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UK actor and filmmaker Idris Elba has outlined his ambitions for building a bolstered film infrastructure in Africa, telling an audience at SXSW London on June 4, “I want to build the African Odeon”.

Elba noted the low number of cinemas across the continent, during a discussion on creativity as capital for change. “I would love to be able to tackle some of that, because I believe the cinema experience that we have all gone through should be experienced by a new generation, I don’t think it should all be on a phone.

“How do I do that? Building a...

Mister Smith Entertainment has closed the first international deals for “Tinsel Town,” which stars Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson, and has released the first-look image.

The first-look depicts Bradley Mack (Sutherland) with his daughter Emma (Matilda Firth), alongside Jill (Wilson) and her daughter Cara (Theodora Williams) attending a local school Christmas fair.

Early deals have been completed with DeaPlaneta in Spain, Kinoswiat in Poland, Front Row Filmed Entertainment in the Middle East, Active Cinema Group in Ukraine, Acme in the Baltics, Blitz Film in Ex-Yugoslavia, Odeon/Femeway/The Film Group in Greece, United King in Israel and Empire Entertainment in South Africa.

“Tinsel Town” will be shown on pay-tv service Sky in the U.K. this Christmas.

The film centers on Bradley Mack, a failed Hollywood action star who ends up in a snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of “Cinderella.” Here, he encounters a...

Sky has today that Derek Jacobi, Mawaan Rizwan, Maria Friedman, Meera Syal, Danny Dyer, Ray Fearon, Alice Eve, Lucien Laviscount and James Lance have joined the cast for its upcoming Sky Original Christmas film ‘Tinsel Town.’

They join the previously announced casting of Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson.

Sutherland plays Bradley Mack, a failed Hollywood action star who ends up in a small, snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of ‘Cinderella.’ Here, he encounters a colourful cast of oddball locals who slowly come to hold a special place in his heart, including no-nonsense choreographer Jill (Wilson). Comedian Katherine Ryan (The Duchess) will take on the role of Mack’s long-suffering agent with the local villagers played by the legendary British actor Derek Jacobi (Gladiator II).

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Jason Manford (Waterloo Road), Asim Chaudhry (People Just do Nothing) will also star.

A extensive lineup of names have joined Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson in Sky’s upcoming Christmas comedy movie “Tinsel Town.”

Derek Jacobi (“Gladiator II”), Mawaan Rizwan (“Juice”), Maria Friedman (“Unforgotten”), Jason Manford (“Waterloo Road”), Asim Chaudhry (“People Just do Nothing”) Danny Dyer (“Rivals”), Ray Fearon (“Barbie”), Alice Eve (“Star Trek In To Darkness”), Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”), James Lance (“Ted Lasso”), Meera Syal (“The Wheel of Time”), Katherine Ryan (“The Duchess”) and Savannah Lee Smith (“Cruel Intentions”) have all been added to the cast for the film, being directed by Chris Foggin (Bank of Dave).

Mister Smith Entertainment have launched worldwide sales at the European Film Market.

“Tinsel Town” follows Bradley Mack (Sutherland), a failed Hollywood action star who ends up in a small, snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of ‘Cinderella.’ Here, he encounters a colourful cast of oddball locals who slowly come...

Exclusive: Lucien Laviscount has joined the cast of the Sky and Future Artists Entertainment holiday film Tinsel Town. He joins a cast that includes Rebel Wilson and Kiefer Sutherland. Chris Foggin is directing.

Films follows Bradley Mack (Sutherland), a Hollywood action star with a bloated ego, who is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is abruptly canceled. With his career in freefall and worried his Hollywood days are behind him, he heads to England, hoping to rebuild his image as a serious actor on the West End. But his long-suffering agent has other plans, sending Bradley instead to a small, snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of Cinderella. As he fumbles through rehearsals with a colorful cast of oddball locals, Bradley begins to discover a spark of new beginnings in the form of no-nonsense choreographer Jill (Wilson).

The script has been penned by Frazer Flintham, Adam Brown,...

Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson will star in a new Christmas comedy from Sky and Future Artists Entertainment (Fae), Tinsel Town.

Now in production on location across the north of England, the movie follows Bradley Mack (Sutherland), a Hollywood action star with a bloated ego, who is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is abruptly canceled. With his career in free fall and worried his Hollywood days are behind him, he heads to England, hoping to rebuild his image as a serious actor on the West End.

But his long-suffering agent has other plans, sending Bradley instead to a small, snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of Cinderella. As he fumbles through rehearsals with a colourful cast of oddball locals, Sutherland’s character begins to discover a spark of new beginnings in the form of no-nonsense choreographer Jill (Wilson).

