Arrow Films and Hot Property Films have kindly provided us with 2 ace DVD's to give away of their upcoming release of sic-fi thriller 'Identicals', which is available on DVD and Video on Demand from August 15.
Identicals, created by the BAFTA winning team Writer / Director Simon Pummell (Bodysong, Shock Head Soul, The Temptation of Sainthood) and Producer Janine Marmot (Kelly +Victor and Bodysong, Shock Head Soul).
Starring Lachlan Nieboer (Cross of Honour, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters, Savage), in Identicals. the organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals– people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But...
Identicals, created by the BAFTA winning team Writer / Director Simon Pummell (Bodysong, Shock Head Soul, The Temptation of Sainthood) and Producer Janine Marmot (Kelly +Victor and Bodysong, Shock Head Soul).
Starring Lachlan Nieboer (Cross of Honour, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters, Savage), in Identicals. the organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals– people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But...
- 8/9/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Development titles revealed as sci-fi Identicals [pictured] picked up by Arrow Films for UK.
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).
The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.
This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.
It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...
- 4/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
Writer-director Simon Pummell goes for both thrills and emotional complexities in the tale of a sinister corporation that replaces humans with ‘identicals’
Here is a very distinctive science-fiction parable from writer-director Simon Pummell: it is filmed in a burnished, measured manner, but it has a Marmitey quality. It is as accessible as The Double, and even Total Recall, but has a texture and atmosphere that are very much its own.
Pummell is perhaps best known for his animated collage piece Bodysong, and subsequently straddled drama and nonfiction with Shock Head Soul, a highly stylised study of mentally ill judge Daniel Paul Schreber. With Brand New-u, Pummell has gone the whole hog and and come up with a film that bears some resemblance to an orthodox tech thriller, though with a Kafkaesque sense of bafflement and disjointedness.
Continue reading...
Here is a very distinctive science-fiction parable from writer-director Simon Pummell: it is filmed in a burnished, measured manner, but it has a Marmitey quality. It is as accessible as The Double, and even Total Recall, but has a texture and atmosphere that are very much its own.
Pummell is perhaps best known for his animated collage piece Bodysong, and subsequently straddled drama and nonfiction with Shock Head Soul, a highly stylised study of mentally ill judge Daniel Paul Schreber. With Brand New-u, Pummell has gone the whole hog and and come up with a film that bears some resemblance to an orthodox tech thriller, though with a Kafkaesque sense of bafflement and disjointedness.
Continue reading...
- 6/20/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
BAFTA-winner to adapt short story Dogfight, from cult sci-fi writer; currently in Rotterdam with Brand New-u.
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.
It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.
“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”
Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.
Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...
- 1/27/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Glasgow Film Festival | Alex Gibney | Artist Films: The Invisible And The Real | Valentine's Day
Glasgow Film Festival
Increasingly well attended by punters and guests, the festival continues to expand and to cover everything from blockbusters to experimental oddities. It offers 57 UK premieres this year; Joss Whedon features as a special guest; and big movies include Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond The Pines, Steve Coogan in The Look Of Love and Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy. There are also healthy indie selections, Mark Millar and John Wagner's favourite comic-book movies, plus subsections on Brazil and horror.
Various venues, Thu to 24 Feb
Alex Gibney, London
When it comes to hot documentary topics, Alex Gibney has a habit of getting there first and getting it done fast. He won an Oscar for his Iraq/Afghanistan torture exposé Taxi To The Dark Side, and since then he's covered fundamentalist Islam, Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson,...
Glasgow Film Festival
Increasingly well attended by punters and guests, the festival continues to expand and to cover everything from blockbusters to experimental oddities. It offers 57 UK premieres this year; Joss Whedon features as a special guest; and big movies include Ryan Gosling in The Place Beyond The Pines, Steve Coogan in The Look Of Love and Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy. There are also healthy indie selections, Mark Millar and John Wagner's favourite comic-book movies, plus subsections on Brazil and horror.
Various venues, Thu to 24 Feb
Alex Gibney, London
When it comes to hot documentary topics, Alex Gibney has a habit of getting there first and getting it done fast. He won an Oscar for his Iraq/Afghanistan torture exposé Taxi To The Dark Side, and since then he's covered fundamentalist Islam, Gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson,...
- 2/9/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
By Paul Kilbey
Adapted from a piece on I Care If You Listen
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved, and I think that they helped shape my musical tastes and aesthetics more than most composers. I recall excitedly pre-ordering Greenwood’s first classical foray, the soundtrack to the film Bodysong, as soon as I found out about it back in 2003. And I was thrilled the following year by the announcement that he had been recruited to the position of Composer in Residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra. This was evidence, to my excitable teenage brain, that pop music was real, that it could achieve things, that my school music teacher was wrong. Pop music mattered. There was a composer in Radiohead.
Jonny Greenwood
I know that’s not how it works, now. Pop music does matter, but composers have nothing to do with it.
