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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
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'New Worlds' Gets International Broadcast and DVD Deals
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TV Wise - New Worlds is going global.
London based international distributor Power has closed a new raft of licensing deals for the Jamie Dornan fronted four-hour miniseries in the United States, Canada, Thailand and Africa, TVWise has learned.
Penned by Peter Flannery & Martine Brandt, New Worlds is set in the 1680s during the turbulent aftermath of the English Civil War. King Charles II’s tyrannical rule has led to a climate of violence and fear in England and her American colonies. Amid the chaos, four young idealists fall in love as they commit to forging a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency. But to achieve this, they must be prepared to pay the ultimate price.
The mini was originally commissioned by UK broadcaster Channel 4 and is a follow up to their 2008 mini-series The Devil’s Whore. It was produced by Company Pictures & Power and stars Jamie Dornan (The Fall), Freya Mavor (The White Queen), Joe Dempsie (Game of Thrones) and Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures).
RLJ Entertainment has taken home entertainment rights to the series in the United States and Canada, and will also make the mini available on their streaming service Acorn TV; Canadian broadcaster Super Channel has acquired the series, with plans to debut it later this month; IPA has picked up home entertainment rights for Thailand; while MNET has acquired the period drama for broadcast on its feed across Africa.
The rising star of lead actor Jamie Dornan – who had a recurring role in Once Upon A Time, starred in both seasons of The Fall and is one of the leads in the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey feature film – is no doubt helping to drive sales for the miniseries.
“The high production value, gripping script and all star cast means that New Worlds continues to find a home in major territories around the globe”, said Power’s CEO, Susan Waddell. “The on-going interest in the mini-series is a testament to its universal appeal.”
These four deals are the latest such agreements that Power has secured for New Worlds. The international distributor previously agreed deals for the period drama with SBS in Australia, DR TV in Denmark, SKY Television in New Zealand, Chello Central Europe in Hungary and HRT in Croatia.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Thursday, September 4, 2014
New UHQ Still From 'New Worlds' + Old Poster and Stills Now in UHQ
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Monday, May 26, 2014
New Jamie Interview with The Guardian (April 2014)
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Acting is a strange way to make a living, but you can pick up all kinds of skills on the job. In recent months, for example, Jamie Dornan has become particularly good with knots. When we meet in London he is on a break from filming a second series of The Fall in Belfast, in which he plays a serial killer who ties up his victims. Before that he was in Vancouver filming the big-screen adaptation of EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey. Dornan plays the lead, Christian Grey, a man who also practises a bit of rope work, though in his case, as part of consensual S&M. In fact, the only time Dornan has been able to stop the tethering in 11 months of relentless filming has been playing Abe Goffe in Peter Flannery's Restoration drama, New Worlds.
"There are a couple of classic knots I know now," says the 31-year-old, "and I've put them to good use far too many times recently. In fact I'd like to do a job where I don't have to tie women to beds."
Two years ago, Dornan was a member of one of entertainment's most derided subspecies, the actor-slash-model. A boy from Belfast who'd struck it lucky and wound up working with Bruce Weber and Calvin Klein, he had always wanted to act, so went to the US for pilot season: LA's annual casting meat market – the recollection of which, he tells me, makes him feel physically sick.
Expecting to book more love interest roles in chintzy dramas like Once Upon a Time, he was instead called back to audition for The Fall in the UK. Allan Cubitt's startling script turned out to be BBC2's biggest drama launch in years, largely thanks to the warped ying and yang of Gillian Anderson as a frosty detective set against Dornan as Paul Spector, caring therapist by day, rapist and murderer by night. Dornan has a natural, fidgety intensity – "a doctor once told me I have abnormal levels of adrenaline in my system" – and in The Fall he showed that he could twist the same pent-up fervour that was sexy in a Calvin Klein campaign into something deeply unnerving. Last month his performance earned him a Bafta best actor nomination.
Meanwhile, British actor Charlie Hunnam, who had been cast to play Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey, pulled out, and Dornan replaced him, awaiting whatever slings and arrows EL James's adoring readership will lob at him when Sam Taylor-Wood's film is released early next year. There is also the small matter of a one-year-old marriage, to the singer Amelia Warner, and a five-month-old daughter.
Michael McElhatton mentions Jamie (March 2014)
Irish Independent - Shot last year, 'New Worlds' begins on April 1 and also stars 'Game of Thrones' actor Michael McElhatton.
"We did it before all the 'Fifty Shades' madness set in," McElhatton said. "It's a period drama set in the 16th Century. Jamie's a great guy to work with."
