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02/10/2009
'Cherrybomb' Distributor Bid Intensifies
The search for a distributor for a coming-of-age independent film starring the Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint has stepped up apace.
Rupert, pictured here during filming at the Valley Leisure Centre with co-star Kimberley Nixon - is still hoping for a distributor to get it to the big screen after Cherrybomb won accolades at numerous movie festivals - including the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The film also got another airing at the LA Irish Film Festival last month.
Fans of Rupert Grint - who appears in a series of steamy sex scenes and is seen taking drugs - have now started a petition calling on film distributors to take action.
More than 10,000 people have signed it so far, including 1,338 in the UK and 4,849 in the U.S.
The film also stars established actor James Nesbitt, as well as newcomers Kimberley Nixon and Robert Sheehan, and is a joint directional project from Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn.
Belfast-based Leyburn is a known designer and music video director and Barros D'Sa as a writer and development executive.
Cherrybomb marks the second film from Mark Huffam and Simon Bosanquet's Generator Entertainment.
They have partnered with Belfast-based Michael Casey's Green Park Films, who developed the project with Brian Kirk, and James Flynn's Dublin-based Octagon Films.
See: NI Movies Premiere In Los Angeles
See: Cherrybomb Distribution Campaign
(BMcC/KMcA)
Rupert, pictured here during filming at the Valley Leisure Centre with co-star Kimberley Nixon - is still hoping for a distributor to get it to the big screen after Cherrybomb won accolades at numerous movie festivals - including the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The film also got another airing at the LA Irish Film Festival last month.
Fans of Rupert Grint - who appears in a series of steamy sex scenes and is seen taking drugs - have now started a petition calling on film distributors to take action.
More than 10,000 people have signed it so far, including 1,338 in the UK and 4,849 in the U.S.
The film also stars established actor James Nesbitt, as well as newcomers Kimberley Nixon and Robert Sheehan, and is a joint directional project from Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn.
Belfast-based Leyburn is a known designer and music video director and Barros D'Sa as a writer and development executive.
Cherrybomb marks the second film from Mark Huffam and Simon Bosanquet's Generator Entertainment.
They have partnered with Belfast-based Michael Casey's Green Park Films, who developed the project with Brian Kirk, and James Flynn's Dublin-based Octagon Films.
See: NI Movies Premiere In Los Angeles
See: Cherrybomb Distribution Campaign
(BMcC/KMcA)
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Cherrybomb Campaign Pays Off
There was a bit of magic this week for one of the stars of the hugely successful Harry Potter series of movies. Even though Rupert Grint appeared in the independent Co Antrim-made film Cherrybomb, it still failed to attract a national and international distributor.
Cherrybomb Campaign Pays Off
There was a bit of magic this week for one of the stars of the hugely successful Harry Potter series of movies. Even though Rupert Grint appeared in the independent Co Antrim-made film Cherrybomb, it still failed to attract a national and international distributor.
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