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Exclusive: Christopher Eccleston and Madeleine Madden will lead the cast of Stephen Burke’s heist comedy Chasing Millions, for which LevelK has acquired world sales rights and will launch at next week’s Cannes market.

The film is loosely based on the largest bank robbery in British and Irish history, which took place in December 2004 in Belfast. It will begin shooting on June 2 in Dublin and Dundalk, Ireland.

The story will follow Diana, an Australian police detective, who is investigating the robbery of the Northern Bank while on a family visit; and is paired with Crayford, a seasoned Northern Irish detective.

Jonathan Kent’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris will make its world premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival as the full line-up is confirmed.

Adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer-winning play, the film marks Kent’s directorial debut and also stars Ben Foster. Filming took place in County Wicklow before wrapping in 2022 and facing several delays.

Both Lange and Harris will attend the festival where they will be honoured with the Volta Award, which recognises filmmakers and actors who have had an “extraordinary impact” on world cinema.

The festival will open with...

Gwen Stefani is preparing to rock the stage with her former rock band, No Doubt.

While Gwen graced the stage with a recent appearance at her husband Blake Shelton’s concert, she’s also reuniting with her band at a huge event.

The group will be among the highly-anticipated artists who perform at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California.

The singer shared a first-look photo from rehearsal as she took a selfie in front of a drumset featuring the band’s name and flames.

In the shot, Gwen has her hair in a ponytail. She wears a plaid shirt over black and white undershirts and dark tights.

The former Voice coach didn’t share any additional comments with the image, which she shared on her Instagram Story.

Screenshot shared by Gwen Stefani at rehearsal for Coachella. Pic credit: @gwenstefani/Instagram Gwen Stefani and No Doubt...

Production will wrap this week in Dublin on Fran The Man, a feature adaptation of football mockumentary series Fran.

Darragh Humphreys reprises his role as Fran Costello, assistant manager of Irish football minnows St Peter’s Celtic, who are drawn to play titans Shamrock Rovers in the first round of the Football Association of Ireland Cup. Costello must work undercover to save the beautiful game from match-fixing.

Father Ted star Ardal O’Hanlon leads the new cast members, alongside Amy Huberman, Risteard Cooper, Toni O’Rourke and Deidre O’Kane. Screen can reveal a first look at the film, above. Production began on...

Two-day event runs September 10-11 in association with TIFF.

New Zealand producers Emma Slade and Victoria Dabbs of Firefly Films and Canadian partner Michelle Morris of Lily Pictures are among 40 producer teams set to participate in Ontario Creates’ 2023 International Financing Forum (Iff) running September 10-11 in Toronto.

The two-day feature film co-financing and co-production market, in association with TIFF and now in its 18th year, is a hybrid event. There will be in-person one-on-one producer and executive meetings, an industry panel discussion with Ontario and international producers, networking opportunities, and online international meetings.

Selected producers will get the chance to...

31 films and 2 series are heading to Shudder in August, including African zombie movie The Dead, Lucky McKee's All Cheerleaders Die, and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness:

August 1

Boy Eats Girl (2005, Stephen Bradley) A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his appetite for his beloved.

The Dead (2010, Howard J. Ford, Jon Ford) When his plane crashes, a U.S. Navy officer (Rob Freeman) must trek through an African landscape where zombies roam.

The Dead 2: India (2013, Howard J. Ford, Jon Ford) As a zombie plague spreads across India, an American turbine engineer battles his way back to Mumbai to rescue his pregnant lover.

In the Mouth of Madness (1994, John Carpenter) An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror...

A decade after Gwen Stefani's last Saturday Night Live visit – and nearly 20 years after No Doubt made their SNL debut – the ageless singer returned to 30 Rock to perform a pair of singles off her new solo LP This Is What the Truth Feels Like.

For her opening performance, Stefani delivered the bouncy "Make Me Like You" backed by a band that included longtime No Doubt multi-instrumentalists Gabrial McNair and Stephen Bradley. Later in the episode, Stefani brought "Misery," This Is What the Truth Feels Like's opening track and latest single,...

International awards won by Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore.

Tomm Moore animation Song Of The Sea has been named Best Film at the 12th Ifta Awards for Film and Drama in Dublin.

The film about a little girl who can turn into a seal was Oscar nominated earlier this year, missing out to Big Hero 6.

But the Irish Film and Television Academy chose it above nominees Frank, Glassland, I Used To Live Here, Noble and Patrick’s Day.

Comedy Frank, starring Michael Fassbender, won three awards including best director for Lenny Abrahamson, best supporting actor for Domhnall Gleeson and best director of photography for James Mather.

