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Today, Dyi Records have announced the reissue of X-Ray Spex’s 1995 lost classic ‘Conscious Consumer’. The highly sought after album originally received a very limited CD only release in 1995 on Receiver Records in the UK and has been officially unavailable for the past 27 years. Now it has been remastered from the original master tape and will land on vinyl for the first-time ever with unpublished lyrics and original sleeve notes from the iconic vocalist Poly Styrene.

The reissue follows the recently re-release of ‘Germ Free Adolescents’ on day-glo pink vinyl and CD on 29th September via Secret Records, which was put out via Poly Styrene’s estate.

Notable for reuniting Poly Styrene with the original X-Ray Spex saxophonist Lora Logic and bassist Paul Dean, as well as featuring guitar from Crispian Mills and drums from Paul Winterhart (under their respective pseudonyms Red Spectre and Pauli OhAirt) of the band Kula Shaker.

They are happy to trash movies from the comfort of their typewriters, but what happens when critics put their money where their mouth is?

It was at the London premiere of Shakespeare in Love in 1999 that Henry Fitzherbert decided to seize his chance and make the leap from film reviewer of the Sunday Express to Hollywood screenwriter. Buttonholing the movie’s producer, Harvey Weinstein, he pitched him an adaptation he had written of Stephen Benatar’s amnesia thriller Recovery. “He told me to get it to his hotel suite by 6am and he’d read it on the plane home,” Fitzherbert recalls. “Then I got a call from his New York office saying he loved it and I thought: ‘I’m going to be an overnight success!’ I was summoned to a meeting with his senior exec in London, given ‘notes’, which I worked on for months – and never heard from any of them again.

Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness...until their well-organized world is thrown into a bloody mess. In dark comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez, debuting on Digital and in select theaters May 17 and on DVD June 18 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, pupils and teachers become embroiled in a battle with a hoard of subterranean monsters, unleashed from a gaping frack site sinkhole, wreaking havoc on the school grounds.

Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole (TV's Peaky Blinders) and Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) star alongside Michael Sheen. Simon Pegg (the Mission Impossible and Star Trek franchises) and Nick Frost appear in the film and serve as executive producers.

This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations - literally - when a controversial frack site on prized school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole and an unspeakable horror is unleashed.

Stars: Finn Cole, Asa Butterfield, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Michael Sheen, Margot Robbie, Hermione Corfield, Jo Hartley, Jamie Blackley, Isabella Laughland, Tom Rhys Harries, Kit Connor, Hanako Footman, Jane Stanness | Written by Crispian Mills, Henry Fitzherbert | Directed by Crispian Mills

Slaughterhouse Rulez, directed by Crispian Mills, is the first produced joint venture between Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company Stolen Picture. The two also star in this campy comedy flick that is mash-up of Edgar Wright’s beloved British comedy Shaun of the Dead and Neil Marshall’s cult-classic underground monster movie Dog Soldiers, released in 2004 and 2002 respectively. However, Slaughterhouse Rulez feels more of a hollow homage of sorts – a thinly veiled layer of both horror and comedy that is sadly entirely derivative of any and all of Edgar Wright’s filmography, albeit with a decent screenplay and character craft.

The performances are undoubtedly the key highlight of this production.

We still don’t have U.S. release information for director Crispian Mills’ Slaughterhouse Rulez, the Simon Pegg and Nick Frost-starring monster comedy that was released in the United Kingdom this past Halloween. As we recently told you, it’s next headed to U.K. Blu-ray on March 11th, so if you want to see it, you might want to […]...

British monster horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez, starring Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost is getting a UK Blu-ray release on March 11, 2019.

The film is directed by Crispian Mills who worked with Pegg on A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

Synopsis:

Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match.

This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial frack site on...

Peaky Blinders’ Finn Cole & Hermione Corfield were in attendance at last weekend’s London McM Comic-Con and we met them there to talk about their new movie Slaughterhouse Rulez – the first film from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Stolen Picture production company.

