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About 10 years into its business plan, Apm scored a huge win by getting the rights to market the NFL Films music library. Ninety albums and 25 years later the relationship is still going strong. The footballers also use Apm catalog music — the ESPN “Monday Night Football” theme, “Heavy Action,” is “the most well-known sports theme in the United States,” Taylor says. But mostly they provide music to Apm which markets the catalog to local sports teams, videogames, TV shows and elsewhere.

The 90 NFL albums represent about 5,000 tracks. Custom music director Connie Red has worked closely with the NFL from day one, charged with the task of bringing order to the massive catalog of many thousands of hours. “We had Tom Heddon, who was then the NFL music director, preselect best 200 tracks for us to put on CD” (circa 1994), “and when we listened I thought, ‘This is really cool!’ It had a Spaghetti Western vibe.

Well this years Frightfest is over and I’ve had a week to digest everything – it’s safe to say this year was… interesting. The move from the Empire to Vue West End, whilst not without the odd teething problem, was a success. Yes, the atmosphere had changed a little, at least in terms of experiencing a film with hundreds of people instead of thousands, but the positives of the move truly outweighed any negatives. My personal positive? The wide range of films on show this year and that fact there was No problems getting into the Discovery Screens this year – which in my own case, was where I saw some of the best films of the festival.

Speaking of films, whilst there was no outstanding, totally blown me away, movie this year, there overall standard was Very high, with only one real dud of the entire week (and I...

Stars: Ian Whyte, George Blagden, Anna Skellern, Corey Johnson, Shaun Dooley, Jack Fox, Eleanor Matsuura, David Sterne, Amber Jean Rowan | Written by Alan Wightman | Directed by Jeremy Wooding

It’s safe to say horror westerns don’t have the best track record. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a good amount of decent examples out there such as Grim Prarie Tales, Ravenous, Dead Birds and The Burrowers. But there’s also a Lot of bad horror westerns, two of which – Gallowalkers and Umbrage – debuted at Frightfest’s of the past. Given that, it was with a sense of trepidation that I approached Blood Moon…

Set in Colorado in 1887, Blood Moon sees a stagecoach full of strange passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger Calhoun (Dooley) find themselves prisoners of two desperate outlaws on the run. As the prairie travellers attempt to outwit the outlaws in any way they can it soon...

Kaleidoscope Film Distributors has released the full trailer for Paul Hyett's acclaimed new shocker The Seasoning House (review here), and we have a look at the goods for you right here. Check it out.

Synopsis:

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (award-winning special makeup FX designer for The Woman in Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack the Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, and more) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil’s Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II - The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven, The Last Horror Movie), and Jemma Powell (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The Symmetry of Love), The Seasoning House is produced by Michael Riley (Vampire Diary, Outlanders, Sugarhouse, Lava, In a Land of Plenty) of London-based Sterling Pictures.

The Seasoning House is a stylish, claustrophobic, nightmarish neo-horror about Angel,...

 

Actor Robert Vaughn discusses  his long career and his new film, The Magnificent Eleven, a UK-sports based movie loosely based on the classic Western The Magnificent Seven in which Vaughn co-starred with other stars-to-be. He humorously relates his greatest career satisfactions and disappointment (he won't get to play Hitler) and talks about his most embarrassing scene as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Click here to read...

Kaleidoscope Film Distributors has released a new sales one-sheet for Paul Hyett's acclaimed new shocker The Seasoning House (review here), and we have a look at the goods for you right here. Check it out... if you can actually see it through all the text!

Synopsis:

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (award-winning special makeup FX designer for The Woman in Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack the Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, and more) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil’s Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II - The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven, The Last Horror Movie), and Jemma Powell (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The Symmetry of Love), The Seasoning House is produced by Michael Riley (Vampire Diary, Outlanders, Sugarhouse, Lava, In a Land of Plenty) of London-based Sterling Pictures.

Kaleidoscope Film Distributors will soon be releasing Paul Hyett's acclaimed new shocker The Seasoning House (review here) in the UK, and today the official trailer was unveiled. Check it out right here!

