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Head Gear Film CEO Phil Hunt, Sigma Films producer Gillian Berrie, Coutts’ executive director in media banking Judith Chan and Tea Shop Productions’ Mark Lane are the latest high-profile speakers joining the line-up for Screen International’s ‘The Future of UK Film’ summit, to be held on September 24, 2024, at BFI Southbank, London.

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Hunt’s leading film financier Head Gear has invested in recent titles including How To Have Sex, Talk To Me and Fisherman’s Friends: One And All while its upcoming slate features Alice Lowe’s Timestalker and Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk. Hunt also founded UK...

If we know anything, it’s that Viking movies and shows can certainly fit into many genres but if we are talking about it seriously, Vikings on its own is a separate genre because there is a different feel to any Viking-related movie or show that can only come from this specific genre. So, if you like Vikings-related movies or shows here are the absolute best movies and shows you can find on Netflix right now.

Norsemen (Series) Credit – Netflix

Norsemen is a Norwegian historical comedy series created by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen. The Netflix series is set in the 8th century and it follows the Vikings village people as they experience political rivalries, social change, and the deaths of their fellow warriors in a pretty comedic manner. Norsemen stars Jon Iver Helgaker, Silje Torp, Kåre Conradi, Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Kristine Riis, Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Jon Øigarden, Marian Saastad Ottesen,...

Object Permanence

Best known for putting together The Other Side of the Wind, Filip Jan Rymsza blasted off on the Lido again with his third feature film, Mosquito State. He moved into production on his fourth feature film titled Object Permanence this October in Poland with Millie Brady, Alastair Mackenzie, Jessica Frances Dukes and Debi Mazar for a project about wanting more or …. wanting less. Friends with Benefits Studio’s Marta Lewandowska and Rymsza produced the project.

Gist: This is about Brooke Brooks: a former supermodel who becomes a successful lifestyle mogul and is the first person to IPO herself.…...

Initially written off as just another unnecessary spin-off for an ancillary character from a spin-off from the main film series, "Andor" has instead emerged as one of the most exciting, viscerally thrilling, politically charged additions to the "Star Wars" universe since, well, the very first film. With Tony Gilroy at the helm, the series features an array of new characters, masterful pacing, and a dark oppressive feel that hangs over every episode.

"Andor" has constantly hopped between genres, from a heist film to a prison escape to a rebel uprising. It's been described by some as "Les Misérables in space," not something you would expect from the studio that brought you the often frustratingly simple "Obi-Wan Kenobi" and "The Book of Boba Fett."

As well as a strong, nuanced turn from Diego Luna at its center, the series features beautifully observed performances from an incredible cast that includes Fiona Shaw,...

There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode Xii - "Rix Road"

"Andor" closes its first season strong with "Rix Road," the twelfth episode from Tony Gilroy and team, building on the framework of the funeral for Maarva (Fiona Shaw). Just about everyone heads to Ferrix, either returning or coming for the first time, to fulfill their own goals and ends. Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) heads to Ferrix to capture Cassian in a bid to learn the identity of Axis — the man in charge of the rebel activity she hopes to quash. Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) join Sinta (Varada Sethu) on Ferrix so they can kill Cassian Andor to prevent the Empire from getting any more information about the nascent rebellion. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) and Sergeant Mosk (Alex Ferns) head to the funeral in the hopes of bringing Cassian to Justice.

And, of course, Cassian...

This post contains spoilers for "Andor" episode 11.

When it was first revealed that 2015's long-awaited "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" would center on a "not the Galactic Empire" in the form of the First Order, it was hard not to roll one's eyes at the idea. That feeling only intensified when it came to light that the First Order would have its own Death Star-style superweapon in the form of Starkiller Base. Was this really the best premise the movie's creatives could come up with? The Empire all over again, only bigger and more extreme? As though the generation of civilians who grew up hearing stories about Emperor Palpatine's terrible regime would somehow get it in their heads that the real problem with the Empire was that it didn't go far enough. Talk about hack writing, eh?

"Lord, what fools these mortals be," as Puck puts it in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream.

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Andor."

