Death In Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise is back for a second series, and here’s the trailer.
As Death In Paradise nears the end of its 13th series, the BBC is preparing to launch the second series of successful spin-off Beyond Paradise, the most watched new drama of last year
The new series will see the return of Kris Marshall as Di Humphrey Goodman, Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd, Zahra Ahmadi as DS Esther Williams, Dylan Llewellyn PC Kelby Hartford, Barbara Flynn as Anne Lloyd, Felicity Montagu as Margo Martins, Jade Harison as Cs Charlie Woods, Melina Sinadinou as Zoe, Eva Feiler as Lucy, Isaac Vincent-Norgate as Ryan, Amelia Vitale as Hannah. Also returning is Selwyn the Duck.
The official synopsis reads as follows:
Shipton Abbott continues to keep Di Humphrey Goodman and his team busy, with a baffling new crime each episode. From a death on a steam train to a missing teacher,...
As Death In Paradise nears the end of its 13th series, the BBC is preparing to launch the second series of successful spin-off Beyond Paradise, the most watched new drama of last year
The new series will see the return of Kris Marshall as Di Humphrey Goodman, Sally Bretton as Martha Lloyd, Zahra Ahmadi as DS Esther Williams, Dylan Llewellyn PC Kelby Hartford, Barbara Flynn as Anne Lloyd, Felicity Montagu as Margo Martins, Jade Harison as Cs Charlie Woods, Melina Sinadinou as Zoe, Eva Feiler as Lucy, Isaac Vincent-Norgate as Ryan, Amelia Vitale as Hannah. Also returning is Selwyn the Duck.
The official synopsis reads as follows:
Shipton Abbott continues to keep Di Humphrey Goodman and his team busy, with a baffling new crime each episode. From a death on a steam train to a missing teacher,...
- 3/7/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
HanWay is selling the title at the European Film Market (EFM).
Alice Lowe directs and leads time-travelling romantic comedy, Timestalker – a tale of one woman’s unrequited love, played out across several centuries. She is joined by Nick Frost, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard and Tanya Reynolds.
Screen can exclusively reveal a first look at the project.
The UK feature is produced by Western Edge Pictures, in co-production with Popcorn Group. Funding came from the BFI, Head Gear Films, Popcorn Group and Ffilm Cymru Wales with funding from the National Lottery and Welsh Government via Creative Wales. UK sales outfit HanWay represents world sales.
Alice Lowe directs and leads time-travelling romantic comedy, Timestalker – a tale of one woman’s unrequited love, played out across several centuries. She is joined by Nick Frost, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard and Tanya Reynolds.
Screen can exclusively reveal a first look at the project.
The UK feature is produced by Western Edge Pictures, in co-production with Popcorn Group. Funding came from the BFI, Head Gear Films, Popcorn Group and Ffilm Cymru Wales with funding from the National Lottery and Welsh Government via Creative Wales. UK sales outfit HanWay represents world sales.
- 2/17/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Production has commenced in Wales.
UK director Alice Lowe’s Timestalker has added Screen Stars of Tomorrow Aneurin Barnard (2009) and Tanya Reynolds (2020) to the cast, alongside Nick Frost, as its shoot gets underway in Wales.
Further newly announced cast include Kate Dickie, Dan Skinner and Mike Wozniak, who all starred in Lowe’s directorial debut, Venice 2016 premiere Prevenge.
They join the previously announced cast Lowe and Jacob Anderson. Sam Riley and Natasia Demetriou are no longer attached to the project.
HanWay has worldwide sales rights, and will be sharing materials at the upcoming American Film Market.
Lowe is reteaming on...
UK director Alice Lowe’s Timestalker has added Screen Stars of Tomorrow Aneurin Barnard (2009) and Tanya Reynolds (2020) to the cast, alongside Nick Frost, as its shoot gets underway in Wales.
Further newly announced cast include Kate Dickie, Dan Skinner and Mike Wozniak, who all starred in Lowe’s directorial debut, Venice 2016 premiere Prevenge.
They join the previously announced cast Lowe and Jacob Anderson. Sam Riley and Natasia Demetriou are no longer attached to the project.
HanWay has worldwide sales rights, and will be sharing materials at the upcoming American Film Market.
Lowe is reteaming on...
- 10/19/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Alice Lowe’s latest film Timestalker has started shooting in Wales.
Billed as a “reincarnation romcom,” the film follows the tale of one woman’s unrequited love spanning several centuries. Lowe directs from a screenplay she wrote. She also stars in the film alongside Jacob Anderson (Game Of Thrones), Aneurin Barnard (David Copperfield), Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education), and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz).
Kate Dickie (The Green Knight), Dan Skinner (Notes on Blindness), and Mike Wozniak (Horrible Histories) have also joined the cast. The trio previously starred in Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge, which screened at Venice, TIFF, London, AFI & SXSW.
Timestalker is in co-production with Popcorn Group and funded by the BFI, Head Gear Films, Popcorn Group, and Ffilm Cymru Wales with funding from the National Lottery and Welsh Government via Creative Wales. Vaughan Sivell and Western Edge Pictures are producers. Hanway Films have worldwide rights.
“This is such a...
Billed as a “reincarnation romcom,” the film follows the tale of one woman’s unrequited love spanning several centuries. Lowe directs from a screenplay she wrote. She also stars in the film alongside Jacob Anderson (Game Of Thrones), Aneurin Barnard (David Copperfield), Tanya Reynolds (Sex Education), and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz).
Kate Dickie (The Green Knight), Dan Skinner (Notes on Blindness), and Mike Wozniak (Horrible Histories) have also joined the cast. The trio previously starred in Lowe’s directorial debut Prevenge, which screened at Venice, TIFF, London, AFI & SXSW.
Timestalker is in co-production with Popcorn Group and funded by the BFI, Head Gear Films, Popcorn Group, and Ffilm Cymru Wales with funding from the National Lottery and Welsh Government via Creative Wales. Vaughan Sivell and Western Edge Pictures are producers. Hanway Films have worldwide rights.
“This is such a...
- 10/19/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Intriguing alt-history about a struggle to capture the dictator’s corpse is ill-served by vague characterisation and feeble action scenes
What if Hitler’s body hadn’t been cremated in Berlin by the SS? That alt-history teaser is the starting point for Ben Parker’s action thriller, which posits a tug of war over the corpse between a Soviet unit escorting it back to Stalin and pro-Nazi partisans hellbent on recovering it. Taking place in the Polish forests in the dying days of the second world war, Burial has an ambitious scope and a rueful sense of war’s barrenness – so it’s a shame it can’t unwrap its formaldehyde-steeped central conceit into something dramatically satisfying.
Brana (Charlotte Vega) is a young intelligence officer tasked with escorting the decomposing Führer back to Moscow, but morale is flagging among her soldiers as they travel through dense woodland stalked by “werewolf” resistance fighters.
What if Hitler’s body hadn’t been cremated in Berlin by the SS? That alt-history teaser is the starting point for Ben Parker’s action thriller, which posits a tug of war over the corpse between a Soviet unit escorting it back to Stalin and pro-Nazi partisans hellbent on recovering it. Taking place in the Polish forests in the dying days of the second world war, Burial has an ambitious scope and a rueful sense of war’s barrenness – so it’s a shame it can’t unwrap its formaldehyde-steeped central conceit into something dramatically satisfying.
