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Of all the pandemic-inspired movies, this new one might provide the best commentary. Horror veteran Ben Wheatley is executive producing the new horror thriller, The Unraveling, which will reunite the creative team behind BAFTA and BIFA-nominated 2016 thriller The Ghoul, reports Deadline. The Unravelling follows Michael (Tom Meeten) as he experiences increasing […]

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Exclusive: Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheatley is aboard as executive-producer on UK feature The Unraveling, which will reunite the creative team behind BAFTA and BIFA-nominated 2016 thriller The Ghoul.

Gareth Tunley (The Ghoul) is writing and directing the feature, which has been developed with the BFI and is set to star The Ghoul actor Tom Meeten who will also be an exec-producer. Producing is The Ritual producer Richard Holmes of Big Rich Films.

The Unravelling follows Michael (Meeten) as he experiences increasing hostility from the world around him – including his own once-loving family, colleagues and friends. Soon, inexplicably and terrifyingly, everyone in the world is trying to kill him.

Budgeted in the 5-7M range, the team have been scouting locations in Tunley’s native Wales. Producers are in early discussions with sales agents.

Tunley comments: “The Unravelling is a domestic psychological drama that turns into a subversive reimagining of a chase movie.

Exclusive: UK-based distribution company Alarm Pictures has acquired U.S. and UK rights to horror-comedy Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break.

The black comedy, directed by In The Earth DoP Nick Gillespie, made its world premiere at SXSW where it won a Special Jury Award, and also screened in competition at Fantasia and Toronto After Dark Film Festival where it won seven awards including Best Film, Audience Award, Best Comedy and Best Screenplay.

Starring are Tom Meeten (Paddington) as Paul Dood, Katherine Parkinson (The It Crowd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually), Alice Lowe (Hot Fuzz), Pippa Haywood (Bridgerton), Steve Oram (Paddington), Mandeep Dhillon (After Life), June Watson (Chernobyl), Johnny Vegas (Home From Home) and Kevin Bishop (The Kevin Bishop Show).

The film follows a weedy charity-shop worker who is set on winning the big national talent show. But when the actions of five selfish people cause him to miss his audition,...

Heroes, as they say, don’t always wear capes. Actually, Paul Dood (Tom Meeten) does sometimes wear a cape, but that’s beside the point. The point is, he’s not what most people think of as a hero. He’s not bold, muscular or conventionally good looking. He’s not even young any more. But Paul has devoted his life to looking after his dear old mum and doing his best to be nice to everybody he meets – all without losing sight of his dreams. Now he’s about to embark on the biggest adventure of his life, transforming the lives of everyone around him over the course of a single lunch break.

Being at the centre of a manhunt is not the kind of stardom Paul envisaged for himself. All he ever wanted was to show the world his skill as a singer, dancer and performer. The natural...

A mother’s love can move mountains. It must in the case of Paul Dood (Tom Meeten) since he doesn’t really have anything else propelling him forward. Did he aspire to be a superstar? No. He merely asked his mom (June Watson’s Julie) if she thought he had what it took while watching an episode of Britain’s Got Talent. She of course said yes. She said he was “better than anyone else on that show.” Love is blind, though, and unwittingly creates lies—Paul is hardly a Susan Boyle with talent to spare if someone would simply give him a chance. He’s not even a William Hung earning views for second-hand embarrassment. He’s lucky to get three viewers per stream: Mum, Clemmie (Katherine Parkinson), and Bruce (Jarred Christmas).

Director Nick Gillespie and co-writers Matthew White and Brook Driver nevertheless introduce their lead with extreme confidence as...

There’s a pointed takedown of very-online living fighting to emerge from the many zany, bloody distractions of “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break,” though even if it succeeded, it probably wouldn’t be all that fresh. Wringing bleak comedy from the psychological collapse of a naive middle-aged man chasing talent-show glory, this uneven sophomore feature from director Nick Gillespie most resembles a grindhouse marriage of “Joker” and “Ingrid Goes West,” with its makeup left to run in a gray British drizzle. The celebrity-forging cycle of reality TV and the false validation of social media likes aren’t exactly hard targets, so Gillespie’s film can’t help but hit them squarely here and there. Yet it’s hard to escape the queasy sense that such points are also being scored at the expense of a vulnerable protagonist’s mental frailty, at which stage the laughs rather dry up.

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Belstone Pictures has inked a worldwide sales deal with Concourse Media on hot SXSW title “Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break.”

