Whole Lotta Sole / Stand Off - my friend's film is available soon :D

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Whole Lotta Sole / Stand Off by Terry George is now available on demand in the US (as of 22 Jan)

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As is often the way with films the one my friend Amanda H is in (Whole Lotta Sole) is now going under the name Stand Off in North America. It's even got a groovy new poster (the one in the middle) which I've pinched off the web, oops. The one on the right is for New Zealand.

In the poster on the left Amanda's below Colm Meaney, with a crossbow - she means business.

It's great fun and I went to see the European premiere in June last year in Belfast (where it was filmed) and the Waterfront was packed with an enthusiastic crowd, most of whom seemed to know someone involved in the film's production. There's a clever story with lots of subplots woven together and although the posters don't give the game away really it's a comedy, and hilarious.

Since then it's shown in a few film festivals in the US including the Hamptons Film Festival. It's shortly to be shown at the Mostly British Film Festival in San Francisco (as Stand Off) on 22 Jan and the Rialto Cinema in Tauranga, New Zealand is showing it for a week, starting this Thursday 17th (as Whole Lotta Sole - dates and timings below).

It's also scheduled to be available on video-on-demand, have a theatre release in the US (not sure about international yet) and also have the DVD / Blu-Ray released on 26 March (US version).

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that (a) it shows in cinemas in London or if it doesn't that (b) a UK region DVD becomes available and then I can try and see if I can hire a cinema screen in London (people do it all the time!) and get permission to show it and get Amanda to give a speech or something, or we can all just drink lots of wine and eat canapes :)

Anyway, lots going on, which is rather exciting.

Timeline

• 17 Jan (Thur): Whole Lotta Sole showing at Rialto Cinemas in Tauranga, NZ
  
  Thursday 17 - Friday 18
  11:15am, 1.20pm, 6pm and 8pm
  
  Saturday 19 - Sunday 20
  11.15am, 3.45pm, 6pm and 8pm
  
  Monday 21 - Wednesday 23 Jan - as before
  11.15am, 1.20pm, 6pm and 8pm
• 22 Jan (Tue): Stand Off showing at San Francisco's Mostly British Film Festival, 7pm, Vogue Theatre
• 22 Jan (Tue): "Stand Off will be available via VOD on January 22nd..." 
• 22 Feb (Fri): "...followed by a theatrical release on February 22nd"
• 26 Mar (Tue): Stand Off available from Amazon.com, can order now.

Whole Lotta Sole / Stand Off, directed by Terry George (who co-wrote it with Thomas Gallagher) with Brendan Fraser, David O'Hara, Colm Meaney, Yaya Alafia (formerly DaCosta) Martin McCann, Conor MacNeill, Emma Hamilton, Michael Legge, Jonathan Harden, Marie Jones, Rupert Wickham, Amanda Girvan, Mary McCrossan, Amanda Hurwitz and Hugh McLaughlin. Nick Emerson edited it, Des Whelan filmed it and Foy Vance created the music and sang it :)


Related posts
Actor Brendan Fraser introduces Gods and Monsters - he talked about working with Bill Condon (the director) Ian McKellen (who plays James Whale) and Lynn Redgrave (who plays Hanna the housekeeper). It was a lovely event, a last-minute addition to the Belfast Film Festival programme and I was very lucky to hear about it in time and bag a ticket :)

Traverse City Film Festival - tweets about Whole Lotta Sole

Assuming the 'embed function' from this Storify collection works (might have to wait for the page to load) there should be a panel below containing a bit of back history about the film Whole Lotta Sole and a bunch of tweets from people who saw it recently at the Traverse City Film Festival. Which reminds me I really must get a shift on and finish off my posts on #wholelottasoleapalooza (see June 2012 in the archives).

Whole Lotta Sole / Stand Off - some online resources

This is rather a record-keeping sort of post that I'll be updating as and when, but hopefully it's of interest to others. If you have anything to add my email address is at the top of this page.

It's safe to say that I'm always interested in films that feature Brendan Fraser - apart from his obvious charms he seems like a nice chap - but my particular interest in Whole Lotta Sole, as opposed to any other of his other new films*, is because my friend Amanda (she plays Mary Ellen and she's the one standing in the caravan in this pic) is also in it. Woohoo!

I discovered this fact entirely by accident in December 2011. Knowing that WLS had been listed as a 2011 film I thought "well when's it being released then? Only a few weeks to go..." and took a look at its IMDb page again. The word 'amazed' doesn't really do justice to my surprise at seeing my friends's name in the cast list that had been updated in November. She's very discreet :)

There wasn't a Wikipedia entry for the film... so I decided to create one (anyone can create or edit any page on Wikipedia, try it, it's fun) and so I set up a Google alert for the film's name to help me pick up info. This has brought not just lots of information into my Gmail account but also new resources that I'd not known about so I decided to organise some of the material here because I.. am a librarian ;)

Because the content on this post contains the name of the film then quite possibly it will also now show up in my Google alerts, so hello to anyone else who's set one up too.

P.S. If you think this is detailed, just wait till you see my minisites for diabetes statistical information or open air cinema screens in London. I decided that I could probably keep this to one blogpost page, but we'll see how unwieldy it gets...