If "Andor" has proven anything, it's that nothing is easy in the age of the Empire, least of all love. After the Aldhani heist in episode six triggered a galaxy-wide Imperial crackdown, it doesn't seem like any of our heroes will be getting happy endings any time soon. The series' seventh episode alone suggests trouble for Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) — who are definitely sweethearts, fight me on it — and even checks back in on Mon Monthma's (Genevieve O'Reilly) icy marriage on Coruscant. While I'd be lying if I said I wasn't incredibly interested in the drama brewing between her drip of a hubby, Perrin (Alastair Mackenzie) and new player Tay Kolma (Ben Miles), "Andor" is finally offering some context to the relationship between Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and Bix Caleen (Adria Arjona).

Things have been...

Alastair Mackenzie, Jessica Frances Dukes and Debi Mazar have been added as supporting players in Filip Jan Rymsza’s fourth feature — cameras are currently rolling on Object Permanence which is being toplined by Millie Brady. Variety reports that the production is currently taking place in Poland with stops in Thailand and Germany directly after. Vincent Riotta, Johanna Wokalek, Andrzej Chyra, Jim Caesar, Luisa-Celine Gaffron, Marianna Zydek, Weronika Rosati, Ola Rudnicka and Maddie Kulicka complete the full cast. Cinematographer Bartosz Świniarski (Christos Nikou’s Apples and Aga Woszczynska’s Silent Land) is on board. Rymsza recently saw his third feature Mosquito State get showcased at the Venice Film Festival and he also produced The Other Side of the Wind and Katharine O’Brien’s Lost Transmissions.…...

Scottish actor Alastair Mackenzie, recently spotted in “The Crown” and “Andor,” Jessica Frances Dukes and Debi Mazar have been added to the cast of Filip Jan Rymsza’s feature film “Object Permanence.”

They join previously announced star Millie Brady, who plays Brooke Brooks: a former supermodel who becomes a successful lifestyle mogul and is the first person to IPO herself.

Production is currently underway in Poland and will continue in Thailand and Germany. “Apples” DoP Bartosz Świniarski is lensing the film.

Set in the near future, “Object Permanence” is produced by Friends with Benefits Studio, with co-financing by the Polish Film Institute. Marta Lewandowska and Rymsza – the latter also behind “Mosquito State” – are producing, while CAA is handling North American sales.

“Filip’s script is an inspired study of the perils of celebrity and the conflictual relationships that exist within the system built up around it,” says Mackenzie, opening...

Created by Chris Lang, ITV’s Unforgotten pairs Nicola Walker’s Dci Cassie Stuart with Sanjeev Bhaskar’s Di Sunil Khan. Along with their team, those two investigate decades-old murder cases, piecing together events that transpired many years ago to deliver justice and closure to the victim and their relatives.

Series one saw the duo called to investigate the remains of a man long-buried under the foundations of a London home, while series two began with the discovery of a skeleton dredged up from the River Lea. Series three was the distressing story of a missing teenager whose body was discovered under the central reservation of a motorway.

Series four, which starts with the discovery of a body stored for decades in a domestic freezer, will star New Tricks’ Sheila Hancock, Killing Eve’s Susan Lynch, Wanderlust’s Andy Nyman and more. See below for the full cast and plot details.

For two filmmakers who have, for much of their careers, been bracketed as twin bastions of British social realism, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach have never had much in common. Where Loach has long worn his liberal activist’s heart on his sleeve, Leigh tends to tuck his politics into the folds of his movies, national crises of class tension and inequality needling through intimate domestic scenarios. So it’s chief among several surprises in “Peterloo,” Leigh’s vast, many-headed, boomingly angry historical epic, that it plays almost as his version of a Loach film. Strenuously detailing the many small orders of business that led to Manchester’s devastating 1819 Peterloo Massacre, which saw the British Tory government ordering a brutal military charge into a working-class crowd of peaceful pro-democracy protesters, it’s a stately, explicitly rhetorical paean to the people — setting the past in stone while also lashing out at a present-day political order.

Two years ago, director David Mackenzie got a career best performance out of Chris Pine in the Oscar nominated Hell or High Water. Easily the best film of that year, it was a total surprise, in the best way possible. The filmmaker and the actor had never hit those levels before, making the thought of a second collaboration rather tantalizing. Well, it has happened. Yesterday, a Trailer dropped for Outlaw King, the newest film from Mackenzie, with Pine in the juicy lead role. It’s one of the big Netflix releases for 2018, even getting a theatrical release. You can see the first real look at the flick below, but first, as always…some discussion. This film is a biographical drama with some big action moments, at least judging by what we’ve seen so far. IMDb lists the plot as such: “A true David v Goliath story of how the...

