Sunday, February 12, 2017
Monday, January 30, 2017
Distribution
The Weinstein Company(United States)
Lionsgate (United Kingdom)
StudioCanal Germany
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group
Mars Distribution
Vértigo Films
BIM Distribuzione
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein. During Harvey and Bob’s tenure at Miramax and TWC, they have received 341 Oscar nominations and won 81 Academy Awards. The Weinstein Co. went back into business with John Carney, paying an estimated $3 million for U.S. rights to the Irish filmmaker's next movie, Sing Street.
The Weinstein Co. is already distributing Carney's movie "Begin Again," which opens June 27 and stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine.
Harvey:
No one captures this story more perfectly or with such honesty than director John Carney in his most recent film Sing Street. Music is the fabric of Carney’s films. First with his incredible film Once, which went on to win an Oscar for best song and became a Broadway hit winning eight Tony Awards, and then again Carney captured the spirit of New York City through film and music in Begin Again. With Sing Street he sums up the dream of a boy, his band, and the girl with warmth, humor, charm and all the awkwardness of being a teenager. Not since John Hughes has this been done so well on screen. I ran to see Pretty In Pink when it came out in the ’80s. I’m sure most people think I only watched John Ford and François Truffaut films, but John Hughes captured the ’80s generation. Molly Ringwald was that girl every boy picked up a guitar or microphone to impress. Lucy Boynton fills Molly’s shoes perfectly in Sing Street. Just as he did with Once and Begin Again, Carney creates magic and triumph — two things that we can all use in these times. Ask anybody who’s seen it, they’ll agree what a terrific movie this is.
LionsGate UK
On October 17, 2005, Lionsgate acquired UK company Redbus Film Distribution for $35 million and became Lionsgate UK on February 23, 2006.
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group is a production and distribution of Swiss film company, founded in 1928 1 , based in Zurich and chaired by Erwin C. Dietrich 2 .
The production part was founded in 1952 3 , as the Elite Filmproduktion AG .
In 2005, Ascot Elite was in the first place independent distributors in Switzerland.
Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Distribution company founded in 2002 by Allan Niblo and James Richardson. The company’s mission is to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema and since inception it has produced 28 films and distributed a further 35.
The Films span a range of genres and audience taste and include the box office smash hit Streetdance 3D, the biggest independent UK DVD, smash hit family film Horrid Henry The Movie, audience favourite The Sweeney etc.
In 2013 Vertigo has eight films in production including Pudsey The Movie – a co-production with Simon Cowell’s company Syco, Walking on Sunshine – a feel good musical in partnership with IM Global and Monsters:The Dark Continent from hot new director Tom Green.
BIM Distribuzione Srl is a company distributing the film Italian based in Rome.
Lionsgate (United Kingdom)
StudioCanal Germany
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group
Mars Distribution
Vértigo Films
BIM Distribuzione
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is a multimedia production and distribution company launched in October 2005 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, the brothers who founded Miramax Films in 1979. TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein. During Harvey and Bob’s tenure at Miramax and TWC, they have received 341 Oscar nominations and won 81 Academy Awards. The Weinstein Co. went back into business with John Carney, paying an estimated $3 million for U.S. rights to the Irish filmmaker's next movie, Sing Street.
The Weinstein Co. is already distributing Carney's movie "Begin Again," which opens June 27 and stars Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo and Adam Levine.
Harvey:
No one captures this story more perfectly or with such honesty than director John Carney in his most recent film Sing Street. Music is the fabric of Carney’s films. First with his incredible film Once, which went on to win an Oscar for best song and became a Broadway hit winning eight Tony Awards, and then again Carney captured the spirit of New York City through film and music in Begin Again. With Sing Street he sums up the dream of a boy, his band, and the girl with warmth, humor, charm and all the awkwardness of being a teenager. Not since John Hughes has this been done so well on screen. I ran to see Pretty In Pink when it came out in the ’80s. I’m sure most people think I only watched John Ford and François Truffaut films, but John Hughes captured the ’80s generation. Molly Ringwald was that girl every boy picked up a guitar or microphone to impress. Lucy Boynton fills Molly’s shoes perfectly in Sing Street. Just as he did with Once and Begin Again, Carney creates magic and triumph — two things that we can all use in these times. Ask anybody who’s seen it, they’ll agree what a terrific movie this is.
