You’re apt to see some scary good costumes on Halloween, but if you’ve ever wondered if somebody’s costume is a little too convincing, perhaps teetering on the edge of being real, then you should really dig Paul Davis’ short film, The Body. Following a no-nonsense hitman as he drags his plastic-wrapped victim through London on All Hallow’s Eve, this short is a tasty horror comedy treat that’s available to view for free today.
“Winner Of The 2014 Melies d’Or Award!
A professionall killer (Alfie Allen, Game Of Thrones) discovers he can get away with anything on Halloween night, including dragging his latest victim around as a prop amidst a sea of oblivious London partiers.
The Body stars Alfie Allen, Hannah Tointon, Christian Brassington and Jack Gordon. It is the second short film by Writer/Director Paul Davis (Him Indoors/Beware The Moon) and is Co-Written...
“Winner Of The 2014 Melies d’Or Award!
A professionall killer (Alfie Allen, Game Of Thrones) discovers he can get away with anything on Halloween night, including dragging his latest victim around as a prop amidst a sea of oblivious London partiers.
The Body stars Alfie Allen, Hannah Tointon, Christian Brassington and Jack Gordon. It is the second short film by Writer/Director Paul Davis (Him Indoors/Beware The Moon) and is Co-Written...
- 10/31/2014
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Cast, directors round on haunted-house horror; Xyz to handle Us rights.
Steve Oram (Sightseers), Edward Hogg (Anonymous) and Pollyanna McIntosh (White Settlers) are among cast attached to UK portmanteau horror Its Walls Were Blood, which is aiming to shoot later this year.
Segment writer-directors include Sean Hogan (The Devil’s Business), Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Tom Shankland (The Children) and Paul Davis (The Body).
The film follows four connected stories set throughout a haunted house’s history, from the 19th century to today.
Additional cast includes Conner Chapman, Ruth Bradley, Rosie Day, Sam Gittins, Scott Chambers and Belinda Stewart-Wilson.
Radioman producer Paul Fischer of Ten Cent Adventures produces with Paul Davis on board as an executive producer. Stef Hutchinson has co-written the latter’s segment of the portmanteau.
Xyz represents the film’s North American rights.
Steve Oram (Sightseers), Edward Hogg (Anonymous) and Pollyanna McIntosh (White Settlers) are among cast attached to UK portmanteau horror Its Walls Were Blood, which is aiming to shoot later this year.
Segment writer-directors include Sean Hogan (The Devil’s Business), Paul Hyett (The Seasoning House), Tom Shankland (The Children) and Paul Davis (The Body).
The film follows four connected stories set throughout a haunted house’s history, from the 19th century to today.
Additional cast includes Conner Chapman, Ruth Bradley, Rosie Day, Sam Gittins, Scott Chambers and Belinda Stewart-Wilson.
Radioman producer Paul Fischer of Ten Cent Adventures produces with Paul Davis on board as an executive producer. Stef Hutchinson has co-written the latter’s segment of the portmanteau.
Xyz represents the film’s North American rights.
- 8/28/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
By this point in the careers of the Coen brothers, they have an embarrassment of past talent to draw upon for the next films. And for their upcoming "Hail Caesar," they've tapped two leading men who have been part of some of their most successful films to date. Josh Brolin ("No Country For Old Men," "True Grit") has joined the previously reported George Clooney ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?," "Intolerable Cruelty," "Burn After Reading") in the siblings' next film, "Hail Caesar." Even more, Universal has swooped in to distribute the film, a long develping project that focuses on a fixer in the 1950s who works for Hollywood studios to protect their stars. It'll be the first time Brolin and Clooney have paired up for a feature film (though they both appeared in the 2012 doc "Radioman") and that it's for a Coens pic is really promising stuff. No word yet on when production will begin,...
- 6/9/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Mini-series about famed film couple to be executive produced by Olivier’s son.
Legendary film couple Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are the subject of a new TV mini-series, which is being executive produced by Laurence Olivier’s son Tarquin Olivier.
London-based production company Ten Cent Adventures is in development on 4 x 60-minute mini-series The Oliviers, about the life and love of the iconic British actors.
Radioman producer Paul Fischer has written the scripts and will produce alongside Radioman director Mary Kerr under their Ten Cent Adventures banner.
According to production a portion of the budget has already been raised through private investors while talks are underway with broadcasters and an A-list cast. A director has yet to be attached.
Fischer has optioned books about the couple including Love Scene by Jesse Lasky and The Oliviers by Felix Barker.
Multi-Oscar winning stage and film actors Olivier (Rebecca, Hamlet) and Leigh (Gone with the Wind), married between...