Concourse will handle all international and domestic sales for the title, and Belstone Pictures will co-represent in the U.K. The black comedy, directed by Nick Gillespie (“Tank 432”), will have its world premiere at SXSW this week in the narrative spotlight section.

The film follows Paul, a charity shop worker who when his chances of winning a national talent competition are ruined and his dreams of fame are slashed, plans a deathly revenge mission. The cast includes a raft of British talent, including BAFTA nominee Tom Meeten (“The Ghoul”) as Paul Dood, alongside Katherine Parkinson (“Doc Martin”), Kris Marshall (“Love Actually”), Alice Lowe (“Prevenge”), Pippa Haywood (“Bridgerton”), Steve Oram (“The End of the F***ing World”), Mandeep Dhillon (“After Life”), June Watson (“Chernobyl”), Johnny Vegas (“Home From Home”) and Kevin Bishop...

James Cameron To Appear At Wildscreen

Avatar director James Cameron is to headline the Wildscreen Festival 2020. Cameron will appear at the natural history event in conversation with BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit producer Orla Doherty. They will discuss his National Geographic series OceanXplorers (which is made by BBC Studios) and Secrets of the Whales. Cameron said: “I feel very much at home in the natural history film-making community, so I’m pleased to be joining everyone at Wildscreen to share some of my personal experiences working in the field.” Wildscreen takes place October 19-23.

Netflix Underway On ‘We Were Songs’

Netflix has rolled cameras on original film We Were Songs (Fuimos canciones), the Spanish-language project based on the two-part book series by Elísabet Benavent. Goya-nominated Juana Macías is directing from a screenplay by Laura Sarmiento. Production will take place in Madrid and Lisbon with producers Zeta Studios. María Valverde and Alex González lead the cast,...

A major ensemble of stars from British TV and film has come together for upcoming dark comedy Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break. 

Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Katherine Parkinson (The It Crowd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually), Kevin Bishop (Star Stories), Johnny Vegas (Benidorm), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mandeep Dhillon (After Life), Craig Parkinson (Black Mirror), Steve Oram (The End of the F***ing World) and Pippa Haywood (Green Wing) are set to star in the film from Nick Gillespie. 

Ben Wheatley's 2nd unit director and Shane Meadow's director of photography, Gillespie once again teams with producer Finn Bruce ...

A major ensemble of stars from British TV and film has come together for upcoming dark comedy Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break. 

Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Katherine Parkinson (The It Crowd), Kris Marshall (Love Actually), Kevin Bishop (Star Stories), Johnny Vegas (Benidorm), Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Mandeep Dhillon (After Life), Craig Parkinson (Black Mirror), Steve Oram (The End of the F***ing World) and Pippa Haywood (Green Wing) are set to star in the film from Nick Gillespie. 

Ben Wheatley's 2nd unit director and Shane Meadow's director of photography, Gillespie once again teams with producer Finn Bruce ...

Clive Barker fans have seen the great imaginer's classic novella The Hellbound Heart adapted for the big screen, but never before has an official audio drama adaptation of the iconic story been told... until now. Featuring an all-star voice cast including Alice Lowe as Kirsty, Tom Meeten as Frank and Rory Cotton, and the Chatterer Cenobite himself, Nicholas Vince, The Hellbound Heart audio drama will be released by Bafflegab Productions on April 27th for those brave enough to listen:

The Hellbound Heart Audio Drama: "When Frank Cotton (Tom Meeten) finally acquires a fabled puzzle box, he gets more than he bargained for. Because the box is a doorway to another world, to Hell and its dubious pleasures, ruled over by the sadistic Cenobites. And Frank’s reward for opening the box is an eternity of pain beyond imagining. But when his brother, Rory, and his wife Julia (Neve McIntosh) move...

Before Hellraiser came The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker’s horror novella that ultimately laid the foundations for Pinhead and his army of Cenobites.

Initially released in 1986, the spine-chilling yarn was actually the third installment in the Night Visions anthology series, and it wasn’t until the following year that Barker and Doug Bradley (Pinhead) began formulating an idea for a live-action adaptation. And with that, Hellraiser was born.

But in light of Judgment‘s release, Bafflegab Productions has announced plans to circle back to the very beginning and release an audio drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart. As reported by Bloody Disgusting, it’ll hit store shelves on April 27th, and feature the voices of Alice Lowe (Prevenge), Tom Meeten, and Neve McIntosh of Doctor Who fame. Here’s a rundown of what to expect:

When Frank Cotton (Tom Meeten) finally acquires a fabled puzzle box, he gets more than he bargained for.