Brana (Charlotte Vega) is a young intelligence officer tasked with escorting the decomposing Führer back to Moscow, but morale is flagging among her soldiers as they travel through dense woodland stalked by “werewolf” resistance fighters.
- 9/20/2022
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Nazi ghouls have figured in plenty of horror movies, whether preserved (1966’s “The Frozen Dead”), newly bioengineered (1978’s “The Boys from Brazil”) or zombiefied (too many to list). Edging close to that terrain, “Burial” revolves around a corpse — the corpse, as far as WWII’s end was concerned — that does not reanimate or otherwise come “back to life,” but poses a grave threat nonetheless.
Not-quite-horror despite its macabre theme and mood, this sophomore directorial feature for Ben Parker is a handsomely produced period thriller that delivers in terms of action and atmospherics, even if his somewhat convoluted story doesn’t maximally pay off. IFC Midnight is releasing the Estonia-shot U.K. production to limited U.S. theaters and on-demand platforms Sept. 2.
A framing device set in 1991 London has elderly Anna disturbed one night by an intruder. No helpless spinster, she soon has the skinhead-looking young perp (David Alexander) cuffed to her radiator.
Not-quite-horror despite its macabre theme and mood, this sophomore directorial feature for Ben Parker is a handsomely produced period thriller that delivers in terms of action and atmospherics, even if his somewhat convoluted story doesn’t maximally pay off. IFC Midnight is releasing the Estonia-shot U.K. production to limited U.S. theaters and on-demand platforms Sept. 2.
A framing device set in 1991 London has elderly Anna disturbed one night by an intruder. No helpless spinster, she soon has the skinhead-looking young perp (David Alexander) cuffed to her radiator.
- 8/29/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Burial Trailer — Ben Parker‘s Burial (2022) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Burial trailer stars Charlotte Vega, Barry Ward, Dan Renton Skinner, Bill Milner, Harriet Walter, and Tom Felton. Crew Ben Parker wrote the screenplay for Burial. “It’s produced by Paul Higgins, Matthew James Wilkinson, and Hugh Spearing.” Poster Burial Movie Poster Plot Synopsis Burial‘s plot [...]
Continue reading: Burial (2022) Movie Trailer: Charlotte Vega & Her Fellow Soldiers Come Under Attack Trafficking Hitler’s Remains to Stalin...
Continue reading: Burial (2022) Movie Trailer: Charlotte Vega & Her Fellow Soldiers Come Under Attack Trafficking Hitler’s Remains to Stalin...
- 7/22/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
"Look around you. There's no one here... No one cares. The war is over." IFC Midnight has revealed the official trailer for a WWII thriller titled Burial, from filmmaker Ben Parker (The Chamber). This should've shown up at some festivals before opening, but it hasn't yet, and will be heading straight to theaters (and VOD) in early September if anyone is curious about watching anyway. Set during the last days of WWII, a band of Russian soldiers tasked with transporting Hitler's remains out of Germany are ambushed by Nazi "Wehrwolf" fighters. They must ensure their "cargo" doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried, in order to hide the truth forever. Starring Charlotte Vega, Barry Ward, Dan Renton Skinner, Bill Milner, Harriet Walter, and Tom Felton. This plays much more like a horror about ghosts in the forests than a thriller about Hitler's remains, which is fine,...
- 7/21/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Production is under way on Altitude Film Entertainment and Citrus Films’ family movie Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, based on the popular children’s book series by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.
Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.
Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.
- 10/3/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The Disney Channel is preparing a supernatural animated series featuring the voice talents of Strictly Come Dancing’s Craig Revel-Horwood, comedian Rufus Hound and young British actress Georgia Lock.
The kids’ broadcasters will roll out Sadie Sparks in 2019. The show follows the enchanting story of a 14-year-old girl, Sadie, who finds out she has magical abilities and becomes a wizard-in-training, with the guidance and mentorship from a very old and very grumpy rabbit, Gilbert, who is sent to the human world from the Magical Realm to train Sadie and harness her volatile magical skills.
Sadie must navigate the challenging world of high school, juggling exams whilst training to be a wizard. The show combines two animation styles, the Magical Realm appears in 2D and the human world in CGI. Sadie and Gilbert hop between the two worlds using their magician’s hat portal.
Unveiled at the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield,...
The kids’ broadcasters will roll out Sadie Sparks in 2019. The show follows the enchanting story of a 14-year-old girl, Sadie, who finds out she has magical abilities and becomes a wizard-in-training, with the guidance and mentorship from a very old and very grumpy rabbit, Gilbert, who is sent to the human world from the Magical Realm to train Sadie and harness her volatile magical skills.
Sadie must navigate the challenging world of high school, juggling exams whilst training to be a wizard. The show combines two animation styles, the Magical Realm appears in 2D and the human world in CGI. Sadie and Gilbert hop between the two worlds using their magician’s hat portal.
Unveiled at the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield,...
- 7/5/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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,...
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,...
- 9/12/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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...
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...
- 8/31/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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.
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.
- 8/3/2017
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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...
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...
- 2/11/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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.
Read More: Shia Labeouf, Rooney Mara and More: 10 Hot Projects at Berlin’s European Film Market
-Lionsgate has acquired U.S. rights to action film “Rally Car,” starring Keanu Reeves. The film will be directed by Olivier Megaton (“Taken 2,...
-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.
Read More: Shia Labeouf, Rooney Mara and More: 10 Hot Projects at Berlin’s European Film Market
-Lionsgate has acquired U.S. rights to action film “Rally Car,” starring Keanu Reeves. The film will be directed by Olivier Megaton (“Taken 2,...
- 2/10/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
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.
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.
- 1/16/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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.
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.
- 9/19/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Moviegoers in the UK are almost a month out from the release of High-Rise, the latest in a growing line of Ben Wheatley’s psychological thrillers.
If Kill List focused on the unhinged mindset of a former soldier, and Sightseers chronicled the backroads journey of Alice Lowe and Steve Oram’s peculiar couple, then Wheatley’s latest very much places us in the shoes of a relatively sane protagonist: Tom Hiddleston’s successful Dr. Robert Laing, who seeks to start a fresh chapter in his life by taking up residence in the title tower block, only to discover that it’s harboring a dark, unspeakable secret.
Jeremy Irons stars as the seedy architect Anthony Royal, the creator that designed the sky-scraping cesspools in the first place. Ordering the lower class to the bottom and the upper echelons of society, High-Rise quickly descends into a dystopian nightmare of drugs, violence and sex,...
If Kill List focused on the unhinged mindset of a former soldier, and Sightseers chronicled the backroads journey of Alice Lowe and Steve Oram’s peculiar couple, then Wheatley’s latest very much places us in the shoes of a relatively sane protagonist: Tom Hiddleston’s successful Dr. Robert Laing, who seeks to start a fresh chapter in his life by taking up residence in the title tower block, only to discover that it’s harboring a dark, unspeakable secret.
Jeremy Irons stars as the seedy architect Anthony Royal, the creator that designed the sky-scraping cesspools in the first place. Ordering the lower class to the bottom and the upper echelons of society, High-Rise quickly descends into a dystopian nightmare of drugs, violence and sex,...
