Producer Archive

  • Producers JOHN BATTSEK (Restrepo) and CHARLES STEEL (The Last King of Scotland) chat about their new movie, FIRE IN BABYLON, a big-screen documentary charting the supremacy of the West Indies cricket team in the late 70s and 80s. **FIRE IN BABYLON is in UK cinemas from 20 MAY MMM: What order did the cricketers you interviewed come on board? Steel: They all played hard to get! It was about getting Clive [Lloyd] and Viv [Richards] on...

    John Battsek & Charles Steel – Fire in Babylon

    Producers JOHN BATTSEK (Restrepo) and CHARLES STEEL (The Last King of Scotland) chat about their new movie, FIRE IN BABYLON, a big-screen documentary charting the supremacy of the West Indies cricket team in the late 70s and 80s. **FIRE IN BABYLON is in UK cinemas from 20 MAY MMM: What order did the cricketers you interviewed come on board? Steel: They all played hard to get! It was about getting Clive [Lloyd] and Viv [Richards] on...

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  • SOPHIE MEYER is Head of Development at Ealing Studios where she’s co-produced films such as St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s God as well as associate producing films including Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue. Meyer was recently at the London Comedy Writers Festival to speak about “Writing a Successful Comedy Spec Script”. Click on the audio file below to hear Meyer talk about what makes scripts stand out, how she’s seen the industry change over...

    Sophie Meyer – London Comedy Writers Festival

    SOPHIE MEYER is Head of Development at Ealing Studios where she’s co-produced films such as St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s God as well as associate producing films including Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue. Meyer was recently at the London Comedy Writers Festival to speak about “Writing a Successful Comedy Spec Script”. Click on the audio file below to hear Meyer talk about what makes scripts stand out, how she’s seen the industry change over...

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  • DUNCAN KENWORTHY, producer of Love Actually and Notting Hill, chats about his new film THE EAGLE, an action adventure set in Roman times. Based on Rosemary Sutcliff‘s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, the film tells the tale of centurion Marcus and his slave Esca’s search for a Roman missing army and its Eagle emblem. **THE EAGLE is in cinemas from 25 March MMM: It’s a project that you’ve longed to do for years. But...

    Duncan Kenworthy – The Eagle

    DUNCAN KENWORTHY, producer of Love Actually and Notting Hill, chats about his new film THE EAGLE, an action adventure set in Roman times. Based on Rosemary Sutcliff‘s historical novel The Eagle of the Ninth, the film tells the tale of centurion Marcus and his slave Esca’s search for a Roman missing army and its Eagle emblem. **THE EAGLE is in cinemas from 25 March MMM: It’s a project that you’ve longed to do for years. But...

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  • GLEN KEANE‘s career at Disney spans 35 years. During that time he’s created characters including Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Aladdin, Pocahontas, and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast). His latest role is as Animation Supervisor & Exec Producer on Disney’s 50th animated feature, TANGLED. A retelling of the classic fairystory of Rapunzel, the film combines gorgeous animation, humour, action, a great voice cast, and a wonderful score. Keane chats about animating silent characters, the draw...

    Glen Keane – Tangled

    GLEN KEANE‘s career at Disney spans 35 years. During that time he’s created characters including Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Aladdin, Pocahontas, and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast). His latest role is as Animation Supervisor & Exec Producer on Disney’s 50th animated feature, TANGLED. A retelling of the classic fairystory of Rapunzel, the film combines gorgeous animation, humour, action, a great voice cast, and a wonderful score. Keane chats about animating silent characters, the draw...

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  • It’s been a busy old year at the box office. Alice has been to Wonderland, Nanny McPhee returned with a bang, the toys told their story in 3D, Scott Pilgrim went up against the world, some schmucks got together for dinner, and people networked socially. With so many films to pick from it can’t have been easy for the UK’s regional film critics to choose their highlights of 2010. But choose they did, and the...

    Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2010 – And the winner is…

    It’s been a busy old year at the box office. Alice has been to Wonderland, Nanny McPhee returned with a bang, the toys told their story in 3D, Scott Pilgrim went up against the world, some schmucks got together for dinner, and people networked socially. With so many films to pick from it can’t have been easy for the UK’s regional film critics to choose their highlights of 2010. But choose they did, and the...

