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"What's the point in having talent if you keep it for yourself." Conduit Presents has released an official US trailer for a film titled The Break, also known as just Break when it was first released in the UK last year. An inner-city kid and gifted pool player named Spencer, wasting his talents on crime, gets in over his head until a chance encounter with a stranger presents him with an opportunity to turn his life around. But is it too late? He'll only succeed if he can break away from his biggest problem: himself. The Break stars Sam Gittins, Rutger Hauer, Jamie Foreman, David Yip, Adam Deacon, and Luke Mably. This is a very strange trailer, but perhaps there's something worthwhile in this. Not often we get billiards films anymore. Here's the official US trailer (+ new poster) for Michael Elkin's The Break, direct from YouTube: Spencer (Sam Gittins), a gifted pool player,...

Exclusive: Break, which is one of Rutger Hauer’s finals movies, will be getting a multiplatform release via Conduit Presents, the distribution division of Conduit Now.

Conduit Presents acquired the Michael Elkin-directed crime sports drama and has set a release for Jan. 5, 2021.

Break follows a young inner city kid who is wasting his talents on petty crime. He has the ability to become a world-champion snooker player, if only he can overcome his circumstances, his ties to the mob, and himself. Sam Gittins, and Jamie Foreman also star. Elkin also wrote. The pic is produced by Dean Fisher and Terri Dwyer. Break reps Elkin’s feature directorial debut following an acting resume which includes such credits as the UK TV series EastEnders, Undercover Hooligan, and Aux starring John Rhys-Davies.

Elkin says, “Break is essentially a rags-to-riches, urban drama about a London kid trying to make a break from all...

Stars: Sam Gittins, Rutger Hauer, Luke Mably, David Yip, Jamie Forman, Adam Deacon, Sophie Stevens, Teri Dwyer | Written and Directed by Michael Elkin

I have been saying for a while now that the British independent film scene is ablaze with a plethora of talent… A veritable smorgasbord of directors, actors, DOPs, writers and producers are currently cutting their teeth out there as streaming and VOD make it way more accessible for us as viewers to find these works. Which has meant the creators are finding smarter ways of utilizing what they have at their disposal and how to make a small budget movie look like it belongs on the cinema wall along side whatever multi-hundred million dollar blockbuster is currently showing and you know whats happening? They are proving that they have way more style and so much more substance. It’s a damn good time to be a fan of British indie cinema.

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmakers Podcast #174: How to Make a Independent Sports Crime Drama with...

Here’s the latest episode of the 365Flicks podcast, part of our growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on Libsyn, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

365Flicks Podcast – Indie Talk: Michael Elkin – Break, Wee Man **Actor/Writer/Director**

On this episode of Indie Talk we are joined by Actor/ Writer/ Director Michael Elkin who is on the show to chat with us about his directorial debut Break – a flick that was due to be released right when the pandemic hit and has meant having to delay release in favour of still having a cinema release. However as always we get into it all with Michael including how he got his start as an actor at such a late stage and progressed through his career working with the like of Eddie Marsan and Martin Compston.

Written and directed by Michael Elkin, Break follows a troubled but talented young snooker player who attempts to break free from a world of crime.

UK sales outfit 7&7 has taken rights on British snooker-themed indie thriller, Break, notable for featuring the final screen performance from Rutger Hauer (the Dutch star of Blade Runner and The Hitcher) who died last year.

Written and directed by Michael Elkin, Break follows a troubled but talented young snooker player who, helped by local kingpin (Hauer) and veteran Chinese pool champion (David Yip), attempts to break free from a world of crime and reach the...

Stars: John Rhys-Davies, Rosie Fellner, Tanya Franks, Theo Devaney, Paul Reynolds, Jack Derges, Gary Mavers, Sally Mortemore, Tristam Summers, James Fisher, Michael Elkin | Written by John Adams, Peter Adams | Directed by John Adams

I’m not sure if I should be surprised or not but there seems to be quite a few World War II zombie movies, or movies that can kind of be linked to World War 2 and the undead – there’s definitely enough for it to be called a sub genre on its own. So Soldier of War (aka Aux) can be added to Dead Snow, Overlord, Outpost, Frankenstein’s Army and a myriad more.

Soldier of War is a British film and it, like many of its kind, feels very British. From the police uniforms to the woodland and countryside to the accents; it will be very familiar to people from the U.K. and horror fans...

Stars: Ali Bastian, Guy Faulkner, Charlie Wernham, James Tratas, Ben Freeman, Denis Khoroshko, Ryan Winsley, Cheryl Burniston, Kate Parnell, Oleg Hill, Michael Elkin, Kevin Mathurin, Taryn Bishop | Written and Directed by Nicholas Winter

France 2016 the European Cup. A group of English football hooligans are chased down and cornered by their vicious Russian rivals in a local cafe. A violent fight ensures between the two groups, which ends up with one of the Russians being killed after he is stabbed.

Russia 2018 the World Cup. The group are embroiled in trouble again and find themselves locked up in a Russian cell. Frustrated at first because they are missing the football, but they soon learn that things are about to get worse and they are going to stay here for long. After being recognised be a corrupt prison guard, they are gassed, kidnapped and taken to a secure derelict warehouse, where is seems...

Exclusive: Frasier actor teams up with Sebastian Foucan for Bharal.

Fledgling UK production outfit BB88 is in Cannes to talk up a slate of movies including revenge drama drama Bharal, which is due to star former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer and parkour pioneer Sebastian Foucan.

Jake L Reid’s (The Antwerp Dolls) feature, due to start in early 2018, charts the story of an African refugee who arrives in London to search for his missing sister.

When he uncovers an immigrant sex trade he becomes both a media sensation and a target for a crime syndicate, along with the immigrant community that has taken him in.

Bharal is being lined up as a co-production between BB88, Reid’s Liberal Region Productions and Compos Mentis productions.

Also new to the slate is Gate Crash, which will be directed by Laurence Gough (Dr Who). The cast includes Marc Warren (Snatch) and Anton Lesser from Game Of Thrones.

Projects already...