So many musicians have fallen in love with the film, from Bono who said, “In truth, most films won’t touch Sing Street’s portrayal of awakening,” to Jay Z and Usher – all loved it. So even though my band never got a record deal, I can’t help but wish that I hung on to that guitar…but I think my mother Miriam would still give me a healthy dose of reality.
LionsGate UK
On October 17, 2005, Lionsgate acquired UK company Redbus Film Distribution for $35 million and became Lionsgate UK on February 23, 2006.
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group is a production and distribution of Swiss film company, founded in 1928 1 , based in Zurich and chaired by Erwin C. Dietrich 2 .
The production part was founded in 1952 3 , as the Elite Filmproduktion AG .
In 2005, Ascot Elite was in the first place independent distributors in Switzerland.
Vertigo Films is a UK Film and Distribution company founded in 2002 by Allan Niblo and James Richardson. The company’s mission is to create and distribute commercially driven independent cinema and since inception it has produced 28 films and distributed a further 35.
The Films span a range of genres and audience taste and include the box office smash hit Streetdance 3D, the biggest independent UK DVD, smash hit family film Horrid Henry The Movie, audience favourite The Sweeney etc.
In 2013 Vertigo has eight films in production including Pudsey The Movie – a co-production with Simon Cowell’s company Syco, Walking on Sunshine – a feel good musical in partnership with IM Global and Monsters:The Dark Continent from hot new director Tom Green.
BIM Distribuzione Srl is a company distributing the film Italian based in Rome.
Marketing
The Posters
The first poster is kind of great and showed up around the time of the film’s debut at Sundance. We see the two leads in a very pop art kind of style, with the tagline laying out the story with “Boy meets girl. Girl unimpressed. Boy starts band.” The whole look and feel of the poster is just great since it works well at evoking the 1980’s setting of the film. For those in the know, Carney’s previous credits are listed here as well.
The Trailers
The first trailer sets up the basic idea of the movie pretty well. We meet Conor just as his parents are transferring him to a Catholic school where, predictably, he has trouble fitting in. When he sees Raphina across the street one day he does what any boy trying to impress a girl does: Lie. In this case he tells her he’s in a band. So to give truth to the lie he enlists his friends to actually form a band. The rest of the trailer shows them all rehearsing, him getting advice from his older brother on how to be cool and what music to like, him continuing to try and woo Raphina and more.
It’s a charming, fun trailer that very much looks like the kind of thing you’d expect from the director of Once and Begin Again, both of which are name-dropped in the trailer. This kind of thing lives or dies on how much audiences connect with the main character, but that doesn’t look like it will be a problem here.
Online and Social
Near as I can tell the only online presence for the movie was a Facebook page that shared trailers, clips and more. There were occasional GIFs of Madonna, Duran Duran and other 80s music icons that were shared to try and set the mood for the movie. That helps to flesh out the page since most of what’s shared is purely promotional, so those GIFs are the only thing that breaks up the content mix at all.
Advertising and Cross-Promotions
The TV ad campaign kicked off with a spot that debuted on St. Patrick’s Day and which laid out the story of how Conor wants to start a band to impress a girl in a nice concise manner as it also gave us Carney’s bonafides as a director.
Media and Publicity
Unsurprisingly, Carney has a big part of the publicity push, with stories like this that allowed him to talk about how his own experiences inspired the movie’s story.
Other than that most of the press coverage came as the result of the release of marketing materials and clips. With no big stars and no recognizable names other than Carney’s that’s not terribly surprising.
Overall A new John Carney movie should be greeted with major press push that talks about not only his impact with his previous movies but the latest round of up-and-coming stars he’s working with and more. The press should be frothing at the mouth for this. While yes, many online commentators are certainly anxiously awaiting it and singing its praises from festival appearances, I still feel as though the campaign here is way too subdued.
