“Old” star Rufus Sewell and “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’s” Shirley Henderson are set to lead dark comedy “The Trouble With Jessica.”
Sewell will also be reunited with his “A Knight’s Tale” co-star Alan Tudyk in the film. Olivia Williams (“The Father”) and Indira Varma (“Obi Wan Kenobi”) round out the cast.
Parkland Pictures are repping “The Trouble With Jessica,” which is directed by Matt Winn (“Bad Mother”), for worldwide sales. Winn co-wrote the film with James Handel (“The Hoarder”).
Filmed on location in London, “The Trouble With Jessica” tells the story of two couples who find themselves needing to relocate a dead body in order to prevent the imminent sale of their house from collapsing.
Impecunious couple Sarah (Henderson) and Tom (Tudyk) host best friends Richard (Sewell) and Beth (Williams) for dinner one evening when old friend Jessica (Varma) invites herself along. A small row erupts...
Sewell will also be reunited with his “A Knight’s Tale” co-star Alan Tudyk in the film. Olivia Williams (“The Father”) and Indira Varma (“Obi Wan Kenobi”) round out the cast.
Parkland Pictures are repping “The Trouble With Jessica,” which is directed by Matt Winn (“Bad Mother”), for worldwide sales. Winn co-wrote the film with James Handel (“The Hoarder”).
Filmed on location in London, “The Trouble With Jessica” tells the story of two couples who find themselves needing to relocate a dead body in order to prevent the imminent sale of their house from collapsing.
Impecunious couple Sarah (Henderson) and Tom (Tudyk) host best friends Richard (Sewell) and Beth (Williams) for dinner one evening when old friend Jessica (Varma) invites herself along. A small row erupts...
- 5/12/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
John Cairn's Schoolgirl ApocalypseSTORY70%ACTING70%DIRECTING70%VISUALS70%POSITIVESOriginal take on the zombie genreGreat production values Good acting by gorgeous actressesNEGATIVESThe animated sequence2016-05-2070%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (1 Vote)97%
John Cairn’s first feature film was produced during the 2010 Naff (Network of Asian Fantastic Films) It Project, a section of the Korean organization that introduces talented genre film projects and provides opportunities of investment and co-production of newly discovered, promising genre filmmakers from Asia and Asian Diaspora . “King of Pigs” and “Ruined “Heart” are two distinct examples of the films that have benefited from the project.
Sakura is a regular Japanese schoolgirl who practices kyudo (Japanese martial art of archery) at school and English at home, since she has a dream of going to America to study. However, her world turns upside town when suddenly, all the men in her town, turn against the women, after an eerie sound who makes their ears bleed,...
John Cairn’s first feature film was produced during the 2010 Naff (Network of Asian Fantastic Films) It Project, a section of the Korean organization that introduces talented genre film projects and provides opportunities of investment and co-production of newly discovered, promising genre filmmakers from Asia and Asian Diaspora . “King of Pigs” and “Ruined “Heart” are two distinct examples of the films that have benefited from the project.
Sakura is a regular Japanese schoolgirl who practices kyudo (Japanese martial art of archery) at school and English at home, since she has a dream of going to America to study. However, her world turns upside town when suddenly, all the men in her town, turn against the women, after an eerie sound who makes their ears bleed,...
- 5/20/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards psychological thriller ahead of Toronto.
London-based sales outfit Parkland Pictures has boarded world rights to Steve Reeves’s thriller, Keeping Rosy, which will play at Dinard Film Festival (Oct 8-12).
Parkland will introduce the film to international buyers at Toronto.
Maxine Peake stars as a career-driven woman who is passed over for a long-expected promotion, leading to frustration which boils over with dire consequences.
The film also stars The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison and was produced by Richard Holmes (Eden Lake, Waking Ned), his third collaboration with French producer Isabelle Georgeaux after Jadoo and Resistance.
It marks Reeves’ first feature film, accompanied by DoP Roger Pratt (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Chocolat) and composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Billy Elliot).
The deal was negotiated by John Cairns and Pierre-Louis Manes-Murphy for Parkland Pictures and by Richard Holmes and Isabelle Georgeaux on behalf of Redemption Films.
London-based sales outfit Parkland Pictures has boarded world rights to Steve Reeves’s thriller, Keeping Rosy, which will play at Dinard Film Festival (Oct 8-12).
Parkland will introduce the film to international buyers at Toronto.
Maxine Peake stars as a career-driven woman who is passed over for a long-expected promotion, leading to frustration which boils over with dire consequences.
The film also stars The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison and was produced by Richard Holmes (Eden Lake, Waking Ned), his third collaboration with French producer Isabelle Georgeaux after Jadoo and Resistance.
