Exclusive: Amp International has taken world sales rights on the sci-fi film Touchdown from Bandit Country.
The film follows the story of five friends stranded across the world when meteor storms bring a new life form to Earth. As global authorities implement emergency controls and move in secret to eliminate the predator, the friends risk everything to survive as they come face to face with the monster.
The film stars Clinton Liberty (House Of The Dragon), Cressida Bonas (White House Farm), Will Attenborough (Dunkirk), Kai Luke Brummer (Moffie), Lily Frazer (Saint Maud) and Jason Flemyng (Boiling Point).
Produced by Josephine Rose of Bandit Country, Touchdown also marks her first feature as director. The film was shot remotely during lockdown in seven different countries, capturing ground and aerial footage in the UK, U.S., South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and Australia. Rose has previously been Executive Producer on projects like Cinderella,...
The film follows the story of five friends stranded across the world when meteor storms bring a new life form to Earth. As global authorities implement emergency controls and move in secret to eliminate the predator, the friends risk everything to survive as they come face to face with the monster.
The film stars Clinton Liberty (House Of The Dragon), Cressida Bonas (White House Farm), Will Attenborough (Dunkirk), Kai Luke Brummer (Moffie), Lily Frazer (Saint Maud) and Jason Flemyng (Boiling Point).
Produced by Josephine Rose of Bandit Country, Touchdown also marks her first feature as director. The film was shot remotely during lockdown in seven different countries, capturing ground and aerial footage in the UK, U.S., South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, and Australia. Rose has previously been Executive Producer on projects like Cinderella,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl Champ Marshawn Lynch (Bottoms), Mustafa Shakir, Cam Gigandet, André Eriksen, and Lio Tipton are boarding 87North and Universal’s original action movie With Love.
They join previously cast Oscar winner winners Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose, as well as Daniel Wu in the pic set for release on Feb. 7, 2025. For Quan, it’s his first major leading man role post Everything, Everywhere All at Once.
The movie hails from vet stunt and fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio who is making his feature directorial debut. Eusebio’s credits include Black Panther, The Avengers, the John Wick films, The Matrix Resurrections, Violent Night, Deadpool 2, The Fate of the Furious, Doctor Strange, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Wolverine, The Bourne Legacy and 87North’s upcoming summer kickoff title,...
They join previously cast Oscar winner winners Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose, as well as Daniel Wu in the pic set for release on Feb. 7, 2025. For Quan, it’s his first major leading man role post Everything, Everywhere All at Once.
The movie hails from vet stunt and fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio who is making his feature directorial debut. Eusebio’s credits include Black Panther, The Avengers, the John Wick films, The Matrix Resurrections, Violent Night, Deadpool 2, The Fate of the Furious, Doctor Strange, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Wolverine, The Bourne Legacy and 87North’s upcoming summer kickoff title,...
- 4/19/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
With Love, the new action movie from Universal and 87North starring Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, will be released in theaters on Feb. 7, 2025.
87North has been behind such Uni action movies as Nobody, Violent Night, Atomic Blonde and this summer’s The Fall Guy which won over SXSW audiences in its world premiere on Tuesday night as well as scoring 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics.
With Love is produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, and it’s written by Josh Stoddard, Luke Passmore, and Matthew Murray. Guy Danella (Violent Night) is also producing for 87North. The pic reps the feature directorial debut of veteran stunt coordinator and fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio, whose credits include Black Panther, The Avengers, the John Wick films, The Matrix Resurrections, Violent Night, Deadpool 2, The Fate of the Furious, Doctor Strange,...
87North has been behind such Uni action movies as Nobody, Violent Night, Atomic Blonde and this summer’s The Fall Guy which won over SXSW audiences in its world premiere on Tuesday night as well as scoring 92% on Rotten Tomatoes with critics.
With Love is produced by 87North’s Kelly McCormick and David Leitch, and it’s written by Josh Stoddard, Luke Passmore, and Matthew Murray. Guy Danella (Violent Night) is also producing for 87North. The pic reps the feature directorial debut of veteran stunt coordinator and fight coordinator Jonathan Eusebio, whose credits include Black Panther, The Avengers, the John Wick films, The Matrix Resurrections, Violent Night, Deadpool 2, The Fate of the Furious, Doctor Strange,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ starts production (Photo Credit: Starz)
Filming has begun on Starz’s Outlander prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood which dives into the lives of Jamie’s parents, Ellen and Brian, and Claire’s parents, Julia and Henry. The network’s start of production announcement confirmed Harriet Slater (Pennyworth) will star as Ellen and Jamie Roy (Condor’s Nest) is playing Brian. Hermione Corfield (The Road Dance) is on board as Julia and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) stars as Henry.
“We’re thrilled to be telling the stories of these two couples. The origins of their relationships explore universal themes that transcend time periods, and we’re so excited for fans to discover and fall in love with these characters and their love stories the way they have with Claire and Jamie,” said Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner, executive producer, and writer on both series.
Season one will...
Filming has begun on Starz’s Outlander prequel Outlander: Blood of My Blood which dives into the lives of Jamie’s parents, Ellen and Brian, and Claire’s parents, Julia and Henry. The network’s start of production announcement confirmed Harriet Slater (Pennyworth) will star as Ellen and Jamie Roy (Condor’s Nest) is playing Brian. Hermione Corfield (The Road Dance) is on board as Julia and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) stars as Henry.
“We’re thrilled to be telling the stories of these two couples. The origins of their relationships explore universal themes that transcend time periods, and we’re so excited for fans to discover and fall in love with these characters and their love stories the way they have with Claire and Jamie,” said Matthew B. Roberts, showrunner, executive producer, and writer on both series.
Season one will...
- 2/5/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Here’s your guide to every movie and TV show leaving Netflix Canada in February 2024.
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
One of the biggest movies to leave Netflix is Matrix Revolutions, the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in February 2024. More departures will be announced throughout January 2024 and February 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on February 1st, 2023 All My Life (2020) American Assassin (2017) Bending All the Rules (2002) Blow (2001) Blue Valentine (2010) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Dark Shadows (2012) Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) Fury (2014) Guilty (2015) Half Brothers (2020) Here Comes the Boom (2012) John Q. (2002) Legend (2015) Legion (2010) Love Jacked (2018) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mystic River (2003) Non-Stop (2014) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) Son of the Mask...
In case you missed it, we also covered all the movies and TV shows leaving Netflix Canada in January 2024.
One of the biggest movies to leave Netflix is Matrix Revolutions, the fourth installment of the Matrix franchise.
Please Note: This is not the full list of everything leaving Netflix UK in February 2024. More departures will be announced throughout January 2024 and February 2024.
Movies and TV Shows Leaving Netflix Canada on February 1st, 2023 All My Life (2020) American Assassin (2017) Bending All the Rules (2002) Blow (2001) Blue Valentine (2010) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) Dark Shadows (2012) Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) Fury (2014) Guilty (2015) Half Brothers (2020) Here Comes the Boom (2012) John Q. (2002) Legend (2015) Legion (2010) Love Jacked (2018) Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) Mystic River (2003) Non-Stop (2014) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) Son of the Mask...