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Last night saw the BAFTA Film Awards dished out in London. And here's what won...

Presided over by Joanna Lumley, last night saw the handing out of this year's BAFTA film awards at a posh ceremony in London. It was a good night too for the team of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and we were thrilled to see Gullermo del Toro land a prize for his directing of the brilliant The Shape Of Water too. Here's the full list of nominees and winners, the winners in bold text. Fellowship Sir Ridley Scott Outstanding British Contribution To Cinema National Film And Television School (Nfts) Best Film Call Me By Your Name Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears

Darkest Hour Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski

Dunkirk Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas

The Shape Of Water Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,...

As ever, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards favor homegrown fare. Thus many nomination slots that might have included such Hollywood films as “The Post” or “Wonder Woman” went to the likes of “Dunkirk,””Darkest Hour,” and “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.”

Leading the BAFTA nominations field was Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” with 12 nominations. But the Mexican filmmaker wound up taking home Best Director and the film won Production Design and Score. With wins at the Critics Choice, Golden Globe, Directors Guild and BAFTA, the directing Oscar is Del Toro’s to lose.

“Darkest Hour” and “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” followed with nine nominations each; “Darkest Hour” settled for wins for Best Actor Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill and Best Hair and Makeup, while “Three Billboards” dominated the night with five wins: Best Picture,...

Author: Jon Lyus

This evening the UK Film community celebrated its finest with the 2018 BAFTAs, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ annual backslap, with a lavish awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London. We have a full list of winners and our very own red carpet interviews, and further coverage for you below.

Those attending the BAFTA awards ceremony included Hrh Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Gary Oldman, Florence Pugh, Jennifer Lawrence, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Willem Dafoe, Timothee Chalamet, Sally Hawkins, Natalie Dormer, Greta Gerwig, Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Patrick Stewart and more.

The 2018 BAFTA Awards Red Carpet Interviews

Our red carpeteers Scott Davis and Dave Sztypuljak were at the Rah, and their interviews will be appearing on the site shortly.

The 2018 BAFTA Winners Room Interviews

The 2018 BAFTA Awards Winners

Here are the...

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri won five awards, including best picture.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the big winner at the 2018 Baftas, taking home five awards including best film.

The ceremony took place on Feb 18 at the Royal Albert Hall and was hosted by Joanna Lumley.

The full list of winners

Best Film

Call Me By Your Name Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears Darkest Hour Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas The Shape Of Water Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh

Director

Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve Call Me By Your Name Luca Guadagnino Dunkirk Christopher Nolan The Shape Of Water Guillermo del Toro Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Martin McDonagh

Leading Actress

Annette Bening Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool Frances McDormand Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie...

Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy romance The Shape Of Water leads the way with 12 nominations.

The 2018 Bafta Awards are taking place tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Screen International will be posting all the winners live on this page and on Twitter as they are announced.

The ceremony starts at 18:45 UK time and finishes at approximately 21:30, with Joanna Lumley hosting following the departure of 12-time presenter Stephen Fry.

Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy romance The Shape Of Water leads the way with 12 nominations, followed by Winston Churchill biopic Darkest Hour and Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (both 9).

The full list of winners

Winners as they happen in bold.

Leading Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis Phantom Thread Daniel Kaluuya Get Out Gary Oldman Darkest Hour Jamie Bell Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool TIMOTHÉE Chalamet Call Me by Your Name

Cinematography

Blade Runner 2049 Roger Deakins Darkest Hour Bruno Delbonnel Dunkirk Hoyte van Hoytema...

Author: Jon Lyus

It’s BAFTA weekend, and yesterday evening the UK Film community began marking their biggest celebrations of the year with the BAFTA Nominees Party which took place at Kensington Palace.

There were many luminaries from the world of film gathered there, with the likes Florence Pugh, Annette Bening, God’s Own Country duo Josh O’Connor and Francis Lee, Kingsman’s Taron Egerton and Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya taking time to enjoy the pre-ceremony festivities in the luxurious surrounds. Other attendees including Jawbone’s Johnny Harris, X-Men’s Nicholas Hoult, Gemma Arterton, The Shape of Water composer Alexandre Desplat and former Vice-President Al Gore.

We present interviews with some of the above, captured on the red carpet and you can see a full list of nominations for tonight’s event below.

We’ll be on the red carpet this evening, so be sure to check back...

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2018.

