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AMC’s Acorn Media Enterprises and Irish pubcaster Rte have teamed up on “The South Westerlies,” an Irish-produced original comedy-drama featuring an ensemble cast led by Orla Brady (“Mistresses”). Zdf Enterprises and Norway’s TV2 are also on board the series, which has backing from Screen Ireland.

Dublin-based Deadpan Pictures is producing. It will bow on Rte in 2020. In the U.S. it will premiere on the Acorn TV streaming service, which recently surpassed the 1-million subscriber mark in North America.

Eileen Walsh (“Catastrophe”), Ger Ryan (“Rialto”), Sam Barrett, Lily Nichol (“Handymen”), Steve Wall (“Vikings”) and Patrick Bergin (“Patriot Games”) will also star in “The South Westerlies.”

Brady will play Kate, an environmental consultant for a Norwegian energy firm. Before landing a lucrative promotion, she has to go undercover among protesters and quash objections to a wind farm project near their small coastal town.

Filming is underway. The shoot will...

Title: The Man Who Invented Christmas Director: Bharat Nalluri Cast: Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Donald Sumpter, Miriam Margolyes, Morfydd Clark, Justin Edwards, Ian McNeice, Bill Paterson, Anna Murphy, Eddie Jackson, Neil Slevin, Paul Kealyn, Aleah Lennon, Ger Ryan, Ely Solan. Charles Dickens is synonymous with Yuletide, as attested by his ‘A […]

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Dan Stevens (left) stars as Charles Dickens and Christopher Plummer (right) stars as Ebenezer Scrooge in director Bharat Nalluri’s The Man Who Invented Christmas, a Bleecker Street release. Photo credit: Kerry Brown / Bleecker Street ©

Dan Stevens gives a frenetic performance as Charles Dickens racing to finish writing “A Christmas Carol” in time to publish before the holiday, in The Man Who Invented Christmas. Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day), this film has all the Christmas color and Victorian period costumes and sets you could want in a Christmas film. The film is mostly a clever way to retell the famous tale, as characters spring from the author’s imagination while he struggles with his own family issues and races to meet a pre-Christmas release deadline, but it also touches on how his short novel transformed a once-minor holiday into the tradition we know today.

Two teaser trailers and posters have been released for the rom-com Love, Rosie. Based on author Cecelia Ahern’s novel Where Rainbows End, the film stars Lily Collins (The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) and Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) as best friends since school “who find that life often gets in the way of love but, true love just like true friendship, never dies.” Complications in their relationship ensue, causing the prospect of a romantic life together to be thrown into question. These teasers are cute and funny, although Collins telling Claflin that a girl he has a crush on is "out of his league" is preposterous. Claflin may be a good actor (I liked him in Catching Fire), but no one can convince me he isn't handsome. Hit the jump to check out the Love, Rosie trailers and posters, and click here for Steve's interview with...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 24, 2013

Price: DVD $19.98, Blu-ray $24.99

Studio: Lionsgate

Jason Statham (Killer Elite) stars in Redemption, another movie in which he gets involved with the criminal underworld.

This time, Statham plays Joey Jones, a veteran home from the Afghan war who’s homeless and using too many drugs and alcohol. Attempting to put his life back together, he gets help from Sister Cristina (Agata Buzek, In the Bedroom), a nun who works at an inner-city parish.

His soldier training makes him valuable to the Mob and he’s soon employed within London’s criminal underworld. But when his girlfriend is brutally murdered by ruthless kingpins, he goes out for revenge, even if it will destroy him.

Redemption was shown in a limited number of theaters in the U.S., grossing less than $1 million, and premiered on video-on-demand before its DVD and Blu-ray release.

Rated R, the British film was...

Jason Statham (The Expendables) proves even angels have a dark side when Redemption arrives on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and Digital Download September 24 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The film is currently available on Video on Demand. Statham "gives a performance as powerful as his fists," (CraveOnline.com) as an ex-Special Forces soldier who gets caught in the dangerous trenches of London's criminal underworld. Written and directed by Steven Knight, the Academy Award-nominated writer of Dirty Pretty Things (Original Screenplay, 2003), the compelling thriller co-stars Polish Film Award winner Agata Buzek (The Reverse), BAFTA winner Vicky McClure ("This Is England '86"), Benedict Wong (Prometheus, Dirty Pretty Things) and Ger Ryan (Frozen). Redemption synopsis: Joey Jones (Statham) comes home from the...