- 1/11/2024
- by Jacob Robinson
- Whats-on-Netflix
Stars: Sam Gittins, Lara Lemon, Alhaji Fofana, Leo Staar, Vincent Regan | Written by Junaid Syed, Tom Joliffe | Directed by Junaid Syed
Opening with a quote from H.G. Wells’ novel, War of the Worlds: The Attack is the latest in a seemingly endless stream of film, television shows, rock operas, and most infamously, a radio play by Orson Wells based on the classic tale of the original “Red Menace”.
Three friends Herbert, Hannah and Ogilvy are bicycling through the woods looking for a meteorite Hannah is sure landed nearby. They don’t find it although Herbert thinks he saw something hiding in the trees. He also has a theory that it’s not merely a meteorite.
The next morning they see what landed, something huge and already cordoned off by the police. As they sneak past for a closer look, it opens revealing an octopus-like occupant. But that’s nothing...
Opening with a quote from H.G. Wells’ novel, War of the Worlds: The Attack is the latest in a seemingly endless stream of film, television shows, rock operas, and most infamously, a radio play by Orson Wells based on the classic tale of the original “Red Menace”.
Three friends Herbert, Hannah and Ogilvy are bicycling through the woods looking for a meteorite Hannah is sure landed nearby. They don’t find it although Herbert thinks he saw something hiding in the trees. He also has a theory that it’s not merely a meteorite.
The next morning they see what landed, something huge and already cordoned off by the police. As they sneak past for a closer look, it opens revealing an octopus-like occupant. But that’s nothing...
- 5/10/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Exclusive: Finn Cole has signed with UTA for representation in all areas.
He is best known for his first leading role in the BAFTA-nominated series, Peaky Blinders alongside Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and the late Helen McCrory. His breakout role was in the hit TNT drama series Animal Kingdom portraying Joshua Cody across the show’s six seasons.
Cole starred in the ninth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise and Dreamland opposite Margot Robbie. Additional credits include the BBC’s An Inspector Calls portraying the character Eric Birling and Ollie Tedman in PBS’ Inspector Lewis. For the big screen, he also starred in Slaughterhouse Rulez opposite Simon Pegg and Asa Butterfield and in the Eoin Macken-directed Here Are The Young Men.
He recently wrapped filming on and will next be seen in a lead role in Netflix’s upcoming feature film, Locked In.
Cole will continue to be represented by The Way Management.
He is best known for his first leading role in the BAFTA-nominated series, Peaky Blinders alongside Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy and the late Helen McCrory. His breakout role was in the hit TNT drama series Animal Kingdom portraying Joshua Cody across the show’s six seasons.
Cole starred in the ninth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise and Dreamland opposite Margot Robbie. Additional credits include the BBC’s An Inspector Calls portraying the character Eric Birling and Ollie Tedman in PBS’ Inspector Lewis. For the big screen, he also starred in Slaughterhouse Rulez opposite Simon Pegg and Asa Butterfield and in the Eoin Macken-directed Here Are The Young Men.
He recently wrapped filming on and will next be seen in a lead role in Netflix’s upcoming feature film, Locked In.
Cole will continue to be represented by The Way Management.
- 5/3/2023
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
When a movie goes from being cringe-worthy to ridiculous to so utterly ridiculous that it’s actually entertaining, the transition is kind of exhausting. It’s also kind of interesting since it indicates that the writing process might have started out slow but became more intriguing the moment someone introduced an idea that others found so off the wall that it needed to be included. Slaughterhouse Rulez is one of those movies that feels like it should be predictable, but it actually surprises the viewer a bit since there is just enough sentiment in the movie to make it worth calling a
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- 10/26/2022
- by Tom Foster
- TVovermind.com
Exclusive: The Francis Lawrence directed Lionsgate prequel Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes continues to expand its ensemble cast with a third round of actors playing mentors and tributes from the Suzanne Collins’ YA novel.
Max Raphael will play Festus Creed, mentor to a tribute from District 4. Zoe Renee will play Lysistrata Vickers, mentor to a tribute from District 12. Ayomide Adegun will play Pliny “Pup” Harrington, mentor to a tribute from District 7. Kaitlyn Akinpelumi will portray Domita Whimsiwick, mentor to a tribute from District 10. Sofia Sanchez will play Wovey, tribute from District 8; while Amélie Hoeferle will play Vipsania Sickle, mentor to a tribute from District 7.
They join previously announced cast members Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Josh Andrés Rivera, as well as two previous rounds of tributes and mentors.
Logline for the prequel in the $3 billion-grossing franchise, which hits theaters on Nov. 17, 2023: 18-year-old Coriolanus...
Max Raphael will play Festus Creed, mentor to a tribute from District 4. Zoe Renee will play Lysistrata Vickers, mentor to a tribute from District 12. Ayomide Adegun will play Pliny “Pup” Harrington, mentor to a tribute from District 7. Kaitlyn Akinpelumi will portray Domita Whimsiwick, mentor to a tribute from District 10. Sofia Sanchez will play Wovey, tribute from District 8; while Amélie Hoeferle will play Vipsania Sickle, mentor to a tribute from District 7.
They join previously announced cast members Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Josh Andrés Rivera, as well as two previous rounds of tributes and mentors.
Logline for the prequel in the $3 billion-grossing franchise, which hits theaters on Nov. 17, 2023: 18-year-old Coriolanus...
- 6/28/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Sex Education” star Asa Butterfield and “Stranger Things” actor Natalia Dyer are set to take the lead roles in high concept horror thriller “All Fun and Games.” The movie follows a group of siblings who find themselves in a game with a demonic twist.
Anton, whose credits include “Greenland,” “The Night House” and “Curs>r,” is producing with Anthony and Joe Russo’s Agbo, best known for “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” and will present the film to buyers at the virtual European Film Market in Berlin next month.
It will be co-directed by Ari Costa, whose credits include “Extraction,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “The Internet Kills,” and Eren Celeboglu, who worked on “The Internet Kills” and “Scrubs,” in their directorial debuts. It will be written from a script they co-wrote based off J.J. Braider’s original spec that sold competitively to Agbo. Principal photography is set to begin at...
Anton, whose credits include “Greenland,” “The Night House” and “Curs>r,” is producing with Anthony and Joe Russo’s Agbo, best known for “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Avengers: Endgame,” and will present the film to buyers at the virtual European Film Market in Berlin next month.
It will be co-directed by Ari Costa, whose credits include “Extraction,” “Avengers: Endgame” and “The Internet Kills,” and Eren Celeboglu, who worked on “The Internet Kills” and “Scrubs,” in their directorial debuts. It will be written from a script they co-wrote based off J.J. Braider’s original spec that sold competitively to Agbo. Principal photography is set to begin at...
- 1/13/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Producer and financier Anton, whose credits include “Greenland,” “His Dark Materials” and “The Night House,” has announced that its latest production, the feature film “Curs>R,” has wrapped principal photography in the U.K. A dark twist on the ‘80s gaming obsession, the horror thriller stars Asa Butterfield, Iola Evans and Eddie Marsan.
Anton will oversee world sales and introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes virtual market later this month, in association with Endeavor Content, which is co-representing the U.S.
The film also features horror maestro Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Rounding out the cast is Angela Griffin, Kate Fleetwood, Ryan Gage,” and Joe Bolland (“The Trial of Christine Keeler”).
In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout (Evans) decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced...
Anton will oversee world sales and introduce the project to buyers at the upcoming Cannes virtual market later this month, in association with Endeavor Content, which is co-representing the U.S.