“I’m thrilled to be working back in the U.

Kiefer Sutherland and Rebel Wilson are set to star in the Christmas comedy “Tinsel Town.”

From Sky and Future Artists Entertainment, the film is now in production on location across the North of England and at Leeds’ Versa Studios.

In “Tinsel Town,” Sutherland plays Bradley Mack, a Hollywood action star with a bloated ego who is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is abruptly canceled. With his career in freefall and worried his Hollywood days are behind him, he heads to England, hoping to rebuild his image as a serious actor on the West End. But his long-suffering agent has other plans, sending Bradley instead to a small, snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of ‘Cinderella.’ As he fumbles through rehearsals with a colourful cast of oddball locals, Bradley begins to discover a spark of new beginnings in the form of no-nonsense choreographer Jill (Wilson).

The...

Kiefer Sutherland (Designated Survivor) and Rebel Wilson (Bridesmaids) have boarded the Sky and Future Artists Entertainment flick Tinsel Town. The film is now in production on location across the North of England and at Leeds’ Versa Studios.

Mister Smith Entertainment will launch worldwide sales at the upcoming European Film Market.

Films follows Bradley Mack (Sutherland), a Hollywood action star with a bloated ego, who is blindsided when his iconic action franchise is abruptly canceled. With his career in freefall and worried his Hollywood days are behind him, he heads to England, hoping to rebuild his image as a serious actor on the West End. But his long-suffering agent has other plans, sending Bradley instead to a small, snow-dusted village to star in the town’s eccentric production of Cinderella. As he fumbles through rehearsals with a colorful cast of oddball locals, Bradley begins to discover a spark of new beginnings...

Earlier this month, it was announced that a sci-fi thriller called White Mars, which sounds quite similar to The Thing and is set to star Lucy Hale of Pretty Little Liars, Scream 4, Truth or Dare?, and Fantasy Island, would begin filming on November 11th. Production is now underway, with filming taking place at Cinecittà Studios in Rome, where the movie is being shot entirely in a virtual production environment. Now, Deadline has revealed that Hale is being joined in the cast by Luke Newton, who is best known for playing the role of Colin Bridgerton on the hit Netflix series Bridgerton (his other credits include the Disney show The Lodge and Lake Placid: Legacy).

Martin Owen (The Loneliest Boy in the World), who just co-directed a survival thriller called Above the Below with Idris Elba, will be directing White Mars from a screenplay by Matt Mitchell, Vicki Sargent, and Roo Berry.

Exclusive: Luke Newton (Bridgerton) is set to join Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) as lead cast of the sci-fi-thriller White Mars, which is currently in production at Cinecittà Studios in Rome and will be shot entirely in a virtual production environment.

Set in an isolated Aquila Research Facility, White Mars follows microbiologist Sammie (Hale) as she and Leo (Newton) fight to save their fellow crew members from a malevolent entity whose sole intention is to extinguish them all.

From director Martin Owen (Above the Below) with a script by Matt Mitchell, Vicki Sargent, and Roo Berry, Future Artists Entertainment’s Matt Williams will produce alongside Neil Jones with Steve Griffith and Steve Jelley from Singularity Entertainment.

XYZ Films is co-financing, in conjunction with Ipr.Vc with Singularity, and is handling worldwide sales.

Newton, best known for his role of Colin Bridgerton in Netflix smash Bridgerton, has also starred in Disney series...

Lucy Hale has a new horror project coming up, but it sounds suspiciously similar to a sci-fi classic with 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. Lucy Hales acting career began in 2003 when she was a contestant in American Juniors, but she rose to fame seven years later when she was cast as Aria Montgomery in Pretty Little Liars. Hale made her big screen debut in 2008 when she played Effie Kaligaris, Lenas younger sister, in the comedy-drama The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. Since then, Hale has been part of various projects on TV and film in different genres.

Lucy Hale first visited the horror genre in 2009 in Michael Storeys Fear Island, which was released direct-to-video. Her first theatrically released horror movie was Scream 4, in 2011, in which she has a cameo appearance in the movie-within-a-movie-within-a-movie in the opening scene. Hale later starred in 2018s Truth or Dare, followed by Fantasy Island in...

Pretty Little Liars and Truth or Dare star Lucy Hale will be seen next in the action-thriller F*** Marry Kill, but after that shell be channeling her inner Ellen Ripley to battle evil forces in Antarctica in the new sci-fi thriller, White Mars. Hale first rose to prominence thanks to her role of Aria Montgomery in Pretty Little Liars, and shes since gone on to have a successful career in Hollywood, appearing not only in the horror flick Truth or Dare, but in Scream 4, and Blumhouse's 2020 hit, Fantasy Island.