The Shape of Water is nominated in 12 categories. Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri both receive nine nominations; Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk both have eight. I, Tonya receives five nominations, Call Me by Your Name and Phantom Thread have four each, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool, Lady Bird and Paddington 2 receive three nominations each.

The Shape of Water is nominated for Best Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound, Editing and Special Visual Effects. Guillermo del Toro is nominated for both Director and Original Screenplay, Sally Hawkins for Leading Actress and Octavia Spencer for Supporting Actress.

Darkest Hour receives nominations for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, and Make Up & Hair, as well as...

In the wee hours of the morning, the British Academy announced their BAFTA nominations, putting into place yet another major Oscar precursor. This voting block, known as the British vote, does hold some sway with the Academy. At the Academy Awards, they represent a solid portion of membership, so while SAG will always be the largest delegation, this one isn’t too far behind. That makes it a precursor worth taking note of. Obviously, as you’ll see below, there are some release date oddities that push some films from last year into this year, and of course exclude some of this year’s contenders until next year. That’s just how it goes with BAFTA… Leading the way was The Shape of Water with a dozen nominations, far ahead of any other film. Those 12 citations set the pace, while next in line were Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing,...

Author: Jon Lyus

The 2018 awards season has well and truly begun. Over the weekend the Hollywood Foreign Press Association threw out their Golden Globes in a politically charged ceremony which was as much of a comment on the biggest stories from the industry last year as any gold statue handed out. Today the awards spotlight swings over to the UK as BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, announced the nominations for their 2018 Film Awards ceremony.

As in previous years the British Academy will endeavour to be seen as more than just another stepping stone to the Oscars. While there are a number of British-specific awards handed out on the night, the expectation is that homegrown productions will be high on the list of nominees. The 2018 BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out in a ceremony in London on the 18th of February of this year.

It was...

Natalie Dormer and Letitia Wright presented this year’s nominees.

The nominations for the 2018 British Academy Film Awards were revealed today (Jan 9) at London’s Princess Anne Theatre.

The Shape Of Water leads the way with 12 nominations. Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri follow on nine.

The Bafta ceremony will take place on Feb 18 at London’s Royal Albert Hall and will be broadcast on BBC One. Joanna Lumley will host the event, replacing regular host Stephen Fry.

2018 nominations

Best Film

Call Me By Your Name Emilie Georges, Luca Guadagnino, Marco Morabito, Peter Spears Darkest Hour Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski Dunkirk Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas The Shape Of Water Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh

Outstanding British Film

Darkest Hour Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Lisa Bruce, Eric Fellner, Anthony McCarten, Douglas Urbanski The Death Of Stalin Armando Iannucci, Kevin Loader, [link...

Review by Roger Carpenter

When I first picked up this film I assumed it was a horror film because of the title. Apparently many other viewers made the same assumption. However, The Ghoul isn’t really a horror film as much as it is a character study…or a drama…or a detective thriller. Actually, I’m not quite sure how to categorize the film, which for some viewers will be a problem. It wasn’t a problem for me.

The film opens with a detective investigating a double murder. The crime apparently occurred several weeks before as the house is now clean, with a fresh coat of paint to disguise the blood spatters from multiple gunshots fired during the crime. The detective, Chris, is actually being shown about by the realtor who tells him the weird story of the crime. It seems the criminal had broken into the house...

This week’s list of horror-themed home entertainment releases is almost exhausting, as we have well over 30 titles coming our way on September 12th. For those who may have missed them in theaters earlier this year, you can now finally catch up with both The Mummy (2017) and It Comes At Night, as they’re both headed home on multiple formats.

Cult film fans should keep an eye out for an array of releases this Tuesday, including The Fox With A Velvet Tail, The Resurrected, the standard two-disc Blu-ray for Dario Argento’s Phenomena, The Creep Behind the Camera, Spider, and Don Coscarelli’s entire Phantasm series comes home in a five-disc DVD set from Well Go USA.

Other notable releases for September 12th include The Ghoul, Dead Again in Tombstone, The Hatred, Ruby, Tobor the Great, and Night Gallery: The Complete Series.

The Fox With A Velvet Tail (Mondo Macabro,...

Director Gareth Tunley’s The Ghoul (2016) will be available on Blu-ray September 12th from Arrow Video

From executive producer Ben Wheatley (Kill List, Free Fire) comes a mind-bending British psychological thriller to sit alongside such classics of the genre as Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell s Performance, David Lynch s Lost Highway and Christopher Nolan s Following.