Family drama Patrick’s Day also scored a hat-trick, winning best actor for Moe Dunford, best script for writer-director Terry McMahon and best sound.

Biopic Noble, directed by Stephen Bradley, won best actress for Deirdre O’Kane and best supporting actress for Sarah Greene, who was also...

Other nominees include Glassland, I Used To Live Here, Noble and Song of the Sea.Scroll down for full list of nominations

The Irish Film & Television Academy has announced the nominees for the Ifta Film and Drama Awards, set to take place on May 24 at Dublin’s Mansion House.

Lenny Abrahamson’s music comedy Frank and Terry McMahon’s girtty drama Patrick’s Day lead the pack with nine nominations each.

Gerard Barrett drama Glassland, which played at Sundance in January, follows with six nominations.

Films with three nominations apiece include Frank Berry’s I Used To Live Here, Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation Song of the Sea, and Stephen Bradley’s biopic Noble.

In the best actor cateogy, Patrick’s Day’s Moe Dunford will go head to head with A-listers Colin Farrell (Miss Julie) and Michael Fassbender (Frank) as well as Transformers star Jack Reynor (Glassland).

As previously announced, the annual...

Fledgling La-based distributor Aspiration Media has made its first buy, taking Ur rights from Continental Media to Noble. In a separate development, Image has acquired Us rights to fantasy Afm title Digging Up The Marrow.

Stephen Bradley’s drama stars Deirdre O’Kane as Christina Noble, the Irishwoman who overcame a harsh childhood to start a charity in aid of street children in Vietnam and Mongolia.

Sarah Greene, Brendan Coyle and Liam Cunningham also star in the UK-Ireland film produced by Bradley and Melanie Gore-Grimes. Michael J Hunt served as executive producer through his company Ansty Productions.

Aspiration Media plans a spring 2015 release.

Noble won The Panavision Spirit Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, audience awards at San Diego Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival and the best feature and special jury prize at the Boston Irish Film Festival.

“The aspirational audience is growing more significant in size...

New indie film distributor Aspiration Media has acquired Stephen Bradley’s Noble starring Deirdre O’Kane, Sarah Greene, Brendan Coyle, and Liam Cunningham. A spring 2015 release is planned for the faith-based pic, a true-life story about a humanitarian and author who channels her deprived and destitute childhood growing up on the streets of Dublin into a lifelong mission to help children in need in Vietnam and Mongolia.

Day Two at the Port Townsend Film Festival heralded the arrival of legendary independent filmmaker, John Sayles. Screening his Academy Award-nominated film, Lone Star, Sayles comes armed with many stories of horror and inspiration from the indie frontlines. He notes that current “filmmaking has democratized incredibly,” becoming a land of opportunity for young (read: resource poor) filmmakers.

Several features made their debut, including, Noble, the real-life story of the slightly-crazy, Christina Noble. Writer-director, Stephen Bradley, gives us a fictionalized account of Noble’s courageous quest to help the street children of Vietnam. Also premiering was director, Yorgos Tsemberopoulos’ troubling meditation on vengeance, The Enemy Within. Incorporating current social themes in Athens, Greece, this film asks that age-old cinematic question, “How far would you go to protect your home and family?”

Part history lesson, part Ecology 101, Return of the River is an uplifting documentary about how hope and perseverance can sometimes undo past wrongdoings.

From a rough childhood growing up in Dublin, Christina Noble true calling in life came in 1989, when she travelled to Vietnam to care for the country's abused children, leading her to set up the Christina Noble Children's Foundation. To this day, she is a noted children's rights campaigner and charity worker. All this is explored in Noble, with Cramer Curtis, Sarah Greene, and, most prominently, Deidre O'Kane playing her at the key stages of her life. Switching back and forth between her childhood, which brings in the three pillars of patented Irish misery on film (a drunken father, poverty, and the nuns) but thankfully doesn't hammer you over the head with it (well, not too much), and her ongoing quest to help the poor and sick children of Vietnam, you cotton onto the movies narrative structure pretty early on, each flashback treated as almost an episode to punctuate or elaborate what has come before it.

Exclusive: La-based sales company founders James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder head to the Croisette with a slate that includes drama Noble and dark comedy Friended To Death.

Noble stars Deirdre O’Kane, Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham and Sarah Greene in the story of philanthropist Christina Noble, who rose from humble origins to establish a charity in Saigon helping street children.

The film won the Panavision Grand Prize award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival earlier in the year and recently scooped the audience award at the Dallas International Film Festival.

Stephen Bradley directed the UK-Ireland co-production and Melanie Gore-Grimes produced. Michael J Hunt served as executive producer. Market screenings are May 18 and 20.

