Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton, and Mia Wasikowska have signed on to star in “Blackbird,” a remake of Bille August’s Danish-language “Silent Heart,” with Roger Mitchell directing.
Millennium Films is producing the movie. Producers are Sherryl Clark and Millennium’s David Bernardi. Millennium’s Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Jeffrey Greenstein, and Jonathan Yunger are executive producing.
Mitchell will direct from a script by “Silent Heart” screenwriter Christian Torpe. Shooting is planned for August in London.
Keaton will play a terminally ill mother who brings her family together for one last weekend before she commits suicide. Winslet and Wasikowsa will play her daughters.
In “Silent Heart,” released in 2014, the mother was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and was planning to pursue euthanasia with the help of her husband at the end of the weekend. But the decision became difficult to handle for the daughters and brought old conflicts to the surface.
Millennium Films is producing the movie. Producers are Sherryl Clark and Millennium’s David Bernardi. Millennium’s Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Jeffrey Greenstein, and Jonathan Yunger are executive producing.
Mitchell will direct from a script by “Silent Heart” screenwriter Christian Torpe. Shooting is planned for August in London.
Keaton will play a terminally ill mother who brings her family together for one last weekend before she commits suicide. Winslet and Wasikowsa will play her daughters.
In “Silent Heart,” released in 2014, the mother was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and was planning to pursue euthanasia with the help of her husband at the end of the weekend. But the decision became difficult to handle for the daughters and brought old conflicts to the surface.
- 7/17/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Silent Heart is a fast-moving character drama that all takes place over a weekend in a country home in Denmark. The home belongs to elderly couple Poul (Morten Grunwald) and Esther (Ghita Nørby), who is dying. She plans to end her life peacefully with pills, but first arranges for the other two generations of her family to visit for the weekend, for one final but made-up Christmas.Esther's terminal disease is a catalyst, however, for the trouble and crisis in the family's life, particularly the younger daughter Sanne (Danica Curcic) and her new stoner boyfriend Dennis (Pilou Asbæk). Esther's older daughter Heidi (Paprika Steen) brings her husband Michael and child Jonathan, and there is a family friend as well.Domestic tensions simmer to the boil as...
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- 7/12/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Double Palme d’Or winner is to begin production on 55 Steps in October.
Double Palme d’Or winner Bille August has given further details of his upcoming projects.
August revealed he is to begin production on 55 Steps starring Helena Bonham Carter and Vera Farmiga in October.
The film, on Atlas International’s slate, is about a lawyer defending a schizophrenic patient.
“It’s a story that takes place in San Francisco in 1989. It is based on a true story,” August said. The film details the real-life case of Eleanor Riise (Bonham-Carter), a woman in a mental hospital who hired a lawyer (Farmiga) to sue the medical establishment. John Goodman is also in the cast.
“These two characters are completely opposite. It’s like a ying and yang story but they develop a beautiful friendship,” the director said.
The Us producer is Sara Risher and the European producer is Anita Elsani.
Following 55 Steps...
Double Palme d’Or winner Bille August has given further details of his upcoming projects.
August revealed he is to begin production on 55 Steps starring Helena Bonham Carter and Vera Farmiga in October.
The film, on Atlas International’s slate, is about a lawyer defending a schizophrenic patient.
“It’s a story that takes place in San Francisco in 1989. It is based on a true story,” August said. The film details the real-life case of Eleanor Riise (Bonham-Carter), a woman in a mental hospital who hired a lawyer (Farmiga) to sue the medical establishment. John Goodman is also in the cast.
“These two characters are completely opposite. It’s like a ying and yang story but they develop a beautiful friendship,” the director said.
The Us producer is Sara Risher and the European producer is Anita Elsani.
Following 55 Steps...
- 5/17/2014
- by [email protected] (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: LevelK has boarded world sales for Silent Heart (working title), which reunites director Bille August with his Best Intentions star Ghita Norby.
