Holy Hell, an inside look at a West Hollywood cult, has been acquired by FilmRise for a US theatrical release on 20 May, 2016.
Friday, May 29
Uwe Boll rips Kickstarter a new one
Uwe Boll’s Facebook followers will have seen his latest video update, which he sarcastically tagged with the message, “as you see —-i’m in a very very good mood.”
Still, you know it’s not going to be a happy smiley Uwe Boll when he titles the video: “fuck you all”.
It seems the Kickstarter campaign for Rampage 3 didn’t go so well and he’s not happy, as the message below the YouTube clip makes very clear…
“never will do crowdfunding again …. thanks to the few they supported rampage 3 -.-.—the rest can fuck their mothers incl. KICKSTARTER and all the idiots who talked me into bullshit like this.”
Don’t feel too worried about him, though. He’s still got “enough money to play golf until I am dead.”
Jimmy McGovern shooting Joint Enterprise Law movie Common for BBC One
Nico Mirallegro, Daniel Mays and Jodhi May to star in Jimmy McGovern film for BBC One…
2013 Moët British Independent Film Awards fizzing your way in December
2013 date announced for Moët British Independent Film Awards…
The Iran Job Secures Kickstarter Funding for Distribution
It might not be a follow up to The Italian Job but – like Michael Caine’s Charlie Croker – The Iran Job certainly knows how to gets its hand on plenty of cash.
In January this year, the husband and wife filmmaking team of Sara Nodjoumi and Till Schauder (Partner Pictures), reached an ambitious crowd-fundraising goal of $100,000 for completion funds. Now the pair have raised another $66,000 for distribution.
“After working on this film for over four years we are thrilled by the worldwide interest and overjoyed by the outpouring of support,” said Nodjoumi, the film’s producer. “Our backers come from all corners of the world. It motivates us to work towards the widest possible release in the US and internationally.”
The Iran Job tells the real-life story of Kevin Sheppard, a professional American basketball player who, when he doesn’t make it to the NBA, takes a job playing professional ball in Iran. With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Sheppard tries to separate sports from politics, only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran.
Along the way he forms friendships with his teammates and three young Iranian women, turning his apartment into an oasis of free speech, where they discuss everything from politics to religion to gender roles. Sheppard’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the currently unfolding Arab Spring.
The Iran Job is directed and photographed by Till Schauder, and executive produced by Abigail Disney (Fork Films).
Schauder, a German citizen, filmed Sheppard in Iran over several visits as a one-man-crew using minimal equipment, each time entering with a tourist visa issued freely to Germans. That was fine until his last trip – in the run-up to Iran’s 2009 election – when he was put in detention at Tehran airport. He was sent back to New York on the next plane, which the film’s producers viewed as a stroke of luck given the number of filmmakers and journalists recently arrested in Iran.
The Iran Job’s latest Kickstarter campaign coincided with the film’s Academy qualifying US release in New York and its box office success there has seen its theatrical run extended three times. The film also opens in Jacksonville, Florida this week, with more releases to follow.
Since playing in the US, The Iran Job has signed a distribution deal in Germany and has had distribution requests from the UK, Japan and Israel. Basketball player Kevin Sheppard will appear on the Colbert Report on 8 November, 2012 to discuss the film.
Executive producer Abigail Disney said: “The Iran Job is a great reminder of how woefully tiny and warped a view of Iran we have in the US. Stories are the currency of our hearts. They glue us all together. It is good stories – not good fences – hat make good neighbours. As the saber-rattling grows – and it will continue to grow as we approach November – I’d like to push back with something true.”
Virgin Atlantic, Virgin America and Virgin Australia produce high-flying short Departure Date
Thatfilmthing has a friend who scouts movie locations and we know he would have liked the job on Departure Date.
Scenes for the short film were shot in Virgin Atlantic’s upper class cabin and onboard bar, Virgin America’s first class and main cabin, and Virgin Australia’s international business class cabin – the latter of which includes a sit-down bar, ladies-only bathroom and exclusive Row 5.
Writer/director Kat Coiro (L!fe Happens, While We Were Here, A Case of You) shot the film in 20 hours whilst travelling over 28,000 miles and crossing Europe, north America and Australasia – a first for a short film.
Filming took place over three days and regular passengers were also on board during production.
Departure Date stars Ben Feldman (Mad Men) as Jake, who experiences love at first sight onboard a Virgin flight when he meets Violet, played by Australian actress Nicky Whelan. Their chance at love continues to unfold across all three airlines.
