The 10th Kingdom [2000]

Country of Origin: USA / UK / Germany
Date(s) of Broadcast: 2000
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes:
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Babelsberg Film und Fernsehen / Carnival Films / Hallmark Entertainment / NBC
Executive Producers: Robert Halmi Sr, Robert Halmi Jr
Producers: Brian Eastman, Jane Prowse, Simon Moore
Associate Producer: Ted Morley
Production Manager: Margaret Adams
Production Supervisor: Alexis Arnold

SCRIPT
Script: Simon Moore

DIRECTION
Directors: David Carson, Herbert Wise
2nd Unit Director: Harvey Harrison
Title Sequence Director: Timothy Webber
1st Assistant Directors: Edward Farmer, Mark Goddard, Roger Simons
2nd Assistant Directors: Paul Morris, Steve Robinson
Dailies 2nd Assistant Director: Conny Neetenbeek
3rd Assistant Directors: Johnathon Farmer, Danny Pruett

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Chris Howard, Lawrence Jones
Camera Operator: Andrew Speller
Steadicam Operators: Paul Edwards, Stuart Howell
Gaffers: Jon Best, Terence Montague
Electrician: Paul Harris
Best Boys: David Taylor, Colin Vinton
Camera Trainee: Mark Jury
Clapper Loaders: Bob Cooke, Ed Jones, Danney Lee, Steve Scammell
Focus Pullers: Paul Donnachie, Jonathan Earp, Simon Mills
2nd Unit Focus Puller: Mike Evans
Grip: Ian Buckley
Rigger: David Weller
Stills: Oliver Upton

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editors: Andrew McClelland, Chris Wimble
Assistant Editor: P.J.Harling
2nd Assistant Editor: Steve Pang
Post-Production Coordinator: Cherry Brewer

MUSIC
Music: Anne Dudley
Song Performed By: Miriam Stockley [Wishing on a Star]

SOUND
Sound: Rudi Buckle
Boom Operator: John Casali
Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Smith
Co-Mixer Sound Assistant: Matthew Gough
Sound Assistant: Jerome McCann
Supervising Sound Editor: Steve Schwalbe
Dialogue Editors: Colin Ritchie, Nigel Stone
Sound Effects Editor: Mike Wood

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Suzan Broad, Veyatie MacLeod
Chief Hair: Stevie Hall
Hair: Mary Hillman
Costume Designer: Jill Taylor
Costume Design Assistants: Yves Barre, Charlotte Sewell
Tailor: Lee Clayton
Wardrobe Assistant: Anita Lad

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects Supervisor: Steven Painter
Prosthetics: Neill Gorton, Steve Painter

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Double Negative Ltd; Special Effects GB Ltd
Studio Manager: Pete Hanson
Special Effects Technicians : Paul Fenn, James Francis Jr, Jim Francis, Mark Howard, Paul Hulbert, Kevin Huse, Edward Smith, Nick P. Phillips

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects Supervisor: Mitch Mitchell
Visual Effects Producer: Arthur Windus
Technical Operations Manager: Steve MacPherson
Titles Graphic Artist: Pauline Hume

DIGITAL EFFECTS
Digital Effects: Richard Bain, Frazer Churchill
Digital Effects Artists: Adrian Banton, Richard Briscoe, Kieron Helson, Jesper Kjolsrud, Julian Mann, Sarah Soulsby, Leigh Took
Senior 3D Animator: Paul J. Franklin
3D Animator: Derek Wentworth
Title Sequence CG Animator: David Hulin

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Design: Julian Fullalove, Rob Hinds
Art Directors: Steve Carter, Henry Jaworski, Leigh Walker
Standby Art Director: Paul Booth
Set Decorator: Sara Wan
Property Manager: Mike Povey
Dressing Props: Mark Guest, Chris Rawlins
Standby Props: Ron Downing
Props Storeman: Brian Hampton
Production Buyer: Marshall Aver
Assistant Production Buyer: Nick Dent
Construction Manager: Steve Bohan
Carpenter: Paull Duff
Painter: Eddie Wolstencroft