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  • Producer ARVIND ETHAN DAVID started out as a solicitor before moving into the movie business. Since leaving the law behind he’s founded his own film company, Slingshot, through which he’s about to release his 5th film as a producer, The Infidel. Written by comedian David Baddiel, The Infidel is an identity crisis comedy in which a Muslim man played by Omid Djalili discovers that he’s actually Jewish. My Movie Mundo’s film journalist Jan Gilbert spoke with David about ethnic confusion,...

    Arvind Ethan David (producer) – The Infidel

    Producer ARVIND ETHAN DAVID started out as a solicitor before moving into the movie business. Since leaving the law behind he’s founded his own film company, Slingshot, through which he’s about to release his 5th film as a producer, The Infidel. Written by comedian David Baddiel, The Infidel is an identity crisis comedy in which a Muslim man played by Omid Djalili discovers that he’s actually Jewish. My Movie Mundo’s film journalist Jan Gilbert spoke with David about ethnic confusion,...

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  • Movie producer ASHOK AMRITRAJ left India for the United States in 1975. Back then he was a professional tennis player. But as a kid growing up in Chennai, he always had an eye for the movies. And in 1980 he swapped the world of tennis volleys for the world of camera dollies to become a movie producer. Since then he’s made a hundred movies including Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, Premonition with Sandra Bullock, and Bringing Down The House with...

    Ashok Amritraj (producer) – The Persuaders, Traitor, Premonition, etc

    Movie producer ASHOK AMRITRAJ left India for the United States in 1975. Back then he was a professional tennis player. But as a kid growing up in Chennai, he always had an eye for the movies. And in 1980 he swapped the world of tennis volleys for the world of camera dollies to become a movie producer. Since then he’s made a hundred movies including Traitor starring Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce, Premonition with Sandra Bullock, and Bringing Down The House with...

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  • Dublin mobster Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is not a good man to owe money to, as Michael (Cillian Murphy) knows only too well. With no means to pay his debt, Michael goes on the run with best friend Brenda (Jodie Whittaker) and dad Jim (Jim Broadbent) in tow. But Irish gangsters don’t give up that easily in Mark O’Rowe’s dark comedy, Perrier’s Bounty. My Movie Mundo met up with actor CILLIAN MURPHY and producers ALAN MOLONEY...

    Cillian Murphy (actor), Alan Moloney (producer), & Elizabeth Karlsen (producer) – Perrier’s Bounty

    Dublin mobster Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is not a good man to owe money to, as Michael (Cillian Murphy) knows only too well. With no means to pay his debt, Michael goes on the run with best friend Brenda (Jodie Whittaker) and dad Jim (Jim Broadbent) in tow. But Irish gangsters don’t give up that easily in Mark O’Rowe’s dark comedy, Perrier’s Bounty. My Movie Mundo met up with actor CILLIAN MURPHY and producers ALAN MOLONEY...

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  • Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching up 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba until first-time British director ANDREW LANG gained unprecedented access to the Havana Boxing Academy to make his film Sons of Cuba. The hand-picked group of 10-year-old boys who attend the Academy eat, breath, and sleep boxing. Lang’s film...

    Andrew Lang (director-producer) – Sons of Cuba

    Cuba, an isolated island of 11 million people, has dominated the world of Olympic boxing for the past 40 years, notching up 63 medals including 32 gold. Just how this impoverished country achieved such results was unknown outside Cuba until first-time British director ANDREW LANG gained unprecedented access to the Havana Boxing Academy to make his film Sons of Cuba. The hand-picked group of 10-year-old boys who attend the Academy eat, breath, and sleep boxing. Lang’s film...

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  • To mark the 30th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining, film journalist Jan Gilbert chats to JAN HARLAN, Kubrick’s executive producer and brother-in-law. Harlan talks about The Shining’s enduring appeal, its place in popular culture, and his own favourite Kubrick project. MMM: You knew Kubrick very well as both a brother-in-law and a colleague, having worked together for many years producing his films Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide...

    Jan Harlan (producer) – The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, etc

    To mark the 30th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining, film journalist Jan Gilbert chats to JAN HARLAN, Kubrick’s executive producer and brother-in-law. Harlan talks about The Shining’s enduring appeal, its place in popular culture, and his own favourite Kubrick project. MMM: You knew Kubrick very well as both a brother-in-law and a colleague, having worked together for many years producing his films Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide...

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