Continental Media’s dark comedy Friended To Death centres on a parking attendant who fakes his own demise in a bid to prove his Facebook popularity after he learns he is widely despised around the city where he works.

Sarah Smick directed...

Exclusive: La-based sales company founders James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder head to the Croisette with a slate that includes drama Noble and dark comedy Friended To Death.

Noble stars Deirdre O’Kane, Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham and Sarah Greene in the story of philanthropist Christina Noble, who rose from humble origins to establish a charity in Saigon helping street children.

The film won the Panavision Grand Prize award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival earlier in the year and recently scooped the audience award at the Dallas International Film Festival.

Stephen Bradley directed the UK-Ireland co-production and Melanie Gore-Grimes produced. Michael J Hunt served as executive producer. Market screenings are May 18 and 20.

Continental Media’s dark comedy Friended To Death centres on a parking attendant who fakes his own demise in a bid to prove his Facebook popularity after he learns he is widely despised around the city where he works.

Sarah Smick directed...

Exclusive: James Andrew Felts and Matthew Shreder’s Continental Media has secured world sales rights to Noble, winner of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema later today 8)

Stephen Bradley wrote and directed the UK-Ireland production about Christina Noble, the Irishwoman who overcame a harsh childhood to start a charity in aid of street children in Vietnam and Mongolia.

Deirdre O’Kane, Brendan Coyle of Downton Abbey, Liam Cunningham of Game Of Thrones, Ruth Negga and Sarah Greene star.

Melanie Gore-Grimes produced and Michael J Hunt served as executive producer through his private equity company Ansty Productions.

“The powerful story of Christina Noble’s life noticeably struck the entire theatre during all the screenings at [Santa Barbara], which truly validated Noble as a gem for us,” said Felts.

“To see Noble resonate so strongly and rapidly with audiences at Sbiff has been incredibly rewarding,” said Bradley. “I now look...

Divergent

Jeremy Irvine ("War Horse"), Lucas Till ("X-Men: First Class") and Alex Pettyfer ("Magic Mike") will test for the male lead opposite Shailene Woodley in "Divergent" at Summit Entertainment.

Neil Burger helms this adaptation of Veronica Roth's young-adult novel, the story has a futuristic setting and follows 16-year-old Beatrice Prior, who Woodley is set to play. [Source: Variety]

Inherent Vice

Charlize Theron and Robert Downey Jr. are said to be circling Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film, the adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel "Inherent Vice." Megan Ellison is producing. [Source: Showbiz 411]

Noble

Deirdre O'Kane ("Intermission") is set to star in Stephen Bradley's British biopic "Noble" at Destiny Films. Production began this week in Vietnam.

The story follows the life of Christina Noble, an Irish woman who overcomes a harsh childhood to help street children and their families in Vietnam and Mongolia. Brendan Coyle, Liam Cunningham, Ruth Negga, Nhu Quynh Nguyen and Sarah Greene also star.

"I want to see every person here jumping with me tonight," superstar Gwen Stefani shouted out at her first No Doubt show in three years.

And the fans who'd crammed into the La Maison de la Mutalite in Paris on Tuesday night for the exclusive private showcase were more than happy to oblige.

Gwen Stefani was on top form with her band No Doubt, on stage in Paris

The legendary California ska-punk group, who've sold more than 22 million albums and picked up four Grammys, have at last reformed after going their separate ways in 2004.

Since then, Stefani has released two solo albums, becoming a massive star in her own right. But on Tuesday evening, it was clear she was happy to be back with her guys, as she jumped around the stage in her trademark high-energy, tomboyish way.

Stylistically speaking, the band have evidently picked up where they left off,...

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at an event held at Gwen Stefani's Beverly Hills home on Sunday, gearing her speech towards America's youth.

"Barack can't do it alone. He's not Spider-Man. He's not a superhero. He's a human, so we need your help," Mrs. Obama said, wearing a sleeveless navy dress and flat sandals. "I am not just talking to the adults here today. I am talking to the young people here as well."

Related: Michelle Obama Fantasizes of Being Beyonce

The gala, billed as a "Sunday of Fun," was held to benefit the Obama Victory Fund. Guests donated at least $2,500 for a family of four.

"All of our young people -- you might not be old enough to vote. You vote at school, I know -- I met several young people who are going to be voting for my husband, who are 10 and under -- we accept those votes," she said, to...

Here are a few things we realized after watching No Doubt's newly released video for their pop-ska single "Settle Down": We really want to party with No Doubt, frontwoman Gwen Stefani hasn't aged in over a decade and driving a big-rig looks hella fun.

But the dancehall trucker party is much more symbolic than it looks. "They're driving to meet after having had their separate lives over the last 10 years," director Sophie Muller told Rolling Stone.