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Anamda Lean
Trainee Script Supervisor: Tess Malone
Production Accountant: John Beharrell
Assistant Production Accountant: Penelope Beharrell
Animal Trainer: Gill Raddings
Publicist: Fliss Coombs
Nurse: Alison Bage
Unit Nurse: Judith Edwards
Transporation Manager: Williw Fonfe
Transportation Captain: Brian Baverstock
Transportation Coordinator: Brian Hathaway
Unit Driver: Billy Turner
Production Car: Walt G. Ludwig
Stagehand: Brian Mitchell
Runner: Daniel Pothecary

LOCATIONS
Locations: Alice Holt, Hampshire, England, UK; Black Park Country Park, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Dorney Court, Berkshire, England, UK; Frensham Little Pond, Farnham, Surrey, England, UK; Littlewick Green, Berkshire, England, UK; Waddesdon Manor, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, England, UK; Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, Singleton, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK; Castle of Werfen, Austria; Hallstatt, Austria; Krimml Falls, Austria; Tauern Kraftwerke, nr. Kaprun, Austria; Kayserberg, Alsace, France; Riquewihr, Alsace, France; Turckheim, Alsace, France; Écomusée, Alsace, France
Studio: Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Location Managers: Andrew Cooke, Angus More Gordon, Simon McNair Scott
Location Manager [New York]: Joseph Zolfo
Assistant Location Manager: Holger Shott

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Tony Smart

CASTING
Casting: James Jones, Sue Jones, Lynn Kressel, Kate Rhodes James

CAST
Kimberly Williams [Virginia Lewis]
Scott Cohen [Wolf]
John Larroquette [Antony 'Tony' Lewis]
Dianne Wiest [The Evil Queen / Christine Lewis]
Camryn Manheim [Snow White]
Ann-Margret [Queen Cinderella]
Ed O'Neill [Relish the Troll King]
Rutger Hauer [huntsman]
Dawnn Lewis [Blabberwort the troll]
Hugh O'Gorman [Burly the troll]
Daniel Lapaine [Prince Wendell White / golden retriever dog]
Jeremiah Birkett [Blue Bell the troll]
Warwick Davis [Acorn]
Kim Thomson [Queen Riding Hood III]
Lucy Whybrow [Leaf Fall, Elf Queen]
Chris Crooks [Elf King]
Moira Lister [grandmother]
John Shrapnel [prison governor]
Jimmy Nail [Clayface the goblin]
Timothy Bateson [tooth fairy]
Robert Hardy [Chancellor Griswold]
Aden Gillett [Viscount Lansky]
William Osborne [Lord Rupert]
Edward Jewesbury [old retainer]
Jeffrey Wickham [Giles]
Sheila Steafel [Dr Horowitz]
James Carroll Jordan [Mr Murray]
Deborah Sheridan-Taylor [Candy]
Katherine Hogarth [Mrs Murray]
Dylan Bell [Murray Jnr]
Gudrun Ure [Mrs Murray Snr]
Johnny Myers [Hank Murray]
Sam Douglas [restaurant diner]
Briony Glassco [stallholder]
Arthur Cox [Mayor of Beantown]
Clifford Barry, Paul McNeilly [prison warders]
John Axon [local craftsman]
Adam James, Michael Mueller [Beantown locals]
William Marsh, Nigel Whitmey, Leon Herbert [SWAT teams]
Len Collin [bald convict]
Charles Cork [old convict]
Peter Mandell, Craig Salisbury, Peter Burroughs [dwarves]
John Hallam [Queen's talking mirror]
James Cosmo [blind woodsman / Juliet]
Luke Healy, Edward Highmore [Queen's servants]
Eve Pearce [the gypsy queen]
Michael McCarthy, Adam Levy [gypsies]
Al Hunter Ashton [villainous convict]
Paul Sax [fiddle gypsy]
Vince De Cicco [accordian gypsy]
Tony Vogel [boatman]
Calum MacPherson [the village idiot]
Ann Firbank [old woman]
Michael Elliot [Farmer Morris]
Amelda Brown [Mrs Morris]
Frank Middlemass [judge]
Peter Vaughan [Wilfred Peep]
Lucy Punch [Sally Peep]
Gabrielle Lloyd [Barbara Peep]
Natasha Collins [Betty Peep]
Craig Purnell [Filbert Peep]
Edward Woodall [Fairfax Peep]
Liz May Brice [Mary Ramley]
Richard Syms [defeated farmer]
Jacqueline Tong [Farmer's wife]
Bruce McGregor [distraught farmer]
Caroline Hayes, Helen Latham [shepherdesses]
Christopher Tune [frightened servant]
Donald Pelmear [court clerk]
Ben Bailey [young servant]
Adam Christopher [armed troll]
Graham Crowden [elderly elf]
Tom Chadbon [auctioneer]
Poppy Rogers [little cupid girl]
Bob Barrett [Farmer John]
John Cater [restaurant owner]
Patrick Marley [jeweller]
Roger Sloman [kissing town sheriff]
Gordon Milne [barman]
Bob Curtiss [news vendor]
Maria Charles [old lady gambler]
Heidi Monsen [lady croupier]
Tim Killick [poker playing man]
Arturo Venegas [casino manager]
Kate Robbins [voice of singing ring]
John Blakey [gambler]
Charlotte Weston [high roll croupier]
Ruth Arnold [local woman]
Jeremy Peters [evil coachman]
Bill Thomas [excited man]
Tim Hudson [angry man]
Jennifer Croxton [angry woman]
Graham Turner [Mr Merrypip]
Dido Miles [Mrs Merrypip]
Danielle Harmer [Merrypip girl]
Mark Pegg [metal merchant]
Dicken Ashworth [scrap metal man]
Johnathon Key [gambler]
Jason Tompkin [union leader]
Mike Edmonds [dwarf librarian]
Douglas Blackwell [Gustav the magic mirror]
Dave Nicholls [auction house guard]
Gemma Boyle [little Virginia]
Hilary Tones [young Christine]
Ailsa Berk [evil stepmother's skeleton]
Jessica James [evil stepmother]
Antonia Corrigan, Aoife Thompson, Charlotte Morris [elf girls]
Tim Dry [naked emporer's nephew]
Jeremy Swift, Mary Roscoe [ball guest]
Jeff Nuttall [royal cook]
Edward Purver [royal page]
Jason Hall [voice of Prince - uncredited]
Iain Mitchell [coffin vendor - uncredited]
Mark Saban [perfume man - uncredited]
Harriet Thorpe [charm seller - uncredited]

