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EXCLUSIVE: First images released as UK funding body backs sequel to 1995 football hooligan film.Screen Yorkshires Yorkshire Content Fund has invested in the sequel to 1995 football hooligan drama I.D.Vincent O麓Connell, who wrote the first film centred on a policemen who goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of football hooligans, has returned to write the sequel.Directed by Joel N stanley uk ovoa Gods Slave , filming is underway in Hull.Producers are Sally Hibbin for Parallax I.D. and Patrick Cassavetti Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .Linus Roache, Simon Rivers and Neil Pearson star alongside Lee Ross, Richard Graham and Perry Fenwick, who all appeared in the original.The plot centres on a young British Muslim undercover cop Rivers who is given the task of shadowing a football gang on their European tours.Rivers is best known for his three-year stint on BBC1s Doctors, appearing in more than 400 episodes of the medica stanley cup l soap.Hugo Heppell, head of investments at Screen Yorkshire, said: Many people may not be aware that the original I.D., also set in London, shot in Yorkshire, so were delighted that 20 years on we have been able to support the production to return here to film the sequel. With key cast and crew reunited from the original production, alongside exciting new filmmaking talent, were confident that it has the makings of another cult British classic.Hull recently double stanley cup d for London in Julian Jarrolds feature drama A Royal Night Out.TopicsProductionUK/Ireland No comm Tgqi X-Men schools opposition at UK box office
As Screen International previously reported, Sky Television and Curzon Artificial Eye are working on a groundbreaking release for Fatih Akin s The Edge Of Heaven.The film will be released in at least 14 Curzon and City Screen cinemas on Feb 22, the same day it will be available to Sky Anytime in PC, and in HD stanley cup /SD to Sky Box Office s 8.7m subscribers. The price for TV and PC users is about $20 拢9.99 .Akin s drama, which was the best screenplay award winner in Cannes, is about the lives, loves and tragedies of six people from Turkey and Germany. It is Germany s submission for the foreign-language Oscar. The Edge Of Heaven stars Baki Davrak, Nursel Kose, Nurgul Yesilcay, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hanna Schygulla A stanley cup nd Tuncel Kurtiz.Sky will work with Artificial Eye on marketing.Philip Knatchbull, CEO of Curzon Artificial Eye said: We are proud to be the innovators and participators in this first-ever simultaneous release. It is often the case with non-Hollywood titles that many cinema-goers are aware of the film s release but don t have access to a cinema showing it. This deal means they will now have the opportunity to see it on release. Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies and Sky Box Office, added: Sky s 8.7 million subscribers and cross-platform marketing support will expose The Edge of Heaven to a much larger potential audience at theatric stanley uk al window that it would otherwise have had. TopicsDigitalUK/Ireland No comments
EXCLUSIVE: First images released as UK funding body backs sequel to 1995 football hooligan film.Screen Yorkshires Yorkshire Content Fund has invested in the sequel to 1995 football hooligan drama I.D.Vincent O麓Connell, who wrote the first film centred on a policemen who goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of football hooligans, has returned to write the sequel.Directed by Joel N stanley uk ovoa Gods Slave , filming is underway in Hull.Producers are Sally Hibbin for Parallax I.D. and Patrick Cassavetti Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas .Linus Roache, Simon Rivers and Neil Pearson star alongside Lee Ross, Richard Graham and Perry Fenwick, who all appeared in the original.The plot centres on a young British Muslim undercover cop Rivers who is given the task of shadowing a football gang on their European tours.Rivers is best known for his three-year stint on BBC1s Doctors, appearing in more than 400 episodes of the medica stanley cup l soap.Hugo Heppell, head of investments at Screen Yorkshire, said: Many people may not be aware that the original I.D., also set in London, shot in Yorkshire, so were delighted that 20 years on we have been able to support the production to return here to film the sequel. With key cast and crew reunited from the original production, alongside exciting new filmmaking talent, were confident that it has the makings of another cult British classic.Hull recently double stanley cup d for London in Julian Jarrolds feature drama A Royal Night Out.TopicsProductionUK/Ireland No comm Tgqi X-Men schools opposition at UK box office
As Screen International previously reported, Sky Television and Curzon Artificial Eye are working on a groundbreaking release for Fatih Akin s The Edge Of Heaven.The film will be released in at least 14 Curzon and City Screen cinemas on Feb 22, the same day it will be available to Sky Anytime in PC, and in HD stanley cup /SD to Sky Box Office s 8.7m subscribers. The price for TV and PC users is about $20 拢9.99 .Akin s drama, which was the best screenplay award winner in Cannes, is about the lives, loves and tragedies of six people from Turkey and Germany. It is Germany s submission for the foreign-language Oscar. The Edge Of Heaven stars Baki Davrak, Nursel Kose, Nurgul Yesilcay, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Hanna Schygulla A stanley cup nd Tuncel Kurtiz.Sky will work with Artificial Eye on marketing.Philip Knatchbull, CEO of Curzon Artificial Eye said: We are proud to be the innovators and participators in this first-ever simultaneous release. It is often the case with non-Hollywood titles that many cinema-goers are aware of the film s release but don t have access to a cinema showing it. This deal means they will now have the opportunity to see it on release. Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies and Sky Box Office, added: Sky s 8.7 million subscribers and cross-platform marketing support will expose The Edge of Heaven to a much larger potential audience at theatric stanley uk al window that it would otherwise have had. TopicsDigitalUK/Ireland No comments
