Exclusive: Paul Reiser, Colm Meaney, Jane Levy, Lucianne McEvoy and Des Keough are set to star in indie pic The Problem With People. Reiser co-wrote the script with Wally Marzano-Lesnevich, with Chris Cottam directing. Reiser, Cottam and Max Brady are producing.
The film is a heart-warming comedy about two estranged cousins making amends for many generations of a family dispute. Production begins next week in Ireland.
The story follows Ciáran (Meaney), who lives in rural Ireland with his elderly and ailing father who, bemoaning the sorry state of the world and its never-ending conflicts, decides that if he can’t fix the world’s problems, he can at least try to fix his family. As his dying wish, he asks his son to reach out to the American side of the family and make peace. Not wanting to disappoint his father, Ciáran agrees and manages to locate one descendant on...
The film is a heart-warming comedy about two estranged cousins making amends for many generations of a family dispute. Production begins next week in Ireland.
The story follows Ciáran (Meaney), who lives in rural Ireland with his elderly and ailing father who, bemoaning the sorry state of the world and its never-ending conflicts, decides that if he can’t fix the world’s problems, he can at least try to fix his family. As his dying wish, he asks his son to reach out to the American side of the family and make peace. Not wanting to disappoint his father, Ciáran agrees and manages to locate one descendant on...
- 6/9/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
John Cleese has reportedly joined the cast of an unofficial Baywatch movie.
Due to legal issues, the film cannot use the Baywatch name and brand, but stars several of the original stars and follows the same plot as the 1990s TV series.
David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson and Alexandra Paul will return in The B-Team, to be directed by Chris Cottam, according to The Independent.
The film will play on the joke conspiracy that the cast were actually working for the CIA as spies while travelling across the world during the show's popularity.
Monty Python star Cleese is said to be playing a "classic English villain" named Victor Van Vaught, who aims to control nuclear weapons from his yacht in the Mediterranean.
Alexandra Paul said of the project: "The B Team is an action comedy with some reality thrown in. We play ourselves, so the audience might not know what is...
Due to legal issues, the film cannot use the Baywatch name and brand, but stars several of the original stars and follows the same plot as the 1990s TV series.
David Hasselhoff, Pamela Anderson and Alexandra Paul will return in The B-Team, to be directed by Chris Cottam, according to The Independent.
The film will play on the joke conspiracy that the cast were actually working for the CIA as spies while travelling across the world during the show's popularity.
Monty Python star Cleese is said to be playing a "classic English villain" named Victor Van Vaught, who aims to control nuclear weapons from his yacht in the Mediterranean.
Alexandra Paul said of the project: "The B Team is an action comedy with some reality thrown in. We play ourselves, so the audience might not know what is...
- 7/8/2014
- Digital Spy
Mine
Armie Hammer is set to star in Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro's psychological thriller "Mine" at the Safran Company. Filming begins this Fall.
Hammer will play a soldier who, after a failed assassination mission, finds himself stranded in the desert where he struggles to survive. [Source: Variety]
Patient
Adrien Brody, Dustin Hoffman and Alain Delon will star in producer Valery Saharyan's "Patient" which deals with the Armenian Genocide.
The story follows Armenian composer Komitas, who after witnessing the horrors of the genocide, was not able to recover from the shock he experienced. He died after staying in a psychiatric clinic in Paris for 20 years. [Source: Arka]
The B Team
John Cleese has joined the cast of Chris Cottam's spy spoof "The B Team" for American Entertainment and Meyers Media Group. The story follows much of the cast of "Baywatch" who reunite to take down an arch-criminal (Cleese) who is a big fan of the show.
Armie Hammer is set to star in Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro's psychological thriller "Mine" at the Safran Company. Filming begins this Fall.
Hammer will play a soldier who, after a failed assassination mission, finds himself stranded in the desert where he struggles to survive. [Source: Variety]
Patient
Adrien Brody, Dustin Hoffman and Alain Delon will star in producer Valery Saharyan's "Patient" which deals with the Armenian Genocide.
The story follows Armenian composer Komitas, who after witnessing the horrors of the genocide, was not able to recover from the shock he experienced. He died after staying in a psychiatric clinic in Paris for 20 years. [Source: Arka]
The B Team
John Cleese has joined the cast of Chris Cottam's spy spoof "The B Team" for American Entertainment and Meyers Media Group. The story follows much of the cast of "Baywatch" who reunite to take down an arch-criminal (Cleese) who is a big fan of the show.
