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Tessa Ross To Receive BAFTA’s Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema Award

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday January 29, 2013 @ 12:46am PSTTags: BAFTA Awards, Channel 4, Tessa Ross

Channel 4 film and drama controller Tessa Ross heads up Film4, the feature division of the network that’s given a boost to such filmmakers as Stephen Daldry, Steve McQueen, Paddy Considine, Martin McDonagh and Richard Ayoade. Sometimes referred to as the “Mother of British filmmaking,” her recent exec producer credits include Seven Psycopaths, The Iron Lady and Shame. She’ll receive the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the BAFTA Film Awards ceremony on February 10. Among Film4′s upcoming productions are Danny Boyle’s Trance, Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man, Ayoade’s The Double, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look Of Love and Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now. On the TV side, such series as Shameless, White Teeth and The Devil’s Whore have been commissioned during her tenure. Earlier in her career, Ross worked at the BBC and was a British Film Institute governor.

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Woody Harrelson Joins Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 1:12pm PSTTags: Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Mickey Rourke, Olga Kurylenko, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Tessa Ross, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko have joined Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths. Directed and scripted by In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh, the film began production this week in Los Angeles. CBS Films is … Read More »

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No ‘Expendables’ Sequel For Mickey Rourke; He’s In Talks For Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 9:51am PDTTags: Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Henry Cavill, Martin McDonagh, Mickey Rourke, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Sylvester Stallone, Tarsem Singh, Tessa Ross
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rourke is negotiating to star with Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths, the next film by In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh. That means Rourke will not be reprising his role in the Simon West-directed … Read More »

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CBS Films In Deal For Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’ With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell And Chris Walken

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 11:39am PDTTags: Amy Baer, CBS Films, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Scott Shooman, Tessa Ross, Wolfgang Hammer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films is negotiating to co-finance Seven Psychopaths, the next film by In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh. CBS Films will distribute the film in the United States. The film reunites McDonagh with his In Bruges star Colin Farrell, who … Read More »

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