Welcome to the latest edition of our regular crowdfunding feature here on Nerdly – Back This! – where we take a look at some of the cool content taking the crowdfunding route on sites such as Indiegogo and Kickstarter. This time we’re taking a look at a new comic campaign from a brand new UK company, Wild River Comics… Daughters of Albion #1!
Having established themselves as a presence at UK comic cons over the last six months, Wild River Comics have launched their Kickstarter campaign for their first title, Daughters of Albion #1. Co-creators Denis Phan and Trevor Jayakody have been working tirelessly behind the scenes with artist Matt Timson, colourist Marco Lesko, letterer Jim Campbell, and editor Martin Eden to get this first issue ready for the launch.
Daughters of Albion #1 introduces readers to an alternate London where magic and technology co-exist. When cyberpunk hacker Hashani discovers a magical amulet dropped by two strange beings,...
Having established themselves as a presence at UK comic cons over the last six months, Wild River Comics have launched their Kickstarter campaign for their first title, Daughters of Albion #1. Co-creators Denis Phan and Trevor Jayakody have been working tirelessly behind the scenes with artist Matt Timson, colourist Marco Lesko, letterer Jim Campbell, and editor Martin Eden to get this first issue ready for the launch.
Daughters of Albion #1 introduces readers to an alternate London where magic and technology co-exist. When cyberpunk hacker Hashani discovers a magical amulet dropped by two strange beings,...
- 4/22/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In Fear of Rain, Madison Iseman (Annabelle Comes Home) plays Rain Burroughs, a young woman attempting to lead a stable life while she struggles with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Despite her best efforts, and that of her loving parents (Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr.), Rain is often not sure what is real and what is a hallucination — including Caleb (Israel Broussard), a fellow at school who takes an interest in her even as she wonders whether he’s real.
But when Rain becomes convinced that the seemingly normal teacher living next door (Eugenie Bondurant) is hiding a terrible secret in her attic, Rain goes against her parents’ advice and decides to prove she’s right, enlisting Caleb to help her even if she’s not even sure she can trust her own senses.
Written and directed by Castille Landon (Albion: The Enchanted Stallion), Fear of Rain is not just...
But when Rain becomes convinced that the seemingly normal teacher living next door (Eugenie Bondurant) is hiding a terrible secret in her attic, Rain goes against her parents’ advice and decides to prove she’s right, enlisting Caleb to help her even if she’s not even sure she can trust her own senses.
Written and directed by Castille Landon (Albion: The Enchanted Stallion), Fear of Rain is not just...
- 2/15/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
With the new psychological thriller Fear of Rain, actor turned writer-director Castille Landon takes a sharp turn away from her two previous directorial efforts, the family films Apple of My Eye and Albion: The Enchanted Stallion. Her third movie focuses on Rain Burroughs (Madison Iseman of the last two Jumanji sequels and Annabelle Comes Home), a young girl diagnosed with schizophrenia who isn’t sure what’s real and what isn’t — including the boy at school (Israel Broussard) who takes an interest in her.
Despite the entreaties of her parents (Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr.) and the threat of being hospitalized, Rain does believe in the reality of one thing: that Dani (Eugenie Bondurant), the seemingly normal teacher who lives next door, is doing something awful in her attic.
Filmed before the pandemic gripped the world, Fear of Rain touches on issues of mental illness and attempts to...
Despite the entreaties of her parents (Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr.) and the threat of being hospitalized, Rain does believe in the reality of one thing: that Dani (Eugenie Bondurant), the seemingly normal teacher who lives next door, is doing something awful in her attic.
Filmed before the pandemic gripped the world, Fear of Rain touches on issues of mental illness and attempts to...
- 2/13/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
“Am I crazy or is this really happening?” is by now a fairly familiar hook for thrillers. But Castille Landon’s “Fear of Rain” gets some fresh mileage from it by embedding us in the perspective of a teenager diagnosed with schizophrenia — and whose worries are thus dismissed as delusional when she decides a next-door neighbor is up to something nefarious.
Middling at best in terms of suspense mechanics, and not the most perceptive treatment of mental illness you’ll ever see, this nonetheless compels interest as a well-acted drama-cum-mystery whose heroine (like the kid in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”) has some unique challenges to her amateur sleuthing. Lionsgate is releasing the feature to available theaters and on demand Feb. 12.
Hopes are not raised particularly high by the opening, that stock horror trope of a panicked, barefoot young woman being chased through woods by some...