During the interview they talk about how fun it was making the movie, what audiences can expect and what it was like working with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz legends Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

Slaughterhouse Rulez is directed by Crispian Mills and also stars Michael Sheen, Asa Butterfield and Hermione Corfield.

Colin Hart and Ethan Hart conducted the interview – check it out below.

Slaughterhouse Rulez Cast Interviews

Plot

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.

The post Exclusive: Hermione Corfield & Finn Cole on the bloody fun of Pegg & Frost...

This month, British cinema audiences will have the privilege of seeing the iconic filmmaking duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite once again. Known for their work on Shaun of the Dead among other films, Slaughterhouse Rulez will be bringing the two back into the genre where they caught their break. Just weeks away from its big screen debut, Sony UK has released an all new video promo, giving fans a good peek at two of the film's lead actors. You can take a look at it below.

As the title of the film suggests, the story takes place in a boarding school which is seriously known as Slaughterhouse School. The building will earn its name soon enough, after major problems arise when a nearby fracking site accidentally opens up a sinkhole in the ground. Bloodthirsty creature emerge from the pit, descending upon Slaughterhouse School and attacking everyone inside.

The classic buddy pairing of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are back in director Crispian Mills’ horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez. The new horror comedy will be hitting theaters in the UK this Halloween and today we have the movie’s trailer for your viewing pleasure. It follows Finn […]

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The first trailer for Crispian Mills’ comedy fright-fest, Slaughterhouse Rulez in which both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunite.

Directed by Crispian Mills, the film stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen with Nick Frost and Simon Pegg.

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Diego Suarez Chialvo and Josephine Rose are Executive Producers. The Story by Luke Passmore and Crispian Mills & Henry Fitzherbert. Screenplay by Crispian Mills & Henry Fitzherbert. Produced by Charlotte Walls. Directed by Crispian Mills.

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The film will be released into cinemas October 31.

Slaughterhouse Rulez Official Synopsis

Prepare To Get Slaughtered…

Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness…and they’re about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations – literally – when a controversial...

"It's a gateway - and it leads straight, down, to hell." Sony Pictures UK has debuted the first full UK trailer for a horror comedy titled Slaughterhouse Rulez, the latest from director Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything). The film is also the latest featuring both Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, the duo best known from Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy. Slaughterhouse Rulez is about an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror. It's going to be bloody. Starring Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, with Frost and Pegg. This reminds me a bit of Battle Royale, but packed with British humor and rich yuppies instead of crazy Japanese gore. Looks like fun. Prepare to get Slaughtered... Here's the first international trailer for Crispian Mills' Slaughterhouse Rulez, direct from YouTube: Welcome to Slaughterhouse,...

If you've been hungry for another Simon Pegg / Nick Frost movie after their co-starring roles in Edgar Wright's "Three Flavours Cornetto" trilogy, then you can now add Slaughterhouse Rulez to your watch list. A new horror comedy that re-teams Pegg with director Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything), Slaughterhouse Rulez also co-stars Frost and features what could be a portal to Hell in the film's official trailer.

Directed by Crispian Mills from a screenplay co-written by himself and Henry Fitzherbert, Slaughterhouse Rulez stars Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, Michael Sheen, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. Sony Pictures will release Slaughterhouse Rulez in the UK on Halloween, but a Us release date has yet to be announced. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more details.

Synopsis: "Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness...and they’re about to meet their match.

We haven't heard much about Slaughterhouse Rulez since it was first announced last summer. Today, Sony Pictures has released the first trailer and poster along with a surprise release date. The movie is coming to theaters this Halloween. Or at least it is in the U.K. A U.S. release date hasn't been announced yet.

In Slaughterhouse Rulez, a giant hole opens up near a boarding school unleashing hell, quite literally. The movie reunites Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though they've left director Edgar Wright out of the equation this time. The two actors appear in the movie, but it's the young cast that really takes the lead here. And the movie looks like a lot of fun. It's a mix of Shaun of the Dead, Ghostbusters and maybe a little bit of Seth Rogen's This is the End. Sony only provided a very limited synopsis.

"School's a bloody nightmare!

