Among the first wave of treats for early supporters of the upcoming Scottish romantic indie movie’s Indiegogo campaign is this handsome iPhone skin – who is that red-haired girl hiding her talent under a brolly? Is she calling you?
Click here to connect with the campaign and give young Scottish hot-shots Karen Gillan and Emun Elliott their first movie leads!
Indie romance Not Another Happy Ending is set to shoot in June 2012 – and here’s your chance to get involved! Over the next 90 days, via the magic of crowd funding site IndieGoGo, you can make a pledge, large or small, and make a big big difference to pushing the movie over the finish line.
Want to see Karen Gillan in her first film lead? Want to see a different kind of movie come out of Scotland? Here’s your chance to make it happen – and get fantastic gifts and treats in return, from iPhone skins and movie posters, through to set visits and your name appearing on the big screen itself…
Watch John McKay and producer Claire Mundell chatting about their love of the project below.
Then go press the button! Find the appeal site here
Well, type my gossip column – the April edition of Vogue UK features the great and the good celebrating the launch of the film at the Charlotte St Hotel this spring. For the full page article, go to the WTM page here
Vogue in America joins the party with a nice piece on Karen Gillan, accompanied by her classic Jean Shrimpton -style slouch against the balustrades of Tudor City, NYC. Find the article here
With a strange kind of appropriacy, Gotham-set We’ll Take Manhattan is today featured in the New York Times Sunday Edition - where else? – in connection with next weekend’s US premiere on the Ovation Network. Manhattan welcomes its own like a native New Yorker! Find the piece here
Composer Kevin Sargent knew that he wanted to create something very special to evoke the atmosphere of the early 60s – so he did what cash-strapped composers never do: assembling a real jazz quartet and getting them to play, live, together like a band. The results are vibrant, charming, touching and entirely original – check out the album, now available on iTunes.
News just in – We’ll Take Manhattan has been confirmed for transmission on the following new dates -
UK – Wednesday 15th February at 10.30PM on BBC HD
USA – Saturday 3rd March at 8.00PM ET / 9.00PM PT on the Ovation Network
Great that Tim Palmer’s wonderful HD photography will be on show in its full beauty on both occasions!
Following a hearty thumbs-up from the editors at the Vogue premiere of the film last month, February’s I-D magazine features We’ll Take Manhattan.
Find the article here
After great viewing figures on Thursday and sustaining as a BBC Iplayer top hit all weekend – today is the day the We’ll Take Manhattan DVD goes on sale! Extras include the behind-the-scenes short – as featured on uber-trendy fashion and film site Nowness – and a full DVD film commentary from director John McKay and editor David Charap.
Karen Gillan and director John McKay are set to team up again on upcoming movie Not Another Happy Ending – where Karen plays JANE, a kooky young novelist with writers’ block, who may be possibly actually secretly in love with her hot-headed publisher TOM…
Slated for a spring shoot in Glasgow, also attached are Emun Elliot (Prometheus, Game of Thrones), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey), Gary Lewis (Billy Elliot) and Anna Chancellor (The Hour).
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