Per Deadline, White Mars will be helmed by Martin Owen (Above The Below), with the script penned by Matt Mitchell, Vicki Sargent, and Roo Berry. Filming is set to begin in a matter of days, and will take place at Cinecitt Studios in Rome. Hale released a statement to celebrate the films announcement, saying shes excited to kick things off overseas,...

Almost five years have gone by since it was announced that Blumhouse Productions and Universal Pictures were working on a new version of The Thing called Frozen Hell – and while that project still hasn’t made its way into production, Deadline reports that a sci-fi thriller called White Mars, which sounds quite similar to The Thing and is set to star Lucy Hale of Pretty Little Liars, Scream 4, Truth or Dare?, and Fantasy Island, will begin filming on November 11th. Filming will take place at Cinecittà Studios in Rome and the movie is going to be shot entirely in a virtual production environment.

Martin Owen (The Loneliest Boy in the World), who just co-directed a survival thriller called Above the Below with Idris Elba, will be directing White Mars from a screenplay by Matt Mitchell, Vicki Sargent, and Roo Berry. Set in an isolated Aquila Research Facility in Antarctica,...

Lucy Hale will brave the frigid temperatures for her upcoming science fiction thriller film White Mars, which sounds a little bit like a modern take on The Thing.

According to Deadline, the actress has been cast as microbiologist Sammie, who has been assigned to an isolated research facility in Antarctica. Sammie soon finds herself fighting for survival when something evil infiltrates the compound with a single goal in mind: extinguish everyone inside of it.

Perhaps the most intriguing thing about White Mars is that it will be filmed entirely inside a virtual production studio by the entertainment company Singularity, which specializes in this kind of groundbreaking filmmaking technology that utilizes a mixture of augmented reality, CGI, and other cutting-edge tech to create immersive and realistic environments. Netflix used a virtual production studio to film the German mystery series 1899.

The film will be directed by Martin Owen, who also directs Above the Below with Idris Elba,...

Lucy Hale will continue hanging around in the horror genre with the upcoming White Mars, a sci-fi/horror movie announced by Deadline today.

Deadline details, “Set in an isolated Aquila Research Facility in Antarctica, White Mars follows microbiologist Sammie (Lucy Hale), as she fights to save her fellow crew members from a malevolent entity whose sole intention is to extinguish them all.”

Martin Owen (Above The Below) is directing the upcoming White Mars, which will be shot “entirely in a virtual production environment” beginning later this month.

Matt Mitchell, Vicki Sargent, and Roo Berry wrote the script.

“XYZ Films is co-financing with Singularity Entertainment and is handling worldwide sales at this week’s American Film Market,” Deadline also notes in today’s exclusive report.

Lucy Hale said in a statement, “White Mars is an absolute psychological thrill ride, and I’m so excited to film this at the Cinecittà film stages in Rome.

Exclusive: Truth Or Dare and Scream 4 star Lucy Hale is set to channel Alien‘s Ellen Ripley and The Thing‘s R. J MacReady in sci-fi-thriller White Mars.

Set in an isolated Aquila Research Facility in Antarctica, White Mars follows microbiologist Sammie (Hale), as she fights to save her fellow crew members from a malevolent entity whose sole intention is to extinguish them all.

Martin Owen (Above The Below) is directing from a script by Matt Mitchell, Vicki Sargent, and Roo Berry. The film is set to start principal photography on November 11, 2024, at Cinecittà Studios in Rome and will be shot entirely in a virtual production environment.

Future Artists Entertainment’s Matt Williams will produce alongside Neil Jones with Steve Griffith and Steve Jelley from Singularity Entertainment. XYZ Films is co-financing with Singularity and is handling worldwide sales at this week’s American Film Market.

White Mars is the first...

Earlier this month, we heard that one of the movies that will be showing at the 28th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival (which is set to run from from July 18th through August 4th in Montreal) is the werewolf chiller The Beast Within, starring Kit Harington (Jon Snow from HBO’s Game of Thrones). But if you’re not going to be able to attend Fantasia this year, you’re still going to have the chance to see The Beast Within on the big screen this summer… if you’re in the United States, anyway. Well Go USA Entertainment is giving the film a theatrical release nationwide on July 26th, and you can check out the trailer in the embed above.