But what is here is good. The campaign certainly conveys the same attitude as Once, even if the details are different. It’s a coming of age story, something that always plays well with certain audiences, and so the marketing should resonate with them. It’s selling a movie that, like its main character, loves music and what it can do, particularly how it can affect the relationships around us. It’s sweet, it’s personal and it’s got a soundtrack that those of us of a certain age will relate to at the very least.
Friday, January 27, 2017
Release Dates
USA 24 January 2016 (Sundance Film Festival)
Ireland 18 February 2016 (Dublin Film Festival)
USA 11 March 2016 (South by Southwest Film Festival)
Ireland 17 March 2016
USA 15 April 2016 (Nashville Film Festival)
USA 15 April 2016 (limited)
Canada 22 April 2016 (Toronto)
UK 20 May 2016
South Korea 25 May 2016
Germany 26 May 2016
Hong Kong 9 June 2016
Israel 16 June 2016
Portugal 16 June 2016
Taiwan 17 June 2016
Australia 18 June 2016 (Sydney Film Festival)
Thailand 30 June 2016
Japan 9 July 2016
Singapore 28 July 2016
Bosnia and Herzegovina 15 August 2016 (Sarajevo Film Festival)
Hungary 18 August 2016
Greece 1 September 2016
France 6 September 2016 (Deauville Film Festival)
Philippines 14 September 2016
Finland 16 September 2016 (Helsinki International Film Festival)
Mexico 23 September 2016
Spain 30 September 2016
France 26 October 2016
Sweden 7 November 2016 (DVD premiere)
Italy 9 November 2016
Republic of Macedonia 12 November 2016 (Cinedays Film Festival)
Netherlands 17 November 2016
Argentina 18 November 2016 (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Music
Writer/director John Carney wanted to find a songwriter early on in the development process
to enable him to bring an authentic but accessible 80s sensibility to the songs he wanted the
band to play. One such songwriter Carney had considered was Gary Clark.
Carney and Clark worked for a solid month before filming, recording the tracks with a studio
band comprised of some of Ireland’s top session musicians. Ironically, because the band in the film has to begin learning to play as a band without the competence of a well-rehearsed
ensemble, the musicians were encouraged to play badly.
For Carney’s Director of Photography Yaron Orbach, the trick was how to incorporate the
musical elements into the narrative and shoot it seamlessly so that the audience was saved the awkward jump from dialogue to singing and music.
For the younger members of the cast, it was an education in historical pop music. Carney
would show the boys videos from the 80s to inform them of the way in which the bands moved on stage and on screen.
to enable him to bring an authentic but accessible 80s sensibility to the songs he wanted the
band to play. One such songwriter Carney had considered was Gary Clark.
Carney and Clark worked for a solid month before filming, recording the tracks with a studio
band comprised of some of Ireland’s top session musicians. Ironically, because the band in the film has to begin learning to play as a band without the competence of a well-rehearsed
ensemble, the musicians were encouraged to play badly.
For Carney’s Director of Photography Yaron Orbach, the trick was how to incorporate the
musical elements into the narrative and shoot it seamlessly so that the audience was saved the awkward jump from dialogue to singing and music.
For the younger members of the cast, it was an education in historical pop music. Carney
would show the boys videos from the 80s to inform them of the way in which the bands moved on stage and on screen.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Location
Locations
Synge Street CBS, Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland
(School exteriors)
Dalkey Island, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
(Location)
The production chose to seek out locations in and around Dublin rather than look to do
extensive builds of interiors in studios. In particular, the buildings of the Synge Street School,
in the eighth district of the city spanning the Liffey (which still operates as a state-run Christian Brothers School) is not much changed since Carney’s days there.
“I would say 50 percent of my job is getting the locations right,” says MacDonald. “If they tell a truth, to me as a designer and as a writer-director, you’re half way there. I had a great
Locations Manager, Eoin Holohan, with whom I worked. I really pushed him because I knew
that there would be locations that were remnants of the 80s in this town.
