PROJECT SUBMISSION PACK FILM: Time of Their Lives DATE: July 2015 1. Submission Form p2 2. Information Pack p3 3. Sales Estimates p5 4. Script Report p6 5. Script p9 FF II LL MM SS UU BB MM II SS SS II OO NN FF OO RR MM PROJECT TITLE: Time of their Lives DATE: 05.06.15 APPLICANT DETAILS APPLICANT CONTACT DETAILS NAME: Paula Crickard ADDRESS: 249 Grays Inn Road POSITION: Producer COMPANY Finite Films TEL: 07817518389 EMAIL: [email protected] PROJECT DETAILS PRODUCER/S Sarah Sulick (Honeytrap, The BUDGET: £2m and CREDITS Waiting Room) PRODUCTION Bright Pictures (UK) Finite (UK) Telegael Tele Roger Goldby COMPANIES & (EIRE) GENRE: Comedy drama NATIONALITY: NAME CREDITS (1 or 2) Approached Confirmed DIRECTOR Roger Goldby The Waiting Room, Love & Marriage CAST 1 Dame Joan Collins Dynasty, Pacific Palisades CAST 2 Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine, Quartet CAST 3 Franco Nero Die Hard 2, Django Unchained CAST 4 SHOOTING SCHEDULE – Prep, Principal, Post, delivery SHORT SYNOPSIS / LOGLINE prep August - September Produced by Sarah Sulick for Bright Pictures, TOTL also has THE Shooting Sept 27-November 3rd KING’S SPEECH designer Eve Stewart on board, together with three- Post Nov-Feb time Oscar® winner Sir Tim Rice who will executive produce and oversee the soundtrack. Joan Collins plays a former Hollywood star who escapes her London retirement home and travels to France to gate-crash her ex-husband’s funeral. Pauline Collins plays a housewife with a failing marriage who joins Collins on the trip. Along the way, the pair becomes romantically embroiled with a reclusive Frenchman played by Franco Nero. FINANCE DETAILS FINANCIER NATURE OF INVESTMENT AMOUNT £ % BUDGET Proposed Approached Confirmed Telegael Equity 1m 50 Private EIS 250k 10 NIS Equity 100 5 Irish Gov. Tax credit 300k 15 % Premiere Stakeholder Proposed Corridor 1st Telegael, NIS TBC recoupment BOND schedule 2nd for all 3rd EIS AUDITOR financiers: 4th 5th SALES INFORMATION SALES AGENT: Fortissimo SALES ESTIMATES CONTACT: LOW: 2m TEL: MEDIUM: 3.3m EMAIL: HIGH: 5.1m TERRITORY DISTRIBUTOR MG RIGHTS TBC COPRODUCTIONS COUNTRY % SPEND DETAILS N/A Ireland 70% Telegael Studios UK 30% Norther Ireland & England A BRIGHT PICTURES PRODUCTION A FEATURE FILM BY THE ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE ROGER GOLDBY THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES JOAN COLLINS PAULINE COLLINS FRANCO NERO IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO HIT THE ROAD UK / English / Drama, Comedy / Pre-production THE TIME OF SYNOPSIS: THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES is a feel-good character-driven comedy from writer- THEIR LIVES director Roger Goldby (THE WAITING ROOM, CALL THE MIDWIFE). With an all-star cast including Hollywood legend and Golden Globe® winner Joan Collins, BAFTA® Award- BY ROGER GOLDBY CAST: Joan Collins as Helen Pauline Collins as Priscilla designer Eve Stewart on board, together with three-time Oscar® winner Sir Tim Rice Franco Nero as Albert who will executive produce and oversee the soundtrack. CREW: Joan Collins plays a former Hollywood star who escapes her London retirement Produced by: Sarah Sulick home and travels to France to gate-crash her ex-husband’s funeral. Pauline Collins Writer: Roger Goldby plays a housewife with a failing marriage who joins Collins on the trip. Along the way, the pair becomes romantically embroiled with a reclusive Frenchman played by Three-time Oscar Winner Franco Nero. Executive Producer: Sir Tim Rice ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Write r/Director – Roger Goldby Multi Award-winning, 3-time Oscar Nominated Production Designer: Eve Stewart Oscar and BAFTA-nominated WAITING ROOM and together they formed Bright Pictures. The company’s mission is Director of Photography: Danny Cohen BSC Casting Directors: John & Ros Hubbard Rupert Graves, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2007 where DIRECTOR’S SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY: it was selected for “Best of the Fest”. INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY (TV, 2015) CALL THE MIDWIFE (TV, 2013) for the US; and E1 Entertainment for Canada. It was released in UK cinemas in 2008 LOVE & MARRIAGE TV, 2 and was critically acclaimed. THE WAITING ROOM (feature, 2007) LILIES CUTTING IT TV, 2 director who works all over the world. His recent TV credits include “INSPECTOR HEARTS AND BONES TV, 2 GEORGE GENTLY (Company Pictures) for BBC One, ”CALL THE MIDWIFE” (Neal Street) IT’S GOOD TO TALK (Short, 1997) for BBC One, “LOVE AND MARRIAGE” (Tiger Aspect) for ITV, “HUSTLE” (Kudos) for BBC One, and “DEATH IN PARADISE” (Red Planet) for BBC One. HEAD OFFICE E-mail: [email protected], Ph: +31 20 627 3215 Van Diemenstraat 100, 1013 CN Amsterdam, The Netherlands ASIA OFFICE E-mail: [email protected], Ph: +852 2311 8081 Unit A, 26/F., 289-295 