- 5/1/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: Producer and former Baywatch star Alexandra Paul and Meyers Media Group (Mmg) have announced the casting on the spoof spy in the run-up to Cannes.
Mmg represents world rights to The B Team and makes its production debut. The company is working with Joseph Cohen of American Entertainment to arrange financing.
UK filmmaker Chris Cottam will direct the fictitious romp about TV actors from a cancelled show who reunite to take down an arch-criminal.
Years after the show was used by the CIA to gather intelligence during promotional tours at the end of the Cold War, the Agency is blackmailed by a villain and discovers he loved the old show.
The Agency summons the actors to get close to the evil-doer and take him down. The conceit of the film, styled in the vein of Austin Powers and Johnny English, is that the show was Baywatch. The B Team will feature original cast members playing their real-life...
Mmg represents world rights to The B Team and makes its production debut. The company is working with Joseph Cohen of American Entertainment to arrange financing.
UK filmmaker Chris Cottam will direct the fictitious romp about TV actors from a cancelled show who reunite to take down an arch-criminal.
Years after the show was used by the CIA to gather intelligence during promotional tours at the end of the Cold War, the Agency is blackmailed by a villain and discovers he loved the old show.
The Agency summons the actors to get close to the evil-doer and take him down. The conceit of the film, styled in the vein of Austin Powers and Johnny English, is that the show was Baywatch. The B Team will feature original cast members playing their real-life...
- 4/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
If the idea of actors from a cheesy but beloved TV series pressed into service against a new, real-world threat has you thinking Galaxy Quest, you'e not alone. But The B-Team, which has just announced John Cleese as its villain, plans a different take on the idea.Baywatch veterans Alexandra Paul and Jaason Simmons came up with the idea that their cheesecake and surf melodrama stomping grounds were also used as a cover by the CIA to gather intelligence while the cast were out on international promotional tours at the tail end of the Cold War. When a new villain (Vachon, to be played by Cleese) blackmails the agency and they learn he’s a diehard Baywatcher, the actors are summoned back into action to take him down. Prospects for a Hoff cameo? Not given in Screen International's report, but we give it 30% Hoffness at this moment.Michael Brody turned...
- 4/30/2014
- EmpireOnline
Last night, Edith Bowman played host to the British Academy Scotland Awards 2012, celebrating the year’s best and most promising talent in Scotland.
Previously known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations were announced last month, with Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share leading the pack, having taken home the Jury Prize at Cannes back in the spring.
The results have officially been announced, and Loach’s film didn’t disappoint, taking home the Best Writer award for Paul Laverty and Best Actor/Actress in the Film category for Paul Brannigan.
Zam Salim came away with the Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for his feature directorial debut, Up There, which was released in UK cinemas on Friday – if it’s playing in a theatre near you, this should definitely be encouragement enough to go and seek it out, if you haven’t done so already.
The great...
Previously known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations were announced last month, with Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share leading the pack, having taken home the Jury Prize at Cannes back in the spring.
The results have officially been announced, and Loach’s film didn’t disappoint, taking home the Best Writer award for Paul Laverty and Best Actor/Actress in the Film category for Paul Brannigan.
Zam Salim came away with the Best Director and Best Feature Film awards for his feature directorial debut, Up There, which was released in UK cinemas on Friday – if it’s playing in a theatre near you, this should definitely be encouragement enough to go and seek it out, if you haven’t done so already.
The great...
- 11/19/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Formerly known as the BAFTA Scotland Awards, the nominations for this year’s British Academy Scotland Awards 2012 have been announced, with the ever-brilliant Edith Bowman officially set to host the awards ceremony next month.
Leading the pack with four nominations to its name is Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share, which took home the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year.
Following closely behind with two nominations each are Kevin Bridges and Zam Salim, the latter nominated in both the Best Director and Best Feature Film categories for the forthcoming, Up There, which will be released on 16th November in the UK.
The Scotland-born Bowman has a wealth of experience that makes her a perfect fit for the awards, having presented pretty much every major music festival the UK has to offer through her career, along with hosting the Q Awards back in 2005 on BBC Radio 1.
“I am delighted...
Leading the pack with four nominations to its name is Ken Loach’s The Angel’s Share, which took home the Jury Prize at Cannes earlier this year.
Following closely behind with two nominations each are Kevin Bridges and Zam Salim, the latter nominated in both the Best Director and Best Feature Film categories for the forthcoming, Up There, which will be released on 16th November in the UK.
The Scotland-born Bowman has a wealth of experience that makes her a perfect fit for the awards, having presented pretty much every major music festival the UK has to offer through her career, along with hosting the Q Awards back in 2005 on BBC Radio 1.