- 2/16/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Later this year, moviegoers will be cordially invited to StudioCanal’s High-Rise (otherwise known as Ben Wheatley’s twisted tower of terror), and today’s poster and trailer showcase what happens when Tom Hiddleston’s protagonist bids farewell to the real world.
The actor assumes the role of the intellectual Dr. Robert Laing, who seeks residence in the titular sky-scraper. Held up as the solution to the societal ills of 1970s London, the tower block quickly descends into a cesspool of drugs and violence, with Hiddleston’s Laing caught up somewhere in the middle. Where exactly our protagonist finds himself is of the utmost importance, too, considering that the setup bears semblance to Snowpiercer by relegating the lower class to the bottom floors and upper class to the penthouses.
Less utopian haven and more dystopian nightmare, High-Rise has all the makings of a dark psychological thriller, and considering that Wheatley...
The actor assumes the role of the intellectual Dr. Robert Laing, who seeks residence in the titular sky-scraper. Held up as the solution to the societal ills of 1970s London, the tower block quickly descends into a cesspool of drugs and violence, with Hiddleston’s Laing caught up somewhere in the middle. Where exactly our protagonist finds himself is of the utmost importance, too, considering that the setup bears semblance to Snowpiercer by relegating the lower class to the bottom floors and upper class to the penthouses.
Less utopian haven and more dystopian nightmare, High-Rise has all the makings of a dark psychological thriller, and considering that Wheatley...
- 2/9/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
We've got a new trailer to share with you for Tom Hiddleston's upcoming thriller High-Rise. The movie comes from writer and director Ben Wheatley, who is the creator of several awesomely bold films that include Kill List, Sightseers, and A Field in England. I'm a fan of Wheatley's filmmaking style and the intense twistedness he brings to his stories. High-Rise looks like it's going to be a great addition to his resume.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard and also stars Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando, and Dan Renton Skinner. Here's the synopsis for the movie:
London, 1975.
A slick apartment tower rises above the Thames, the beginnings of what will soon become the world’s biggest financial hub. Dominating the landscape, it is simply called the High-rise… its address a mark of exclusivity.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard and also stars Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando, and Dan Renton Skinner. Here's the synopsis for the movie:
London, 1975.
A slick apartment tower rises above the Thames, the beginnings of what will soon become the world’s biggest financial hub. Dominating the landscape, it is simply called the High-rise… its address a mark of exclusivity.
- 2/9/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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Tom Hiddleston has a date with destiny in the latest batch of stills for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, which send his Dr. Robert Laing into the depths of the director’s twisted tower of terror.
Adapted from J.G. Ballard’s acclaimed novel of the same name, Wheatley’s latest looks set to be another bold and psychedelic addition to résumé that is becoming increasingly surreal with each passing release. For the uninitiated, the eye-catching British director also helmed Kill List, Sightseers and A Field in England, and his catapulted onto the list of director’s you daren’t take your eye off even in such a short space of time.
As for High-Rise, Hiddleston’s brilliant doctor Laing is the newcomer to a residency that is masking a deep and dark secret. Relegating the lower class to the bottom floors and keeping the upper echelons of society at the tip-top,...
Tom Hiddleston has a date with destiny in the latest batch of stills for Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, which send his Dr. Robert Laing into the depths of the director’s twisted tower of terror.
Adapted from J.G. Ballard’s acclaimed novel of the same name, Wheatley’s latest looks set to be another bold and psychedelic addition to résumé that is becoming increasingly surreal with each passing release. For the uninitiated, the eye-catching British director also helmed Kill List, Sightseers and A Field in England, and his catapulted onto the list of director’s you daren’t take your eye off even in such a short space of time.
As for High-Rise, Hiddleston’s brilliant doctor Laing is the newcomer to a residency that is masking a deep and dark secret. Relegating the lower class to the bottom floors and keeping the upper echelons of society at the tip-top,...
- 1/28/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Notes on Blindness is the kind of documentary that aims to be formally distinct — something I wish was standard for the art. The film does more than simply tell an interesting true story which the filmmakers stumbled upon. It uses that story as a jumping-off point to explore actual ideas — in this case, dealing with the loss of a sense, and how the experience of lacking this sense can be expressed cinematically.
When English theologian John Hull began losing his sight in middle age, he started narrating his life via tape recorder. Writers-directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney have edited these diaries, as well as interviews with Hull and his wife Marilyn, into an autobiography of sorts. (They initially created a short film, now been expanded into this feature.) In a manner similar to that of Clio Barnard’s masterpiece The Arbor, the audio is illustrated via extensive reenactment, with actors lip-synching the original dialogue.
When English theologian John Hull began losing his sight in middle age, he started narrating his life via tape recorder. Writers-directors Peter Middleton and James Spinney have edited these diaries, as well as interviews with Hull and his wife Marilyn, into an autobiography of sorts. (They initially created a short film, now been expanded into this feature.) In a manner similar to that of Clio Barnard’s masterpiece The Arbor, the audio is illustrated via extensive reenactment, with actors lip-synching the original dialogue.
- 1/25/2016
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
Tom Hiddleston checks into Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise in today’s new teaser, though any hope of finding a state of happiness in his new home soon come crashing down – and fast.
For Wheatley’s latest dark and brooding entry into a growing résumé of complex dramas, Hiddleston assumes the role of Dr. Robert Laing, a newcomer to the Orwellian microcosm constructed by fictional conglomerate Anthony Royal Architecture. Jeremy Irons plays the part of the title visionary behind the monolithic tower block, who becomes the chief target when the building’s three-tier class structure begins to dissolve.
Lifted from the pages of J.G. Ballard’s acclaimed novel, High-Rise is being adapted to the screen by Amy Jump and presents exactly the kind of multi-faceted material that allows Wheatley to flourish. From today’s trailer alone, we catch glimpses of the director’s unsettling visual style, challenging the macabre tenets that...
For Wheatley’s latest dark and brooding entry into a growing résumé of complex dramas, Hiddleston assumes the role of Dr. Robert Laing, a newcomer to the Orwellian microcosm constructed by fictional conglomerate Anthony Royal Architecture. Jeremy Irons plays the part of the title visionary behind the monolithic tower block, who becomes the chief target when the building’s three-tier class structure begins to dissolve.
Lifted from the pages of J.G. Ballard’s acclaimed novel, High-Rise is being adapted to the screen by Amy Jump and presents exactly the kind of multi-faceted material that allows Wheatley to flourish. From today’s trailer alone, we catch glimpses of the director’s unsettling visual style, challenging the macabre tenets that...
- 1/7/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Five films into his dark, brooding and critically acclaimed career behind the lens, Ben Wheatley has shot to the top of the list of British directors you daren’t take your eye off. His latest, High-Rise, takes place in the socio-political cauldron of west London circa 1975, all contained within the four concrete walls of a monolithic residential tower block.
Built and sustained by the big wigs at Anthony Royal Architecture, a fictional conglomerate that favors profit over home comforts, these towering eyesores have been explored throughout the course of the film’s less-is-more marketing campaign, with Anthony Royal painting the sky-scrapping abode as a utopian haven. That’s about as far removed from reality as you could imagine.
In today’s teaser for Wheatley’s latest creative effort, Tom Hiddleston is seen taking a tumble from the titular High-Rise building, all set against a frankly hellish London backdrop.
Headlining the drama as Robert Laing,...