Film: "Hummingbird"; Cast: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong, Ger Ryan, Dai Bradley and Victoria Bewick; Director: Steven Knight; Rating: ***

"Getting alive for one summer!" is how Sister Cristina encapsulates "Hummingbird". This film has layers that intriguingly unfurl. At the core of it is an interesting story of a gangster and a nun.

This film, which spans over a period of eight months from spring to autumn, uses the small petite Hummingbird beautifully as an analogy since it makes its presence felt in Britain during this period.

Set in London over a period spanning February to October, writer-director Steven Knight's film highlights the redemption of the protagonist and issues like - the.

Title: Redemption Director: Steven Knight Starring: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure, Benedict Wong, Ger Ryan, Dani Bradley. Joey is a British Special Forces soldier who has returned to London after a traumatic tour of duty in Afghanistan. As he attempts to redeem his past, he assumes another man’s identity and meets Sister Cristina, a young nun who works in an inner city parish. During his journey back to a “normal life” he will be torn between his call for the criminal underworld and the pursuit of rehabilitating himself. It’s refreshing to see the global action actor, Jason Statham, taking a role in something that’s not just a variation of [ Read More ]

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Constantin Film announced today that production is underway in Toronto on the romantic comedy Love, Rosie. Based on author Cecelia Ahern’s novel Where Rainbows End, the film stars Lily Collins (Mirror, Mirror) and Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman) as best friends since school “who find that life often gets in the way of love but, true love just like true friendship, never dies.” Complications in their relationship ensue, causing the prospect of a romantic life together to be thrown into question. Christian Ditter is directing from a screenplay by Juliette Towhidi (Calendar Girls), and the cast also includes Jaime Winstone, Christian Cooke, Suki Waterhouse, Tamsin Egerton, Jamie Beamish, Ger Ryan and Lorcan Cranitch. Hit the jump to read the full press release and to check out an image of Collins and Claflin working together alongside Ahern. Love, Rosie is being produced by Robert Kulzer (The Mortal Instruments...

'Footballers' Wives' star Cristian Solimeno and 'Torchwood' actress Amy Manson are among the new cast members who have began shooting 'Raw' series five in Dublin. The British stars join returning cast members Aisling O'Sullivan, Charlene McKenna, Damon Gameau, Keith McErlean, Tara Lee, Sam Keeley, Kelly Gough and Ger Ryan on the Octagon Films/Ecosse Films production for RTÉ.

'Food Guide To Love', a Dublin-set romantic comedy directed by Spanish husband and wife team Dominic Harari and Teresa de Pelegri, and starring Richard Coyle and Leonor Watling, will begin shooting in Ireland on August 7. The feature, an Irish, Spanish and French co-production, is currently in pre-production in Dublin. Ireland's Parallel Films and Spanish production company Tornasol are the main producers with France's Haut et Court also on board. A strong Irish cast have also been recruited with David Wilmot (Good Vibrations) set to play a hippie who comes between the two leads and Bronagh Gallagher cast as the cynical and humorous wife of Oliver's best friend. Other Irish cast attached to the project include Lorcan Cranitch (Rome) and Ger Ryan (Raw), who will play Oliver's mother. Chris Newman (Aisling's Diary) and Michelle Beamish (Eden) have also been cast in minor roles.

London based romantic comedy 'The Callback Queen', written and directed by Graham Cantwell (Trapped, Anton) has finished principal photography and has entered post production. The independent film stars Irish actors Amy Joyce Hastings (The Tudors, Little Deaths), Ger Ryan (Raw, Intermission) and Sean T. O'Meallaigh (Kings, Seacht). The story follows the exploits of Kate Loughlin played by Hastings who is an ambitious but unlucky actress on the cusp of her big break and is set in the cut throat world of the London film industry.

Production is currently underway on the third series of Dublin restaurant drama, 'Raw'. The Ecosse Film/Octagon Films co-production started shooting at the end of August and cameras will continue rolling until the end of November. The third installment of the drama sees the return of Ifta winner Charlene McKenna (Whistleblower), Aisling O’Sullivan (The Clinic), Keith McErlean (Bachelors' Walk) and Ger Ryan (Whistleblower; Family) alongside cast newcomers Padraic Delaney (Perrier’s Bounty) and Marcella Plunkett (Once).