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost already have one iconic British horror-comedy under their belts thanks to Edgar Wright’s “Shaun of the Dead,” but can lighting strike twice? The two comedians co-star in the upcoming “Slaughterhouse Rulez,” from director and rock musician Crispian Mills.

“Slaughterhouse Rulez” centers around an esteemed British boarding school thrown into chaos after a sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site and releases something hellish. Asa Butterfield and Finn Cole play a couple of the students who team up with their teaches to fight for survival. Pegg and Michael Sheen star as teachers.

Mills co-write the script for “Slaughterhouse Rulez” with Henry Fitzherbert. The director’s last film, “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” also starred Pegg. The actor and Frost are best known as the stars of Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, which includes “Shaun of the Dead,” “Hot Fuzz,” and “The World’s End.

The duo behind Shaun of the Dead are back at it again with another horror comedy that is shaping up quite nicely. Slaughterhouse Rulez is re-teaming Simon Pegg and Nick Frost for what sounds like it could be the spiritual successor to the beloved zombie flick, even though they are doing it without Edgar Wright at the helm this time. The movie has officially filled out its core cast, bringing in some promising up-and-comers to star alongside Pegg and Frost.

Deadline reports that Finn Cole (Animal Kingdom, Peaky Blinders) is set to lead the cast of Slaugtherhouse Rulez, which is going to be the first movie produced by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's production banner Stolen Picture. Cole's character Don Wallace is described as the hero of the story and is "a wide-eyed new kid from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new world of arcane rules and rituals.

Deadline is reporting that “Peaky Blinders” actor Finn Cole will topline the comedy-horror Slaughterhouse Rulez, the first title from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s newly formed production banner Stolen Picture. The biggest news is that the Shaun of the Dead stars will also be featured alongside Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield, Hermione Corfield (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), and Underworld‘s Michael Sheen. Directed by Crispian […]...

Exclusive: Peaky Blinders actor Finn Cole has been tapped to topline comedy-horror film Slaughterhouse Rulez, the first title from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s newly formed production banner Stolen Picture. Michael Sheen, Hugo‘s Asa Butterfield and Hermione Corfield also have been cast alongside Pegg and Frost. Directed by Crispian Mills, from a script he co-wrote with Henry Fitzherbert, the film is set in an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody…...

Author: Zehra Phelan

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have taken their working relationship to the next level by forming their own Film and TV Production banner, Stolen Picture, which will take on Slaughterhouse Rulez as their first production.

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Four years ago the comedy-horror duo, sold their stake in Big Talk Productions when ITV purchased the banner but still remain involved, their new venture will seek to find fresh and original scripts to work on that suits their own unique style.

So what is Slaughterhouse Rulez? Well, it is set in an elite boarding school – Welcome to Slaughterhouse – where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness and they’re about to meet their match. The story’s hero, Don Wallace, is a wide-eyed new boy from a modest background forced to navigate a baffling new...

I'm a big fan of the films that Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have developed together over the years. In case you need a reminder, those films include Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul and The World’s End. Now they are once again joining forces to bring us a new horror comedy genre project called Slaughterhouse Rulez.

The film is the first project they will be working on under their new UK-based production banner called Stolen Picture. The film is also being backed by Sony Pictures. The movie is being directed by Crispian Mills (A Fantastic Fear of Everything) from a script he co-wrote with Henry Fitzherbert (Love & Friendship). There's no word on if they will star together in the film, but I hope they do! It sounds like a cool project for them to be a part of! Here's they synopsis that was released thanks to Deadline:...

Having worked together for nearly two decades, the comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have started an entertainment company together. The longtime friends will call their new company Stolen Picture, and have already decided on a first project, a comedy-horror titled Slaughterhouse Rulez.

The film will be set at a topnotch boarding school where status means everything. The protagonist, Don Wallace, is the new kid, learning the nuances of this strange institution while Sixth Formers (older students 16-18) strictly enforce the archaic laws and rituals of the school.