Said to be a nightmarish fantasy film that’s “phantasmagoric, gothic, and straight out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales,” The Beast Within has the following synopsis: After...

Prime Video has handed a series order to Young Sherlock, inspired by Andy Lane’s critically acclaimed Young Sherlock Holmes book series, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin in the title role. Guy Ritchie is set to direct and executive produce the eight episode series, which will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Written and executive produced by showrunner Matthew Parkhill, Young Sherlock is touted as an irreverent, action-packed origin story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in an explosive re-imagining of this iconic character. At age 19, Sherlock Holmes is disgraced, raw, unfiltered, and unformed, when he finds himself caught up in a murder mystery at Oxford University which threatens his freedom. Diving into his first-ever case with a wild lack of discipline, Sherlock manages to unravel a globe-trotting conspiracy that will change his life forever.

Simon Kelton (Eddie the Eagle...

Production is underway on horror-thriller film “Borderline,” shot in the U.K. and Malta.

Lucien Laviscount (“Emily in Paris”), Laura Marano (“The Royal Treatment”) and Middle Eastern star Cynthia Khalifeh (“8 Days”) lead a cast that also includes Jason Flemyng (“A Violent Man”).

Khalifeh will play Zena, a young woman who arrives at the Borderline pub for a date with the handsome Jack, whom she met on an app. Quickly realizing she has been stood up, Zena is persuaded to have a drink with the bumbling but charming local Paul, played by Laviscount. However, Paul’s non-threatening manner and easy conversation skills are merely a façade, and he is in fact a serial killer, who lures his victims inside the lawless walls of the Borderline.

The first instalment of the planned horror franchise is directed by Jane Gull (British Independent Film Awards nominated “My Feral Heart”) and written by Elizabeth Morris...

Following his feature directorial debut Yardie in 2018, Idris Elba will soon premiere his latest turn behind the camera, Above the Below. Announced late last year, the Lionsgate survival thriller pairs up the Emmy nominee with co-director Martin Owen to tell the story of three unfortunate astronauts who survive a disastrous re-entry to Earth only to find themselves in a much more dire scenario. Adding to the intrigue is a star-studded cast and crew with Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin co-starring opposite Elba and the trio of Elizabeth Morris, Matt Mitchell, and Vicki Sargent on board as screenwriters. Ahead of Elba's voice role in the Sonic the Hedgehog spin-off series Knuckles later this month, Collider's Steve Weintraub spoke with him about what to expect from the film and how it slots into his increasingly crowded slate.

UK-based production company Future Artists Entertainment (Fae) has teamed with Versa Studios to launch what they have described as an “international film production hub” at Versa Studios in Leeds, Northern England.

The site will offer full production services and facilities, including four sound stages ranging from 10,000 sq. ft to 27,000 sq. ft. Versa and Fae will add post-production and VFX services alongside “outreach and educational programs.”

Founded in 2019 by Matt Williams and Martin Owen, Fae has said it generated over $150 million of production spend since its inception, producing fourteen films, seven of which have been produced in Manchester and Leeds, with two of those made in conjunction with Versa Manchester studios.

The company just wrapped on the Lionsgate survival thriller, Above The Below, starring Idris Elba. It’s best known for movies such as the Netflix hit Bank of Dave, Sky Original’s Pokerface starring Russel Crowe, Last Train to Christmas...

UK production company Future Artists Entertainment (Fae) is partnering with studios network Versa Studios on a production hub at Versa Leeds Studios.

The Leeds site, which opened in 2020, will now house additional post-production and VFX services, as well as outreach and educational programmes, through the partnership with Fae.

Fae will work with Versa on promotion of the studios; and will look to welcome other production companies and projects alongside Fae’s own productions.

Versa Studios Leeds has four already-operational sound stages ranging from 10,000 sq. ft to 27,000 sq ft.

Fae has produced 14 films since its foundation in 2019 by Matt Williams and Martin Owen.

Future Artists Entertainment (Fae) and U.K. studios network Versa Studios, which has hosted the likes of Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion, have partnered in a film production hub joint venture for Versa’s facility in Leeds in Northern England, which they say will provide “a world-class filmmaking home, offering full production services and facilities.” The site currently includes four soundstages, ranging from 10,000 to 27,000 square feet, and will over time also add post-production and VFX services, as well as “outreach and educational programs.”

The space allows up to three productions to be ongoing at the same time, the partners said. Financial details of their deal weren’t disclosed.

Fae, founded in 2019 by Matt Williams and Martin Owen, said it has attracted more than $150 million in production spend since its inception, producing 14 films, two of them in conjunction with Versa in Manchester. It just wrapped Lionsgate survival thriller Above The Below, starring Idris Elba,...