Legendary film couple Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh are the subject of a new TV mini-series, which is being executive produced by Laurence Olivier’s son Tarquin Olivier.
London-based production company Ten Cent Adventures is in development on 4 x 60-minute mini-series The Oliviers, about the life and love of the iconic British actors.
Radioman producer Paul Fischer has written the scripts and will produce alongside Radioman director Mary Kerr under their Ten Cent Adventures banner.
According to production a portion of the budget has already been raised through private investors while talks are underway with broadcasters and an A-list cast. A director has yet to be attached.
Fischer has optioned books about the couple including Love Scene by Jesse Lasky and The Oliviers by Felix Barker.
Multi-Oscar winning stage and film actors Olivier (Rebecca, Hamlet) and Leigh (Gone with the Wind), married between...
- 2/11/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The official teaser trailer for The Body, starring Alfie Allen of "Game of Thrones," arrived online; and we have it right here for your viewing pleasure. Check out the sly peek into this short right here.
In addition to Allen, The Body stars Hannah Tointon ("The Inbetweeners"), Jack Gordon (Panic Button) and Christian Brassington (Burke and Hare). It was co-written and produced by Paul Fischer for Ten Cent Adventures (Radioman) and co-written and directed by Paul Davis (Him Indoors).
"It's a movie about facades and how we perceive things," director Davis said. "You never really know what's real and what isn't with the characters in this, and it's made all the more ambiguous under the disguise of Halloween - where everybody is somebody else. We live in such a sophisticated age, which tends to bring out the cynic in a lot of people. If we saw someone dragging a body along the street,...
In addition to Allen, The Body stars Hannah Tointon ("The Inbetweeners"), Jack Gordon (Panic Button) and Christian Brassington (Burke and Hare). It was co-written and produced by Paul Fischer for Ten Cent Adventures (Radioman) and co-written and directed by Paul Davis (Him Indoors).
"It's a movie about facades and how we perceive things," director Davis said. "You never really know what's real and what isn't with the characters in this, and it's made all the more ambiguous under the disguise of Halloween - where everybody is somebody else. We live in such a sophisticated age, which tends to bring out the cynic in a lot of people. If we saw someone dragging a body along the street,...
- 12/11/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Appropriately enough, this fascinating documentary is the first feature of a British film-maker whose previous work has largely been in casting, because its subject is a New Yorker legendary in the movie business for hanging around the sets of pictures made on location to get free food and be seen on camera. Aged around 60 and from a lower-middle-class Brooklyn family, he's known in the business as "Radioman" because of the portable radio he wears round his neck, but his real name is Craig Castaldo (or perhaps Craig Schwartz).
A short, bearded, scruffy motormouth, he first became interested in moviemaking when he mistook Bruce Willis, who was playing the boozy writer in The Bonfire of the Vanities, for a fellow drunk living on the streets. From then on he has stalked locations and appeared in over 100 movies, becoming acquainted with dozens of stars and something of a talisman for film people shooting in New York.
A short, bearded, scruffy motormouth, he first became interested in moviemaking when he mistook Bruce Willis, who was playing the boozy writer in The Bonfire of the Vanities, for a fellow drunk living on the streets. From then on he has stalked locations and appeared in over 100 movies, becoming acquainted with dozens of stars and something of a talisman for film people shooting in New York.
- 10/13/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
On The Road (15)
(Walter Salles, 2012, Fra/UK/Us/Bra) Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Sturridge. 124 mins
It was the book that defined a generation, but On The Road has taken several more generations to get to the screen, which dissipates the energy somewhat. Added to which, Jack Kerouac's hip prose was never exactly movie-friendly. This is appropriately scenic, sweaty, druggy and ambisexual, but for all the forced bohemian zeal, the road feels rather long and flat. And what once passed for creative hedonism now looks more like male self-indulgence, which is never much fun to watch.
Ruby Sparks (15)
(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2012, Us) Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening. 104 mins
A dream girl leaps off a blocked writer's pages and into his life in this playful romcom, which takes its Pygmalion-meets-Charlie Kaufman premise into deeper realms than you'd expect. The facts that Kazan wrote the script,...
(Walter Salles, 2012, Fra/UK/Us/Bra) Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Tom Sturridge. 124 mins
It was the book that defined a generation, but On The Road has taken several more generations to get to the screen, which dissipates the energy somewhat. Added to which, Jack Kerouac's hip prose was never exactly movie-friendly. This is appropriately scenic, sweaty, druggy and ambisexual, but for all the forced bohemian zeal, the road feels rather long and flat. And what once passed for creative hedonism now looks more like male self-indulgence, which is never much fun to watch.