Meanwhile, a nearby fracking operation causes earthquakes and a very ominous sinkhole to appear that releases unimaginable horrors upon the school. With the school’s social hierarchy reset, the students and faculty must find a way to survive.

It’s not surprising that Pegg and Frost would choose a comedy-horror movie to be their company’s maiden voyage considering the...

British comedians Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have started a new production company called Stolen Picture and announced their first project entitled Slaughterhouse Rulez. Pegg and Frost first worked together on the British sitcom Spaced and have gone on to collaborate with Edgar Wright on Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. In addition, the duo wrote, directed, and starred in the hilarious extraterrestrial comedy Paul. Frost and Pegg developed Stolen Picture to produce different types of scripted television shows or movies that fit into their unique brand of absurdity.

Deadline reports that Slaughterhouse Rulez will be a horror-comedy that takes place at an elite boarding school called Slaughterhouse. The hero of the story is Don Wallace, a lad from a modest background who must navigate his way through a Slaughterhouse with sadistic rituals, tough rules, competition, and status while being closely monitored.

The whole story takes...

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have launched their very own film and television production banner, Stolen Picture, as reported by Deadline. The British duo will kick off their company, which will be based in the UK, with a comedy-horror film titled “Slaughterhouse Rulez,” to be helmed by “A Fantastic Fear of Everything” director Crispian Mills.

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“Slaughterhouse Rulez” is set in a strict elite boarding school where young students are trained to become powerful and nothing short of great. When a frack site on the school’s woodland causes seismic tremors and reveals a mysterious sinkhole, a new pecking order will be established as students, teachers and the school matron become locked in a scary battle for survival. Mills co-wrote the script with newcomer Henry Fitzherbert.

Sony Pictures is backing the film. Catalyst Global Media’s Charlotte Walls will produce.

Exclusive: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who co-starred in hit British comedies Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul, have formed the film and TV production banner Stolen Picture. The duo will kick open its doors with Slaughterhouse Rulez, marking their return to the comedy-horror genre. The film, which Frost and Pegg will exec produce, is directed by Crispian Mills and based on a script he co-wrote with Henry Fitzherbert. Sony Pictures is backing the title, and Catalyst…...

Simon Pegg chats to us about rom coms, Man Up, writing, Tintin 2, visiting Andy Serkis on The Jungle Book set, directing, and more...

Before he heads off to make the next Star Trek film, Simon Pegg is back in UK cinemas this weekend for the really rather good romantic comedy, Man Up. He co-stars with Lake Bell in the movie, and ahead of its release, he spared us some time to chat about the film, and what he's up to next...

It's an interesting sign of the times that BBC Films, which started out making movies that couldn't be made really, back with Truly Madly Deeply....

Another South Bank movie!

True. Back then, BBC Films was making niche films that were struggling to get made anywhere else. And here, with Man Up, a rom com seems to have become one of those niche films.

Absolutely, yeah. You make a very good point.

Simon Pegg tries to find the secret to happiness in his latest film. He chats to us about its making, British cinema and more...

Simon Pegg is back in cinemas this week, in Peter Chelsom's Hector And The Search For Happiness. Ahead of that, the man himself sat down with us for a chat, that led to us - genuinely - being locked in a hotel room together for a minute or two.

It was not helped by us holding a packet of Love Hearts at the time. It's probably best you don't ask.

Anyway, we kept our professional composure, and this is what happened...

Given what a globetrotting movie this one is, how are your passport stamps looking?

It's ridiculously stamped now!

Did you film any of it in Liam Neeson's fake plane from Non-Stop? That would have made it easier.

We were working out how long...

Exclusive: Protagonist exec named head of acquisitions and development at Pinewood Pictures.

Protagonist Pictures head of acquisitions Jeremy Baxter is to join UK production outfit Pinewood Pictures as head of acquisitions and development.

Baxter will join the production arm of the Pinewood Studios Group, run by Former CinemaNX chairman Steve Christian, in late April.

The addition of the executive is a coup for Pinewood, which to date has backed productions including Crispian Mills’ A Fantastic Fear Of Everything, Amma Asante’s period-drama Belle and Richard Shepard’s Dom Hemingway, and is now looking to ramp its production activities.

