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Production has wrapped on the Ibiza shoot ofRise Of The Footsoldier: Ibiza, with new cast membersThe Football Factory’sTamer Hassan and Green Street’s Leo Gregory. Further filming will take place from January 2025 in Guildford, London and Essex.

Screen can exclusively reveal the film’s first-look images.

The feature is the sequel to 2023’s Rise Of The Footsoldier: Vengeance, and the seventh instalment in the franchise. Craig Fairbass is back in the leading role of notorious criminal Pat Tate, with Nick Nevern returning to direct, which marks his third time directing in the Footsolider franchise.

Further cast includes Jamie Foreman,...

Cult crime-action franchise Rise Of The Footsolider is heading to Ibiza for its seventh instalment, which will see Craig Fairbrass back as Pat Tate, heading to the Spanish island to track down the villains responsible for a friend’s murder.

Rise Of The Footsolider: Ibiza is being sold by the UK’s Carnaby International, and is a direct sequel to 2023’s Rise Of The Footsolider: Vengeance. Nick Nevern returns to direct, with Andrew Loveday producing.

Anthony Skordi reprises his role as Mo from Rise Of The Footsoldier: Vengeance, with production set to begin at the end of 2024. Tate will be...

Directed by Nick Nevern and starring Craig Fairbrass, Tara Fitzgerald, Sadie Frost, Geoff Bell and Jamie Forman, Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance is the latest movie in the long-running British film franchise that started waaaay back in 2007!

Tate goes on a rampage to avenge his loyal and trusted foot soldier’s violent death. To track down the villain responsible, Tate ventures beyond his comfort zone of Essex and into the dark side of 90s Soho. He squares up against violent kingpins and negotiates his way through treacherous backstreets with sheer brutal force. Set to execute his revenge, Tate will stop at nothing even as the world around him starts to explode.

Signature Entertainment has dropped a trailer for the next instalment in the long-running action franchise ‘Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance.’

Pat Tate embarks on a rampage to avenge his loyal and trusted footsoldier’s violent death, venturing beyond his comfort zone of Essex into the dark side of 90s Soho to track down the villain responsible. Set to execute his revenge, Tate will stop at nothing even as the world around him starts to explode.

Also starring Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), George Russo (Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins), Ben Wilson (Wednesday), Stephen McCole (Vigil), Sadie Frost (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), Tara Fitzgerald (Legend), ArrDee, Josh Myers (Fighting With My Family), Emily Wyatt (The Last Heist), Geoff Bell (RocknRolla), Anthony Skordi (The Offer) and Phil Davis (Vera Drake).

Nick Nevern directs (Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins) from a screenplay by Andrew Loveday and Jason Maza.

Also in trailers – “First things first…” Red...

A theatrical release is planned for autumn.

Nick Nevern’s latest instalment from cult crime film series Rise Of The Footsoldier has been picked up by Signature Entertainment in the UK and Ireland from UK sales outfit Carnaby International, for an autumn theatrical release.

Signature and Carnaby International has also released a first look image.

Rise Of The Footsolider: Vengeance is produced by Andrew Loveday, with Craig Fairbrass back in the leading role of notorious criminal Pat Tate alongside George Russo, Geoff Bell, Phil Davis, Jamie Foreman, Stephen McCole, Sadie Frost, Tara Fitzgerald and Anthony Skordi.

Pat is on a...

Here’s Kev with a video review of Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins which is released in UK cinemas on September 3rd, courtesy of Signature Entertainment

When a down-on-his-luck Tony Tucker lands a job as a nightclub doorman after saving the owner’s grandson, he will do whatever it takes to rise to the top of the game. Teaming up with Essex heavyweight Bernard O’Mahoney at the height of the 1980s rave scene, Tucker could do no wrong. A voracious appetite for money, drugs, and a glamorous lifestyle soon develops, fueling his growingly audacious ventures and seeing him join forces with Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe to capitalise on the drug-boom. Packed with fights, revenges, and explosions, the ultimate origin story brings Rise of the Footsoldier full circle, and tackles many of the franchise’s previously unanswered questions.

Directed by Nick Nevern, Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins stars Vinnie Jones,...

Production started this week on the fifth title in the ’Footsoldier’ series.

UK actors Keith Allen and Chris Hughes have joined the cast of franchise title Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins as shooting got underway in Southend-on-Sea this week.

The pair join previously announced cast Craig Fairbrass and Vinnie Jones in the fifth title in the Rise Of The Footsoldier series, which began in 2007.

This outing takes the story back to the late 1980s and early 1990s, showing how three men united to form their own football hooligan gang in Essex.

Allen will play the owner of nightclub Raquel’s,...

Fifth instalment of the British crime franchise set for release in 2021.

Vinnie Jones has joined the cast of UK crime drama Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins, which is set to begin shooting in October.

The fifth instalment in the popular franchise will explore how the notorious Essex Boys first united in the late 1980s. Directed by Nick Nevern, whose credits include The Hooligan Factory, who also co-wrote the script with producer Andrew Loveday, it will be released in the UK by Signature Entertainment in 2021.

