Just a few days ago we let you know about the new film from director Mark Murphy. Today we have the first stills for you, both behind-the-scenes and otherwise. Read on for more and to inject a little demonic action into your weekend!
"Nearly halfway through the shoot, and luckily the only deaths and disasters are all happening on screen," says Murphy. "Today we shoot a key scene which will have people talking for years to come. Feeling like a mole man having spent so much time filming in the crypt, but we're getting gold on a daily basis. Very much looking forward to seeing this on the big screen but will sorely miss working with such an amazing cast and crew; expecting big things from Nicola Posener, Tom Leeper, Charley McDougall, Sabrina Bussandri and Lucy Drive."
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut,...
"Nearly halfway through the shoot, and luckily the only deaths and disasters are all happening on screen," says Murphy. "Today we shoot a key scene which will have people talking for years to come. Feeling like a mole man having spent so much time filming in the crypt, but we're getting gold on a daily basis. Very much looking forward to seeing this on the big screen but will sorely miss working with such an amazing cast and crew; expecting big things from Nicola Posener, Tom Leeper, Charley McDougall, Sabrina Bussandri and Lucy Drive."
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut,...
- 9/21/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We've gotten word on a cool British horror film that is just getting underway. Writer/director Mark Murphy has just started filming The Convent in London. We'll keep you updated on this one, but for now, dig the cool promo poster.
Synopsis
The Convent tells two interconnecting stories played out in parallel, intersecting with each other. The first story follows five twenty-somethings, who, on the hunt for some excitement, break into an abandoned church/convent only to become the victims of the horrors that lurk within. The second story follows the church’s investigation into the tragic ‘accident’ that resulted in the deaths of the group that broke into the church.
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut, The Convent, featuring an up and coming British cast lead by Nicola Posener (Payback Season) and Mark Harris (GBH).
Produced by Yvette Hoyle,...
Synopsis
The Convent tells two interconnecting stories played out in parallel, intersecting with each other. The first story follows five twenty-somethings, who, on the hunt for some excitement, break into an abandoned church/convent only to become the victims of the horrors that lurk within. The second story follows the church’s investigation into the tragic ‘accident’ that resulted in the deaths of the group that broke into the church.
From the Press Release
Principal photography began recently on British writer/director Mark Murphy’s horror movie debut, The Convent, featuring an up and coming British cast lead by Nicola Posener (Payback Season) and Mark Harris (GBH).
Produced by Yvette Hoyle,...
- 9/16/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
From the moment that producer Danny Donnelly’s name is plastered all over the opening credits of Victim, it’s probably best not to expect too much, given his previous producing credit on Adam Deacon’s horrid vehicle Payback Season earlier this year. Though it is better-assembled than many similar derivative crime dramas, there’s nothing here we haven’t seen done better elsewhere.
When nice country girl Tia (Ashley Madekwe) comes to stay with her cousin Davina (Anna Nightingale), her kindly, naïve attitude disturbs the indelicate balance of Davina’s life, which primarily involves acting as a distraction while her gang of friends commit robberies. Meanwhile, lad Tyson (Ashley Chin) – who has caught the eye of both Tia and Davina – is trying to escape a life of crime altogether, and inevitably, this tension all comes to a head with unpleasant results.
It tries painfully hard...
From the moment that producer Danny Donnelly’s name is plastered all over the opening credits of Victim, it’s probably best not to expect too much, given his previous producing credit on Adam Deacon’s horrid vehicle Payback Season earlier this year. Though it is better-assembled than many similar derivative crime dramas, there’s nothing here we haven’t seen done better elsewhere.
When nice country girl Tia (Ashley Madekwe) comes to stay with her cousin Davina (Anna Nightingale), her kindly, naïve attitude disturbs the indelicate balance of Davina’s life, which primarily involves acting as a distraction while her gang of friends commit robberies. Meanwhile, lad Tyson (Ashley Chin) – who has caught the eye of both Tia and Davina – is trying to escape a life of crime altogether, and inevitably, this tension all comes to a head with unpleasant results.
It tries painfully hard...
- 6/21/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Andrew Stanton's sci-fi blockbuster takes advantage of the UK's weekend sunshine to edge past The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – but grey skies and the grey pound could soon bounce back
The winner
Despite suffering bad buzz over budget overruns, an epic production process and a name change, Disney was able to trumpet a UK No 1 opening for its sci-fi blockbuster John Carter, with a gross of just under £2m. That's probably not the number Disney envisioned 26 months ago when shooting started on this pricey Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation with Pixar's Andrew Stanton at the helm, but it could have been worse. John Carter lost the box-office war to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Friday, and was still behind after Saturday, but was a convincing winner on Sunday. John Carter's opening number compares with £2.47m for Green Lantern last June – viewed as a flop that stopped a potential franchise in its tracks.
