THE organisation which helped secure production locations for a new children’s film partly shot in Keighley and Oakworth says local communities will benefit from investment generated by the filming.
One of the stars of the remake of Swallows and Amazons introduced the film at its launch in a North-East theatre last night.
There’s an irony in using a screen to represent the Walker children’s Lakeland exploits; it encourages children to stay inside to access the outside. The same irony is not true of the book…
There’s something cosy and comforting about “Swallows And Amazons”, the latest adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s celebrated novel of swashbuckling childhood adventure.
Swallows And Amazons rose 3% as it sailed to a $511,000 (£382,256) third weekend…
The score for Swallows and Amazons is by Ilan Eshkeri, a former protégé of Michael Kamen, who impressed many with his score for Stardust in 2007, and who has written several outstanding scores in the decade since then…
SWALLOWS and Amazons , filmed on location in the Lake District, is proving a resounding summer-holiday hit among cinema goers young and old.
“I don’t want them to be frightened of the world,” Mrs Walker says of her children, as she wonders whether she was right to let the four eldest sail off in a dinghy alone to discover an island in the middle of a huge Cumbrian lake. When I wrote those words…
The adaptation enjoyed a prosperous first seven days at the UK box office as it took in $1.81m (£1.39m)…