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[DVD Review] London to Brighton

13 August 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

For as riotously entertaining as both Lock, Stock and Snatch were, Guy Ritchie has a lot to answer for. As international audiences were largely spared the brunt of the misery by a lack of international distribution, most Americans will never know the excruciating pain that even a single viewing of such piss poor clones the likes of Rancid Aluminum, The 51st State, and Love, Honor, and Obey can inflict. Thankfully these last few years have seen something of a moratorium on wearily hip tales  of cock-er-ney wideboys and their harebrained, desperately ironic escapades, and with it a welcome return to the kind of arresting, gritty, and disgustingly grubby crime dramas Britain used to be very good at.

With that in mind we come to director Paul Andrew Williams's 2006 study of urban sickness London to Brighton, a grimy shoestring tale of an on-the-run prostitute, her underage ward and a perusing »

- Neil Pedley

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Samuel L. Jackson Negotiates With Pirates

13 May 2009 4:03 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Talk about timely, Samuel L. Jackson is going to be playing a negotiator yet again. Only this time he'll be talking to pirates and ship owners in order to broker a deal that probably won't have anything to do with whether or not her murdered his partner, Nate. Also, these aren't pirates of the "Arrrrrrrrrr!" and "Polly wanna cracker?" variety, but instead are the Somali variety that have been in the news lately.

Variety reports that Jackson will be producing this film along with Andras Hamori. The two previously produced Formula 51 back in 2002 which featured Jackson in a kilt. Jackson will portray real-life pirate negotiator and freelance journalist Andrew Mwangura who has successfully worked out deals between pirates and ship owners before. Deals that often involve a lot of money, say to the tune of $3.4 million dollars. However, that's money paid to the pirates as a ransom, not Mwangura's take. »

- Kevin Kelly

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Samuel L. Jackson Talks To Pirates

8 May 2009 1:04 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »

Here's a fast turnaround from real-life event to film: Samuel L. Jackson is set to star as Andrew Mwangura, the freelance journalist and hostage negotiator who recently played go-between when Somali pirates took several ships hostage.Mwangura is a journalist and ex-marine engineer who runs the Seafarers' Assistance Programme, a nonprofit group that offers humanitarian aid to all seafarers. He was flown in to settle the dispute, earning the trust of both sides and brokering a deal to recover the crew and cargo for $3.4million (a high price apparently reached after the pirates discovered a cache of Russian tanks onboard the Ukranian ship they seized). Jackson is working with producer Andras Hamori on the film: the pair previously worked together on The 51st State and are collaborating on Jg Ballard adaptation Running Wild, about a massacre in a gated community, which is still in pre-production. Meanwhile Jackson's shooting Iron Man 2, »

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Samuel L. Jackson to Play Andrew Mwangura

7 May 2009 5:14 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »

In a story from Variety, it seems that Samuel L. Jackson and his Uppity Films will work with Andras Hamori's H20 Motion Pictures to pick up the life rights of Andrew Mwangura.

Mwangura was a negotiator between pirates and the owners of some vessels that were hijacked off the coast of Africa.

Jackson will play Mwangura, a journalist and former marine engineer who heads the Seafarers' Assistance Programme.

Mwangura doesn't make a living as a negotiator. Rather, he makes money as a freelance journalist.

"(Andrew) has the trust of the pirates and the ship owners, and his loyalty is to the kidnapped crews that get caught in the middle of these episodes," stated Hamori.

Jackson and Hamori also worked together on Formula 51. »

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