EXCLUSIVE: The Pursuit of Love‘s Emily Mortimer and Rocks co-writer Claire Wilson are among the guest mentors for The Writers Lab UK & Ireland’s second script development programme for women and non-binary screenwriters aged over 40.
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Naman Ramachandran Daniel Battsek, director, Film4, has been elevated to chair, while deputy director and creative director Ollie Madden will succeed Battsek as director.Film4 is the filmmaking arm of U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, which invests £25 million ($31 million) annually to develop and co-fund British films with British talent.
Since its launch, films it has backed have won 37 Oscars and 84 BAFTAs.Madden will take responsibility for the day-to-day running of the organization. Battsek will continue to work closely with Madden on Film4’s activities and will also take on a widened brief to include Film4’s role within parent company Channel 4, the distribution and marketing of Film4 titles as well as U.S.
distributor and equity co-financing relationships. Battsek and Madden will continue to have joint responsibility for greenlighting Film4 projects as well as strategy, corporate and press relations.
Madden joined Film4 in 2017. He has spent 25 years working across film and high-end television, at Dragon Films, Miramax Films, Intermedia Films, Warner Bros and Kudos.
Battsek joined Film4 in 2016 from Cohen Media Group where he was president, and has had previous stints at National Geographic Films, Miramax Films, Buena Vista International Films, Palace Pictures and Hoyts Entertainment.Madden said: “In an increasingly over-saturated landscape, what Film4 offers is vital: a space where the most innovative and distinctive British filmmakers can be nurtured and supported to do their best work. It’s an immense thrill and huge responsibility to lead it into this next chapter, and I want to thank Daniel Battsek for his inspiring leadership and generosity over the last five years, as well as Alex Mahon and Channel 4’s
.EXCLUSIVE: The Pursuit of Love‘s Emily Mortimer and Rocks co-writer Claire Wilson are among the guest mentors for The Writers Lab UK & Ireland’s second script development programme for women and non-binary screenwriters aged over 40.
Roger Moore was 'petrified' drunk Hollywood star would drop a babyLink'Don't hit him, Sean!' James Bond star was 'begged' not to attack starLinkBoyle added: "But the passageway to it (Bond's death) was obviously very different. "The director duly made a high-profile exit, to be replaced by Cary Fukunaga. It also affected his creative team and some of the actors who had been hired specifically for his plot and Russia-based finale and who were subsequently let go.
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Amanda Holden stripped off on her Instagram story to wash her long hair in a bubble bath on Thursday.The stunning presenter was promoting a new set of beauty products in the video as she showed fans how she washes her hair. In the video, which is filmed from the shoulders up, the 51 year old starts off by squeezing the hair product into her hand while sat in her luxurious Cotswolds bathroom.
Gogglebox's Stephen Webb and Daniel Lustig dusted off their wedding suits as they attended a garden party at Buckingham Palace. The reality TV stars are firm fan favourites with viewers of the popular Channel 4 programme, with their sly digs and witty comments about all the week's best television.The couple have were married in 2018 and luckily four years on their wedding attire still fits, although Stephen did admit his suit might be "on the snug side".
Film4 has promoted Director Daniel Battsek to Chairman and his place will be taken by Ollie Madden.
Naman Ramachandran A new documentary on tennis superstar Boris Becker is nearing completion and is set to be sold at the upcoming Cannes Film Market.Alex Gibney, Oscar-winning director of “Taxi to the Dark Side” and John Battsek, producer of the Oscar-winning “One Day in September,” have had exclusive access to Becker since 2019 and have been documenting him from then until late April, when he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for hiding assets and loans to avoid paying his debts.The as-yet-untitled documentary aims to explore every aspect of the man who became a tennis sensation after winning the Wimbledon Championship at the age of just 17 and went on to win 49 career titles including six Grand Slams and an Olympic gold medal. Off court, Becker has had a tumultuous personal life.
The Smile have shared the video for their new single ‘Thin Thing’ – watch below.The band – comprising Thom Yorke, his Radiohead bandmate Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner – formed last year and announced their debut album, ‘A Light For Attracting Attention’ last month.‘Thin Thing’ follows ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’, ‘The Smoke’, ‘Skrting On The Surface’ and ‘Pana-vision’, a track taken from the Peaky Blinders soundtrack.It arrives with a stop-motion animated video directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, which took the pair six months to make.Speaking about the video, they said: “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that carries machines, pieces of human bodies and carnivorous plants.“When presenting the idea to the band, Thom told us about a dream that made him write the song. We believe the video is the conjunction of these two things.”‘A Light For Attracting Attention’ arrives this Friday (May 13) digitally, and June 17 physically, via XL Recordings.Produced and mixed by Nigel Godrich and mastered by Bob Ludwig, the 13-track album will feature strings by the London Contemporary Orchestra and a full brass section of contemporary UK jazz players including Byron Wallen, Theon and Nathaniel Cross, Chelsea Carmichael, Robert Stillman and Jason Yarde.
It's a Sin only aired its finale a few years ago but since then it has become an iconic piece of media in the LGBTQ+ space.The show portrayed the lives of a group of gay men living in the UK at the turn of the millennium when the country was experiencing what the media called a HIV/AIDS crisis. It was nominated for many awards, including the British Academy Television Awards, and had a significant cultural impact for many viewers. Furthermore, it was a debut for many of the young actors involved and brought them directly into the limelight We have broken down where a lot of the iconic actors in It's a Sin are now since the show aired its emotional finale.
He’s best known for his 2001 hit, Gotta Get Thru this, but singer Daniel Bedingfield had his fans swooning with a smouldering new image posted to his Instagram page. In the black and white snap, 42 year old Daniel stared broodingly into the camera showing off his salt and pepper beard and a hint of chest hair. He wore a printed hooded top and wore a necklace, looking world’s away from his former pop crooner self.