We've got a new photo to share with you today of Chris Pine as Robert The Bruce in the upcoming Scottish war movie Outlaw King. The film comes from Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie and it's period epic that will tell the true story of the Scottish king, Robert The Bruce, who led his country to freedom from English rule in the early 14th century. The story is set during the brutal period between 1298 to 1306 when Scotland was at the knees of King Edward I of England.

I'm excited to see this film. Braveheart is one of my favorite movies of all time and Outlaw King seems to interweave with that story. Pine also looks great in the role. When talking about the film, producer Gillian Barrie tells EW:

"Robert sacrificed everything he once owned to set Scotland free. He was the second richest person in the British Isles.

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With a premise which could rival some of the most thought-provoking episodes of Black Mirror, Adina Istrate’s short film Eternally Happy is a fantastically put together production which explores the relationship between memory and its part in making us who we are. Set in a near-future, the film manages to brilliantly depict a world in which a drug has been designed to help stop a devastating suicide epidemic from decimating the population.

Alastair Mackenzie (Wolf Hall, Borgen) is Dr. Louis W, a neuroscientist who is on the brink of an unprecedented medical breakthrough. Having developed the ability to travel deep into the mind, the doctor hopes to reconnect the broken memories of his patients in order to help them cope with the heartbreak of losing their loved ones. From the offset, lines between reality and fiction are deliberately blurred which in turn adds a great deal of intrigue to the proceedings.

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Spoilers! We take a look at ITV's new murder mystery. The Loch...

This review contains spoilers. The picturesque surroundings of Loch Ness provide the location for The Loch, the new murder mystery from ITV. Laura Fraser stars as local police officer Annie Redford who finds herself dealing with her first murder case after a local music teacher is found dead at the foot of Carn Mohr mountain with ligature wounds on his wrists and a rather large head injury. Elsewhere, a prank involving offal masquerading as the dead remains of Nessie leads to the discovery a human heart among the remains. As outside law enforcement help arrives, the main question appears to be what if the monster isn’t in the loch, but living in the town? The first episode makes a statement immediately, submerging us beneath the eponymous waters to see a body appearing in the gloom,...

Ron Moody in Mel Brooks' 'The Twelve Chairs.' The 'Doctor Who' that never was. Ron Moody: 'Doctor Who' was biggest professional regret (See previous post: "Ron Moody: From Charles Dickens to Walt Disney – But No Harry Potter.") Ron Moody was featured in about 50 television productions, both in the U.K. and the U.S., from the late 1950s to 2012. These included guest roles in the series The Avengers, Gunsmoke, Starsky and Hutch, Hart to Hart, and Murder She Wrote, in addition to leads in the short-lived U.S. sitcom Nobody's Perfect (1980), starring Moody as a Scotland Yard detective transferred to the San Francisco Police Department, and in the British fantasy Into the Labyrinth (1981), with Moody as the noble sorcerer Rothgo. Throughout the decades, he could also be spotted in several TV movies, among them:[1] David Copperfield (1969). As Uriah Heep in this disappointing all-star showcase distributed theatrically in some countries.

Spread

Hold me. Thrill me. Kiss me. Kill me. The films of David Mackenzie envision life as a never-ending whirlwind of experience, a cyclone of emotion constantly spinning out of control. These feelings are heightened and externalized through melodrama, yet they can also simmer under the surface like hidden secrets waiting to explode. While his exhausted characters never fit into one social class – pop stars, artisan chefs and thuggish bruisers all take center stage – each sees the world in a similarly warped way. They are confused by inadequacy, defined by repression, purposefully solitary, and bordering on self-destruction. But most importantly they are also eager to transcend this unhappiness, especially after finding inspiration in another equally tormented individual. One must simply desire the opportunity to grow, to live, to survive.

Mackenzie’s key battleground is the romantic relationship. Incited by knowing eye contact and waged through a sensual collision of skin,...