Jones will play Bernard O’Mahoney, a real-life character who was associated with one of the three...

Shooting rescheduled to begin in August, after being postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

UK distributor Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Nemesis, the upcoming gangland home invasion thriller starring Billy Murray (Rise Of The Footsoldier).

It marks the first feature from Shogun Films, a London-based production outfit that was launched in January by Jonathan Sothcott and Jeanine Sothcott.

Jonathan Sothcott previously produced features including Vendetta, We Still Kill The Old Way and The Krays: Dead Man Walking, which proved home entertainment hits when released in the UK.

Filming was due to begin on Nemesis...

The fifth instalment of the British gangster series set for release in 2021.

UK gangster franchise Rise Of The Footsoldier is set to be rebooted with a new cast.

The new feature, which has the working title Footsoldier Millennium, is in advanced development and is set to be released in late 2021 by Signature Entertainment.

Carnaby International will handle sales on the film and Nick Nevern, the director and star of The Hooligan Factory, is attached to direct.

It will mark the fifth instalment of the low budget, ultra-violent gangster series, which began with Julian Gilbey’s Rise Of The Footsoldier in...

Stars: Daniel O’Reilly, Danielle Harold, Stu Bennett, Vas Blackwood, Stephen Marcus, Steven Berkoff, Lauren Socha, Chris R. Wright, Huw Samuel, Roland Manookian | Written by Nick Nevern, Daniel O’Reilly | Directed by Christian James

Okay so on paper this reads as a low-budget British vampire-comedy set in a prison starring WWE Superstar Stu Bennett, The Dapper Laughs Guy and the legend that is Steven Berkoff… However only some… of this is true???

A short while ago I was asked to give Fanged Up a cheeky watch with the intentions of giving a short one paragraph critique for some reason or other. I was more than happy to oblige however I couldn’t wait for the movie to drop so I could really sink my teeth – get it – nto this movie and give you my honest review. Mostly because a lot of people checking out the film in the DVD section...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar, with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors. They also shoot the breeze about their new films, The Dare, World of Darkness,...

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ITV's Prime Suspect prequel comes to a moving end in its finale. Spoilers ahead in our review...

This review contains spoilers.

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The shocking event with which last week’s episode ended is quickly revealed to have been every bit as devastating as it seemed. After the explosion, the officers surveilling the British Savings Bank branch rush from their hiding place to search the burnt-out ruins for survivors. Cliff Bentley and café owner Silas have already fled the scene, although Cliff’s shocked look back confirms that he knows son John couldn’t possibly have escaped with his life when the blowtorch ignited. They find Gibbs bloodied and deafened, but conscious; Morgan’s more seriously hurt,...

Stars: Scott Adkins, Lily Ann Stubbs, Wade Barrett, James Cosmo, Daniel Caltagirone, Stephen Marcus, Nick Nevern, Ty Glaser, Sean Cronin, Mark Wingett, Mem Ferda | Written by Nathan Brookes, Bobby Lee Darby | Directed by James Nunn

If there’s ever a phrase that will have me instantly reaching for my wallet it’s “a Scott Adkins film…” Honestly, nine times out of ten I will buy an Adkins film without so much as seeing a trailer. Why? Well because for me, Adkins is keeping the Dtv dream alive, picking up the action hard-man mantle from 90s pioneers like Jeff Speakman, Olivier Gruner, Gary Daniels and in particular Jeff Wincott, one of the only other true action heroes to have the same perfect blend of fighting skills, charisma and acting chops as Adkins.

Eliminators sees Adkins re-team with his Green Street 3 director James Nunn (who also co-directed the fab British thriller Tower Block...

Exclusive: Screen can reveal a first-look image from the comedy-horror.

Daniel O’Reilly, aka controversial comedy character Dapper Laughs, has wrapped shooting on his debut feature film as an actor, the vampire comedy Fanged Up.

Directed by Christian James (Stalled), the film’s cast also features Steven Berkoff (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo), Lauren Socha (E4 series Misfits), Danielle Harold (Eastenders), former WWE wrestler Stu Bennett, and Joe Egan (Sherlock Holmes).

The film was shot entirely on location in Portsmouth. It follows a young rogue (O’Reilly) who is thrown into prison for the weekened, unaware that the guards are blood-sucking vampires and the inmates are their victims.

Fanged Up was produced by Terry Stone (Anuvahood) and Richard Turner (Nativity!), with Chris Howard (The Messenger) as executive producer. It was financed by film financer Investor Profit Portfolio and The Wealth Advisory.

O’Reilly co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Nevern (The Hooligan Factory) and Dan Palmer ([link...

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Noel Clarke writes, directs and stars in Brotherhood. Here's the trailer for the Kidulthood and Adulthood follow-up...

This August, Noel Clarke completes the trilogy that he started with Kidulthood and continued with Adulthood.

The new film is Brotherhood, that Clarke is directing from his own screenplay. And we have both a 12A rated trailer, and a more explicit promo for the movie. Do not go watching the latter if you’re young and impressionable.

