, but Connell is scared to acknowledge the connection publicly, then unable again and again to tell her how he really feels. Marianne, on the other hand, has grown up so convinced that she’s not worthy of love that she continually puts herself in situations where she is abused rather than cherished.
“Normal People” is a lovely, intimate limited series that lets the on-again, off-again relationship between Connell and Marianne play out over 12 half-hour episodes,...
- 6/26/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
This story about Ed Guiney and “Normal People” first appeared in the “Race Begins” issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine. It is one in a series of conversations about the effects of the coronavirus on the television industry.
Ed Guiney, a director of the Dublin-based production company Element Pictures, has in recent years produced the Oscar-winning films “The Favourite” and “Room” — but he’s now drawing raves on television with the BBC and Hulu series “Normal People,” an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel that stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young couple whose on-again, off-again relationship spans high school and college years. Executive produced by “Room” director Lenny Abrahamson and directed by Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, the startlingly intimate series premiered in late April, in the thick of the coronavirus lockdown.
What stage was “Normal People” at when the lockdown hit?
We were lucky, in a way,...
Ed Guiney, a director of the Dublin-based production company Element Pictures, has in recent years produced the Oscar-winning films “The Favourite” and “Room” — but he’s now drawing raves on television with the BBC and Hulu series “Normal People,” an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel that stars Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones as a young couple whose on-again, off-again relationship spans high school and college years. Executive produced by “Room” director Lenny Abrahamson and directed by Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, the startlingly intimate series premiered in late April, in the thick of the coronavirus lockdown.
What stage was “Normal People” at when the lockdown hit?
We were lucky, in a way,...
- 6/12/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Irish romantic drama “Normal People” premiered on Hulu on April 29. It didn’t have as high a profile as the streaming service’s other limited series, “Little Fires Everywhere” with its starry cast led by Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington. But it became one of the spring’s most acclaimed shows with lots of buzz generated by its mature handling of its frank sexuality. Now it could be a dark horse Emmy contender for Best Limited Series.
See‘The Great’ reviews: Is Hulu’s royal comedy the critics’ favourite new show?
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal play star-crossed lovers in the 12-part drama: she’s affluent but an outcast, he’s working-class but a popular jock. It currently ranks among the top 10 contenders in our odds, which are based on the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users. Among those betting on the series to be nominated as...
See‘The Great’ reviews: Is Hulu’s royal comedy the critics’ favourite new show?
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal play star-crossed lovers in the 12-part drama: she’s affluent but an outcast, he’s working-class but a popular jock. It currently ranks among the top 10 contenders in our odds, which are based on the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users. Among those betting on the series to be nominated as...
- 5/29/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Endeavor Content has unveiled a slew of international deals for Hulu and BBC Three’s hit drama “Normal People.”
Lionsgate-owned international streamer Starzplay has bought exclusive rights to the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel for Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Latin America and Japan.
Endeavor Content has also sold the Element Pictures production to multiple other territories, including Australia (Stan), Canada, Denmark (Dr Denmark), Greece, Cyprus and Malta (Fox Life), Iceland (Siminn), Ireland (Rte), Finland (Yle), New Zealand (Tvnz), Norway (Nrk), Russia and Cis (Kinopoisk) and Sweden (Svt).
Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell, the 12-part series is directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald. It tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.
Since launching April...
Lionsgate-owned international streamer Starzplay has bought exclusive rights to the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel for Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Latin America and Japan.
Endeavor Content has also sold the Element Pictures production to multiple other territories, including Australia (Stan), Canada, Denmark (Dr Denmark), Greece, Cyprus and Malta (Fox Life), Iceland (Siminn), Ireland (Rte), Finland (Yle), New Zealand (Tvnz), Norway (Nrk), Russia and Cis (Kinopoisk) and Sweden (Svt).
Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones as Marianne and Paul Mescal as Connell, the 12-part series is directed by Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald. It tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and Connell from the end of their school days in a small town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.