Of all the absurd romantic comedy setups, two clashing rock stars being handcuffed together at a music festival is pretty random. Morello (Natalia Tena) and her fellow punk girl rockers out of nowhere antagonize Adam (Luke Treadaway) and his electropop rocker buddy Tyko (Mathew Baynton) before the two have even had a chance to get out of their car. A crazy preacher (Joseph Mydell) shows up to calm down these angry young people, but when Adam refuses to say he’s sorry, the preacher handcuffs him to Morello and disposes of the key.

All of this occurs in the first five minutes of the film, before any sort of characters have been truly established—or even the setting established. The two are, of course, unable to find anyway to break the handcuffs and thus spend 24 hours together, performing on stage and hanging out with their significant others. Adam is dating...

Title: Tonight, You’re Mine Director: David Mackenzie Cast: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Mathew Baynton, Alastair Mackenzie, Kari Corbett, Sophie Wu and Al Green (Yes, That Al Green) It feels reductive to look down upon romantic comedies. Some say, they’re formulaic, conventional and are overly saccharin. The same can be said of any genre and any bad movie. As put, a bad movie is a bad movie, and by the same token, a good movie is a good movie. “Tonight, You’re Mine” is a good movie. On the surface, it’s a concert movie but underneath it, it’s a romantic comedy, a good one at that. It turns the mundane into interesting [ Read More ]...

Watch clips, see the trailer and images from Tonight You're Mine, starring Luke Treadaway and Natalia Tena The David Mackenzie (Young Adam) film from Roadside Attractions which was shot entirely on location at Scotland’s famous T in the Park music festival, opens in New York and Los Angeles on May 11th. Set against the picturesque yet raucous backdrop of a rock n’ roll music festival, the film follows strutting indie music star Adam (Treadaway) and feisty punk-rock girl band leader Morello (Tena), as they are handcuffed together as part of a backstage altercation. When the two feuding musicians can’t be unhitched from each other, even to perform their separate gigs, it leads them down a comedic, frustrating and ultimately romantic path. Also in the talented cast are Alastair MacKenzie, Gavin Mitchell and Sophie Wu...

Watch clips, see the trailer and images from Tonight You're Mine, starring Luke Treadaway and Natalia Tena The David Mackenzie (Young Adam) film from Roadside Attractions which was shot entirely on location at Scotland’s famous T in the Park music festival, opens in New York and Los Angeles on May 11th. Set against the picturesque yet raucous backdrop of a rock n’ roll music festival, the film follows strutting indie music star Adam (Treadaway) and feisty punk-rock girl band leader Morello (Tena), as they are handcuffed together as part of a backstage altercation. When the two feuding musicians can’t be unhitched from each other, even to perform their separate gigs, it leads them down a comedic, frustrating and ultimately romantic path. Also in the talented cast are Alastair MacKenzie, Gavin Mitchell and Sophie Wu...

Roadside Attractions and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions’ Stage 6 Films will release David Mackenzie's "Tonight You're Mine" in theaters May 11. Spwa originally acquired the film under the title "You Instead" after its world premiere at the 2011 Glasgow Film Festival, followed by a Us premiere at SXSW Film Festival. Spwa will distribute all other Us media. The cast includes Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Alastair MacKenzie, Gavin Mitchell and Sophie Wu. Thomas Leveritt wrote the script, and the film was produced by Gillian Berrie. Shot over four days at Scotland’s T in the Park music festival, the film follows an indie music star and a punk-rock girl band leader who get into a backstage fight and find themselves handcuffed together and unable to be separated, even to perform their gigs. The deal was negotiated by Roadside's Howard Cohen and Spwa's Michael Helfand, executive VP of business...

Title: Perfect Sense Directed By: David Mackenzie Starring: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Ewen Bremner, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, Alastair Mackenzie After catching a disaster film, my family always gets a laugh out of trying to figure out exactly what each of us would do in a time of crisis and I’m proud to say that the odds are generally on me to survive. However, if I ever found myself in the situation presented in Perfect Sense, I might just spare myself the stress and put an end to it before my time is really up. Then again, that probably has to do with the bleak and disheartening tone of the...

Perfect Sense Trailer 3. David Mackenzie‘s Perfect Sense (2011) movie trailer 3 stars Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, and Ewen Bremner. Perfect Sense‘s plot synopsis: “The story of two people who begin to fall in love as the world begins to fall apart.