Built and sustained by the big wigs at Anthony Royal Architecture, a fictional conglomerate that favors profit over home comforts, these towering eyesores have been explored throughout the course of the film’s less-is-more marketing campaign, with Anthony Royal painting the sky-scrapping abode as a utopian haven. That’s about as far removed from reality as you could imagine.
In today’s teaser for Wheatley’s latest creative effort, Tom Hiddleston is seen taking a tumble from the titular High-Rise building, all set against a frankly hellish London backdrop.
Headlining the drama as Robert Laing,...
- 1/5/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
StudioCanal has released the a new poster for "High-Rise," Ben Wheatley's darkly satirical thriller starring Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando and Dan Renton Skinner.
An adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel of the same name, the story centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power, at the site of what will soon become the world's financial hub. The film opens March 18th in the U.K. ahead of a late 2016 release.
An adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel of the same name, the story centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher's rise to power, at the site of what will soon become the world's financial hub. The film opens March 18th in the U.K. ahead of a late 2016 release.
- 1/5/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sundance top brass celebrate the tenth anniversary of the New Frontier programme with an exhibition of new work that includes Vr projects involving Björk and Ridley Scott’s global hit The Martian.Scroll Down For Full List
The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.
Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.
The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.
Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...
The dynamic roster encompasses features, a live performance, documentary and narrative mobile virtual reality experiences and a look inside the innovations at some of world’s leading media research labs.
Tenth anniversary exhibitions will also be presented with MoMA in New York City in April, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis as part of Northern Spark in June.
The New Frontiers line-up will take place in Park City’s Claim Jumper, The Gateway, a large-scale installation on Swede Alley by Chris Milk and a performance by Gingger Shankar at Festival Base Camp Presented by Canada Goose.
Beyond the dedicated physical exhibition spaces, audiences can experience more than 20 virtual reality pieces on mobile Vr headsets. This year’s...
- 12/3/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Bob Mortimer has undergone a triple heart bypass operation, forcing him and Vic Reeves to cancel the first leg of their 25-year anniversary tour.
The comedy duo were set to kick off a fortnight of shows - '25 Years of Reeves and Mortimer: The Poignant Moments' - in Glasgow next Sunday (November 8).
Mortimer's spokesman issued a statement to say that the star, 56, needs "several weeks" to recover from his operation on Tuesday (October 27).
"Bob would like to thank his consultant and all the nursing staff at the hospital for looking after him so well," said his rep.
"He now needs several weeks to fully recover, so unfortunately the first leg of the UK tour will be cancelled."
Dan Skinner says critics didn't get Vic & Bob's axed House of Fools
The spokesman added: "Bob very much hopes to be fit and well enough to perform the second leg in January next year.
The comedy duo were set to kick off a fortnight of shows - '25 Years of Reeves and Mortimer: The Poignant Moments' - in Glasgow next Sunday (November 8).
Mortimer's spokesman issued a statement to say that the star, 56, needs "several weeks" to recover from his operation on Tuesday (October 27).
"Bob would like to thank his consultant and all the nursing staff at the hospital for looking after him so well," said his rep.
"He now needs several weeks to fully recover, so unfortunately the first leg of the UK tour will be cancelled."
Dan Skinner says critics didn't get Vic & Bob's axed House of Fools
The spokesman added: "Bob very much hopes to be fit and well enough to perform the second leg in January next year.
- 10/28/2015
- Digital Spy
You might know him best as oddball Angelos Epithemiou, but actor Dan Skinner has admitted he was keen to take a break from his alter-ego.
The 42-year-old comic told Digital Spy that he is working on a new Angelos live show - the first time he'll have played the character since 2013.
"I haven't left him behind," he insisted. "But I needed to take a break from it for a little, because otherwise I'd have just been doing that.
"People will always go, 'Do some more, do some more' - but I never ever wanted to do just one thing."
Skinner appeared as Angelos on the live circuit for seven years, before playing the character on BBC Two's anarchic quiz Shooting Stars from 2009 to 2011.
"Then there was another five years after Shooting Stars of doing it on television, going on tour and all the rest of it. By the end of that cycle,...
The 42-year-old comic told Digital Spy that he is working on a new Angelos live show - the first time he'll have played the character since 2013.
"I haven't left him behind," he insisted. "But I needed to take a break from it for a little, because otherwise I'd have just been doing that.
"People will always go, 'Do some more, do some more' - but I never ever wanted to do just one thing."
Skinner appeared as Angelos on the live circuit for seven years, before playing the character on BBC Two's anarchic quiz Shooting Stars from 2009 to 2011.
"Then there was another five years after Shooting Stars of doing it on television, going on tour and all the rest of it. By the end of that cycle,...
- 9/29/2015
- Digital Spy
House of Fools was cancelled by BBC Two last month - and now star Dan Skinner says critics of the axed comedy simply "didn't get it".
Vic & Bob starred in the surreal sitcom, which also featured Skinner as Vic's jailbird brother Bosh.
"BBC Two needed a certain amount of viewers to make it viable to go to a third series, and I don't know if we were getting those," he told Digital Spy.
"But I think it's a real shame, because it's an alternative to the mainstream - and the broader comedy that you find on the BBC, or anywhere else - and I think we need that."
Skinner called Vic & Bob "artists", but acknowledged that their antics "won't be for everybody" .
"That's the way they've always been," he said. "They've always had people that love them, and people that hate them or don't understand them.
"I got messages,...
Vic & Bob starred in the surreal sitcom, which also featured Skinner as Vic's jailbird brother Bosh.
"BBC Two needed a certain amount of viewers to make it viable to go to a third series, and I don't know if we were getting those," he told Digital Spy.
"But I think it's a real shame, because it's an alternative to the mainstream - and the broader comedy that you find on the BBC, or anywhere else - and I think we need that."
Skinner called Vic & Bob "artists", but acknowledged that their antics "won't be for everybody" .
"That's the way they've always been," he said. "They've always had people that love them, and people that hate them or don't understand them.
"I got messages,...
- 9/29/2015
- Digital Spy
Yonderland: Sky 1, 8pm
It's the third episode of season 2 of the hit comedy adventure and once again Debbie (Martha Howe-Douglas) struggles to keep peace in both her reality world and the fantasy realm.
Debbie ends up in trouble after Ellis of Woolworth wrongly blames her for his brother's death. Meanwhile, in the other realm, Peter (Renton Skinner) suspects their house is haunted after a near meeting with a messenger creature.
True Detective: Sky Atlantic, 9pm
Nic Pizzolatto's Us crime series continues.
After the deadly shootout that concluded last week's episode, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Frank (Vince Vaughn) contemplate new life choices, while Ani (Rachel McAdams) and Paul (Taylor Kitsch) follow up on a lead.
Don't Take My Baby: BBC Three, 9pm
This one-off drama is based on the real testimony of a wheelchair user Anna and her partially blind partner Tom as they struggle to keep their baby.
It's the third episode of season 2 of the hit comedy adventure and once again Debbie (Martha Howe-Douglas) struggles to keep peace in both her reality world and the fantasy realm.
Debbie ends up in trouble after Ellis of Woolworth wrongly blames her for his brother's death. Meanwhile, in the other realm, Peter (Renton Skinner) suspects their house is haunted after a near meeting with a messenger creature.
