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:: Song for a Raggy Boy Against the wishes of the Bishop, Father Damian (Alan Devlin), the principal of St. Jude’s Reformatory School, appoints William Franklin (Aidan Quinn) the only lay teacher among a staff of Catholic Brothers.Franklin’s teaching methods are diametrically opposed to those of the Brothers, who resort to verbal and physical abuse. […]

:: Twist A gay re-telling of Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist. Updated to current times, moved out of the poor house and onto the streets, the tale is told from the point of Dickens’ character, Artful Dodger–now Dodge. The prosaically beautiful Oliver falls into the hands of down-and-out young men. Dodge takes the young man […]

8 November, 2007 LONDON, 8th November, 2007 – Greg Phillips, President of Fireworks International, the television distribution arm of ContentFilm Plc, announced today that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has confirmed Fireworks International’s continued representation of the international distribution rights outside of the United States (world excluding Australia, New Zealand, Canada, China and […]

:: Trumbo By his early 40s, Dalton Trumbo was by no means a model American citizen. Regardless of his private political beliefs, as a devoted husband and father as well as a highly accomplished writer, he was enjoying a great life. However, the 1940s was a time of deep paranoia in the United States. Joseph […]

:: Heart of Courage Life is dangerous. It doesn’t stop being that way. That’s why we need our everyday, real heroes – the ones who we don’t know about until they help us in some extraordinary way. ‘Heart of Courage’ embraces two substantial differences from existing reality-based programming. The series focuses on ordinary people – […]

:: It’s a Wonderful Life George Bailey has spent his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback. But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil […]

:: Lighthouse A disparate group of prisoners are being transported by ship to a remote island prison. Among them is mass killer Leo Rook who audaciously escapes during a fierce storm and flees to a lighthouse on an isolated rocky outcrop. When the ship hits rocks and sinks, a bedraggled bunch of survivors struggles ashore […]

8 September, 2007 By Wendy Mitchell in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Liebesman previously directed 2006 hit The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Chloe Sevigny is attached to star and further casting will be announced soon. Manbreak is about four people who sign up for a psychology research study but discover they are actually subjects in […]

26 July, 2007 By Sheri Jennings in Rome Source: Screen Daily OPENING FILM Atonement (Joe Wright, US-UK) COMPETITION The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, US) Sleuth (Kenneth Branagh, UK-US) Heya Fawda (Youssef Chahine, Egypt) Redacted (Brian De Palma, US) The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, US) Nessuana Qualita Agli Eroi […]