It was heartening to hear Bob Schultz say at the beginning of his interview with Frank Spotnitz that he’s been to many screenwriters’ festivals and that The London Screenwriters Festival is one of the best festivals he’s ever seen. I happen to agree, even though LSF is actually the only screenwriters festival I’ve ever attended. The truth is that be it two people or six hundred there is something very special about a communion of screenwriters in a room, and while I’ve been blown away on a number of occasions this year, here in this room I feel that creative kinsh ... [Continua a leggere]
Archivio Stampa 2012
Gillian Anderson: happier with short-term projects.
GILLIAN Anderson found fame as a sceptical alien hunter on the X-Files but her discovery of period drama, and small indie film roles have brought her real contentment. When Gillian Anderson arrives for our interview she has to take a moment before we begin. She’s moving house tomorrow and looks distinctly discombobulated. “I just need to put my mind in the zone,” she says with a polite smile. “Too many things going on.” She rests her face in her hands for a few seconds while she composes herself, takes a breath and switches on. Moving house is a stressful busines ... [Continua a leggere]
The former X-Files star talks to Emine Saner about her new film Sister, whether she believes in extraterrestrials – and if she'll ever get together with Mulder
In your new film, Sister, you're known as "the English Lady". How English do you feel? I feel very English until I'm in America, and then I feel very American. I was always teased at primary school – I was "the yank", even though I had British accent. I would have thought I would feel more like an imposter now, but I don't. I have been in the UK for the past 10 years, but Britain has been such a through-line throughout my life because my parents still had a flat in Haringey, north London, and we used to come back in the summer. During hiatuses from the X-Files I would come back and rent ... [Continua a leggere]
Gillian Anderson, Rob Brydon and David Walliams to appear in version of Julia Donaldson's book Room On The Broom.
Gillian Anderson is to play a witch as she leads the cast in a BBC adaptation of hit children's book Room On The Broom to be screened at Christmas. The actress - who won acclaim for her portrayal of creepy Miss Havisham in a TV version of Great Expectations - will be among the star voices in the animated version of Julia Donaldson's book. Also in the cast are Rob Brydon playing a cat, while David Walliams is to appear as a frog in the half-hour film, to be screened on BBC1. It is being made by the team behind The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, also written by Children's Laureate Donalds ... [Continua a leggere]
David Duchovny, Hope Davis e Timothy Hutton, tre delle più grandi star del piccolo e grande schermo, parteciperanno ad uno dei film più attesi della prossima stagione cinematografica: After the Fall. Scritto da Carroll Cartwright e diretto da Anthony Fabian, After the Fallnarra la struggente storia vera di due genitori costretti ad accettare l’improvvisa morte della loro unica figlia. Distrutti dal dolore e dalla disperazione i due decidono di incanalare la sofferenza in un incredibile progetto umanitario: la costruzione di un centro di terapie alternative in cui i genitor ... [Continua a leggere]
Chris Carter is responsible for the nightmares of a generation. As the creator of "The X-Files" and "Millennium," he shepherded in a new wave of horror and suspense on television, and his legacy can be seen in the success of everything from “Fringe” to “The Walking Dead.” For his contributions to the medium, Carter received the Outstanding Television Writer award from the Austin Film Festival, where he appeared on several panels and presented a pair of episodes from his best-known series. Indiewire got a chance to sit down with him in Austin to talk about everything fr ... [Continua a leggere]
“Shawshank Redemption” director Frank Darabont accepted the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award from the Austin Film Festival on Saturday and swore that the typewriter-like trophy wouldn’t be going in his bathroom or on some shelf. “It’s going on my desk, right next to that (expletive) computer,” he said. “This will remind me of the encouragement that this gives me,” he told the annual awards luncheon at the Austin Club downtown. Darabont joined screenwriter Eric Roth and television writer Chris Carter in accepting awards from the fe ... [Continua a leggere]
The premier of the half-hour animated special Room On The Broom, will light up faces and warm the cockles of every family on their sofa this Christmas, when it broadcasts as a festive highlight on BBC One.