Ruby Sparks (15)
(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2012, Us) Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening. 104 mins
A dream girl leaps off a blocked writer's pages and into his life in this playful romcom, which takes its Pygmalion-meets-Charlie Kaufman premise into deeper realms than you'd expect. The facts that Kazan wrote the script,...
- 10/12/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Everyone in the New York film industry knows the gentle vagrant Radioman – but as this documentary shows, that doesn't mean he's one of them
British film-maker Mary Kerr has given us a shrewd insight into the sentimentality and superstition of the film business, and the brittle world of movie status and prestige. The subject is a gentle New York vagrant named Craig Castaldo, bearded and wild-haired, with matted and dirty clothes but intelligent and articulate. He is nicknamed "Radioman" on account of the radio he keeps on a string around his neck. Over the past 20 years, Radioman has become a cult figure in the New York film industry for always hanging around Manhattan film sets, and since striking up a boozy conversation with Bruce Willis on the set of The Bonfire of the Vanities, he keeps getting cast in tiny non-speaking parts, almost as a talisman. Scorsese used him quite prominently in Shutter Island,...
British film-maker Mary Kerr has given us a shrewd insight into the sentimentality and superstition of the film business, and the brittle world of movie status and prestige. The subject is a gentle New York vagrant named Craig Castaldo, bearded and wild-haired, with matted and dirty clothes but intelligent and articulate. He is nicknamed "Radioman" on account of the radio he keeps on a string around his neck. Over the past 20 years, Radioman has become a cult figure in the New York film industry for always hanging around Manhattan film sets, and since striking up a boozy conversation with Bruce Willis on the set of The Bonfire of the Vanities, he keeps getting cast in tiny non-speaking parts, almost as a talisman. Scorsese used him quite prominently in Shutter Island,...
- 10/11/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ With a growing Hollywood resume that now includes Roland Emmerich's Godzilla (1998), Scorsese's The Departed (2006) and R-Patz flick Remember Me (2010) (to name but three), audiences may well wonder just why it is that they hadn't heard of the not-so-elusive Radioman in advance of Mary Kerr's well-intentioned doc. Friend to the stars and the human equivalent of the Wilhelm scream, our eccentric, formerly-homeless subject is endlessly watchable as he scours the film sets of New York for extra work. Instead, it's the numerous celebrity cameos that leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
Read more »...
Read more »...
- 10/10/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Radioman doesn’t look like your average A-lister.
With his dishevelled beard, gnarled fingers and lived-in sweater, it comes as a surprise to hear him talking about sharing yoghurt with Dame Helen, having chats with Marty, and his recurring role on 30 Rock.
But looks can be deceiving. Radioman, born Craig Castaldo and one of New York’s enduring wanderers, who has overcome homelessness and alcoholism, has appeared in around 150 films, as an extra around New York City, playing himself or variations thereof, and is now the subject of his own documentary, which premieres tonight in London, in aid of Shelter.
Radioman and Matt Damon
Marty, Leo, Robert, Ron Howard… they all know Radioman, and they’re all happy to work with him, and many famous faces were happy to contribute – for no money –to the film, as Radioman knew who they’d be.
“He’s a cultural institution…You get...
With his dishevelled beard, gnarled fingers and lived-in sweater, it comes as a surprise to hear him talking about sharing yoghurt with Dame Helen, having chats with Marty, and his recurring role on 30 Rock.
But looks can be deceiving. Radioman, born Craig Castaldo and one of New York’s enduring wanderers, who has overcome homelessness and alcoholism, has appeared in around 150 films, as an extra around New York City, playing himself or variations thereof, and is now the subject of his own documentary, which premieres tonight in London, in aid of Shelter.
Radioman and Matt Damon
Marty, Leo, Robert, Ron Howard… they all know Radioman, and they’re all happy to work with him, and many famous faces were happy to contribute – for no money –to the film, as Radioman knew who they’d be.
“He’s a cultural institution…You get...
- 10/9/2012
- by Caroline Frost
- Huffington Post
We love a good exclusive here at CineVue, so with that in mind we're delighted to be able to unveil the first official teaser trailer for Mary Kerr's upcoming UK-produced feature documentary Radioman (2012), which will premiere at the 2012 Hot Docs International Film Festival in Toronto, Canada on 30 April 30. The directorial debut of Kerr and produced by Paul Fischer of Ten Cent Adventures, Radioman tells the story of a New York street bum who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the city's film industry, complete with celebrity chums, an unparallelled information network and over 100 movie cameos to his name.
Read more »...
Read more »...
- 4/24/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.