The winner
Despite suffering bad buzz over budget overruns, an epic production process and a name change, Disney was able to trumpet a UK No 1 opening for its sci-fi blockbuster John Carter, with a gross of just under £2m. That's probably not the number Disney envisioned 26 months ago when shooting started on this pricey Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation with Pixar's Andrew Stanton at the helm, but it could have been worse. John Carter lost the box-office war to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel on Friday, and was still behind after Saturday, but was a convincing winner on Sunday. John Carter's opening number compares with £2.47m for Green Lantern last June – viewed as a flop that stopped a potential franchise in its tracks.
- 3/13/2012
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
“It’s payback season.”
As unbelievable as this sounds when said aloud, this is an actual line from Danny Donnelly’s woefully inadequate cinematic debut.
Kicking off with some rather obvious cutaways of a footballer who clearly isn’t Adam Deacon performing keepy uppy, Payback Season is the story of one young man’s rise from the gutter of inner city London to the glory and glamour of life as a pro footballer.
Jerome Davies (Deacon) has been anointed as the new wunderkind of English football, and as such he’s been rewarded with all of the superficial trappings that go hand in hand with this title. Davies is still keeping it real though, and regularly returns to the estate he grew up on to hang out with his family and friends. While his bona fide family want none of the excess his new life can afford, his blud brothers...
As unbelievable as this sounds when said aloud, this is an actual line from Danny Donnelly’s woefully inadequate cinematic debut.
Kicking off with some rather obvious cutaways of a footballer who clearly isn’t Adam Deacon performing keepy uppy, Payback Season is the story of one young man’s rise from the gutter of inner city London to the glory and glamour of life as a pro footballer.
Jerome Davies (Deacon) has been anointed as the new wunderkind of English football, and as such he’s been rewarded with all of the superficial trappings that go hand in hand with this title. Davies is still keeping it real though, and regularly returns to the estate he grew up on to hang out with his family and friends. While his bona fide family want none of the excess his new life can afford, his blud brothers...
- 3/10/2012
- by Jonathan Campbell
- Obsessed with Film
John Carter (12A)
(Andrew Stanton, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds. 132 mins
Despite the technological might of Pixar, this Martian epic still feels closer to retro fare such as Flash Gordon or Dune. It's a cumbersome hero's journey fully of silly names, skimpy costumes and princesses in peril – stuff we've seen recycled so many times since Edgar Rice Burroughs first wrote this, it now feels laughably quaint. Still, it's always fun to see an expensively rendered alien world, even if cheesy myth-making comes with the territory.
Trishna (15)
(Michael Winterbottom, 2011, UK) Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth. 113 mins
Hardy's Tess looks a comfortable fit with modern-day India in this naturalistic drama, which takes liberties with the text but finds new resonances, as Pinto's subdued villager struggles to find happiness with a wealthy young British-Indian.
The Raven (15)
(James McTeigue, 2012, Us) John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans.
(Andrew Stanton, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Samantha Morton, Ciarán Hinds. 132 mins
Despite the technological might of Pixar, this Martian epic still feels closer to retro fare such as Flash Gordon or Dune. It's a cumbersome hero's journey fully of silly names, skimpy costumes and princesses in peril – stuff we've seen recycled so many times since Edgar Rice Burroughs first wrote this, it now feels laughably quaint. Still, it's always fun to see an expensively rendered alien world, even if cheesy myth-making comes with the territory.
Trishna (15)
(Michael Winterbottom, 2011, UK) Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Roshan Seth. 113 mins
Hardy's Tess looks a comfortable fit with modern-day India in this naturalistic drama, which takes liberties with the text but finds new resonances, as Pinto's subdued villager struggles to find happiness with a wealthy young British-Indian.
The Raven (15)
(James McTeigue, 2012, Us) John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans.
- 3/10/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Sir Geoff Hurst has defended the majority of football agents. The World Cup winner, who plays an agent in new movie Payback Season, told Digital Spy that his "gentlemanly" character was "quite true to how I feel it should be played". "In every walk of life you've got the majority of people who are good in a profession," Hurst said. "A small percentage let their profession down and those are the ones you hear about. I think it's the same with agents." He added: "98 agents out of 100 are very good for their clients. The odd 2% are not particularly good and they don't represent the people who do their job. "They're probably thinking about the money and not thinking about their career." Asked how much of a responsibility clubs have to take care of younger players, Hurst said: "Clubs have a responsibility (more)...
