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From Olivia Colman’s fraught sojourn to the Greek Isles in The Lost Daughter to Jessie Buckley’s terrifying trip up the M5 to the English countryside in Men and M. Night’s bummer beaches in Old, taking a little “me time” away from home is often the single biggest mistake any movie character could possibly make. Horror, psychological drama, comedy, mystery, rom-com. The genre hardly matters. In film, the simple act of taking a vacation is rarely the relaxing, restorative interlude one hopes that it might be, placing uneasy personalities in uncertain—even harrowing—circumstances.
So with Labor Day weekend upon...
From Olivia Colman’s fraught sojourn to the Greek Isles in The Lost Daughter to Jessie Buckley’s terrifying trip up the M5 to the English countryside in Men and M. Night’s bummer beaches in Old, taking a little “me time” away from home is often the single biggest mistake any movie character could possibly make. Horror, psychological drama, comedy, mystery, rom-com. The genre hardly matters. In film, the simple act of taking a vacation is rarely the relaxing, restorative interlude one hopes that it might be, placing uneasy personalities in uncertain—even harrowing—circumstances.
So with Labor Day weekend upon...
- 9/1/2023
- by Matt Warren
- Film Independent News & More
Carol Polakoff, a two-time Directors Guild of America award winner, is teaming with “Exodus” producer Denise O’Dell to adapt to the big screen “Speak Sunlight,” American writer Alan Jolis’ much-loved memoir.
Now in pre-production and scheduled to shoot from May 8, the high-profile title is produced by Madrid-based Babieka Films, most recently behind Netflix hit “The Paramedic,” and L.A.’s Viewfinder Pictures.
“Speak Sunlight” (“La Voz del Sol”) marks the directorial debut of journalist-screenwriter Polakoff whose curriculum includes two DGA wins and three Daytime Emmy Awards nominations for “ABC Afterschool Specials.” Most recently, Polakoff produced Daniel Rosenberg’s 2020 Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” which won a Cannes Label for making the cut in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
To film in Spanish, with a smattering of French, “Speak Sunlight” is written by Polakoff with a Spanish version from Natxo López, a creator...
Now in pre-production and scheduled to shoot from May 8, the high-profile title is produced by Madrid-based Babieka Films, most recently behind Netflix hit “The Paramedic,” and L.A.’s Viewfinder Pictures.
“Speak Sunlight” (“La Voz del Sol”) marks the directorial debut of journalist-screenwriter Polakoff whose curriculum includes two DGA wins and three Daytime Emmy Awards nominations for “ABC Afterschool Specials.” Most recently, Polakoff produced Daniel Rosenberg’s 2020 Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” which won a Cannes Label for making the cut in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
To film in Spanish, with a smattering of French, “Speak Sunlight” is written by Polakoff with a Spanish version from Natxo López, a creator...
- 3/16/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Denis O’Dell, the British film producer whose association with The Beatles earned him the rare honor of being mentioned, if obliquely, in one of the group’s songs, died of natural causes at his home in Spain last night. He was 98.
His death was announced to the Associated Press in Lisbon, Portugal, by son Arran O’Dell.
O’Dell had worked on a number of films, including It’s A Wonderful World, Tread Softly Stranger (both 1958) and The Playboy of the Western World (1962) when he signed on as associate producer of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964, beginning an association with The Beatles that would return to public attention with the 2021 Peter Jackson-directed Disney+ documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. (O’Dell is the one who loaned the group Twickenham Studios for their planned TV special.)
Following A Hard Day’s Night, O’Dell worked with John Lennon as an associate producer...
His death was announced to the Associated Press in Lisbon, Portugal, by son Arran O’Dell.
O’Dell had worked on a number of films, including It’s A Wonderful World, Tread Softly Stranger (both 1958) and The Playboy of the Western World (1962) when he signed on as associate producer of A Hard Day’s Night in 1964, beginning an association with The Beatles that would return to public attention with the 2021 Peter Jackson-directed Disney+ documentary series The Beatles: Get Back. (O’Dell is the one who loaned the group Twickenham Studios for their planned TV special.)
Following A Hard Day’s Night, O’Dell worked with John Lennon as an associate producer...
- 12/31/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Denis O’Dell, a producer on two Beatles movies as well as “How I Won the War,” “Robin and Marian” and “Heaven’s Gate,” died Dec. 30 from natural causes in Almería, Spain at his home in San José, Cabo de Gata. He was 98.
Father of “Exodus: Gods and Kings” producer Denise O’Dell and grandfather of Denis Pedregosa, producer of Netflix hit “The Paramedic,” O’Dell’s connection with movies stretches back to the ‘40s.