Finally, here’s the synopsis…

BrOTHERHOOD follows Sam as he faces up to the new world after Adulthood and realises it also comes with new problems and new challenges. Sam knows that to survive he must face his issues head on, and knows he will require old friends to help him survive new dangers. Noel Clarke (Star Trek Into darkness, Doctor Who, Adulthood) reprises the role of Sam Peel with breakthrough Grime artist...

UK producer-financiers The Fyzz Facility, run by producers Wayne Marc Godfrey and Robert Jones, is to open an La office this month.

The co-funders, which provide development, bridging, senior debt, tax credit and Gap funding, have invested in 50 films since 2010.

These features include London Fields, starring Amber Heard and Billy Bob Thornton; Toronto drama Cake starring Jennifer Aniston, Anna Kendrick and Sam Worthington; comedy The Hooligan Factory from Nick Nevern and Jason Maza; and The Prince starring Bruce Willis and John Cusack.

Upcoming films backed by the company include The Survivalist from writer-director and former Screen Star of Tomorrow Stephen Fingleton, which made it onto the 2012 Black List; sci-fi-thriller Vice starring Bruce Willis; and Martin Scorsese’s historical thriller Silence, which will star Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield.

Most recently, the company has part-funded the Kurt Russell cowboy epic Bone Tomahawk, along with Bus 657 starring Robert De Niro.

In late 2014, the company will produce psychological thriller...

Evan needs to get away for awhile after his mother dies. With no set schedule or destination plan in place, he ends up on the coast of Italy, where he meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman named Louise. Their blossoming romance seems like a fairy tale, but the dark secret Louise harbors could turn their relationship into a living nightmare that’s hinted at in the first trailer for Spring.

Spring makes its world premiere at Tiff tonight. We have the film’s official synopsis and cast information below (courtesy of Tiff):

“When his ailing mother dies, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci, of the recent Evil Dead) realizes his life isn’t going anywhere. Grabbing his last paycheque, he decides to go on the European graduation trip that he never got a chance to take. Picking a destination at random, he arrives in Italy, where he backpacks and parties with other tourists.

After pleading with producers to "roll me in", Danny Dyer got his wish and was granted a cameo role in Football Factory spoof The Hooligan Factory.

The EastEnders star's appearance was cut drastically short, however, as you can see in the above clip of the film's opening scene (with bonus appearances from Craig Fairbrass and Tamer Hassan).

The film stars Jason Maza as Danny, who after getting expelled from school forms a bond with a legendary football hooligan played by Nick Nevern.

The Hooligan Factory will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on July 14.

To mark the release of The Hooligan Factory on 14th July, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.

The Hooligan Factory lovingly spoofs The Football Factory, Green Street, The Firm and many more. Director, writer, and star Nick Nevern (The Sweeney, Mrs Browns Boys D’Movie) is joined by Jason Maza (Shifty, Rise of the Footsoldier), who also produced.

The film tells the story of Danny (Jason Maza), who wants something more from life. Expelled from school and living in his Grandfather’s flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father ‘Danny Senior’. Meanwhile legendary football hooligan ‘Dexter’ (Nick Nevern) is about to be released from prison and is on a quest of his own, one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader ‘The Baron’. But when Danny’s and Dexter’s paths cross they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself.

Following previous announcements of their film lineup, the Fantasia International Film Festival has released their full lineup of movies to be shown at the 18th Annual festival, starting July 17.

New additions to the lineup include 2014 Cannes Selection When Animals Dream, directed by Jonas Alexander Amby and the return of Fantasia’s showcase of animated films, Axis.

Tickets for the festival go on sale starting July 16, and the festival runs through August 5.

View the whole press release of additional announcements below:

Fantasia Celebrates Its 18th Birthday

With Over 160 Feature Films Montreal, Thursday July 10, 2014 – 2014 is the year that Fantasia turns 18. We can’t believe it either. Fantasia’s 18th birthday means over 160 features and something in the neighborhood of 300 shorts, many being shown for the first time on this continent, a good number screening here for the first time anywhere in the world.In addition to being stacked with a multitude of breathtaking debut filmmaker discoveries,...

Both Nick Nevern and Jason Maza have been making their faces known through British television and film – including both having done the obligatory acting rite of passage of appearing on The Bill – with a blend of dark humour and a passion for all things football, and most things hooligan.

With The Hooligan Factory, the latest piece of black satire from Nevern’s mind, comedy seeps into the well-worn hooligan-film formula to deliver something we haven’t quite seen before. Here, the stars talk about how they got there.

The Hooligan Factory is out in cinemas now.

The post The HeyUGuys Interview: Nick Nevern and Jason Maza talk The Hooligan Factory appeared first on HeyUGuys.