“For example, Eamon’s house is a good one. As a basis, it had the remnants in a few rooms of insane carpets and wallpapers, which immediately gives you a foundation on which to build.”
The crew shot extensively in the high-walled yards of Synge Street School using the geography of the exteriors to highlight the inner city feel of the school. Synge Street School itself has changed very little since the 80s.
Production
In February 2014, it was announced that FilmNation Entertainment had been selected to sell international rights to the film. In May 2014, it was announced The Weinstein Company had acquired U.S distribution rights to the film, for $3 million.
Inspired by the Technicolor look of the TV programs he watched as a boy, Carney was drawn
to the idea of mixing the drab universe of 80s recession-era Ireland and what the director
describes as “this colorful, amazing world” of pop videos.
“I lived through watching Top of the Pops and imagining that there was this great world of Duran Duran videos,” Carney says.
“When you lived in Dublin, you couldn’t get your hands on a camera to save your life, or a costume or a look. We found that that was the way we were going to shoot the movie: do a sort of ‘before and after’ thing. You get the greyness of Dublin next to the Technicolor videos that they shoot, which is what’s in Conor’s head.”
“We wanted to give it a slightly different, more filmic look, but keep the spirit of Once. So we kept the handheld, no big lighting, no dollies, no SteadyCam. It was all handheld with that kind of free improvisation,” Orbach explains.
John doesn’t like to do shot lists,” Orbach admits. “We came onto the set and there would be
a mini line-reading/rehearsal. The actors would see where they wanted to put themselves and I
would have a camera and put a wide lens on my shoulder. We’d find the master and go from
there. We found the scene very quickly that way.
“Because of John’s style, which is all-inclusive and open to things that happen, there’s a lot of
room for spontaneity with kids. It has been a bit challenging here and there. There were no
positioning marks on the floor; we let them go wherever they wanted.”
“I like giving actors room to improvise a little bit and move around the script,” admits the director. “Sometimes things that kids say when they’re trying to remember the line that you wrote will often be way funnier than something that I could write. I would often encourage the kids in this film that if they’d forgotten their line, to not worry and just keep going and make some stuff up. It’s been fun and it’s easier to do when it’s your own script.”
For the household, MacDonald had to portray them in a moment when they have fallen on hard times. Any wealth that might previously have made the house an affluent environment is crumbling.
Inspired by the Technicolor look of the TV programs he watched as a boy, Carney was drawn
to the idea of mixing the drab universe of 80s recession-era Ireland and what the director
describes as “this colorful, amazing world” of pop videos.
“I lived through watching Top of the Pops and imagining that there was this great world of Duran Duran videos,” Carney says.
“When you lived in Dublin, you couldn’t get your hands on a camera to save your life, or a costume or a look. We found that that was the way we were going to shoot the movie: do a sort of ‘before and after’ thing. You get the greyness of Dublin next to the Technicolor videos that they shoot, which is what’s in Conor’s head.”
“We wanted to give it a slightly different, more filmic look, but keep the spirit of Once. So we kept the handheld, no big lighting, no dollies, no SteadyCam. It was all handheld with that kind of free improvisation,” Orbach explains.
John doesn’t like to do shot lists,” Orbach admits. “We came onto the set and there would be
a mini line-reading/rehearsal. The actors would see where they wanted to put themselves and I
would have a camera and put a wide lens on my shoulder. We’d find the master and go from
there. We found the scene very quickly that way.
“Because of John’s style, which is all-inclusive and open to things that happen, there’s a lot of
room for spontaneity with kids. It has been a bit challenging here and there. There were no
positioning marks on the floor; we let them go wherever they wanted.”
“I like giving actors room to improvise a little bit and move around the script,” admits the director. “Sometimes things that kids say when they’re trying to remember the line that you wrote will often be way funnier than something that I could write. I would often encourage the kids in this film that if they’d forgotten their line, to not worry and just keep going and make some stuff up. It’s been fun and it’s easier to do when it’s your own script.”
For the household, MacDonald had to portray them in a moment when they have fallen on hard times. Any wealth that might previously have made the house an affluent environment is crumbling.
