Kensuke’s Kingdom has completed its budget, thanks to an injection of €5.4 million (USD$6.5M) from the L.A.-based Align. The sum represents just over half the film’s total budget.
The film is an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1999 novel of the same name, which tells the story of a shipwrecked boy’s adventures on an island. The project is a U.K.-Luxembourg-France co-production involving Lupus Films (
Ethel & Ernest), Melusine Productions (
The British Film Institute awarded
Kensuke’s Kingdom £1.62M ($2.29M) in 2020 its biggest production grant of the year. Animation production began last September and final delivery is due in 2023. The film is sold by the U.K.’s Bankside Films.
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Including the B.C.–filmed Monkey Beach, RuPaul s Drag Race, Two Weeks To Live, and The Sister by Staff on December 31st, 2020 at 9:30 AM 1 of 6 2 of 6
We examine the January 2021 Crave schedule to identify the most anticipated titles coming to the streaming platform this month.
Monkey Beach
After having its world premiere at the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival, Loretta S. Todd’s B.C.–filmed adaptation of Eden Robinson’s novel stars
The Revenant’s Grace Dove as a Vancouver woman drawn back home to Kitamaat Village, where she discovers she’s a key player in a supernatural drama that stretches back for generations and might claim the life of her brother. And said brother is played by Joel Oulette, who stars in 2020’s other big Robinson adaptation, CBC’s
They include additional Covid-related production awards for BFI-backed projects interrupted at the start of pandemic such as
Benediction (£341,182),
Pirates (£360,000).
Nearly all 10 titles, with the exception of
Earwig, also received £20,000 as part of pilot initiative BFI Step-up, which enabled productions to provide opportunities for production crew from under-represented groups to work on BFI-funded features
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Source: Lupus Films
‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’
Sally Hawkins, Cillian Murphy and Ken Watanabe are among the English-language voice cast of this animated feature, based on Michael Morpurgo’s bestselling children’s novel of the same name and adapted by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (
The Railway Man). It marks the feature directorial debut of both Neil Boyle, whose credits as an animator include
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What to watch on Crave in January 2021
Including RuPaul s Drag Race season 13, Los Espookys, Locked Down, Two Weeks To Live and The Sister By NOW Staff
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We examine the January 2021 Crave schedule to identify the most anticipated titles coming to the streaming platform this month.
RuPaul’s Drag Race (season 13) & RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (season 2)
Drag Race fans are getting a double dose in January with the premieres of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season 2. Shot during the pandemic, season 13 will open with 13 contestants squaring off in six lip syncs for their lives. Then, half way through the month, the second season of the British version kicks off. The cast is much bigger than in season one and RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr return as judges. The shot-in-quarantine finale of season 12 was pragmatic but also a creative shakeup the show needed. Here’s hoping pandemic measures