A Little Chaos
A Little Chaos is a 2014 British period drama film directed by Alan Rickman, based on a story conceived by Alison Deegan, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Rickman and Jeremy Brock. The film stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Steven Waddington, Jennifer Ehle and Rupert Penry-Jones. The film was financed by Lionsgate UK and produced by BBC Films. The second film directed by Rickman, after his 1997 debut The Winter Guest, as well as the last before his death in 2016, it was additionally the second collaboration of Rickman and Winslet after their 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. Production took place in London in mid-2013. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival as the closing night film on 13 September 2014.
A Little Chaos
- Alison Deegan
- Alan Rickman
- Jeremy Brock
Alison Deegan
- Gail Egan
- Andrea Calderwood
- Bertrand Faivre
Nicolas Gaster
- BBC Films
- Lipsync Productions
- Potboiler Productions
- The Bureau
- Kia Jam Productions
- Artemis Films
- 13 September 2014 (TIFF)
- 17 April 2015
117 minutes[2]
United Kingdom
English
A Little Chaos : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Distribution[edit]
Promotion[edit]
BBC Films revealed footage as part of their Sizzle Showreel 2013 on 25 November 2013.[19] First stills of Kate Winslet were released on 22 July 2014 with the announcement of film's premiere at 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[20] Three images from the film featuring Winslet, Alan Rickman, and Jennifer Ehle were released on 27 August 2014.[21] A scene from the film featuring Winslet and Rickman was revealed on 9 September 2014.[11] The full-length official trailer was revealed on 19 December 2014.[22][23] The first poster and another trailer were released on 20 January 2015.[24] On 11 June 2015, another scene from the film featuring Stanley Tucci was released.[25]
Release[edit]
The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival as the closing night film on 13 September 2014.[26][27] It was then shown in gala screenings as Love Gala at the 2014 BFI London Film Festival on 17 October 2014.[28][29] Rickman presented the film at Camerimage film festival in November 2014.[30] The United States premiere was held at the Sonoma International Film Festival on 25 March 2015.[31] It had a theatrical release in Australia on 26 March 2015 and in UK on 17 April 2015.[32]
It was initially set for a theatrical release on 27 March 2015 in the United States[5] but was later pulled out.[33] Focus Features finally gave the film a simultaneous theatrical and VOD release in United States on 26 June 2015.[34]