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Production Companies
Cosmo Films
Distressed Films
FilmNation Entertainment
FilmWave
Likely Story
PalmStar Media
Cosmo Films
Cosmo Films Limited was set up on Tuesday the 1st of April 2014. Their current address is Dublin 2, and the company status is Normal. The company's current directors John Carney, Paul Trijbits, Anthony Bregman and Martina Niland have been the director of 14 other Irish companies between them; 9 of which are now closed. This Irish company shares its Eircode with at least 24 other companies.
WME handled the sale. FilmNation is dealing with international rights. The film is produced by Anthony Bregman.
Distressed Films
FilmNation Entertainment
FilmWave
Likely Story
PalmStar Media
Cosmo Films
Cosmo Films Limited was set up on Tuesday the 1st of April 2014. Their current address is Dublin 2, and the company status is Normal. The company's current directors John Carney, Paul Trijbits, Anthony Bregman and Martina Niland have been the director of 14 other Irish companies between them; 9 of which are now closed. This Irish company shares its Eircode with at least 24 other companies.
Company Vitals
Company Name:Cosmo Films Limited
Time in Business:2 Years
Company Number:541852
Current Status: NORMAL
Principal Activity:[92.11] Motion Picture and Video Production
May Trade As:Cosmo Films LtdC
Filmography as: Production Company
Distressed Films Limited
Distressed Films Limited was set up on Wednesday the 22nd of August 2012. Their current address is Co. Dublin, and the company status is Normal. The company's current directors Marcella Plunkett and John Carney have been the director of 4 other Irish companies between them; 1 of which is now closed. This Irish company shares its Eircode with at least 18 other companies.
Company Vitals
Company Name:Distressed Films Limited
Time in Business:4 Years
Company Number:516666
Current Status:
NORMAL
Principal Activity:[92.11] Motion Picture and Video Production
May Trade As:Distressed Films Ltd
http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/small-movies/40750/x-men-vs-sing-street-getting-a-smaller-film-noticed
FilmWave
FilmWave is the UK based production company established in 2012 by Christian Grass and Paul Trijbits to produce quality commercial English language films and high-end television drama for the international market.
Christian Grass was formerly President of International Production & Acquisitions at Universal Pictures International, and before that Executive Vice President of EMEA at 20th Century Fox.
Paul Trijbits most recently executive produced J.K. Rowling’s “The Casual Vacancy” for BBC and HBO, and Disney’s “Saving Mr Banks“. He was previously Managing Director of Ruby Film and Television and head of the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund.
Sing Street was Nominated for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) at the 2017 Golden Globes.Released in the US through the Weinstein Company and the UK through Lionsgate.
UK & ROI Box-Office: £1.8m; Worldwide Box-Office: $13.61m.
An Irish-set musical romance from John Carney the director of Once and Begin Again.
World Premiere at Sundance 2016.
WME handled the sale. FilmNation is dealing with international rights. The film is produced by Anthony Bregman.
FilmNation Entertainment
FilmNation Entertainment is a leading distributor, financier and producer of independent films, and is a destination for many of the world's most renowned filmmakers. FilmNation Entertainment officially became part of the American Film Market for the first time, acquiring the international rights to Woody Allen's Magic in the Moonlight and Bill Condon's Mr. Holmes. FilmNation is consistently ranked as one of the highest-grossing independent international film distributors, has become a prolific and respected producer, and its titles are amongst the most critically lauded in the film industry.
Monday, January 23, 2017
Visual Effects
NVISIBLE FX
A visual effects and animation boutique that punches above its weight.
Nvizible launched in 2009 as an exciting alternative visual effects house, established primarily for producing high-end CGI and VFX for feature film and television.
As a privately held company formed by its Directors, it is one of the fastest growing facilities in London. Providing flexibility, accessibility and creative control to all filmmakers, and with an award winning team of artists and production staff they are able to provide efficiency and low overheads, resulting in high quality output to fit all schedule and budget requirements.
