Projects in categories: Fiction

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Billy has achieved nothing in his lifetime, and that's the way he likes it. He wastes his days away in a small castle with his tyrannical ex-superhero father Archie. Against all the odds, Billy is given The Key to Life Itself and suddenly his simple life changes beyond all recognition.

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The Killing Zone is the taut, suspenseful - and sometimes darkly comic - story of Matthew Palmer; an underworld assassin. A professional killer, who floats in and out of each slaying, Palmer does each job quickly, efficiently. He is observer and executioner only. He has just two jobs to complete before he retires. After that - escape with his girlfriend Kerry, reward . . . rest.





Unfortunately for Palmer, both jobs dredge up past personal follies, exposing his previously traitorous acts against his former employers, blurring his personal and professional commitments, putting him on the run, pitting him against victim and fellow assassin alike, driving all involved with him toward a bloody climax.

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A chaotic mix of invented and found images, actual and imagined experience, explores the phenomenon of tobacco smoking - the experiences of desire and pleasure, the possibility of illness and the certainty of death.

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Stephen Norrington, best known for splashy special effects action movies such as Blade, returns to home soil with The Last Minute, a black comedy about the lure of fame and the price of failure, produced by his regular collaborator Matthew Justice.



Max Beesley, the boyish charmer who became a teen heartthrob in the recent BBC adaptation of Tom Jones, takes the lead as Billy Byrne, a supercool, supertalented young artist who is the toast of the town. But, just as he begins to get used to the heady cocktail of success, his star crash-lands back on earth and he finds himself caught up in a dangerous world of crime and murder.



The film was, says Justice, "a fantastic opportunity to do a movie that does not rely on all the genre trickery of our previous pictures, although naturally, old habits die hard!"



Thanks to Palm Pictures, Justice and Norrington were allowed to make the film exactly as they had always planned, with "a small, young, talented and hungry crew working with a great cast in and around London," explains Justice. Shot last summer in East London and at Three Mills Studios, the film features a supporting cast of new and old faces alongside Beesley, including Jason Isaacs as a sledgehammer-wielding bootboy with a taste for crooning, veteran baddie Udo Kier and newly crowned king of the wideboys, Frank Harper.

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The Last Minute is a darkly comic tale of fame, delusion and the high price of failure. Young, good-looking and talented Billy Byrne (Max Beesley) is on the brink of 'making it big'. He's the 'talk of the town', the 'next big thing'. His agent, his best mate and his girlfriend all know it - come Monday, Billy will be up there with the 'big boys'. But Monday brings disaster, Billy's anticipated triumphant debut flops. His world falls apart. As Billy desperately tries to rationalise his failure the abyss of obscurity looms before him and a dark world of murderers and thieves beckons.

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The Last of The Blonde Bombshells tells the story of Elizabeth (Dame Judi Dench) who upon the death of her husband realises that the happiest days of her life were when she played tenor saxophone in an all-girls dance band, The Blond Bombshells, during the Second World War. To the horror of her children Elizabeth starts busking in Camden where she is spotted by Patrick (Sir Ian Holm), a dedicated Lothario who played drums in the band to dodge conscription. Encouraged by her granddaughter Joanna, Elizabeth sets about to reunite the band with a reluctant Patrick.





Travelling across the country they find their fellow band members in a range of locations from old folks homes to prisons and a variety of lifestyles from the predictable to the bizarre. The search is haunted by the past. Elizabeth learns that Patrick systematically seduced every member of the band except herself primarily because she was under the age of consent but more probably because he was threatened with castration. Despite the odds, Elizabeth and Patrick using a mixture of charm, cajolery and bribery, reassemble the band. At Joanna's school concert The Blonde Bombshells triumph and Elizabeth agrees to become the last and only rose on Patrick's drum.

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The true story of one man's final farewell to his father.

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Oscar thinks he has fallen in love with Maryane, but doesn't know she has a twin. The sisters have another secret. Can his love endure when he discovers the truth?

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At an amateur football match, the linesman takes his job seriously. As he trots up and down the touchline, his actions echo the unseen events on the pitch. Determined to perform his duties in spite of various obstacles, the linesman becomes catastrophically entangled in the game.

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About a society where everybody is small and the problems one person encounters because he is taller than everybody else.

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In this story of magic and adventure, tomboy, Polly Regan (Brittney Bomann) is an orphan and her grandfather (David Warner) has made a home for her on his farm. Her life is happy, though, unconventional, but Polly is heartbroken when she learns that her favourite mare may also die giving birth. Polly wishes with all her heart for the King of Horses, to intervene and save her mare and the foal, but her wishes seem to go unanswered and the mare dies.





Polly is devastated until she sees the foal. The little creature is a real, honest-to-goodness baby unicorn, a magical creature created by state-of-the-art animation effects. It totters its way into Pole's hart and into the affections of her grandfather.





Pole's Aunt Lucy (Emma Samms) doesn't know what to think, either about the unicorn or about her niece's upbringing on the farm. She is certainly not prepared for the uproar that arises when a photograph of the unicorn appears in the local newspapers. The farm is inundated with sightseers.





Her policman fiancé (Christopher Atkins) has trouble keeping the sightseers in check and not everyone is a well wisher.





When Polly is sent away to school by her Aunt, there is no one to protect the unicorn from those who mean harm.





George Hamilton is one such person. He plays The Great Allanso, a magician whose life has run out of magic. His tricks are old and his jokes are jaded. Allanso believes that if he can steal the unicorn's horn, he can steal the unicorn's magic. Aided and abetted by his ever patient, ever suffering assistant, Maisie (Julie Hartson), Allanso is determined to get his hands on the foal . . .

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With luck you'll die before you get old. Otherwise you might be left alone. The smallest accident could be lethal and you would live in dread that any moment you might begin The Long Lie...