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Identicals None Of Us Are As Unique As We Hope The organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals – people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But when Slater’s girlfriend is abducted by Brand New-u, and a corpse is left in her place, he is forced to become an Identical. As he moves through a series of parallel lives, he becomes more and more obsessed with finding his girlfriend, but what he must find in the end is himself. On January...

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Director Simon Pummel's stunning new Sci-Fi film Identicals arrives on DVD and VOD from 15th August and we have 2 copies up for grabs! The dynamic film stars Lachlan Nieboer (Cross of Honour, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Nora-Jayne Noone (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters, Savage) and follows organisation Brand New-u which identifies networks of Identicals people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives.. Contest Ends on Friday, August 26, 2016...

Arrow Films and Hot Property Films have kindly provided us with 2 ace DVD's to give away of their upcoming release of sic-fi thriller 'Identicals', which is available on DVD and Video on Demand from August 15.

Identicals, created by the BAFTA winning team Writer / Director Simon Pummell (Bodysong, Shock Head Soul, The Temptation of Sainthood) and Producer Janine Marmot (Kelly +Victor and Bodysong, Shock Head Soul).

Starring Lachlan Nieboer (Cross of Honour, The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent, The Magdalene Sisters, Savage), in Identicals. the organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals– people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But...

Development titles revealed as sci-fi Identicals [pictured] picked up by Arrow Films for UK.

London-based Hot Property Films has revealed details of a new sci-fi project in development and a UK deal for psychological thriller Identicals (aka Brand New-u).

The production company, founded by producer Janine Marmot and BAFTA-winning writer-director Simon Pummell, has begun work on Piper. The sci-fi story is set on an abandoned space station and explores what happens when artificial intelligence creates new links between human and animal.

This is on top of the previously announced Dogfight, based a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick, that will be directed by Pummell. The film centres on a fighter who struggles to make good in a future world of illegal ‘simulated sensorium’ boxing and holographic gaming.

It marks the latest move into sci-fi for Hot Property, having previously made thriller Identicals, released in the Us by Samuel Goldwyn Films on March...

"There's a better life waiting for us." Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official trailer for the sci-fi psychological thriller called Identicals, from director Simon Pummell, and it looks pretty damn cool. At least, it has some amazingly cool visuals that I really dig. Is it actually a good film? Well, I don't really know, I'm not so sure. Starring Lachlan Nieboer, Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood, Tony Way, and Jacinta Mulcahy. The film, originally called Brand New-u, is about a futuristic company called Brand New-u that allows people to create a brand new life using other people known as "Identicals" as some kind of surrogate. Obviously, not everything is going to go as planned. Watch the new trailer below and tell us what you think. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Simon Pummell's Identicals, in high def from Apple: The organization Brand New-u identifies networks of Identicals—people who walk like you,...

Our master chief, quietearth, first brought Identicals to our attention last spring when he uncovered the first teaser trailer. Back then, the film was called "Brand New-u", but since it was picked up by distributor MGM it, itself, has been given a new identity.

Directed by Simon Pummell, Indenticals follows a similar line of speculation as the classic 60s film, Seconds, where it is possible to start life over again.

It is scheduled to hit iTunes on March 25, 2016.

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France will be electrified starting tomorrow, which is when the 21st edition of L'Etrange Festival kicks off in Paris. It runs through September 13 at Forum des images. The festival has released a new poster (©Dom Garcia), which you can glimpse above, and also announced a new batch of guests, including actors Sara-Jane Noon and Lachlan Nieboer (for the International Premiere of Brand New-u by Simon Pummel) and actors Jérémie Renier, Finnegan Oldfield and Marc Robert (for the preview of The Wakhan Front by Clément Cogitore).Two new videos have also debuted. The first is for Cat and Mouse, a film by Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs, that looks suitably intriguing. It enjoys its world premiere on Sunday, September 6. The other is a promotional trailer for two screenings of...

