Projects in genres: Comedy

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Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet have as many obstacles to overcome as their quasi namesakes when they are caught up in a feud between neighbors. But with plastic pink flamingos and lawnmower races in the mix, can this young couple find lasting happiness?

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A surreal comedy about a dog show with a difference, in which six couples compete to be 'best in show'. But which competitors will stay the course, and which will fall at the first hurdle? Starring an array of British comedy talent, including Reece Shearsmith and Jessica Hynes.

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Present day. Sarah McGuire, a travelling sales woman is off on a trip up north to sell her boss's latest range of lingerie stock. Unhappy in her current relationship with a car mechanic, she sets off with a mind to change her life for the better. She is good at her job but is unfulfilled. To alleviate her daily boredom she runs to orchestral music. Running is her one real pleasure in life. A chance meeting in a pub while drunk furnishes her with a list of ten beautiful places to go running in Britain. Initially, the places are on route between her sales assignments, but finally Sarah has to make the decision to get off the beaten track and go on the run. No longer in conflict with her true self and her job, Sarah follows the list and one by one ticks off the places to run until she finds herself in the very north of Scotland wondering why she is there at all. Set across England, Wales and Scotland, Back Burner is a road movie that takes the lead character from London to far north.

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A mother and her two grown up children get dressed for Grandma's Funeral.

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The first ever British kids' movie to be filmed in 3D, Horrid Henry: The Movie stars Anjelica Huston as Henry's terrifying teacher Miss Battle-Axe, alongside Rebecca Front as Henry's headmistress Ms Oddbod, Richard E Grant as a rival headmaster, and Parminder Nagra as Miss Lovely. The film sees Horrid Henry, Lord High Majesty of the Purple Hand Gang, waging his ever constant battle against the tyranny of adults, only this time it seems the adults really are out to get him!

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It's the middle of the summer holidays and precocious, ten year old Oscar takes radical action to rid himself of intellectually inferior, younger brother, Jacob.

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Join My Band is a short film about a boy who starts a band to get a girl. Set in inner city London, Steve, a nerdy schoolboy, falls in love with rebellious rock-chic Stella. Oblivious to his feelings, Steve transforms his image, forming a punk-rock band with his friends. However, despite appearances, Stella isn't quite what she seems.

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A girl runs away from her parents in a busy high street. She goes to an old, abandoned and mysterious room, and plays around; her own secret hiding place. The lights suddenly turn off and she is terrorized by three fearsome demons. Instead of panicking, the girl runs straight to the light-switch and turns it on, exposing the demons, which awkwardly flinch and look about confused.

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Kenneth's life isn't going according to plan; He's just been fired from his job, a strange creature that only he can see has sinister plans for him, his girlfriend Kim is acting really strangely, and she isn't crazy about Kenneth's new best friend, Peter, a tramp who's on the run from the army! Kenneth will have to battle with his new friend, his malevolent monster, his ex-boss, an army of policemen and his own troubled psyche before this story reaches its sweet and curious conclusion.

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The hilarious true story of two nobodies who took on the biggest somebody on earth, from the writers of 'The Commitments'. Neil McCormick, a punk schoolboy in Dublin in the 1970s wants to be famous, more than famous, he's certain his destiny is to be a rock god. He and his little brother Ivan have it all worked out: the platinum albums, the stadium concerts, the screaming girls, the quest for world peace. There's one thing they hadn’t counted on, the small boy quietly sitting on the other side of the classroom has plans of his own. And his name is Bono. And there’s another thing, Bono tells Neil he wants Ivan for his band. And Neil’s not going to tell him.

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King Dong offers a vhs-tinted glimpse into the mind of comedy filmmaking obscurity Len Cella, who for forty years has strove to make the lowest-brow films and videos with all the seriousness of an auteur.

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Carlos Revalos a 21 times Film Director embarks on his biggest Film yet 'Le Fear' a horror love story with a 3 million pound budget. What can go wrong? Everything, as Carlos hires the worst cast and crew ever to walk on this planet which makes the film a recipe for disaster, Larry Rothschild the executive producer on the film who was promised Brad Pitt which never happened instead he got Leon the pompous Lead actor who walks off set time and time again, Debbie D the hysterical inexperienced glamor model who fluffs her lines over and over, the werewolf wearing a rain coat and who cant speak a word of English and the sparky who is color blind and many more misfits and Carlos has no control of any of them - this is Larry's first attempt at investing in a film and no doubt his last.