Since launching April...
- 5/19/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Canada’s CBC has picked up buzzy Hulu and BBC drama Normal People.
The Canadian public broadcaster will air the coming-of-age drama, based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel on its streaming service from May 27.
Two episodes of the Hulu and BBC co-production, which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, will air weekly.
This comes as the 12-part series, featuring half-hour episodes, propelled British streaming network BBC Three to its best-ever week when it launched last month, generating 12.6M views in its first week.
Produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures, Normal People tracks the complicated relationship of Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. At school, he’s well-liked and popular, while she’s lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne’s house,...
The Canadian public broadcaster will air the coming-of-age drama, based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel on its streaming service from May 27.
Two episodes of the Hulu and BBC co-production, which stars Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, will air weekly.
This comes as the 12-part series, featuring half-hour episodes, propelled British streaming network BBC Three to its best-ever week when it launched last month, generating 12.6M views in its first week.
Produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures, Normal People tracks the complicated relationship of Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small-town west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College. At school, he’s well-liked and popular, while she’s lonely, proud and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne’s house,...
- 5/8/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In ordinary times, Paul Mescal’s life would be dramatically different after starring in one of the buzziest TV shows of the year. But for the most part, not much as changed for the actor since Hulu’s premiere last week of “Normal People,” a sprawling love story about two Irish teenagers.
The 24-year-old Mescal is self-isolating in a flat in London, as the city is shut down due to coronavirus. But there are signs that Mescal’s life is about to quickly change. His agents are getting calls about new roles for the breakout actor, and he’s quickly amassed more than 250,000 followers on Instagram. Even more bewildering: a neck chain that his character Connell wears in the 12-episode series now has its own fan Instagram account.
“Normal People,” based on a 2018 novel by Sally Rooney, chronicles a first love between Connell, the shy popular boy in school, and...
The 24-year-old Mescal is self-isolating in a flat in London, as the city is shut down due to coronavirus. But there are signs that Mescal’s life is about to quickly change. His agents are getting calls about new roles for the breakout actor, and he’s quickly amassed more than 250,000 followers on Instagram. Even more bewildering: a neck chain that his character Connell wears in the 12-episode series now has its own fan Instagram account.
“Normal People,” based on a 2018 novel by Sally Rooney, chronicles a first love between Connell, the shy popular boy in school, and...
- 5/6/2020
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
The more emotion-driven a TV series or movie, the more important the soundtrack. And boy is Normal People, the Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s wildly popular novel of the same name, driven by the emotion of its characters and world.
Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.
“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.
Normal People follows Marianne and Connell’s complicated relationship as they move from being teenagers at a small town in western Ireland into young adulthood at Dublin’s Trinity College, and showrunner Ed Guiney, directors Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald, music supervisors Juliet Martin and Maggie Phillips, and editor Nathan Nugent have done an impressive job crafting the music landscape for this world.
“We were trying all sorts of tracks ourselves,” said Abrahamson, who mentioned Martin, Phillips, Nugent, and himself as the chief collaborators in the process. “So, as well as the work that Stephen Rennicks, the composer, was doing, it was just, again, a very organic kind of collaboration.
- 4/29/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
The wave of hype for Sally Rooney’s sophomore novel “Normal People” had barely begun to crest by the time Hulu and BBC Three announced plans to adapt the book into a 12-episode series back in 2019.
That series, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, is already set to debut on Hulu Wednesday, barely more than a year after the book was first published in the U.S. It will face the scrutiny of a fervent fanbase for whom the tortured love story still sits fresh in their memory. That’s not a challenge anyone involved in the project takes for granted, nor was it something easy to cope with as fans of the book themselves.
“I think that’s the problem with the book being so good,” Mescal said in an interview with TheWrap. “You go in on a Monday and you’re like we’re doing this scene that’s absolutely ginormous.