The film also features horror maestro Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Rounding out the cast is Angela Griffin, Kate Fleetwood, Ryan Gage,” and Joe Bolland (“The Trial of Christine Keeler”).
In pursuit of an unclaimed $125,000 prize, a broke college dropout (Evans) decides to play an obscure, 1980s survival computer game. But the game curses her, and she’s faced...
- 6/7/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The 28th edition of the Raindance Film Festival will close with the U.K. premiere of “Here Are The Young men,” directed by Eoin Macken (“Cold”).
The film is based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Rob Doyle, who co-wrote the screenplay with Macken. It follows three Dublin teenagers who leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, and fall into acts of transgression. It stars Dean-Charles Chapman (“1917”), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch”), Finn Cole (“Slaughterhouse Rulez”), and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (“Sing Street”).
The film previously played at the Galway Film Fleadh, where it won the Bingham Ray New Talent Award for co-producer Edwina Casey, and at the Giffoni Film Festival, where it was in official competition.
Macken will attend the premiere at London’s Vue West End cinema and participate in a Q&a. The venue will have reduced audience capacity in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines,...
The film is based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Rob Doyle, who co-wrote the screenplay with Macken. It follows three Dublin teenagers who leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, and fall into acts of transgression. It stars Dean-Charles Chapman (“1917”), Anya Taylor-Joy (“The Witch”), Finn Cole (“Slaughterhouse Rulez”), and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (“Sing Street”).
The film previously played at the Galway Film Fleadh, where it won the Bingham Ray New Talent Award for co-producer Edwina Casey, and at the Giffoni Film Festival, where it was in official competition.
Macken will attend the premiere at London’s Vue West End cinema and participate in a Q&a. The venue will have reduced audience capacity in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines,...
- 9/28/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon have released the first trailer for Truth Seekers, a brand new comedy series starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The show follows “a team of part-time paranormal investigators who team up to uncover and film ghost sightings across the U.K., sharing their adventures on an online channel for all to see.” How very meta. You can check out the preview in question above, which also features co-stars Susan Wokoma and Malcolm McDowell as fellow ghost hunters.
Along with the trailer, which arrived as part of a Comic-Con@Home panel, the studio also released a batch of promotional photos that give us a closer look at the show’s characters. Seen in the gallery down below, the one thing that stands out to me is Simon Pegg’s ghastly wig. There’s bad wigs and then there’s bad wigs. This is the latter. Good grief. It remains to...
Along with the trailer, which arrived as part of a Comic-Con@Home panel, the studio also released a batch of promotional photos that give us a closer look at the show’s characters. Seen in the gallery down below, the one thing that stands out to me is Simon Pegg’s ghastly wig. There’s bad wigs and then there’s bad wigs. This is the latter. Good grief. It remains to...
- 7/23/2020
- by Alex Crisp
- We Got This Covered
They are happy to trash movies from the comfort of their typewriters, but what happens when critics put their money where their mouth is?
It was at the London premiere of Shakespeare in Love in 1999 that Henry Fitzherbert decided to seize his chance and make the leap from film reviewer of the Sunday Express to Hollywood screenwriter. Buttonholing the movie’s producer, Harvey Weinstein, he pitched him an adaptation he had written of Stephen Benatar’s amnesia thriller Recovery. “He told me to get it to his hotel suite by 6am and he’d read it on the plane home,” Fitzherbert recalls. “Then I got a call from his New York office saying he loved it and I thought: ‘I’m going to be an overnight success!’ I was summoned to a meeting with his senior exec in London, given ‘notes’, which I worked on for months – and never heard from any of them again.
It was at the London premiere of Shakespeare in Love in 1999 that Henry Fitzherbert decided to seize his chance and make the leap from film reviewer of the Sunday Express to Hollywood screenwriter. Buttonholing the movie’s producer, Harvey Weinstein, he pitched him an adaptation he had written of Stephen Benatar’s amnesia thriller Recovery. “He told me to get it to his hotel suite by 6am and he’d read it on the plane home,” Fitzherbert recalls. “Then I got a call from his New York office saying he loved it and I thought: ‘I’m going to be an overnight success!’ I was summoned to a meeting with his senior exec in London, given ‘notes’, which I worked on for months – and never heard from any of them again.
- 4/2/2020
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Madrid — Four years in the making, Agustí Villaronga’s “Born a King,” starring Ed Skrein (“Deadpool”) and Hermione Cornfield (“Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation”) and produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez, has caught box office fire in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Released wide on Sept. 26, the true events-based historical drama – framing the coming of age of Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, against the background of a diplomatic mission he led to London in 1919 at the tender age of 13 – has earned an exceptional first-four-day $972, 962 in UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, according to figures from its distributor, Dubai’s-based Vox Film Distribution.
The lion’s share of that was made in UAE, where it grossed $547,725.
However execrating for an independent film, the results are not totally surprising. “Born a King” is a Spain-u.K. production, whose producers, director and crew pack huge experience: Gómez, producer of Fernando Trueba’s...
Released wide on Sept. 26, the true events-based historical drama – framing the coming of age of Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, against the background of a diplomatic mission he led to London in 1919 at the tender age of 13 – has earned an exceptional first-four-day $972, 962 in UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, according to figures from its distributor, Dubai’s-based Vox Film Distribution.
The lion’s share of that was made in UAE, where it grossed $547,725.
However execrating for an independent film, the results are not totally surprising. “Born a King” is a Spain-u.K. production, whose producers, director and crew pack huge experience: Gómez, producer of Fernando Trueba’s...
- 10/4/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
British actor, Simon Pegg and Oscar winner J.K Simmons have signed up to star in the new heist comedy thriller ‘My Only Sunshine’.
The feature will be directed by Mark Palansky from a script by J.T. Petty and K. Reed Petty. No distributor is yet attached but sales for the film is expected to commence at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
The story will revolve around a passionately dysfunctional couple who orchestrate a bank robbery as an unconventional act of bloodthirsty marriage counselling. They try to make peace with the shocking mystery of their relationship throughout the violent hostage situation, discovered by a cop hostage negotiator who previously investigated a past related crime.
Also in news – Viola Davis takes on the role of former first lady Michelle Obama for new series
Matt Smith, Lawrence Mattis are producing for Circle of Confusion and Michael Mendelsohn is producing on behalf of Patriot Pictures.
The feature will be directed by Mark Palansky from a script by J.T. Petty and K. Reed Petty. No distributor is yet attached but sales for the film is expected to commence at next month’s Toronto Film Festival.
The story will revolve around a passionately dysfunctional couple who orchestrate a bank robbery as an unconventional act of bloodthirsty marriage counselling. They try to make peace with the shocking mystery of their relationship throughout the violent hostage situation, discovered by a cop hostage negotiator who previously investigated a past related crime.
Also in news – Viola Davis takes on the role of former first lady Michelle Obama for new series
Matt Smith, Lawrence Mattis are producing for Circle of Confusion and Michael Mendelsohn is producing on behalf of Patriot Pictures.
- 8/28/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Cornetto Trilogy finished many years ago, but that apparently won’t stop the stars from continuing to reunite. That’s right, folks: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are teaming up yet again and this time, they aim to tackle another supernatural foe in the form of ghosts. Ahhh!
The new show, called Truth Seekers, has been picked up by Amazon Prime Video this week, with production set to kick off in September. The duo have been developing the series for quite a while now, so this is certainly wonderful news to all.
