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It's not how well we hide our secrets, but it's how closely we guard the key in Stephen Graham's Thriller 'A Patch of Fog' (Trailer)

It’s not how well we hide our secrets, but it’s how closely we guard the key in Stephen Graham’s Thriller ‘A Patch of Fog’ (Trailer)

    “What exactly do you want from me?” “I just want to be your friend.” In the Belfast thriller ‘A Patch of Fog’ a security guard catches a famous writer/television host shoplifting and blackmails him into becoming friends. A movie about the friendship between two old men, starring Conleth Hill as a famous writer living off the royalties of the only novel he’s ever written (over two decades…

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Rebel Park Productions Present The First Comedy Short In Leading Lady Parts Series To Premiere On BBC Four on July 30

The first short in a brand new comedy series titled LEADING LADY PARTS will world premiere on BBC Four at 10:00pm on Monday, 30th July and will subsequently be available on BBC iPlayer.

The short, produced by Rebel Park Productions’ Gemma Arterton, Jessica Malik and Jessica Parker in association with The Fyzz Facility and Popcorn Group, is the first in a series aimed at shining a light on the portrayal of women in the media and the challenges women face in the workplace across all industries.

The eclectic, award-winning cast includes BAFTA nominee Arterton (THEIR FINEST), BAFTA, Emmy ® and SAG Award ® nominee Catherine Tate (“The Catherine Tate Show”), Gemma Chan (upcoming CAPTAIN MARVEL), Emmy Award ® nominee Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”) and Oscar ® nominee Felicity Jones (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING).

Golden Globe ® and Emmy Award ® nominee Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), Florence Pugh (LADY MACBETH), Katie Leung (HARRY POTTER franchise), Stacy Martin (NYMPHOMANIAC: VOL I & II), BAFTA winner Wunmi Mosaku (DAMILOLA: OUR LOVED BOY), Anthony Welsh (JOURNEYMAN) and Golden Globe ® winner Tom Hiddleston (AVENGERS franchise) round out the cast.

Written and directed by Olivier Award winning Jessica Swale (Nell Gywnn), the short takes a sneak peek backstage as the cream of British acting talent step forward to audition for that dream role. Primed to take on the role of a lifetime, that complex woman, the strong woman, a woman for today. A lady part who’s more than just…lady parts.

They obviously haven’t met the panel.

“I have never experienced a project coming together so quickly, the support has been incredible across the board. We were filming within a month of having read the script. As we were pulling the film together, it became clear that it should be part of a series of films to highlight the major issues that we face, not just in the film and TV industries but in all walks of life; bullying, harassment, racial discrimination and inequality, but with the serious message delivered through comedy,” said producer Jessica Parker.

“It’s not very often that something lands on your desk that addresses some of the serious misgivings that we all have about diversity within the industry, and never had we read a piece that does so with such wit and humour. As producers, we felt the same way as our wonderful cast and crew, in that this had to be made, and it had to be made now. We hope that by continuing the conversation, we can effect meaningful and lasting change,” said producer Jessica Malik.

“The genesis for the film began with a desire to see women on screen who are as diverse, characterful, three dimensional and flawed as the women I meet in my daily life. Enough of the identikit, thin, white, posh, sexy, flawless love interests who aren't given a single good line- we have such amazing actresses, let's give them proper parts! Until we start seeing real women on screen, represented in all their diversity, we won’t get anywhere,” said writer/director Jessica Swale.

The predominantly female crew includes composer Amelia Warner (MARY SHELLEY), editor Pani Scott (MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS), production designer Francesca Di Mottola (I AM LOVE) and cinematographer Chloë Thomson, a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit in 2017 (BBC One/Netflix’s “Requiem”).

The short will premiere as part of an hour-long programme dedicated to BBC’s “Hear Her” season, showcasing women’s voices in a season of content to mark 100 years since suffrage and the centenary anniversary of women being able to vote in the UK.

Following its broadcast debut, the short will be available on BBC iPlayer and across Rebel Park’s official social media channels.

For more updates, please follow Leading Lady Parts on Twitter: @rebelparkprod, Instagram: @rebelparkproductions and YouTube.

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A sequel to The Strangers has been discussed since the original film was released back in 2008. After several false starts, The Strangers 2 is finally happening!

Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the Door) is on board to direct from a script by Bryan Bertino (who wrote and directed the original) and Ben Ketai (The Forest). The Fyzz Facility Pictures is producing in association with Relativity Media.

Bloom will be handling international sales at the European Film Market in Berlin. Casting is currently underway, with shooting scheduled to take place this summer. Here’s the synopsis:

The Strangers 2 follows a family whose road trip takes a turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park and after the power goes out they decide to hunker down for the night in a borrowed trailer. Under the cover of darkness three familiar masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test their every limit.

As I said in my recent review of Bertino’s latest film, The Monster, I find The Strangers to be one of the most effective modern horror movies. While I wish Bertino was back at the helm, and the decade-long wait for a follow-up may be difficult to overcome, I’m eager to see how the sequel plays out.

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How '47 Meters Down' Went From Potential Home Video Obscurity to $40M-Plus Box-Office Hit

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How '47 Meters Down' Went From Potential Home Video Obscurity to $40M-Plus Box-Office Hit

When 47 Meters Down was released on June 16, the shark thriller, in which Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star as two sisters on a diving expedition gone horribly wrong, took an unexpectedly large bite out of the domestic box office.

