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Exclusive: Jeremy Piven (Entourage), William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia), Tim McInnerny (Gladiator 2) and singer and actress Pixie Lott (Christmas Karma) are due to star in psychological-thriller Past Life.

Film Mode Entertainment has boarded sales on the project, which is aiming to start filming in February 2025 in Manchester, UK.

Past Life follows Jason Frey (Moseley), an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira (Lott). Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a psychotic killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason partners with the hypnotist (Piven) to use ‘past life regression’ techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the 1980s while unwittingly reawakening a psychotic killer’s tendencies.

Simeon Halligan (The Blood Lands), head of Manchester genre festival Grimmfest, will direct. Pic was written by Halligan, Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich (Hounded). UK BritPop band James are producing the score.

Exclusive: Suzy Eddie Izzard, Antonia Thomas and John Hannah have joined Emile Hirsch in the psychological thriller Past Life, from director and Grimmfest head Simeon Halligan.

Written by Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich, the pic follows Jason Frey (Hirsch), an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira (Thomas). Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the 1980s while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath’s killer tendencies.

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As Deadline previously reported, the film is produced by Rachel Richardson-Jones of Grimmfest Films (Habit), Pierre Romain and Susan Michels of Swe (Son of the South), and Michael Laundon of M2 Productions (Endless). Executive producers are Michael Bassick (Hacksaw Ridge), Sarada McDermott (Bridgerton...

Emile Hirsch (Dig) has signed on to star in the psychological serial killer thriller Past Life, a new entry in the “seeing murders through the killer’s eyes” sub-genre that also includes the likes of Eyes of Laura Mars and Malignant. In this one, Hirsch will be taking on the role of

Jason Frey, an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira. Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the eighties while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath’s killer tendencies.

Set to start filming in March of next year, Past Life will be directed by Simeon Halligan (White Settlers) – who also happens to be the head of Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film – from a screenplay...

Stars: Nobuse Jr., Malachi Pullar-Latchman, Hannah Traylen, Ross Coles, Larry Lamb, Samantha Bond, James Faulkner, James Lance, Louis Walwyn | Written by Ray Bogdanovich, Dean Lines | Directed by Tommy Boulding

Hounded, also released as Hunted outside the UK, is the latest cinematic variation on The Most Dangerous Game. It takes elements from films like Don’t Breathe, Nefarious, and Turkey Shoot then adds the very upper-class British tradition of fox hunting. The result is a not-so-subtle survival horror metaphor for class warfare.

Leon and his brother Chaz along with their partners Vix and Tod have a good racket going on. Gregory, the local antique dealer hires them to rob his own customers. It’s good money for a quick in and out, grabbing the one item of value he wants.

Having made enough to send Chaz to college, Leon is ready to retire. The others however want one more job to set themselves up.

Exclusive: Emile Hirsch is set to star in Past Life, a psychological thriller scheduled to start shooting in March 2023. LA-based company Disrupting Influence will launch worldwide sales next month at AFM.

Simeon Halligan, head of Grimmfest, Manchester’s International Festival of Fantastic Film, will direct the pic. Halligan’s previous feature directing credits includes White Settlers (2014).

Written by Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich, Past Life follows Jason Frey, an investigative reporter who reluctantly agrees to attend a hypnotism event with his pregnant wife Claira. Under hypnosis, Jason witnesses a murder through the eyes of a killer. Haunted by what he has seen, Jason uses past live regression techniques to investigate a series of unsolved murders from the eighties while unwittingly reawakening a psychopath’s killer tendencies.

The film is produced by Rachel Richardson-Jones of Grimmfest films (Habit), Pierre Romain and Susan Michels of Swe (Son Of The...

Released in some countries under the title Hounded, a “Most Dangerous Game“-type action thriller from director Tommy Boulding is now set to reach theatres in the U.S. as Hunted tomorrow, October 21st. In anticipation of the film’s U.S. release, we’ve gotten our hands on an Exclusive clip from the movie that shows how its “humans hunting humans” scenario gets started. Check it out in the embed above!

Hunted will also be receiving a VOD release on October 25th.

Scripted by Ray Bogdanovich and Dean Lines, Hunted follows a gang of young thieves in the midst of a home robbery who get more than they bargained for when they are captured by the property owners. Attacked and bound by their captors, they are spirited away from the home and released in the middle of nowhere tracked, hunted and to be killed like animals. Pursued by bloodhounds and a heavily armed family,...