Middling at best in terms of suspense mechanics, and not the most perceptive treatment of mental illness you’ll ever see, this nonetheless compels interest as a well-acted drama-cum-mystery whose heroine (like the kid in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”) has some unique challenges to her amateur sleuthing. Lionsgate is releasing the feature to available theaters and on demand Feb. 12.
Hopes are not raised particularly high by the opening, that stock horror trope of a panicked, barefoot young woman being chased through woods by some...
- 2/12/2021
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
During July’s Xbox Games Showcase, Microsoft announced a new Fable game for the Xbox Series X. Few details were shared about the game except that it’s currently in development at Playground Games, the studio best known for the Forza Horizon series.
Check out the announcement trailer below:
As you can see, the trailer doesn’t really give much away. We follow a fairy as they fly around a magical land until they’re suddenly eaten by a fly, as the narrator teases that not all stories have happy endings, although “yours has yet to be written.” The final shot of the trailer is of a city marked by a giant castle waiting on the horizon.
There’s a good chance the new Fable will be set on Albion, the kingdom where all of the games have taken place thus far. But it remains to be seen whether the...
Check out the announcement trailer below:
As you can see, the trailer doesn’t really give much away. We follow a fairy as they fly around a magical land until they’re suddenly eaten by a fly, as the narrator teases that not all stories have happy endings, although “yours has yet to be written.” The final shot of the trailer is of a city marked by a giant castle waiting on the horizon.
There’s a good chance the new Fable will be set on Albion, the kingdom where all of the games have taken place thus far. But it remains to be seen whether the...
- 7/23/2020
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan shared a stripped-down performance of his solo song “Hard Times” on The Tonight Show Monday.
The original version of the song, from Corgan’s 2019 record Cotillions, is a lonesome but lush country tune that lends itself nicely to a fully acoustic rendition. And the lyrics are, of course, particularly relevant at this moment. On The Tonight Show, Corgan picked up the pace of his strumming a bit as he moved effortlessly through the song’s grandiose verses to reach the simple but potent hook: “Albion...
The original version of the song, from Corgan’s 2019 record Cotillions, is a lonesome but lush country tune that lends itself nicely to a fully acoustic rendition. And the lyrics are, of course, particularly relevant at this moment. On The Tonight Show, Corgan picked up the pace of his strumming a bit as he moved effortlessly through the song’s grandiose verses to reach the simple but potent hook: “Albion...
- 5/19/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The BBC has launched “Culture In Quarantine,” an arts and culture initiative that will run across the service’s U.K. radio, television and digital platforms.
The initiative follows the U.K. government’s social distancing advice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in the closure of most cultural spaces across the country.
The initiative, which will be spread across BBC radio as well as channels BBC Two and BBC Four and catch-up service iPlayer, will include guides to shuttered exhibitions or permanent collections in museums and galleries; performances from musicians and comedians; new plays created especially for broadcast; the experience of book festivals with access to authors; and quarantine diaries from creative visionaries.
New filmed recordings of writer Mike Bartlett’s “Albion,” director Emma Rice’s “Wise Children,” realized by digital agency The Space, and choreographer Crystal Pite’s “Revisor” will be among the content available.
The initiative follows the U.K. government’s social distancing advice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in the closure of most cultural spaces across the country.
The initiative, which will be spread across BBC radio as well as channels BBC Two and BBC Four and catch-up service iPlayer, will include guides to shuttered exhibitions or permanent collections in museums and galleries; performances from musicians and comedians; new plays created especially for broadcast; the experience of book festivals with access to authors; and quarantine diaries from creative visionaries.
New filmed recordings of writer Mike Bartlett’s “Albion,” director Emma Rice’s “Wise Children,” realized by digital agency The Space, and choreographer Crystal Pite’s “Revisor” will be among the content available.
- 3/19/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Don Kaye Apr 24, 2019
Madison Iseman of Jumanji fame will star alongside Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr.
Fresh off her success in 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, rising star Madison Iseman will headline a new psychological thriller with the very giallo-esque title I Saw a Man With Yellow Eyes.
Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr. will also star in the film, which will begin shooting this week in Tampa and St. Petersburg under the direction of Castille Landon, who also wrote the script.
Iseman plays a teenage girl named Rain Burroughs who suffers from schizophrenia and is experiencing vivid and terrifying hallucinations as she begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her own parents, who have secrets of their own, are skeptical, while the only person who believes her is a boy named Caleb -- and he may not even exist.
