I told you I would keep you updated on any information regarding the film The Happiness Salesman. After the production stills came out I e-mailed Kaos Films to try and get more details about it. Olivia from Kaos Films replied quickly to my inquiry and this was her reply…

Dear Vanessa,

Thank you for your interest in the Kaos Films and your inquiry.

“The Happiness Salesman” written by Steve Gomez is a winner of the British Short Screenplay Competition. It is the biggest international short screenplay competition in the world receiving over two thousand entries each year. The competition is judged by an eminent panel of judges including Kenneth Branagh, Sir Alan Parker, Nik Powell, Natascha Wharton and Stephen Woolley. 

It is directed by BAFTA nominated director Krish Majumdar and stars Christopher Eccleston and Archie Panjabi. The film was shot on location in London with kind support from Arri Media, Kodak, Pinewood Studios and Technicolor. It is currently in post production and we hope to have a premier in January at BAFTA.

Regards,
Olivia

 British Academy of Film and Television Arts and has nominated Chris in films such as The Second Coming and in the television series Our Friends in the North.

I hope that sheds some light on the upcoming film The Happiness Salesman. I will keep you posted on anything new regarding the film. 
Ness@ChrisEccleston.com

 As you know from previous posts Chris is to appear on an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program as Doctor Lazer Rage, Brians favorite TV hero.

I was looking around last night and I found "New Season Sneak Peak"at ComedyCentral.com. Around the 00:42 mark you will see Brian watching Doctor Lazer Rage on the television.

Watch the special two Night Premiere Event of The Sarah Silverman Program Wednesday, October 8 at 10:30pm / 9:30c and Thursday, October 9, at 10:30pm / 9:30c.

The Sarah Silverman Program at ComedyCentral.com

Episode Schedule for The Sarah Silverman Program

Enjoy,
Ness@ChrisEccleston.com
 

Well this just came out of the blue today. It seems Chris has snuck in a film called The Happiness Salesman. So far no one knows much about it but I have emailed Kaos Films , the ones who posted the stills, in hopes of getting more details. In the meantime enjoy the stills that they have provided.
 

Source: Kaos Films

Steve Gomez’s psychological drama THE HAPPINESS SALESMAN winner of 2007 BSSC has completed filming on location in north London with the award winning director Krish Majumdar at the helm. It stars Christopher Eccleston and Archie Panjabi. Actual Link

 Christopher Eccleston on location as The Happiness Salesman

Archie Panjabi as Karen in Steve Gomez’s The Happiness Salesman

Christopher Eccleston and Archie Panjabi on set with director Krish Majumdar

A busy day on set for Archie Panjabi, Christopher Eccleston, director Krish Majumdar and the crew.

 I will keep you up to date!
Ness@ChrisEccleston.com

Source: How Do News

Freelance journalist Rachel Broady, a former staffer for the Manchester Evening News, has signed up a host of local celebrities in a new initiative to promote the National Year of Reading.

Broady, who co-runs the Creative Collective writing co-operative and teaches at MMU, has recruited stars such as Dave Spikey, Christopher Eccleston and Carol Ann Duffy to write and send postcards from the pages of their favourite books.

Spikey, for example, wrote from Paris in homage to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

The cards are now being shown on the BBC Big Screen in Exchange Square and will then ‘tour’ the country’s 16 other big screens in a bid to inspire the UK public to read more.

In addition, postcards have been made available for the public to download and write, while they’ve also been sent out to reading and writing groups, libraries, schools, colleges and bookshops.

This gives people the chance to ape the celebrities and write postcards from their own favourite books, while also earning the chance to win £25 in book vouchers.

MMU helped to create and distribute the cards, while the project was developed and supported by Manchester Libraries, Manchester Adult Education Services and Borders Bookshops. Full Story

Learn more about Manchester Reads
Learn more about Rachel Broady

 Enjoy,
Ness@ChrisEccleston.com

Source: Wales Online

A CHURCH that featured in one of the most popular episodes of Doctor Who is to be sold.

St Paul’s Church in Grangetown, Cardiff, was used as a location in the hit BBC1 show’s episode Father’s Day in 2005.

In it, Billie Piper’s character Rose asks the Doctor to take her to visit the day her father Pete died. Rose saves him from being run over and they end up going to a wedding at the church.

Parish priest Father Ben Andrews said it had been decided to invest money in a modern, comfortable 21st century church rather than continue pouring money into the crumbling Victorian building which was too big to maintain.

We hope the community will support the Church at this difficult time and support us as we seek to rebuild a presence in a contemporary building that really can serve in a useful and meaningful way for generations to come.

He predicted the church would need £1m worth of repairs over the next 10 years.

And although he was not sure how much the church would fetch, he expected it would be in the region of £300,000 to £500,000. Full Story

Ness@ChrisEccleston.com

Source:  Down The Tube News Blog

Last month DownTheTubes.net reported on a new Doctor Who Magazine in development. When they asked GE Fabbri when they would be putting them out to test in the UK this was their response…

This magazine is still in a development stage and we are not able to confirm where and when this magazine will be tested in the UK.

Fantastic,
Ness@ChrisEccleston.com

Not surprising really, he has a theater named after him now a wing at a school…

Source: Pamela Welsh, Salford Advertiser

The pupils had substantial involvement in picking the color scheme for the new building, as well as the names for the school wings - all based on celebrities, some of them Salfordian. There is the Pankhurst wing and the Morley wing, after suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst and rugby player Adrian Morley, as well as wings named after Christopher Eccleston, LS Lowry, Harold Riley and Charles Halle. Full Story

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