A cultural crusader strikes in L.A. Slasher, now streaming on Screambox.

Directed by Martin Owen and produced by Jeffrey Wright and Daniel Sollinger, the black comedy stars Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), Danny Trejo (Machete), and comedian Andy Dick as the voice of the killer.

L.A. Slasher is “a biting, social satire about reality TV and the glorification of people who are famous for simply being famous.”

The film also “explores why it has become acceptable and even admirable for people to become influential and wealthy based on no merit or talent – purely through notoriety achieved through shameful behavior.

“Incensed by the tabloid culture which celebrates it, the L.A. Slasher publicly abducts a series of reality TV stars, while the media and general public in turn begin to question if society is better off without them.”

Here’s the trailer.

A snapshot of the film and high-end TV projects shooting in the UK and Ireland.

Screen reveals a snapshot of the latest high-end TV and film productions shooting in the UK for the big studios and streamers.

Productions that are still on hold following the SAG-AFTRA strike are noted.

Please contact us here to add or update changes to the following or new productions taking place in the UK.

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How To Train Your Dragon

Live-action remake of the 2010 animation about a hapless Viking who befriends a dragon.

Dir: Dean DeBlois

Production company: Universal, Marc Platt

Where: Titanic Studios,...

The survival thriller Above And Below is already shooting, and marks Idris Elba’s second outing as a director following 2018’s Yardie.

Idris Elba is clearly a man of many talents: acting, DJing, somehow always being incredibly stylish even if he was to wear a binbag. He’s also got one film under his belt as a director, 2018’s Yardie, a crime drama that five years on, remains a confident and well-told film that clearly showcases Elba’s potential as a filmmaker, should it be a route he chooses to develop.

That looks like it could be happening soon, given that he’s reportedly (according to Movieweb) signed on to co-direct Above And Below, a survival thriller that sees a trio of astronauts’ re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere go badly wrong. The film is said to be already shooting at Pinewood, although we don’t yet have any news regarding the film’s release schedule.

Idris Elba is set to co-direct and star in the survival thriller film "Above the Below," alongside Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin. The film follows a trio of astronauts who survive a chaotic re-entry to Earth but find themselves off course and cut off from the world. "Above the Below" is Elba's second time directing, following his feature film debut with "Yardie" in 2018, and filming has already begun for the new movie at Pinewood Studios in England.

Idris Elba has been a busy man as of late, starring in the Apple TV+ series, Hijack, in addition to having roles in the upcoming Paramount Plus animated series, Knuckles, and the 2024 film, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. He can now cross off 'direct a movie' from his to-do list, as the 51-year-old English actor is now set to co-direct and star in the upcoming survival thriller Above the Below from Lionsgate.

Actor Idris Elba made his feature directorial debut with the 2018 crime drama Yardie, and earlier this year we heard that he would be following that up with an action thriller called Infernus. That movie was supposed to get started filming in October, but appears to have been disrupted by the strikes. So while we wait to hear what’s going to happen with Infernus, The Hollywood Reporter has broken the news that Elba is teaming up with Martin Owen (The Loneliest Boy in the World) to co-direct a survival thriller called Above the Below… and this one is already in production!

Above the Below started filming last week at Pinewood Studios, using two separate stages – including the studio’s underwater stage. In addition to co-directing, Elba also stars in the movie alongside Caitlin FitzGerald (Masters of Sex) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (the After franchise).

Owen came up with the initial idea for the film,...

Idris Elba is set to star in the survival thriller Above the Below for Lionsgate after earlier boarding the U.K. indie as director.

Lionsgate picked up the worldwide rights to the project, which started filming last week at Pinewood Studios on two stages, including the studio’s underwater stage. Elba will helm Above the Below with Martin Owen (The Loneliest Boy in The World), and will star alongside actress and filmmaker Caitlin FitzGerald and Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who earlier worked with Owen on The Loneliest Boy in the World.

Above the Below sees a tight-knit trio of astronauts survive a chaotic and destructive re-entry to Earth, only to find themselves off course and completely cut off from the world. As their capsule begins to sink into the unknown depths of the ocean, their battle for survival kicks off.

Elba plays Jackson, the mission commander leading the team. FitzGerald is Brooks,...

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They Follow

The sequel to the 2014 cult horror It Follows with Maika Monroe reprising her role and David Robert Mitchell returning to direct. Neon will co-produce alongside Good Fear Content. Starts filming in early 2024.