“I am delighted...
- 10/25/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"Acapella" music video has arrived in full and it sees Kelis as the last woman standing on earth who adopts the tribal way of life. The video was filmed in Los Angeles with British director Chris Cottam and fashion photographer Rankin. Wolves are also brought forward in this clip.
"It has a really strong, universal, tribal vibe to it. When I say that, I mean it's no particular tribe; it's a little bit of everything," she told Rap-Up. "It's like if the world were to end and there was one woman standing, what would it be like?"
"It's not fashion-oriented at all. Actually, it's the complete opposite," she continued her explanation. "I think everything is over-fashioned up that it just becomes uninteresting, and when every artist has access to every designer and vice versa, it's no longer exciting or fun."
"Acapella" is produced by acclaimed DJ David Guetta and set...
"It has a really strong, universal, tribal vibe to it. When I say that, I mean it's no particular tribe; it's a little bit of everything," she told Rap-Up. "It's like if the world were to end and there was one woman standing, what would it be like?"
"It's not fashion-oriented at all. Actually, it's the complete opposite," she continued her explanation. "I think everything is over-fashioned up that it just becomes uninteresting, and when every artist has access to every designer and vice versa, it's no longer exciting or fun."
"Acapella" is produced by acclaimed DJ David Guetta and set...
- 3/29/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Kelis is seen putting on tribal make-up and costume in this sneak peek to her upcoming music video for single "Acapella". The video is directed by Rankin and Chris Cottam and is scheduled to be debuted in full next week, Monday, March 29.
"It has a really strong, universal, tribal vibe to it. When I say that, I mean it's no particular tribe; it's a little bit of everything," she told Rap-Up. "It's like if the world were to end and there was one woman standing, what would it be like?"
"It's not fashion-oriented at all. Actually, it's the complete opposite," she continued her explanation. "I think everything is over-fashioned up that it just becomes uninteresting, and when every artist has access to every designer and vice versa, it's no longer exciting or fun."
An up-beat jam, "Acapella" is produced by acclaimed DJ David Guetta and set to be included in...
"It has a really strong, universal, tribal vibe to it. When I say that, I mean it's no particular tribe; it's a little bit of everything," she told Rap-Up. "It's like if the world were to end and there was one woman standing, what would it be like?"
"It's not fashion-oriented at all. Actually, it's the complete opposite," she continued her explanation. "I think everything is over-fashioned up that it just becomes uninteresting, and when every artist has access to every designer and vice versa, it's no longer exciting or fun."
An up-beat jam, "Acapella" is produced by acclaimed DJ David Guetta and set to be included in...
- 3/25/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Kelis will release her new album Flesh Tone on May 17, her label has announced. It will be the singer's first release since signing to the will.i.am Music Group - the Black Eyed Peas' star's sub-division of Interscope - at the end of last year. The album will be preceded on May 10 by 'Acapella', a David Guetta-produced single which is currently number one on the Billboard Club Chart. Kelis recently shot the video in Los Angeles with British director Chris Cottam and fashion photographer Rankin. The album cover art was also shot by Rankin and a new press shot from their session appears (more)...
- 3/11/2010
- by By Nick Levine
- Digital Spy
LOCARNO -- Be careful what you wish for is a maxim explored smartly by photographer and publisher Rankin and his co-director Chris Cottam in their well measured little fable The Lives of the Saints, set on the criminal streets of northeast London.
When a swift-moving courier known as the Roadrunner (Daon Broni), who delivers everything from drugs to lottery tickets, stumbles over an unwashed and wide-eyed youngster (Sam MacLintock) in the park, the lives of several people start to change in the most unexpected way: Yhey begin to get what they want.
Mixing elements of the supernatural with street crime and aspects of religion, the film, debuting in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, delivers a tidy punch and with the right support it could find an appreciative mainstream audience.
The Roadrunner, whose relentless need to be on the move is given gentle pause by his encounter with the child, drops him off at the home of Othello (David Leon), a slick young man who is prince to the local crime king Mr. Karva (James Cosmo).
While his live-in girlfriend Tina (Emma Pierson) sees the strange boy as just a kid, Othello interprets the youngster's oblique mutterings as words of prophecy. In writing down the unrelated letters the boy utters, he sees the names of the winners of horse and dog races, and is soon making a fortune in gambling.
The boy's gaze appears to entrance a chosen few including a waitress, Christella (Gillian Kearney), and the local priest, Father Daniel Marc Warren). By appearing to unleash their secret desires, the boy seems to prove that he is a benign oracle or, as some believe, an angel.
