Finite Films will be making its annual trip to the Cannes again this year – we will be at the festival from May 18th – 23rd.

If you would like to request a meeting during our time at the festival, please send us an email: cannes@finitefilmsandtv.com

Lachlan Nieboer, Nora-Jane Noone Cast In Simon Pummell’s ‘Brand New-U‘

The psychological thriller is produced by Janine Marmot and is a U.K.-Irish–Netherlands co-production.

Nora-Jane Noone

Lachlan Nieboer (Downton Abbey) and Nora-Jane Noone (The Descent) [pictured] have signed to star in Simon Pummell’s psychological thriller Brand New-U.

A U.K.-Irish–Netherlands co-production written and directed by Pummell (Shock Head Soul), Brand New-U is produced by Janine Marmot (No Greater Love).

Brand New-U is about a man who discovers he’s not unique and other versions of himself are hunting him down. He must kill his other selves to create himself anew and search for the woman he loves.

The project began shooting this week for four weeks in London and Dublin.

The movie is produced by Marmot (Hot Property Films) in co production with Conor Barry and John Keville (SP Film) and Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film) in association with Keith Griffiths’ Illuminations Films (Berberian Sound Studio) and Finite Films.

The film is bankrolled by the BFI Film Fund, the Irish Film Board, the Netherlands Film Fund and Finite Films.

International sales will be handled by The Match Factory.

Pummell’s resume boasts work with moving images across multiple platforms and is best known for the feature documentary Bodysong that won a BAFTA and a BIFA among other awards.

His most recent film Shock Head Soul debuted at the 68th Venice Film Festival 2011, while the associated gallery installation ‘The Sputnik Effect’ was shown at TENT Gallery Rotterdam during the IFFR 2012.

Read the original article over at The Hollywood Reporter

UK-Irish–Netherlands transmedia co-production is written and directed by Simon Pummell [pictured below] and will shoot for four weeks in London and Dublin.

Principal photography has commenced on Simon Pummell’s Brand New-U.

Simon Pummell

Pummell’s psychological thriller (which he also wrote) is produced by Janine Marmot (Hot Property Films) in co-production with Conor Barry & John Keville (SP Film) and Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film), in association with Keith Griffiths‘ Illuminations Films and Finite Films.

The film will shoot for four weeks in London and Dublin.

Brand New-U stars Lachlan Nieboer and Nora-Jane Noone and is set in a world where other identical versions of people are created. The film centres on Slater who must kill his old selves and search for Nadia, the woman he loves.

The transmedia project will include a feature film, urban projection, geo-specific augmented reality and online media.

International sales are handled by The Match Factory.

Marmot commented: “I’m really excited to be starting this mind bending and ground breaking film and I’m incredibly grateful for the support of the BFI, Irish Film Board, the Netherlands Film Fund and Finite Films and look forward to working with The Match Factory.”

Read the original article over at Screen Daily

When the love of his life disappears, Slater discovers Brand New U, a mysterious organization that creates identical versions of people. Hunted by his other selves, he must kill his identicals and create himself anew in order to rescue Nadia.

A story of obsessive love set in a nightmarish future.

Psychological Thriller

WRITER/DIRECTOR – SIMON PUMMELL

Pummell’s work with moving images across multiple platforms has won him international recognition and numerous awards. Perhaps best known for his BAFTA and BIFA winning feature documentary Bodysong, Pummell’s most recent film Shock Head Soul debuted at the 68th Venice Film Festival 2011.

The BFI funded Brand New U made the official selection for the Rotterdam Lab and is a multi platform, transmedia project featuring urban projection, geo- specific augmented reality, and online media.

JANINE MARMOT – PRODUCER

Films produced by Janine Marmot have won awards at festivals around the world, including a BAFTA and BIFA for Bodysong. She has produced documentaries and drama for television; working with directors including the Brothers Quay, Michael Whyte, Nichola Bruce, Tom Shankland and Christopher Petit, as well as producing the films of Simon Pummell. In 2006 she ran a workshop with Palme d’Or winning director Abbas Kiarostami in association with Channel Four and the LFS.

A dramedy about a man whose fear of responsibility is put to the test when a seven year old son he didn’t know he had unexpectedly enters his life.

‘Having You’ is a heartfelt, moving tale about relationships, family, and love. It is about life’s uncanny ability to test you when you are most vulnerable – and about the deep reserves we have in each of us to raise our game when it is most needed.

CAST Anna Friel, Romola Garai, Andrew Buchan and Phil Davis

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY Sam Hoare

Three Hours Between Planes is a new short film by Antony Easton starring Lisa Edelstein (West Wing, Ally McBeal, House) and James Le Gros (Drugstore Cowboy, Point Break, Mildred Pierce, Girls).

Apparently by chance, Donald Plant finds himself changing planes in his old hometown so he goes in search of Nancy, the girl he loved and lost in high school. Can they start over or will it end in tears?

Three Hours Between Planes is adapted from one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last short stories, written in the early 1940’s.

www.threehoursbetweenplanes.com

Award Winning Script ’74 Hours’

We are extremely excited to announce that Finite has optioned the award winning script ’74 Hours’ by Dan Hall.

The script, which tells the story of retired CIA assassin hunting for this kidnapped wife and daughter, recently won the Amazon Studios Best Screenplay prize.

More info…

The actor, 31, on posh parts, choppy seas and his new role as an Olympic rower.

Sam Hoare

He looks sad. Oh, but he isn’t. He has been, though – as a jobbing actor slogging away doing bit parts in Doctors and EastEnders for years. But times are a-changing. Sam Hoare is on the verge of “making it”.

What, when, where, why? After the audition of his life, Hoare has landed his first lead role opposite Matt Smith in the BBC’s one-off drama Bert & Dickie. It’s the story of Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell, the double sculls gold medallists who claimed victory at the 1948 “austerity games” in Britain. Continue Reading