- 3/9/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Adam Deacon has said that his BAFTA 'Rising Star' nomination and win was a "massive thing". The Payback Season actor told Digital Spy that he had to educate his demographic on what the awards were all about when he was first nominated. Deacon said: "I was never scared to say this is a massive thing. I think as English people we're quite reserved. We're not like Americans saying 'Come on vote for me'. But I'm from that other generation that's a bit more savvy like that. "If this was a music thing, you would expect to see it on Twitter. 'Come and vote for me for the MOBOs or the Brits'. So I thought, 'Why can't we take that into the BAFTAs?' "We had kids talking about the BAFTAs that never had a clue what the BAFTAs are. I've kind of had to educate them about what the BAFTAs are.
- 3/9/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Adam Deacon has said that Sir Geoff Hurst is a "really good actor". The former England footballer, the only man to ever score a hat-trick in a World Cup Final, plays Deacon's agent in upcoming movie Payback Season. Asked what it was like to work with Hurst, Deacon told Digital Spy: "Obviously you're seeing his name on the call sheet and you're thinking 'this guy is a ledge', but he's very humble with it and he's quite quiet and reserved. "I think he's a really good actor. He seemed a bit worried at the start. I felt that anyway. Then we had a little chat, and I was like 'Geoff, don't think of it as acting, just think what you would say in that situation'. "When you've got cameras there, and directors, you think acting becomes this big thing. Like you have to do something majorly (more)...
- 3/8/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Just when hope is being restored to the UK film industry and a series of great-looking, home-grown features are being churned out on the lowest of budgets, but with an abundance of imagination and heart, along comes a film which threatens to severely upset the balance.
A sloppy montage finds talented athlete Jerome (Adam Deacon) working his way up the ranks to Premier league footie star. A kid from the estate done good, he still finds time in his hectic A-list status to visit his mum and younger brother back at his old stomping ground.
Running into his old crew whilst visiting his family one day, he invites them out for a night on the town where he treats them to the perks which come with his enviable lifestyle. Agreeing to help out ringleader Baron with some money woes, his misplaced sense of loyalty and friendship brings him a whole heap of trouble,...
A sloppy montage finds talented athlete Jerome (Adam Deacon) working his way up the ranks to Premier league footie star. A kid from the estate done good, he still finds time in his hectic A-list status to visit his mum and younger brother back at his old stomping ground.
Running into his old crew whilst visiting his family one day, he invites them out for a night on the town where he treats them to the perks which come with his enviable lifestyle. Agreeing to help out ringleader Baron with some money woes, his misplaced sense of loyalty and friendship brings him a whole heap of trouble,...
- 3/8/2012
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
I don’t like what McG stands for and consequently I hate This Means War. Throughout this article that may become tediously clear. The film is rubbish and in a box-office that this week has been buoyed to a long overdue comparative high I regret that a large chuck of that success is constituted by the aforementioned pile of arse that is This Means War.
In other less self-indulgently negative news The Woman in Black has nipped out of the top spot down to second. Bested by the power of the grey pound it has been beaten by last week’s runner-up The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The new releases on the other hand fared badly. Apart form This Means War. That fared all too well.
The Winner – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel/McG
Last week I predicted that if they built it the oldies would come and come they...
In other less self-indulgently negative news The Woman in Black has nipped out of the top spot down to second. Bested by the power of the grey pound it has been beaten by last week’s runner-up The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
The new releases on the other hand fared badly. Apart form This Means War. That fared all too well.
The Winner – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel/McG
Last week I predicted that if they built it the oldies would come and come they...
- 3/7/2012
- by Ross Jones-Morris
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The world of a hotshot Premiership footballer finds his life turned upside down after a run in with the crew from his old estate.
First we had Moneyball, a baseball film with not much baseball. Now, we have Payback Season, a football film with not much football. Unlike the Oscar-nominated Moneyball, Payback Season is a failure, an ambitious but flawed story about an estate kid turned football pro that disappears between the two world it wants to depict.
The narrative begins with Jerome, played by BAFTA rising star winner Adam Deacon,...
