Source: indieWIRE

High Point Films, the film sales division of Carey Fitzgerald’s London based High Point Media Group, has acquired international sales rights to David Rocksavage’s “Shadows in the Sun” and has sold Hanro Smitsman’s “Skin” to Ascot Elite, Germany. “Shadows” stars the Oscar nominated Jean Simmons, as well as James Wilby and Jamie Dornan. The film follows the story of a man who visits his mother on the Norfolk coast and finds himself concerned with her relationship with a mysterious young man. “Skin,” based on true events, is Smitsman’s first feature, having previously won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for his short, “Klaas.” “Skin” details the Nazi skinhead movement and focuses on Frankie, a teenage son of Jewish Holocaust survivor who slowly gets roped in. High Point also picked up world sales for “Summer Heat,” a Dutch romantic thriller about a magazine photographer who falls in love with a mysterious woman connected to gangsters. Fitzgerald said in a statement, “‘Shadows in the Sun’ is a moving, beautifully realized and ultimately redemptive film about family, memory, forgiveness and love.” Regarding “Skin” and “Summer Heat,” he said the film represented “some of the most exciting talent, both established and fresh, coming out of Holland today.”

Source: IFTN

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ winner Barry McGuigan and runner up, singer Paul Young, are set to reunite for Edge Films food series ‘The Fabulous Food Adventure’, being shot for UTV.

The episode will profile the artisan food producers of Co Down, and see the pair collect local produce to create a three course meal to be named as the county’s signature dish.

Each episode of the 6 x 23” will see familiar faces visit local food suppliers in Northern Ireland.

Names already confirmed for the series, produced by John Norton and Deirdre McNally of Edge Films, include celebrity chef Gary Rhodes, Irish model / actor Jamie Dornan (Marie Antoinette), Northern Irish chef Jenny Bristow, actor Adrian Dunbar (The Whistleblowers, Mickybo and Me) and food critic and chef Tamasin Day-Lewis (sister of actor Daniel Day-Lewis).

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Events

• April 16, 2008 – Beyond The Rave – Launch Party x 10

Beyond the Rave

• MySpace added x 6
• Promo x 1

The first three episodes of Beyond the Rave are up at MySpace. Watch now!!

There’s a little more than three days until the premiere of Beyond the Rave on MySpace. Join their MySpace now to see it first!

Source: guardian.co.uk

Jamie Dornan, 25, model

Don’t hesitate – buy

‘When I see something I like in a vintage shop, I hide it. I saw this great Beach Boys T-shirt for £12 in Beyond Retro in London and hid it with the jackets. I went back just in time to see some guy pick it up, hold it up to himself and bloody buy it.’

Ignore naysayers

‘I bought a brown suit in Belfast’s Rusty Nail just to spite my friends really, who said it was nasty. I grew to love it.’

Comfort comes from age

‘Vintage clothes feel nicer when they’re worn in a bit. They’re just … softer.’

Beware of pits

‘There are downsides to wearing vintage clothes, of course. I’ve had a couple of shirts with bad armpit situations.’

Measure yourself

‘Buying on eBay is always tricky. I bought a T-shirt that ended up being a belly top. Which was a bit of a shame.’

Source: telegraph.co.uk

The much cherished Hammer Horror film franchise is back with a very 21st-century tale of vampires.

Hammer Horror is back from the dead. Thirty-two years after its last diabolical despatch from the dark side (Christopher Lee disgracing the cloth as a heretic priest in To the Devil… a Daughter), one of the most cherished franchises in British film history is about to return with Beyond the Rave, a blood-spattered tale of vampires on the rampage among hardcore dance fans.

And, while the setting is bang-up-to-date (it’s infused, too, with allusions to the conflict in Iraq), the film is also at the cutting edge of distribution technology. It will be presented in 20 five-minute “webisodes” on the social networking website MySpace, before an eventual release on DVD, and will also be available to download.

A fresh-faced cast, including Jamie Dornan (Marie Antoinette) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent) in the lead roles, is augmented by cameo appearances by Sadie Frost, who appeared in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 Dracula, and 70-year-old Hammer Horror stalwart Ingrid Pitt (best remembered for The Vampire Lovers).

Veteran DJ/producer Pete Tong is credited with “curating” the music for the film.

Beyond the Rave is the story of Ed (Dornan), a British soldier due to fly out to Iraq, who spends his last day of freedom searching for his missing girlfriend (Noone), last seen in the company of a dubious band of rave devotees. He ends up at a dance party deep in a remote forest in the dead of night. There will be blood. Lots of it.

Dornan says he enjoyed the contrast with his previous role as Count Fersen in Sofia Coppola’s lavish biopic of the high-spirited French queen. “I had just come out of a nice family period drama, and that was partly why I wanted to do something like Beyond the Rave. I was also intrigued by the whole webisode thing.

“The shoot felt a lot faster than anything I’d done before. There was a real buzz on set because everything was so speedy. But then, if you’re going to make an impression in a five-minute episode, it’s got to be pretty sharp. It was new territory for everyone.”

And what about the lashings of gore and the ultra-violence? “Well, it was quite hard to take it seriously when you’re being attacked by a mad vampire wielding two samurai swords.”

Which again is in sharp contrast to Dornan’s next movie – the “all very pretty” Shadows in the Sun, due later this year and featuring the luminous, legendary Jean Simmons in the lead role.

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