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Sony Pictures Television has struck a co-development and co-production deal with The Boy with the Topknot producer Nisha Parti.

The Hollywood studio has inked a three year deal to work with Parti to produce scripted dramas for network, cable and streaming platforms. The projects will be co-produced between the two companies with Sony distributing worldwide.

Parti previously produced Paddy Considine-fronted feature thriller Honour as well as the adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera’s The Boy with the Topknot with Kudos for BBC Two. She previously worked with David Heyman and was the first person to read the unpublished manuscript of Harry Potter, which lead to Heyman securing the film rights for Heyday Films and Warner Bros.

Parti will work closely with Wayne Garvie, President, International Production, Spt, in the UK and Nina Lederman, the newly appointed Evp, Global Scripted Development and Programming, based in Los Angeles. She has several TV...

Sony Pictures Television has inked a three-year development and production deal with U.K. producer Nisha Parti.

Parti produced the BAFTA-nominated BBC series “The Boy With the Topknot” and Shan Khan’s 2014 feature “Honour.” She will co-develop and co-produce new projects for TV and streaming platforms with Spt, which will take them out internationally.

The projects will be made by Spt and Parti through her production company, Parti Productions, which has set out to produce commercial TV dramas for the international market that have a strong link to India.

“Nisha’s innate understanding of the British-Indian experience, her proven ability to identify commercially viable projects, and her skill in developing and packaging them for multicultural audiences around the world will be a huge asset to Spt,” said Wayne Garvie, president of international production at Spt.

Parti has TV projects in development with the BBC and a movie with Film 4. She...

Sony Corp.’s Sony Pictures Television (Spt) on Tuesday unveiled a three-year drama co-development and co-production deal with British Indian film producer Nisha Parti.

Financial terms of the agreement, which will cover network, cable and streaming platforms, were not disclosed. Spt will distribute the projects developed under the deal with the producer’s Parti Productions worldwide.

Sony said the goal was “to produce a unique genre of commercially successful dramas for the international market, which have an undeniable link to India.”

Parti’s first feature film, Honour, a London-based, girl-on-the-run thriller, was written and directed by ...

Jack Lowden stars as Tommy Morris in Tommy’S Honour. Photo by Neil Davidson (c). Courtesy of Roadside Attractions.

Tommy’S Honour focuses on the mid-19th century founding of modern golf by a Scottish father and son, but it is as much about the British class system and a family as it is about golf.

This well-acted, authentically-detailed historical film spotlights Old Tom and Young Tom Morris, the working-class father and son who both founded the modern game and popularized it in the mid-19th century. Greens keeper and course pro at St. Andrews, Tom Morris Sr. did not invent the sport but he did much to mold it into its present form, making clubs and balls in the golf shop he owned and later designing golf courses. “Old Tom” was a talented player who established the first championship and won many bets for his aristocratic backers, but his...

Cornerstone boards Journeyman, which will also star Jodie Whittaker.

Paddy Considine is re-teaming with producer Diarmid Scrimshaw on his second feature as a director, boxing drama Journeyman.

The project is being financed by Film4 [who announced a funding increase to $36m last night] with the BFI, Screen Yorkshire and the Wellcome Trust. Studiocanal is on-board to handle the UK release, while Cornerstone will oversee international sales.

Considine, who has also penned the project’s script, will star alongside Jodie Whittaker (One Day), Faraz Ayub (Honour), Tony Pitts (War Horse) and Paul Popplewell (’71).

The plot follows Matty Burton (Considine), the middleweight boxing champion of the world, who begins to suffer from memory loss and personality changes after a devastating punch in a bout leaves him in a coma.

Pre-production is underway and shooting will begin in early March in the North of England.

Considine’s debut feature Tyrannosaur won him a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, as well as three BIFAs including for star Olivia Colman.

Scrimshaw commented...

Film4, BFI, Screen Yorkshire and Wellcome Trust are backing Journeyman, which will also star Jodie Whittaker.

Paddy Considine is re-teaming with producer Diarmid Scrimshaw on his second feature as a director, boxing drama Journeyman.

The project is being financed by Film4 [who announced a funding increase to $36m last night] with the BFI, Screen Yorkshire and the Wellcome Trust. Studiocanal is on-board to handle the UK release, while Cornerstone will oversee international sales.

