mercredi 6 novembre 2019

November 2019 - news - Charles Dance

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/2019/10/october-2019-news-charles-dance.html

Actor Charles Dance: “I defy anyone to hear the words of young Alanoud in this film and feel comfortable that goods made in their country are being used to commit such horrors. And though we only tell Alanoud’s story, the heart-breaking truth is that we could have told a thousand more just like hers.
“Whatever else is going on in British politics right now, we cannot in good conscience let it deflect from our duty to prevent little children like Alanoud from having their lives literally blown apart by British manufacturing”.
Yemen: Their Story, Our Duty


 With only four years of acting under her belt, Shalom Mong'ina Nyandiko, 14, has had roles in major series like Deep State 2 and The Widow.
What celebrity actors have you enjoyed working with so far and why?
I worked together with Game of Thrones' actor Charles Dance on The Widow. He was incredibly funny and down to earth. Also Dr Who's Alex Kingston, she has a great personality and humour.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201911090108.html


In the now traditional yearly special, Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2019 will see Jimmy Carr return to celebrate the dawn of another year.
He'll...be ably assisted by a panel of top celebrity teams and a series of superstar question setters including Mitchell Brook Primary School, Charles Dance and Jon Snow
Air dates for the specials will be confirmed in due course.
https://tellymix.co.uk/tv/422955-big-fat-quiz-of-the-year-2019-and-the-decade-confirmed


about The Inn At The Edge Of The World

Andrew Brown has joined Parkland Pictures as head of sales
Among the titles Brown is selling at AFM is Charles Dance’s The Inn At The Edge Of The World, a film which he, as executive producer, brought to Parkland Entertainment
The film, Dance’s second feature as a director, is being produced by Cairns alongside Lamia Nayeb-Hilaire. Dance’s 2004 debut feature Ladies In Lavender was a solid box-office hit, and is credited with launching a new wave of UK films targeting the so-called “grey pound”, the older demographic now seen as a key component of the cinemagoing audience in the UK.
Based on the award-winning book by Alice Thomas Ellis, The Inn At The Edge Of The World tells the story of five people who seek to escape Christmas and all its enforced jollity in London by retreating to an inn off the west coast of Scotland.
Brown, who has previous stints with Intandem and Manifest, took up his Parkland post in September. “The remit is to get bigger budget projects which can sell,” he told Screen.
Charles Dance is the perfect director for The Inn At The Edge Of The World and he is opening his little black book to get some nice names in there,” he added of the production, which will shoot early next year.
Parkland Pictures is pitching the project to buyers at AFM and has at least one distributor already in place, Falcon Films in the Middle East. Sister company Parkland Entertainment is taking UK rights.
https://www.screendaily.com/news/andrew-brown-joins-parkland-pictures-as-head-of-sales/5144546.article

                           
The making of And Then There Were None (2015) 

at Ted's Holiday Toast in Beverly Hills ....
Afi Fest The Crown premiere

                                                               
Chiswick artist Humphrey Bangham was commissioned to paint two portraits for the current series of The Crown. “I don’t know if they’re still in it or if they hit the cutting room floor” he says, but he was asked to paint Olivia Coleman as Her Majesty and Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten.
The third series was launched on Netflix last week. I’m up to episode five and can tell him his portrait of Mountbatten certainly made into the final cut, playing a small but significant part in the episode in which ‘Uncle Dickie’ is invited to lead a coup against Harold Wilson’s government.
He met them both on a shooting day when they were already in costume. I asked him what they were like to work with. Everyone says how lovely Olivia is. Charles has a reputation of being a tad imperious on set, and given the kind of role he plays, you can just imagine what being on the receiving end of a stern look from those steely blue eyes might be like. His stock in trade is a gimlet stare ranging anywhere from direct to withering.
“They were lovely” says Humphrey. “Olivia Coleman was an absolute delight. Everything everyone says about her is true. She’s giggly and lovely”. He met her at Wilton House, near Salisbury, home of the Earl and Countess of Pembroke, and spent half an hour with her taking photos. Charles Dance he met at Ham Polo Club, and once he managed to get him to stand still for five minutes he was “charming.”
Humphrey has been a professional artist and designer for over 30 years, having trained at Chelsea art college. He’s a dab hand at knocking out Van Dycks and Gainsboroughs for period dramas. His portrait of the Queen is in the style of the Italian artist Pietro Annigoni, who painted Her Majesty twice; the portrait on which Humphrey’s painting is based, Her Majesty in Robes of the British Empire, in 1969.
“The script is a closely guarded secret” says Humphrey, “but I did see Prince Philip (Matt Smith) had a line in which he walked past and said she looked like she was standing on the moon. How very Prince Philip.
https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/category/news-and-features/latest-news/

mercredi 2 octobre 2019

October 2019 - news - Charles Dance

https://aboutactorcharlesdance.blogspot.com/2019/09/september-2019-news-charles-dance.html
Fanny Lye Deliver'd premiere at the 63rd BFI London Film Festival
Charles Dance on Fanny Lye Deliver'd, London Film Festival at premiere interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtNvPOd42o
 