From what we understand, the project will feature Frost and Pegg as Gus and Dave, two ghost hunters who stalk across the creepiest parts of the UK looking for any evidence of a spook, spectre or ghost. Truth Seekers is being billed as a horror-comedy, and the show seems to be set up for more of a monster-of-the-week type of thing,...
The new show, called Truth Seekers, has been picked up by Amazon Prime Video this week, with production set to kick off in September. The duo have been developing the series for quite a while now, so this is certainly wonderful news to all.
From what we understand, the project will feature Frost and Pegg as Gus and Dave, two ghost hunters who stalk across the creepiest parts of the UK looking for any evidence of a spook, spectre or ghost. Truth Seekers is being billed as a horror-comedy, and the show seems to be set up for more of a monster-of-the-week type of thing,...
- 8/5/2019
- by Josh Heath
- We Got This Covered
Rebellion, which owns the Judge Dredd and 2000 Ad franchises, has set its first in-house projects that will use the company’s new studio space near Oxford, England. Post-apocalyptic thriller “School’s Out Forever” will be first out of the gate, shooting there and on location, followed by several projects based on Rebellion’s comic book and publishing shared worlds, including a new Judge Dredd project and Duncan Jones’ Rogue Trooper project.
“School’s Out Forever” is based on a book in Rebellion’s Afterblight Chronicles, a shared world that features contributions from various authors and hails from Rebellion’s Abaddon Books imprint. The first installment of a trilogy from Scott K. Andrews, “School’s Out Forever” follows a 15-year-old who flees to his school as a safe haven after an apocalyptic event wipes out most of the world’s population.
“It’s a great hook – what happens if the world...
“School’s Out Forever” is based on a book in Rebellion’s Afterblight Chronicles, a shared world that features contributions from various authors and hails from Rebellion’s Abaddon Books imprint. The first installment of a trilogy from Scott K. Andrews, “School’s Out Forever” follows a 15-year-old who flees to his school as a safe haven after an apocalyptic event wipes out most of the world’s population.
“It’s a great hook – what happens if the world...
- 6/18/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
In addition to co-starring in Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are continuing to bring genre stories to life on the big screen at their Stolen Picture production company, which has just sold a horror film pitch for a film called Svalta to Orion Pictures.
Deadline reports that Orion Pictures has picked up Svalta, a horror movie pitch from Stolen Picture about "a family on their summer vacation to a remote Swedish island [named Svalta] where they discover a serial killer is on the loose, but the locals have no interest in helping the stranded family of tourists."
In addition to producing Svalta alongside Pegg and Stolen Picture CEO Miles Ketley, Frost will also co-write the screenplay with James Serafinowicz and Nat Saunders, who are creative directors at Stolen Picture, with Dan Kagan overseeing the project for Orion Pictures.
Deadline reports that Orion Pictures has picked up Svalta, a horror movie pitch from Stolen Picture about "a family on their summer vacation to a remote Swedish island [named Svalta] where they discover a serial killer is on the loose, but the locals have no interest in helping the stranded family of tourists."
In addition to producing Svalta alongside Pegg and Stolen Picture CEO Miles Ketley, Frost will also co-write the screenplay with James Serafinowicz and Nat Saunders, who are creative directors at Stolen Picture, with Dan Kagan overseeing the project for Orion Pictures.
- 6/7/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hard to believe we’re about to bid another month adieu, but May is nearly upon us now, which means we have a ton of new films hitting various digital and VOD platforms in the coming weeks. Things kick off in a big way on the 3rd with a quartet of releases, including I’ll Take Your Dead from Shout! Studios, Paul Hyett’s The Convent, Dead Trigger and Cold Pursuit, featuring Liam Neeson.
May 7th is yet another busy day for digital releases, with Gaspar Noé’s Climax, Room for Rent, and the Scary Stories doc all making their digital debuts, and if you happened to miss it in theaters, Neil Jordan’s Greta hits various platforms a week later on the 14th. On May 17th, Slaughterhouse Rulez, featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, arrives on VOD, and the month of May’s digital releases wraps up with The Perfection,...
May 7th is yet another busy day for digital releases, with Gaspar Noé’s Climax, Room for Rent, and the Scary Stories doc all making their digital debuts, and if you happened to miss it in theaters, Neil Jordan’s Greta hits various platforms a week later on the 14th. On May 17th, Slaughterhouse Rulez, featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, arrives on VOD, and the month of May’s digital releases wraps up with The Perfection,...
- 4/30/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
High school is hard enough without monsters from Hell trying to eat you. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are best known for anchoring the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy which is comprised of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End. Their latest endeavor, a creature feature called Slaughterhouse Rulez was released overseas ages […] The post Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Monster Movie Slaughterhouse Rulez Gets Us Theatrical and DVD Release Dates appeared first on Dread Central.
- 4/19/2019
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Stars: Finn Cole, Asa Butterfield, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Michael Sheen, Margot Robbie, Hermione Corfield, Jo Hartley, Jamie Blackley, Isabella Laughland, Tom Rhys Harries, Kit Connor, Hanako Footman, Jane Stanness | Written by Crispian Mills, Henry Fitzherbert | Directed by Crispian Mills
Slaughterhouse Rulez, directed by Crispian Mills, is the first produced joint venture between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. The two also star in this campy comedy flick that is mash-up of Edgar Wright’s beloved British comedy Shaun of the Dead and Neil Marshall’s cult-classic underground monster movie Dog Soldiers, released in 2004 and 2002 respectively. However, Slaughterhouse Rulez feels more of a hollow homage of sorts – a thinly veiled layer of both horror and comedy that is sadly entirely derivative of any and all of Edgar Wright’s filmography, albeit with a decent screenplay and character craft.
The performances are undoubtedly the key highlight of this production.
Slaughterhouse Rulez, directed by Crispian Mills, is the first produced joint venture between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. The two also star in this campy comedy flick that is mash-up of Edgar Wright’s beloved British comedy Shaun of the Dead and Neil Marshall’s cult-classic underground monster movie Dog Soldiers, released in 2004 and 2002 respectively. However, Slaughterhouse Rulez feels more of a hollow homage of sorts – a thinly veiled layer of both horror and comedy that is sadly entirely derivative of any and all of Edgar Wright’s filmography, albeit with a decent screenplay and character craft.
The performances are undoubtedly the key highlight of this production.
- 3/12/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
We still don’t have U.S. release information for director Crispian Mills’ Slaughterhouse Rulez, the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost-starring monster comedy that was released in the United Kingdom this past Halloween. As we recently told you, it’s next headed to U.K. Blu-ray on March 11th, so if you want to see it, you might want to […]...
- 2/27/2019
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
British monster horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez, starring Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is getting a UK Blu-ray release on March 11, 2019.
The film is directed by Crispian Mills who worked with Pegg on A Fantastic Fear of Everything.
Synopsis:
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match.
This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial frack site on...
The film is directed by Crispian Mills who worked with Pegg on A Fantastic Fear of Everything.
Synopsis:
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match.
This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial frack site on...
- 2/7/2019
- QuietEarth.us
Exclusive: John Boyega will executive produce South African crime-thriller God Is Good, which is being described by producers as in the vein of Prisoners and City Of God. The Star Wars and Pacific Rim star is also launching a record label, UpperRoom Records, which will oversee the film’s soundtrack.
