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Blueprint Pictures
Blueprint Pictures Limited is an independent film, indie film and television production company founded in 2005 by producers Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin. Sony Pictures Television has owned a small stake in Blueprint Television since 2016. In 2008, Blueprint Pictures produced Martin McDonagh’s film ''In Bruges,'' starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, in conjunction with Film4 Productions. Blueprint also produced McDonagh, McDonagh's second feature ''Seven Psychopaths'', starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, and Sam Rockwell. In 2017, Blueprint produced Martin McDonagh's ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' with Film4 Productions, starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, and Peter Dinklage. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, won two, and won 5 BAFTAs as well as 4 Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes. 2018 saw the release of Mike Newell (director), Mike Newell’s ''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (film), T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Broadbent
Graham Neil Broadbent is a British film and television producer. Career Broadbent co-founded Mission Pictures with Andrew Hauptman and Damian Jones (producer), Damian Jones. Broadbent produced ''Welcome to Sarajevo'' (1996) by Michael Winterbottom, which was shown in the Festival de Cannes 1997 and cited by ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine as one of the ten best films of the year. In 2004 Broadbent, with Peter Czernin, founded the production company Blueprint Pictures. He produced ''Millions (2004 film), Millions'' by Danny Boyle, winner of the British Independent Film Award 2005 for Best Screenplay. Filmography * ''All Of Us Strangers'' (2023) (producer) * ''The Banshees of Inisherin'' (2022) (producer) * ''A Boy Called Christmas'' (2021) (producer) * ''The Last Letter from Your Lover'' (2021) (producer) * ''Emma (2020 film), Emma.'' (2020) (producer) *''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (film), The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' (2018) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith; June 23, 1957) is an American actress and film producer. In a career spanning over four decades, McDormand has received numerous accolades, including four Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and one Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the " Triple Crown of Acting". Additionally, she has received three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Critics' Choice Awards. Recognized for her roles in small-budget independent films, McDormand's worldwide box office gross exceeds $2.2 billion. McDormand has been married to Joel Coen of the Coen brothers since 1984. She has appeared in several of their films, including '' Blood Simple'' (1984), '' Raising Arizona'' (1987), '' Miller's Crossing'' (1990), '' Barton Fink'' (1991), '' Fargo'' (1996), '' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (2001), '' Burn After Reading'' (2008), and '' Hail, Caesar!'' (2016). McDormand won three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It was founded on February 21, 1925, by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a reporter for ''The New York Times''. Together with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann, they established the F-R Publishing Company and set up the magazine's first office in Manhattan. Ross remained the editor until his death in 1951, shaping the magazine's editorial tone and standards. ''The New Yorker''s fact-checking operation is widely recognized among journalists as one of its strengths. Although its reviews and events listings often focused on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' gained a reputation for publishing serious essays, long-form journalism, well-regarded fiction, and humor for a national and international audience, including work by writers such as Truman Capote, Vladimir Nabokov, and Alice Munro. In the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Frears
Sir Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is a British director and producer of film and television, often depicting real life stories as well as projects that explore social class through sharply-drawn characters. He has received numerous accolades including three BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards. In 2008, ''The Daily Telegraph'' named Frears among the 100 most influential people in Culture of the United Kingdom, British culture. In 2009, he received the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He received a knighthood in 2023 for his contributions to the film and television industries. Born in Leicester and educated at Gresham's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, Frears started his career working as an assistant director in theatre and film while directing many television plays. Frears directed his debut feature film ''Gumshoe (film), Gumshoe'' in 1971 and received critical acclaim for his films in the 1980s su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Whishaw
Benjamin John Whishaw (born 14 October 1980) is an English actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Ben Whishaw, various accolades, including three British Academy Television Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe. Beginning his career in the 2000s, he played Prince Hamlet, the title role in a 2004 production of the play ''Hamlet''. This was followed by television roles in ''Nathan Barley'' (2005), ''Criminal Justice (British TV series), Criminal Justice'' (2008) and ''The Hour (2011 TV series), The Hour'' (2011–12); and film roles in ''Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer'' (2006), ''I'm Not There'' (2007), ''Brideshead Revisited (film), Brideshead Revisited'' (2008), and ''Bright Star (film), Bright Star'' (2009). In 2012, Whishaw played Richard II of England, the title role in a Richard II (2012 film), BBC Two adaptation of ''Richard II (play), Richard II'', for which he won the British A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as a charming and vulnerable romantic leading man, and has since transitioned into a character actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Hugh Grant, several accolades including a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. He received an Honorary César in 2006. In 2022, Time Out (magazine), ''Time Out'' magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's 50 greatest actors of all time. , his films have grossed over US$4 billion worldwide. Grant made his feature film acting debut in ''Privileged (film), Privileged'' (1982), followed by the romantic drama ''Maurice (1987 film), Maurice'' (1987) for which he gained acclaim as well as the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He then acted in a string of successful period dramas such as ''The Remains of the Day (film), The Remains of the Day'' (1993), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Very English Scandal (TV Series)