Pages and websites relevant to Whole Lotta Sole

• The trailer! Released 22 May 2012.
  
• IMDb
• Twitter 
• Facebook (I don't know if the Twitter or Facebook pages are official accounts)
• Wikipedia
  Facebook has a tendency to auto-create pages, derived from Wikipedia, for all sorts of things and true to form they've created one for the film here (this is just a mirror of the original Wikipedia page). Facebook fans can 'like' it - I don't know if they realise they're kind of hooked up to an orphan / non-real page...
• Whole Lotta Sole (2011) at the Film Catalogue
• Whole Lotta Sole (2012) at the Film Catalogue - no idea why there are two pages with different completion years
• Film - Whole Lotta Sole 2011 - cast, set and other shots by photographer Aidan Monaghan
• Tribeca Film Festival 2012 - photos from the world premiere of the film.

Reviews, previews, interviews and other information
                 
                          Related Belfast Film Festival (BFF) events                      
                          8 June 2012 - Terry George (WLS director) talking film (screenwriting)
                          9 June 2012 - Nick Emerson WLS film editor) editing masterclass                
                        10 June 2012 - Whole Lotta Sole European premiere

• 12th Belfast Film Festival launched by gordon, Film Ireland (9 May 2012) 
• Terry George talking about Whole Lotta Sole - BBC Newsline (8 May 2012), starts at 15m20s until 17m40s.
• "Whole Lotta Sole" - Oscar-winning Terry George’s celebration of Belfast and its characters by Cahir O'Doherty, Irish Central (6 May 2012)
• Unearthing the Irish in Tribeca by Gwen Orel, The Irish Examiner (1 May 2012) Tribeca Film Fest mini reviews: Sleepless Night, Whole Lotta Sole, Mansome by Eric D Snider, Film.com (30 April 2012)
• TRIBECA FESTIVAL | “Whole lotta sole”: Brendan Fraser leads one of the top comedies at this year's fest by Lita Robinson, Screen Comment (29 April 2012)
• Whole Lotta Sole: Tribeca Review by David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter (29 April 2012)
• Tribeca Film Festival '12: 'Whole Lotta Sole' review by Chris McKittrick, Movie Buzzers (28 April 2012)
• Whole Lotta Sole by Mark Adams, ScreenDaily (28 April 2012) - subscriber only content
• Tribeca Review: 'Whole Lotta Sole' is an insufferable comic take on the British gangster movie by Drew Taylor, The Playlist (27 April 2012) - bah humbug ;)
• Tribeca 2012: LFM Reviews Whole Lotta Sole by Joe Bendel, Libertas Film Magazine (24 April 2012)
• Tribeca 2012: Whole Lotta Sole by Jeff Hart, Culture Blues (24 April 2012) 
• Whole Lotta Sole - Tribeca 2012 Review by Jordan Raup, The Film Stage (23 April 2012)

               21 April 2012 - world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival
               Pics from the Premiere: Zimbio

• Whole Lotta Fun by Pete Hamill, The Irish Echo (18 April 2012)
• 2012 Tribeca Film Festival: The Events and Films We’re Most Looking Forward To, Vanity Fair  (13 April 2012)
• "Five Minutes With… 'Saving The Titanic' Actor Conor MacNeill" by Steve Cummins, The Irish Film & Television Network (IFTN) (5 April 2012)
• Oscar Winner's New Film to Premiere at Tribeca by Stephen Conlon, Toonari Post (31 March 2012)
• Terry George film set for world premiere, FilmNav (~25 March 2012)
• The Hudson Valley and WFF Alum Make Their Mark on Tribeca 2012 by Michael Burke, Woodstock Film Festival (15 March 2012)
• Irish films screening at Tribeca Fest, IFTN [The Irish Film & Television Network] (9 March 2012)
• 'Whole Lotta Sole' Begins Filming in Belfast, "going to love this" says Martin McCann" . The Irish Film & Television Network (IFTN). (8 April 2011) 

*It appears to be Brendan Fraser's Year of Awesome as, according to his IMDb page, he's got seven films (gosh, it's now eight) on the go at the moment with Whole Lotta Sole having just had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and William Tell in 3D in pre-production (due in 2013). High-fives! (Although recent news suggests that Tell 3D might be having some difficulties).

Assuming it can go ahead, the William Tell 3D one sounds doubly fun - I love archery and despite maximum respect for Walter Murch I don't agree with his assessment of 3D films and find them rather exciting. Although it might actually be filmed in 2D anyway...

Not that long ago I did a Saturday morning course in archery and remained comfortably below average although I did hit a few golds which surprised us all. It probably didn't help that I'm left-eyed and right-handed so I might be parallax-ically challenged. Also I think William Tell wasn't much of a one for the longbow but went more for the crossbow - I've no idea how to shoot with one of those. Anyway don't rely on me for catching your tea, I expect I would be more likely to annoy rather than fatally injure the edible woodland creatures.

Here's that competent fellow Ray Mears using stoneage tools to make an English longbow (I think it is in the style of the Holmegaard bow?) and some arrows with Chris Boynton - this is actually what spurred me to take up archery classes. It's a lovely bit of television.

I also see from the WLS trailer above that my friend Amanda appears to be shooting a crossbow (at about 2m 16s). Holy crap that's a bit cool :)