That series, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal, is already set to debut on Hulu Wednesday, barely more than a year after the book was first published in the U.S. It will face the scrutiny of a fervent fanbase for whom the tortured love story still sits fresh in their memory. That’s not a challenge anyone involved in the project takes for granted, nor was it something easy to cope with as fans of the book themselves.
“I think that’s the problem with the book being so good,” Mescal said in an interview with TheWrap. “You go in on a Monday and you’re like we’re doing this scene that’s absolutely ginormous.
- 4/29/2020
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
No matter the destination, there are inevitabilities built into “boy meets girl” stories. They meet, they flirt, they kiss, they fight, they fall in love. But the best of them dig past the surface to find more specific truths; they find a vein and let the blood flow.
“Normal People,” as originally written by Sally Rooney, is one of those stories. The 2018 novel stepped inside the heads of Marianne and Connell, two Irish teenagers who try, and fail, and try, and fail, to resist the magnetic pull between them. On the face of it, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about the narrative itself. Marianne’s the sharp as glass rich girl; Connell’s the popular rugby star who’s just as smart as she is. And yet, the way in which Rooney expresses Marianne and Connell’s innermost thoughts, passions and insecurities made “Normal People” an extraordinary portrait of two...
“Normal People,” as originally written by Sally Rooney, is one of those stories. The 2018 novel stepped inside the heads of Marianne and Connell, two Irish teenagers who try, and fail, and try, and fail, to resist the magnetic pull between them. On the face of it, there’s nothing particularly remarkable about the narrative itself. Marianne’s the sharp as glass rich girl; Connell’s the popular rugby star who’s just as smart as she is. And yet, the way in which Rooney expresses Marianne and Connell’s innermost thoughts, passions and insecurities made “Normal People” an extraordinary portrait of two...
- 4/22/2020
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
“Normal People,” a BBC and Hulu 12-part drama, will bow as a boxset on BBC Three in the U.K. on April 26, and will be released in the U.S. on April 29, it was revealed Tuesday. It will also air on BBC One, and Rte in Ireland, dates for which are yet to be confirmed.
The series is an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s international bestselling novel of the same name, and is produced by Element Pictures (“The Favourite”). It is directed by Oscar-nominee Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”) and BAFTA-winner Hettie Macdonald (“White Girl”). The cast includes Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Cold Feet”) and theater actor Paul Mescal (“The Lieutenant of Inishmore”) making his TV debut.
The series follows the complicated relationship of two teenagers from the end of their school-days in small town Ireland to Trinity College, Dublin.
Rooney adapted the novel for television alongside Alice Birch (“Succession”) and Mark O’Rowe (“Broken...
The series is an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s international bestselling novel of the same name, and is produced by Element Pictures (“The Favourite”). It is directed by Oscar-nominee Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”) and BAFTA-winner Hettie Macdonald (“White Girl”). The cast includes Daisy Edgar-Jones (“Cold Feet”) and theater actor Paul Mescal (“The Lieutenant of Inishmore”) making his TV debut.
The series follows the complicated relationship of two teenagers from the end of their school-days in small town Ireland to Trinity College, Dublin.
Rooney adapted the novel for television alongside Alice Birch (“Succession”) and Mark O’Rowe (“Broken...
- 3/31/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Juliet Stevenson receives Lifetime Achievement Award.
Women in Film & TV (UK), the membership organisation for women working in creative media in the UK, announced its 2018 awards today (Dec 7), with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rungano Nyoni and Juliet Stevenson among the winners.
Actress Stevenson received the Lifetime Achievement award, presented by her Truly, Madly, Deeply co-star Michael Maloney. Stevenson’s film work includes Emma, Bend It Like Beckham and Mona Lisa Smile.
Actress, writer and director Phoebe Waller-Bridge was awarded the writing award. Waller-Bridge is best known for creating and starring in sitcoms Crashing and Fleabag, as well as writing and producing BBC drama Killing Eve.
Women in Film & TV (UK), the membership organisation for women working in creative media in the UK, announced its 2018 awards today (Dec 7), with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rungano Nyoni and Juliet Stevenson among the winners.