Its opening weekend of $12 million wasn’t at all bad for a $5 million to $6 million indie — shot by writer-director Johannes Roberts, mostly in a water tank in the decidedly unglamorous British town of Basildon (exteriors were done in the Dominican Republic) — and a film that had unceremoniously been served a C rating by CinemaScore.

The following week, 47 Meters Down didn’t just manage to avoid sinking, but actually rose a place — from fifth to fourth, leapfrogging All Eyez on Me, while week three saw the film drop just 34 percent, the best hold of any film in the top 10. A month from launch, it currently boasts a domestic haul of more than $42 million, a major achievement given its early tracking of around $13 million to $14 million.

“We were written off along the way for sure,” admits Wayne Marc Godfrey, managing director and co-founder of Fyzz Facility, the prolific U.K.-based financier that fully backed and produced the film. Godfrey had been brought the project by Mark Lane and James Harris of production house The Tea Shop & Film Company, which in 2016 joined the Fyzz family as The Fyzz Facility Pictures. “To catch a wave and hit an audience and maintain a presence in theaters is such a feat. I think it took a few people by surprise.”

But this success is all the more remarkable given the story behind 47 Meters Down‘s release and the eleventh hour rescue mission involving a Weinstein and a last-minute DVD recall that saved it from potential home video obscurity.

After the project secured a few presales off the back of a VFX teaser, U.S. rights were picked up by Bob Weinstein’s Dimension Films, which came aboard 47 Meters Down at script stage in 2014. Dimension also contributed more money further down the line to help enhance the film.

“But there was never any theatrical release commitment or requirement under their deal,” says Godfrey. “The film was made at a budget that was really positioned as a high-end home entertainment movie with the potential for theatrical.”

However, after the film was shot in 2015, the positive reaction from test screenings convinced Fyzz — which Godfrey set up in 2010 with Robert Jones — that 47 Meters Down deserved a shot in cinemas.

But by this stage, Dimension had already set a home video release date of Aug. 2, 2016. The Weinsteins were also having a troublesome summer, with a number of underperforming films and a failed TV sale. In July 2016, TWC shunted wide theatrical launches of two major titles — Tulip Fever and The Founder — to the following year, with insiders telling THR that there simply wasn’t the money to support their 2016 release.

Adding to the complications, June 2016 also saw the release of another shark survival thriller. The Shallows, starring Blake Lively, did phenomenal business, earning some $55 domestically ($119 million worldwide) off a $17 million budget. According to Dimension at the time, the initial plan had been to release 47 Meters Down before The Shallows, which had been completed afterwards, but when this proved impossible they opted to scale back. 

“We decided to go with a more conservative release strategy that would take place this summer,” said Dimension’s senior vp production and creative affairs Matthew Signer.

“For whatever their reasons were, Bob and Dimension just couldn’t work out the right kind of plan and scheduling to do the release in the way we felt the film deserved,” says Godfrey. “Nothing against their view of the movie. I just think their strategy within Dimension at the time didn’t tie up with where we as filmmakers believed it could go.”

While it was widely agreed that the timing was wrong and cinemagoers weren’t ready for two shark films in quick succession, Fyzz was prepared to wait.

Enter Entertainment Studios, Byron Allen’s TV production and distribution banner, which in 2015 had acquired indie film distributor Freestyle Releasing.

Following weeks of discussions, on the exact day of the original release on Aug. 2, 2016 and as DVDs were (probably) being put on shelves in Walmart, a deal was finally closed between Dimension and Entertainment Studios — reportedly for seven figures — that would alter the course for 47 Meters Down.

Not only was ES prepared to wait until June 2017, but it backed up its commitment to 47 Meters Down with a promise of a 2,500-screen launch and major P&A spend (Godfrey says the company spent more than $30 million on the release). 

But, like any true thriller, it wasn’t exactly a smooth ride to get there. Godfrey admits that he had a “dramatic few days,” and the film’s foreign sales agent, Altitude, had to jump on the phones to convince the foreign buyers — which included eOne in the U.K. and Square One in Germany — to come on board and hold off on the film’s release.

“If you make an investment in 2013, 2014 to buy a movie, thinking you’re getting it in 2016, then are held back for another year, that can create massive problems for your internal cash flow and budgeting,” he admits. “So we’re very grateful.”

In another curious twist, the film experienced a dramatic name change followed by a swift reversal. When it was still with Dimension, at the last minute the title was switched to In the Deep, bizarrely the original name given to The Shallows. Actual review copies were sent out bearing this name. But when ES came on board, with a theatrical release plotted, it went back to 47 Meters Down (the actual depth of the shark-strewn sea floor the film’s main characters sink to).

A year on from the nail-biting late nights, Fyzz’s belief in the film seems fully justified. 47 Meters Down is now being considered one of the summer’s indie hits, with a $42 million domestic box office, a third-place opening in South Korea at $2.2 million and some of the biggest international markets yet to come (it launches in the U.K. on July 26).

“It’s a great story,” says Godfrey, who is now working on upcoming Fyzz productions including the Rosamund Pike, Joel Kinnaman and Clive Owen-starring Three Seconds, as well as Final Score, starring Dave Bautista and Pierce Brosnan, alongside its slate of investments, which he says will hit around $150 million this year (recent films include Wind River and Martin Scorsese’s Silence).

“We’re not pretending this is the best film ever made, but it’s a fun summer thrill ride. And everyone’s made money, everyone’s won. The conversation now starts about whether there’ll be another one.”

As to whether there will be a sequel to 47 Meters Down, Godfrey says: “It looks like we’re working toward it.”

Box Office Updates 47 Meters Down