True Detective: Sky Atlantic, 9pm
Nic Pizzolatto's Us crime series continues.
After the deadly shootout that concluded last week's episode, Ray (Colin Farrell) and Frank (Vince Vaughn) contemplate new life choices, while Ani (Rachel McAdams) and Paul (Taylor Kitsch) follow up on a lead.
Don't Take My Baby: BBC Three, 9pm
This one-off drama is based on the real testimony of a wheelchair user Anna and her partially blind partner Tom as they struggle to keep their baby.
- 7/20/2015
- Digital Spy
The festival returns this month for its sixth edition. Every year Liff aims to bring audiences some of the very best new Indian independent cinema, which includes features, documentaries and short films by both acclaimed and emerging filmmakers. This year’s line up promises to leave you entertained, informed, thought provoking and even in some cases leaving a screen shocked.
We now present the films that will be screened at this prestigious festival
Umrika | Opening Night | UK Premiere | cert 12A
Hindi with English subtitles | 98 min | India 2015 | Dir. Prashant Nair | with: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Adil Hussain, Smita Tambe, Prateik Babbar.
This year’s Sundance Audience Award winner is an uplifting, rights of passage tale about two brothers from a small village who have dreams of making it big in Umrika (America). Udai (Pratiek Babbar) is the eldest and adored by his hard-working mum. He leaves their hamlet on a bullock...
We now present the films that will be screened at this prestigious festival
Umrika | Opening Night | UK Premiere | cert 12A
Hindi with English subtitles | 98 min | India 2015 | Dir. Prashant Nair | with: Suraj Sharma, Tony Revolori, Adil Hussain, Smita Tambe, Prateik Babbar.
This year’s Sundance Audience Award winner is an uplifting, rights of passage tale about two brothers from a small village who have dreams of making it big in Umrika (America). Udai (Pratiek Babbar) is the eldest and adored by his hard-working mum. He leaves their hamlet on a bullock...
- 7/8/2015
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Katherine Parkinson is to join new BBC family comedy The Kennedys.
The It Crowd actress will play Brenda Kennedy in the new six-part, 1970s-set comedy, with Shooting Stars actor Dan Skinner playing her husband Tony.
The multi-generation comedy is created and written by actress, writer and TV presenter Emma Kennedy and is loosely based on her memoirs The Tent, The Bucket and Me.
Each episode will be introduced by a young Emma Kennedy (Lucy Hutchison), a 10-year-old Star Wars obsessed tomboy who has a good relationship with her parents.
The show sees the Kennedy family move to a new estate in Stevenage, New Town. Delighted at the prospect of being considered middle class, the Kennedys soon get to work organising activities for their new neighbourhood.
The show also features the family's best friends, unmarried couple Tim (Toast of London's Harry Peacock) and Jenny (Up the Women's Emma Pierson...
The It Crowd actress will play Brenda Kennedy in the new six-part, 1970s-set comedy, with Shooting Stars actor Dan Skinner playing her husband Tony.
The multi-generation comedy is created and written by actress, writer and TV presenter Emma Kennedy and is loosely based on her memoirs The Tent, The Bucket and Me.
Each episode will be introduced by a young Emma Kennedy (Lucy Hutchison), a 10-year-old Star Wars obsessed tomboy who has a good relationship with her parents.
The show sees the Kennedy family move to a new estate in Stevenage, New Town. Delighted at the prospect of being considered middle class, the Kennedys soon get to work organising activities for their new neighbourhood.
The show also features the family's best friends, unmarried couple Tim (Toast of London's Harry Peacock) and Jenny (Up the Women's Emma Pierson...
- 3/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Top Gear Patagonia Special: BBC Two, 8pm
In the final part of the Patagonia Special, the Top Gear trio continue their challenging 1,600-mile drive through Argentina.
Having encountered breathtaking scenery on their journey to Ushuaia, their adventure is brought to a dramatic and frightening climax.
Last Tango in Halifax: BBC One, 9pm
Series three of the family drama kicks off on Valentine's Day, as Gillian enjoys a date with a handsome man from Halifax.
Elsewhere, Alan and Celia plan their honeymoon in New Zealand so they can pay a visit to Alan's brother Ted. However, could the unexpected appearance of someone from Alan's past threaten the newlyweds' bliss?
Homeland: Channel 4, 9pm
Carrie and Saul are back in the Us for the final episode of season four.
In 'Long Time Coming', the pair continue to investigate what Carrie (Clare Danes) saw while she was stationed in Islamabad.
House of Fools: BBC Two,...
In the final part of the Patagonia Special, the Top Gear trio continue their challenging 1,600-mile drive through Argentina.
Having encountered breathtaking scenery on their journey to Ushuaia, their adventure is brought to a dramatic and frightening climax.
Last Tango in Halifax: BBC One, 9pm
Series three of the family drama kicks off on Valentine's Day, as Gillian enjoys a date with a handsome man from Halifax.
Elsewhere, Alan and Celia plan their honeymoon in New Zealand so they can pay a visit to Alan's brother Ted. However, could the unexpected appearance of someone from Alan's past threaten the newlyweds' bliss?
Homeland: Channel 4, 9pm
Carrie and Saul are back in the Us for the final episode of season four.
In 'Long Time Coming', the pair continue to investigate what Carrie (Clare Danes) saw while she was stationed in Islamabad.
House of Fools: BBC Two,...
- 12/28/2014
- Digital Spy
We asked Den Of Geek’s writers to recommend brilliant comedy shows that deserve to have more of a fuss made about them. Here they are...
Banging a drum about stuff we love is more or less our remit on Den Of Geek - hence what many readers have started referring to as the ‘inexplicably regular' appearance of Statham, squirrels and Harold Bishop from Neighbours on these pages.
To that end then, we asked our writers which comedy shows (past and present, UK or otherwise, on TV, radio, or online…) deserved more praise, and here are the ones they chose. You might already like them too, or you might discover something new to dig out and enjoy. That’s the fun of it.
Please note that this list isn’t ranked in any order, nor is it exhaustive. It’s compiled from the opinions of a group of different people,...
Banging a drum about stuff we love is more or less our remit on Den Of Geek - hence what many readers have started referring to as the ‘inexplicably regular' appearance of Statham, squirrels and Harold Bishop from Neighbours on these pages.
To that end then, we asked our writers which comedy shows (past and present, UK or otherwise, on TV, radio, or online…) deserved more praise, and here are the ones they chose. You might already like them too, or you might discover something new to dig out and enjoy. That’s the fun of it.
Please note that this list isn’t ranked in any order, nor is it exhaustive. It’s compiled from the opinions of a group of different people,...
- 11/13/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Taylor Swift, Will Ferrell and Derren Brown will be among the stars featured during the Stand Up To Cancer telethon.
Alan Carr, Davina McCall and Dr Christian Jessen will co-host the Channel 4 event on October 17.
Among this year's highlights will include a Gogglebox celebrity special with names to be announced at a later, while Nicole Scherzinger will perform with The SU2C Childrens Choir, whose members have all survived cancer.
Swift will join Jamie Oliver for a new sketch, and Derren Brown will amaze Sherlock's husband and wife duo Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington.
As previously reported, Andy Murray and Richard Ayoade will appear in a sketch in which they screen-test celebrities to play the tennis star in a fictional biopic.