Actress Stevenson received the Lifetime Achievement award, presented by her Truly, Madly, Deeply co-star Michael Maloney. Stevenson’s film work includes Emma, Bend It Like Beckham and Mona Lisa Smile.
Actress, writer and director Phoebe Waller-Bridge was awarded the writing award. Waller-Bridge is best known for creating and starring in sitcoms Crashing and Fleabag, as well as writing and producing BBC drama Killing Eve.
- 12/7/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Truly, Madly, Deeply star Juliet Stevenson, Fleabag and Killing Eve creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and The Good Place’s Jameela Jamil are among the winners of the Women in Film & Television (UK) Awards.
The trio are among a number of women to be lauded at the awards, which are hosted by Sandi Toksvig and taking place on Friday lunchtime in London.
Stevenson is set to be handed the Eon Productions Lifetime Achievement Award by her Truly, Madly, Deeply co-star Michael Maloney, while Waller-Bridge is being awarded the The Screen Skills Writing Award. The ITV Studios Achievement of the Year Award is being handed to Jamil – a former British TV presenter who has now found success in the U.S. on the NBC comedy and is an active campaigner challenging the assumptions society makes about body size.
The Pinewood Studios Best Performance Award is being given to Nicola Walker, star of BBC drama The Split,...
The trio are among a number of women to be lauded at the awards, which are hosted by Sandi Toksvig and taking place on Friday lunchtime in London.
Stevenson is set to be handed the Eon Productions Lifetime Achievement Award by her Truly, Madly, Deeply co-star Michael Maloney, while Waller-Bridge is being awarded the The Screen Skills Writing Award. The ITV Studios Achievement of the Year Award is being handed to Jamil – a former British TV presenter who has now found success in the U.S. on the NBC comedy and is an active campaigner challenging the assumptions society makes about body size.
The Pinewood Studios Best Performance Award is being given to Nicola Walker, star of BBC drama The Split,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has won the top writing award and Rungano Nyoni the newcomer accolade from influential British industry organization Women in Film & TV. Actress Juliet Stevenson, whose numerous film credits include “Truly, Madly, Deeply” and “Bend it Like Beckham,” will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at a ceremony Friday.
Waller-Bridge broke out with 2016’s “Fleabag” and this year’s cat-and-mouse drama “Killing Eve.” Nyoni is the director of “I Am Not a Witch,” a freshman feature-length film that is Britain’s submission for next year’s foreign-language Oscar.
Jameela Jamil won Wftv’s award for achievement of the year. The former presenter stars in U.S. sitcom “The Good Place” and has actively campaigned on body-image issues.
American-born documentary filmmaker and producer Norma Percy picked up the award for contribution to the medium for her work on factual projects including “Inside Obama’s White House.” The factual category was won by Deeyah Khan,...
Waller-Bridge broke out with 2016’s “Fleabag” and this year’s cat-and-mouse drama “Killing Eve.” Nyoni is the director of “I Am Not a Witch,” a freshman feature-length film that is Britain’s submission for next year’s foreign-language Oscar.
Jameela Jamil won Wftv’s award for achievement of the year. The former presenter stars in U.S. sitcom “The Good Place” and has actively campaigned on body-image issues.
American-born documentary filmmaker and producer Norma Percy picked up the award for contribution to the medium for her work on factual projects including “Inside Obama’s White House.” The factual category was won by Deeyah Khan,...
- 12/7/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Starz is looking for an Emmy breakthrough for its four-hour adaptation of E.M. Forster‘s novel “Howards End” written by Oscar-winner Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”) and directed by Hettie Macdonald. Gold Derby recently spoke with stars Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell, and Philippa Coulthard, as well as producer Colin Callender about the limited series. Scroll down and click their names below to be taken to their full interviews.