But with his riches, Othello grows independent of Karva, a colorful brute of a man, who views his own declining fortune with alarm. He seeks the child in order to return life to what he sees as its natural order, with him as its glowering ruler. So he employs Othello's dim sidekick, Emilio (Bronson Webb), to do his dirty work. Karva and Emilio have hidden wishes too, however, and when the child grants them, the results complicate all their lives.
Rankin and Cottam employ Tony Grisoni's economical screenplay to great effect and the acting is outstanding. MacLintock is well cast as the wondrously calm boy with the haunting eyes and Cosmo makes a lively impression as the larger-than-life crime king. The film's humor is sly and inventive as the granted wishes take darkly comic and ultimately deadly turns.
Director of photography Baz Irvine, production designer Mark Digby and editor Chris Gill deserve praise for their contributions to an entertaining film that pleases with its look and pace as much as its content.
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS
Dazed Film & TV
Credits:
Directors: Rankin, Chris Cottam
Writer: Tony Grisoni
Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith
Executive producer: Augusto Romano
Director of photography: Baz Irvine
Production designer: Mark Digby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Chris Gill.
Cast: Othello: David Leon
The child: Sam MacLintock
Roadrunner: Daon Broni
Mr. Karva: James Cosmo
Tina: Emma Pierson
Emilio: Bronson Webb
Christella: Gillian Kearney
Father Daniel: Marc Warren
Mark Digby: James Holmes
Mad Turk: Peter Rnic
Drunk/Michali: Paddy Fletcher
Granny: Stella Quilley
Maqsood Junior: Raj Ghatak
Maqsood Senior: Reny Senta
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
When a swift-moving courier known as the Roadrunner (Daon Broni), who delivers everything from drugs to lottery tickets, stumbles over an unwashed and wide-eyed youngster (Sam MacLintock) in the park, the lives of several people start to change in the most unexpected way: Yhey begin to get what they want.
Mixing elements of the supernatural with street crime and aspects of religion, the film, debuting in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival, delivers a tidy punch and with the right support it could find an appreciative mainstream audience.
The Roadrunner, whose relentless need to be on the move is given gentle pause by his encounter with the child, drops him off at the home of Othello (David Leon), a slick young man who is prince to the local crime king Mr. Karva (James Cosmo).
While his live-in girlfriend Tina (Emma Pierson) sees the strange boy as just a kid, Othello interprets the youngster's oblique mutterings as words of prophecy. In writing down the unrelated letters the boy utters, he sees the names of the winners of horse and dog races, and is soon making a fortune in gambling.
The boy's gaze appears to entrance a chosen few including a waitress, Christella (Gillian Kearney), and the local priest, Father Daniel Marc Warren). By appearing to unleash their secret desires, the boy seems to prove that he is a benign oracle or, as some believe, an angel.
But with his riches, Othello grows independent of Karva, a colorful brute of a man, who views his own declining fortune with alarm. He seeks the child in order to return life to what he sees as its natural order, with him as its glowering ruler. So he employs Othello's dim sidekick, Emilio (Bronson Webb), to do his dirty work. Karva and Emilio have hidden wishes too, however, and when the child grants them, the results complicate all their lives.
Rankin and Cottam employ Tony Grisoni's economical screenplay to great effect and the acting is outstanding. MacLintock is well cast as the wondrously calm boy with the haunting eyes and Cosmo makes a lively impression as the larger-than-life crime king. The film's humor is sly and inventive as the granted wishes take darkly comic and ultimately deadly turns.
Director of photography Baz Irvine, production designer Mark Digby and editor Chris Gill deserve praise for their contributions to an entertaining film that pleases with its look and pace as much as its content.
THE LIVES OF THE SAINTS
Dazed Film & TV
Credits:
Directors: Rankin, Chris Cottam
Writer: Tony Grisoni
Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith
Executive producer: Augusto Romano
Director of photography: Baz Irvine
Production designer: Mark Digby
Music: Rob Lane
Editor: Chris Gill.
Cast: Othello: David Leon
The child: Sam MacLintock
Roadrunner: Daon Broni
Mr. Karva: James Cosmo
Tina: Emma Pierson
Emilio: Bronson Webb
Christella: Gillian Kearney
Father Daniel: Marc Warren
Mark Digby: James Holmes
Mad Turk: Peter Rnic
Drunk/Michali: Paddy Fletcher
Granny: Stella Quilley
Maqsood Junior: Raj Ghatak
Maqsood Senior: Reny Senta
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 100 minutes...
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