World sales: HanWay

Bad Apples

Saoirse Ronan leads Jonatan Etzler’s English-language debut - a satirical comedy and thriller about a school teacher who locks one of her students in her basement. Produced by Pulse Films,...

Big 'Dris is getting back in the big chair. Following on from a short film, some TV work and, of course, his feature directorial debut with 2018's :a[Yardie]{href='https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/yardie-review/' }, Idris Elba has locked in his next directing project. In this case, though, it's a co-directing gig as Elba will be working alongside The Loneliest Boy In The World's Martin Owen on astronaut survival thriller Above The Below, which is set to shoot at Pinewood Studios.

Above The Below, which is based on an idea by Owen and was turned into script form by Elizabeth Morris, Matt Mitchell and Vicki Sargent, follows a tight-knit trio of astronauts as they survive a chaotic and destructive re-entry to Earth, only to find themselves off course and completely cut off from the world.

As their capsule begins to sink into the unknown depths of the ocean,...

Market slate includes ‘Above The Below’, ‘Highlander’ reboot, ‘Sunflower’.

Lionsgate International will launch AFM sales next week on Now You See Me 3 with Ruben Fleischer directing and Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Morgan Freeman reprising their roles.

Michael Lesslie is writing the current draft of the screenplay to the latest entry in the crime mystery franchise centred on illusions and globe-trotting heists led by new and returning Horsemen.

Alex Kurtzman and Bobby Cohen are once again producing. Fleischer’s feature credits include Venom, Uncharted, and Zombieland, and he produced an episode of The Good Doctor this year.

The Now You See Me...

Following his feature film directorial debut with the 2018 drama ‘Yardie,’ Idris Elba will co-direct with Martin Owen on the British indie survival thriller ‘Above The Beyond.’

The story follows a tight-knit trio of astronauts who survive a chaotic and destructive re-entry to Earth, only to find themselves off course and completely cut off from the world. As their capsule begins to sink into the unknown depths of the ocean, their battle for survival has only just begun.

The script has been developed by Future Artists Entertainment, from an original idea by Martin Owen, written by screenwriters Elizabeth Morris, Matt Mitchell and Vicki Sargent. Cast will be announced soon.

Also in news – First look images drop for ‘William Tell’

The film is produced by Future Artists Entertainment’s Matt Williams (Bank Of Dave, PokerFace) and Gina Carter (See How They Run, Yardie) Former Managing Director of Goldcrest Films Pascal Degove will Executive Produce.

Elba’s second feature as director after 2018’s ‘Yardie’.

Idris Elba will direct his second feature film, co-directing UK independent survival thriller Above The Below with Martin Owen.

The film will shoot at the UK’s Pinewood Studios under Pact/Equity contracts. Lionsgate will launch sales on the film at the upcoming American Film Market.

Above The Below is based on an original idea by Owen, with a script written by Elizabeth Morris, Matt Mitchell and Vicki Sargent, developed by Owen’s Future Artists Entertainment.

Matt Williams produces for Future Artists Entertainment with Gina Carter; Pascal Degove is executive producer.

“Delivered with charm and confidence by director Martin Owen …” ~ Tom Cassidy, Common Sense Media “A lovable cinematic Frankenstein of ‘80s movies and television that’s peppered with exciting camera tricks and dazzling production design.” ~ Preston Barta, Fresh Fiction “A quirky horror comedy. It has plenty of gore and violence for horror hounds, but …

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The Loneliest Boy In The World: "When a sheltered and unsocialized young man is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet in the (soon-to-be) cult classic horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy In The World, debuting on Blu-ray™ and DVD December 20 from Well Go USA Entertainment. Directed by Martin Owen (The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud), The Loneliest Boy In The World stars Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes), Evan Ross (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2), Tallulah Haddon (The Last Duel), Hammed Animashaun (A Midsummer Night's Dream), social media phenom and musician Jacob Sartorius, newcomer Zenobia Williams and Sam Coleman (Leatherface), as well as Ashley Benson, and Ben Miller (”Bridgerton”).

Synopsis:

The Loneliest Boy In The World is billed as a modern fairytale—except with zombies.

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“Bros” (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment): The comedy that carried the weight of so many competing expectations that it’s a miracle it exists at all, “Bros” is the queer zeitgeist moment that gave away a few too many gay secrets to the straight audiences who saw it, but for better or worse, those secrets were delightfully funny. Co-writer Billy Eichner stars as a gay man indifferent to love but still open to possibilities when a traditional handsome jock (Luke Macfarlane) enters the picture. It turns out both of them have been traumatized by the homophobic world around them, but they figure it out in “When Harry Met Sally…” style by the end. That’s not a spoiler; all rom-coms end that way.