You can’t help but feel that not only are these cockney, Nick Love infused gangster flicks a thing of the past, but so is the opportunity to ridicule them. We’ve thankfully moved beyond the films that were genuinely of this ilk, and now the chance to parody them feels contrived and unnecessary, in a Britain that has since moved on significantly, and a whole culture that’s almost a product of a bygone era. Nonetheless, that hasn’t stopped Nick Nevern taking it upon himself to create such a film, teaming up with writer Michael Lindley to present The Hooligan Factory.

Nevern also takes on one of the lead roles, playing Dex – a former football hooligan who is released from prison, only to join forces with his old gang and pick up where they left off. On his first day of freedom he bumps into the opportunist Danny...

Ahead of the World Premiere of The Hooligan Factory on Monday 9th June in London, we’ve been given these seven new posters for the movie to debut to the interwebs! The Hooligan Factory stars Jason Maza (Shifty, Rise of the Footsoldier) who Produced the film alongside Nick Nevern who not only stars but wrote and directed. Check out the new posters below which have a rather fun Top Trump esk theme to them! Not sure what our hooligan level would be! We’ve also placed the trailer. The movie hits UK cinemas 13th June.

The Hooligan Factory, a laugh-out-loud comedy tribute to one of Britain’s most successful home-grown genres, the football hooligan movie, will be kicking and punching its way into UK cinemas from June 13th 2014. Produced and starring Jason Maza (Shifty, Rise of the Footsoldier) The Hooligan Factory lovingly spoofs The Football Factory, Green Street, The Firm...

June 6, 2014

22 Jump Street

Director: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller

Starring: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill

Running time: 112 mins

Certificate: 15

Fruitvale Station

Director: Ryan Coogler

Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer

Running time: 85 mins

Certificate: 15

Grace of Monaco

Director: Olivier Dahan

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth

Running time: 103 mins

Certificate: PG

Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets

Director: Florian Habicht

Starring: Jarvis Cocker, Nick Banks

Running time: 90 mins

Certificate: Tbc

June 13

Belle

Director: Amma Asante

Starring: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson

Running time: 104 mins

Certificate: 12A

Devil's Knot

Director: Atom Egoyan

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth

Running time: 114 mins

Certificate: 15

Oculus

Director: Mike Flanagan

Starring: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff

Running time: 104 mins

Certificate: 15

Young and Prodigious Ts Spivet

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet

Running time: 105 mins

Certificate: Tbc

The Wizard of Oz - IMAX

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor

Starring: Judy Garland,...

The UK’s biggest and best celebration of pop. culture, McM London Comic Con returns to ExCel London on 23-25 May for a long weekend packed with special guests, sci-fi, movies, videogames, comic books, eSports, online video, anime and cosplay. Here’s a taste of what will be on show.

Special Guests

Special guests meeting fans, presenting panels and signing autographs at the show include: Orphan Black star Dylan Bruce (Arrow, 24: Conspiracy, Unstoppable). Falling Skies’ Drew Roy (Secretariat, Hannah Montana), Connor Jessup (Blackbird), Seychelle Gabriel (The Spirit) and Luciana Carro (Battlestar Galactica). Game Of Thrones’ James Cosmo (Braveheart, Highlander), Julian Glover (Star Wars, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade) and Josef Altin (Eastern Promises). Nikita, Kick-Ass and How I Met Your Mother star Lyndsy Fonseca. Once Upon A Time’s Meghan Ory (Intelligence) and Beverley Elliott (Unforgiven). Henry Winkler, famous for playing iconic character The Fonz on Happy Days.

Teenage rebel Danny (Jason Maza) hero worships his estranged father, an out-and-out thug serving time, and looks upon him as role model. At the same time legendary football hooligan Dex (Nick Nevern) is about to be released and is looking to settle some old scores outside. When they cross paths, they embark on a thuggish crusade to soccer hooliganism back on the map.

Here’s some new images from gritty British spoof comedy film The Hooligan Factory which has been written, produced, Directed and stars Nick Nevern (The Sweeney, Mrs Browns Boys D’Movie). The movie also stars Jason Maza (Shifty, Rise of the Footsoldier), Tom Burke, Ray Fearon, Steven O’Donnell, Morgan Watkins, Josef Altin and Keith- Lee Castle and it’ll be with us June 13th.

Danny (Jason Maza) wants something more. Expelled from school and living in his Grandfather’s flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father ‘Danny Senior’ (Ronnie Fox). Meanwhile legendary football hooligan ‘Dexter’ (Nick Nevern) is about to be released from prison and is on a quest of his own, one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader ‘The Baron’. But when Danny’s and Dexter’s paths cross they embark on a journey as old as hooliganism itself.

Multiple deals for Spooks film, Big Game, 47 Metres Down, more.

UK sales outfit Altitude Film Sales has confirmed a slew of sales on their growing slate.

Pre-sales on Spooks: The Greater Good, Shine Pictures’ action-thriller based on the hit TV series, have been inked with Constantin (German-speaking Europe), Swen (Latin America), Gulf Film (Middle East), Cinesky (airlines) and Cinemania (former Yugoslavia).