First we had Moneyball, a baseball film with not much baseball. Now, we have Payback Season, a football film with not much football. Unlike the Oscar-nominated Moneyball, Payback Season is a failure, an ambitious but flawed story about an estate kid turned football pro that disappears between the two world it wants to depict.
The narrative begins with Jerome, played by BAFTA rising star winner Adam Deacon,...
- 3/6/2012
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Critics must look to their laurels as audience reviews are used to sell films, while rising star Adam Deacon is rumoured to be pushing for a sequel to Anuvahood
Who needs critics?
The two films slugging it out for supremacy at the top of the UK box office have completely ignored the usual critics' quotes on their posters. Instead, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and The Woman in Black, with Daniel Radcliffe, have plastered full-page newspaper ads with reviews from – aargh – the general public. Both films received mixed reviews from critics (after all, both were Ok, with clearly solid commercial prospects but neither was of the highest artistic endeavour) but have been ecstatically endorsed by audiences. Of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the poster quotes gushed: "British film at its best… Whoever you are, go and see this film," says Sheena, 55, from Pudsey, West Yorkshire.
Who needs critics?
The two films slugging it out for supremacy at the top of the UK box office have completely ignored the usual critics' quotes on their posters. Instead, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, and The Woman in Black, with Daniel Radcliffe, have plastered full-page newspaper ads with reviews from – aargh – the general public. Both films received mixed reviews from critics (after all, both were Ok, with clearly solid commercial prospects but neither was of the highest artistic endeavour) but have been ecstatically endorsed by audiences. Of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the poster quotes gushed: "British film at its best… Whoever you are, go and see this film," says Sheena, 55, from Pudsey, West Yorkshire.
- 3/4/2012
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael (18)
(Markus Schleinzer) Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Gisella Salcher. 96 mins
The daily routine of an Austrian paedophile who keeps a young boy locked in his cellar was hardly something anyone was queuing up to see, but this challenges us, and itself, to take a look. At the same time, it thankfully averts its gaze from scenes of actual abuse. There are keen observations on parenting, privacy, power relations and more, but the flat, factual approach verges on dull, and the absence of empathy ultimately just leaves you feeling grubby. So get in line for the grimmest movie of the year!
This Means War (12A)
(McG, 2012, Us) Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon. 98 mins
Two suspiciously close CIA buddies fall out when they discover they're dating the same woman – cue the misuse of government equipment and their own combat skills for one-upmanship. The romcom high concept is novel for a good reason: it's completely ridiculous.
(Markus Schleinzer) Michael Fuith, David Rauchenberger, Gisella Salcher. 96 mins
The daily routine of an Austrian paedophile who keeps a young boy locked in his cellar was hardly something anyone was queuing up to see, but this challenges us, and itself, to take a look. At the same time, it thankfully averts its gaze from scenes of actual abuse. There are keen observations on parenting, privacy, power relations and more, but the flat, factual approach verges on dull, and the absence of empathy ultimately just leaves you feeling grubby. So get in line for the grimmest movie of the year!
This Means War (12A)
(McG, 2012, Us) Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon. 98 mins
Two suspiciously close CIA buddies fall out when they discover they're dating the same woman – cue the misuse of government equipment and their own combat skills for one-upmanship. The romcom high concept is novel for a good reason: it's completely ridiculous.
- 3/3/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Adam Deacon talks about his Bafta for rising star and his desire to be a voice for modern youth
Adam Deacon has had an incredible week. Last Sunday he became the surprise winner at the Baftas when, against the odds, he took home the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star award. You get the impression life has been a non-stop party ever since.
He arrives for his interview an hour behind schedule, four days after his victory, but still carrying the Bafta in a carrier bag. He looks exhausted but on a high, so he gets the trophy out and we all take a moment to coo at it. He will pose for photographs only if the Bafta is in the shot, which seems terribly precious. But he says: "I'll be straight up with you. I was the outsider for this, bottom of the list. So this is huge for me."
The category,...
Adam Deacon has had an incredible week. Last Sunday he became the surprise winner at the Baftas when, against the odds, he took home the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star award. You get the impression life has been a non-stop party ever since.
He arrives for his interview an hour behind schedule, four days after his victory, but still carrying the Bafta in a carrier bag. He looks exhausted but on a high, so he gets the trophy out and we all take a moment to coo at it. He will pose for photographs only if the Bafta is in the shot, which seems terribly precious. But he says: "I'll be straight up with you. I was the outsider for this, bottom of the list. So this is huge for me."
The category,...
- 2/19/2012
- by Megan Conner
- The Guardian - Film News
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