He had already produced six movies, such as Brian Desmond Hurst’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in 1962, before his association with the Beatles, which began in professional terms with O’Dell taking an associate producer credit on Richard Lester’s “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring the Beatles and released in 1964.
O’Dell is generally credited with persuading John Lennon to go to Almería to star in the absurdist WWII drama “How I Won the War,” during...
Father of “Exodus: Gods and Kings” producer Denise O’Dell and grandfather of Denis Pedregosa, producer of Netflix hit “The Paramedic,” O’Dell’s connection with movies stretches back to the ‘40s.
He had already produced six movies, such as Brian Desmond Hurst’s “The Playboy of the Western World” in 1962, before his association with the Beatles, which began in professional terms with O’Dell taking an associate producer credit on Richard Lester’s “A Hard Day’s Night,” starring the Beatles and released in 1964.
O’Dell is generally credited with persuading John Lennon to go to Almería to star in the absurdist WWII drama “How I Won the War,” during...
- 12/31/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, the European Film Awards detail this year’s special five-day virtual ceremony, the Spain Film Commission extends an invitation to international productions, ITV Studios sells more than 300 hours of content in India and the National Lottery announces a special Pantoland performance for key workers.
Awards
The 2020 European Film Awards have announced measures to host a Covid-19 era edition, “The EFAs at Eight,” including a series of live-streamed virtual events taking place Dec. 8-12.
This year’s entire program will be made available on the Efa website, www.europeanfilmawards.eu, and to several international streaming and broadcasting partners. Nominees and winners be invited to participate through live video conferencing.
Things kick off on Tuesday, Dec. 8, with “From Survival to Revival: Building the Post-Covid Future,” a roundtable discussing the re-structuring, re-engineering and re-alignment of the European film industry during and post-pandemic.
On Wednesday, Wim Wenders and Marion...
Awards
The 2020 European Film Awards have announced measures to host a Covid-19 era edition, “The EFAs at Eight,” including a series of live-streamed virtual events taking place Dec. 8-12.
This year’s entire program will be made available on the Efa website, www.europeanfilmawards.eu, and to several international streaming and broadcasting partners. Nominees and winners be invited to participate through live video conferencing.
Things kick off on Tuesday, Dec. 8, with “From Survival to Revival: Building the Post-Covid Future,” a roundtable discussing the re-structuring, re-engineering and re-alignment of the European film industry during and post-pandemic.
On Wednesday, Wim Wenders and Marion...
- 12/4/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish production house Babieka Films is teaming with L.A.-based Viewfinder Pictures to co-produce a feature adaptation of Alan Jolis’ book “Speak Sunlight” (“La voz del sol”), the directorial debut of journalist-screenwriter-producer Carol Polakoff.
A coming-of-age story set in Paris and Pamplona during the Franco regime, the Spanish-language “Speak Sunlight” will begin production next spring in Navarre.
Polakoff, winner of two Directors Guild of America awards, has a producer’s credit on Dani Rosemberg’s Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” featuring in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
Top Spanish TV scribe Natxo López, author of recent TV dramas “Perdida,” “Caronte” and “Unauthorized Living,” has adapted “Sunlight’s” Spanish-language version from Polakoff’s English script.
Babieka’s Denise O’Dell and Polakoff at Viewfinder are producing the film, with Orlando and Denis Pedregosa as executive producers, and Marta Ferrer García as associate producer.
A coming-of-age story set in Paris and Pamplona during the Franco regime, the Spanish-language “Speak Sunlight” will begin production next spring in Navarre.
Polakoff, winner of two Directors Guild of America awards, has a producer’s credit on Dani Rosemberg’s Cannes Official Selection title “The Death of Cinema and My Father Too,” featuring in Thierry Frémaux’s First Features category.
Top Spanish TV scribe Natxo López, author of recent TV dramas “Perdida,” “Caronte” and “Unauthorized Living,” has adapted “Sunlight’s” Spanish-language version from Polakoff’s English script.
Babieka’s Denise O’Dell and Polakoff at Viewfinder are producing the film, with Orlando and Denis Pedregosa as executive producers, and Marta Ferrer García as associate producer.
- 6/24/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Albert Sanchez Pinol's Cold Skin bestseller to be helmed by Xavier Gens of Hitman, Frontiere(s) 28 Weeks Later scripter Jesus Olmo is set to adapt the bestselling psychological thriller for Kanzaman which is set on an Antarctic island. Denise O'Dell and Mark Albela of Kanzaman produce Cold Skin which is apparently budgeted at somewhere in the region of $23 million. Cold Skin tells of the stay of a weather official on a remote island in the south Atlantic which is close to the Antarctic Circle, and was the winner of the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize back in 2002.