Delivered:
Grabbers (Forward Films/Sony)
I Give it a Year (Working Title)
Frankenweenie (Disney)
Hunted (BBC/HBO)
John Carter (Disney)
Wrath of the Titans (Warner Bros)
Prince of Persia (Disney)
The Promise (Daybreak/Channel 4)
Clash of the Titans (Warner Bros)
Skeletons (Forward Films)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Fox).
In progress:
Captain Phillips (Michael de Luca/Columbia)
Kick Ass 2 (Marv Films)
Our Robot Overlords (Tempo Productions)
SCREEN SCENE
A visual effects and animation boutique that punches above its weight.
Nvizible launched in 2009 as an exciting alternative visual effects house, established primarily for producing high-end CGI and VFX for feature film and television.
As a privately held company formed by its Directors, it is one of the fastest growing facilities in London. Providing flexibility, accessibility and creative control to all filmmakers, and with an award winning team of artists and production staff they are able to provide efficiency and low overheads, resulting in high quality output to fit all schedule and budget requirements.
Delivered:
Grabbers (Forward Films/Sony)
I Give it a Year (Working Title)
Frankenweenie (Disney)
Hunted (BBC/HBO)
John Carter (Disney)
Wrath of the Titans (Warner Bros)
Prince of Persia (Disney)
The Promise (Daybreak/Channel 4)
Clash of the Titans (Warner Bros)
Skeletons (Forward Films)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Fox).
In progress:
Captain Phillips (Michael de Luca/Columbia)
Kick Ass 2 (Marv Films)
Our Robot Overlords (Tempo Productions)
SCREEN SCENE
Welcome to Screen Scene, we are Ireland’s leading Post Production Company. Part of the NEP Worldwide Network, we
are large in scale but intimate in approach; providing the ultimate
collaborative experience for long and short form storytellers.
Based in the heart of Dublin, we’ve been
weaving our inimitable brand of magic since all the way back in 1985,
working with some of the best in the business and winning more than our
fair share of awards along the way.
Big on brains and high on heart, we offer a
one stop, Picture, Sound and VFX service for TV, Film and Commercials
that is second to none.
http://www.screenscene.ie/wiki/
Other Special Effects
Film FX Ireland (special effects)
Nvizible (visual effects: end sequence)
Screen Scene (additional visual effects)
Other Companies
Clearance Lab, The (title clearance)
Decca Records (soundtrack)
Digital Post Services (digital asset servicing)
Freeway CAM B.V. (collection account management)
Hothouse Music (music supervision)
Post Factory NY (post-production facilities)
RushTera.com (digital transfer)
Sapex Scripts (post production script services)
Windy Hill Pictures (funding)
Other Special Effects
Film FX Ireland (special effects)
Nvizible (visual effects: end sequence)
Screen Scene (additional visual effects)
Other Companies
Clearance Lab, The (title clearance)
Decca Records (soundtrack)
Digital Post Services (digital asset servicing)
Freeway CAM B.V. (collection account management)
Hothouse Music (music supervision)
Post Factory NY (post-production facilities)
RushTera.com (digital transfer)
Sapex Scripts (post production script services)
Windy Hill Pictures (funding)
Department Teams
Editorial Department
Niamh Burke-Kennedy ... assistant editor
Warren Dowling ... on-line editor
Michael Feerick ... assistant editor
Tanya Feerick ... assistant editor
Christopher M. Lundy ... additional editor
Sean Maher ... assistant editor
Megan McHugh ... assistant editor
Lisa Murphy ... post production supervisor
Donal O'Kane ... colorist
Simon Thornton ... digital intermediate conform
Music Department
Becky Bentham ... music supervisor
Christine Bergren ... music legal
Ciaran Bradshaw ... music mixer / music recording engineer
John Carney ... musician
Gary Clark ... musician
Ken Galvin ... post production music mixer
Catherine Grieves ... assistant music supervisor
Glen Hansard ... musician
Graham Henderson ... musician
Adam Hunter ... backing vocals
Kieran Lynch ... music editor / music producer
Carl Papenfus ... musician
Ken Papenfus ... musician
Zamo Riffman ... musician
Christine Verbeke ... vocal coach
Niamh Burke-Kennedy ... assistant editor
Warren Dowling ... on-line editor
Michael Feerick ... assistant editor