Considine, who has also penned the project’s script, will star alongside Jodie Whittaker (One Day), Faraz Ayub (Honour), Tony Pitts (War Horse) and Paul Popplewell (’71).

The plot follows Matty Burton (Considine), the middleweight boxing champion of the world, who begins to suffer from memory loss and personality changes after a devastating punch in a bout leaves him in a coma.

Pre-production is underway and shooting will begin in early March in the North of England.

Considine’s debut feature Tyrannosaur won him a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut, as well as...

Kunal Nayyar, from hit show Big Bang Theory, is set to voice a street dog called Santoosh in the upcoming live-action family drama A Hollywoof Tale. The film, to be helmed by Racing Stripes and Underdog director Frederik Du Chau, is being produced by Jason Newmark (Triangle, Severance), who developed the project with the British Film Institute. The script has been written by Stephen Leslie, while Nisha Parti (Honour) is also attached to produced. Read more 'Big Bang Theory's' Big Bucks: Why the Cast Will Earn $1 Million Per Episode To be shot in London and India in the

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Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar attached; Icon takes UK rights.

Icon Film Distribution has taken UK rights to director Frederik Du Chau’s live action family film A Bollywoof Tale from Independent.

The film tells the story of Basil, a much-loved pet Spaniel, with a comfortable family life in London, who is set to move with his human family to Delhi. However when his crate is misplaced at Heathrow, Basil arrives alone on the other side of India in Kolkata.

With the help of a cunning street dog, Santoosh, and a Holy cow, Uma, Basil sets off on a whirlwind adventure across India in the hope of re-uniting with his family.

Kunal Nayyar from hit TV series Big Bang Theory is newly attached to play the part of Santoosh.

The UK deal was negotiated by Abigail Walsh for Independent and Ben Friedman for Icon Film Distribution.

Producer Jason Newmark (Triangle) developed Stephen Leslie’s script with the...

One of the rare movies that gets absolutely everything right, bursting with happy-tears emotion about solidarity, friendship, and smashing bigotry. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

And then sometimes the forces of good win. Well, the good guys almost always win in The Movies, but not so much in real life.

Background: For a year in 1984-5, U.K. coal miners engaged in a massive industrial action that saw them walk out of work over government plans to close a massive number of pits. (The industry was at the time nationalized and controlled from Westminster.) Most Americans and probably many younger Brits will likely be unaware of this important historical event (unless they’ve seen the film Billy Elliot, which, like Pride, was set amidst the strike); the closest American analogy might be the 1981 strike...

Kudos is planning to produce more drama series told from a British Asian perspective after expanding a partnership with Parti Productions.

The Broadchurch producer is building on a deal struck to develop Sathnam Sanghera’s novel Marriage Material for the BBC with feature film producer Nisha Parti’s company in September.

The Shine Group indie and Parti now plan to nurture Asian talent on and off screen and develop projects for UK and international broadcasters.

In addition to Marriage Material, which follows a Sikh family living in Wolverhampton in the 1960s, the companies are developing a TV adaptation of Sanghera’s The Boy With The Topknot, set in the Midlands town during the 1980s.

Kudos chief executive Jane Featherstone said that Parti had a wealth of knowledge of film trends and a keen eye for fresh talent. “She has the ability to identify and conceptualise content that speaks to a diverse audience,” she added.

Parti...

108 Media has acquired worldwide rights to the action packed martial arts film "Yasmine," ahead of its North American premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival. As the first commercial film out of Brunei Darussalam, this Bruneian tale was directed by Siti Kamaluddin and stars the talented Liyana Yus as lead, Yasmine. The deal was brokered by 108 Media's Jordan Nutson and Din Kamaluddin of Origin Films, on behalf of the producers. 108 Media plans to release the film in North America.

"108 Media is excited to be bringing this thrilling, action-packed gem to the international marketplace," said Nutson.

Yasmine, a free-spirited young girl, joins her college Silat club after losing her lovers affections to her longtime rival and fellow martial arts enthusiast. In a tale of love and war, Yasmine discovers that love is never easy, but some dreams are worth fighting for...