In Theaters October 21 & on Digital and Demand October 25 Directed by: Tommy Boulding Written by Dean Lines & Ray Bogdanovich Starring: Samantha Bond, Nick Moran, James Lance, Malachi Pullar Latchman Synopsis: Hired by an antiquities dealer to steal a family heirloom, four young friends break into the seemingly abandoned Redwick Estate in pursuit of …

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Hounded Trailer — Tommy Boulding‘s Hounded (2022) movie trailer has been released by Saban Films. The Hounded trailer stars Samantha Bond, Nick Moran, James Lance, and Malachi Pullar Latchman. Crew Ray Bogdanovich and Dean Lines wrote the screenplay for Hounded aka Hunted. “It’s produced by Ben Jacques.” Plot Synopsis Hounded‘s plot synopsis: “A gang of young thieves [...]

Continue reading: Hounded (2022) Movie Trailer: The Rich Turn the Tables on Would-be Thieves in Tommy Boulding’s Survival Thriller...

In Theaters October 21 & on Digital and Demand October 25 Directed by: Tommy Boulding Written by Dean Lines & Ray Bogdanovich Starring: Samantha Bond, Nick Moran, James Lance, Malachi Pullar Latchman Synopsis: Hired by an antiquities dealer to steal a family heirloom, four young friends break into the seemingly abandoned Redwick Estate in pursuit of …

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The feature is part of the UK outfit’s EFM slate.

UK sales and distribution company Signature Entertainment is introducing buyers to Tommy Boulding’s Hounded at the European Film Market this week and has confirmed it will release the film in the UK and Ireland.

It is the debut feature from UK director Boulding, who has worked as an editor on features including Corinna Faith’s The Power and Toby Meakins’ Curs>r.

A stately home robbery takes a sinister turn one night when a gang of young thieves is caught by the owners of the house and hunted...

The feature is part of the UK outfit’s EFM slate.

UK sales and distribution company Signature Entertainment is launching international sales on Tommy Boulding’s completed project Hounded at the European Film Market this month.

It will also disribute the film in the UK and Ireland,

It is the debut feature from UK director Boulding, who has worked as an editor on features including Corinna Faith’s The Power and Toby Meakins’ Curs>r.

A stately home robbery takes a sinister turn one night when a gang of young thieves is caught by the owners of the house and...

The feature is part of the UK outfit’s EFM slate.

UK sales and distribution company Signature Entertainment will distribute survival thriller Hounded in the UK and Ireland and has boarded international sales as part of the outfit’s European Film Market slate.

It is the debut feature from UK director Tommy Boulding, who has worked as an editor on features including Corinna Faith’s The Power and Toby Meakins’ Curs>r.

A stately home robbery takes a sinister turn one night when a gang of young thieves is caught by the owners of the house and hunted across the estate for the proprietors’ entertainment.

There will never be too many atmospheric horror movies about breathy English women trembling down the hallways of a haunted Victorian mansion and growing paranoid about whatever it is they hear going bump in the night. So it should be an unalloyed pleasure to watch a new one as musty and well-polished as Christopher Smith’s “The Banishing.”

All of the proper ingredients are in place, starting with a creepy old house based on the Borley Rectory (which occultist Harry Price designated as “the most haunted house in England”), some wide-eyed new tenants ripe for the scaring, and an oppressive religious streak that’s paved over all manner of dark secrets since an order of monks first occupied the property during the Middle Ages. Stir in some creepy-looking dolls, a slight hint of Nazis, and a redheaded Sean Harris — as Harry Price himself! — whisper-sniveling dialogue like “Denial is the teat...

In his latest interview/podcast, host and screenwriter Stuart Wright talks The Banishing with director Chris Smith.

1930s, England. Linus, his wife Marianne and their daughter Adelaide move into town, where Linus has been posted as the new reverend. He’s been tasked by the Church to renew the villagers’ faith, which has been lost after the disappearance of the previous reverend’s family, who lived in the very same mysterious manor where Linus and his family have settled into. Soon after their arrival, strange events start to occur: ghostly voices, dark figures dressed as monks, mysterious totems, and Adelaide’s behavior becoming stranger by the day. It soon becomes clear that a malicious entity seeks to possess Adelaide and that the Church is hiding a terrible secret…

Written by Dean Lines & Ray Bogdanovich and starring Jessica Brown Findlay, Sean Harris & John Lynch, The Banishing hits UK cinemas and digital...