Jamie and 'New Worlds' Cast on the cover of Guardian Guide Magazine - Interview + Scans (March 2014)
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New Worlds to conquer: meet the cast of Channel 4's new historical drama
Four of the most talented young actors in the UK are transported to 1680s America for the follow-up to The Devil's Whore
"It shows the beginning of the American dream," says 19-year-old Alice Englert, one of the four co-stars of the Channel 4 drama New Worlds. "What will be fascinating for UK audiences is looking at the beginning, how that dream was always going to be built on something quite… gross." She struggles, engagingly, for the mot juste. In the opening episode, her character scalps a man. It is indeed gross.
"We don't do much long-form drama in the UK," says co-star Jamie Dornan, 31, "so we have to pack a punch within the few hours we have."
Jamie's Interview with Daily Express Magazine (March 2014)
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Former male model Jamie Dornan made a big impression last year as psychopathic killer Paul Spector in BBC1’s cop series, The Fall, opposite Gillian Anderson. Then Hollywood came calling and Jamie was cast as Christian Grey in the movie of EL James’ runaway bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey.
But Jamie, 31, has also proved himself a dashing action hero as the lead in Channel 4’s New Worlds. A sequel to 2008’s The Devil’s Whore, New Worlds returns to a Restoration England 20 years on in 1680 and riven by conflict under King Charles II.
Jamie plays Abe Goff, who is determined to remove the Stuart dynasty from the British throne.
“Abe lives in the woods with a tribe of like-minded folk and they’re all fighting the cause together,” says Jamie. “He is fighting to end tyranny and make England a republic. He sacrifices a lot to fight that cause.”
'New Worlds' co-star Joe Dempsie talks about Jamie
Really good. I don’t think I’ve worked on anything that has been so disorganised or manic. Alice Englert dislocated her knee at one point. We were filming in Romania and everything that could’ve gone wrong, did go wrong. To the point where, by the last day, I was the last man standing. Everybody else was either ill or injured.
You were filming New Worlds when it was announced Dornan would be in Fifty Shades Of Grey. How did the news go down?
On the first day of shooting, Jamie and I were chatting between scenes and he was like, “I’ve got to do a bit of reading.” He blushed a little bit. I asked if it was Fifty Shades Of Grey, because I knew they were auditioning. But it’s really exciting to be around when that sort of news breaks. It’s been great for us as well – a lot more people are going to watch New Worlds because Christian Grey is in it.
Is there a fear Jamie will forever be known as Christian Grey?
You’re only typecast if you allow yourself to be. If you complain that you’ve spent the past three years playing the same part, no one’s forcing you to play those roles. Decline offers of reprising the same roles and do something different. The key to longevity is variety. It all comes down to where you derive your satisfaction from, career-wise. For some people that’s a healthy figure in the bank, which is understandable. But I wouldn’t be happy if I did something I didn’t feel was interesting.
Jamie's Interview with WhatsonTV - Talks about 'New Worlds' and 'The Fall'
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You play Abe in this new four-part series set during the political chaos of England and America in the 1680s. How have you enjoyed being in a big historical production?
“The first job I ever did was in a period drama [Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette] and I don’t think I realised at the time how much being in costume helps. You have to work a little harder if you’re doing a job in the modern day. For Abe I had a wig clipped into my own hair, that and the costume definitely helped with the role. I’d sometimes catch a glimpse of my reflection with the hair and the garb and it lifted me a bit.”
Tell us about your character in New Worlds?
“Abe’s an idealistic outlaw, who wants justice in England. He fights very hard to end the tyrannical rule of the Stewarts and topple Charles II from the throne – but in a very rough and ready way! He’s passionate and principled because he’s fighting for what he believes in.”
'New Worlds' featured in TV & Satellite Week Magazine (March 29, 2014)
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CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
A sequel to the English Civil War drama The Devil's Whore finds the next generation fighting for justice on both sides of the Atlantic.
The rollicking 2008 period drama The Devil's Whore followed the fortunes of former court favorite Angelica Fanshawe and Leveller soldier Edward Sexby, played by Andrea Riseborough and John Simm, as 17th-century England was plunges into a bloody Civil War and became a Republic.
New comes a follow-up, New Worlds, also written by Peter Flannery and Martine Brant, which starts on Channel 4 on Tuesday. Set against the backdrop of the brutal regime that followed the restoration of the monarchy, the drama follows young idealists on both sides of the Atlantic fighting for a fairer future.
In England, Angelica's daughter Beth (Freya Mavor) has her eyes openes to the reality of life under Charles II (Jeremy Northam) when she is abducted the outlaw and idealist Abe (Jamie Dornan).
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, colonist Ned (Joe Dempsie) and Hope (Alice Englert) find themselves on the frontline as they try to break freeof the control of the English crown and repel attacks from Native Americans.