47 Metres Down, Johannes Roberts underwater thriller which is scheduled to shoot in Q2 2014 and has Screen Star of Tomorrow Vanessa Kirby attached, has been picked up by Entertainment One (UK), Square One (Germany), Wild Side (France), Vendetta (Australia/Nz), All Media (Cis), Dutch Filmworks (Benelux), Gulf Film (Middle East), Pictureworks (India), Suraya (Malaysia), Shaw (Singapore), Cmc (Taiwan), Impuls (Switzerland) and Cinemania (former Yugoslavia).

Launched at Cannes last year, the thriller from Tower Block and Cockneys vs Zombies producers James Harris and Mark Lane, has clocked up an impressive string of pre-sales and continues to generate interest...

To mark the release of Riot on DVD, we’ve got 3 copies of the movie to give away. The movie stars Nick Nevern (The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan) stars alongside Kellie Shirley, Jenna Harrison, Lorraine Stanley, Con O’Neill and Steven Berkoff. Riot is directed by Simon Phillips.

This gritty thriller sees troubled cop Damien (Nick Nevern) facing off against his old gang in the 2011 London riots. As tensions in the capital rise, a tragic incident kicks off city-wide violence that leaves no one unaffected, including his police partner, Louise (Kellie Shirley).

Before signing up for the force Damien ran with a football firm, getting involved in tear-ups up and down the country. Now he’s on the other side of the law he faces a tough decision: side with his old crew or protect London as it burns and rioters run amok?

Please note: This competition...

Stars: Danny Dyer, Roxanne McKee, Vincent Regan, Bruce Payne, Emma Samms, Nick Nevern | Written and Directed by Stephen Reynolds

Danny Dyer is an actor who tends to take a lot of flak for his acting. In Vendetta I won’t say his performance is Oscar worthy but you get exactly what you expect, and that is Danny Dyer. He seems to lack emotion, or the ability to act it out. When playing a character who is meant to suppress all types of weakness and emotion, the performance actually fits.

Vendetta is a film that wants to be Death Wish, and that is a high level to fight for, I’d say it doesn’t get there, but in aiming so high it actually manages to have many good intensions. Dyer plays Jimmy Vickers, a “special ops interrogation officer” who returns home to find his parents have been tortured and murdered by a local gang.

Danny Dyer has built up quite a reputation for himself amongst genre fans in the last several years with highly praised roles in films like Doghouse and Severance. Up next he gets his Charles Bronson on in Vendetta.

The film hits DVD and Blu-ray over in the UK on December 23rd courtesy of Anchor Bay. The trailer and plot crunch can be found below!

Written and directed by Stephen Reynolds, Vendetta also stars Vincent Regan, Bruce Payne, Roxanne McKee, Nick Nevern, Emma Samms and Ricci Harnett.

Synopsis

A former Special Forces interrogator goes Awol upon his return from Afghanistan, on a personal mission to avenge the murder of his parents. With the police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.

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Exclusive: Altitude sells hooligan spoof to Universal’s international home ent division.

Altitude Film sales has licensed football hooligan spoof The Hooligan Factory to Universal Pictures International Entertainment (Upie), the international home entertainment division of Universal Pictures, for multiple territories, including the UK where the film will be released in 2014.

Nick Nevern directed and co-wrote the film with Michael Lindley, with Jason Maza [pictured] taking the lead role and producing alongside Altitude Film Entertainment.

Other cast includes Tom Burke and Josef Altin with cameos from Leo Gregory, Tony Denham, Craig Fairbrass, Tamer Hassan and reformed football hooligan Cass Pennant.

The comedy follows a young hooligan, played by Maza, who longs to live up to the image of his estranged father.

For full production credits visit

The Hooligan Factory...

Much like Hummingbird will see Jason Statham take on a role we’re not used to seeing him play, the vigilante action movie Vendetta promises to show a new side to Danny Dyer this year, too.

Anchor Bay have announced that they’ve acquired both the UK and Australian rights from Jonathan Sothcott’s Richwater Films. And with Vendetta expected to hit UK cinemas towards the end of the year, the first trailer has landed online.

Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents. With police closing in & his old unit on his trail, he has to to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.

Dyer stars alongside Vincent Regan, Bruce Payne, Roxanne McKee, Nick Nevern, Emma Samms, and Ricci Harnett

Stephen Reynolds (The Fall of the Essex Boys) directs from his own script, with Sothcott (Devil’s Playground, Eflie Hopkins) producing.

To mark the release of White Collar Hooligan 2 on DVD and Blu-ray, we’ve got 2 copies of the movie to give away.

Get ready for the ultimate tear-up as hard-man Nick Nevern (White Collar Hooligan, Riot), returns in this tense modern-day British gangster film along with Simon Phillips (Jack Falls), Peter Barrett (The Fall of The Essex Boys) the sexy Rita Ramnani (The Last Seven, Strippers Vs Werewolves) and Vas Blackwood (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Creep, Mean Machine).