Britney Spears, Pharrell Williams, Gordon Ramsay, Michael Sheen, Ed Sheeran, Rory McIIroy, Sir Terry Wogan and Cesc Fabregas will all appear in the skit.
Jack Whitehall will...
Alan Carr, Davina McCall and Dr Christian Jessen will co-host the Channel 4 event on October 17.
Among this year's highlights will include a Gogglebox celebrity special with names to be announced at a later, while Nicole Scherzinger will perform with The SU2C Childrens Choir, whose members have all survived cancer.
Swift will join Jamie Oliver for a new sketch, and Derren Brown will amaze Sherlock's husband and wife duo Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington.
As previously reported, Andy Murray and Richard Ayoade will appear in a sketch in which they screen-test celebrities to play the tennis star in a fictional biopic.
Britney Spears, Pharrell Williams, Gordon Ramsay, Michael Sheen, Ed Sheeran, Rory McIIroy, Sir Terry Wogan and Cesc Fabregas will all appear in the skit.
Jack Whitehall will...
- 10/2/2014
- Digital Spy
Production on Ben Wheatley's new thriller 'High Rise' kicks off later this month in Belfast and even though the project has already managed to snare an impressive cast to date it's still not quite done yet. 'Nymphomaniac' star Stacy Martin (below) is the latest to sign up for an unspecified role in the new feature. Martin, who has appeared in both volumes of Lars von Trier's latest entries into controversy, will be joining Tom Hiddleston ('The Avengers'), Luke Evans ('Dracula Untold'), Elisabeth Moss ('Mad Men'), Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando, and Dan Renton Skinner....
- 7/1/2014
- Horror Asylum
A terrific cast is forming around U.K. filmmaker Ben Wheatley's net film, “High-Rise." The movie already stars Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons and James Purefoy (HBO’s “Rome”). That’s good enough as it is, but announced last night, joining the cast are “Mad Men” and “Top Of The Lake” star Elisabeth Moss and Luke Evans of “The Hobbit” and the upcoming “Dracula Untold.” Based on the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name, the movie will chronicle the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control. Wheatley's probably the most exciting filmmaker to come out of the U.K. in some time and has directed a succession of excellent genre films like the comedic serial killers film, "Sightseers," the hit man horror "Kill List," and the crime family comedic drama, "Down Terrace." Wheatley regulars Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando and Dan Renton Skinner...
- 6/25/2014
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
High Rise
Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") has joined the cast of Ben Wheatley's darkly comic dystopian thriller "High-Rise" based on Jg Ballard's classic story. Set in a new luxury residential tower built on the eve of Thatcher’s England, the residents soon are split into violent tribal factions.
Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando and comedian Dan Renton Skinner also star. Filming begins in July in Belfast. [Source: Screen]
The Longest Ride
Melissa Benoist ("Glee") has scored a role in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' "The Longest Ride" at Fox 2000. Benoist will play Marcia, a well intentioned roommate, whilst Alan Alda and Jack Huston also star.
Britt Robertson and Scott Eastwood lead the cast as a young couple whose romance parallels the the intertwined love story of a local elderly man and his lady love. [Source: Deadline]
Miles Ahead
Emayatzy Corinealdi ("Middle of Nowhere...
Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") has joined the cast of Ben Wheatley's darkly comic dystopian thriller "High-Rise" based on Jg Ballard's classic story. Set in a new luxury residential tower built on the eve of Thatcher’s England, the residents soon are split into violent tribal factions.
Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando and comedian Dan Renton Skinner also star. Filming begins in July in Belfast. [Source: Screen]
The Longest Ride
Melissa Benoist ("Glee") has scored a role in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' "The Longest Ride" at Fox 2000. Benoist will play Marcia, a well intentioned roommate, whilst Alan Alda and Jack Huston also star.
Britt Robertson and Scott Eastwood lead the cast as a young couple whose romance parallels the the intertwined love story of a local elderly man and his lady love. [Source: Deadline]
Miles Ahead
Emayatzy Corinealdi ("Middle of Nowhere...
- 6/25/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
'A Field in England' and 'Kill List' director Ben Wheatley's newest project 'High-Rise' is lining up one heck of an impressive cast which will no doubt give the British filmmaker plenty more deserved attention. Both 'Dracula Untold' actor Luke Evans (below) and 'Mad Men' star Elisabeth Moss have signed on to the feature adapted from the classic British thriller by Jg Ballard. Evans and Moss join fellow castmates Tom Hiddleston ('The Avengers'), Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando, and Dan Renton Skinner. Wheatley said: 'Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast. I'm really excited to be working with both of them. I'm looking forward to see what they will bring to the complex relationship between Richard and Helen Wilder.'...
- 6/25/2014
- Horror Asylum
Mad Men star joins Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller and Luke Evans in cast.
Mad Men and Top of the Lake star Elisabeth Moss has joined the cast of director Ben Wheatley and producer Jeremy Thomas’ dystopian thriller High-Rise.
Moss joins a cast that includes Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando and comedian Dan Renton Skinner.
Directed by Wheatley from a screenplay by his wife and regular collaborator Amy Jump, the hotly anticipated film is an adaptation of Jg Ballard’s classic British thriller.
The film is slated for a July start in Belfast, with Thomas producing through Recorded Picture Company.
HanWay handles sales with deals already closing with StudioCanal for UK and The Jokers for France.
Wheatley said: “Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast. I’m really excited to be working with both of them. I’m looking...
Mad Men and Top of the Lake star Elisabeth Moss has joined the cast of director Ben Wheatley and producer Jeremy Thomas’ dystopian thriller High-Rise.
Moss joins a cast that includes Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans, James Purefoy, Reece Shearsmith, Peter Ferdinando and comedian Dan Renton Skinner.
Directed by Wheatley from a screenplay by his wife and regular collaborator Amy Jump, the hotly anticipated film is an adaptation of Jg Ballard’s classic British thriller.
The film is slated for a July start in Belfast, with Thomas producing through Recorded Picture Company.
HanWay handles sales with deals already closing with StudioCanal for UK and The Jokers for France.
Wheatley said: “Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast. I’m really excited to be working with both of them. I’m looking...
- 6/25/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss have joined the cast of High-Rise.
The film, directed by Ben Wheatley (Doctor Who, A Field in England), is an adaption of Jg Ballard's High Rise. Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons have already been confirmed for the film.
"Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast," said Wheatley. "I'm really excited to be working with both of them.
"I'm looking forward to see what they will bring to the complex relationship between Richard and Helen Wilder."
Producer Jeremy Thomas - who has wanted adapt Ballad's novel for a number of years - added: "Two great actors have joined our cast".
High-Rise will centre on a new residential tower built on the eve of the Thatcher era.
Designed by visionary architect Anthony Royal (Irons), the luxurious tower is build on the site of what will soon become the world's financial hub,...
The film, directed by Ben Wheatley (Doctor Who, A Field in England), is an adaption of Jg Ballard's High Rise. Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons have already been confirmed for the film.
"Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast," said Wheatley. "I'm really excited to be working with both of them.
"I'm looking forward to see what they will bring to the complex relationship between Richard and Helen Wilder."
Producer Jeremy Thomas - who has wanted adapt Ballad's novel for a number of years - added: "Two great actors have joined our cast".
