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Danny Boyle Honored At London Festival

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday October 27, 2010 @ 2:31pm PDTTags: 127 Hours, 54th BFI London Film Festival, 54th BFI London Film Festival Awards, Clio Barnard, Danny Boyle, Danny Boyle BFI Fellowship, Director Stephen Daldry, Martin Scorsese, Movies

The director, whose 127 Hours is closing the festival, was presented with a BFI Fellowship at tonight’s awards ceremony by fellow director Stephen Daldry. Also on hand was Martin Scorsese, who paid tribute to the BFI National Archive. As for the winners, jury president Patricia Clarkson presented director Alexei Popogrebsky the Best Film award for the isolation-themed How I Ended This Summer. Andy Serkis presented the Best British Newcomer award to Clio Barnard, director of The Arbor, about playwright Andrea Dunbar. And Barnard also won this year’s Sutherland Award for most original and imaginative feature debut, presented by jurors Michael Winterbottom and Olivia Williams. Armadillo won Best Documentary. Other guests at the ceremony, held at LSO St. Luke’s, home of the London Symphony Orchestra, included ex-BBC Director General Greg Dyke and screenwriter Tony Grisoni.

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Warner Bros and Paramount In Tandem On ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Sunday August 22, 2010 @ 2:01pm PDTTags: Director Stephen Daldry, Eric Roth, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Paramount, Sandra Bullock, Scott Rudin, Tom Hanks, Warner Bros
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Warner Bros and Paramount are getting closer on a co-production of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the Eric Roth-scripted adaptation of the Jonathan Safran Foer novel that director Stephen Daldry and producer Scott Rudin have been working on for … Read More »

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‘Bridget Jones’ Musical Gets Underway

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 4:01am PDTTags: Director Stephen Daldry, London, Theater

Lily_AllenLily Allen is writing some of the songs for the new Bridget Jones stage musical, which has staged its first workshop reading. I’m told this was a rough assembly of Helen Fielding’s script and some songs with the Billy Elliot creative team — director Stephen Daldry, choreographer Peter Darling and associate director Julian Webber. Producer Working Title plans to bring the show to London’s West End next year. They’ll be crossing fingers Bridget Jones replicates the success of Billy Elliot, which has been seen by 4.5 million people worldwide and won 10 Tony awards, including Best Musical. Read More »

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