Adapted from a piece on I Care If You Listen
I really want to like Jonny Greenwood’s compositional career. Radiohead were the first band I loved, and I think that they helped shape my musical tastes and aesthetics more than most composers. I recall excitedly pre-ordering Greenwood’s first classical foray, the soundtrack to the film Bodysong, as soon as I found out about it back in 2003. And I was thrilled the following year by the announcement that he had been recruited to the position of Composer in Residence for the BBC Concert Orchestra. This was evidence, to my excitable teenage brain, that pop music was real, that it could achieve things, that my school music teacher was wrong. Pop music mattered. There was a composer in Radiohead.
Jonny Greenwood
I know that’s not how it works, now. Pop music does matter, but composers have nothing to do with it.
- 5/31/2012
- Huffington Post
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Taped Trailer I, like many other boys, went through a Patrick Dempsey phase when I was younger. It all started with Can't Buy Me Love...
- 1/28/2012
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Jonny Greenwood is more than just a lead guitar and keyboardist for Radiohead, he is also a composer for movies. The multi-instrumentalist has composed for movies such as Bodysong, Norewgian Wood, and is most recognized for his work on There Will Be Blood, which is an amazing soundtrack. Now it appears as though he will be getting behind the soundboards for yet another movie, another Paul Thomas Anderson movie. According to Slashfilm, Greenwood will be conducting the score for Anderson’s latest, The Master, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Laura Dern and many more appearing as well.
As aforementioned, the There Will Be Blood soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks. Dark, moving, and with a hint of rage in it. But I wonder how Greenwood will approach The Master. The movie is about “a man who returns after witnessing the horrors of WWII and tries to...
As aforementioned, the There Will Be Blood soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks. Dark, moving, and with a hint of rage in it. But I wonder how Greenwood will approach The Master. The movie is about “a man who returns after witnessing the horrors of WWII and tries to...
- 12/6/2011
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
The name Lynne Ramsay may not ring any bells right now, but the talent she's been surrounding herself with for her next project indicates that this could change very soon. Ramsay wrote and is currently in the midst of directing We Need To Talk About Kevin, based on the novel by Lionel Shriver about a troubled husband and wife dealing with the fact that their son perpetrated a murderous school shooting. Tilda Swinton has been on board since the beginning, and John C. Reilly later joined [1] as well. If that casting wasn't enough to entice you, perhaps this will do the trick. Radiohead member Jonny Greenwood will be composing the score to the picture, making this his first English feature film score since Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Learn more after the break. News of Greenwood's involvement comes from The Hollywood Reporter [2], and it has me thrilled.
- 2/15/2011
- by Adam Quigley
- Slash Film
Radiohead band member Johnny Greenwood will provide the score for upcoming 'Norwegian Wood'. The film directed by Tran Anh Hung is an adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s best-selling novel of the same title with a cast headlined by award-winning actors Matsuyama Kenichi and Kikuchi Rinko. Greenwood marked his debut film composition with the score for 'There Will be Blood.'
Jonny Greenwood - Bodysong...
Jonny Greenwood - Bodysong...
- 3/25/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Jonny Greenwood started his career as a film score writer with his composition for 2003’s Bodysong. A few years later, he solidified his reputation as an excellent composer with the soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, which many thought was an obvious choice for an Oscar nomination. Unfortunately, the work was disqualified from the Best Original Score category because it was based on an earlier piece, “Popcorn Superhet Receiver.”...
- 3/23/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
The rock boffin is to return to movie soundtracks, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Greenwood's last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood's composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.
The maverick musician announced the project at BBC's Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood's premiere. "I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead," he told TwentyFourBit. "This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking...
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Greenwood's last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood's composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.
The maverick musician announced the project at BBC's Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood's premiere. "I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead," he told TwentyFourBit. "This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking...
- 3/8/2010
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
LONDON -- U.K. training body Skillset said Monday it has appointed British producer Janine Marmot as its new director of film to oversee A Bigger Future, the U.K. film-skills strategy that is now entering its third year.
The five-year project is a joint venture between Skillset and the U.K. Film Council, which has launched a series of academies and mentoring initiatives to help build film expertise here and support training for a future film workforce.
Marmot, the indie producer behind Hot Property Films, has produced several features, including the critically acclaimed feature film and Web site Bodysong, which won a British Independent Film best-feature documentary award and a BAFTA award for its Web site.
"Over the last three years, A Bigger Future has introduced a slate of projects to support individuals and companies across the industry," said Children of Men producer Iain Smith, chair of the film skills strategy committee.
"It has gone from strength to strength and will continue to do so now that Janine is on board. She brings with her experience and renewed enthusiasm with which to drive the strategy forward to even greater future successes," he added.
The five-year project is a joint venture between Skillset and the U.K. Film Council, which has launched a series of academies and mentoring initiatives to help build film expertise here and support training for a future film workforce.
Marmot, the indie producer behind Hot Property Films, has produced several features, including the critically acclaimed feature film and Web site Bodysong, which won a British Independent Film best-feature documentary award and a BAFTA award for its Web site.
"Over the last three years, A Bigger Future has introduced a slate of projects to support individuals and companies across the industry," said Children of Men producer Iain Smith, chair of the film skills strategy committee.
"It has gone from strength to strength and will continue to do so now that Janine is on board. She brings with her experience and renewed enthusiasm with which to drive the strategy forward to even greater future successes," he added.
- 11/1/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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