Synopsis:

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (award-winning special makeup FX designer for The Woman in Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack the Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, and more) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil’s Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II - The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven, The Last Horror Movie), and Jemma Powell (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The Symmetry of Love), The Seasoning House is produced by Michael Riley (Vampire Diary, Outlanders, Sugarhouse, Lava, In a Land of Plenty) of London-based Sterling Pictures.

The Seasoning House is a stylish, claustrophobic, nightmarish neo-horror about Angel,...

Eureka Finds ‘The Magnificent Eleven’ Eureka Distribution has acquired UK theatrical rights to The Magnificent Eleven, a modernization of classic The Magnificent Seven by co-writers Pete and John Adams in collaboration with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. Directed by Jeremy Wooding, the new story follows a band of Brits and one American (played by the original film’s Robert Vaughn) in London’s East End where the heroes are an amateur soccer team that reluctantly comes together to save a Tandoori restaurant from local thugs. Keith Allen and Philip Rhys also star. Plumcourt Production produced for the Adams’ Angry Badger Pictures in co-production with Filmgate Films and the Swedish regional film board and in association with Skyline Entertainment, Premiere Picture and Pure Film Productions. International sales are handled by Stealth Media Group. Eureka is looking at a March release. ‘Downton Abbey’ UK Ratings Down From Last Week Season 3 of Downton Abbey...

Screen Daily reports that The Seasoning House will receive a UK theatrical and home entertainment release, through Kaleidoscope, in 2013. Read on for artwork and details surrounding the flick.

Synopsis:

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (award-winning special makeup FX designer for The Woman in Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack the Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, and more) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil’s Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II - The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven, The Last Horror Movie), and Jemma Powell (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, The Symmetry of Love), The Seasoning House is produced by Michael Riley (Vampire Diary, Outlanders, Sugarhouse, Lava, In a Land of Plenty) of London-based Sterling Pictures.

The Seasoning House is a stylish, claustrophobic, nightmarish neo-horror about Angel, a young Balkan girl forced...

Already making its world premiere as the opening film at FrightFest 2012 next week in the UK, Paul Hyett's claustrophobic thriller The Seasoning House has been included in a new festival and has some great new imagery to share. Check it out.

The Seasoning House will now be in competition at this year's Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia in the Fantastic-Panorama section. The screening will mark the film's international premiere, and writer/director Paul Hyett and key cast and crew will be attending.

Synopsis:

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (award-winning special makeup FX designer for The Woman in Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack the Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, and more) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil’s Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II - The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven,...

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (Award-Winning Special Makeup FX Designer: The Woman In Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack The Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, Unknown, The Descent, The Eagle, Ironclad) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil's Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II: The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven, The Last Horror Movie) and Jemma Powell (Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, The Symmetry Of Love) comes The Seasoning House.

Man, say what you want about this upcoming flick, but the title alone makes us damned hungry. If there were a restaurant named The Seasoning House, we'd be there in a heartbeat. Still, we'll be there for the movie as well.

From the Press Release

Written and directed by Paul Hyett (award-winning special makeup FX designer for The Woman In Black, Dog Soldiers, Doomsday, Attack the Block, Eden Lake, Centurion, and more) and starring Sean Pertwee (Equilibrium, Doomsday, Mutant Chronicles, Devil’s Playground, 4.3.2.1.), Rosie Day (Black Books, Fallen Angel, Harley Street), Anna Walton (Hellboy II - The Golden Army, 5 Days of War, Mutant Chronicles, Crusoe), Kevin Howarth (Gallowwalker, The Magnificent Eleven, The Last Horror Movie), and Jemma Powell (Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, The Symmetry Of Love). Produced by Michael Riley (Vampire Diary, Outlanders, Sugarhouse, Lava, In a Land of Plenty) of London-based Sterling Pictures.

The Seasoning House is a stylish,...

Actor Robert Vaughn is to make a return to the big screen by paying homage to his role in The Magnificent Seven in a new movie.

The 79 year old is the last surviving member of the main cast of the 1960 Western, which also starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson, and he has now signed up to appear in a new independent film called The Magnificent Eleven.

