Tom Cullen is nominated for Best British Actor at this years London Critics Circle Awards for his outstanding performance in Weekend. He is nominated alongside a plethora of British Acting Talent including Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Peter Mullan and Gary Oldman. Andrew Haigh who directed Weekend is also nominated for Breakthrough British Filmaker of the Year.
We are delighted for Tom and for the film and wish it continued success in the forthcoming Awards Campaign!
Tom Cullen wins the coveted award for Most Promising Newcomer at this year's BIFAS for his outstanding performance in Andrew Haigh's feature film, Weekend.
The Film also won for Achievement in Production which was some more good news to top off a wonderful night.
Eve Myles stars in Torchwood:Miracle Day for BBC Worldwide and Starz. The Series which performed astoundingly well on British TV and in it's US Debut in now to be released on DVD which means that you can catch up on all 10 Eps simultaneously.
It goes on sale in the UK on Mon 14th Nov.
If you didn't see it - buy it and if you did see it - watch it again ... it just gets better.
http://www.weekend-film.com/uk-release/
Weekend starring Tom Cullen has had a fantastic opening weekend with the highest screen average of any UK Indie Film and this was by some way meaning that it was only behind the big blockbuster that is Tin Tin!
It is a film that is beautifully realised, and has swept the board with great well deserved reviews. Jonathan Romney in The Independent on Sunday wrote:
"Both leads are superb: Cullen's self-doubting but warmly humorous Russell and New's brittle, impassioned Glen are terrifically matched, sharing the chemistry that all screen love stories aspire to but few attain."
Tom Cullen is nominated for 'Most Promising Newcomer' at this years prestigious BIFAS for his performance as 'Russell' in Andrew Haigh's film, Weekend.
Tom won Best Actor at the Nashville Film Festival and was nominated for Best Newcomer at the London Film Festival.
The film has also been honoured with a nomination for Best Achievement in Production.
The Awards take place on Sun 4 Dec at Old Billingsgate in London.
Tony Curran who appeared in Tandem's hit mini-series "The Pillars of the Earth" has signed on for their new co-production with Scott Free of "Labyrinth", based on Kate Mosse's bestseller.
The 2 x 90 minutes mini-series is set against the backdrop of The Crusades and the Cathar massacres and tells two connected stories set 800 years apart - that of a young woman living in Carcassone in 1209 and of a modern day archaeologist who makes a startling discovery in a nearby cave in the South of France.
Curran will play ruthless antagonist 'Guy D'Evreaux' and joins an illustrious cast including John Hurt, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton and Jessica Brown-Findlay.
He will start Principal Photography in South Africa in November.
Wunmi Mosaku has signed up for Stephen Poliakoff's "Dancing on the Edge", a fantastic new five-parter for BBC2.
Wunmi will play 'Carla', one of the female soloists in the band and will play opposite Chewitel Ejiofor and Matthew Goode.
A major new 5 part drama written by Stephen Poliakoff about the emergence of a young black jazz band in London in the early 1930s and their relationship with an ambitious music journalist/manager, Stanley and the glamorous society figures that will propel them towards success and result in tragedy and danger.
There is a lot happening for young actor Tom Cullen at the moment...
Following the continued success of his debut feature Weekend in the US in which Tom plays the leading role alongside Chris New things have been really hotting up for Tom. The film has already won a host of awards including The Audience Award at hip festival SXSW and also a Best Actor Award for Tom at The Nashville Film Festival. Tom has literally just got back from the US premier where the film screened in multi screens at the opening night of the BAM Cinefest. It went down a storm and the Press reaction has been extremely encouraging with Amy Taubin pitching Tom as '...America's future Star...'. He was also shot by Bruce Weber for an upcoming feature in Italian Vogue. Watch this space!
The film is now due to have it's UK Premier at The London Film Festival on Sat 15th Oct and Tom has been nominated for Best Newcomer. The winners will be announced at a Ceremony on Wed 26 Oct.
Tom is currently starring in a great leading role in World Without End which is the sequel to Golden Globe and Emmy nominated Pillars of the Earth. Tom plays fiery farm worker Wulfric and his journey is a intense one throughout the Series. Filming will happen in Budapest, Vienna and Slovakia and it is a Co-Production for Tandem and Scott Free. He is combining this with filming on a cracking C4 film, "Grains" which is part of the Black Mirror Trilogy.
Trevor Peacock and David Ryall form a fabulous double-act for the feature film version of Ronald Harwood's play, Quartet with Dustin Hoffman directing.
Ivanno Jeremiah stars in a new series of The Jury for ITV playing a leading role. The series has an all star cast including Julie Walters, Stephen McIntosh, Roger Allam and Ronald Pickup and will air in the Autum Directed by Michael Offer - it promises to be an exciting part of the Autumn Season.
Tom Cullen
30 June, 2011
“All you need is someone to take a punt on you,” muses Tom Cullen.
And that is precisely what happened to the Welsh actor when he auditioned for a part in an independent two-hander called Weekend for director and former Star of Tomorrow Andrew Haigh. Playing the part of Russell, a gay man who picks up Glen (Chris New) late one drunken night only to have the meeting turn into something unexpected, Cullen displays an honesty and raw vulnerability. After premiering at SXSW earlier this year,Weekend has been picked up by Sundance Selects for the US and won Cullen the best actor award at Nashville. It is now screening at Karlovy Vary. “I’m not the most confident of people when it comes to my acting,” admits Cullen who graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2009. “But I see myself in Weekendand I start to believe that I can really do it.” And others agree: Cullen has just picked up a supporting lead role in the Tandem/Scott Free’s World Without End — sequel toThe Pillars Of The Earth — to be directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
Contact: Suzy Kenway - suzy@scottmarshall.co.uk
Tony Curran plays the infamous University lecturer 'Douglas Ritchie' in a new three parter for the BBC/Shed called Young Herriot. This is an exciting three parter which tells the story of everyone's favourite vet, James Herriot during his University days in Glasgow in the early 1930's. This will air later this Autumn.
Tony has also just finished filming an exciting role in the next season of HBO's Boardwalk Empire in Manhattan.
Congratulations to Wunmi Mosaku who's won two awards for her performance as Malia in I Am Slave and just been nominated for a third. They are:
Winner - Best Actress at the Birmingham Black International Film Festival
Winner - Best Actress at the BEFFTA Awards
Nominee - Best On Screen Performance, Cultural Diversity Network Awards