Atwell had some mighty shoes to fill playing headstrong Margaret Schlegel: the role brought Emma Thompson the Best Actress Oscar for the 1992 Merchant Ivory adaptation. “I know Em and spoke to her about it, and she was adamant … not to watch other people’s interpretations of the work you’re about to do,” Atwell explains. “You don’t want to get lost or confused impersonating someone else.” Atwell previously earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in “The Pillars of the Earth...
Atwell had some mighty shoes to fill playing headstrong Margaret Schlegel: the role brought Emma Thompson the Best Actress Oscar for the 1992 Merchant Ivory adaptation. “I know Em and spoke to her about it, and she was adamant … not to watch other people’s interpretations of the work you’re about to do,” Atwell explains. “You don’t want to get lost or confused impersonating someone else.” Atwell previously earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work in “The Pillars of the Earth...
- 6/21/2018
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Expect to see the Starz program “Howards End” reap a Best Limited Series Emmy nom on July 12, along with nominations across the board for its actors and below-the-line talent. The series debuted stateside in May, 26 years after the acclaimed 1992 film adaptation that garnered nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director (James Ivory) and won three including Best Actress for Emma Thompson.
Based on the acclaimed 1910 novel by E.M. Forster, this new spin on the timeless classic was adapted by Oscar champ Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”). It stars Hayley Atwell and Philippa Coulthard as the independent and unconventional Schlegel sisters navigating their way through turn-of-the-century England, whose lives become intertwined with the wealthy Wilcox family and the working-class Bast family. The series also stars Emmy winners Julia Ormond and Tracey Ullman, alongside Matthew Macfadyen, Joseph Quinn and Alex Lawther.
See Emmys 2018 exclusive: Starz categories for ‘Outlander,’ ‘Counterpart,...
Based on the acclaimed 1910 novel by E.M. Forster, this new spin on the timeless classic was adapted by Oscar champ Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”). It stars Hayley Atwell and Philippa Coulthard as the independent and unconventional Schlegel sisters navigating their way through turn-of-the-century England, whose lives become intertwined with the wealthy Wilcox family and the working-class Bast family. The series also stars Emmy winners Julia Ormond and Tracey Ullman, alongside Matthew Macfadyen, Joseph Quinn and Alex Lawther.
See Emmys 2018 exclusive: Starz categories for ‘Outlander,’ ‘Counterpart,...
- 6/16/2018
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
As an actress growing up in the United Kingdom, Hayley Atwell knew there were a handful of strong, compelling female characters she wanted to play: Margaret Schlegel, the lead of “Howards End,” was one of them.
“There tends to be the wish list of the kinds of characters that you hope to play one day, whether it be Lady MacBeth or Hedda Gabler or Cleopatra or these other great heroines, if it’s in a Jane Austen novel or any kind of novel,” Atwell told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast. That included Margaret, whom she plays in the Starz limited series version of “Howards End,” adapted for TV by Kenneth Lonergan.
“I had a chance to play a fully formed, interesting woman so different to me that I had to [do it],” she said. “I would love to be more like her but it felt like a fulfilling creative challenge to bring her to life.
“There tends to be the wish list of the kinds of characters that you hope to play one day, whether it be Lady MacBeth or Hedda Gabler or Cleopatra or these other great heroines, if it’s in a Jane Austen novel or any kind of novel,” Atwell told IndieWire’s Turn It On podcast. That included Margaret, whom she plays in the Starz limited series version of “Howards End,” adapted for TV by Kenneth Lonergan.
“I had a chance to play a fully formed, interesting woman so different to me that I had to [do it],” she said. “I would love to be more like her but it felt like a fulfilling creative challenge to bring her to life.
- 4/26/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Will Starz’s ‘Howards End’ limited series repeat awards success of the 1992 movie that won 3 Oscars?
Starz’s new limited series adaptation of “Howards End” is positioning itself to do very well at the 2018 Emmys, much like the 1992 film of the same name. The movie “Howards End” won three Oscars and was also nominated for Best Picture. The limited series has rave reviews and could easily rack up multiple nominations at this year’s Emmys.