The job will mark Vaughn's first feature project in a decade.

In the original film, which was a remake of Japanese movie Seven Samurai, Vaughn played a good guy gun slinger, but in the new picture, he will tackle the role of a villain called American Bob.

Vaughn tells Britain's Daily Mail, "I like any kind of bizarre comedy and that’s what this is. I like playing sociopaths and psychopaths who are also funny. It’s very cleverly written with a lot of oddball gags. I have a line in one scene where I say to this guy who was a tiler, 'I’m giving you a chance to live for one reason - because you did such a good job on my bathroom'."

Vaughn will next be seen playing a role on the U.K.'s longest running soap opera, Coronation Street.

Source: FilmShaft - Aaron Eckhart, Sean Bean and AnnaSophie Robb set to star in Pan

Aaron Eckhart, Sean Bean and AnnaSophie Robb have been confirmed to star in Swiss director Ben Hibon’s new spin on the Peter Pan tale. With Pan, Hibon plans to take J. M. Barrie’s tale in a darker, more sinister direction, and although this will be his directorial feature-length debut, he has previously won acclaim as director of 2007 video game ‘Heavenly Sword’, and more recently was animation director on ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1’.

Eckhart, already seasoned in the way of a gritty thriller with his role in ‘The Dark Knight’, is set to play Hook, who, in Hibon’s version, is a tormented police detective on the trail of a childlike kidnapper. Sean Bean is set to take on the role of Smee, a chief detective and Hook’s solitary friend on the force.

If you're going to do a remake, if you're gonna take it upon yourself to reimagine a classic, then goddammit, you best reinvent it. The Magnificent Seven itself is a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, but takes a wonderful film and doesn't try to recreate it, but honors it by reinventing it. And so, when I heard from that magnificent bastard over at FilmDrunk that Irvine Welsh was planning to redo The Magnificent Seven, I thought, well alright then. At least it's gonna be creatively fucked up. Maybe the Wild Bunch on heroin?

Then I read his concept:

"Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run by a maniac called Blonde Bob.

Irvine Welsh, the novelist of acclaimed book “Trainspotting”, is set to direct “The Magnificent Eleven”, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western “The Magnificent Seven.” The updated story, which will be a dark comedy, places the setting in a Tandoori neighborhood as opposed to a poor Mexican villaing. Instead of hired guns, a local soccer team called the Cowboys defend a restaurant against a street gang led by Blonde Bob, instead of marauding bandits. Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan are all slated to star. Vaughn was also a cast member of the original “The Magnificent Seven.” That film itself was an American remake of the [...]...

After learning almost a year ago that the man who spawned Trainspotting would be taking on directorial duties for a modern remake of The Magnificent Seven, entitled The Magnificent Eleven, it has now been announced that Irvine Welsh will be directing Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughn in the project.

Plot details are thin on the ground but the film is said to centre around a group of footballers who rally around a Tandoori restaurant that is being menaced by a group of thugs lead by the maniacal Blonde Bob.

It's interesting to note that Vaughn is the last surviving primary cast member from The Magnificent Seven, but it is not clear yet what role he, Bean or Scott will play in this updated version.

Pete and John Adams wrote the original script for The Magnificent Eleven, and since Welsh signed on he has done a rewrite in conjunction with the brothers.

You might remember that, last May, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh was announced as the director of The Magnificent Eleven, a modern remake of The Magnificent Seven that centers around a group of UK footballers (i.e. soccer players, which I pray doesn't really require explanation) who rally around a Tandoori restaurant. We still don't know that much about the picture, but at last there are some actors to associate with it: Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughn have all been cast. When Brendon covered the film last year, he threw out this synopsis: A modernization of the classic western in which the Cowboys are a struggling local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as ‘Blonde Bob’. We don't know what roles Bean, Scott and Vaughn will play; their names are...