There's trouble brewing in the Nine Kingdoms - the forthcoming coronation of Prince Wendel, Snow White's grandson, is threatened by an evil queen who has escaped from prison and turns the prince into a dog. Wendel uses a magic mirror to escape into the Tenth Kingdom, otherwise known as New York City - there he's pursued by trolls and befriended by Virginia and her father Tony who all journey back to the Nine Kingdoms hoping to restore Wendel to human form.

A very clever, funny and inventive take on traditional fairy-tales that occasionally lapses into cliché but more often than not plays against expectations. The witty script is acted to perfection by a strong cats, the effects are impressive and the pace never flags for a minute. A rare example of screen fantasy that actually works.

UK
Television Distributor: Sky One
Video Distributor: Warner Vision UK
DVD Distributor: Warner Vision International [8573827283]

USA
Television Distributor: Hallmark Entertainment
DVD Distributor: Hallmark Home Entertainment [10972; includes - The Making of The 10th Kingdom; characters biographies; Search for the Hidden 10th Kingdom game]

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

UK
Rating: 15 and 12 [with 1 second cut to remove an ear clap]

2000
May
1: UK - DVD release [Warner Vision International [8573827283]]
9: USA - DVD release [Hallmark Home Entertainment [10972]]
25: UK - rated 15 and 12 by the BBFC [for video release]

Das 10te Königreich - German title

2000
Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Main Title Design [Tim Webber] - winner

SEE ALSO
Cinderella [1950]
Red Hot Riding Hood [1943]
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs [1937]

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
The 10th Kingdom: The Making of an Epic [2000]

MAGAZINES

Direct [Winter 1999] p.7
letter, production details

In Camera April 2000 pp.22-23 [UK]
illustrated credits, article

NEWSPAPERS

Corriere della Sera 7 October 1999 [Italy]
review [by Aldo Grasso]

KEYWORDS

fairy tales, magic mirrors, trolls, dogs, transformations, royalty, princes, kings, coronations, magic, wishes, mice, castles, new york, animals, cinderella, curses, prisons, goblins, poison, gypsies, hunters, werewolves, mushrooms, fortune tellers, snow white, talking animals, anthropomorphism, invisibility

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007