One of Amy Winehouse‘s close friends is reacting to the new movie based on her life.
22.04.2024 - 21:50 / deadline.com
James Cameron has backed a new UK film studio and said it could act as a base for his technology training center, but the £750M ($927M) Marlow Film Studios still requires a planning greenlight and is proving controversial in its local area.
According to the Financial Times, the triple Oscar-winner has written to Buckinghamshire Council in support of the plans in the past few weeks and said it could be a potential UK and European base and training centre for Lightstorm3D, a company Cameron has set up to develop tools and technology for movies.
Cameron said the 22.5% of global box office the UK delivered in 2023 will “grow as a result” of Marlow, which is in Buckinghamshire, South East England.
“But embracing that opportunity necessitates support and boldness in thinking,” the FT reported Cameron wrote. “The next iteration of screen storytelling requires a purpose-built working space of exceptional quality, and trained professionals.”
Cameron, whose back catalog includes Titanic and Avatar, has been a major advocate for improved movie tech throughout his career. He joins Sam Mendes and a wealth of other high-profile Marlow backers.
The news comes ahead of a crucial planning permission vote by local councillors expected on the site later this month. The studio, which developers say will create 4,000 jobs, has been causing ructions in the local community.
According to local newspaper the Bucks Free Press, the leader of Marlow Town Council has said he and fellow members are “taking legal advice” after receiving “libellous abuse” for their perceived support of the project.
Local residents have taken umbrage with the project’s building and developers were forced to submit amendments to the scheme’s application in efforts
One of Amy Winehouse‘s close friends is reacting to the new movie based on her life.
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Johnny Depp on the historical drama film, Jeanne du Barry.Speaking with The Independent, the French director, writer and actor spoke about the film, in which she plays a sex worker in 18th century France, who becomes the mistress to King Louis XV, played by Depp.Maïwenn also opened up about the crew’s experience of working with the Pirates Of The Caribbean star.“I have to be honest. It’s difficult to shoot with him,” she shared.“All the crew were scared because he has a different kind of humour and we didn’t know if he was going to be on time, or if he was going to be OK to say his lines,” she continued.“I mean, even if he was there on set, on time, the crew were afraid of him.”She detailed Depp’s accent development for the movie, and how she was led to cut some of his dialogue, saying: “There was no time for rehearsals. I asked for time but, for whatever reason, he wasn’t available”.“He had a coach, but he couldn’t work with her beforehand,” she continued.
A new film and TV studio funded via a portion of a £24M ($30M) government investment has become the latest to launch in the UK.
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Maya Hawke says making “Wildcat” with her dad, Ethan Hawke, felt effortless.“We’ve spent our whole lives making things together, talking about art, seeing plays, going to art museums,” she told The Post at a recent Cinema Society screening of their movie, “Wildcat.”“Working on plays in the living room, helping me with audition tapes and it felt like an extremely natural extension of the way that we’ve always communicated.”The movie, co-written and directed by Ethan, is a biographical drama about Southern novelist Flannery O’Connor and her struggle to publish her first novel. Maya, 25, stars as O’Connor and it also features Laura Linney, Philip Ettinger, Cooper Hoffman and Liam Neeson.The “Training Day” star, 53, explained that the movie was Maya’s idea.“A movie that she wanted to see primarily about a young woman’s relationship to herself and her work,” he shared.
Tyler Cameron has 2.2 million Instagram followers — the most of any male in the entire “Bachelor” franchise.The Florida native, who got dumped by leading lady Hannah Brown, had just 3,018 Instagram followers when his name was first announced as a contestant on the ABC series in February 2019.“Yeah, it was wild. I feel like at that moment, ‘Bachelorette’ was at its peak,” Cameron, 31, told The Post ahead of the April 18 premiere of his new home-renovation show “Going Home with Tyler Cameron” on Prime Video.“I think a lot has to do with, you know, Hannah Brown was a great lead … and we had a great villain on our show [Luke Parker].
Kevin Costner has been working on “Horizon: An American Saga,” for the past 30 years. The story, which is split in four films, has been the passion project of his life. Costner’s 15 year old son, Hayes, was named after his character in the film, and has served as a reminder to never give up on the project.
Amy Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil has shared his thoughts on the new biopic Back To Black, explaining that he found it “therapeutic”.The film – directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson – arrives in cinemas earlier today (April 12), and follows the life of the late singer. It stars Marisa Abela (Industry) as Winehouse and charts the iconic singer’s vibrant years living in London, as well as her intense rise to fame.In the movie, Winehouse’s former husband Blake Fielder-Civil is portrayed by Jack O’Connell (Skins, Godless, Lady Chatterley’s Lover). He stars opposite Eddie Marsan, who was cast as the singer’s father, Mitch.Now, appearing on today’s episode of Good Morning Britain, Fielder-Civil shared his thoughts on the biopic, and admitted that he found the film “almost therapeutic” due to how he was depicted.In the interview with host Kate Garraway, he said that some parts of the movie made him feel seen “in a more accurate representation” to what he is used to.“Not in a sense of being let off the hook or whitewashed, as [has] been alluded to… just in a sense of it wasn’t all about addiction,” he said.
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