- 9/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Albert Sanchez Pinol's Cold Skin bestseller to be helmed by Xavier Gens of Hitman, Frontiere(s) 28 Weeks Later scripter Jesus Olmo is set to adapt the bestselling psychological thriller for Kanzaman which is set on an Antarctic island. Denise O'Dell and Mark Albela of Kanzaman produce Cold Skin which is apparently budgeted at somewhere in the region of $23 million. Cold Skin tells of the stay of a weather official on a remote island in the south Atlantic which is close to the Antarctic Circle, and was the winner of the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize back in 2002.
- 9/22/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
David Slade, who was recently announced as director of the third Twilight movie, Eclipse, is to helm a horror/psychological thriller called Cold Skin.
The story is set in the Antarctic, with a screenplay by Jesus Olmo from Albert Sanchez Pinol's best-selling Spanish novel of the same name.
The novel centres on a weather official staying on a remote island in the south Atlantic close to the Antarctic Circle. It won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize in 2002 and has been translated into 15 languages.
Producer Denise O'Dell said: "David was always our first choice for Cold Skin because he knows how to handle the psychological horror, and he's CG-savvy as well."
Kanzaman Film Productions, based in Madrid and Paris, will start filming on the $25million project next March, reports Variety.
British director Slade's previous credits include 2006's Hard Candy and 2007's 30 Days of Night, as well as several music videos for...
The story is set in the Antarctic, with a screenplay by Jesus Olmo from Albert Sanchez Pinol's best-selling Spanish novel of the same name.
The novel centres on a weather official staying on a remote island in the south Atlantic close to the Antarctic Circle. It won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize in 2002 and has been translated into 15 languages.
Producer Denise O'Dell said: "David was always our first choice for Cold Skin because he knows how to handle the psychological horror, and he's CG-savvy as well."
Kanzaman Film Productions, based in Madrid and Paris, will start filming on the $25million project next March, reports Variety.
British director Slade's previous credits include 2006's Hard Candy and 2007's 30 Days of Night, as well as several music videos for...
- 5/1/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
Whoa, simmer down now, Twihards. Director David Slade will Not be helming Twilight 4 (a.k.a. Breaking Dawn). But the Brit has just signed on for the film he'll direct after The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Hit the jump to find out what it will be. According to Variety, Slade will direct the "Antarctic island-set horror/psychological thriller" Cold Skin, adapting author Albert Sanchez Pinol's Spanish bestseller of the same title. 28 Weeks Later co-writer Jesus Olmo is scripting. "'David was always our first choice for Cold Skin because he knows how to handle the psychological horror, and he's CG savvy as well," says Denise O'Dell, who's producing...
- 5/1/2009
- FEARnet
New York -- The true story of international drug dealer and U.K. spy Howard Marks is aiming to give moviegoers a buzz.
Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewlis are in final negotiations to star in "Mr. Nice," writer-director Bernard Rose's adaptation of Marks' 2002 best-selling autobiography.
Ifans will play Britain's one-time most-wanted man, a late-'60s-era Oxford grad and teacher who turned to drug smuggling to impress his future wife Judy (Sevigny). While enlisting the help of an Irish Republican Army boss (Thewlis) for a job, he was recruited by a British intelligence officer for a loose network of informants.
The charming criminal assumed the alias Mr. Nice. After encounters with the Mafia and CIA and nearly 30 tons of pot smuggling, he spent seven years in prison.
U.K.-based Independent is producing the film and repping international sales. CEO Luc Roeg is producing, and execs Michael Robinson...
Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewlis are in final negotiations to star in "Mr. Nice," writer-director Bernard Rose's adaptation of Marks' 2002 best-selling autobiography.
Ifans will play Britain's one-time most-wanted man, a late-'60s-era Oxford grad and teacher who turned to drug smuggling to impress his future wife Judy (Sevigny). While enlisting the help of an Irish Republican Army boss (Thewlis) for a job, he was recruited by a British intelligence officer for a loose network of informants.
The charming criminal assumed the alias Mr. Nice. After encounters with the Mafia and CIA and nearly 30 tons of pot smuggling, he spent seven years in prison.
U.K.-based Independent is producing the film and repping international sales. CEO Luc Roeg is producing, and execs Michael Robinson...
- 10/29/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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