Chris is a homicide detective called to London to investigate a strange double murder. Both victims appear to have continued moving towards their assailant despite multiple gunshots to the face and chest. On a hunch, and with the help of an old colleague and former girlfriend Chris decides to go undercover as a patient to investigate the suspect s psychotherapist, the mysterious Alexander Morland, who has a taste for the occult…

The debut feature of writer-director Gareth Tunley, starring Tom Meeten (Sightseers), Alice Lowe (Garth Marenghi s Darkplace) and Dan Renton Skinner (Notes on Blindness...

An occult plot is discovered in Gareth Tunley’s terrific shoestring debut as writer and director. Or is it all in the hero’s mind?

First time writer/director Gareth Tunley marshals the meagre resources of this micro-budget psychological thriller and creates a pleasingly perplexing enigma of a movie. Tom Meeten stars, face desolately etched, eyes darting, as Chris, a man whose therapy sessions unearth an occult plot that may or may not be all in his chaotic mind.

Since almost every character here is an unreliable witness or viewed through the eyes of one, this is a narrative that deliberately unsettles and unbalances the viewer, with a looping structure that is somewhat reminiscent of Omer Fast’s Remainder.

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In his latest podcast/interview, host Stuart Wright talks to writer/director Gareth Tunley about his mind bending murder hunt directorial debut The Ghoul.

Chris (Tom Meeten) is a homicide detective called to London and shown around an old murder scene by a colleague. The victims seemed to keep moving despite taking bullets to the chest and head. On a hunch and with the help of an old colleague (and ex) Kathleen (Alice Lowe), Chris decides to go undercover as a patient to investigate a suspect’s psychotherapist, the mysterious Alexander Morland (Geoff McGivern) But, as his therapy sessions continue, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur and he begins to question his own identity..

Starring Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Paul Kaye, Niamh Cusack, Geoffrey McGivern and Rufus Jones; and exec produced by Ben Wheatley (Free Fire, Kill List), The Ghoul is in UK cinemas from today, Friday 4th August.

Author: Stefan Pape

There’s something that connects first-time filmmaker Gareth Tunley to actress/director Alice Lowe. As well as Tom Meeten, Rufus Jones, Paul Kaye and Dan Renton Skinner; comedy. Coming through the same generation of comics, each writing and starring in some of Britain’s best comedic offerings across the past two decades – this small collective are now all collaborating on a cinematic endeavour entitled The Ghoul. Except here’s the thing – this profound study of depression is far from being a comedy.

“It’s a bit of a curveball,” Tunley explained to us during an interview we conducted with the talented director, alongside The Ghoul’s lead actress Alice Lowe. “I always wanted to do serious stuff and I got waylaid into funny walks and silly voices for about 15 years. Still available for bookings. As a parallel thing I was making short films and they still tended to be funnier and lighter.

Arrow Films has acquired UK, Us and Canadian rights to Gareth Tunley’s debut feature The Ghoul, ScreenDaily reports . Tunley, who has previously acted in Down Terrace and Kill List, wrote and directed the British psychological thriller. Tom Meeten, previously known for comedic work such as in Paddington, plays a more serious lead role, as a detective going undercover to therapy sessions who […]...

Ben Wheatley executive produced Gareth Tunley’s debut feature which was Bifa nominated and premiered at Lff.

Arrow Films has acquired UK, Us and Canadian rights to Gareth Tunley’s debut feature The Ghoul.

The film, which world premiered at the BFI London Film Festival and later played at Film4’s Film Fear in Manchester, is produced by Primal Pictures.

Tunley, who has previously acted in Down Terrace and Kill List, wrote and directed the British psychological thriller. Tom Meeten, previously known for comedic work such as in Paddington, plays a more serious lead role, as a detective going undercover to therapy sessions who starts to question reality and fantasy.

The cast also features Alice Lowe (Sightseers), Dan Skinner (High-Rise), Geoff McGivern (Grantchester), Niamh Cusack (Testament Of Youth), Rufus Jones (Bill) and Paul Kaye (Game Of Thrones).

The film was nominated for the Discovery Award at the 2016 BIFAs.

Francesco Simeoni, director of Content...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

-Sony Pictures is acquiring the worldwide rights to “Greyhound,” the World War II drama written by Tom Hanks, Deadline reports. Hanks will also star in the film, which will be directed by Aaron Schneider (“Get Low”), and produce with his Playtone partner Gary Goetzman.

In the film, Hanks plays George Krause, the commander of a Navy destroyer called the Greyhound. Sony acquired the rights to the film at the Berlin International Film Festival’s European Film Market.