The reunion that happens a minute and a half in is particularly memorable, as Stefani, Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal and Adrian Young -- together with their touring trumpeter Stephen Bradley and trombonist Gabrial McNair -- are happily reunited. It's a heartwarming moment that will make even the toughest rockers get a little verklempt.

"Settle Down," which premiered Monday morning, has a slight reggae feel -- harking back to the band's SoCal roots --...

Cillian Murphy is set to star in the new Irish directed thriller, ‘Wayfaring Strangers’. Irish director Stephen Bradley will lead the flick which tells the story of a group of British paratroopers captured by German soldiers in a remote farmhouse. Set during the Second World War, while the German soldiers decide t settled in the farmhouse with their captives, unbeknownst to them, a Jewish couple is hiding in the attic. Variety reports that Michael Gambon is also in negotiations to star in the film. The €4 million-budgeted period thriller is a French-Irish co-production and will be produced by Chic Films and Ireland’s Treasure Entertainment. --------------------------------- Read More: Rea Hollywood golden boy Cillian Murphy talks about 'Inception' Cillian Murphy goes drag in 'Peacock' Cillian Murphy to star with Robert De Niro and Sigourney Weaver in ‘Red Light’ ---------------------------------...

Cillian Murphy ("28 Days Later," "Batman Begins") is in advanced negotiations to join the WWII psychological drama-thriller "Wayfaring Strangers" for Chic Films and Treasure Entertainment reports Variety.

The $5 million story follows a unit of British paratroopers captured by German soldiers in a remote farmhouse, where a young Jewish couple is hiding. Sylvie Testud, Niels Arestrup and Michael Gambon are in advanced negotiations to star.

Stephen Bradley ("Boy Eats Girl") penned the script and will direct with shooting to kick off in mid-August.

Brad Womack, aka Stephen Bradley Womack, aka Stephen Bradley Pickelsimer (the name of his stepfather) said that his teenage arrests were "missteps" that "have been blown out of proportion." Tabloids revealed that Brad was arrested for such things as public intoxication, using a bad check, and forging a driver's license. "I'm sure I wouldn't be the first to admit that I had a couple of missteps when I was a teenager -- some 20 odd...

The "Bachelor" Brad Womack isn't quite a catch as the ABC producers would like audience to think. The 38-year-old Texas bar owner, who returns for his second season on the dating show, has a criminal past from way back in 1993.

According to the court records obtained by E! News, Womack was arrested in his home state for forging a driver's license. The arrest record may have escaped the alphabet network's background check because Womack was using his birth name, Stephen Bradley Pickelsimer, then.

He was ordered to 180 days of probation for the felony forgery/counterfeiting charge. But his rap sheet doesn't end there. He was also arrested for public intoxication and for passing a bad check.

Star magazine first reported the story.

Bachelorettes, beware: Brad Womack hasn't just broken hearts, but he's broken the law, too. E! News has learned that the bar owner, who's back for another go-round on the new season of ABC's The Bachelor, has a rap sheet. So much for background checks! Per court records obtained by E! News, the 38-year-old Womack was busted way back in 1993 in his home state of Texas for forging a driver's license.  Womack's past may have escaped network scrutiny because Mr. Handsome's rap sheet lists his birth name, Stephen Bradley Pickelsimer, and not the surname he's since taken. Along with the felony forgery/counterfeiting charge which nabbed Womack 180 days of...

Call it a recycle, Stephen Bradley Womack is back as "The Bachelor" in season 15. Womack, whose participation was announced during Monday, September 27 episode of "Dancing with the Stars", was the first contestant in the "Bachelor" history to pick no one at the finale. His rejectees include DeAnna Pappas who eventually mend the lost on "The Bachelorette".

Womack's decision back in 2007 to break two hearts at the same time sent rage into the show's fans to the point that he went out of sight for a few years on. He only resurfaced this summer when he made amends on "20/20" to Pappas who is set to marry Stephen Stagliano next spring.

Representing ABC to explain why they want to give the most hated bachelor another shot, host Chris Harrison told People, "At first I was skeptical. But the more I thought about it, the more I fell in love with the idea of him coming back,...

Bauer Griffin The nose knows! Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale gets up close and personal with No Doubt trumpeter/keyboardist Stephen Bradley while Gwen Stefani looks on as the trio waits to board a flight on Sunday.

The band was off to Hawaii for the last set of No Doubt tour dates and plan to stay in the state for a little rest and relaxation the remainder of the week.

Zuma, who will celebrate his first birthday next week, was looking extra cute in his “Born to Rock” bib — check it out in the extended post.

A second photo is below.

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