The cast will also feature Pilou Asbaek (A Hijacking), Paprika Steen, Morten Grunwald, and 2014 Efp Shooting Star Danica Curcia.
The story, written by Christian Torpe, is about a family gathering for an unusual weekend as the terminally ill matriarch (Norby) plans to commit suicide.
The Danish-language film is currently in production for producer Jesper Morthorst at Sf Film Production. Backers also include Sf Film, the Danish Film Institute, TV2 and FilmFyn.
Sf will handle the local release at the end of 2014.
LevelK’s slate also includes four films in festival selection: The Turning, Free Range, The Word and The Contest.
The cast will also feature Pilou Asbaek (A Hijacking), Paprika Steen, Morten Grunwald, and 2014 Efp Shooting Star Danica Curcia.
The story, written by Christian Torpe, is about a family gathering for an unusual weekend as the terminally ill matriarch (Norby) plans to commit suicide.
The Danish-language film is currently in production for producer Jesper Morthorst at Sf Film Production. Backers also include Sf Film, the Danish Film Institute, TV2 and FilmFyn.
Sf will handle the local release at the end of 2014.
LevelK’s slate also includes four films in festival selection: The Turning, Free Range, The Word and The Contest.
- 2/7/2014
- by [email protected] (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Ghita Nørby stars in family drama to be shot on Danish island of Funen.
While preparing two German features – new adaptions of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark and Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity - Danish Oscar-winning director Bille August will on Monday start principal photography for a new Danish family drama, Quiet Heart (Stille hjerte), on the island of Funen.
From an original story by Christian Torpe, the Jesper Mothorst production for Sf Film willl reunite August with Danish actress Ghita Nørby, who played the lead in his Ingmar Bergman film from 1992, The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan), which received the Palme d’Or in Cannes.
August also won the top prize in Cannes for Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren/1988), which went on to collect the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Feature.
Quiet Heart follows three generations of a family, gathered for a weekend...
While preparing two German features – new adaptions of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark and Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity - Danish Oscar-winning director Bille August will on Monday start principal photography for a new Danish family drama, Quiet Heart (Stille hjerte), on the island of Funen.
From an original story by Christian Torpe, the Jesper Mothorst production for Sf Film willl reunite August with Danish actress Ghita Nørby, who played the lead in his Ingmar Bergman film from 1992, The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan), which received the Palme d’Or in Cannes.
August also won the top prize in Cannes for Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren/1988), which went on to collect the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Feature.
Quiet Heart follows three generations of a family, gathered for a weekend...
- 11/14/2013
- by [email protected] (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Ghita Nørby stars in family drama to be shot on Danish island of Funen.
While preparing two German features – new adaptions of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark and Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity - Danish Oscar-winning director Bille August will on Monday start principal photography for a new Danish family drama, Quiet Heart (Stille hjerte), on the island of Funen.
From an original story by Christian Torpe, the Jesper Mothorst production for Sf Film willl reunite August with Danish actress Ghita Nørby, who played the lead in his Ingmar Bergman film from 1992, The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan), which received the Palme d’Or in Cannes.
August also won the top prize in Cannes for Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren/1988), which went on to collect the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Feature.
Quiet Heart follows three generations of a family, gathered for a weekend...
While preparing two German features – new adaptions of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov’s Laughter in the Dark and Austrian author Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity - Danish Oscar-winning director Bille August will on Monday start principal photography for a new Danish family drama, Quiet Heart (Stille hjerte), on the island of Funen.
From an original story by Christian Torpe, the Jesper Mothorst production for Sf Film willl reunite August with Danish actress Ghita Nørby, who played the lead in his Ingmar Bergman film from 1992, The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan), which received the Palme d’Or in Cannes.
August also won the top prize in Cannes for Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle Erobreren/1988), which went on to collect the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Feature.
Quiet Heart follows three generations of a family, gathered for a weekend...
- 11/14/2013
- by [email protected] (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
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