God Is Good is being produced by fledgling UK production label Bandit Country, headed by former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez). Set in Cape Town’s Cape Flats, the English-language film will follow a reformed gangster-turned-pastor and a volatile detective who cross paths after an act of brutal violence sets them on collision course with a heinous gang lieutenant. Casting discussions are under way with shoot planned for spring of this year.
The film is written and to be directed by first-time South African feature filmmaker Willem Grobler, a former Ifp Film Week Alumnus whose shorts have played at festivals including Clermont-Ferrand.
God Is Good is being produced by fledgling UK production label Bandit Country, headed by former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez). Set in Cape Town’s Cape Flats, the English-language film will follow a reformed gangster-turned-pastor and a volatile detective who cross paths after an act of brutal violence sets them on collision course with a heinous gang lieutenant. Casting discussions are under way with shoot planned for spring of this year.
The film is written and to be directed by first-time South African feature filmmaker Willem Grobler, a former Ifp Film Week Alumnus whose shorts have played at festivals including Clermont-Ferrand.
- 1/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael B Jordan
The actor is in serious awards contention for his role in “Black Panther,” but also most recently starred in “Creed II,” “Fahrenheit 451” and “Kin.”
Josh Brolin
We all know Josh Brolin played the villain in both “Deadpool 2” And “Avengers: Infinity War” (which is a feat in itself), but he also starred in “Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado” and “The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter.”
Tessa Thompson
Thompson seems to have been in every movie this year, and that’s for good reason: She starred in “Annihilation” alongside Natalie Portman, as well as “Sorry to Bother You,” “Little Woods,” “Furlough” and “Creed II.”
Patrick Wilson
Wilson is now just making the rounds as King Orm in James Wan’s “Aquaman,” but the actor also starred in “Insidious: The Last Key,” “”The Commuter,” “The Nun,” “Nightmare Cinema” and he is currently filming the Untitled “Annabelle” film.
The actor is in serious awards contention for his role in “Black Panther,” but also most recently starred in “Creed II,” “Fahrenheit 451” and “Kin.”
Josh Brolin
We all know Josh Brolin played the villain in both “Deadpool 2” And “Avengers: Infinity War” (which is a feat in itself), but he also starred in “Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado” and “The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter.”
Tessa Thompson
Thompson seems to have been in every movie this year, and that’s for good reason: She starred in “Annihilation” alongside Natalie Portman, as well as “Sorry to Bother You,” “Little Woods,” “Furlough” and “Creed II.”
Patrick Wilson
Wilson is now just making the rounds as King Orm in James Wan’s “Aquaman,” but the actor also starred in “Insidious: The Last Key,” “”The Commuter,” “The Nun,” “Nightmare Cinema” and he is currently filming the Untitled “Annabelle” film.
- 12/18/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Sony Pictures International Productions and Film4 have wrapped production on Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me) comedy Greed, starring Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher and David Mitchell.
Also starring are Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry, Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Ollie Locke and Stephen Fry. Sony has also released some fun first-look images.
The satire, whose lead cast we revealed in September, is co-written by Winterbottom and two-time Emmy Award winner Sean Gray (Veep), and is produced by Melissa Parmenter (The Trip) for Revolution Films and DJ Films’ Damian Jones (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie).
The film tells the fictional story of a retail billionaire, and is set in the glamorous and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, with a build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos. Many believe the film’s subject was...
Also starring are Sophie Cookson, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sarah Solemani, Shanina Shaik, Dinita Gohil, Asim Chaudhry, Pearl Mackie, Jonny Sweet, Ollie Locke and Stephen Fry. Sony has also released some fun first-look images.
The satire, whose lead cast we revealed in September, is co-written by Winterbottom and two-time Emmy Award winner Sean Gray (Veep), and is produced by Melissa Parmenter (The Trip) for Revolution Films and DJ Films’ Damian Jones (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie).
The film tells the fictional story of a retail billionaire, and is set in the glamorous and celebrity-filled world of luxury fashion, with a build up to a spectacular 60th birthday party in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos. Many believe the film’s subject was...
- 12/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Elementary and Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller and Oscar and Grammy-winner Common (The Hate U Give) have been set to star in Nine Lives, the movie adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette of the same name.
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic story follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. Shoot is being lined up for next summer.
Screenplay comes from debut writer-director Siri Rodnes and Tom Basden, who was BAFTA nominated for Fresh Meat. Rodnes will also direct. Producers are Gavin Humphries of Quark Films, who was recently Bifa-nominated for Pin Cushion; and former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez) of Bandit Country, whose upcoming slate also includes fantasy-horror A Spriggan with John Boyega as executive producer. Nine Lives has been selected as part of...
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic story follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. Shoot is being lined up for next summer.
Screenplay comes from debut writer-director Siri Rodnes and Tom Basden, who was BAFTA nominated for Fresh Meat. Rodnes will also direct. Producers are Gavin Humphries of Quark Films, who was recently Bifa-nominated for Pin Cushion; and former Sony International producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez) of Bandit Country, whose upcoming slate also includes fantasy-horror A Spriggan with John Boyega as executive producer. Nine Lives has been selected as part of...
- 11/14/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Animated Dr. Seuss title took £5m over the weekend.
Rank Film / Distributor Three-day gross (Nov 9-11) Gross Week 1 The Grinch (Universal) £5m £5m 1 2 Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) £4.5m £29m 3 3 Widows (20th Century Fox) £1.6m £2.4m 1 4 A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) £1.2m £25.4m 6 5. The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (Disney) £1.1m £3.4m 2
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29.
Universal
3D family animation The Grinch has dislodged Bohemian Rhapsody from the number one slot at the top of the UK box office, taking £5m from its first three days.
Playing in 561 sites, the film scored a decent average of...
Rank Film / Distributor Three-day gross (Nov 9-11) Gross Week 1 The Grinch (Universal) £5m £5m 1 2 Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) £4.5m £29m 3 3 Widows (20th Century Fox) £1.6m £2.4m 1 4 A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) £1.2m £25.4m 6 5. The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (Disney) £1.1m £3.4m 2
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.29.
Universal
3D family animation The Grinch has dislodged Bohemian Rhapsody from the number one slot at the top of the UK box office, taking £5m from its first three days.
Playing in 561 sites, the film scored a decent average of...
- 11/12/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Queen biopic passes £20m in two weeks.
RankFilm / DistributorThree-day gross (Nov 2-4) Gross Week 1 Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) £5.7m £20.4m 2 2 A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) £1.8m £22.9m 5 3 The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (Disney) £1.8m £1.8m 1 4 Smallfoot (Warner Bros) £1.1m £10.2m 4 5. Johnny English Strikes Again (Universal) £1m £16.4m 5
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.30.
20th Century Fox
Bohemian Rhapsody dropped by just 11% to stay top of the UK box office in its second week on release. It took £5.7m over the weekend from 682 locations, and is already up to £20.4m in the territory.
Although it is behind...
RankFilm / DistributorThree-day gross (Nov 2-4) Gross Week 1 Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox) £5.7m £20.4m 2 2 A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) £1.8m £22.9m 5 3 The Nutcracker And The Four Realms (Disney) £1.8m £1.8m 1 4 Smallfoot (Warner Bros) £1.1m £10.2m 4 5. Johnny English Strikes Again (Universal) £1m £16.4m 5
Today’s Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.30.