108 Media is currently releasing "Honour," starring Paddy Considine, Aiysha Hart and Harvey Virdi.

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Mona (Aiysha Hart) arrives home late, suitcase in hand, and it’s clear in the way she sneaks in that she’s hiding something. Her mother (Harvey Virdi) welcomes her, but the older woman’s chilly demeanor barely conceals her disapproval of her daughter’s late-night gallivanting. Mona’s older brother, Kasim (Faraz Ayub), shows up, and the three eat dinner and relax in front of the television. Except none of them are even the slightest bit relaxed. Mona’s furtive glances at a knife in the kitchen and Kasim’s equally covert looks to mother add to a growing tension between them all. It’s broken as Kasim suddenly begins to strangle his sister while their mother holds Mona’s legs. The young woman struggles and writhes to no avail, attempting and failing to reach the knife she had secured in her back pocket, and before long her movements cease and she crumples, dead...

Shan Khan’s London-set debut feature, Honour, attempts to combine a thriller framework with a social-issue concern -- "Honour killings," which, per the movie’s closing credits, are estimated by the United Nations to total well into the four figures on a yearly basis. Khan invites the possibility of having his political agenda override his filmmaking responsibilities; thankfully, though, he reveals a strong knack for constructing suspense, and the movie’s ultimate flaws are more narrative-based than message-related. Honour tackles its subject from the perspective of Mona (Aiysha Hart), a British-Pakistani real-estate agent who develops a relationship with a Punjabi man (Nikesh Patel). However, Mona’s strict family -- led by he...

Title: Honour 108 Media Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes Grade: C Director: Shan Khan Screenplay: Shan Khan Cast: Aiysha Hart, Paddy Considine, Faraz Ayub, Shubham Saraf, Harvey Virdi, Nikesh Patel Screened at: Review, NYC, 6/16/14 Opens: July 11, 2014 When Terry Leonard made the 1987 action thriller “Death before Dishonor,” he was setting the stage for one gunnery Sgt. Burns to rescue Marines taken hostage in the Middle East. These Marines believe that nothing is worse than dishonor, meaning that they, themselves would rather die than suffer a fate worse than death. It’s bizarre to think, however, that there are thousands of families that would [ Read More ]

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In "Honour," writer/director Shan Khan's debut feature, a young woman named Mona lives a double life in London, free and self-determined in public but chafing at home under the strict precepts of her devout mother. Mona and her boyfriend are both Muslim, but he is Punjabi while she is Pakistani, and in the eyes of her mother and older brother Kasim, a policeman with a violent temper, the match is so shameful that Mona must die for it.  At first, Kasim attempts to to take matters into his hands, but Mona flees the city, and her family turns instead to a racist ex-con bounty hunter to finish the job. In its review of the film when it opened in the UK in April, THR called Khan's film "an accomplished debut," and praised his screenplay, which critic Stephen Dalton wrote  "contains some smart twists and trapdoors, scrambling chronology so...

A whole lotta violent bigoted men discussing women’s lives as if they merit any say in the matter. If only pop culture were as concerned with women’s stories as it is with men’s. I’m “biast” (pro): was hoping for a smart exploration of a subject that is desperate for it

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

And I was so looking forward to this. So-called “honor” killings — where values of “honor” are, appallingly, all about nothing more than a woman’s virginity — are a horrific thing that impact women worldwide, even in the supposedly enlightened West. And it’s a subject that would warrant more attention in a pop culture that was as concerned with women’s stories as it is with men’s. The strictly cheap-thrills Honour reminds us, alas, that, yeah, pretty much, movies be all about teh menz,...

Exclusive: Racing Stripes dirctor Frederik Du Chau and Triangle producer Jason Newmark behind family feature about a dog who moves from London to India.

UK sales outfit Independent will introduce buyers to family feature A Bollywoof Tale at the Cannes marche.

Racing Stripes and Underdog director Frederik Du Chau will direct Stephen Leslie’s script, with Triangle and Severance producer Jason Newmark on board to produce alongside Nisha Parti.

A Bollywoof Tale tells the story of pet Spaniel Basil, whose comfortable family life in London is disrupted by a family move to Delhi. After his crate is misplaced at Heathrow, Basil arrives on the other side of India in Kolkata.

With the help of a cunning street dog and a Holy cow, Basil sets off on a whirlwind adventure across India in the hope of reuniting with his family.

