Exclusive: Iwan Rheon (Game Of Thrones) and Erin Richards (Gotham) are among the cast for feature thriller-horror Suppression from U.S. filmmaker J.Mackye Gruber (The Butterfly Effect).
Also starring are Stephanie Leonidas (Defiance), Lex Shrapnel (Medici) and Ella-Rae Smith (Into the Badlands). The project started shooting yesterday in North Wales, UK.
Suppression follows a grieving couple (Rheon and Leonidas) who are given an alternative treatment to suppress their violent urges.
Joseph Baker wrote the screenplay. Producers are Tom Large and Daniel Caltagirone of Snowdonia Studios with Georgia Gwynne Gruber and Andrew Baird of Gruber’s La-based Darklight Entertainment. Executive producers are Mark Culbert, Christopher J. Marino, Tony Livsek and Chris Moger.
The project is fully-financed by New York outfit Double M Ventures, with additional backing from Welsh private finance raised through Snowdonia Studios. National body Screen Wales has provided logistical support.
“I was instantly drawn to Suppression because everything about it is unexpected.
Also starring are Stephanie Leonidas (Defiance), Lex Shrapnel (Medici) and Ella-Rae Smith (Into the Badlands). The project started shooting yesterday in North Wales, UK.
Suppression follows a grieving couple (Rheon and Leonidas) who are given an alternative treatment to suppress their violent urges.
Joseph Baker wrote the screenplay. Producers are Tom Large and Daniel Caltagirone of Snowdonia Studios with Georgia Gwynne Gruber and Andrew Baird of Gruber’s La-based Darklight Entertainment. Executive producers are Mark Culbert, Christopher J. Marino, Tony Livsek and Chris Moger.
The project is fully-financed by New York outfit Double M Ventures, with additional backing from Welsh private finance raised through Snowdonia Studios. National body Screen Wales has provided logistical support.
“I was instantly drawn to Suppression because everything about it is unexpected.
- 9/24/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Presented by Deadhouse Films, the 11th annual A Night of Horror International Film Festival and Fantastic Planet, Sydney Sci-Fi and Fantasy Film Festival announce the first wave of programming for the 2017 event today. Both festivals will run concurrently at Dendy Cinemas Newtown, from November 29th to December 3rd 2017. Says programming director Dean Bertram:
The festivals’ programmers are delighted to announce a stunning array of frightening, bloody, and awe-inspiring cinema from around the world. This first wave is an international cinematic buffet. It includes the freshest and best of this season’s fantastic genre fare: incredible films from Australia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa.
The first eight feature films announced by the two festivals – all of which are Sydney, Australian, or international premieres – are below. More program details and guest announcements will be revealed at the end of the month when tickets also go on sale.
Bad Black (dir: Nabwana I.G.G.,...
The festivals’ programmers are delighted to announce a stunning array of frightening, bloody, and awe-inspiring cinema from around the world. This first wave is an international cinematic buffet. It includes the freshest and best of this season’s fantastic genre fare: incredible films from Australia, Europe, North and South America, and Africa.
The first eight feature films announced by the two festivals – all of which are Sydney, Australian, or international premieres – are below. More program details and guest announcements will be revealed at the end of the month when tickets also go on sale.
Bad Black (dir: Nabwana I.G.G.,...
- 10/12/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
First three investments from slate fund revealed.
London-based production outfit Horizons Media is launching a production fund targeting UK indie filmmakers.
Backed by a network of private investors, the Horizons team say they intend to invest £10m over the next three years in a slate of titles.
These investments will include co-production partnerships with up-and-coming production teams, as well as in-house productions, the first three of which has been announced: thriller Bodies, currently in post-production, sci-fi mockumentary 200 Days, and a drama set on the London stand-up circuit, Last Laugh.
Horizons was launched this year by Tom Large, whose credits as a director include 2014 sci-fi Beyond and 2016 sci-fi Arcadia, with investment director Alexandra Buchanan and development consultant Kristian Brodie.
Separately, Horizons is also launching a finishing fund in partnership with Transgression Films. The fund will provide late-stage investments for producers seeking development or post-production funding for their projects.
London-based production outfit Horizons Media is launching a production fund targeting UK indie filmmakers.
Backed by a network of private investors, the Horizons team say they intend to invest £10m over the next three years in a slate of titles.
These investments will include co-production partnerships with up-and-coming production teams, as well as in-house productions, the first three of which has been announced: thriller Bodies, currently in post-production, sci-fi mockumentary 200 Days, and a drama set on the London stand-up circuit, Last Laugh.
Horizons was launched this year by Tom Large, whose credits as a director include 2014 sci-fi Beyond and 2016 sci-fi Arcadia, with investment director Alexandra Buchanan and development consultant Kristian Brodie.
Separately, Horizons is also launching a finishing fund in partnership with Transgression Films. The fund will provide late-stage investments for producers seeking development or post-production funding for their projects.
- 5/12/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Written and directed by Tom Large, the man behind 2012′s Beyond; and starring Marc Baylis (Misfits, Coronation Street), Akie Kotabe (TV’s Humans), Sid Phoenix (Florence Foster Jenkins, Beyond), Arcadia is a fast-paced London-based sci-fi thriller, mixing elements of Soylent Green and Elysium to come up with an ingenious, riveting look at a not too distant future gone badly wrong, where a corrupt government runs a cruel life lottery which one man tries to smash.
In the not too distant future, the population has risen to dangerous numbers and a deadly disease has gripped the world. To combat the death toll rising, ‘Arcadia’ has been built as safe disease-free havens for the privileged, where life expectancy is more than 130 years. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years – unless they can earn a place amongst the elite. Charlie is 39 and living in London, with little time left he works every...
In the not too distant future, the population has risen to dangerous numbers and a deadly disease has gripped the world. To combat the death toll rising, ‘Arcadia’ has been built as safe disease-free havens for the privileged, where life expectancy is more than 130 years. Outside Arcadia, the average life lasts merely 40 years – unless they can earn a place amongst the elite. Charlie is 39 and living in London, with little time left he works every...
- 10/18/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Due to have its world premiere as part of the SciFi London Festival later this week, the official poster and trailer for Tom Large and Joseph Baker's Beyond has arrived online.For a brief moment in history, the world stood still. All eyes and minds focused on the skies and the colossal, unidentified object that was discovered on a collision course with Earth. Now, shrouded in mystery, the vast alien spacecraft looms ominously in sight above Northern Europe bringing with it an uncertain future. Amidst the chaos of the ensuing global catastrophe one young couple, searching for their infant daughter, their lost relationship and the hope of salvation embark on a perilous journey across a beautiful but treacherous landscape. They are driven on by hope, confronting...
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- 4/22/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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