Based on the novel “Howards End” by E.M. Forster, the limited series tells the story of Margaret of the bourgeoisie Schlegel family, who is bequeathed the titular country home by Ruth, an aging member of the wealthy Wilcox family, which causes an uproar between the families. Hayley Atwell is cast as Thompson’s Oscar-winning role of Margaret, while Julia Ormond plays Ruth, for which Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar.
See‘Howards End’ reviews: Will it go from Oscars to Emmys thanks to ‘delightful,’ ‘sumptuous’ limited series on Starz?
Ormond...
Based on the novel “Howards End” by E.M. Forster, the limited series tells the story of Margaret of the bourgeoisie Schlegel family, who is bequeathed the titular country home by Ruth, an aging member of the wealthy Wilcox family, which causes an uproar between the families. Hayley Atwell is cast as Thompson’s Oscar-winning role of Margaret, while Julia Ormond plays Ruth, for which Vanessa Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar.
See‘Howards End’ reviews: Will it go from Oscars to Emmys thanks to ‘delightful,’ ‘sumptuous’ limited series on Starz?
Ormond...
- 4/15/2018
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
Kenneth Lonergan’s adaptation of Howards End on Starz marks the TV debut of the E.M. Forster literary masterpiece. Lonergan was joined on stage to talk about the four-part limited series directed by Hettie Macdonald at Contenders with star Hayley Atwell.
In Howards End, Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel, one of two sisters living together with their hypochondriac younger brother in Edwardian London. The two lead independent and slightly unorthodox lives. The novel was adapted for the big screen in 1992 by James Ivory, who has distinct storytelling skills.
Lonergan told moderator Joe Utichi that he was intrigued by the source material and, at the same time, had many objections — which was one of the reasons why he was “flattered” into adapting it. With his different point of view on the story, he said he didn’t think too much about Ivory’s version because the format is different. Because of that,...
In Howards End, Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel, one of two sisters living together with their hypochondriac younger brother in Edwardian London. The two lead independent and slightly unorthodox lives. The novel was adapted for the big screen in 1992 by James Ivory, who has distinct storytelling skills.
Lonergan told moderator Joe Utichi that he was intrigued by the source material and, at the same time, had many objections — which was one of the reasons why he was “flattered” into adapting it. With his different point of view on the story, he said he didn’t think too much about Ivory’s version because the format is different. Because of that,...
- 4/15/2018
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
E.M. Forster‘s classic 1910 novel “Howards End” was most famously adapted into a 1992 Merchant Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It earned nine Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Director (James Ivory), and it won three including Best Actress for Thompson. That’s a tough act to follow, but now, 26 years after that film, Forster’s novel has now been adapted into a four-part limited series on Starz that is garnering its own rave reviews. It’s rated 89% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and has scored 89 on MetaCritic, indicating near-universal acclaim. So now it has the potential to be as big a hit at the Emmys as the film was at the Oscars.
The series stars Hayley Atwell in the role that won Thompson the Oscar. She plays Margaret Schlegel, who seeks love and purpose in turn-of-the-century England. It’s directed by Hettie Macdonald, a BAFTA TV Award...
The series stars Hayley Atwell in the role that won Thompson the Oscar. She plays Margaret Schlegel, who seeks love and purpose in turn-of-the-century England. It’s directed by Hettie Macdonald, a BAFTA TV Award...
- 4/8/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
If there were no Merchant Ivory film, Starz’s “Howards End” would be a more welcome adaptation. The four-part miniseries, an adaptation of E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel about class collision and national identity in turn-of-the-century England, is impeccably cast and studiously performed. But the bones of the production, adapted by prominent playwright Kenneth Lonergan and directed by Hettie Macdonald, lacks the impeccable grace and subtlety of both the earlier adaptation and the source material. Lonergan’s screenplay is so disinterested in logistics that it just skips them; especially towards the end of the four-parter, “Howards End” lets weeks, months, or years drop between scenes without even nodding to the audience. The aim is to raise the dramatic stakes, but combined with Macdonald’s lens — which knits together the story with a pleasant, too-romantic glow — what ends up happening is a messy smoothening of an intricate story. Forster’s book — a masterpiece,...