Susan is a scientist. Michael is a chef. He takes a break from the kitchen heat in the alleyway below her apartment; she smokes a cigarette at the window above. He calls up for a light – the first spark in their passionate affair.

But the world is about to change dramatically. As love turns Susan and Michael’s lives upside down, people across the globe begin to experience strange symptoms, which first affect the emotions then the senses, one by one.

Everything changes. But people laugh, they cry, they eat and drink, they go about their daily business. They adapt, they change, they cope, they...

Trailer for Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green and Connie Neilsen. The story tells of a chef and a scientist who fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. David Mackenzie, known for films like Young Adum, Asylum and Mister Foe, directs from the script by Kim Fupz Aakeson, with a cast rounded off by Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie. Perfect Sense made its debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival and opens in limited locations on February 10th next year. Scribe Kim Fupz Aakeson's credits include Stellan Skarsgård starrer A Somewhat Gentle Man, Room 304 and A Family (En familie).

Trailer for Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green and Connie Neilsen. The story tells of a chef and a scientist who fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. David Mackenzie, known for films like Young Adum, Asylum and Mister Foe, directs from the script by Kim Fupz Aakeson, with a cast rounded off by Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie. Perfect Sense made its debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival and opens in limited locations on February 10th next year. Scribe Kim Fupz Aakeson's credits include Stellan Skarsgård starrer A Somewhat Gentle Man, Room 304 and A Family (En familie).

Trailer for Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green and Connie Neilsen. The story tells of a chef and a scientist who fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. David Mackenzie, known for films like Young Adum, Asylum and Mister Foe, directs from the script by Kim Fupz Aakeson, with a cast rounded off by Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie. Perfect Sense made its debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival and opens in limited locations on February 10th next year. Scribe Kim Fupz Aakeson's credits include Stellan Skarsgård starrer A Somewhat Gentle Man, Room 304 and A Family (En familie).

Perfect Sense Trailer 2. David Mackenzie‘s Perfect Sense (2011) movie trailer 2 stars Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Stephen Dillane, and Ewen Bremner. Perfect Sense‘s plot synopsis: “The story of two people who begin to fall in love as the world begins to fall apart.

Susan is a scientist. Michael is a chef. He takes a break from the kitchen heat in the alleyway below her apartment; she smokes a cigarette at the window above. He calls up for a light – the first spark in their passionate affair.

But the world is about to change dramatically. As love turns Susan and Michael’s lives upside down, people across the globe begin to experience strange symptoms, which first affect the emotions then the senses, one by one.

Everything changes. But people laugh, they cry, they eat and drink, they go about their daily business. They adapt, they change, they cope, they...

David Mackenzie’s rom-com, You Instead, was shot in just five days. Here’s Carley’s review of a film that doesn’t quite overcome its low-budget status…

We’ve just come to the end of another great British summer, filled with barbecues, long walks on the beach, and sun-drenched music festivals. No, scratch that – it was filled with rain, disappointment and muddy music festivals. But in spite of the horrible weather, the music festival has become a British obsession, with hundreds sprouting up over the summer. These range from big ones, such as Reading and V, to smaller ones, like the Ben & Jerry’s Sundae Festival (free ice cream – yum).

It was probably only a matter of time, then, before one of these became the setting for a romantic comedy, which is exactly what you get with director David Mackenzie’s You Instead, filmed on location at 2010’s T in the Park in Scotland.

New poster for David Mackenzie's Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green and Connie Nielsen We've been asked to remove the third poster has been added to the gallery for the IFC Films release which was first seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Apparently, this was leaked to our source. As such, we offer you a look at the other two posters. Maybe we'll get this back at some point, but there won't be another article about it. David Mackenzie directs the intriguing romantic drama script by Kim Fupz Aakeson, which tells of a chef and a scientist who fall in love as an epidemic starts robbing people of their sensory perceptions. Also in the cast of Perfect Sense are Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie. Mackenzie is known for such films as 2003's Young Adam, which also starred Ewan McGregor, 2005's Asylum and and...