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“Amsterdam” (20th Century/New Regency): The latest from David O. Russell is a crime epic starring Margot Robbie, John David Washington,...

We’re now more than halfway through October, but have no fear. The new horror releases for the Halloween season definitely aren’t slowing down these final two weeks of the month.

This week brings the Bloody Disgusting-produced found footage franchise V/H/S back with a brand new installment, for starters, along with Jordan Peele’s latest horror project.

Here’s all the new horror arriving October 18 – October 23, 2022!

We kick off the week with Well Go USA Entertainment’s coming-of-age horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World, which was released on VOD platforms beginning today.

Starring Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), The Loneliest Boy in the World is billed as a modern fairytale — except with zombies.

“When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet.

One thing is for sure, you won’t have seen many films like The Loneliest Boy in the World recently. This visual spectacle, a fairytale-zombie tale is out now in US theatres and on digital as of October 18 – and to mark the occasion we had the pleasure in speaking to leading stars, and rising stars at that, Max Harwood and Hero Fiennes Tiffin.

We spoke about working with director Martin Owen and his unique visual style as a storyteller, while they touched on the themes of the movie, and why we just can’t get enough of zombies. We spoke about shooting some of the more comedically inclined scenes, discussed the whirlwind couple of years Harwood has had, and finally, we spoke to Tiffin about his role in the brilliant, epic production The Woman King, which is also out now.

Watch the interview with Max Harwood and Hero Fiennes Tiffin...

The tedious zombie comedy “The Loneliest Boy in the World” joins a number of recent faux-retro satires that — like “Psycho Goreman” (2020), “Turbo Kid” (2015), and “Kung Fury” (2015) before it — re-present pop culture artifacts from the 1980s as knowingly kitschy comfort food.

In “The Loneliest Boy in the World,” an emotionally disturbed orphan digs up and befriends a quartet of mysteriously re-animated corpses, who then inexplicably act like his surrogate family members. The kid, Oliver, has no friends and no social intelligence, because he’s addicted to TV. Oliver also lives alone in a pink house whose interior design seems to have been partly inspired by Barbie’s Dreamhouse playset.

Unfortunately, director Martin Owen (“The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud”) and screenwriter Piers Ashworth (co-writer of “Blithe Spirit”) don’t challenge or really highlight anything funny about Oliver’s delusional, media-poisoned nostalgia. The gags in “The Loneliest Boy in the World” also...

Well Go USA Entertainment shares with Bloody an exclusive look at its coming-of-age horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World, starring Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), and in theaters on October 14, with plans to move across VOD platforms on the 18th.

The Loneliest Boy in the World is billed as a modern fairytale — except with zombies.

“When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet. However, when he awakens the morning after his excavating escapades, he discovers that his newly acquired friends have mysteriously come to life overnight, launching them all into a series of misadventures as they try to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and social workers alike.”

The film from director Martin Owen also stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin...

The Loneliest Boy in the World Trailer — Martin Owen‘s The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022) movie trailer has been released by Well Go USA Entertainment. The Loneliest Boy in the World trailer stars Max Harwood, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Susan Wokoma, Evan Ross, Ben Miller, Ashley Benson, and Jacob Sartorious. Crew Piers Ashworth wrote the [...]

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"Oliver is about to discover that family never dies…" Well Go USA has revealed a trailer for a strange indie comedy from the UK titled The Loneliest Boy in the World, from filmmaker Martin Owen. It's set to debut on VOD later in October, and hasn't stopped by any festivals that we're aware of. Looks like a kooky zombie comedy kind of like this one Fido from 2006. The Loneliest Boy in the World is a modern fairytale - with zombies. A satire and a celebration of family values, of the imagery of horror films, of suburban life, of the American Dream and of the ultimate taboo; death. The concept involves a world of zombies interacting with him in a series of quirky misadventures. The film stars Max Harwood, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Susan Wokoma, Evan Ross, Ben Miller, Ashley Benson, and Jacob Sartorious. This actually looks like a rather nice, charming...

A delightful, poignant, and flat-out fun coming-of-age horror comedy that had its world premiere at this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival, The Loneliest Boy in the World will be released in limited theaters on October 14th (followed by an October 18th VOD release) by Well Go USA Entertainment, and the official trailer has now been unveiled to give you an idea of what to expect!