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-Lionsgate has acquired U.S. rights to action film “Rally Car,” starring Keanu Reeves. The film will be directed by Olivier Megaton (“Taken 2,...

Prevenge is the brilliant and off-the-wall writing and directing debut feature by Alice Lowe (Sightseers). She wrote, starred in, and directed it whilst 7-8 months pregnant with her first child, who also appears in the film. Alice was one of the Bifa nominees for ‘best debut director’.

Known for her work as a UK television comedy actress, Alice Lowe made her move into film with her screenwriting debut Sightseers, directed by Ben Wheatley, in which she also starred as the hapless Tina. After premiering at Cannes, Sightseers went on to receive several accolades, Empire’s Best British Film, as well as acting and screenplay awards for Alice.

Official synopsis:

A pitch black, wryly British comedy, Prevenge follows Ruth, a pregnant woman on a killing spree that’s as funny as it is vicious. It’s her misanthropic unborn baby dictating Ruth’s actions, holding society responsible for the absence of a father.

After co-writing Ben Wheatley’s brilliantly twisted Sightseers, Alice Lowe is back with her directorial debut Prevenge, in which she also stars in and wrote. Entering territory perhaps even darker than Wheatley’s films, it follows her pregnant character as her unborn child causes her to kill strangers. After playing at Venice, Toronto, London, AFI, and more, it’ll get a U.K. release early next year and the new trailer has now arrived.

We said in our review, “Veering between dark comedy and somber drama is a flavor of the times in indie film, but Prevenge puts a new spin on this, tying those emotional shifts more directly to the mindset of its lead character than any other movie of its ilk has yet. That’s because the lead is heavily pregnant. Combine that with serial killing, and the stage is set for an agreeably bloody-minded oddball of a film.

“American Honey” took the top prize at the 2016 British Independent Film Awards, which was held on Sunday at London’s Old Billingsgate.

“American Honey” was named Best British Independent Film, and also scored three additional awards (including Best Director for Andrea Arnold). Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” was the night’s only non-uk winner, picking up honors for Best International Independent Film.

The 19th annual Bifa ceremony, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, also presented Clare Binns with the Special Jury Prize for her “unstinting efforts in bringing independent film to new audiences.”

Naomie Harris was also presented the Variety Award by Danny Boyle, in recognition of the global impact she made this year in helping to focus the international film spotlight on the UK.

Read More: La Film Critics Association Name the Best Films and Performances of 2016

The Richard Harris Award was given to Alison Steadman by Richard Harris’ granddaughter Ella Harris and...

The Ghoul isn’t your run-of-the-mill crime film nor your traditional psychological thriller. In fact Gareth Tunley’s début feature pretty much defies categorisation at every turn. This low-budget oddity is an unique, head-spinning, enigmatic slice of British cinema. The film focuses on police detective Chris (Tom Meeten) who is called to the scene of a strange […]

The post Lff 2016: The Ghoul Review appeared first on HeyUGuys.

After releasing a divisive apocalyptic romp with High-Rise and the upcoming rip-roaring Free Fire, writer-director Ben Wheatley is also trying on a different hat. He’s executive produced Gareth Tunley‘s directorial debut The Ghoul, which has now received a first trailer.

Also penned by Tunley — who has directed a few short films as well as being in front of the camera for a number of Wheatley’s own projects — the thriller looks to be a mind-bending, twisting journey through the psychological underbelly of the U.K.

As noted below in an extended synopsis, Tunley looks to be paying homage to British genre-blenders that have blazed a cinematic trail before him such as Wheatley himself — largely with Kill List and Sightseers — as well as Nicolas Roeg.

See the trailer below.

Low budget Brit thriller, The Ghoul is an atmospheric slow-burn crime film more interested in psychology and the occult than in solving crimes.

"Just because we're plumbing the depths of the unconscious mind doesn't mean we can't have a cup of tea." BFI has debuted a trailer for a little crime thriller from the UK called The Ghoul, the feature debut of actor Gareth Tunley. The film stars Tom Meeten as a detective who goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist. However, he gets in over his head and the "line between fantasy and reality begins to blur." Also featuring Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones, Niamh Cusack and Geoffrey McGivern. This seems to be a very trippy psychological thriller with sleek cinematography that will mess with your own mind. Take a look. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Gareth Tunley's The Ghoul, originally from the BFI: A British thriller with a mind of its own, get inside the head of The Ghoul at #Lff https://t.co/XNgojhJYRp pic.twitter.