It marks Reeves’ first feature film, accompanied by DoP Roger Pratt (Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Chocolat) and composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love, Billy Elliot).
The deal was negotiated by John Cairns and Pierre-Louis Manes-Murphy for Parkland Pictures and by Richard Holmes and Isabelle Georgeaux on behalf of Redemption Films.
- 8/20/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Shooting on first English language film from Arsen A Ostojic [pictured] starts in September.
Parkland Pictures has boarded The Man in the Box.
An adaptation of Thomas Moran’s international bestseller, the coming-of-age tale is Croatian director Arsen A Ostojic’s first English language film. Dan and Nuria Wicksman adapted for the screen.
Set in Tirol at the end of WWII, The Man in the Box focuses on a teenage boy whose family hides a Jewish doctor who had saved the boy’s life before the war.
Cast currently includes Thomas Kretschmann, Martina Gedeck and Götz Otto.
Producer Steve Walsh, executive producers Thierry Potok and François Lesterlin and Parkland Pictures’ John Cairns have put the final pieces of finance together in Cannes.
Shooting is scheduled for Sept 8.
Also on Parkland’s Cannes slate is thriller Pharmacide, romance Secret Love, WWII action film Allies and marijuana legalisation documentary California High.
Parkland Pictures has boarded The Man in the Box.
An adaptation of Thomas Moran’s international bestseller, the coming-of-age tale is Croatian director Arsen A Ostojic’s first English language film. Dan and Nuria Wicksman adapted for the screen.
Set in Tirol at the end of WWII, The Man in the Box focuses on a teenage boy whose family hides a Jewish doctor who had saved the boy’s life before the war.
Cast currently includes Thomas Kretschmann, Martina Gedeck and Götz Otto.
Producer Steve Walsh, executive producers Thierry Potok and François Lesterlin and Parkland Pictures’ John Cairns have put the final pieces of finance together in Cannes.
Shooting is scheduled for Sept 8.
Also on Parkland’s Cannes slate is thriller Pharmacide, romance Secret Love, WWII action film Allies and marijuana legalisation documentary California High.
- 5/19/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Duffy film, Niall Johnson rom-com on Parkland Pictures slate.
Parkland Pictures comes to Cannes with new romances Secret Love, set to star British singer-songwriter Duffy (Duffy Jones), and Niall Johnson’s Scrum Like it Hot.
Secret Love, budgeted at $3.2m, aims to shoot in Wales this autumn. It charts the bittersweet love story between a young woman and an older, married man and her subsequent turmoil after he unexpectedly passes.
Grammy and Brit Award-winning singer Duffy, whose 2008 debut album Rockferry sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and featured hit singles Mercy and Warwick Avenue, will also compose original songs for the film and work on the soundtrack.
Duffy made her acting debut on 2010 drama Patagonia. Her music has appeared in films including An Education and Bride Wars.
Director will be Dewi Humphreys (My Family), producer is Chantelle de Carvalho and writer is Emyr Humphreys.
The production is currently casting additional roles.
Rugby rom-com...
Parkland Pictures comes to Cannes with new romances Secret Love, set to star British singer-songwriter Duffy (Duffy Jones), and Niall Johnson’s Scrum Like it Hot.
Secret Love, budgeted at $3.2m, aims to shoot in Wales this autumn. It charts the bittersweet love story between a young woman and an older, married man and her subsequent turmoil after he unexpectedly passes.
Grammy and Brit Award-winning singer Duffy, whose 2008 debut album Rockferry sold more than 7 million copies worldwide and featured hit singles Mercy and Warwick Avenue, will also compose original songs for the film and work on the soundtrack.
Duffy made her acting debut on 2010 drama Patagonia. Her music has appeared in films including An Education and Bride Wars.
Director will be Dewi Humphreys (My Family), producer is Chantelle de Carvalho and writer is Emyr Humphreys.
The production is currently casting additional roles.
Rugby rom-com...
- 5/13/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Our contest for a download code for John Cairns' feature film debut Schoolgirl Apocalypse has one more day remaining, and in case you haven't entered yet, maybe this new batch of stills will entice you to start clicking!
The film is premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival later today, July 30th, and will be available on iTunes on Tuesday, July 31st. Along with the iTunes release, digital distributor Under the Milky Way will be conducting giveaways for free downloads of the film on its Twitter and Facebook pages all this week so you have even more ways to win!
Synopsis:
A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura (Higarino), has her idyllic small-town life turned inside-out when the local males start savagely killing the females. Armed with only her kyudo bow for protection and an English textbook for comfort, Sakura journeys through an apocalyptic world of mayhem. As trauma from witnessing the violent...