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Writer-director Simon Pummell goes for both thrills and emotional complexities in the tale of a sinister corporation that replaces humans with ‘identicals’

Here is a very distinctive science-fiction parable from writer-director Simon Pummell: it is filmed in a burnished, measured manner, but it has a Marmitey quality. It is as accessible as The Double, and even Total Recall, but has a texture and atmosphere that are very much its own.

Pummell is perhaps best known for his animated collage piece Bodysong, and subsequently straddled drama and nonfiction with Shock Head Soul, a highly stylised study of mentally ill judge Daniel Paul Schreber. With Brand New-u, Pummell has gone the whole hog and and come up with a film that bears some resemblance to an orthodox tech thriller, though with a Kafkaesque sense of bafflement and disjointedness.

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Feature is based on Orhan Pamuk’s novel The Museum Of Innocence.

Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Film is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival.

The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence.

Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film.

Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films.

Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.

Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.

Brand New-u

Marmot will be at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (Eiff) this weekend for the world premiere of Simon Pummell’s Brand New-u.

“This...

Those of you who remember the excellent Rock Hudson flick Seconds will notice some striking similarities with this storyline. For the uninitiated, I'd highly recommend Seconds as it's about a man who gets a new face and a new identity. Brand New-u is directed by Simon Pummell who did the excellently weird biopic Shock Head Soul. Brand New-u premiers at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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The film follows the 33-year-old Slater (Nieboer), who obsessively chases Nadia (Noone), the love of his life. When she suddenly disappears Slater wants to report her missing, but realizes he knows nothing about her. The only clue he has is Brand New-u [Continued ...]...

BAFTA-winner to adapt short story Dogfight, from cult sci-fi writer; currently in Rotterdam with Brand New-u.

BAFTA-winning British director Simon Pummell is preparing a new film based on Dogfight, a short story by cult sci-fi writer William Gibson, co-written with Michael Swanwick.

It will be made with his regular producing partner Janine Marmot of London-based Hot Property Films.

“It is a film about gambling,” Pummell explained. “When I talked to (William) Gibson about it, he said it was a riff on The Hustler. The backbone of the film is the idea that every idea of improvement, quality and happiness in our life can be accounted for in money.”

Pummel, who is scripting Dogfight, is currently putting the finishing touches to his new feature Brand New-u. The futuristic psychological thriller, sold internationally by Match Factory, is in advanced post-production and will be ready by March.

Brand New-u follows 33-year-old Slater, who obsessively chases Nadia, the love of...

British thrillers are having a bit of a resurgence of late. And we've got our hands on the world exclusive first snaps from a promising new BFI-funded psychoogical thriller, Brand New-u. Wirtten and directed by Simon Pummell, and starring Lachlan Nieboer and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent), Brand New-u is an obsessive love story aiming to mess with your mind. Plot synopsis as follows... Brand New-u is a psychological thriller, a film stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. Imagine discovering you're not unique,...

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Swallows and Amazons

Dan Stevens ("Downton Abbey") will star in adaptation of Arthur Ransome's classic 1930 children's book "Swallows and Amazons". Stevens will be playing Uncle James in the project which begins shooting this Summer.

The book is the first in a series about the Walker children who set sail on the Swallow and head for Wild Cat Island. Their days are disturbed by the Blackett sisters, the fierce Amazon pirates. The Swallows and Amazons decide to battle it out. [Source: The Sun]

Anchorman: The Legend Continues

Nicole Kidman has reportedly shot an uncredited cameo role in the highly anticipated comedy sequel "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" in Atlanta.

Vince Vaughn and Luke Wilson have also reportedly shot call roles in the film which includes roles for Greg Kinnear, Harrison Ford and Kristen Wiig alongside the returning regulars. [Source: THR

Brand New-u

Lachlan Nieboer ("Downton Abbey") and Nora-Jane Noone ("The Descent") have signed to star in...