Mike Jacobs (Nevern) is back and living the good life in Spain with a new identity under the witness protection scheme. However, when old enemies discover his whereabouts and kidnap his girlfriend, Mike has just four days to pay off the gangsters or he will never see her again.

His journey takes him to New York City and back to London to meet up with his old partner, Eddie, pulling...

Altitude Film Entertainment is a U.K.-based vertically integrated film company launched last year by Will Clarke, founder of leading U.K. independent producer and distributor Optimum Releasing (now Studio Canal), with Andy Mayson as joint CEO and former Pathe sales chief Mike Runagall as Managing Director of the international sales company.

Now Managing Director of Altitude Film Sales he says, “We are thrilled to be adding five distinctive, commercial projects to our debut Cannes slate that show a breadth of genre and filmmaking and with the right elements and quality to achieve international reach, and working to build further on the strong buyer response we received at Afm and Berlin for projects we have already brought to market.”

His partner, industry vet Will Clarke, Chairman and CEO of Altitude Film Entertainment says, “Altitude’s first year has phenomenally exciting as we are working with filmmakers who have highly original and ambitious projects. Our second film, Jabbar Raisani’s Outpost 37, is about to start filming and we are looking forward to showing distributors first-ever footage on five of our projects.”

Altitude has been focusing on production, financing and international sales with a strong commercial outlook.

The company’s first creative partnerships are with filmmakers James Watkins (The Woman in Black, Eden Lake) and Simon Duric for The Loch; producer/actor Jason Maza (The Knot, Fish Tank, Welcome to the Punch) and director/actor Nick Nevern (Terry, The Sweeney) on The Hooligan Factory; director Jabbar Raisani for Outpost 37; producer Gregor Cameron (Goin’ Down to South Park, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show)and Owen Harris (Holy Flying Circus) for Kill Your Friends; and Ben Craig (Modern Times) writer Matt Charman (A Night at the Dogs) to make Mythica.

Altitude is bringing five new films to Cannes:

Son Of A Gun – an epic crime thriller directed by Julius Avery, best known for the Cannes award-winning shortJerrycan, and starring Ewan McGregor (The Impossible, August: Osage County), Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, The Fifth Estate, The Seventh Son) and Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent, Oculus,). The high-profile film is a visceral, tautly paced heist thriller, centred on a complex relationship between Australia’s public enemy number one and his young protégé. Started shooting on 25 February in Western Australia. Currently in post-production.

Catch Me Daddy - a taut and uncompromising thriller inspired by the classic character-driven thrillers of the 1970’s and early 80’s (Badlands, The Getaway, Deliverance, Blood Simple, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle). Award-winning commercials and music video director Daniel Wolfe makes his feature debut with a storyabout a couple on the run from the type of violence and crime that the law cannot reach, and overturns the conventions of the thriller genre, with a female lead stepping up as the heroine of the piece. Started shooting on 18 March in the UK. Currently in post-production.

Outpost 37 - a high concept, sci-fi, action film marking the directorial debut of La-based director and Visual FX maestro Jabbar Raisani (Game of Thrones, Iron Man, Predators). Jason Newmark (Triangle, Severance) and Laurie Cook produce for Bigscope alongside Trevor Engelson for Underground Entertainment (Remember Me). Will Clarke, Andy Mayson and Mike Runagall executive produce for Altitude. Filming starts on 14 May. Co-written by Raisani with Blake Clifton, the film centres on a documentary crew as they follow an elite unit of marines, tasked with protecting mankind in the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion. As they reach the world’s most dangerous outpost they make a terrifying discovery; the first invasion was just the beginning.

The Good People - the highly anticipated original dark and malevolent fairytale chiller to be directed by Corin Hardy, a Screen International Star of Tomorrow and director of brilliant short films and music videos (The Prodigy, Keane, Paolo Nutini). Scientist, Adam, moves with his family to an ancient Millhouse in the Irish countryside. But what seems a rural idyll soon becomes a terrifying fight for survival when the couple comes under attack from horrifying and demonic creatures that lurk in the woods, hell bent on destroying them all. Co-written by Hardy with Olga Barreneche, Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino of Occupant Entertainment (The Wackness and All The Boys Love Mandy Lane) produce. Altitude is handling international sales and financial packaging on this project.

Kill Your Friends - a satirical and hysterically funny evisceration of the music industry set against the iconic backdrop of Cool Britannia and the Britpop era of late 1990’s London, based on John Niven’s cult novel which he is adapting for the screenplay. BAFTA award-winner Owen Harris (Misfits, Holy Flying Circus) is to direct withRafe Spall (Prometheus,Life of Pi, I Give It A Year) cast in the lead role. Gregor Cameron is producing alongside Altitude. The film is set to start shooting this summer.

Lying low under the Witness Protection Scheme in Spain, former soccer yob Mike Jacobs (Nick Nevern) convinces himself he's safe in his Marbella bolthole. However, when he's spotted at an England game he's forced to go on the run as his enemies pursue him across the Atlantic to New York. To make sure he plays ball, they kidnap his friend (Rita Ramnani) and demand £2m in cash.