Parent company Pinewood Studios manages the multi-million pound Isle of Man Film Fund and was recently appointed as advisor to the Welsh government on their new film and TV investment pool.

London-based sales outfit Protagonist has yet to announce how it will fill the role vacated by Baxter, who joined the company shortly after its launch in 2008, working on titles...

Exclusive: Protagonist acquisitions exec to join Pinewood Pictures.

Protagonist Pictures head of acquisitions Jeremy Baxter is to join UK production outfit Pinewood Pictures as head of acquisitions and development.

Baxter will join the production arm of the Pinewood Studios Group, run by Former CinemaNX chairman Steve Christian, in late April.

The addition of the executive is a coup for Pinewood, which to date has backed productions including Crispian Mills’ A Fantastic Fear Of Everything, Amma Asante’s period-drama Belle and Richard Shepard’s Dom Hemingway, and is now looking to ramp its production activities.

London-based sales outfit Protagonist has yet to announce how it will fill the role vacated by Baxter, who joined the company shortly after its launch in 2008, working on titles including Submarine, Kill List, StreetDance 3D, Monsters, In The Loop and Searching for Sugar Man.

Recent Protagonist acquisitions during the executive’s tenure include Yann Demange’s ‘71, John Michael McDonough’s Calvary, and [link=nm...

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Directed by Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell

Written by Crispian Mills

UK, 2012

A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a film that Wes Anderson would make if he didn’t give a flying sausage about storytelling. It has many of his auteur signatures (a twee pop-art sensibility, creative and meticulous set design, character idiosyncrasies, assured and muted-mustard cinematography, an affected offbeat soundtrack, love for all things quaint or vintage), but there’s no prevailing context or structure to uphold these aesthetic qualities. Instead, everything about A Fantastic Fear of Everything, all of its quirks and eccentricities, exist in a vacuum that suspends the film in a permanent condition of unfeeling.

The film stars Simon Pegg as Jack, a neurotic and intrapersonal-communicating East London writer hoping to sell his Decades of Death, a book about serial killers. His agent, Clair (Clare Higgins), sets him up with a potential Hollywood buyer,...

Simon Pegg's latest flick, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, is available now on VOD and will be hitting limited theaters on February 7th. To celebrate, we have two new clips for you cats to sink your teeth into. Dig it!

Look for more on Crispian Mills' horror comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything soon.

Simon Pegg, Amara Karan, Clare Higgins (The Golden Compass, Hellraiser), and Paul Freeman (Hot Fuzz, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark) star.

Synopsis

Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his 'big break' rapidly turns into his 'big breakdown',...

Back in the early Summer of 2012 the UK saw the release of the Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell co-directed comedy 'A Fantastic Fear of Everything'. And we had no idea that the Us is still yet to enjoy the movie from first time writer/director Mills. But thanks to Cinedigm the project, which stars Simon Pegg ('Star Trek into Darkness'), has been set with a VOD release on 7 January and then will be followed by a limited theatrical run from 7 February. A Fantastic Fear of Everything' also stars Amara Karan, Clare Higgins, Sheridan Smith, Paul Freeman and Alan Drake....

It's been awhile, but finally we have some release news regarding Simon Pegg's latest flick! Cinedigm has dated A Fantastic Fear of Everything for release on VOD January 7th before hitting limited theaters on February 7th.

Look for more on Crispian Mills' horror comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything soon.

Simon Pegg, Amara Karan, Clare Higgins (The Golden Compass, Hellraiser) and Paul Freeman (Hot Fuzz, Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark) star.

Synopsis

Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his 'big break' rapidly turns into his 'big breakdown',...

We've got a fantastic new trailer for Simon Pegg's fun looking paranoid comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything. The film was written and directed by Crispian Mills, and it looks like a great film. Pegg looks like he does an amazing job in the movie, and I can't wait to see it!

Pegg plays a character named Jack in the story who "is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by an irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a lifeline by his long-suffering agent, and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in Jack's script, what should be his 'big break' rapidly turns into his "big breakdown" as Jack is forced to confront his worst fears; among them love, laundromats and serial killers."