High-Rise will centre on a new residential tower built on the eve of the Thatcher era.
Designed by visionary architect Anthony Royal (Irons), the luxurious tower is build on the site of what will soon become the world's financial hub,...
- 6/25/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV2 has commissioned a new sitcom from Bad Education writer Freddy Syborn.
Cockroaches will be a post-apocalyptic romantic comedy starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Uncle) and Esther Smith (Skins).
The pair play Tom and Suze, two 19-year-olds hoping for a better future, before nuclear war hits. With the world about to end, they have sex, but unexpectedly survive the apocalypse.
Ten years later, the pair return from Suze's basement as 29-year-olds searching for the remnants of pre-war England.
The comedy will deal with what happens after a nuclear holocaust, including boredom, laziness, relationships, money, cannibalism and leadership.
Nigel Planer, Jaime Winstone, Caroline Quentin, Dan Renton Skinner, Sarah Daykin and Tom Davis will also make appearances.
Jack Whitehall will also cameo as Oscar, the irritating ex-boyfriend of Suze.
Angela Jain, Director of Digital Channels and Acquisitions for ITV, said: "I never thought I'd be happy to say we have Cockroaches at ITV...
Cockroaches will be a post-apocalyptic romantic comedy starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Uncle) and Esther Smith (Skins).
The pair play Tom and Suze, two 19-year-olds hoping for a better future, before nuclear war hits. With the world about to end, they have sex, but unexpectedly survive the apocalypse.
Ten years later, the pair return from Suze's basement as 29-year-olds searching for the remnants of pre-war England.
The comedy will deal with what happens after a nuclear holocaust, including boredom, laziness, relationships, money, cannibalism and leadership.
Nigel Planer, Jaime Winstone, Caroline Quentin, Dan Renton Skinner, Sarah Daykin and Tom Davis will also make appearances.
Jack Whitehall will also cameo as Oscar, the irritating ex-boyfriend of Suze.
Angela Jain, Director of Digital Channels and Acquisitions for ITV, said: "I never thought I'd be happy to say we have Cockroaches at ITV...
- 5/15/2014
- Digital Spy
The British public's top ten favourite double acts have been revealed.
Britain's Best Loved Double Acts - a celebration of the UK's favourite pairings - will air tomorrow night (April 12) on Channel 5.
Entertainment and comedy duos - such as Ant & Dec and The Two Ronnies - will feature, plus twosomes from the worlds of music, animation, drama and sport - including Chas and Dave, Zig and Zag, Dick and Dom and Andi Peters and Emma Forbes.
Digital Spy can reveal who has made the top ten - though you'll have to tune in at 7.15pm on Saturday to find out which order they come in, and which duo has claimed the top spot.
The top ten list is as follows...
Tom and Jerry
Wallace and Gromit
Torvill and Dean
Morecambe and Wise
Scott and Charlene
Fry and Laurie
Ant & Dec
The Two Ronnies
French and Saunders
Del Boy and Rodney...
Britain's Best Loved Double Acts - a celebration of the UK's favourite pairings - will air tomorrow night (April 12) on Channel 5.
Entertainment and comedy duos - such as Ant & Dec and The Two Ronnies - will feature, plus twosomes from the worlds of music, animation, drama and sport - including Chas and Dave, Zig and Zag, Dick and Dom and Andi Peters and Emma Forbes.
Digital Spy can reveal who has made the top ten - though you'll have to tune in at 7.15pm on Saturday to find out which order they come in, and which duo has claimed the top spot.
The top ten list is as follows...
Tom and Jerry
Wallace and Gromit
Torvill and Dean
Morecambe and Wise
Scott and Charlene
Fry and Laurie
Ant & Dec
The Two Ronnies
French and Saunders
Del Boy and Rodney...
- 4/11/2014
- Digital Spy
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's BBC Two comedy House of Fools has been renewed.
The sitcom - written by and starring the Shooting Stars duo - will return for a second series, the pair confirmed today (March 18).
Co-stars Daniel Simonsen, Morgana Robinson, Matt Berry and Dan Skinner are all expected to return for a second outing.
The BBC's controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen said: "House of Fools is a much needed big old rainbow of daftness in a world that is too grey and sensible.
"Those two loveable twits work very hard at making something that looks so effortlessly silly and it's a thrill to know there's plenty more where that came from."
BBC Commission 2Nd Series Of House Of Fools!!
— bob mortimer (@RealBobMortimer) March 18, 2014
Vic and Bob said in a statement: "We are overjoyed and thankful to our great corporation for their diligence in this matter."
House of Fools...
The sitcom - written by and starring the Shooting Stars duo - will return for a second series, the pair confirmed today (March 18).
Co-stars Daniel Simonsen, Morgana Robinson, Matt Berry and Dan Skinner are all expected to return for a second outing.
The BBC's controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen said: "House of Fools is a much needed big old rainbow of daftness in a world that is too grey and sensible.
"Those two loveable twits work very hard at making something that looks so effortlessly silly and it's a thrill to know there's plenty more where that came from."
BBC Commission 2Nd Series Of House Of Fools!!
— bob mortimer (@RealBobMortimer) March 18, 2014
Vic and Bob said in a statement: "We are overjoyed and thankful to our great corporation for their diligence in this matter."
House of Fools...
- 3/18/2014
- Digital Spy
News Louisa Mellor 18 Mar 2014 - 09:08
Hooray! Vic and Bob sitcom House Of Fools will be returning for a second series...
They made us wait a little for the news, but the BBC has finally done the right thing by Vic and Bob's House Of Fools and commissioned a second series. Six episodes of the surprising, inventive and supremely silly comedy aired on BBC Two earlier this year, with a regular cast including Dan Skinner, Morgana Robinson, Matt Berry and Daniel Simonsen.
The series takes place in Bob's titular house, shared by his Norwegian son Erik (Simonsen), Vic, and Vic's ex-con brother Bosh (Skinner). Nextdoor is the lascivious Julie (Robinson), and regular visitor Beef (Berry). The first series was a comedy that, once you relaxed into its songs, cutaways and colourful antics, was capable of cheering up even the grumpiest of Tuesdays. Hooray for its return.
Bob Mortimer made...
Hooray! Vic and Bob sitcom House Of Fools will be returning for a second series...
They made us wait a little for the news, but the BBC has finally done the right thing by Vic and Bob's House Of Fools and commissioned a second series. Six episodes of the surprising, inventive and supremely silly comedy aired on BBC Two earlier this year, with a regular cast including Dan Skinner, Morgana Robinson, Matt Berry and Daniel Simonsen.
The series takes place in Bob's titular house, shared by his Norwegian son Erik (Simonsen), Vic, and Vic's ex-con brother Bosh (Skinner). Nextdoor is the lascivious Julie (Robinson), and regular visitor Beef (Berry). The first series was a comedy that, once you relaxed into its songs, cutaways and colourful antics, was capable of cheering up even the grumpiest of Tuesdays. Hooray for its return.
Bob Mortimer made...
- 3/18/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Sex tape romance, from the director of Resistance and Jadoo, stars the daughter of Joely Richardson and Tim Bevan.
Post-production is underway on Nothing Like This, the new British feature from director Amit Gupta (Resistance, Jadoo).
The film is produced by Dean Fisher (City Rats, Squat) and is the first feature from production company Canary Wharf Films – a joint venture between Fisher’s Scanner-Rhodes Productions and Urban Way Productions.