Director Ben Wheatley is showing his eye for talent by putting his name behind a guy who’s worked closely with him since 2011’s Kill List. A filmmaker in his own right, camera operator Nick Gillespie has stayed by Wheatley’s side on every subsequent project up to and including the forthcoming Free Fire. This time around it’s he who’s providing the claustrophobic thriller as writer and director of Tank 432 (formerly known as Belly of the Bulldog). It’s a doozy too—all mood, atmosphere, and mystery with our own confusion about the action mirrored in those onscreen. All they know is that they have orders. Extract their prisoners, survive the war, and write everything down. But while they know what to do, the why seems universally out of reach.

Think The Maze Runner, but for adults. I’m not saying The Maze Runner is specifically for children,...

Any thriller boasting Ben Wheatley (Kill List/High-Rise) as Executive Producer suggests a certain level of cerebral provocation, like Nick Gillespie’s Tank 432. This wartime psycho-analysis blends supernatural spooks with hardened, battlefield drama that plunges characters into a hellish descent worse than flying bullets and advancing attackers. Gillespie plays with themes of isolation, paranoia and combat insanity in the belly of a vehicular iron beast, trapping his mysterious conspiracy piece inside a cramped, claustrophobic pressure-cooker. It’s proper intriguing, yet there’s something strangely cold about the whole mission-gone-awry aesthetic – everything just happens so quick. Like you’re hooked by each new stone Gillespie’s caged “heroes” overturn, but when answers finally surface (somewhat), we realize the journey doesn’t quite live up to our own anticipatory hopes.

Shut-in soldiers fight off crazed hallucinations and outside forces while locked inside an abandoned Bulldog tank. Sounds bonkers on paper, but unfortunately,...

Exclusive: UK deal secured for Nick Gillespie’s psychological thriller Belly Of The Bulldog.

Kaleidoscope has picked up UK rights to Belly Of The Bulldog.

Nick Gillespie’s feature debut was executive produced by High-Rise director Ben Wheatley, who provided creative guidance throughout. Gillespie has worked alongside Wheatley over the past seven years on projects from Kill List to the upcoming Free Fire.

“We’ve capture some of the most explosive sequences I could ever of hoped for, and having Ben involved from script stage has really helped these elements come together,” said Gillespie.

“We really got our hands dirty filming this one, cutting the sides off real tanks, running people over with tanks, setting people’s heads on fire, and things like that. It was a real challenge but we did it.”

Produced by Finn Bruce and Jen Handorf, Belly Of The Bulldog follows a group of mercenaries and their human cargo, all of whom...

Exclusive: UK deal secured for Nick Gillespie’s psychological thriller Belly Of The Bulldog.

Kaleidoscope has picked up UK rights to Belly Of The Bulldog.

Nick Gillespie’s feature debut was executive produced by Ben Wheatley, who provided creative guidance throughout. Gillespie has worked alongside Wheatley over the past seven years on projects from Kill List to the upcoming Free Fire.

“We’ve capture some of the most explosive sequences I could ever of hoped for, and having Ben involved from script stage has really helped these elements come together,” commented Gillespie.

“We really got our hands dirty filming this one, cutting the sides off real tanks, running people over with tanks, setting people’s heads on fire, and things like that. It was a real challenge but we did it.”

Produced by Finn Bruce and Jen Handorf, Belly Of The Bulldog follows a group of mercenaries and their human cargo, all of whom...

It’s fair to say that Noel Fielding is one of the more surreal comedians that has come out of the UK. Surreal but never boring. Coming to most people’s attention with The Mighty Boosh, then going a little too odd with Luxury Comedy it is fair to say he can be hit and miss at times. An Evening with Noel Fielding though is some of his best work. (Oh and Luxury Comedy got a lot better in the second season when it started to make more sense).

An Evening with Noel Fielding is a stand-up comedy act, but with added weirdness from some of the characters he’s created such as The Moon, and my personal favourite Fantasy Man. With a style of comedy that goes “meta” at times, it’s a show that while surreal actually works well.

Fielding shows that he is in full control of his stage show,...

Stars: Steve Oram, Lucy Honigman, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alice Lowe, Holli Dempsey, Julian Barratt, Toyah Wilcox, Noel Fielding, Tom Meeten | Written and Directed by Steve Oram

Two men step over a fallen branch in a damp, overgrown wood. The larger of the two stops to examine a framed picture of a woman in a wedding dress before the pair unzip their trousers and urinate on her image. Sufficiently drained, and with a look of utter seriousness on his face, the Beta pulls out a handkerchief and dabs the tip of his Alpha’s penis dry. Leaving the picture drowned in piss, they move out of the woods into a clearing and see South London open out before them. I should mention at this point that nary a word has been spoken between the pair at this point, and the rest of the film will not containing anything we would conventionally term dialogue.