When it comes to haunted houses we’ve seen it all near enough. From the psychology of Robert Wise’s The Haunting, to the playful macabre of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, to the shuddering realism of Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity, the jolts of James Wan’s The Conjuring, the fresh voice of Remi Weekes’ His House, and the ice cube down the spine chills and lingering emotions of J.A. Bayona’s The Orphanage. We have seen so many filmmakers craft so many different bumps in the night emanating from the home, and in Creep and Black Death director Christopher Smith’s The Banishing, we go back to the traditional British hauntings of old, which have recently been resurrected in films like The Woman in Black, When the Lights Went Out and An English Haunting.

This Yorkshire shot ‘30s set haunted house chiller, inspired by “The most haunted house in...

Exclusive: Mark Harris will portray the bare knuckle boxing fighter in UK crime drama.

London-based Hereford Films has acquired film rights to the autobiography of Roy ‘Pretty Boy’ Shaw [pictured left], the notorious bare knuckle boxer.

Mark Harris will star as Shaw in the film, titled Pretty Boy, which will be directed by Neil Jones from a script by Ray Bogdanovich and Dean Lines, the writing duo behind upcoming crime drama The Hatton Garden Job, which is also set to star Harris.

Jones previously directed boxing biopic Risen, which won a Welsh BAFTA for leading actor Stuart Brennan in 2011.

Executive producers for Hereford Films include Billy Murray and Adam Stephen Kelly.

Shaw is noted for three fights with fellow bare knuckle boxer Lenny McLean, a biopic of whom recently wrapped shooting in London. Shaw’s story includes brushes with many of London’s most notorious criminals, including the Kray twins.

The script is based on Shaw’s popular autobiography...

The Los Angeles-based company will handle international sales on the thriller starring Matthew Goode and Joely Richardson depicting the infamous London jewellery heist in 2015.

Principal photography is underway in and around London for four weeks. Stephen Moyer, Lamb, Clive Russell, Sarah-Jane Crawford, David Calder, Mark Harris, and Phil Daniels round out the key cast.

Ronnie Thompson (Tower Block) directs from a screenplay he wrote with Dean Lines and Ray Bogdanovich. Ben Jacques serves as producer.

The Hatton Garden Job centres on the eight men who carried out the biggest burglary in British history.

The story follows a recently released convict who recruits a team of veteran criminals known as “the bad grandpas” or “the Enfield Expendables”, all aged between 68 and 76 and eager for one final chance at glory. The gang is currently all behind bars.

“We’re excited to work on this wildly interesting project and are confident that the film will resonate the world over,” said...

Found footage movies seem to be everywhere these days.

Sure, The Blair Witch Project followed up by the Paranormal Activity series really struck a chord in the scare department, but the genre branched out beyond just the horror and spread into party movies like Project X, sci-fi flicks like Cloverfield, and the more recent superhero movie, Chronicle.

So it's really no surprise that Supernatural jumped on board to try it out for "Bitten." In fact, it's a wonder the show never really attempted it before.

Okay, you could say that the Ghostfacers was probably the closest thing, but that was more of a spoof on all of the ghost hunter and paranormal investigator programs. And maybe the characters were a bit more goofy themselves, but it felt like even with the scary aspects, the comedy rang through.

This episode, although it did catch a few good Dean lines about "Clear eyes.

Previously - Mary burned, John disappeared, the wicked curved blade made a solitary appearance (sigh), Dean needed Sam, Jessica burned, John left his journal, Sam wanted revenge, and there were more classic lines in 3 episodes than most shows have in 3 years.

We open to a beautiful beach with vacation music playing in the background. Brothers on vacation? Nope, just an airport ad with an incredibly nervous looking guy in front of it. He heads to the bathroom to wash his face and calm down about flying. A helpful guy tells him the odds of dying in a plane crash "are what? 20,000 to 1." Thanks Helpful Guy, I'm sure he feels much better now. Black smoke pours from the vents and that's never good. Since it enters his eyes, we can rule out fire. Welcome black-eyed demons to Supernatural lore. We're all screwed now. On the plane flight attendant Amanda says hello...