Philip Baker Hall, Luis Guzmán, Janeane Garofalo and Max Brown also star.
Coiro said the film is about thinking differently, following your instincts and going for what you want, which fits in very well with Virgin Group Founder Sir Richard Branson’s overall way of thinking.
“I set out to write something beautiful that would convey that feeling, and the need to challenge norms and reinvent the old way of doing things,” Coiro said.
Passengers on Virgin Atlantic Airways can now enjoy Departure Date on board all flights, as the independent short film is available on the VERA inflight entertainment system.
Film production was handled by Virgin Produced in conjunction with San Francisco-based agency Eleven and complied with all in-flight regulatory policies and procedures.
It was shot within the strict confines of in-flight filming at 35,000ft using new Canon C300 cameras.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild Adds UK Poster and Trailer
“Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna re-run from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six-year-old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the world.” Now that’s a film synopsis.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild has been a festival favourite in 2012 and now gets an official UK poster and trailer. The film’s eight-year-old star Quvenzhane Wallis has enchanted audiences and critics worldwide.
The story follows Hushpuppy’s life in a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the world by a sprawling levee. With her mother long gone and her father Wink a wildman on a perpetual spree, the six-year-old exists on the brink of orphanhood as she is left to her own devices on an isolated compound filled with semi-feral animals.
She perceives the natural world to be a fragile web of living, breathing, squirting things, in which the entire universe depends on everything fitting together just right. So when a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, her daddy is suddenly stricken with illness and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, Hushpuppy sees the natural order of everything she holds dear collapsing around her.
Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive an unstoppable catastrophe of epic proportions.
Sounds just like our upbringing in Stoke-on-Trent.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild is rated 12A, runs for 93 minutes and is released in the UK on 19 October 2012.
Check out the trailer below:
Kayvan Novak: Facejacker Movie confirmed
Kayvan Novak has confirmed what we told you weeks ago: a Facejacker movie is in development.
Novak told a gathering of TV producers at a Square Eyes event that he is currently discussing the project with both Film 4 and Hat Trick Productions.
The feel of the TV series won’t be lost in a big screen outing and he promises that there will still be a main focus on setting up members of the public.
“The biggest mistake you can make with a prank show is remove the ‘real’ element, which is the funniest thing. It will definitely be hidden camera,” IBTimes UK reported.
Novak previously revealed that a movie version would feature elements of both Facejacker and Fonejacker during an interview with Radio 1 DJ Vernon Kaye.
In September 2008 he told The Sun newspaper that “if anything, he wants to do a film version”.
Facejacker and Fonejacker movie in development
The man behind the Fonejacker and Facejacker TV series is planning a movie version combining elements of both projects.
“Let me tell you now, world exclusive on Radio One, One, One,” Kayvan Novak told Vernon Kay this weekend, “We’re going to do a Facejacker movie.”
The Four Lions star said nothing had been finalised yet but it was unlikely to be shot in the UK.
“How we’re going to do it we’re not sure. But we’re thinking where in the world is left to jack? And we’re thinking Australia, we’re thinking Europe and we’re thinking Northern Ireland,” Novak added.
Novak said the most recent TV series of Facejacker had been filmed in America so the pranks could still be shot undercover, “because I can’t really walk down the street as Brian Badonde without someone going, ‘Bwark’.”
He also revealed that the film project will come at the expense of a new Facejacker TV series.
“Doing a series of Facejacker takes about nine months. It’s pretty intense,” Novak said. “We figure we’re going to take all that energy and put it into making a movie. It’s going to have Fonejacking and Facejacking and it’s going to have a story of some kind with maybe even a Hollywood star in there as well.”
The balaclava-clad ‘telephone terrorist’ told The Sun back in September 2008 that “if anything, he wants to do a film version”. A petition on social networking site Facebook has also been calling for a Brian Badonde movie since April 2011.
Radio One DJ Kaye suggested signing up Leonardo DiCaprio as “he’s cheap”.
“He is very cheap. Not busy. He’s quiet. It’s gone downhill for him, old Leo,” joked Novak.
He also revealed that it takes a huge amount of pranks before there are enough that are considered funny to be used on the show.
“[It takes] a lot. Maybe 300 for every 10 good ones,” he said.
While they’re waiting for the movie, fans can see more of one of Novak’s creations.
“We’re also doing a Terry Tibbs chat show in August,” he announced.
IndieFlix offers Music For Film service
IndieFlix has announced a partnership with fellow Seattle-based company Audiosocket to provide filmmakers with a hassle-free approach to securing proper music licenses.