The debut feature of actor Steve Oram (Sightseers, TV’s Glue), Aaaaaaaah! stars Julian Barratt, Toyah Willcox, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Steve Oram, Lucy Honigman, Tom Meeten and Sean Reynard. The supporting cast include Noel Fielding, Holli Dempsey, Shelley Longworth, Alice Lowe, Tony Way and Waen Shepherd.

Alpha Male, Smith and his Beta, Keith, make a move to take over a local community. They hook up with restless Female, Denise, igniting a deadly feud in which emotions run high and deep-seated grudges re-surface amongst the tribe. Are we not men? Or are we simply beasts? Steve Oram’s debut feature is a celluloid primal sceam in which the entire cast speak in grunts and gibberish – an anarchic, hilarious, disturbing and touching look at the human condition.

Aaaaaaaah!, written and directed by Steve Oram, produced by Andy Starke and executive produced by Ben Wheatley, will have it’s world premiere at FrightFest on...

Sigthseers' Steve Oram will unleash his Ape-ified Romeo & Juliet epic upon us sometime in 2015, and today we've got this splendid poster to ogle over.Shot last spring, Aaaaaaaah! sees The Mighty Boosh's Julian Barratt and Green Wing's Julian Rhind-Tutt playing rival clan leaders, with Oram's regular comedic partner Tom Meeten and Australian actress Lucy Honigman also starring. When Todd reported on the film over a year ago it was stated that it would be performed with no discernible human dialog, with the actors going full ape. Now that the film is nearing screens, this one has certainly spiked on the ol' anticipation-meter.  ...

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Steve Oram to star in directorial debut alongside Julian Barratt, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Hannah Hoekstra and Tom Meeten.

Sightseers star and co-writer Steve Oram is to make his directorial debut on comedy Aaaaaaaah!, a film full of “sex and indiscriminate violence” in which actors will play monkeys and talk mostly “gibberish”.

Oram has assembled a comedy cast including The Mighty Boosh’s Julian Barratt, Green Wing’s Julian Rhind-Tutt (most recently seen in Rush), regular collaborator Tom Meeten, and Hannah Hoekstra, star of App and sexually explicit Dutch arthouse film Hemel.

Speaking to ScreenDaily, Oram said: “The script is in ‘human dialogue’ but the actors will throw the script away once they’ve learnt it.

“We’ll mainly use noises. It will be a combination of gibberish and monkey talk and it will be about expressing things physically. We’ve already done a bit - it has been really funny and gone very well.”

The self-financed...

Best mates Matt (Henry Lloyd-Hughes, The Inbetweeners) and Dylan (Jack O’Connell, Skins) are looking for alternative working arrangements.

Tired of stealing cigarette machines from naked and overweight pub landlords, the duo instead decide to throw a massive party and stake a claim to the thriving rave scene of 90′s Manchester. Earning a small fortune on their first night, and quickly learning as they go along, Matt and Dylan endeavour to turn their love for a good party into a lucrative business venture, enlisting the help of their friends and local pirate DJ Captain Acid (Tom Meeten) to make it happen. When their success attracts the attention of local kingpin John the Rat, however, their friendship begins to unravel as competing priorities are forced to the surface.

I don’t know who was asking for a 90′s rave movie, but director Karl Golden has certainly risen to the challenge with...

London -- Jack O'Connell, Henry Lloyd-Hughes and Emily Barclay have packed their bags for Karl Golden's "Weekender," joining a burgeoning cast that already boasts Ben Batt, Stephen Wight and Tom Meeten.

Golden's movie is the story of two friends' adventures, played by O'Connell and Lloyd-Hughes, set against the backdrop of the hedonistic world of warehouse parties during the U.K.'s acid house explosion in 1990.

Penned by actor and writer Chris Coghill, the film is produced by Benchmark Films/Foundation Films' Ian Brady and Stephen Salter and Alliance Films' Robert Walak and executive produced by Xavier Marchand, David Hayman and Mark Jaffray.

DJ and producer Terry Farley is aboard as a creative consultant on the film.

The film will be distributed here by Momentum Pictures, Alliance Films in Canada and Aurum Producciones in Spain.