Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
This week James Cameron-Wilson is joined by Chad Kennerk, our occasional American correspondent, to review the opening weekend performance of 'F1 The Movie', which at #1 is now Brad Pitt’s highest-grossing movie, beating the record set in 2013 by his zombie thriller 'World War Z'. Having waxed lyrical last week about Danny Boyle’s new film '28 Years Later', James returns to where the franchise left off in 2007, reviewing the title with fresh eyes. While on the subject of zombies, Chad and James share some of their favourite undead excursions. James was less thrilled with the film at #6, 'M3GAN 2.0', which continues the escapades of the titular killer robot doll as she goes good in order to face off with a deadlier foe. For his streaming title of the week, James reviews the sobering Netflix documentary 'Grenfell Uncovered'.
Guests: Chad Kennerk,James Cameron Wilson
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
This week James Cameron-Wilson is joined by Chad Kennerk, our occasional American correspondent fresh from his trip to CinemaCon in Vegas. James is thrilled to see that the UK box-office has leaped a phenomenal 168.7% from the previous weekend, thanks to the video game adaptation 'A Minecraft Movie' with Jason Momoa and Jack Black. At #4 is 'Death of a Unicorn', a farcical horror comic that is inept on almost every level, save for the presence of Jenna Ortega. However, at #7 is the Oscar-winning animated feature 'Flow', which James claims is the best film of the year so far, being an enthralling, mystical, frequently quite funny, wondrous, haunting and even a pulse-accelerating experience. He was less happy with 'The Electric State' on Netflix, a $320 retro-futuristic mess with Chris Pratt and Mollie Bobby Brown which he describes as being overblown, heavy-handed and visually cluttered.
Guests: Chad Kennerk
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
James Cameron-Wilson is joined by guest interrogator Chad Kennerk to discuss the UK box-office, which has dipped 3% from the previous weekend. Sadly, he was not a fan of any of the three new releases in the marketplace: he found 'It Ends With Us' implausible and ridiculous, M. Night Shyamalan’s psycho-thriller 'Trap' contrived and inexplicable and the video game adaptation 'Borderlands' (with Cate Blanchett, of all people) derivative and chaotic.
Guests: James Cameron Wilson,Chad Kennerk
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Vicky Sayers is joined by film critic and broadcaster, James Cameron-Wilson, to take a trip down memory lane as they discuss some of the most formative children’s films in cinematic history. In this episode: The Wizard of Oz (1939), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Mary Poppins (1964), The Railway Children (1970), Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Goonies (1985), Home Alone (1990), Babe (1995), Millions (2004). Replay from 2020.
Guests: James Cameron Wilson
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Actor Natalie Grady explores the ingredients that make a good story become a timeless classic with David Ricardo Pearce, who is now on stage in the West End as Harry Potter. This programme was originally broadcast on 12 February 2015.
Guests: Natalie Grady
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
We revisit an episode of Share Drama from 8th January 2015, when David Ricardo Pearce spoke with actor Sirine Saba about David Eldridge's play 'Holy Warriors' at The Globe, growing up in the Middle East and of the time she had to play Cleopatra with 2 hours notice.
Guests: Sirine Saba
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Original Broadcast: The Business Of Film
David Ricardo Pearce talks with Director Blanche Mcintyre. They take a deep look into her sterling career in theatre, her work at the company "Out of Joint" and how to include an octopus in a Shakespearian production. This episode of Share Drama was first broadcast on 12th March 2015.
Guests: Blanche Mcintyre
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Everybody knows that the name of the Scottish Play must not be pronounced in the theatre, but do you know the origin of this superstition? Geoff Lumb reveals it in this episode of Share Drama, first broadcast on 9th April 2015.
Guests: Geoff Lumb
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David Ricardo Pearce talks to the actor Saskia Portway about touring the world with a theatre show, the years she spent at Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol, working with Nick Hyntner at the National Theatre and the hard economic realities of Shakespeare's best loved comedy. originally recorded on 20 November 2014 - but note that A Midsummer Night's Dream is currently on stage at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London
Guests: Saskia Portway
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In a replay from November 2019, Vicky Sayers is joined by film critic and broadcaster, James Cameron-Wilson, to discuss some of the most influential musicals of all time. They explore the recent return to popularity of the “musical movie”, and whether some stage musicals adapted to film have ended up becoming lost in translation.
Guests: James Cameron-Wilson
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