THE SCAPEGOAT TO AIR ON SUNDAY 9TH SEPTEMBER
31.8.2012
Island Pictures are delighted to announce that The Scapegoat will be shown on ITV1 at 9pm on Sunday 9th September.
We hope you love it.
Click here to view the ITV trailer.
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THE SCAPEGOAT AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER ON DVD
The Scapegoat is now available to pre-order online – a must-have for your DVD collection!
The DVD will be officially released on September 24th, 2012.
Extras include: The Making of The Scapegoat, and interviews with the cast and crew.
Click below to pre-order from Amazon at guaranteed lowest price.
The Scapegoat Special BAFTA/BFI Screening
Advance notice for our mailing list subscribers: your chance to see the film on the big screen!
I S L A N D P I C T U R E S and ITV
present a special screening of
in association with BAFTA and the BFI
Wednesday 5th September 2012
17:50 for a 18:10 sharp screening
** followed by Q & A **
with
Eileen Atkins, writer/director Charles Sturridge and producer Sarah Beardsall, chaired by Sarah Crompton, Arts Editor of the Daily Telegraph
Tickets go on sale on 21 August at 11:30AM.
SERIE SERIES FESTIVAL
26.7.2012
SERIES SERIES FESTIVAL
We were proud to have been part of the new Serie Series festival in Fontainebleau, France, where Island Pictures’ co-founder Dominic Minghella gave a masterclass.
REAL HUMANS, LILYHAMMER, THE BRIDGE… it’s all happening in Europe.
Cannes-tastic
CANNES-TASTIC
30.5.2012
The Island Pictures delegation took Cannes by storm.
(In fact, one cinema literally had its roof blown off. What can we say?)
Island’s international sales agents, Content Film, trailed our film, The Scapegoat, in their viewing room on the Croisette.
DU MAURIER FESTIVAL
10.5.12
DU MAURIER FESTIVAL
Island Pictures were delighted to take Daphne du Maurier’s THE SCAPEGOAT to the author’s home turf of Fowey, Cornwall this week.
The packed house of Daphne-devotees responded wonderfully to this unique opportunity to view the international cinema version of the film in the UK.
Several members of the du Maurier family were in attendance, and her son, Kits Browning, who worked with Island Pictures on behalf of the du Maurier Estate to bring this book to the screen, viewed the film for the first time, declaring himself “genuinely overwhelmed.”
Two of the film’s stars, Alice Orr-Ewing (Frances) and Phoebe Nichols (Charlotte) joined the Q&A panel after the screening, alongside the film’s writer/director Charles Sturridge and producer Sarah Beardsall.
Amongst the many interesting gems to be revealed in the discussion was that Cary Grant agreed to play the main roles in the first film, but Daphne du Maurier insisted on Alec Guinness. There was no such argument over the 2012 version: Matthew Rhys was the man for us. Or do we mean the men for us?
Q&A Panel chaired by Tim Hubbard at the du Maurier Festival 2012
UNIVERSITY OF READING
10.5.12
UNIVERSITY OF READING
The Island Pictures’ trip to the Daphne du Maurier Festival in Cornwall was delayed by a detour to Reading University this week.
Here – with pride, sorrow, pride – we attended the opening of the new (Anthony) Minghella Building for Film, TV and Theatre.
David (Lord) Puttnam, a friend of Anthony’s, did the opening honours. Anthony would have been delighted, embarrassed, delighted.
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
25.4.2012
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Island Pictures will be attending the Cannes Film Festival 2012.
Find us cruising the Croisette and prettifying the Palais 17th – 21st May! *Note new dates*
BBC WRITERS’ ROOM
28.2.12
BBC WRITERS’ ROOM
We’ve been down to Bore Place in Sevenoaks in Kent to talk to a gathering of writers organised by BBC Writers’ Room, on the subject of creating returning characters for radio drama.
Lovely people! Them, not us. Although we are lovely too.
And talented! Them, not us.
We hope those writers flee radio and come and work with us at Island Pictures. Then perhaps, while they toil, we could kick back by the fire in a big house in the country on the BBC’s tab. Us, not them!