Tanya Feerick ... assistant editor
Christopher M. Lundy ... additional editor
Sean Maher ... assistant editor
Megan McHugh ... assistant editor
Lisa Murphy ... post production supervisor
Donal O'Kane ... colorist
Simon Thornton ... digital intermediate conform
Music Department
Becky Bentham ... music supervisor
Christine Bergren ... music legal
Ciaran Bradshaw ... music mixer / music recording engineer
John Carney ... musician
Gary Clark ... musician
Ken Galvin ... post production music mixer
Catherine Grieves ... assistant music supervisor
Glen Hansard ... musician
Graham Henderson ... musician
Adam Hunter ... backing vocals
Kieran Lynch ... music editor / music producer
Carl Papenfus ... musician
Ken Papenfus ... musician
Zamo Riffman ... musician
Christine Verbeke ... vocal coach
Art Department
| Ignacio Barbe | ... | props |
| Dermot Butler | ... | carpenter |
| Melanie Downes | ... | graphic design |
| Neil Fetherson | ... | painter |
| Mick Flood | ... | property master |
| Emma Lowney | ... | production buyer |
| Ian McCaffrey | ... | storyboard artist |
| Brian Wallace | ... | stand-by props |
| Gavin Walsh | ... | carpenter |
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Director : John Carney
John Carney (born 1972) is an Irish film and TV writer/director who specializes in low-budget indie films. He is best known for his award-winning 2007 movie Once. He is also a co-creator of the Irish TV drama series Bachelors Walk.
With fellow film-maker Tom Hall, Carney wrote and directed November Afternoon, his first feature film, in 1996. Despite a limited release, it was acclaimed as the "Film of the Year" by the Irish Times.The low-budget drama, shot in black and white, tells the story of two couples whose relationships begin to crumble over an eventful weekend. Carney himself provided a jazz score for the soundtrack.
After making a one-hour TV companion piece for the film entitled Just in Time, Carney's next film was the edgy drama Park, which premiered at the Dublin Film Festival. Written and co-directed by Carney and Tom Hall once again, the drama about a girl who is abused by a pedophile was released in 1999. It did not secure a wide release.
Two years later, in 2001, he co-wrote and directed On the Edge. The film starred Cillian Murphy and Stephen Rea and was released through Universal Studios. He was awarded the Silver Hitchcock Award for On the Edge at the 2001 Dinard Festival of British Cinema. The film, which was co-written by Daniel James, was released in the USA with the title Catch the Sun.
Carney returned to TV writing and directing during the same year. He co-wrote and co-directed (with his brother Kieran Carney and Tom Hall) the hugely successful RTÉ TV series Bachelors Walk. The independently produced TV series proved the most successful in Irish television history. The series ran for three seasons. He also directs The Modest Adventures of David O Doherty for RTÉ, starring Irish comedian O'Doherty and performed on the single "Orange", released by O'Doherty during the making of one of the series' episodes.
In 2003, he co-directed and co-wrote Zonad with Kieran Carney and Tom Hall. A story about an escaped convict who fools a whole Irish village into thinking he's a visitor from outer space, the film starred Simon Delaney and Cillian Murphy, Zonad was extremely low-budget and was never released.
In 2006, Carney directed the feature movie Once. A music drama, the movie stars The Frames frontman Glen Hansard and Czech musician Markéta Irglová. First released at the Galway Film Fleadh, Once had its official world release at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2007 and won the World Cinema Audience Award in the category Dramatic. A low-budget affair shot for only $160,000, Once was hugely successful, grossing $7 million worldwide in its first 3 months of release. Legendary film-maker Steven Spielberg is quoted as saying, "Once gave me enough inspiration to last the rest of the year." When told of this during an interview with Sky News, Carney replied, "In the end of the day, he's just a man with a beard." Carney was wearing a beard at the time. As writer and director of Once, Carney won the Most Promising Newcomer award in the Evening Standard British Film Awards 2007.