''A Very English Scandal'' is a British historical drama miniseries created and written by Russell T Davies, based on John Preston's 2016 book of the same name. It is a dramatisation of the 1976–1979 Thorpe affair and more than 15 years of events leading up to it. The producers followed up ''A Very English Scandal'' in 2021 with the series '' A Very British Scandal'', about the Argyll divorce case. On November 20, 2023, it was announced Blueprint would produce a third ''Scandal'' series, '' A Very Royal Scandal'', based on the infamous Prince Andrew interview with Emily Maitlis. Plot In 1965, Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal MP, faces blackmail from his unstable ex-lover, Norman Josiffe, whom he met in 1961. After years of a tumultuous relationship, Thorpe grows tired of Norman and cuts ties. Norman, unable to keep a job and with a penchant for drama, threatens to expose their affair. Thorpe's fellow MP, Peter Bessell, silences Norman with money, but Thorpe refuses to help him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michiel Huisman
Michiel Huisman (born 18 July 1981) is a Dutch actor, musician and singer-songwriter born in Amstelveen, recognized for his roles in Dutch and international film and television projects. Huisman's music career began as the singer and guitarist for the Dutch band Fontane, which released singles and was featured on movie soundtracks in the early 2000s. After the band split, he pursued a solo music career, releasing an album and singles. His acting career started with roles in the Dutch soap opera '' Goede tijden, slechte tijden'' (1998). He later appeared in Dutch films including '' Costa!'' (2001), '' Phileine Says Sorry'' (2003) and '' Black Book'' (2006), and in the Dutch TV series ''De co-assistent'' (2007–10) and ''Bloedverwanten'' (2010). Huisman's first international acting experience came in 2006, when he guest-starred in the British TV series '' Dalziel and Pascoe''. Huisman played Sonny in HBO's Treme and replaced Ed Skrein as Daario Naharis in ''Game of Throne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily James
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson (born 5 April 1989), known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series '' Just William'' (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series ''Downton Abbey'' (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film ''Cinderella'' (2015). James went on to portray Natasha Rostova in the television adaptation of '' War & Peace'' (2016) and starred in several films, including the action film '' Baby Driver'' (2017); the period dramas '' Darkest Hour'' (2017), '' The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society'' (2018) and '' The Dig'' (2021); the musicals '' Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again'' (2018) and '' Yesterday'' (2019); and the sports drama '' The Iron Claw'' (2023). Her portrayal of Pamela Anderson in the biographical series '' Pam & Tommy'' (2022) earned her nominations for a Golden Glob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society (film)
''The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society '' is a 2018 historical romantic drama film directed by Mike Newell and written by Kevin Hood, Don Roos and Tom Bezucha, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. The film stars Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Glen Powell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Katherine Parkinson, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton. Set in 1946, the plot follows a London-based writer who exchanges letters with a resident on the island of Guernsey, which had been under German occupation during World War II. A co-production between the United Kingdom, United States, and France, the film was distributed and financed by StudioCanal and produced by Blueprint Pictures and the Mazur/Kaplan Company. In 2010, development began on a film adaptation based on Shaffer's novel. In October 2016, James signed on for the lead role, with Newell set to direct. The film entered pre-production in January 2017, with pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Newell (director)
Michael Cormac Newell (born 28 March 1942) is an English film and television director and producer. He won the BAFTA for Best Direction for '' Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), which also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and directed the films '' Donnie Brasco'' (1997) and '' Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' (2005). Early life Newell was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, as the son of amateur actors, and was educated at St Albans School. He read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then attended a three-year training course at Granada Television with the intention of entering the theatre. Career Newell directed various British TV shows from the 1960s onwards (such as ''Spindoe'', credited as Cormac Newell, and '' Big Breadwinner Hog''), but eventually shifted his focus to film direction. His first feature-length project was '' The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1977), a made-for-television film. His first critically acclaimed movie was '' Bad Blood'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Awards are awards presented for excellence in both international film and television. It is an annual Awards ceremony, award ceremony held since 1944 to honor artists and professionals and their work. The ceremony is normally held every January, and has been a major part of the film industry's Film awards seasons, awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. The eligibility period for Golden Globes corresponds from January 1 through December 31. The Golden Globes were not televised in 1969–1972, 1979, and 2022. The 2008 ceremony was canceled due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Currently, the Golden Globes Awards are owned and operated by Dick Clark Productions, following its sale by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association on June 12, 2023. History The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 as the Hollywood Foreign Correspondent Association (HFCA) by Los Angeles–based foreign journalists seeking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