 
A pair of druggy, licentious agitators invade a 17th-century Shropshire homestead in this eerie period melodrama from Brit indie director Thomas Clay
It is 1657, during Oliver Cromwell’s reign, and Maxine Peake plays Fanny Lye, a hardworking farmer’s wife somewhere in Shropshire where woodsmoke and the bleat of barnyard animals drift in the wind. She has learned to suppress her natural intelligence and inquiring mind through marriage to brutal Puritan ex-soldier John Lye, gloweringly and effectively played by Charles Dance. To impose his patriarchal discipline, Lye thinks nothing of taking the stick to their young son, Arthur (Zak Adams) or to Fanny herself.
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It is an arresting film, although a bit programmatic, with narrative turns that can broadly be predicted. Yet the lead performance by Peake holds it together: fierce, strong, intelligent – a convincing depiction of someone who will learn from what she will survive
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/10/fanny-lye-deliverd-review-maxine-peake-thomas-clay

Jetpack Distribution has snagged the rights to “Master Moley” and will sell the animated series internationally. There is both a one-off “Master Moley” special and an accompanying series.
The special has a standout voice cast including Warwick Davis (“Harry Potter”), who will also executive produce. Signature Entertainment is selling the special and handling U.K. distribution, while Jetpack is handling the 52-part 11-minute series.
Other stars lending their voices to the special include Julie Walters (“Mamma Mia!”), Gemma Arterton (“Their Finest”), Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”), Togo Igawa (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”) and Charles Dance (“Game of Thrones”).
https://variety.com/2019/tv/global/warwick-davis-master-moley-julie-walters-signature-entertainment-jetpack-distribution-
Charles Dance on Fanny Lye Deliver'd, Maxine Peake, London Film Festival at premiere interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFtNvPOd42o
David Fincher is rounding out the cast for his upcoming Netflix feature, Mank, about the tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ classics Citizen Kane.
Joining previously announced Oscar winner Gary Oldman is Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tuppence Middleton, Arliss Howard (The Time Traveler’s Wife), Charles Dance (Game Of Thrones), Ferdinand Kingsley (Dracula Untold), Jamie McShane (Gone Girl), Joseph Cross (Milk), Sam Troughton (Chernobyl), Toby Leonard Moore (Billions), Tom Burke (The Souvenir) and Tom Pelphrey (Iron Fist).
The project is a longtime-in-the-making for the two-time Oscar-nominated director, who will shoot the film in black and white with production starting next month.
John Lye
 The Crown | Season 3 | Tráiler | Netflix
 
Thomas has a unique way of working. I’ve worked on all sorts of things, and you start work on a film and become aware of what the rules of the game are. And this was a game that I had never played. Thomas has an extraordinary vision, and it was a wonderful script. There were a lot of challenges, and challenges that I think could have been foreseen. The thing visually, as you can see, looks astonishing. But the decision to make a film in March in England and shoot it in natural light is either very brave or misguided. The jury’s out on that.”
But Dance also told The Telegraph:
Maxine Peake, Freddie Fox and I shot it in freezing weather in March two years ago, and even though we all went through hell making it, I have a feeling it’s going to be rather good.” Of his role, he was intrigued because it was something different: “The part was very interesting — I’m not wearing a uniform and poncing about pretending to be aristocratic.” He explained why he agreed to this film: “There is always the chance that you’re going to be offered a more-or-less carbon copy of something you’ve just done because if you’re seen to be doing something reasonably well, the chances are you’ll be asked to do it again. But if there’s sufficient money in the bank, then I will say, ‘No, I’m not going to do that again’. I’ll wait until something else comes along.”

And at the London Film Festival, Dance gave more insight:
We worked very long hours. up to our knees in mud a lot of the time. with possibly the worst catering I’ve ever had. And a crew who worked their asses off for minimal fees a lot of the time. But that aspect of the whole thing is not unique because more and more films are being made with tighter schedules and smaller budgets and people tend to work miracles. And I think this crew and this writer and director and these actors have worked a bit of a miracle. I think this is an extraordinary film, and I’m very glad about it.”