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  • NBCUniversal And David Heyman To Launch Global Television Production Venture

    NBCUniversal And David Heyman To Launch Global Television Production Venture

    DAVID-HEYMAN[tps_footer] David Heyman, producer of “Harry Potter” and “Gravity”, is forming an innovative joint venture with NBCUniversal International Studios to create Heyday Television. NBCUniversal International Studios President, Michael Edelstein, and David Heyman made the joint announcement.

    The new company will bring together one of the world’s most successful film producers with NBCUniversal International’s development, production and distribution expertise to produce premium television and digital content across all platforms including free-to-air network, cable and SVOD. The deal is designed to provide flexibility for Heyman to create television in both the UK and US. The heads of those divisions will be named shortly. NBCUniversal will distribute content produced by the new company.

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    “David Heyman has created some of the most memorable and successful movies of our time. It is a pleasure to welcome him into the NBCUniversal family. We look forward to helping David bring his passion and creativity to global television audiences for years to come,” said Edelstein.

    Heyday Television starts with a leg-up in the US as the company has received two series commitments from NBC. Bob Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment said, “On behalf of everyone at NBC Entertainment, we’re thrilled to be in business with a visionary film producer like David Heyman who is going to bring his classy sensibility, his sophisticated sense of storytelling, and his extraordinary relationships with great writers and directors to television.”

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    NBCUniversal International Chairman Kevin MacLellan said: “Our goal is to attract the best talent in the world, so we’re extremely excited about this partnership. David is an extraordinary producer and I’m really looking forward to seeing what he creates.”

    The venture reunites Heyman with NBCUniversal International following their earlier collaboration on David Hare’s intelligence thrillers, The Worricker Trilogy, starring Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weiss, Christopher Walken, Helena Bonham Carter and Winona Ryder.

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    Heyman commented: “I am thrilled to be launching Heyday TV in partnership with NBC Universal International and to be working with Bob, Kevin and Michael. I look forward to calling on many of the film relationships I’ve developed over the years – but also to working with many of the brilliant voices already working in television. I’m enormously excited by the opportunities for long form storytelling, and can’t wait to get started in building an ambitious and varied slate of shows which I hope can resonate around the world.”

    Heyman is represented by UTA, Bloom Hergott, and Wiggin.[/tps_footer]

  • REVIEW: ‘Gravity’, Prepare To Be Lost In Space With George Clooney

    REVIEW: ‘Gravity’, Prepare To Be Lost In Space With George Clooney

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    Imagine being lost in space with George Clooney? Many women would happily trade places with Sandra Bullock for that experience but maybe not after watching Gravity.

    Bullock and Clooney are astronauts whose mission turns to disaster when their space station comes in to the line of fire of debris hurtling at mega-speed.

    As Alphonso Cuaron’s audacious, imaginative and cinematically breathtaking film, best seen in Imax 3D states: 600km above the Earth’s surface, with rapidly fluctuating temperatures and an absence of oxygen, life is impossible.

    In this atmosphere, Cuaron tells the story of a woman’s loneliness, of the challenges of living a quiet and isolated life and the pull of gravity that gives us a comforting and unimaginable sense of rootedness.

    This is a film about survival and soul-searching; it’s about forgiveness and realising that while you were the walking dead, when actually given a choice between living and dying (like Bullock’s medical engineer is given), your strength and choices might surprise you.

    Cuaron magnificently creates a world of weightlessness where characters and objects float and gasp for breath; where silence and darkness are claustrophobic; where the sunrise is magical and dangers is frightening close. You feel the painful loneliness and quiet of space.

    Emmanuel Lubezki’s incredible cinematography brings to life Cuaron’s vision.

    There is a beautiful shot of a teardrop floating in space, which stayed with me days after I had seen the film. Though you might fault the dialogues for being a tad cheesy, I wonder if that was deliberately done to alleviate the onscreen tension. The background music is dramatic with swells and dips.

    Bullock is outstanding as Dr. Ryan Stone, conveying a range of emotions and immediately winning the audience to her side. Clooney is charming, even in a brief role as Matt Kowalski where he is mostly inside a space suit. It’s his character that brings lightness to an intense film.

    This is cinema as it should be – pushing the envelope, pushing imagination and technology. So involved do you feel that you are grateful for the ground beneath your feet when your legs feel like jelly at the end. Cuaron, whose filmography is as diverse as Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men and Harry Potter: The Prisoner of Azkaban, may have taken a few creative liberties with his plot, but you can overlook those because he has crafted a thrilling cinematic experience that should not be missed.

    Rating: ****1/2