Landon, whose previous feature directing credits...
Madison Iseman of Jumanji fame will star alongside Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr.
Fresh off her success in 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, rising star Madison Iseman will headline a new psychological thriller with the very giallo-esque title I Saw a Man With Yellow Eyes.
Katherine Heigl and Harry Connick Jr. will also star in the film, which will begin shooting this week in Tampa and St. Petersburg under the direction of Castille Landon, who also wrote the script.
Iseman plays a teenage girl named Rain Burroughs who suffers from schizophrenia and is experiencing vivid and terrifying hallucinations as she begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her own parents, who have secrets of their own, are skeptical, while the only person who believes her is a boy named Caleb -- and he may not even exist.
Landon, whose previous feature directing credits...
- 4/24/2019
- Den of Geek
Feature film veterans Robert Molloy, Kristian Krempel, and Joseph Restaino have formed Florida-based Pinstripe Productions.
The company takes its name from Molloy’s affiliation with the New York Yankees baseball team as the grandson of longtime owner George Steinbrenner. The sons, Harold and Hank Steinbrenner, inherited the team, sometimes known as the Pinstripers. Molloy, the son of Jessica Steinbrenner, began working with the team when he was in his teens.
Molloy’s first film, the live-action “The Little Mermaid,” will open theatrically on Aug. 17 in partnership with AMC Theaters. The film stars William Moseley, Poppy Drayton, Gina Gershon, and Shirley MacLaine.
“I am excited to be involved in this new partnership with talented people that continue to make art that will last a lifetime,” Molloy said. “My first experience on ‘The Little Mermaid’ was a very gratifying and humbling one.”
Krempel is the president at FX Group and has worked...
The company takes its name from Molloy’s affiliation with the New York Yankees baseball team as the grandson of longtime owner George Steinbrenner. The sons, Harold and Hank Steinbrenner, inherited the team, sometimes known as the Pinstripers. Molloy, the son of Jessica Steinbrenner, began working with the team when he was in his teens.
Molloy’s first film, the live-action “The Little Mermaid,” will open theatrically on Aug. 17 in partnership with AMC Theaters. The film stars William Moseley, Poppy Drayton, Gina Gershon, and Shirley MacLaine.
“I am excited to be involved in this new partnership with talented people that continue to make art that will last a lifetime,” Molloy said. “My first experience on ‘The Little Mermaid’ was a very gratifying and humbling one.”
Krempel is the president at FX Group and has worked...
- 8/10/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Keep up with the always-hopping film festival world with our weekly Film Festival Roundup column. Check out last week’s Roundup right here.
Lineup Announcements
– Exclusive: The 12th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival announced its official selections for the 2017 event featuring films with Alec Baldwin, Dylan McDermott, John Cleese, Daphne Zuniga and more. Opening night will feature Michael Mailer’s newest film, “Blind,” a romantic-drama, starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott. Closing night will wrap up the festival with “Albion: The Enchanted Stallion,” a family fantasy adventure, starring John Cleese, Debra Messing, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Dorff.
Retrospective Screenings will include Daphne Zuniga appearance at the festival honoring the 30th anniversary of “Spaceballs.” Also in this category will be “The Greatest Show on Earth,” from 1952 directed by Cecile B. DeMille, which won the Oscar for Best Pictures and Best Writing in 1953. The screening will honor the closing of the Ringling Bros.
Lineup Announcements
– Exclusive: The 12th Annual Sunscreen Film Festival announced its official selections for the 2017 event featuring films with Alec Baldwin, Dylan McDermott, John Cleese, Daphne Zuniga and more. Opening night will feature Michael Mailer’s newest film, “Blind,” a romantic-drama, starring Alec Baldwin, Demi Moore and Dylan McDermott. Closing night will wrap up the festival with “Albion: The Enchanted Stallion,” a family fantasy adventure, starring John Cleese, Debra Messing, Jennifer Morrison and Stephen Dorff.
Retrospective Screenings will include Daphne Zuniga appearance at the festival honoring the 30th anniversary of “Spaceballs.” Also in this category will be “The Greatest Show on Earth,” from 1952 directed by Cecile B. DeMille, which won the Oscar for Best Pictures and Best Writing in 1953. The screening will honor the closing of the Ringling Bros.