- 4/6/2018
- by Sonia Saraiya
- Variety Film + TV
Line Of Duty and Three Girls also score multiple nods.
Netflix dramas The Crown and Black Mirror lead the nominations for the 2018 Baftas TV Awards.
The shows, along with the BBC’s Line Of Duty and Three Girls, have three nods each.
The Crown and Line Of Duty will compete in the best drama category with Peaky Blinders and The End Of The F***ing World.
Claire Foy is once again nominated for best actress, with her co-star Vanessa Kirby up for best supporting actress. Both have been recast (with Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter) for series 3.
Joe Cole...
Netflix dramas The Crown and Black Mirror lead the nominations for the 2018 Baftas TV Awards.
The shows, along with the BBC’s Line Of Duty and Three Girls, have three nods each.
The Crown and Line Of Duty will compete in the best drama category with Peaky Blinders and The End Of The F***ing World.
Claire Foy is once again nominated for best actress, with her co-star Vanessa Kirby up for best supporting actress. Both have been recast (with Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter) for series 3.
Joe Cole...
- 4/4/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Line Of Duty and Three Girls also score multiple nods.
Netflix dramas The Crown and Black Mirror lead the nominations for the 2018 TV Baftas.
The shows, along with the BBC’s Line Of Duty and Three Girls, have three nods each.
The Crown and Line Of Duty will compete in the best drama category with Peaky Blinders and The End Of The F***ing World.
Claire Foy is once again nominated for best actress, with her co-star Vanessa Kirby up for best supporting actress. Both have been recast (with Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter) for series 3.
Joe Cole earned...
Netflix dramas The Crown and Black Mirror lead the nominations for the 2018 TV Baftas.
The shows, along with the BBC’s Line Of Duty and Three Girls, have three nods each.
The Crown and Line Of Duty will compete in the best drama category with Peaky Blinders and The End Of The F***ing World.
Claire Foy is once again nominated for best actress, with her co-star Vanessa Kirby up for best supporting actress. Both have been recast (with Olivia Colman and Helena Bonham Carter) for series 3.
Joe Cole earned...
- 4/4/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The writer-director behind Manchester by the Sea and You Can Count On Me talks about his struggles with the much-delayed 2011 drama Margaret
Writing a screenplay without directing it is obviously easier than writing and directing, just because it’s less work. But it’s not as much fun, mostly because you have no real control over the end product. There are exceptions. I had a wonderful experience recently doing a four-part television adaptation of Howards End for the BBC, which was then beautifully directed by Hettie Macdonald. Nothing turns out exactly as you imagined, whether you direct your scripts or not.
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Writing a screenplay without directing it is obviously easier than writing and directing, just because it’s less work. But it’s not as much fun, mostly because you have no real control over the end product. There are exceptions. I had a wonderful experience recently doing a four-part television adaptation of Howards End for the BBC, which was then beautifully directed by Hettie Macdonald. Nothing turns out exactly as you imagined, whether you direct your scripts or not.
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- 1/16/2018
- by Interview by Jake Nevins
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh, Josh Varney and Kate Buckley’s management and production company, 42, has brought Cathy King into the fray as Literary Manager and Partner. Formerly at London’s Independent Talent Group, the respected King will continue to work with a high-profile client list at 42 that includes such names as Julian Fellowes, Abi Morgan, Chris Chibnall, Amanda Coe, Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Philippa Lowthorpe, Toby Whithouse, Hettie Macdonald and…...