London -- Neil Jordan's "Ondine" and "The Eclipse," directed by Conor McPherson lead the pack with eight nominations apiece in the race for film glory at the upcoming 7th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards.

Both Jordan and McPherson will battle it out to win the evening's top director nod while the movies themselves find themselves vying with one another in the best film category.

The pair face John and Kieran Carney ("Zonad") and Jim Sheridan ("Brothers") in the best film director section while "Eamon," "The Secret of Kells" and "Zonad" all present a challenge to "Ondine" and "The Eclipse" in the best film category.

Dished out by the Irish Film and Television Academy at a ceremony in Dublin next month, the IFTAs serve as a timely reminder of the wealth of talent from the emerald isle. Nominees this year include newcomer Darren Healy alongside Colin Farrell, Ciaran Hinds,...

'Happy Ever Afters', the debut feature film from writer and director Stephen Burke (Anner House, No Tears) comes down the aisle on December 26th with the premise that sometimes the happiest day of all can be the most heartbreaking. Iftn chats to Burke and two of the film's stars Tom Riley and Jade Yourell. The film's plot is anything but straightforward: Freddie, played by Tom Riley (Lost in Austen, St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold) and Maura, played by Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky, An Education) are getting married, just not to each other. While Freddie is entering his second marriage with the neurotic Sophie, played by Jade Yourell (Waiting for Dublin, The Longest Day), Maura's is more concerned with her pockets than her heart in marrying 'Doctors' star, Ariyon Bakare's Wilson. Then, when the two wedding parties end up at the same reception venue,...

With the 6th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards taking place this Saturday 14th of February, Irish and international guests gather in Dublin to honour Ireland's creative excellence and to celebrate the continued success of the film and television industry here at home. Among the Irish Nominees attending are Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Aidan Gillen, Orla Brady, Eileen Walsh, Amy Huberman, Charlene McKenna, Deirdre O'Kane, Ger Ryan, Gerard McSorley, John Kavanagh, Maria Doyle Kennedy, David Herlihy, Hilda Fay and Lesley Conroy. Four of Ireland's rising starlets Saorise Ronan, Sarah Bolger, Jenn Murray and Kelly O'Neill will also attend the 2009 Awards, having received prestigious nominations in the acting categories. Others including Aidan Quinn, John Moore, Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan, Eric Mabius, Fionnula Flanagan, Flora Montgomery, Jenny McAlpine, Steve McQueen and Katie McGrath amongst others. With 900 guests attending the Gala Ifta ceremony, the President of Ireland Mary McAleese...

Venice International Film Festival

VENICE, Italy -- Although director and writer Penny Woodcock's post-apocalyptic fable "Exodus" wears its heart on its sleeve and occasionally staggers under the weight of its earnestness, it's an engaging piece of work.

Woodcock places the story from the second book of the Old Testament in a future England where Pharoah (Bernard Hill) is a local politician and Moses Daniel Percival) is his adopted son. It's a time when anyone not lilywhite has been lumped together -- minorities, asylum-seekers, rebels, criminals, deviants -- and walled into a place called Dreamland.

It's a ghetto familiar from films such as "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" and "Children of Men", and Moses ends up there when he causes the death of a guard who is threatening a young woman.

All the key points of the Biblical story are touched upon as Moses stands up to Pharoah and strives to free what have become his people. Well-made and acted with enthusiasm, the film is another Channel 4 production and should do well at the boxoffice on its travels abroad. It screened in the Horizons sidebar of the Venice International Film Festival.

Daniel Percival is Moses, a young man first seen as a baby abandoned for safekeeping on a beach by his Romany mother. He is found by Batya Mann (Ger Ryan) whose husband Pharoah becomes the leading politician 20 years later when the world is in uproar.

Moses is a marine scientist with only academic plans, but when he visits Dreamland he becomes a changed man. Not only does he learn about his real background from activist Aaron (Anthony Johnson) but also he falls in love with the woman he saved from the guard, Zipporah (Clare-Ashitey, from "Children of Men").

The population of Dreamland is deprived, hungry and constantly threatened by the roaming "pest control" -- soldiers with masks and rifles. Moses negotiates with Pharoah for the walls to be pulled down, but it takes measures of Biblical proportions before something happens.