- 3/30/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Daniel Bort heads to the Croisette with an inaugural slate as president of the rebranded boutique international sales and distribution company.
Expression Entertainment is an expanded reconfiguration of Continental Media, the sales company that launched three years ago and is solely owned by real estate and music industry entrepreneur Neil Harrington.
The Los Angeles-based outfit, which soft-launched at the Efm in Berlin, will work with filmmakers to establish long-lasting relationships and will board projects at development phase where possible.
Bort and his team will guide content providers to the appropriate platform and distribution strategy, a service the executive told Screen was more vital than ever in a rapidly evolving marketplace. To this end Expression is planning to establish a Us distribution arm.
Harrington and Bort have brought on Boris Isaac as operations and development manager, while Chris Goodman will work in worldwide licensing.
Bort, who served as vice-president of sales at Cinema Management Group, commences talks with...
Expression Entertainment is an expanded reconfiguration of Continental Media, the sales company that launched three years ago and is solely owned by real estate and music industry entrepreneur Neil Harrington.
The Los Angeles-based outfit, which soft-launched at the Efm in Berlin, will work with filmmakers to establish long-lasting relationships and will board projects at development phase where possible.
Bort and his team will guide content providers to the appropriate platform and distribution strategy, a service the executive told Screen was more vital than ever in a rapidly evolving marketplace. To this end Expression is planning to establish a Us distribution arm.
Harrington and Bort have brought on Boris Isaac as operations and development manager, while Chris Goodman will work in worldwide licensing.
Bort, who served as vice-president of sales at Cinema Management Group, commences talks with...
- 5/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Daniel Bort heads to the Croisette with an inaugural slate as president of the rebranded boutique international sales and distribution company.
Expression Entertainment is an expanded reconfiguration of Continental Media, the sales company that launched three years ago and is solely owned by real estate and music industry entrepreneur Neil Harrington.
The Los Angeles-based outfit, which soft-launched at the Efm in Berlin, will work with filmmakers to establish long-lasting relationships and will board projects at development phase where possible. To this end Expression is planning to establish a Us distribution arm.
Bort and his team will guide content providers to the appropriate platform and distribution strategy, a service the executive told Screen was more vital than ever in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Harrington and Bort have brought on Boris Isaac as operations and development manager, while Chris Goodman will work in worldwide licensing.
Bort, who served as vice-president of sales at Cinema Management Group, commences talks with...
Expression Entertainment is an expanded reconfiguration of Continental Media, the sales company that launched three years ago and is solely owned by real estate and music industry entrepreneur Neil Harrington.
The Los Angeles-based outfit, which soft-launched at the Efm in Berlin, will work with filmmakers to establish long-lasting relationships and will board projects at development phase where possible. To this end Expression is planning to establish a Us distribution arm.
Bort and his team will guide content providers to the appropriate platform and distribution strategy, a service the executive told Screen was more vital than ever in a rapidly evolving marketplace.
Harrington and Bort have brought on Boris Isaac as operations and development manager, while Chris Goodman will work in worldwide licensing.
Bort, who served as vice-president of sales at Cinema Management Group, commences talks with...
- 5/7/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Lately more used to voice work and eccentric cameos, it's a good few years since John Cleese stepped up for a role as a scenery-chewing villain. Putting that sad situation to rights, however, is the indie fantasy adventure Albion: Rise Of The Danann, in which he'll play Albion's tyrannical king. Debra Messing will be his queen.According to the available synopsis, the film involves a 12-year-old girl (Avery Rath) who is spirited away to a mystical land on a magical horse. When she gets there she finds that she alone is the key to saving the kingdom. The word "destiny" will almost certainly crop up somewhere.Albion, of course, is the ye olde name for Britain, while "Dannan" would seem to refer to the legendary Tuatha Dé Danann: the pre-Christian invaders of Gaelic Ireland who were driven underground and became bad elves the Sidhe. We have visions of Cleese in...
- 5/5/2015
- EmpireOnline
John Cleese and Debra Messing have joined the cast of fantasy film Albion: Rise Of The Danann. Cleese will play the villian, a tyrannical leader of Albion while Messing will portray the queen. The film goes before the cameras this month under the direction of Castille Landon who helms from a script that she wrote along with Ryan O’Nan and Sarah Scougal. Produced by Sweet Tomato Films, Cleese and Messing join Liam McIntyre (Spartacus: War Of Damned, The Flash) and Daniel…...
- 5/4/2015
- Deadline
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