The film is due to be shot as live action in London and India in early 2015. Cast has yet...

Exclusive: Racing Stripes dirctor Frederik Du Chau and Triangle producer Jason Newmark behind family feature about a dog who moves from London to India.

UK sales outfit Independent will introduce buyers to family feature A Bollywoof Tale at the Cannes marche.

Racing Stripes and Underdog director Frederik Du Chau will direct Stephen Leslie’s script, with Triangle and Severance producer Jason Newmark on board to produce alongside Nisha Parti.

A Bollywoof Tale tells the story of pet Spaniel Basil, whose comfortable family life in London is disrupted by a family move to Delhi. After his crate is misplaced at Heathrow, Basil arrives on the other side of India in Kolkata.

With the help of a cunning street dog and a Holy cow, Basil sets off on a whirlwind adventure across India in the hope of reuniting with his family.

The film is due to be shot as live action in London and India in early 2015. Cast has yet...

★★☆☆☆"Without it, life means nothing" according to a quote that fills the screen in the opening moments of British director Shan Khan's twisting London-set thriller, Honour (2014). Attempting to straddle the potentially conflicting identities of cultural expose and nerve-shredding cat-and-mouse chase, it revolves around the horrifying practice of so called 'honour-killings' in Muslim communities and families. Reportedly on the rise here in the UK, Khan's film seeks to shine a light onto these dark slayings whilst providing popcorn entertaining. The ambition is certainly a noble one, but sadly it does not quite work on this occasion, with both message and tension hamstrung by unconvincing characters.

London based urban thriller Honour comes to DVD on 28 April 2014 and to celebrate, we have 3 DVDs to give away!

Starring Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur, The World’s End) and Aiysha Hart, star of the BBC’s Atlantis and Harvey Virdi (East is East, Bend it Like Beckham), the film comes from BAFTA nominated director Shan Khan and boasts strong supporting performances from upcoming UK talent; Nikesh Patel (Jadoo, Bedlam), Shubham Saraf and Faraz Ayub.

After a failed attempt at an honour killing at the hands of her family, Mona (Hart) is forced to go on the run. The family, desperate to save face, enlists the services of a bounty hunter (Considine) to search the streets of London to track her down.

Honour is available for digital download from 18 April 2014 and available on DVD from 28 April 2014.

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With his debut feature Honour – starring Paddy Considine and Aiysha Hart – out now in cinemas across Britain, we had the distinct pleasure of discussing the project with the film’s writer and director, Shan Khan.

The film tackles the themes of honour killing, as we delve into the life of a young girl (Hart), victim of her own family, who seek is murdering her for bringing shame upon their family – hiring the fascist bounty killer (Considine) to see the job through.

Where do you feel honour sits with the rest of contemporary British thrillers?

We’ll, I’d like to think it sits right at the top, but unfortunately that would be wishful thinking on my part. I’m glad that people are seeing it as a thriller and not seeing it as an issue-based movie, so that’s a really good thing; a great big tick, because it’s...

Today sees the release of Richard Ayoade’s second feature film, The Double. Another solid instalment from one of Britain’s most promising new directors. Also released today is Shan Khan’s Honour, starring arguably the finest working British actor of his generation, Paddy Considine. Considine himself has made appearances in both Ayoade’s films, and with that in mind, here is one UK dream team that we would love to see.

Director- Richard Ayoade

Ayoade is well known for his comedic style. Bursting on to UK television with the It Crowd, his quirky sense of humour seeps through in to both The Double and debut feature, Submarine. The BAFTA nominated Submarine cemented Ayoade as one of the most promising new voices in the British film industry. The black humour, the gentle tragedy, and the hysterical performances is a refreshing voice in the doom and gloom of a lot of British Cinema,...

Paddy Considine stars as a nameless bounty hunter tracking down runaway Muslim girls in this semi-interesting hot mess

No film starring ace character-actor Paddy Considine (The Bourne Ultimatum, Dead Man's Shoes) can ever be wholly worthless, but Honour won't be counted as a career highlight for him. On particularly terse and glowering form here, he plays a nameless bounty hunter hired by ultra-traditional Muslim families to track down runaway young women who have supposedly sullied their kinsfolk's good name. "Honour killing" is indeed a deeply serious issue, fully deserving of robust dramatic treatment. But it's as if the film-makers felt they couldn't deliver the didactic lesson unless they wrapped this up in pulpy, thriller trappings, with a kettle-drum-heavy, action-movie soundtrack, umbral lighting and a white antihero, who has to be a one-time National Front supporter in order to make his moral journey interesting. The striking Aiysha Hart holds up her...