New poster for David Mackenzie's Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green and Connie Nielsen We've been asked to remove the third poster has been added to the gallery for the IFC Films release which was first seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Apparently, this was leaked to our source. As such, we offer you a look at the other two posters. Maybe we'll get this back at some point, but there won't be another article about it. David Mackenzie directs the intriguing romantic drama script by Kim Fupz Aakeson, which tells of a chef and a scientist who fall in love as an epidemic starts robbing people of their sensory perceptions. Also in the cast of Perfect Sense are Stephen Dillane, Ewen Bremner, Denis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie. Mackenzie is known for such films as 2003's Young Adam, which also starred Ewan McGregor, 2005's Asylum and and...

You Instead is a free-wheeling, rock ‘n’ roll romantic comedy set against an unforgettable lost weekend at a music festival, filled with lust, mud, betrayal, portaloos and a hundred thousand people partying to the greatest music in the world. Starring Luke Treadaway and Natalia Tena alongside Ruta Gedmintas (Lip Service), Sophie Wu (Kick Ass), Gavin Mitchell (Still Game) and Alastair Mackenzie (Perfect Sense). Directed by David Mackenzie (Perfect Sense, Hallam Foe, Young Adam), and produced by Gillian Berrie (Perfect Sense, Red Road, Hallam Foe, Dogville) for Sigma Films. The film is from a script by award winning painter and novelist (but first time screenwriter) Thomas Leveritt.

British Director David Mackenzie has another film on the way. His last film which starred Ewen Mcgregor, Perfect Sense premiered at Sundance and his latest film You Instead just had its first Us showing at SXSW in Austin.

You Instead was shot sll in “guerrilla-style”, over a five day period during Scotland’s leading music event, T in the Park festival, giving it a supporting cast somewhere in the region of 100,000 people.

The film stars Luke Treadaway (Attack The Block), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter),Mathew Baynton (Peep Show), Ruta Gedmintas (Lip Service), Sophie Wu (Kick-Ass), Gavin Mitchell (Still Game) and Alastair Mackenzie (Perfect Sense).

Take a look at the first trailer below, supported by some great music.

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You Instead is a film shot guerrilla-style over five days during Scotland's leading music festival T in the Park in 2010. It is directed by David Mackenzie (Perfect Sense, Young Adam, Hallam Foe, Spread), and stars Luke Treadaway (Attack The Block, Clash Of The Titans, Brothers Of The Head), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter),Mathew Baynton (Peep Show), Ruta Gedmintas (Lip Service), Sophie Wu (Kick Ass), Gavin Mitchell (Still Game) and Alastair Mackenzie (Perfect Sense). Arriving at T in the Park for his gig, strutting indie star Adam is handcuffed to punky girl-band leader Morello. Initial frustration gives away to grudging acceptance and then the stirring of genuine feelings over the next 24 hours of the festival. Embedded below is the trailer....

Icon Film Distribution have just sent over the first UK trailer, poster and images for their new movie, You Instead which was shot during T in the Part music festival in Scotland. You instead stars Luke Treadaway and Natalia Tena alongside Ruta Gedmintas (Lip Service), Sophie Wu (Kick Ass), Gavin Mitchell (Still Game) and Alastair Mackenzie (Perfect Sense). It’s set to hit UK cinemas 16th September.

It’s Directed by David Mackenzie (Perfect Sense, Hallam Foe, Young Adam), and produced by Gillian Berrie (Perfect Sense, Red Road, Hallam Foe, Dogville) for Sigma Films. The film is from a script by award winning painter and novelist (but first time screenwriter) Thomas Leveritt.

Synopsis: Luke Treadaway (Brothers of the Head, Clash of the Titans) stars as strutting indie star Adam, one half of globally successful duo The Make. Arriving at the T in the Park music festival for his latest gig...

Sci-fi romance Perfect Sense is to be released in UK cinemas by Arrow Films on October 7, following this weekend's European premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Perfect Sense stars Ewan McGregor, Eva Green (Casino Royale, The Golden Compass, TV series Camelot), Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting, Snatch) and Stephen Dillane (44 Inch Chest).

It's directed by British filmmaker David Mackenzie (Spread, Young Adam, Hallam Foe) and written by Kim Fupz Aakeson (To Love Someone, Pure Hearts),

McGregor plays Michael, head chef at a Glasgow restaurant, and Eva Green is Susan, an epidemiologist who is hearing reports across the world of people inexplicably losing their five senses one by one.

