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Exclusive: Metrodome tools up for feature version of $20m (£14m) heist.

The Enfield Expendables could become a reality in the near future as UK distribution and sales outfit Metrodome moves into development on a feature film based on last year’s Hatton Garden raid - a heist that saw thieves make off with $20m (£14m) in jewels.

Metrodome is among backers of The Hatton Garden Job (working title), which is due to be produced by Mark Harris (Abducted) and Ben Jacques (London Heist) from Simon Cluett’s (Age Of Kill) original script.

Producers are currently in talks with lawyers about gaining life rights and on screen representation rights to those involved in the heist.

Cast and a director have yet to be attached but the production is hoping to shoot in spring. Metrodome will handle UK distribution.

The raid, which took place over the Easter weekend in 2015 on a safe deposit vault in central London, was one of...

Stars: Martin Kemp, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Tony Denham, Phil Davis, Lucy Pinder, Donna Air, April Pearson, Dani Dyer, Bruce Payne, Patrick Bergin, Nick Moran, Chris Brazier, Anouska Mond | Written by Simon Cluett | Directed by Neil Jones

When it comes to low-budget British movies one of the easiest to create seems to be the gangster movie and I’ll admit it that when I got Age of Kill to watch that is exactly what I expected. Thankfully what I found instead was an action movie that takes the subject of terrorism in London and adds a little twist.

Sam Blake (Martin Kemp) is a black ops sniper who finds himself blackmailed into killing six seemingly random people in six hours. If he fails this or tries to contact the police or his bosses his daughter will be killed. As he performs the kills with the police in close pursuit the...

Exclusive: Crime drama from Richwater Films to shoot this month.

Filming commences this month on the sequel to 2010 UK home entertainment success Bonded By Blood.

Based on the crime book Essex Boys: The New Generation by Bernard O’Mahoney, the film focuses on the Essex crime scene after the gangland murders of Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe in 1995.

The screenplay is written by Simon Cluett (Age of Kill). Greg Hall (Dangerous Mind of a Hooligan) is directing.

Cast includes George Russo (Turnout), Josh Myers (Green Street 3), Sam Strike (who plays Johnny Carter in TV soap Eastenders), Martin Delaney, Mark Harris (Anuvahood), Dani Dyer (Vendetta) and newcomers Ross Harland and Naomi Willow.

Chris Ellison (We Still Kill The Old Way), Johnny Palmiero (Age of Kill), Rebecca Ferdinando (White Collar Hooligan) and Terry Stone (Doghouse) reprise their roles from the original film. More cast is due to sign up soon.

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Principal photography has started on UK action-thriller Age Of Kill, from director Neil Jones and writer Simon Cluett.

Jones’ sophomore film stars Martin Kemp (The Krays) as a sniper forced to murder six random people in six hours to save his kidnapped daughter, played by Dani Dyer (Vendetta). He later realises the murders are part of a political coup and attempts to unmask the kidnappers.

The cast also features Phil Davis, April Pearson, Anouska Mond, Nick Moran, Tony Denham, Donna Air and Patrick Bergin.

“We have assembled a fantastic cast to do justice to Simon’s script: a fast-paced page-turner, which feels much more like an American picture than your standard British film,” said Jones.

The film is being produced by indie Richwater Films along with Anchor Bay UK. Jones will produce the film, alongside Luke Fairbrass and Richwater’s Jonathan Sothcott.

“Simon Cluett’s fast-paced, edgy script never lets up and Neil Jones’ vision for the...