- 1/15/2018
- Deadline
Exclusive: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh, Josh Varney and Kate Buckley’s management and production company, 42, has brought Cathy King into the fray as Literary Manager and Partner. Formerly at London’s Independent Talent Group, the respected King will continue to work with a high-profile client list at 42 that includes such names as Julian Fellowes, Abi Morgan, Chris Chibnall, Amanda Coe, Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Philippa Lowthorpe, Toby Whithouse, Hettie Macdonald and…...
- 1/15/2018
- Deadline TV
If you’re a serious Anglophile, chances are you’ve already worked your way through all four episodes of “Howards End,” which aired on this fall on BBC One. But if you’re like us, you’re still struggling with a mountain of Things To Watch, and you’re more than happy to have the breathing room and wait for this series to land stateside.
Based on E.M. Forster‘s novel, adapted by Kenneth Lonergan (“You Can Count On Me,” “Manchester By The Sea“), and directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald (“White Girl,” “Fortitude“), the story follows two sisters as they search for love and meaning while navigating an ever-changing world.
Continue reading ‘Howards End’ Trailer: Hayley Atwell Searches For Love In Kenneth Lonergan Adaptation at The Playlist.
Based on E.M. Forster‘s novel, adapted by Kenneth Lonergan (“You Can Count On Me,” “Manchester By The Sea“), and directed by BAFTA winner Hettie Macdonald (“White Girl,” “Fortitude“), the story follows two sisters as they search for love and meaning while navigating an ever-changing world.
Continue reading ‘Howards End’ Trailer: Hayley Atwell Searches For Love In Kenneth Lonergan Adaptation at The Playlist.
- 12/7/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Even though Agent Carter’s no longer on the case, Hayley Atwell is still getting to the bottom of things.
Take the newly released trailer for Starz’s adaptation of Howards End, E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel about three families in turn-of-the-century England. Marvel’s Agent Carter alum Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel, an intelligent and independent sort who lives with her sister Helen (played by The Catch‘s Philippa Coulthard) and brother Tibby (Black Mirror‘s Alex Lawther) and who — among other intrigues — becomes involved in drama surrounding the widowed Henry Wilcox (Ripper Street‘s Matthew Macfadyen).
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Take the newly released trailer for Starz’s adaptation of Howards End, E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel about three families in turn-of-the-century England. Marvel’s Agent Carter alum Atwell plays Margaret Schlegel, an intelligent and independent sort who lives with her sister Helen (played by The Catch‘s Philippa Coulthard) and brother Tibby (Black Mirror‘s Alex Lawther) and who — among other intrigues — becomes involved in drama surrounding the widowed Henry Wilcox (Ripper Street‘s Matthew Macfadyen).
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- 12/7/2017
- TVLine.com
“Blink” was a landmark episode of Doctor Who for many reasons – chief among them being Carey Mulligan’s series debut as Sally Sparrow, a young English woman with a peculiar connection to the infamous Weeping Angels.
First broadcast in 2007, the spooky instalment came by way of Hettie MacDonald, who directed from a script by Steven Moffat (Sherlock). If that name rings a bell, it should; Moffat would later take over as showrunner of the hit BBC series, though his contribution to “Blink” is still remembered fondly among Whovians, given it’s often held up as one of the best episodes in the history of Doctor Who – no mean feat, mind you.
And now, in anticipation of the festive extravaganza, “Twice Upon a Time,” which will soon signal the end of his tenure and that of Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat has confirmed that Carey Mulligan was approached about a possible recurring role as a companion.
First broadcast in 2007, the spooky instalment came by way of Hettie MacDonald, who directed from a script by Steven Moffat (Sherlock). If that name rings a bell, it should; Moffat would later take over as showrunner of the hit BBC series, though his contribution to “Blink” is still remembered fondly among Whovians, given it’s often held up as one of the best episodes in the history of Doctor Who – no mean feat, mind you.
And now, in anticipation of the festive extravaganza, “Twice Upon a Time,” which will soon signal the end of his tenure and that of Peter Capaldi, Steven Moffat has confirmed that Carey Mulligan was approached about a possible recurring role as a companion.
- 12/4/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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