Directed by Martin Owen from a screenplay by Piers Ashworth, The Loneliest Boy in the World stars Max Harwood, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Susan Wokoma, Evan Ross, Tallulah Haddon, Hammed Animashaun, Jacob Sartorius, Ben Miller, Alex Murphy, Nicola Roberts, and Ashley Benson.

Synopsis: "The Loneliest Boy In The World is billed as a modern fairytale—except with zombies. When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few...

Well Go USA Entertainment will be giving the zombie horror comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World a limited theatrical release on October 14th, and in anticipation of that date a trailer for the film has arrived online. You can check it out in the embed above.

Directed by Martin Owen (Let’s Be Evil) from a screenplay by Piers Ashworth (St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold), The Loneliest Boy in the World is described as being “a satire and a celebration of family values, of the imagery of horror films, of suburban life, of the American Dream and of the ultimate taboo; death.” The film is

billed as a modern fairytale—except with zombies. When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet.

Screamfest Horror Film Festival announced today its first-wave lineup of competitive features and shorts for its 22nd edition running October 11th through 20th at the Tcl Chinese Theater.

The Hulu Original film Matriarch will hold its world premiere screening on October 11 – opening night – before premiering on the streamer for Huluween on October 21.

From the press release:

“Run Sweetheart Run from Prime Video and Blumhouse will close Screamfest LA on October 20th. After what begins as dinner with a client, a single mom (Ella Balinska) finds herself hunted by a monstrous and seemingly unstoppable assailant (Pilou Asbæk). Co-written and directed by Shana Feste, the film is a must-see watch for the Halloween season and helmed by an extraordinary team of women both in front and behind the camera. A Q&a will follow the screening featuring the cast and crew.

“Considered the “Sundance of Horror,” Screamfest is proud to showcase new...

One of my favorite films at this year's Popcorn Frights Film Festival was The Loneliest Boy in the World, so I'm especially excited that the creepily quirky coming-of-age film has found a North American distribution home at Well Go USA Entertainment and will be heading to theaters on October 14th, followed by a VOD release on October 18th:

Press Release: Plano, Texas – Leading international and indie film distributor Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to coming-of-age horror comedy The Loneliest Boy In The World. The film—as sweet and endearing as it is darkly satiric—is led by an all-star cast that includes Screen International “Star of Tomorrow” Max Harwood, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Susan Wokoma, Evan Ross, Tallulah Haddon, Hammed Animashaun, Jacob Sartorius, Ben Miller, Alex Murphy, Nicola Roberts and Ashley Benson. The film will be released in theaters on October 14 before landing on VOD platforms October...

Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the coming-of-age horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World, starring Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie), Deadline reports.

The Loneliest Boy in the World is billed as a modern fairytale — except with zombies.

“When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet. However, when he awakens the morning after his excavating escapades, he discovers that his newly acquired friends have mysteriously come to life overnight, launching them all into a series of misadventures as they try to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and social workers alike.”

The film from director Martin Owen also stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin (The Woman King), Susan Wokoma (Enola Holmes films), Evan Ross (The United States vs. Billie Holiday...

Exclusive: Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the coming-of-age horror-comedy The Loneliest Boy in the World, starring Max Harwood (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie). The international and indie distributor has slated the film for release in theaters on October 14, with plans to unveil it across VOD platforms on the 18th.

The Loneliest Boy in the World is billed as a modern fairytale — except with zombies. When the sheltered and unsocialized Oliver (Harwood) is tasked with making new friends after the sudden and devastating death of his mother, he decides that digging a few up (literally) might be his best bet. However, when he awakens the morning after his excavating escapades, he discovers that his newly acquired friends have mysteriously come to life overnight, launching them all into a series of misadventures as they try to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and social workers alike.

The...

The line-up for Grimmfest’s International Festival of Fantastic Film 2022 edition has been unveiled.

“The Loneliest Boy In The World” (U.K.) is set to open the U.K. horror and genre festival. The dark comedy, which stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Ashley Benson and Ben Miller is directed by Martin Owen and tells the story of “an unstable and otherworldly mother’s boy [who] seeks a replacement family in the local cemetery.”

Lee Thongkham’s “The Lake” (Thailand), a creature feature that sees the inhabitants of a small town take on a “threat of huge proportions,” will close the festival four days later.

Also on the line-up are the international premiere for Justin Long and Kate Bosworth’s “House Of Darkness,” (U.S.), Cannes film “Final Cut” (France) from from Oscar-winning writer-director Michel Hazanavicius, and Vincenzo Ricchiuto’s “The Goldsmith” (Italy), which features Italian cinema star Stefania Casini.

Grimmfest will take...