On the heels of Once's success, Carney was able to work on a full-fledged version of Zonad, which was released in March 2010.
In 2016, he wrote and directed the musical film Sing Street, which was released to critical acclaim.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | November Afternoon | Director, co-writer | Limited release |
| 1999 | Park | Director, co-writer | |
| 2001 | On the Edge | Director, co-writer | |
| 2007 | Once | Director, writer | Won the Academy Award for Best Original Song |
| 2009 | Zonad | Director, co-writer | |
| 2013 | Begin Again | Director, writer | Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song |
| 2016 | Sing Street | Director, writer |
Release
In February 2014, it was announced that FilmNation Entertainment had been selected to sell international rights to the film. In May 2014, it was announced The Weinstein Company had acquired U.S distribution rights to the film, for $3 million.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 24 January 2016. The film screened at the Dublin Film Festival on 18 February 2016,and at South by Southwest on 11 March 2016.The film was released in Ireland on 17 March,and in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2016. It was released in the United States on 15 April 2016.
Box office
Sing Street grossed $3.2 million in the United States and Canada and $10.4 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $13.6 million.
Production
Development
In February 2014, It was announced that John Carney would be directing the film, from a screenplay he wrote about a boy starting a band in order to impress a girl, with Carney producing through his Distressed Films banner, along with Anthony Bregman through his Likely Story Banner, Kevin Frakes for PalmStar Media, and Raj Brinder Singh for Merced Media Partners, with Paul Trijbits and Christian Grass for FilmWave.The film is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Carney's upbringing in Dublin.
Casting
Filming
In February 2014, It was announced that John Carney would be directing the film, from a screenplay he wrote about a boy starting a band in order to impress a girl, with Carney producing through his Distressed Films banner, along with Anthony Bregman through his Likely Story Banner, Kevin Frakes for PalmStar Media, and Raj Brinder Singh for Merced Media Partners, with Paul Trijbits and Christian Grass for FilmWave.The film is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Carney's upbringing in Dublin.
Casting
In a July 2014 interview, Carney announced he would be casting unknown actors in the film.The unknown actors turned out to be Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Ben Carolan, Mark McKenna, Percy Chamburuka, Conor Hamilton, Karl Rice, and Ian Kenny.In September 2014, it was announced that Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, and Jack Reynor had joined the cast of the film, portraying the role of a father, wife and son respectively.
Principal photography on the film began in September 2014 in Dublin, Ireland, and concluded on 25 October 2014. Among the locations where the film was shot was at its namesake school Synge Street CBS.
Music
Much of the original music by the band "Sing Street" was composed by 80s veteran composer Gary Clark,with Carney, Ken and Carl Papenfus of the band Relish, Graham Henderson and Zamo Riffman also receiving writing credits. Adam Levine co-wrote (with Carney and Glen Hansard) and sings on the track "Go Now".
The film also features music of the period from The Cure, A-ha, Duran Duran, The Clash, Hall & Oates, Spandau Ballet, and The Jam.
Case Study 2 : Sing Street
SING STREET 2016
Plot Summary
This is the beginning of the eighties and everybody is moving to the beat of Pop music, as the brand-new concept of the music video appears on television for the first time. On the other hand, in Dublin, Conor, a teenager with a sensitive heart, is trying to deal with a tense family relationship, reconnect with his older brother, while dealing with the hostile environment of his new public school... But then one day, he saw her. Tall, with long chestnut hair, a buttery complexion and big, dark eyes, an enigmatically beautiful girl was standing in front of the gate of his school, indolently observing people passing by. Who is she and how could a boy ever get noticed by such a distant girl? Easy... he would form a band! With every lyric Conor writes, the gap narrows and with every song he plays, her heart fills with affection. In a sea of opportunities ahead of them, what does the future hold for a love like this?
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| Cinematography | Yaron Orbach |
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| Language | English |
| Box office | $13.6 million |
Cast & Crew photos provided by TMDb.
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