Jamie's Interview with TV Times Magazine (March 29, 2014)
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To kill a king...
We talk to former model Jamie Dornan - star of the upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey movie - on the set of C4's epic 17th-century drama.
Jamie Dornan is currently one of showbiz's hottest names. After stopping hearts as the disturbingly alluring serial killer in last year's hit BBC2 drama The Fall, he's soon to get them racing again as the lead in the film adaptation of the book that shook the world, Fifty Shades of Grey.
Controversy seems to follow the Belfast-born-31-year-old - when TV Times sets eyes on him, he's in the middle of an attempt to assassinate a royal!
We look on nervously as the former Calvin Klein model - packing an impressive pistol for his role as dashing 1680s outlaw Abe Gough in C4's epic period drama New Worlds - closes in on King Charles II (played by Jeremy Northam).
It's no spoiler for anyone with a working knowledge of the Restoration period to reveal that Jamie's attempt at regicide isn't succesful.
"Annoyingly, the failure to kill the king is written in the script, which is a real shame," grins Jamie when filming is completed for the day.
Jamie's Interview with TV Choice Magazine (March 2014)
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TV Choice caught up on set with Jamie, who plays idealistic outlaw Abe Gough, fighting against a tyrannical regime and with dreams of toppling the king…
Tell us a bit about Abe Gough…
He’s the son of a regicide who signed the death warrant of Charles I at the end of the English Civil War and fought alongside Oliver Cromwell. He’s fighting for what he believes is right and is living as an outlaw in the forest.
He falls in love with wealthy Beth Fanshawe, how do they meet?
He chases a deer into the grounds of her grand house and it’s like two worlds colliding — you see astounding differences in the two lives and it seems impossible that these two people could fall in love. The star-crossed love thing has been done many times before in many forms but it works.
Did you know much about the historical period?
I grew up in Ireland so we didn’t learn a lot about that in school or I didn’t listen! I had to do more reading than most to get an idea of the time and I found a book called Cavalier very helpful.
Does it help having the hair extensions and period costume?
Yes definitely. I sometimes catch a glimpse of myself and the reflection of the hair and garb lifts you a bit.
Jamie on the Cover of Telegraph Magazine - Pictures + Interview (March 2014)
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Telegraph - The actor Jamie Dornan is slighter in the flesh than I expected, and he’s got a mullet. We are on the set of New Worlds, Channel 4’s follow-up to 2008’s critically acclaimed The Devil’s Whore. That first series was set during the English Civil War (and starred Michael Fassbender and Andrea Riseborough); this one, to be aired next week, takes place during the Restoration, a period nigh on as bloody and politically fissured, if Martine Brant and Peter Flannery’s script is anything to go by.
Dornan is playing Abe Goffe, a young outlaw who foments revolution against the
ruling elite from a forest in Oxfordshire, and whose head is turned by the
beautiful Beth (Freya Mavor), the daughter of Angelica Fanshawe, the ‘whore’
of the earlier drama.
Goffe’s wild existence accounts for Dornan’s unkempt hair. While most of the
cast sport rather elaborate full-head wigs, Dornan gets what he explains is
a three-quarter-length number: some straggling wisps glued on to his own
short back and sides, which he tugs at when we talk. He also has a beard.
‘Abe’s a character who has sacrificed pretty much everything in his life,’
he explains. ‘Including a razor.’
At the time of my set visit – summer 2013 – Dornan is best known for his modelling career (particularly his shirtless campaigns for Calvin Klein), and for his mesmeric performance as an alarmingly attractive serial killer in BBC Two’s drama series The Fall – which also starred Gillian Anderson as the police officer determined to track him down – which aired last May.
Then, days after I meet him again in October 2013, news breaks that he has landed a role that makes him the most talked-about actor in the world. Dornan won the part of Christian Grey, the dazzlingly handsome anti-hero with a penchant for light sadomasochism, in the Hollywood adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, the bestselling (90 million copies worldwide and counting) novel by EL James. Directed by the British artist Sam Taylor-Johnson, the film is slated to be released on Valentine’s Day next year.
Looking back, I slightly worry about how this warm, open man with a flair for comic self-deprecation will adjust to the celebrity this film role will foist upon him. When we meet in a west London pub near Dornan’s Notting Hill home (he also has a cottage in the Cotswolds) one of the most animated points in our conversation is when Dornan becomes splenetic at the circus surrounding modern celebrity, and the people who actively court it.
‘Nobody sane wants just to be famous,’ he says. ‘I hate it when people say you’re asking for it by doing films. No, I’m asking for work, and I’m asking to get paid for doing something I love. I’m not asking to be followed down a street by some f****** pap.’
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