For some, Trainspotting was their first encounter with director Danny Boyle as a spectacular filmmaker with unique vision. But for others, Trainspotting first came into their lives three years earlier in the form of Scottish author Irvine Welsh's beloved novel. Aside from writing Welsh has dabbled in directing short films as well as music videos like Atlantic for British rock band Keane. Now ScreenDaily says Welsh is set to take on his first feature film with the gritty comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven featuring Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan. The classic western formula gets spiced up a bit with: an amateur soccer team (cowboys), some Indians (in place of Native Americans) who run a nearby Tandoori restaurant, and a group of menacing thugs (bandits) run by a maniac called Blonde Bob. I really like the idea of making...

  Grit-and-gristle comedy The Magnificent Eleven has signed Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan to its cast list. The latter is the last surviving star of The Magnificent Seven, the film that Eleven is updating to modern times. Directed by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh, Eleven is a British production that relocates the original western to present day. The cowboys are now members of an amateur football team, while the Indians own a local Tandoori restaurant. The bandits are a group of thugs led by the ominous Blonde...

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"Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh will direct "The Magnificent Eleven", a contemporary comedic remake of classic 1960 western "The Magnificent Seven" for Stealth Media Group and Angry Badger Pictures reports Screen Daily.

With a gritty UK setting, the new take on the story replaces the Cowboys with a local amateur soccer team, the villagers with Tandoori restaurant owners, and the bandits with a group of hoods.

Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan will star in the project. John Adams produces.

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Photo: 20th Century Fox Cooper Goes Grey: Bradley Cooper is sticking with his A-Team director Joe Carnahan and has signed on to star for the director in The Grey, a thriller written by Carnahan and Ian Jeffers based on a short story written by Jeffers. The story centers on survivors of a plane crash who are then hunted by a pack of wolves. [Variety]

Three Join Magnificent Eleven: Irvine Welsh, author of "Trainspotting," is set to direct the direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven with Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan already set to star. The film is a modern day remake of The Magnificent Seven, which itself is a re-imagining of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and as it would happen Vaughn is the last surviving cast member from the original John Sturges-directed western. In Magnificent Eleven,...

We reported last year that Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh was planning to follow up his darts film Good Arrows with a football-themed tale called The Magnificent Eleven, which combines the beautiful game with The Magnificent Seven.Now, with Stealth Media Group busy rounding up sales deals and financing at the Berlin Film Festival, it looks like it’ll finally be ready to crank into production.And Welsh has recruited a few cast members, including Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and – in a nice touch that truly links the comedy with its cinematic inspiration – Robert Vaughn, the final surviving member of the Magnificent Seven role call.Pete and John Adams wrote the script (which Welsh has joined them to polish) and the plot finds a local amateur football team trying to protect the owners of their favourite tandoori restaurant from bandits – or, in this case, a gang of thugs led by a...

As much as I loved The Magnificent Seven I always felt the one thing it was missing was Football.

I’m certain a quick kick around would have lifted spirits between raids on the village and while I’m clearly being facetious the news from Berlin today that Trainspotting Novelist and director of the darts film Good Arrows Irvine Welsh is lined up to co-write and direct a football film, based loosely on the exploits of the gunslingers, called The Magnificent Eleven is certainly interesting.

Football films haven’t fared too well at the box office, but if there’s anyone who can pinpoint the comedy and tragedy of the Sunday football leagues it’s Welsh.

ScreenDaily have the news and offer this synopsis,

[The Magnificent Eleven is] a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori...

"Trainspotting" novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven , a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven , reports Screen Daily . In the updated story, the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run by a maniac called Blonde Bob. Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan, the veteran actor who is the last surviving cast member from the original "Magnificent Seven," will star.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh has been lined up to direct and co-write a new football* comedy for the amusingly named Angry Badger Pictures. Called The Magnificent Eleven, we wonder if this can do what nearly every other football film ever has failed to do, and be really good.As the title perhaps suggests, the film's a sporty modern version of The Magnificent Seven, with the cowboys replaced by a struggling amateur football team, the people they're trying to protect become the owners of the local tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a gang of thugs led by a man named Blond Bob.The script was written by father-and-son team Pete and John Adams (no, not the Us revolutionary leader), with Welsh set to work with them on the next draft before taking the directorial reins. This isn't his first outing as director - he previously made darts movie Good Arrows...