Paul Tanter's White Collar Hooligan 2: England Away is a sequel to Tanter's 2012 film. Both films deal with the chaotic world of football firms and a criminal underground. This sequel brings the characters Mike (Nick Nevern), Eddie (Simon Phillips) and Katie (Rita Ramnani) back and the film is slated for a May 20th, 2013 release date. In White Collar Hooligan 2, the protagonist, Mike, is living on the low. He has testified against several of his former business associates and he has joined the United Kingdom's witness protection program, for his own safety. But, Mike is forced to confront his past when he is spotted by members of his old firm. His life becomes tumultuous when he is coerced into coming up with 2 million Gbp in order to save Katie from a brutal kidnapping. Can he come up with the money in time? Release Date: May 20th, 2013. Director/writer: Paul Tanter.

Written and directed by Paul Tanter, White Collar Hooligan 2: England Away will be hitting the big screen this May. Picking up eighteen months after Tanter’s original film, The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan, the film sees Mike and Eddie going global.

We’ve got less than three months to wait before the crime sequel arrives, and we’re lucky enough to have the first trailer to share exclusively with you. And as you can imagine, there’s more than enough to make this trailer Nsfw.

Taking things international for White Collar Hooligan 2 looks to be a great move, raising the stakes and the action, and you can feel we’ve got a sweet British crime movie here coming our way in May.

“Eighteen months on from the events of The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan; Mike and Katie are living happily in Spain...

After making his directorial debut back in 2011 with the British crime-drama Terry, Nick Nevern has returned behind the camera this year for his second film, The Hooligan Factory.

This time around, Nevern is stepping into new territory, marking the first high-profile movie to spoof the Football hooligan genre that has found such impressive success on our shores in recent years.

Production has been underway since the middle of January, and it officially wrapped on Sunday. And we’ve had the first look image sent over in hi-res.

“Danny (Jason Maza) wants something more. Expelled from school and living in his grandfather’s flat, he longs to live up to the image of his estranged father Danny Senior. Meanwhile legendary football hooligan Dexter (Nick Nevern) is about to be released from prison and is on a quest of his own, one of vengeance against his nemesis and rival firm leader The...

No | Hitchcock | Warm Bodies | I Give It A Year | Wreck-It Ralph | I Wish | A Liar's Autobiography – The Untrue Story Of Monty Python's Graham Chapman | The Fall Of The Essex Boys

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(Pablo Larraín, 2012, Chi/Fra/Us) Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Luis Gnecco, Marcial Tagle. 118 mins

Advertising and revolution form an unlikely but powerful allegiance in this factually based Chilean movie, in which archive TV footage blends seamlessly with a bold, retro-video aesthetic. It's 1988 and, bowing to international pressure, General Pinochet has ceded 15 minutes of state airtime to the campaign to vote against him. Enter Bernal as a smart ad exec charged with "selling" democracy, though his Coke-commercial strategy exposes political divisions, media ironies and personal vulnerabilities.

Hitchcock (12A)

(Sacha Gervasi, 2012, Us) Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson. 98 mins

Disappointingly, the real making of Psycho is a mere backdrop for this fanciful tale of Hitch's (fictional) marriage anxieties,...

★★☆☆☆ "If you think you know this story..." the audience is told at the outset of the latest film to cover the 1995 Rettendon killings, "...think again." The problem with this assertion is that Paul Tanter's film, The Fall of the Essex Boys (2012), is the fourth film to tackle the subject matter in little over a decade. Presenting the tale through the eyes of 'supergrass' Darren Nicholls may provide a marginally different view, but ultimately this is tired genre fare that delivers little in the way of insight. Accompanied by a superfluous voiceover from Nicholls (Nick Nevern), we follow him and fellow crook Mickey (Robert Cavanah) smuggling drugs over from Amsterdam.

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British actor and Terry director Nick Nevern has made a career out of depicting hardened characters through a series of football hooligan and career criminal roles in the past few years, as well as donning fangs and claws as a werewolf.

His new film, The Fall of the Essex Boys, directed by Paul Tanter (The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan), sees Nevern play supergrass Darren Nicholls, the supposed fourth member of the notorious Essex Boys drugs gang that included Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe who brutally met their fate in a country lane in Rettendon, Essex, in December 1995.

Nevern discusses the new angle Tanter’s film offers into the ongoing mystery of the Essex Boys’ deaths and who was ultimately responsible, how he portrayed Nicholls, and what it’s like working with his mates, Tanter, Peter Barrett, Simon Phillips etc.

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We’re back in that muddy, rainy, remote country lane in Rettendon, Essex again with director Paul Tanter’s (The Hooligan Wars, Jack Falls) new angle on who was responsible for the deaths of Essex drug dealers Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe in December 1995 in The Fall of the Essex Boys.

The grizzly crime mystery has dominated Brit gangster folklore, always posing a fresh challenge for whoever brings another version to the big screen. Tanter has found another theory intriguing enough to rouse interest and provide an appealing watch, but it still falls victim to the clichéd Brit crime flick trap that such a genre film simply can’t escape from.