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong WWW.FORTISSIMOFILMS.COM PROJECT COVERAGE FORM TITLE: The Time of Their Lives AUTHOR: Roger Goldby SUB TO: Alena Walker SUB BY: Paula Crickard FORM: Script LENGTH: 105 pages BASED ON: N/A LANGUAGE: English BUDGET: £2 million GENRE: Comedy drama LOCATION: London, France PERIOD: Contemporary READER: Lucy Barrick DATE: 3/7/15 ELEMENTS: PRODUCER: Paula Crickard, Sarah Sulick DIRECTOR: Roger Goldby WRITER: Roger Goldby ACTORS: Joan Collins, Pauline Collins, Franco Nero LOGLINE: An ageing actress persuades a downtrodden grandmother to travel with her to France for the funeral of an old friend COMMENT SUMMARY: Thelma and Louise meets Shirley Valentine in a sweet, if contrived, OAP comedy drama. Tapping into the grey pound market exemplified by The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this has the benefit of well-loved, high-profile actresses Joan Collins and Pauline Collins, as well as similar glamorous locations, in this case the South of France. The examination of female friendship is nicely done, as is the love triangle between the two women and the rich, sexy Frenchman. However, the plot is cheesy and the sentiment rather too clearly designed to tug at the heartstrings. Excellent (4) Good (3) Fair (2) Poor (1) PREMISE X STORYLINE X CHARACTERISATION X DIALOGUE X STRUCTURE X PACE X ORIGINALITY X AUDIENCE APPEAL X TOTAL 15 6 OVERALL SCORE: 21/32 = 66% CHARACTERS: PRISCILLA (70s) a longsuffering wife, mother and grandmother HELEN (70s) a former famous actress now living in a care home FRANK (72) Priscilla's mean and bitter husband ALBERT (70s) A rich and famous Frenchman PREMISE: Priscilla, a grandmother, is browbeaten by her awful husband. She gets sucked into the world of 70-year-old former actress Helen, who is clinging to the last vestiges of her youth and attractiveness. The pair run off to France to attend the funeral of a director that Helen knew – but both women have their secret reasons for wanting to get away. They are also both swept off their feet by rich, handsome Albert, who comes to their aid when their car breaks down. But with a love triangle burgeoning and the women's pasts catching up with them, the truth will have to come out eventually. SYNOPSIS: Highgate swimming ponds, London, July. PRISCILLA (70s) swims expertly, then returns home to her unpleasant, moody husband FRANK (72). She says it would've been George's 40th birthday, and is shocked when Frank replies, "if it hadn't been for you". At the same time, HELEN (70s) puts on her wig and make-up in a nearby care home, and packs a small suitcase. Frank and Priscilla are in the local shop, arguing, when Helen comes in to buy cigarettes. Outside, she drops her purse. Priscilla helps Helen with her bags and on to a coach full of care home residents. But the DRIVER shuts the doors and drives off. Priscilla tries to explain but the CARER doesn't want to hear. Helen says she should just enjoy the free trip to the seaside. She then adds that she's going to drown herself when they get there. A furious Frank watches the coach drive off. Priscilla's daughter SARAH drops her kids JOE and POLLY off with a panicked Frank. Priscilla tries to call home from a service station but nearly misses getting back on the coach. Priscilla tells Helen that her husband is dead. At the seaside, Helen and Priscilla go for a drink. Helen is a famous former actress and her dear friend, director Jerry Standing, just died. His funeral is in France in a few days. Helen says she needs to go in order to reinvigorate her career, and tries unsuccessfully to persuade Priscilla to accompany her. Helen walks off. Priscilla tries to phone home, but finds her purse is missing. She talks to Frank, who is as rude and unpleasant as ever. Priscilla is on the coach back, and sees Helen on the hard shoulder. In an attempt to force her onboard, the driver and carer step off. REG gets into the driver's seat. Priscilla helps Helen onboard, who tells Reg to shut doors, leaving the driver and carer outside. Reg drives the coach (badly) to the ferry terminal, and the two women leave. Helen and Priscilla sneak on to a ferry with another OAP party. Helen pretends to faint to distract the PASSPORT CONTROL OFFICERS. On board, Helen is drinking heavily. Priscilla sees her missing purse in Helen's bag. As they leave the ferry, Priscilla leaps into the water to save a LITTLE BOY from drowning. Next morning, she comes to in hospital. Helen is smartly dressed, and says they have to leave – and that she "found" Priscilla's purse. A JOURNALIST is waiting outside. Helen tries to woo the cameras but they are actually interested in Priscilla's heroics. The boy's MOTHER thanks Priscilla, but she angrily tells her she should be more careful. Priscilla says she's going home, and Helen tells her she knows her husband isn't dead – she saw him with her at shops, and he's a bully and a tyrant.