The film is premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival later today, July 30th, and will be available on iTunes on Tuesday, July 31st. Along with the iTunes release, digital distributor Under the Milky Way will be conducting giveaways for free downloads of the film on its Twitter and Facebook pages all this week so you have even more ways to win!
Synopsis:
A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura (Higarino), has her idyllic small-town life turned inside-out when the local males start savagely killing the females. Armed with only her kyudo bow for protection and an English textbook for comfort, Sakura journeys through an apocalyptic world of mayhem. As trauma from witnessing the violent...
- 7/30/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
John Cairns' feature film debut Schoolgirl Apocalypse is premiering at the Fantasia Film Festival on Monday, July 30th, and will be available on iTunes on Tuesday, July 31st. In honor of the occasion, we have a pair of download codes to pass on to two lucky Dread Central readers!
In order to enter for a chance to win one of the codes, just send an Email Here, including your full name and preferred email address. We'll take care of the rest.
Along with the iTunes release, digital distributor Under the Milky Way will be conducting giveaways for free downloads of the film on its Twitter and Facebook pages so you have even more ways to win!
Synopsis:
A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura (Higarino), has her idyllic small-town life turned inside-out when the local males start savagely killing the females. Armed with only her kyudo bow for protection and an English textbook for comfort,...
In order to enter for a chance to win one of the codes, just send an Email Here, including your full name and preferred email address. We'll take care of the rest.
Along with the iTunes release, digital distributor Under the Milky Way will be conducting giveaways for free downloads of the film on its Twitter and Facebook pages so you have even more ways to win!
Synopsis:
A Japanese schoolgirl, Sakura (Higarino), has her idyllic small-town life turned inside-out when the local males start savagely killing the females. Armed with only her kyudo bow for protection and an English textbook for comfort,...
- 7/26/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
The July 19th start of Montreal's 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is drawing closer (it runs through August 7th), and the powers-that-be have announced the second wave of films along with a few selections from the new Axis section of the event.
Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements
The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...
Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements
The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...
- 7/6/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The fifteen projects selected to take part in the 2010 It Project co-production market at PiFan 2010 have been announced and while - as is the case with any co-production market - a good number of these will never actually get made, the list is an intriguing chance to see what's in the works and what the next couple of years may look like.
Big names in the list this year? Pang Ho-Cheung, in with a project titled Demonstrate Loyalty and Gareth Huw Evans with a new Indonesian martial arts project, Berandal.
The only information given at this stage are the titles but knowing that these are all genre projects, my money is on the Pang being somehow triad related. Berandal, however, I'm directly involved in so I can be a bit more specific.
The film once again will pair writer-director Evans with stars Iko Uwais (Yayan in Merantau) and Yayan Ruhian...
Big names in the list this year? Pang Ho-Cheung, in with a project titled Demonstrate Loyalty and Gareth Huw Evans with a new Indonesian martial arts project, Berandal.
The only information given at this stage are the titles but knowing that these are all genre projects, my money is on the Pang being somehow triad related. Berandal, however, I'm directly involved in so I can be a bit more specific.
The film once again will pair writer-director Evans with stars Iko Uwais (Yayan in Merantau) and Yayan Ruhian...
- 6/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Coming into this week's Boiling Point I had just one rule - it was not going to be about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. All was going well, too, until I read our very own Reject Report by John Cairns that served less as a retelling of Transformers box office glory and more of yet another critic shitting all over a movie that the public has dumped garbage truckloads of cash on. I couldn't resist after that. I've expressed it on my twitter account and dropped comments about it left and right, but I guess I'll just come out and say it again - movie critics aren't important. Ok, so reel that back just a little bit. Critics do serve a purpose in laying down some groundwork opinion on movies, helping to publicize lesser known flicks, providing insightful commentary, etc. But we're really not that important and Transformers is building a monument out of money to that...
- 6/29/2009
- by Robert Fure
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
With two major Us productions set to film in Ni this year, Northern Ireland Screen are focusing on bringing local talent and productions to this year's Cannes Film Festival revealing five new home-grown productions in the works. The screen agency's profile is currently at an all-time high amongst the global film-making community. New titles include; 'Paddy Mayne', an action drama penned by Richard Crawford (The Abduction Club) and produced by Alistair Maclean-Clark (The War Bride, Octane, Heartbreak Hotel, Arn), 'Teenage Kicks', produced by Michael Kelly, Pete Foott is directing with Spence Wright (Red Mist) and John Cairns screenwriting; 'Jump', the creation of 'Raw' writer Lisa McGee with Brendan Byrne on board to produce and director Kieron J. Walsh (When Brendan Met Trudy); director Tom Collins (Kings) is planning the adaptation of 'Reading in the Dark' - based on Seamus Deane's award winning novel; and 'Parabellum', produced by Colin...
- 5/14/2009
- IFTN
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