The statistics for honour killings in the UK makes for a disquieting read. The idea that so many people are murdered for bringing shame upon their family or community, most of which are women, and predominantly for cultural and religious reasons, is inconceivable. It’s therefore somewhat refreshing to see a filmmaker, in this instance Shan Khan, approach such intriguing, yet mostly untouched cinematic territory. However, this particular endeavour loses its way somewhat, and the more delusory it becomes, the further away from reality we find ourselves.

The victim, in this instance, is the young Mona (Aiysha Hart), who is targeted by her mother (Harvey Virdi) and two brothers, Kasim (Faraz Ayub) and Adel (Shubham Saraf), when they learn of her intentions to run away with her boyfriend Tanvir (Nikesh Patel). Desperately wishing to avoid the shame and dishonour that comes with such an act, they plot to murder Mona,...

Director: Shan Khan; Screenwriter: Shan Khan; Starring: Aiysha Hart, Paddy Considine, Faraz Ayub, Harvey Virdi, Nikesh Patel; Running time: 104 mins; Certificate: 15

A grim reflection of contemporary Britain and the so-called 'honour killings' that take place within certain communities, Shan Khan's directorial debut is a gritty thriller that doesn't know whether it wants to educate or entertain. The film's relatively engaging nature is largely reliant on the authenticity and tenacity of the performances from its impressive leads Aiysha Hart, Paddy Considine and Faraz Ayub.

Honour explores the repugnant repercussions of Mona (Hart) angering her Muslim family by embarking on an affair with a Punjabi man (Nikesh Patel). Mona's policeman brother Kasim (Ayub) and mother (Harvey Virdi) want her dead for supposedly dishonouring their family and hire an unnamed racist bounty hunter (Considine) to track her down on the streets of London.

Plenty of twists ensue, although the sense of jeopardy...

April 4, 2014

Divergent

Director: Neil Burger

Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet

Running time: 139 mins

Certificate: 12A

The Double

Director: Richard Ayoade

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska

Running time: 93 mins

Certificate: 15

Honour

Director: Shan Khan

Starring: Paddy Considine, Aiysha Hart

Running time: 102 mins

Certificate: 15

Noah

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Starring: Russell Crowe, Emma Watson

Running time: 138 mins

Certificate: 12A

Rio 2

Director: Carlos Saldanha

Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway

Running time: 101 mins

Certificate: U...

We are giving away 3 pairs of exclusive tickets to the Special Gala Screening of the new Paddy Considine thriller Honour, in aid of charities Karma Nirvana and The ‪Hemraj Goyal Foundation. The screening will take place in a central London venue on Monday 31st March at 6:30pm.

Honour is a London based urban thriller written and directed by BAFTA nominated Shan Khan. Bifa winning actor-director Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur, The World’S End) stars alongside Screen International ‘Star of Tomorrow’ Aiysha Hart (Atlantis).

After a failed attempt at an honour killing at the hands of her family, Mona (Hart) is forced to go on the run. The family, desperate to save face, enlist the services of a bounty hunter (Considine) to search the streets of London to track her down.

Honour arrives in cinemas on 4th April and will be available for digital download from 18th April with the DVD released 28th April.

Honour is Shan’s first feature film as writer – director, he has been part of the industry for many years. Training first as an actor, then moving into theatre and TV, with both, acting, writing and directing. Shan trained as an actor at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and on leaving took parts at The Bristol Old Vic, The National Theatre and The Traverse to name a few. In TV Drama he took the lead in Channel 4′s Bombay Blue and notable roles in Trial & Retribution and Judge John Deed.

Shan has written several projects for TV including The Vice for Carlton TV, River City, Maryhill Jihad and Glasgow Dreams for BBC. He currently has a single drama Five Pillars in development with BBC.

In his main passion film, Shan made his directorial debut with Candy Bar Kid, a 4 minute short, which was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film.