20th Century Fox
Bohemian Rhapsody dropped by just 11% to stay top of the UK box office in its second week on release. It took £5.7m over the weekend from 682 locations, and is already up to £20.4m in the territory.
Although it is behind...
- 11/5/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Queen musical drama soars like a rocket ship in 64 markets.
November 5 Update: Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody soared to the top of the global box office at the weekend thanks to an estimated $124m haul that included $74m from 64 international markets.
Disney’s Keira Knightley family fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms debuted on $38.5m, while Universal’s horror hit Halloween crossed $225m worldwide.
Fox International
Updated: The Queen / Freddie Mercury drama starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stands at $91m internationally and ranks top in approximately 50 markets. Bohemian Rhapsody debuted top in France on $8.1m debut. It grossed a stunning...
November 5 Update: Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody soared to the top of the global box office at the weekend thanks to an estimated $124m haul that included $74m from 64 international markets.
Disney’s Keira Knightley family fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms debuted on $38.5m, while Universal’s horror hit Halloween crossed $225m worldwide.
Fox International
Updated: The Queen / Freddie Mercury drama starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stands at $91m internationally and ranks top in approximately 50 markets. Bohemian Rhapsody debuted top in France on $8.1m debut. It grossed a stunning...
- 11/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Queen musical drama soars like a rocket ship in 64 markets.
November 5 Update: Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody soared to the top of the global box office at the weekend thanks to an estimated $122.5m haul that included $72.5m from 64 international markets.
Disney’s Keira Knightley family fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms debuted on $38.5m, while Universal’s horror hit Halloween crossed $225m worldwide.
Fox International
The Queen / Freddie Mercury drama starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stands at $91.7m internationally and ranks top in approximately 50 markets. Bohemian Rhapsody debuted top in France on $7.7m debut. It grossed a stunning $7.4m...
November 5 Update: Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody soared to the top of the global box office at the weekend thanks to an estimated $122.5m haul that included $72.5m from 64 international markets.
Disney’s Keira Knightley family fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms debuted on $38.5m, while Universal’s horror hit Halloween crossed $225m worldwide.
Fox International
The Queen / Freddie Mercury drama starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stands at $91.7m internationally and ranks top in approximately 50 markets. Bohemian Rhapsody debuted top in France on $7.7m debut. It grossed a stunning $7.4m...
- 11/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Queen musical drama soars like a rocket ship in 64 markets.
Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody soared to the top of the global box office at the weekend thanks to an estimated $122.5m haul that included $72.5m from 64 international markets.
Disney’s Keira Knightley family fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms debuted on $38.5m, while Universal’s horror hit Halloween crossed $225m worldwide.
Fox International
The Queen / Freddie Mercury drama starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stands at $91.7m internationally and ranks top in approximately 50 markets. Bohemian Rhapsody debuted top in France on $7.7m debut. It grossed a stunning $7.4m following an...
Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody soared to the top of the global box office at the weekend thanks to an estimated $122.5m haul that included $72.5m from 64 international markets.
Disney’s Keira Knightley family fantasy The Nutcracker And The Four Realms debuted on $38.5m, while Universal’s horror hit Halloween crossed $225m worldwide.
Fox International
The Queen / Freddie Mercury drama starring Rami Malek (Mr. Robot) stands at $91.7m internationally and ranks top in approximately 50 markets. Bohemian Rhapsody debuted top in France on $7.7m debut. It grossed a stunning $7.4m following an...
- 11/4/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Kate Mara and Simon Pegg are in negotiations to star in the independent thriller “Inheritance” with British director Vaughn Stein attached.
The film explores what happens when the patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
Highland Film Group launched foreign sales at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif. this week. UTA and Highland Film Group are co-repping the U.S. rights.
Matthew Kennedy wrote the script, and Richard B. Lewis is producing through his Southpaw Entertainment banner alongside David Wulf of WulfPak Productions, and Convergent Media’s Dan Reardon and Santosh Govindaraju.
“Inheritance” is Highland’s second collaboration with Stein; it previously partnered on his debut film “Terminal,” which was released earlier this year.
Mara’s credits include Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” “Meagan Leavey” and “Chappaquidick.
The film explores what happens when the patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
Highland Film Group launched foreign sales at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, Calif. this week. UTA and Highland Film Group are co-repping the U.S. rights.
Matthew Kennedy wrote the script, and Richard B. Lewis is producing through his Southpaw Entertainment banner alongside David Wulf of WulfPak Productions, and Convergent Media’s Dan Reardon and Santosh Govindaraju.
“Inheritance” is Highland’s second collaboration with Stein; it previously partnered on his debut film “Terminal,” which was released earlier this year.
Mara’s credits include Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” “Meagan Leavey” and “Chappaquidick.
- 11/2/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Simon Pegg and Michael Sheen star in a watchable jape that has plenty of charm but not enough scares
Elite boarding schools have been a favourite microcosm for film-makers to explore over the years: as the crucible of revolution in If…., the breeding ground of spies in Another Country, and the vessel of intellectual liberation in Dead Poets Society. Despite one or two nods and winks (including a picture of If….’s Malcolm McDowell getting plugged in the face with an airgun pellet), this watchable if basically undemanding jape opts to take a very different tack: a teen comedy-horror with little aspiration to make any bigger points other than to chase its group of shrieking and bellowing schoolkids around an educational establishment’s venerable passageways and adjacent woodland.
Strangely enough, the coincidence of the real-world news cycle has given Slaughterhouse Rulez an unlikely topicality: a giant fracking drill in the...
Elite boarding schools have been a favourite microcosm for film-makers to explore over the years: as the crucible of revolution in If…., the breeding ground of spies in Another Country, and the vessel of intellectual liberation in Dead Poets Society. Despite one or two nods and winks (including a picture of If….’s Malcolm McDowell getting plugged in the face with an airgun pellet), this watchable if basically undemanding jape opts to take a very different tack: a teen comedy-horror with little aspiration to make any bigger points other than to chase its group of shrieking and bellowing schoolkids around an educational establishment’s venerable passageways and adjacent woodland.
Strangely enough, the coincidence of the real-world news cycle has given Slaughterhouse Rulez an unlikely topicality: a giant fracking drill in the...
- 10/31/2018
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Peaky Blinders’ Finn Cole & Hermione Corfield were in attendance at last weekend’s London McM Comic-Con and we met them there to talk about their new movie Slaughterhouse Rulez – the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture production company.
During the interview they talk about how fun it was making the movie, what audiences can expect and what it was like working with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz legends Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Slaughterhouse Rulez is directed by Crispian Mills and also stars Michael Sheen, Asa Butterfield and Hermione Corfield.
Colin Hart and Ethan Hart conducted the interview – check it out below.
Slaughterhouse Rulez Cast Interviews
Plot
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
The post Exclusive: Hermione Corfield & Finn Cole on the bloody fun of Pegg & Frost...
During the interview they talk about how fun it was making the movie, what audiences can expect and what it was like working with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz legends Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Slaughterhouse Rulez is directed by Crispian Mills and also stars Michael Sheen, Asa Butterfield and Hermione Corfield.
Colin Hart and Ethan Hart conducted the interview – check it out below.
Slaughterhouse Rulez Cast Interviews
Plot
An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.
The post Exclusive: Hermione Corfield & Finn Cole on the bloody fun of Pegg & Frost...