After the death of an ex-copper’s 18-year-old daughter from a bad ecstasy pill supplied by the notorious Essex Boys firm at Raquel’s nightclub in Basildon, Essex, Detective Inspector Stone (Ewan Ross) starts to see the...

Due out in cinemas early next month, The Fall of the Essex Boys is the latest film following in the footsteps of Rise of the Footsoldier and Bonded by Blood.

Coming from director Paul Tanter (Jack Falls, The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan), the latest entry into the British gangster/true crime thriller genre is on the cusp of release here in the UK, and we’ve been given an exclusive clip to share with you.

“In the tradition of Rise Of The Footsoldier and Bonded By Blood, this film follows the rise and violent fall of the notorious Essex Boys, one of the most feared criminal gangs in Britain’s history. For the first time the real story is revealed in this film – the drugs, the violence and of course the murders. The real story is the most shocking of all.”

Nick Nevern (The Rise and...

*full disclosure: a DVD screener of this film was provided by producer Paul Tanter. **there are minor spoilers here. Director: Simon Phillips. Writers: James Crow and Simon Phillips. Cast: Nick Nevern, Kellie Shirley, Jenna Harrison, Con O'Neill, Peter Barrett, Roland Manookian, Lorraine Stanley, Mark Harris, Charlie Bond, Steven Berkoff, and Merveille Lukeba. Tagline: "Hooligan first, cop second." GBH is the latest film to come out of the United Kingdom from actor and director Simon Phillips and distributor Revolver Entertainment. The film is set during the London riots of 2011. In this setting, a love story develops between characters Damien (Nick Nevern) and Louise (Kelly Shirley). Violent events split them apart. The film offers an anti-violent message, but that message might be lost amongst all of the chaos occurring onscreen. Overall, GBH is an entertaining film with only a couple film elements hampering the film's full potential. If you did not know.

Since everyone loves Nazi Zombies as much as I do, I am thrilled to talk about two upcoming Nazi Zombie movies that look more than promising. Exciting is an understatement, even.

Today, Dark Sky Films released the first two official stills from Dutch director Richard Raaphorst’s Nazi Zombie horror film Frankenstein's Army.

This is someone called “Propellerhead”, described officially as "a hulking Nazi automaton that uses its spinning rotors to slice a bloody swath through the film’s terrified, lost Russian battalion."

And this is Doctor Frankenstein, as played by Karel Roden, dissecting someone unwilling to be dissected.

Like any good Nazi Zombie movie, Frankenstein's Army is set at the tail-end of World War II, when Russian soldiers accidentally find a secret Nazi laboratory as they enter Germany's eastern end. Apparently, the journals of Dr. Viktor Frankenstein are serving as the basis for human experimentation to form a -...

Victim

Stars: Ashley Chin, Ashley Madekwe, Jason Maza, Anna Nightingale, Michael Maris, Letitia Wright, Shanika Warren-Markland, Natasha Sparkes, David Harewood | Written by Ashley Chin, Michael Kyei, Michael Maris, Adrian Scott | Directed by Alex Pillai

It’s quite strange watching Victim after recently viewing GBH because that was a British film that escaped the trappings of being a normal “urban” drama that is almost drowning the industry right now. You expect Victim to be very “urban”, giving an impression it’s about a life of crime, gangs and a typical almost cliché view of “life in London” which is almost threatening to be over used, but surprisingly it’s a film that pulls you into the security of thinking yes; it’s just another one of those typical “urban” films then blows that misinterpretation away.

When Tia a country-girl (meaning rich, lives in a big house in the country) moves to...

Damien (Nick Nevern) is a London policeman, having joined the force from a difficult upbringing. In his spare time he is a borderline football hooligan and while on duty he frequently disregards proper rules to either get a friend’s charges lifted or put the boot in on a suspect who he doesn’t like. As tensions in London build towards the riots of summer 2011, Damien tries to keep his building rage under control while trying to establish a relationship with Louise (Kellie Shirley) a new police officer he has been partnered with.

*****

Director Simon Phillips has previously worked as an actor and producer but seems determined to continue to stretch himself, taking his bow behind the lens for this workmanlike and unexceptional, but otherwise commendable film about a man with one foot in each of two very different worlds.

Nick Nevern was passable as the lead in the similarly...

Following on from Paul Tanter’s The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan we’ve got out hands on some exclusive stills from the next film from the team.

GBH marks the directorial debut of Simon Phillips, seen recently leading the comedy How to Stop Being a Loser as well as Tanter’s Jack trilogy, it’ll be interesting to see the energy Phillips brings to the film which, though it may not differ from the stable’s recent output in subject matter, should provide fertile ground to stamp his directing style.

Nick Nevern leads the film with Kellie Shirley and Steven Berkoff heading up the cast. Here’s a synopsis,

GBH is a powerful tale of justice and vengeance starring Damien (Nick Nevern) a London copper with a past he’s trying to forget. Before signing up for the force he ran with a football firm, getting...