They embark on a sensual adventure that sees them experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling and moments of pure connection. But is this because they are falling in love or is it because the world as they know it is falling apart?...

Director: David Mackenzie Writer: Thomas Leveritt Starring: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Mathew Baynton, Alastair Mackenzie, Ruta Gedmintas You Instead begins as Adam (Luke Treadaway) and Tyko (Mathew Baynton) -- known collectively as the electro pop duo The Make -- play a live radio acoustic set from the cramped backseat of a car that may as well been borrowed from Mr. Bean. Adam croons “I don’t want that, I want you instead” (from The Make's titular track) as the tiny car cruises slowly down a dusty road somewhere within Scotland's inconic T in the Park music festival. Their forward progress is halted by the Dirty Pinks. Morello (Natalia Tena) -- lead singer of the Dirty Pinks -- nicks Adam's guitar; Adam steals a family heirloom from Morello; suddenly, their lives are quite literally interconnected. Morello and Adam's personalities and lifestyles are as polar opposite as their music. Adam, whose The...

Rating: 4/5

Writer: Thomas Leveritt (screenplay)

Director: David Mackenzie

Cast: Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Mathew Baynton, Alastair Mackenzie, Ruta Gedmintas

David Mackenzie’s latest directorial effort, You Instead, captures the effervescence and madness of one of the world’s biggest music festivals, refracted back through the lens of one whirlwind anti-romance. Bumping heads almost immediately, it doesn’t look as if Adam (Luke Treadaway) and Morello (Natalia Tena) have much in common. Adam is a big-time American pop rock star who dates a soulless female model, Morello is a struggling mid-level UK rock chick that dates a banker. But Adam and Morello both believe in the power of music and its ability to connect people, so it’s no surprise that the two are going to end up bonding intensely through their fundamentally wacky adventure. The warring bandleaders find themselves handcuffed to each other thanks to a musical prophet who binds them together,...

IFC Films announced that they are acquiring North American rights to David Mackenzie’s latest project titled Perfect Sense.

This romantic thriller had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the Premieres section this week and it looks that this purchase really makes a perfect sense for the company.

In case you haven’t seen the trailet yet, check it out here

Perfect Sense follows Susan, an epidemiologist, who reemerges from an affair gone sour, and encounters a peculiar patient – a truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell.

Susan soon learns there are hundreds of people across the globe beginning to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the emotions, then the senses. The film offers a deeply moving proposition about the way the human race might weather a global pandemic.

Movie stars Ewan McGregor, Eva Green,...

Sigma Films, via MTV, have released the first official trailer for Perfect Sense.

Directed by David Mackenzie, Perfect Sense stars Eva Green, Ewan McGregor, Connie Nielson, Ewan Bremner, Stephen Dillane, Dennis Lawson and Alastair Mackenzie.

Perfect Sense will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival later this month.

The story of two people who begin to fall in love as the world begins to fall apart.

Susan is a scientist. Michael is a chef. He takes a break from the kitchen heat in the alleyway below her apartment; she smokes a cigarette at the window above. He calls up for a light – the first spark in their passionate affair.

But the world is about to change dramatically. As love turns Susan and Michael’s lives upside down, people across the globe begin to experience

strange symptoms, which first affect the emotions then the senses, one by one.

Everything changes. But people laugh,...

#39. Perfect Sense -  David MacKenzie It used to go by another title, it looked pegged for a 2010 release, so there are big question marks with Perfect Sense. Logically a double dip in Sundance and Berlin would occur, but that depends on where David MacKenzie is at with his current project, In the Park. MacKenzie was actually in Park City in 2009 with Spread - the Ashton Kutcher sex dramedy. Will Sundance play host to a romantic drama featuring Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen, Ewen Bremner, Stephen Dillane and Alastair Mackenzie? If so, we can expect a Premieres category announcement. Scripted by Kim Fupz Aakeson, formerly titled "The Last Word", this is a story about two people who fall in love as the world begins to fall apart. * Producers: Gillian Berrie (Hallam Foe) and Malte Grunert(Ioncinema.com Preview Page // IMDb Link)  ...