Woodcock invents clever modern variations on the Old Testament plagues involving poisoning the ocean and spreading viruses on the Internet. Production designer Christina Moore created Dreamland in a disused funfair that had the same name in the seaside town of Margate, Kent, that was once a haven for working-class holidaymakers. Cinematographer Jakob Ihre captures it well. There's also an impressive bit of business involving a 25-meter tall funeral pyre in the figure of a man made from trash and old furniture created for the film by artist Antony Gormley. Such images help the film overcome its occasional awkwardness and tendency to preach.

EXODUS

Artangel, Channel 4

Director, writer: Penny Woodcock

Producer: Ruth Kenley-Letts

Executive producer: Michael Morris

Director of photography: Jakob Ihre

Production designer: Christina Moore

Music: Malcolm Lindsay

Costume designer: Suzanne Cave

Editor: Brand Thumim

Cast:

Pharoah Mann: Bernard Hill

Moses: Daniel Percival

Batya Mann: Ger Ryan

Zipporah: Clare-Hope Ashitey

Aaron: Anthony Johnson

Jethro: Delroy Moore

Yardman: Michael Tulloch

Loony preacher: Justin Smithers

Dada: Matthew Smith

No MPAA rating, running time 11 minutes...

Screened

Toronto International Film Festival

TORONTO -- Sharing Robert Altman's enviable dexterity with sprawling casts, John Crowley's "Intermission" is technically a film about the quest for love and acceptance among an extended grouping of Dubliners that in practice turns out to be anything but gentle and meditative.

Instead, this bracing blast of creative energy kicks off with an unexpected jolt and keeps ticking away, often flirting with outrageousness without ever losing sight of its main objective.

A respected theater director, Crowley makes the most of Mark O'Rowe's intricate, smartly written script and coaxes terrific performances from all of his 11 principal players (54 in total).

Enthusiastic reviews as well as the presence of the very busy Colin Farrell among the ensemble should result in some decent word-of-mouth coin while easily establishing Crowley and O'Rowe as filmmakers to watch.

One of the first productions to come out of Neil Jordan and Stephen Woolley's newly formed Company of Wolves, "Intermission" is populated by so many colorful characters that it's hard to decide where to begin.

A good start would be Farrell's off-kilter Lehiff, a morally bankrupt punk of a petty thief who is planning the quintessential "one last score" before intending to go straight.

That is, if he can avoid the ever vigilant gaze of tough-guy detective Jerry Lynch (the always memorable Colm Meaney), an overly zealous loner of an anticrime crusader who also happens to have a deep interest in Celtic mysticism.

Meanwhile, supermarket employee John ("28 Days Later"'s Cillian Murphy) has the boneheaded idea of testing his girlfriend Deirdre's ("Trainspotting"'s Kelly Macdonald) devotion by suggesting they break up.

Initially brokenhearted, she rebounds into the arms of the older Sam (Michael McElhatton), a bank manager who is smack dab in the middle of a midlife crisis. Full of understandable hostility, Sam's freshly estranged wife, Noeleen (Deirdre O'Kane), ends up having a rather heated affair with John's lonely buddy Oscar (David Wilmot).

Then there's also Deirdre's emotionally scarred sister (Shirley Henderson), who wears the dark hair on her upper lip like a coat of armor, and their concerned widowed mother, Maura (Ger Ryan), not to mention John and Oscar's bullying, American catchphrase-spewing supermarket boss, Mr. Henderson (Owen Roe), and bus driver Mick (Brian F. O'Byrne), who is determined to track down the culprit who threw a brick at his bus window, causing a potentially tragic accident.

Armed with playwright O'Rowe's fresh dialogue, the characters are a treat to get to know, but the most intriguing thing about the film is the always inventive way in which their lives intersect.

While director Crowley keeps it all moving propulsively with a contemporary pop/rock song selection that complements the pace and those darkly comedic edges, he still manages to accommodate some vulnerable, touching truths about everyday life in the big, scary world.