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That Lars von Trier, he's a naughty one, eh? And befitting its subject matter, his latest grandiose provocation has been preceded by a prolonged foreplay-session of teaser trailers and titillating rumours. Now, for one night only, you can watch both halves of the movie back to back before it goes on release in two halves later this month. Despite being four hours long and sexually explicit, it's far from the sado-masochistic experience it sounds, with digressions into baroque music, fly fishing and dessert forks, and a steady procession of familiar faces including Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell and Willem Dafoe. Afterwards, you'll be rewarded with a satellite Q&A, live from the Curzon Chelsea, in which three of the film's stars – Von Trier veteran Stellan Skarsgård and Britons Stacy Martin...

This looks really interesting. Paddy Considine is always amazing. And this story is pretty daring: he’s a bad guy hired by a family to kill their own daughter, because she is bringing “shame” to them by living her own life, as a woman living in the West has every reason to expect she should be able to do. It makes that “What kind of person would not want to see their own mother?” particularly chilling. I suppose we can figure that Considine will refuse to go through with the job, but I’ll be curious to see how that plays out.

Honour opens in the U.K. on April 4th, will be available on demand on April 18th, and arrives on Region 2 DVD on April 28th.

A murky thriller exploring the concept of “honour" killings, Honour has a new trailer that showcases a side of Paddy Considine’s arsenal we haven’t seen since Dead Man’s Shoes. Here he plays an unnamed bounty hunter tasked with a terrible brief. Click below to watch it. brightcove.createExperiences();Scottish actor-turned-director Shan Khan penned this story of a young Muslim woman (Aiysha Hart) whose plan to elope with her boyfriend Tanvir (Nikesh Patel) proves unpalatable to her family. So unpalatable, in fact, that they decide to have her killed. As you do.When the hit goes awry, Mona flees and it’s Considine’s bounty hunter who finds himself charged with tracking her down somewhere in the big city. Expect moral quandries galore as he finds himself immersed in a situation far beyond his ken.It’s billed as a topical spin on Romeo & Juliet, although punchier because...

Well, it seems our little Hit-Girl is all grown up. Actress Chloë Grace Moretz, who portrayed the pint-sized assassin in 2010′s Kick-Ass, went on to play Abby the vampire in Let Me In, scored the lead role in Universal’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily The Strange, the titular character in the planned remake of Carrie, and can be seen in theaters right now as Carolyn Stoddard in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows, definitely digs genre films.

Variety now reports that the actress is in talks to play a zombie in director Henry Hobson‘s film, Maggie. The story, penned by John Scott 3 is set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse, and centers on a father’s unconditional love for his zombie infected daughter. Paddy Considine (Honour) is set to play the father.

No production or release dates have been announced for Maggie.

Akira

"Tron Legacy" star Garrett Hedlund has just received a formal offer to take the part of Kaneda in Jaume Collet-Serra's live action version of anime classic "Akira" at Warner Brothers.

He joins a cast that could include Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter who have both been offered key support parts. [Source: Twitchfilm]

Honour

After spending some time behind the camera, Paddy will return to acting with a starring role in Shan Khan's contemporary thriller "Honour" for CinemaNX.

Plot details are being kept under wraps. Shooting kicks off later this month in the Isle of Man and Glasgow. [Source: The Hollywood Reporter]

Dog Fight

Brian Cox is in final negotiations to join the cast of Jay Roach's comedy "Dog Fight" at Warner Bros. Pictures.

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis star as two rival politicians running for a congressional seat in a small North Carolina district election. Cox is in talks to play...

The annual ranking of the best unproduced UK film scripts, this year’s list was just revealed this week. Eighty industry insiders were polled on their favorites; films such as Nowhere Boy followed by Jane Eyre were tops was tops in 2008, while 2009's List saw Good Luck Anthony Belcher grab the top spot which has yet to go into production, but films #3 (Now Is Good), #4 (Salmon Fishing In The Yemen) and #6 (Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are currently in different stages of prod. Top of this year’s poll was Sex Education, written by Jamie Minoprio and Jonathan M Stern, who contributed to the writing of I Want Candy and both St Trinian’s films, which may be a clue to the tone of the film. Said to concern a schoolboy’s plot to take revenge on one of his teachers by seducing his wife, the script is being developed by BBC Films and Ruby Films.