Room On The Broom is an enchanting tale of friendship and family that has been beautifully adapted from the magical picture book by the same creative team that brought Christmas cheer to BBC Christmases past with The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child. Room On The Broom continues the tradition and will make quintessential viewing for the whole family to enjoy - a date not to be missed in the Christmas calendar. The award-winning book was written in 2001 by Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, the creators of the much loved modern classic The G ... [Continua a leggere]
Full disclosure: We’re big fans of Frank Spotnitz. After all, he spent years as a writer and executive producer on the iconic ‘90s sci-fi droolfest The X-Files and rebooted the creepier-than-creepy thriller Night Stalker for ABC. Though Night Stalker was never really given a proper shot (marketing and time-slot issues), it made for some compelling TV. So imagine our delight when we discovered that Spotnitz was back developing a kick-ass spy thriller called Hunted, starring the lovely Melissa George and airing on Cinemax (go figure!)—did we mention it’s written and set in the U.K.? Snakkle was lucky enough to speak to Spotnitz while he was in town for the Television Critics Association press tour and asked him about working in the U.K. TV system, the genesis of Hunted, casting Melissa George (Alias baddie!), and, of course, his thoughts on a third X-Files movie.
Snakkle: Tell me about the genesis for Hunted and how quickly after the second X-Files movie (released in 2008) did you have this idea bumping around in your brain? Frank Spotnitz: I was invited to the U.K. to speak in 2009, and that’s when I thought about going over there to do a show. And I called Kudos [Film and Television], and I called Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone, because they’d been talking to me for seven years at that point about coming to London to do a show. I always wanted to go to London. I could see how the business was changing, and I thought ther ... [Continua a leggere]
Una vicenda drammatica, ispirata a un fatto realmente accaduto, per i tre bravi attori.
Il veterano del piccolo schermo David Duchovny, Hope Davis e il premio Oscar Timothy Hutton reciteranno nel drammatico After the Fall. Il film, basato su una storia vera, narra la storia di due genitori costretti a venire a patti con la morte improvvisa della loro figlia. Per lenire il dolore i due decidono di creare un centro di terapie alternative per bambini dove le famiglie possano partecipare al percorso di guarigione insieme ai figli malati. Il risultato sarà il Maria Fareri Children's Hospital che si trova nella Hudson Valley, non lontano da New York. La sceneggiatura è f ... [Continua a leggere]
To find the last time there was a successful, truly international TV espionage drama, you’d have to go all the way back to I Spy. There was a failed attempt last year, with the Ashley Judd spy series Missing, but that did not survive its first season. And now there is Hunted, a globe-spanning espionage thriller based in London and actually shot in the cities in which it is set. It debuts on HBO Canada Friday night. “We wanted it to be cinematic and that meant really going to the locations,” says series creator Frank Spotnitz, former producer on The X-Files. “Really ... [Continua a leggere]
EXCLUSIVE: David Duchovny, Hope Davis, and Timothy Hutton are starring in After The Fall, a film that is just getting underway in Connecticut. Scripted by Carroll Cartwright (What Maisie Knew), the film is being directed by Anthony Fabian (Skin) and produced by Anthony Mastromauro’s Identity Films. The film is based on the true story of John and Brenda Fareri, grieving parents who used the unexpected death of their young daughter Maria as the impetus to build a world class state of the art children’s hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process. It has become the ... [Continua a leggere]
The latest movie to film in Greenwich has a story that hits close to home. Actor David Duchovny was in town Tuesday to film scenes for a movie based on the true story of a Greenwich family whose mission is to build a world-class children's hospital after the death of their daughter. The film, "After the Fall," will shoot for the next couple of weeks in the basement of the town-owned Nathaniel Witherell nursing home on Parsonage Road. The nursing home's director, Allen Brown, said "After the Fall" is based on the story of Maria Fareri, a 13-year-old Greenwich girl who died of rabies in ... [Continua a leggere]
Gillian Anderson, universalmente nota per la decennale presenza in “X-Files” nel ruolo dell’agente Dana Scully, ha appena ritirato l’Excellence Award al RomaFictionFest 2012 (6° edizione, 30 settembre-5 ottobre) in occasione della presentazione di “The Great Expectations”, miniserie targata BBC ispirata all’omonimo romanzo di Charles Dickens (“Grandi speranze”). Fin dalla prima puntata si può intuire la sua straordinaria versatilità nell’interpretazione del ruolo di Miss Havisham, spettrale nobildonna intrappolata in ... [Continua a leggere]
Svilupperà The After, una nuova serie thriller sulla stessa scia del cult sugli U.F.O.
Chris Carter è tornato! E al pubblico televisivo sembra essere mancato parecchio visti i tanti adepti che ha saputo conquistare con X-files. L’ideatore della serie cult sugli U.F.O., come rivela deadline, tornerà con un nuovo progetto. Lo show si chiamerà The after e la trama ruoterà attorno a uno strano e misterioso evento. Il genere è un mix di fantascienza, suspance, angosce, timori e paranoie che attingeranno molto al proprio antenato X-files. Il progetto sarà sottoposto all’attenzione dei network durante il MIPCOM TV e lì si ved ... [Continua a leggere]