- 10/30/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: John Boyega will executive produce UK fantasy horror A Spriggan from writer-director Keir Burrows (Anti Matter) and producer Josephine Rose (Slaughterhouse Rulez) of new outfit Bandit Country.
The Star Wars actor joins via his Upper Room Productions banner, through which he recently co-produced Pacific Rim: Uprising, alongside Legendary Pictures.
Currently out to cast, creature feature A Spriggan follows a recently widowed mother who returns to her father’s isolated hotel only to find a sinister folklore presence haunting the land. The impressive crew includes two-time Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Neil Corbould and his company Neil Corbould Special Effects, which is handling special effects and creating the creature. Courbould is well known for his work on movies including Rogue One, Gravity and Gladiator. Production designer is Amanda McArthur (How To Build A Girl) and director of photography will be Burrows’ regular collaborator Gerry Vasbenter (Anti Matter).
In UK folklore, Spriggans were...
The Star Wars actor joins via his Upper Room Productions banner, through which he recently co-produced Pacific Rim: Uprising, alongside Legendary Pictures.
Currently out to cast, creature feature A Spriggan follows a recently widowed mother who returns to her father’s isolated hotel only to find a sinister folklore presence haunting the land. The impressive crew includes two-time Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Neil Corbould and his company Neil Corbould Special Effects, which is handling special effects and creating the creature. Courbould is well known for his work on movies including Rogue One, Gravity and Gladiator. Production designer is Amanda McArthur (How To Build A Girl) and director of photography will be Burrows’ regular collaborator Gerry Vasbenter (Anti Matter).
In UK folklore, Spriggans were...
- 9/4/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
A new trailer for Danny McBride’s dark comedy Arizona has landed online.
Set in the 2009 housing crisis, McBride reaches the end of his tether with his estate agent and decides to kidnap her and her daughter making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another.
Jonathan Watson makes his directorial debut, Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Wilson, Kaitlin Olson, Elizabeth Gillies, Lolli Sorenson and David Alan Grier all star alongside McBride.
Also in trailers – There’s something ominous lurking the school halls in trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez
The film hits Us cinemas, VOD and Digital HD on August 24th.
Arizona Official Synopsis
Cassie is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together during the housing crisis of 2009. Her problems go from bad to worse when disgruntled client Sonny violently confronts Cassie’s boss and then kidnaps Cassie – making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another.
Set in the 2009 housing crisis, McBride reaches the end of his tether with his estate agent and decides to kidnap her and her daughter making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another.
Jonathan Watson makes his directorial debut, Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Wilson, Kaitlin Olson, Elizabeth Gillies, Lolli Sorenson and David Alan Grier all star alongside McBride.
Also in trailers – There’s something ominous lurking the school halls in trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez
The film hits Us cinemas, VOD and Digital HD on August 24th.
Arizona Official Synopsis
Cassie is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together during the housing crisis of 2009. Her problems go from bad to worse when disgruntled client Sonny violently confronts Cassie’s boss and then kidnaps Cassie – making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another.
- 8/15/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: Sci-fi giant Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed novelette Nine Lives is being reworked as a feature by UK producers Gavin Humphries (Pin Cushion) of Quark Films and former Sony Pictures International producer Josephine Rose.
Tom Basden, BAFTA-nominated for Netflix series Fresh Meat and a regular actor and writer on ITV2 comedy Plebs (recently picked up for remake by Seth Rogen), is co-scripting the adaptation with Nfts alum Siri Rodnes, who will also direct. The team is in discussions with cast.
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic Nine Lives follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. The story’s themes of cloning, individualism and the importance of social connection hit home when the story was published by Playboy in 1968 and still resonate today.
Rodnes, whose 2016 short Take Your Partner was BAFTA-nominated and played in Berlin,...
Tom Basden, BAFTA-nominated for Netflix series Fresh Meat and a regular actor and writer on ITV2 comedy Plebs (recently picked up for remake by Seth Rogen), is co-scripting the adaptation with Nfts alum Siri Rodnes, who will also direct. The team is in discussions with cast.
Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic Nine Lives follows two jaded workers whose excitement at the prospect of incoming human company is dashed when they are instead sent ten clones. The story’s themes of cloning, individualism and the importance of social connection hit home when the story was published by Playboy in 1968 and still resonate today.
Rodnes, whose 2016 short Take Your Partner was BAFTA-nominated and played in Berlin,...
- 8/15/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Ahead of receiving its premiere at the Toronto film festival, the first full-length trailer for Steve McQueen’s Widows has landed online.
Based on a script by McQueen and Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn, the movie is about a group of Chicago women who conspire to settle a debt from their dead husbands’ criminal activities.
The cast list runs like an Oscar nominations rundown with Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, and Cynthia Erivo who star as Veronica, Alice, Linda, and Belle, respectively.
Liam Neeson stars in his first non-action role since The Commuter as Mr Rawlins, ”Veronica’s husband”, whilst Robert Duvall plays Mr. Mulligan, the father of politician Jack Mulligan who is played by Colin Farrell. Also starring in the film is Daniel Kaluuya, Carrie Coon, Jon Bernthal, and Lukas Haas.
Also in trailers – There’s something ominous lurking the school halls in trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez
The...
Based on a script by McQueen and Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn, the movie is about a group of Chicago women who conspire to settle a debt from their dead husbands’ criminal activities.
The cast list runs like an Oscar nominations rundown with Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, and Cynthia Erivo who star as Veronica, Alice, Linda, and Belle, respectively.
Liam Neeson stars in his first non-action role since The Commuter as Mr Rawlins, ”Veronica’s husband”, whilst Robert Duvall plays Mr. Mulligan, the father of politician Jack Mulligan who is played by Colin Farrell. Also starring in the film is Daniel Kaluuya, Carrie Coon, Jon Bernthal, and Lukas Haas.
Also in trailers – There’s something ominous lurking the school halls in trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez
The...
- 8/14/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Michael Moore has never shied away from delivering politically hard-hitting documentarys. Following up on his highly successful 2004 doc, Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore delves into the Trump catastrophe that threatens America in new doc Fahrenheit 11/9.
The trailer below follows a frustrated Moore around the Us as he sheds light on the Flint Water disaster, the insurgence of the Ku Klux Klan at the hands of Trump and how the American dream is going up in flames under his ill-gotten reign.
The Oscar-nominated documentary directors/producers Meghan O’Hara, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal teamed up with Moore on the project which was shot under a strict cloak of secrecy.
Also in trailers – There’s something ominous lurking the school halls in trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez
The documentary is set to hit cinemas on September 21st.
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 Official Synopsis
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live.
The trailer below follows a frustrated Moore around the Us as he sheds light on the Flint Water disaster, the insurgence of the Ku Klux Klan at the hands of Trump and how the American dream is going up in flames under his ill-gotten reign.
The Oscar-nominated documentary directors/producers Meghan O’Hara, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal teamed up with Moore on the project which was shot under a strict cloak of secrecy.
Also in trailers – There’s something ominous lurking the school halls in trailer for Slaughterhouse Rulez
The documentary is set to hit cinemas on September 21st.
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 Official Synopsis
Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live.