The movie come...

Simon Pegg finds himself facing his deepest, darkest, and strangest irrational fears in the latest theatrical trailer for the upcoming film, A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

Watch the British comedic actor face off against demonic looking hedgehogs, and more in the new trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything below:

Written and directed by Crispian Mills, the upcoming dark comedy tells the story of Jack (Pegg), a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers causes him to come down with an irrational, paranoid fear of being murdered. When a mysterious Hollywood...

More than a year and a half after Simon Pegg debuted the first trailer for A Fantastic Fear of Everything on his Twitter page, we have the second trailer for this upcoming comedy. The actor portrays a children's author who becomes paranoid while researching serial killers for his new novel, which turns his life upside down while a Hollywood executive expresses interest in his story. Writer-director Crispian Mills' comedy debuts on iTunes January 7, before its theatrical debut February 7.

Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by an irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a lifeline by his long-suffering agent, and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in Jack's script, what should be his "big break" rapidly turns into his "big breakdown...

This year Simon Pegg saw some big action in both Star Trek Into Darkness and the conclusion of The Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy in The World's End. Now he's toning it down a bit in a lower profile comedy called A Fantastic Fear of Everything. The film has already seen release in the United Kingdom, and now it's headed to the United States. Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills directs this film about a children's author-turned-crime-novelist whose deep research into gruesome Victorian era murders has made him an insomniac, fearful mess who finds himself on the run from an actual serial killer. Watch now! Here's the Us trailer for Crispian Mills' A Fantastic Fear of Everything, originally from Apple: A Fantastic Fear of Everything marks the feature writing and directing debut of Crispian Mills. Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children’s author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the...

Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for director Crispian Mills’ dark comedy A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Simon Pegg stars as a children’s author who tries to switch careers and write a gruesome Victorian murder mystery, but his wide range of phobias throws him into horrifying nightmares where he’s forced to confront his demons, which includes his love life, his laundromat, and a mysterious stop-motion animated hedgehog. The film continues to look like a wonderfully odd adventure, and it appears to be a nice starring vehicle that showcases Pegg’s impressive range. Hit the jump to watch the new trailer. The film also stars Amara Karan, Clare Higgins, Alan Drake, and Paul Freeman. A Fantastic Fear of Everything will be available on iTunes January 7, 2014 and opens in theaters February 7, 2014. Click over to Apple to watch in HD. Here’s the official synopsis for A Fantastic Fear of Everything...

A new trailer is now online for Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell's A Fantastic Fear of Everything , starring Simon Pegg. Check it out in the player below! Also starring Amara Karan, Clare Higgins, Sheridan Smith and Alan Drake, A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a psycho comedy in which Pegg plays a children's author turned crime novelist whose research into the lives of Victorian serial killers turns him into a paranoid wreck, especially when a Hollywood executive decides he wants to make a film out of his findings. A Fantastic Fear of Everything arrives on iTunes January 7, 2014, followed by a limited theatrical release on February 7.

Directed by Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell

Written by Crispian Mills, based on the story by Bruce Robinson

Featuring Simon Pegg, Amara Karan, Clare Higgins, Paul Freeman

Ever since Shaun of the Dead, Simon Pegg has become an unlikely, quirky leading man. Sure he has had big roles in films like Star Trek but his lovable loser persona is the one that he is most associated with and that is front and center in his latest film (as both the star and Executive Producer) of A Fantastic Fear of Everything.

Based on the novella Paranoia In The Launderette by Bruce Robinson (writer and director of Withnail and I), film follows a former children’s author named Jack (Simon Pegg) that has recently also become a crime novelist. While researching the lives of Victorian serial killers, he unleashes a wave of paranoid fears that stem from his abandonment as a child. He...

