SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS, Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s film on the final days of LCD Soundsystem, debuted at the Sundance Festival this weekend – and already catching rave reviews and tweets… The feature-length film from the team behind the Grammy-nominated Blur documentary No Distance Left To Run – directed by Will & [...]
Tom Kingsley put his burgeoning music video-directing career (Darwin Deez, Mujeres, Don Fardon) on the back-burner last year to make his first feature – Black Pond. Co-directed with Will Sharpe, it cost an unfeasible £25K to make – and controversially cast Chris Langham in the lead role. Also starring Simon Amstell, Black Pond opened at [...]
JLS: Eyes Wide Open 3D, the Andy Morahan-directed, Bikini-produced concert documentary of JLS’s recent UK tour has exceeded all expectations by breaking into the UK cinema box office charts at number 5 following its opening weekend of release. The movie opened with £464,000 from 210 sites last weekend – behind X-Men: First Class, The Hangover [...]
Lindy Heymann’s movie Kicks goes on release at selected British cinemas tomorrow, June 4th. A powerful thriller about two teenage girls’ obsession with a Premier League footballer that spirals out of control, the film features newcomers Kerrie Hayes (Nowhere Boy, Brighton Rock) and Nichola Burley (Donkey Punch, StreetDance), was filmed in Liverpool – evocatively shot [...]
Music video stalwarts Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini’s debut movie StreetDance 3D has taken the British box office by storm, arriving at No1 in the UK box office chart – ahead of Robin Hood and other new release Prince of Persia. On the hottest weekend of the year by far, StreetDance 3D – featuring Britain’s [...]
Max & Dania’s groundbreaking debut feature StreetDance 3D – the first non-American film to be shot in 3D – goes on general release in British cinemas from today, May 21st. Featuring Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity and George Sampson, and BGT finalists Flawless, together with Matthew Bourne protégé Richard Winsor and actress Charlotte Rampling, StreetDance [...]
Floria Sigismundi’s first movie, a biopic of revolutionary all-girl rock band The Runaways – Joan Jett’s first band – is coming soon. Written and directed by Floria – and starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning – The Runaways will premiere at the 2010 Sundance Festival later this month, and is released generally in the US [...]
Top pop video director Lindy Heymann has directed the latest Take That vid. She’s also got a new movie coming out. The world premiere of Lindy’s powerful thriller Kicks takes place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2009 this Saturday, 20 June at 21.30 at Cineworld 6. There’s a second screening at the Filmhouse next [...]
One week before the UK theatrical release of Eran Creevy’s acclaimed first feature Shifty, here’s the accompanying single and video. Written and directed by Eran, and produced by Rory Aitken and Ben Pugh – the guys from Between The Eyes – on a ludicrously small budget, Shifty opens next Friday, April 24th, and promises to [...]
MVA ’08 winners Eran Creevy and James Copeman are both featured in the current issue of Arena, in the magazine’s Future Is Now feature – and do fair impressions of male style mag models into the bargain. Eran, sporting a John Varvatos shirt, is highlighted as a filmmaker to watch on account of his soon-to-be-released [...]