Little is known about future Doctor Who co-star Karen Gillan - including the name of the character she will be playing! However if you missed her in ITV's Rebus in 2006 or Channel 4's The Kevin Bishop Show last year you can can catch Karen Gillan in a forthcoming movie New Town Killers in June. The 21 year old will appear alongside Mission Impossible 2 star Dougray Scott and former Monarch of the Glen star Alastair Mackenzie in the Edinburgh-set thriller (which also co-stars Life on Mars'...

  The trailer is in for Capitol Films' "The Edge of Love," starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Simon Kassianides and Lisa Stansfield. John Maybury ("The Jacket," "Man to Man") helms from the writing by Sharman Macdonaold ("The Winter Guest").   The film opens on March 13, 2009 in Los Angeles and a week later on March 20 in New York.   Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.   The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin (Sienna Miller) is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun.   Despite their love-rival status, the women...

The trailer is in for Capitol Films' "The Edge of Love," starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Simon Kassianides and Lisa Stansfield. John Maybury ("The Jacket," "Man to Man") helms from the writing by Sharman Macdonaold ("The Winter Guest"). The film opens on March 13, 2009 in Los Angeles and a week later on March 20 in New York. Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley)...

The trailer is in for Capitol Films' "The Edge of Love," starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Simon Kassianides and Lisa Stansfield. John Maybury ("The Jacket," "Man to Man") helms from the writing by Sharman Macdonaold ("The Winter Guest"). The film opens on March 13, 2009 in Los Angeles and a week later on March 20 in New York. Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley)...

Movie Jungle has new images in from Capitol Films' comedy "The Edge of Love," starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Simon Kassianides and Lisa Stansfield. The film also known as "The Best Time of Our Lives" is directed by acclaimed filmmaker John Maybury ("The Jacket") from the writing by Sherman Macdonald. Check out the official site here. What's it about? Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin (Sienna Miller) is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun.Despite their love-rival status,...

Movie Jungle has new images in from Capitol Films' comedy "The Edge of Love," starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Simon Kassianides and Lisa Stansfield. The film also known as "The Best Time of Our Lives" is directed by acclaimed filmmaker John Maybury ("The Jacket") from the writing by Sherman Macdonald. Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin (Sienna Miller) is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun...

Movie Jungle has new images in from Capitol Films' comedy "The Edge of Love," starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy, Matthew Rhys, Camilla Rutherford, Alastair Mackenzie, Simon Kassianides and Lisa Stansfield. The film also known as "The Best Time of Our Lives" is directed by acclaimed filmmaker John Maybury ("The Jacket") from the writing by Sherman Macdonald. Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by a brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips (Keira Knightley) and Dylan were each other's first loves who feel the thunderbolt once more when they unexpectedly meet in London ten years later. Caitlin (Sienna Miller) is his adventurous wife, wily at using her beauty and always up for a bit of fun...

Based on this trailer we just got our hands on I'd say it's a safe bet that Scottish director Richard Jobson's upcoming thriller, New Town Killers, will be a frenetically paced and twisted little chase film. To quote Cyberhal; "it looks well good."

Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon realizes he's walked into twelve hours of hell where survival is the name of the game.

New Town Killers is currently in post-production and is skedded to premiere in the UK sometime in 2009. It stars Dougray Scott (Hitman,...

LONDON -- Alastair Mackenzie, James Pearson and Charles Mnene have joined Dougray Scott in the cast of writer-director Richard Jobson's Scottish-set thriller New Town Killers.

Mackenzie (The Edge Of Love), Pearson (Control) and Mnene (Chromophobia) appear alongside Scott in the tale of two high-flying financial whiz kids who get their kicks hunting people on the margins of society.

Jobson, whose directorial debut, 16 Years of Alcohol, garnered plaudits on the international film festival circuit, has begun shooting in Edinburgh. He is producing with Luc Roeg of Independent.

Executive producers are Michael Robinson and Andrew Orr of Independent, Paul Martin and his banner Str8jacket Creations, Carole Sheridan at Scottish Screen and Sheryl Crown at government-backed agency Screen East

The film is backed by Independent, Str8jacket Creations, Scottish Screen and the Screen East Content Investment Fund in association with LipSync and the Glasgow Film Office.

Independent is handling worldwide sales.