The cast is led by Ray Panthaki (28 Days Later) and Daisy Bevan (Elizabeth), the daughter of actress Joely Richardson and Working Title boss Tim Bevan.
Panthaki plays actor Jay, whose sex tape made him an internet sensation and ruined his career. His parents refuse to speak to him, his acting career is reduced to offers for condom commercials and no girl wants to date the man on that tape but things start to change when Jay meets Hannah, played by Bevan. This relationship...
Post-production is underway on Nothing Like This, the new British feature from director Amit Gupta (Resistance, Jadoo).
The film is produced by Dean Fisher (City Rats, Squat) and is the first feature from production company Canary Wharf Films – a joint venture between Fisher’s Scanner-Rhodes Productions and Urban Way Productions.
The cast is led by Ray Panthaki (28 Days Later) and Daisy Bevan (Elizabeth), the daughter of actress Joely Richardson and Working Title boss Tim Bevan.
Panthaki plays actor Jay, whose sex tape made him an internet sensation and ruined his career. His parents refuse to speak to him, his acting career is reduced to offers for condom commercials and no girl wants to date the man on that tape but things start to change when Jay meets Hannah, played by Bevan. This relationship...
- 2/18/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Review Ryan Lambie 14 Jan 2014 - 22:30
Vic And Bob return to our screens with the sitcom House Of Fools. Here's Ryan's review of its debut episode, The Conan Affair...
Veteran comedy duo Vic and Bob are perhaps best known for their own brand of surrealist light entertainment, as seen in Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer and Shooting Stars (to name but a few), they've also been known to tinker with the traditional sitcom format from time to time.
In 1992, the pair wrote and starred in The Weekenders, a one-off pilot for Channel 4. Its typically off-the-wall story took in a pub called The Farting Dashboard and The Human League's Phil Oakey selling an unidentified variety of meat in the middle of a playing field. This, unfortunately, was never picked up for a full series.
Twelve years later came Catterick, a six-episode dark comedy...
Vic And Bob return to our screens with the sitcom House Of Fools. Here's Ryan's review of its debut episode, The Conan Affair...
Veteran comedy duo Vic and Bob are perhaps best known for their own brand of surrealist light entertainment, as seen in Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell Of Reeves And Mortimer and Shooting Stars (to name but a few), they've also been known to tinker with the traditional sitcom format from time to time.
In 1992, the pair wrote and starred in The Weekenders, a one-off pilot for Channel 4. Its typically off-the-wall story took in a pub called The Farting Dashboard and The Human League's Phil Oakey selling an unidentified variety of meat in the middle of a playing field. This, unfortunately, was never picked up for a full series.
Twelve years later came Catterick, a six-episode dark comedy...
- 1/14/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
New pictures and a trailer have been released for Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's new BBC Two sitcom House of Fools.
The Shooting Stars duo have turned their hands to a traditional studio audience comedy. However, the show still features their unique, surreal sense of humour.
The set-up is that Bob is continually getting frustrated in his home because of a continual line of uninvited lodgers, visitors and guests.
Vic, Beef (Matt Berry), Bosh (Dan Skinner) and Julie (Morgana Robinson) are among the guests who cause havoc.
The show has brought the duo's anarchic japes to the traditional British sitcom.
Speaking about the series, Reeves said: "The show is about Bob's house and his suffering of a variety of idiotic characters. I play Vic Reeves, who is one of the idiots. It's not me, but he looks a lot like me and sounds like me too."
Mortimer said: "We...
The Shooting Stars duo have turned their hands to a traditional studio audience comedy. However, the show still features their unique, surreal sense of humour.
The set-up is that Bob is continually getting frustrated in his home because of a continual line of uninvited lodgers, visitors and guests.
Vic, Beef (Matt Berry), Bosh (Dan Skinner) and Julie (Morgana Robinson) are among the guests who cause havoc.
The show has brought the duo's anarchic japes to the traditional British sitcom.
Speaking about the series, Reeves said: "The show is about Bob's house and his suffering of a variety of idiotic characters. I play Vic Reeves, who is one of the idiots. It's not me, but he looks a lot like me and sounds like me too."
Mortimer said: "We...
- 1/3/2014
- Digital Spy
The British Comedy Awards have revealed the nominations for this year's ceremony, with Alan Carr, Jack Whitehall and Miranda Hart all battling for prizes.
Jonathan Ross is once again hosting the awards, which will air live on Channel 4 next Thursday (December 12).
The Last Leg and its host Adam Hills lead the way with a total of three nominations.
Hills is in the running for Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality, while The Last Leg is in contention to be named Best Comedy Entertainment Programme.
Jo Brand and Vicki Pepperdine are each nominated for their roles in NHS sitcom Getting On, which also receives a nod in the Best Sitcom category.
The Great British Bake Off's Mel and Sue are up against the likes of Miranda Hart and Sarah Millican for Best Female TV Comic.
Best New Comedy Programme will see competition from Count Arthur Strong,...
Jonathan Ross is once again hosting the awards, which will air live on Channel 4 next Thursday (December 12).
The Last Leg and its host Adam Hills lead the way with a total of three nominations.
Hills is in the running for Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality, while The Last Leg is in contention to be named Best Comedy Entertainment Programme.
Jo Brand and Vicki Pepperdine are each nominated for their roles in NHS sitcom Getting On, which also receives a nod in the Best Sitcom category.
The Great British Bake Off's Mel and Sue are up against the likes of Miranda Hart and Sarah Millican for Best Female TV Comic.
Best New Comedy Programme will see competition from Count Arthur Strong,...
- 12/3/2013
- Digital Spy
The British Comedy Awards have revealed the six comedians nominated for the title of King or Queen of Comedy.
The category is the only one decided by the public, and lines open for voting at 11am today (November 27).
Last year's winner Jack Whitehall has been nominated again this year, alongside 2011 winner Sarah Millican, David Mitchell, Alan Carr, Graham Norton and Lee Mack.
The winner will be announced during the televised awards, which will air on December 12 from 9pm on Channel 4 and be presented by Jonathan Ross.
There are 15 categories in this year's British Comedy Awards, including Best New British TV Comedy, Best Sitcom, Best Comedy Actor and Actress, Outstanding Achievement Award, The Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award and the award for International Achievement.
Nominees include Mel and Sue, Ant & Dec, Adam Hills, James Cordon and Miranda Hart.
Lauren Laverne and new co-host Angelos Epithemiou will preside over the...
The category is the only one decided by the public, and lines open for voting at 11am today (November 27).
Last year's winner Jack Whitehall has been nominated again this year, alongside 2011 winner Sarah Millican, David Mitchell, Alan Carr, Graham Norton and Lee Mack.
The winner will be announced during the televised awards, which will air on December 12 from 9pm on Channel 4 and be presented by Jonathan Ross.
There are 15 categories in this year's British Comedy Awards, including Best New British TV Comedy, Best Sitcom, Best Comedy Actor and Actress, Outstanding Achievement Award, The Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award and the award for International Achievement.
Nominees include Mel and Sue, Ant & Dec, Adam Hills, James Cordon and Miranda Hart.
Lauren Laverne and new co-host Angelos Epithemiou will preside over the...
- 11/27/2013
- Digital Spy
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