- 8/13/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The classic buddy pairing of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are back in director Crispian Mills’ horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez. The new horror comedy will be hitting theaters in the UK this Halloween and today we have the movie’s trailer for your viewing pleasure. It follows Finn […]
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- 8/11/2018
- by Mike Sprague
- DreadCentral.com
The first trailer for Crispian Mills’ comedy fright-fest, Slaughterhouse Rulez in which both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite.
Directed by Crispian Mills, the film stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Diego Suarez Chialvo and Josephine Rose are Executive Producers. The Story by Luke Passmore and Crispian Mills & Henry Fitzherbert. Screenplay by Crispian Mills & Henry Fitzherbert. Produced by Charlotte Walls. Directed by Crispian Mills.
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The film will be released into cinemas October 31.
Slaughterhouse Rulez Official Synopsis
Prepare To Get Slaughtered…
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial...
Directed by Crispian Mills, the film stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.
Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Diego Suarez Chialvo and Josephine Rose are Executive Producers. The Story by Luke Passmore and Crispian Mills & Henry Fitzherbert. Screenplay by Crispian Mills & Henry Fitzherbert. Produced by Charlotte Walls. Directed by Crispian Mills.
Also in trailers – Steve Carell searches for his missing son in trailer for Beautiful Boy
The film will be released into cinemas October 31.
Slaughterhouse Rulez Official Synopsis
Prepare To Get Slaughtered…
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial...
- 8/10/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"It's a gateway - and it leads straight, down, to hell." Sony Pictures UK has debuted the first full UK trailer for a horror comedy titled Slaughterhouse Rulez, the latest from director Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything). The film is also the latest featuring both Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, the duo best known from Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy. Slaughterhouse Rulez is about an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror. It's going to be bloody. Starring Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, with Frost and Pegg. This reminds me a bit of Battle Royale, but packed with British humor and rich yuppies instead of crazy Japanese gore. Looks like fun. Prepare to get Slaughtered... Here's the first international trailer for Crispian Mills' Slaughterhouse Rulez, direct from YouTube: Welcome to Slaughterhouse,...
- 8/9/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been collaborating for decades, from the British TV series Spaced to director Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy and the Greg Mottola alien comedy Paul. But now the beloved duo have formed Stolen Picture, and they’re both co-starring in the new production company’s debut film called Slaughterhouse Rulez. It’s a cheesy-looking […]
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- 8/9/2018
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
The first trailer has just been unleashed for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's horror comedy adventure film, Slaughterhouse Rulez, and it looks awesome! I completely forgot that this film was being made until this trailer popped up and now I can't wait to see it! It looks like it's filled with all kinds of wonderfully bloody gore, violence, and funny comedy. When previously talking about the film, Pegg told Digital Trends:
“It’s about a private school in the UK which sells off parts of its land to a fracking company, and the fracking company then unleashes a subterranean monster that terrorizes the school. It’s a big metaphor for the UK privatizing things, and it’s mixed up with some ridiculous, sloppy horror.”
This movie is going to be an absolute blast, especially for horror fans! Here's the synopsis:
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys...
“It’s about a private school in the UK which sells off parts of its land to a fracking company, and the fracking company then unleashes a subterranean monster that terrorizes the school. It’s a big metaphor for the UK privatizing things, and it’s mixed up with some ridiculous, sloppy horror.”
This movie is going to be an absolute blast, especially for horror fans! Here's the synopsis:
Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys...
- 8/9/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
If you've been hungry for another Simon Pegg / Nick Frost movie after their co-starring roles in Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy, then you can now add Slaughterhouse Rulez to your watch list. A new horror comedy that re-teams Pegg with director Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything), Slaughterhouse Rulez also co-stars Frost and features what could be a portal to Hell in the film's official trailer.
Directed by Crispian Mills from a screenplay co-written by himself and Henry Fitzherbert, Slaughterhouse Rulez stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. Sony Pictures will release Slaughterhouse Rulez in the UK on Halloween, but a Us release date has yet to be announced. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details.
Synopsis: "Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness...and they’re about to meet their match.
Directed by Crispian Mills from a screenplay co-written by himself and Henry Fitzherbert, Slaughterhouse Rulez stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. Sony Pictures will release Slaughterhouse Rulez in the UK on Halloween, but a Us release date has yet to be announced. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details.
Synopsis: "Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness...and they’re about to meet their match.
- 8/9/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
It’s been several years since we’ve seen Nick Frost share the screen with Simon Pegg. The duo that starred in Edgar Wright’s famous Cornetto Trilogy of films, which included “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End,” are teaming up again in a brand-new horror comedy, “Slaughterhouse Rulez.”
In the first trailer for the film, viewers learn the very simple premise of the film.
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In the first trailer for the film, viewers learn the very simple premise of the film.
Continue reading ‘Slaughterhouse Rulez’ Trailer: Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Team Up For Another Round Of Horror Comedy at The Playlist.
- 8/9/2018
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost already have one iconic British horror-comedy under their belts thanks to Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead,” but can lighting strike twice? The two comedians co-star in the upcoming “Slaughterhouse Rulez,” from director and rock musician Crispian Mills.
“Slaughterhouse Rulez” centers around an esteemed British boarding school thrown into chaos after a sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site and releases something hellish. Asa Butterfield and Finn Cole play a couple of the students who team up with their teaches to fight for survival. Pegg and Michael Sheen star as teachers.
Mills co-write the script for “Slaughterhouse Rulez” with Henry Fitzherbert. The director’s last film, “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” also starred Pegg. The actor and Frost are best known as the stars of Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, which includes “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End.
“Slaughterhouse Rulez” centers around an esteemed British boarding school thrown into chaos after a sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site and releases something hellish. Asa Butterfield and Finn Cole play a couple of the students who team up with their teaches to fight for survival. Pegg and Michael Sheen star as teachers.
Mills co-write the script for “Slaughterhouse Rulez” with Henry Fitzherbert. The director’s last film, “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” also starred Pegg. The actor and Frost are best known as the stars of Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, which includes “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End.
- 8/9/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Stolen Picture, the production company founded by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, has launched a new drama initiative to work with up-and-coming writers on young-adult projects, with two series already in development.
The first project from the Righta Incubator initiative, “We Never Sleep,” is a detective comedy-thriller that will tackle bullying, justice, morality, mental health and post-Brexit small-town life. “Chemistry,” the second project, is a fast-paced genre hybrid that will pose questions about what it means to be human as the show follows protagonists on the run for their survival.
Pegg and Frost formed London-based Stolen Picture with former Fox Searchlight and Bad Wolf executive Miles Ketley last year. There has been keen interest in the new indie banner’s projects, given the founders’ loyal following and string of film and TV hits.
Horror comedy movie “Slaughterhouse Rulez” is in production, and half-hour paranormal investigator comedy “Truth Seekers” is in development.
The first project from the Righta Incubator initiative, “We Never Sleep,” is a detective comedy-thriller that will tackle bullying, justice, morality, mental health and post-Brexit small-town life. “Chemistry,” the second project, is a fast-paced genre hybrid that will pose questions about what it means to be human as the show follows protagonists on the run for their survival.
Pegg and Frost formed London-based Stolen Picture with former Fox Searchlight and Bad Wolf executive Miles Ketley last year. There has been keen interest in the new indie banner’s projects, given the founders’ loyal following and string of film and TV hits.
Horror comedy movie “Slaughterhouse Rulez” is in production, and half-hour paranormal investigator comedy “Truth Seekers” is in development.
- 5/25/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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