Projects in genres: Action

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It's Christmas, and all Callum really wants is a replacement for his beloved dog Brandy, but his overpowering Dad won't allow it. When Callum is given a mysterious spell book, he decides to bring Brandy back from the dead. However, things don't go to plan.

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In a small quiet town in the north-east of England, there is a murder. A sports journalist who hates sport quits his job. A bouncer is fired for 'bouncing'. And a girl is jilted at the altar. These seemingly random events spiral together when the three accidentally bump into each other in the same pub. As the girl drowns her sorrows, the writer works on a crime script, and the bouncer starts talking, little do they know that someone is listening. Now all three are entangled with a beautiful widow, a suitcase full of money, an ever-increasing body-count, and a dubious pint of semi-skimmed. Will the bouncer ever get his hands on the money? Will the bride ever find out what happened to her husband-to-be? Will the writer ever live down last year's under-12s five-a-side mascot fiasco? Will they even survive a murder case they're not supposed to be involved in? Soon all will be revealed, and delivered straight to your doorstep!  

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Young Hannibal: Behind The Mask, directed by BAFTA nominee Peter Webber, introduces us to the Hannibal Lecter character, telling the story of the formative years of the serial killer from his childhood in Lithuania to his teenage years in France. Starring 20-year-old French actor Gaspard Ulliel in the coveted role, alongside award-winning Chinese actress Gong Li, and Rhys Ifans, the film is written by best-selling novelist Thomas Harris, based on his forthcoming book Behind the Mask.

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Local drug dealer Lee finds his world turned upside down when his girlfriend leaves to live with the local hard man. Now receiving intimidation instead of giving it, Lee finds life as he knows it slipping away as he's haunted by the ghost of his dead child.

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Andy gets back from his holiday and is greeted by his girlfriend and friends. He has a surprise for them, and after embracing each of them in turn, he introduces them to someone he met on holiday; His fiancée. The friends are stunned. Their jealousy turns to anger, their anger leads to paranoia and paranoia pushes them to reach the only logical conclusion, that Andy's fiancée: is a demon. But how do you go about killing your best friend's fiancée without alerting him? Or his family? Or the other wedding guests?

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Normandy 1894. A seductive, bright and fiery young man in his early twenties decides to follow his passion for burglary, through adventures that will make his name famous. This young man is Arsene Lupin. Freely adapted from the novel by Maurice Leblanc, The Countess of Cagliostro, the film describes the formative years of this charming and ambiguous charcter.

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A group of four thirty-somethings spend a night in some supposedly haunted tunnels. Things start to go wrong as they are hunted by the ghost of an evil child murderer. Added to this is a reporter hell-bent on revenge for the death of his son. In an evil twist, one of them reveals their dark secret. With no escape from the maze of tunnels this is a truly scary action/horror film.

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Loosely based on the 9th Century Anglo-Saxon poem, Beowulf tells the blood-soaked tale of a Norse hero’s battle with a great and murderous monster.

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Luke Goss teams up with Steven Berkoff to tell the real life story of Charlie Richardson, the head of the notorious ‘torture gang’. In the 1960s, London was owned and ruled by two families, north of the river the Krays, to the south the Richardsons. Now for the first time in his own words Charlie reveals what really happened. London, 30 July 1966, England win the World Cup, a fabled day in English history. But also on that day Charlie Richardson's life was about to change forever. He was arrested and tried in what became known as the ‘torture trial’, a trial of gravest importance to British society. The case was so significant that even today the files remain sealed. 104 jurors were finally whittled down to 12 , each of whom was given a personal bodyguard. At a time when The Beatles ruled the world and young Americans were fighting in Vietnam, for ten weeks the British public was glued to the events at the Old Bailey, where Charlie Richardson was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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Kidnapping people was not enough so they kidnapped the nation. The story of an ordinary middle class Mexican-British couple whose life is destroyed by corrupt politicians.

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London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. She takes a seat away from the crowd of late-night revellers and waits for the last train. Before long she drifts off to sleep - and wakes to find everyone gone. She momentarily panics until another train pulls in. She boards, unnerved that she's the only passenger, but relieved at last to be on her way. Halfway through the tunnel the train jerks to a violent halt. The lights shut off and the train is plunged into darkness. Kate screams - she is trapped, in the dark - and she is not alone - her nightmare has only just begun.

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Location: present-day London through the eyes of a humble key cutter, Abe (Andrew Lee Potts). Date: not his best day None of these were on his wish list: 1. Mimi (Elena Anaya), his Spanish girlfriend, announces she is pregnant and storms off to Madrid. 2. Debt collector Danny Devine (Robert Carlyle) gives Abe 24 hours to pay of his debts 'or else'. 3. Switching cell phones with Lynch (Gary Oldman), a neurotic hit man. 4. Being wanted dead by at least 2 assassins. 5. Getting a contract to kill a Dead Fish. Abe has to get through the day, without being killed or killing anyone, earning enough dough to pay back Devine and most importantly making sure he doesn't lose the girl he loves.