In A Fantastic Fear of Everything, Jack (Simon Pegg) has a fear of…. well… everything. A children’s book author turned Victorian crime writer, Jack is plague by fear around every turn so much so that he can’t leave his house. In his first feature length film, director/writer Crispian Mills has created a film that is both modern and classic, Dickensian by the way of Anthony Burgess, and funny as heck. Which is impressive when the main story arc centers around Jack trying to do a load of laundry.

But it’s never just a load of laundry, is it? The story uses one of our most simple actions and teases out a fully realized portrait of modern psychology. While the film’s plot is both simple and confusing it is better left unsaid. For the amount that Mills has inserted into the film, it is no wonder...

Well, folks, Day 9 has come and gone, which means only one thing – Toronto After Dark 2012 is officially on the book. As I write this from my hotel room, while packing my things for my return trip home, it hasn’t quite sunk in yet. I know it will hit me in a couple hours when, instead of lining up at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, I’m crossing the border back into the Us… But, enough about that for now; let’s focus on the fun of last night!

The night began with the Canadian short, Birthday Pictures. The film is an ironic take on a first date where a young man convinces his lady-friend to take a picture of him on his birthday to send to his grandmother. Of course, there’s a bit of a twist, but I won’t spoil that for you… If you get the chance,...

A Fantastic Fear of Everything

Directed by Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell

Written by Crispian Mills

UK, 2012

A Fantastic Fear of Everything is a film that Wes Anderson would make if he didn’t give a flying sausage about storytelling. It has many of his auteur signatures (a twee pop-art sensibility, creative and meticulous set design, character idiosyncrasies, assured and muted-mustard cinematography, an affected offbeat soundtrack, love for all things quaint or vintage), but there’s no prevailing context or structure to uphold these aesthetic qualities. Instead, everything about A Fantastic Fear of Everything, all of its quirks and eccentricities, exist in a vacuum that suspends the film in a permanent condition of unfeeling.

The film stars Simon Pegg as Jack, a neurotic and intrapersonal-communicating East London writer hoping to sell his Decades of Death, a book about serial killers. His agent, Clair (Clare Higgins), sets him up with a potential Hollywood buyer,...

During the FanExpo in Toronto last weekend, the 2012 Toronto After Dark Film Festival announced the first 10 titles of the festival this October and it looks like an exciting lineup.

The festival is moving back from Toronto Underground cinema into the newly restored Bloor Hot Docs for its 7th year (where it resided for its first five years) running from October 18th to 26th, 2012. As usual the first batch of films is an eclectic mix of horror, sci-fi, action and the bizarre. So if you have been a fan of the previous year's lineup then it shouldn't disappoint.

[Rec]³: Genesis

First up is the Canadian Premiere for the third film in the Spanish [Rec] series working as a parallel sequel to the first two films. Paco Plaza returns as the director but the co-director Jaume Balagueró of the first two films will be directing the 4th [Rec] installment next year instead. This time...

The first trailer for Fantastic Fear of Everything was released on Simon Pegg’s Twitter feed and it looks quite promissing and very entertaining. Pegg stars in the new quirky dark British comedy as a petrified writer named Jack, a children’s author obsessed with death and haunted by a hedgehog.

The film is written and directed by musician-turned-filmmaker Crispian Mills. He is joined by co-director and animator Chris Hopewell, whose award-winning work includes Radiohead’s “There There” and The Killers’ “Smile Like You Mean It.”

The film opens on June 8 in the U.K., but a U.S. release date has not yet been released.

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Plot Summary: Simon Pegg will star in “A Fantastic Fear of Everything,” a psycho comedy in which he plays a children’s author turned crime novelist whose research into the lives of Victorian serial killers turns him into a paranoid wreck, especially...

Simon Pegg really needs to take a chill pill before he has a heart attack. Pegg has popped up on another couple of new stills from his latest starring role in the Chris Hopewell and Crispian Mills co-directed project 'A Fantastic Fear of Everything'. The stills come ahead of its appearance at this years Fantasia International Film Festival and comedy star Pegg ('Shau of the Dead', 'Paul') plays Jack, an author who's genre-switch soon becomes his worse nightmare. Amara Karan, Clare Higgins, Sheridan Smith and Alan Drake all co-star and you can head below for the new stills....