Intermission

IFC Films

An IFC Films presentation in association with Company of Wolves and Parallel Films

Credits:

Director: John Crowley

Screenwriter: Mark O'Rowe

Executive producers: Paul Trijbits, Rod Stoneman, Tristan Whalley

Producers: Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan

Director of photography: Ryszard Lenczewski

Production designer: Tom Conroy

Editor: Lucia Zuchetti

Costume designer: Lorna Marie Mugan

Music: John Murphy

Cast:

Lehiff: Colin Farrell

Jerry: Colm Meaney

John: Cillian Murphy

Deirdre: Kelly Macdonald

Sally: Shirley Henderson

Oscar: David Wilmot

Noeleen: Deirdre O'Kane

Sam: Michael McElhatton

Maura: Ger Ryan

Mr. Henderson: Owen Roe

Ben: Tomas O'Sullivan

Karen: Barbara Bergin

Running time -- 106 minutes

No MPAA rating...

Screened

Toronto International Film Festival

TORONTO -- Sharing Robert Altman's enviable dexterity with sprawling casts, John Crowley's "Intermission" is technically a film about the quest for love and acceptance among an extended grouping of Dubliners that in practice turns out to be anything but gentle and meditative.

Instead, this bracing blast of creative energy kicks off with an unexpected jolt and keeps ticking away, often flirting with outrageousness without ever losing sight of its main objective.

A respected theater director, Crowley makes the most of Mark O'Rowe's intricate, smartly written script and coaxes terrific performances from all of his 11 principal players (54 in total).

Enthusiastic reviews as well as the presence of the very busy Colin Farrell among the ensemble should result in some decent word-of-mouth coin while easily establishing Crowley and O'Rowe as filmmakers to watch.

One of the first productions to come out of Neil Jordan and Stephen Woolley's newly formed Company of Wolves, "Intermission" is populated by so many colorful characters that it's hard to decide where to begin.

A good start would be Farrell's off-kilter Lehiff, a morally bankrupt punk of a petty thief who is planning the quintessential "one last score" before intending to go straight.

That is, if he can avoid the ever vigilant gaze of tough-guy detective Jerry Lynch (the always memorable Colm Meaney), an overly zealous loner of an anticrime crusader who also happens to have a deep interest in Celtic mysticism.

Meanwhile, supermarket employee John ("28 Days Later"'s Cillian Murphy) has the boneheaded idea of testing his girlfriend Deirdre's ("Trainspotting"'s Kelly Macdonald) devotion by suggesting they break up.

Initially brokenhearted, she rebounds into the arms of the older Sam (Michael McElhatton), a bank manager who is smack dab in the middle of a midlife crisis. Full of understandable hostility, Sam's freshly estranged wife, Noeleen (Deirdre O'Kane), ends up having a rather heated affair with John's lonely buddy Oscar David Wilmot).

Then there's also Deirdre's emotionally scarred sister (Shirley Henderson), who wears the dark hair on her upper lip like a coat of armor, and their concerned widowed mother, Maura (Ger Ryan), not to mention John and Oscar's bullying, American catchphrase-spewing supermarket boss, Mr. Henderson (Owen Roe), and bus driver Mick (Brian F. O'Byrne), who is determined to track down the culprit who threw a brick at his bus window, causing a potentially tragic accident.

Armed with playwright O'Rowe's fresh dialogue, the characters are a treat to get to know, but the most intriguing thing about the film is the always inventive way in which their lives intersect.

While director Crowley keeps it all moving propulsively with a contemporary pop/rock song selection that complements the pace and those darkly comedic edges, he still manages to accommodate some vulnerable, touching truths about everyday life in the big, scary world.

Intermission

IFC Films

An IFC Films presentation in association with Company of Wolves and Parallel Films

Credits:

Director: John Crowley

Screenwriter: Mark O'Rowe

Executive producers: Paul Trijbits, Rod Stoneman, Tristan Whalley

Producers: Alan Moloney, Stephen Woolley, Neil Jordan

Director of photography: Ryszard Lenczewski

Production designer: Tom Conroy

Editor: Lucia Zuchetti

Costume designer: Lorna Marie Mugan

Music: John Murphy

Cast:

Lehiff: Colin Farrell

Jerry: Colm Meaney

John: Cillian Murphy

Deirdre: Kelly Macdonald

Sally: Shirley Henderson

Oscar: David Wilmot

Noeleen: Deirdre O'Kane

Sam: Michael McElhatton

Maura: Ger Ryan

Mr. Henderson: Owen Roe

Ben: Tomas O'Sullivan

Karen: Barbara Bergin

Running time -- 106 minutes

No MPAA rating...