The 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is almost ready to turn Montreal into an amazing display of sights and sounds starting on July 19 and running all the way through August 7. On tap for you right now is a bevy of new images from some of the flicks that will be shown there!

Asura

Directed by Keiichi Sato

Over forty years since it came into being, Akiyama’s “Ashura” remains a raw and affecting action-horror-tragedy, and its potency is only further amplified in this new anime. Keiichi Sato, director of Tiger & Bunny and Karas, oversees a masterful blend of digital animation and handcrafted artwork spiked with startling fights and chases and flashes of fearsome beauty. Vivid and intense, Asura is a journey through hell not soon forgotten.

Boneboys

Directed by Duane Graves and Justin Meeks

A gut-wrenching, non-stop roller coaster ride through the hellish underbelly of inner-city America. A birthday...

The July 19th start of Montreal's 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is drawing closer (it runs through August 7th), and the powers-that-be have announced the second wave of films along with a few selections from the new Axis section of the event.

Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements

The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...

“It’s a nice way of saying I’m not Tom Cruise, which I’m perfectly fine with.”

Simon Pegg is reflecting on the tag of “everyman”, which seems to have become the catch-all term to describe his particular brand on screen – part humdrum day-to-life, part potential to fly into a different world at the first footstep of a zombie.

Simon Pegg in A Fantastic Fear of Everything... including launderettes

“I guess it’s ‘relatability’. There are actors like Tom Cruise, who is this other-worldly fantasy-being in real life and on screen. That’s why he’s the biggest movie star in the world. He’s gorgeous and god-like and wonderful. Your heart flutters in his presence. I’m just a guy down the pub, and both these qualities are sellable.”

Simon Pegg’s two beefs – see below…

As proved, with Pegg’s increasingly robust grip on the big parts...

Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars

In the filmmaking business, hitting a slump is unavoidable and bound to happen sooner or later. That said, talented actors do not tend to plummet as enthusiastically into the abyss as Simon Pegg does in his new film, A Fantastic Fear of Everything. Easily among the year’s worst, one can only hope that it is remembered as a mere smudge on an otherwise mostly distinguished career. Fortunately for Pegg, audiences should have no qualms banishing his latest farce from their consciousness within minutes of leaving the cinema, if they even make it that far.

Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills alongside ironically-surnamed co-director Chris Hopewell helms a film with sure visual promise – elicited by a moody opening animated sketch of London’s night skyline – but the duo quickly appears out of their depth when tackling Mills’ own messy, tone-deaf screenplay. Horridly on-the-nose voiceover narration quickly dominates,...

ill Manors (18)

(Ben Drew, 2012, UK) Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Anouska Mond. 121 mins

The coalition government has repeatedly denied his existence, but Plan B proves he's for real with this intense, provocative survey of British urban decay in all its forms. A few too many forms, perhaps, as this crams in so many tales of hardship, exploitation, drugs and violence, and seeks to render them in so many ways (hip-hop numbers, tricksy visuals, flashbacks), it gets a bit carried away. Still, top marks for at least trying to tell it like it is.

Red Tails (12A)

(Anthony Hemingway, 2012, Us) Cuba Gooding Jr, Terrence Howard. 125 mins

George Lucas co-produces this story of the African-American Tuskegee Airmen and their role in the second world war, fighting both Nazis and racism. There's more of an eye for aerial action than grown-up drama, though.

A Fantastic Fear Of Everything (15)

(Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell,...

Simon Pegg takes the lead in A Fantastic Fear of Everything, the first film to benefit from investment from Pinewood Studios and the feature debut of Crispian Mills and Chris Hopewell.

The film takes us through the downward spiral of paranoia and delusions in the most terrifying laundrette in the world through the eyes of Pegg’s character Jack, a writer whose research into Victorian serial killers begins to leak into his everyday life.

I sat down with the actor last week to talk over the state of British films and how to get into the warped mind of Jack without losing his own.

You can see my interview with the directors here and my review will be up on the site shortly.

Here’s Monsieur Pegg,

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