1-2-3-4
Synopsis:   Stevie's life is going nowhere. His only joy is his band that he rehearses with every saturday at the local community centre. Being in a band is never easy, especially when he persuades guitarist Billy Nixon to join, but nothing could prepare him for what's going to happen.
Director:   Giles Borg
Producer:   Simon Kearney
Screenwriter:   Giles Borg
Cast:   Ian Bonar, Lyndsey Marshal, Kieran Bew, Matthew Baynton
Enquiries:   Carson Films, 56 Minster Road
London NW2 3RE
England
simon@carsonfilms.co.uk
Status:   shooting from 14 April to 10 May 2008
Record last updated:   Apr 10, 2008

7 DAYS
Synopsis:  

Based on the fictionalised story of a prison inmate and his relationship with his wife and four children.

The film will combine documentary and fiction and will be shot over a 5-year period, to enable Winterbottom to explore the changing dynamics of a prisoner's relationships. It will be mostly shot within a working prison.

A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
Synopsis:   A washed-up hollywood actor heads to Stratford-upon-Avon to play King Lear in a last ditch attempt to revive his career but discovers that it is a production in a small English village.
Director:   Andy Cadiff
Producer:   David Parfitt
Screenwriter:   Ian Hislop, Nick Newman, John Ross, Jonathan Gersh
Cast:   Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton, Samantha Bond, Derek Jacobi, Charles Durning
Sales agent:   Odyssey Entertainment
Enquiries:   Odyssey Entertainment
10A James St
London
WC2E 8BT
Status:   shooting
Record last updated:   Apr 3, 2008

A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Synopsis:  

Based upon the Oscar Wilde play - a young man discovers his future employer is actually his father and a despicable character.

ABRAHAM'S POINT
Synopsis:   An antiques restorer has strange hallucinations urging him to steal a grandfather clock.
 
Director:   Wyndham Price
Producer:   Film Partnership (Tony Purves); Spinning Head Films; Film Agency for Wales
Screenwriter:   Wyndham Price
Cast:   Mackenzie Crook, Joseph Milson, Mariah Gale, Harriet Walter
Sales agent:   Moviehouse Entertainment
Enquiries:   Moviehouse Entertainment
4th Floor
11 Denmark St
London
WC2H 8LS
www.moviehouseent.com

Status:   in post-production
Record last updated:   Apr 16, 2008

ABSOLUTION
Synopsis:   A story about two alcoholics - Dan, a failed British rock singer and Dean, a mature American ex-marine....
Director:   Nathanarl Wiseman
Producer:   Bill Chamberlain
Screenwriter:   Nathanael Wiseman
Enquiries:   +44 (0)781 281 6731, nate@absolutionthefilm.com, http://www.absolutionthefilm.com/Absolution.html
Status:   in pre-production
Record last updated:   Apr 15, 2008

ADULTHOOD
Synopsis:  

Follow-up to Kidulthood

AFFINITY
Synopsis:   Set in the 1870s, a grieving upper class woman beomes a 'lady visitor' to Millbank Prison, hoping to escape her troubles, and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with the inmates, she is most fascinated by Selina, a medium
Director:   Tim Fywell
Producer:  
Screenwriter:   Andrew Davies, Sarah Waters (novel)
Cast:   Anna Madeley, Zoe Tapper, Domini Blythe, Anne Reid, Amanda Plummer
Enquiries:   Box TV
151 wardour St
London
W1F 8WE
T: +44 (0) 207 297 8040
F: + 44 (0) 207 297 8041
info@box-tv.co.uk
Status:   in post-production
Record last updated:   Apr 16, 2008

ALAN PARTRIDGE: THE MOVIE
Director:  
Producer:   TalkBack Productions
Screenwriter:   Steve Coogan, Patrick Marber
Cast:   Steve Coogan
Enquiries:   vicky smith
talkback
tel: 020 7691 6000
Status:   production on hold
Record last updated:   Mar 31, 2008

AN EDUCATION
Synopsis:   The story of a teenage girl's coming-of-age set in 1960s London, adapted from the memoir of celebrated British journalist Lynn Barber.
Director:   Lone Scherfig
Producer:   Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
Screenwriter:   Nick Hornby
Cast:   Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina, Orlando Bloom, Sally Hawkins
Sales agent:   Odyssey Entertainment
Enquiries:   Premier PR
91 Berwick St
London
W1F 0NE
tel: 020 7292 8330

Status:   shooting March-April 2008
Record last updated:   Mar 31, 2008

ANGEL MAKERS
Synopsis:   The women of a Yorkshire farming community in WWI turn murderous when their men return from the trenches to discover their places on the farms and in their beds have been taken by German POW's
Director:   Jon Amiel
Producer:   Jeanna Polley (The Producers Films)
Screenwriter:   Paul Billing
Cast:   John Hurt, Daniel Bruhl, Moritz Bleibtreu, Benno Furmann, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Anne-Marie Duff, Anna Friel
Sales agent:   Film Bridge International
Enquiries:   Film Bridge International
1316 Third Street Promenade
Suite 105
Santa Monica
CA 90401
USA
Tel: + 1 310 656 8680
Fax: + 1 310 656 8683
contact@filmbridgeinternational.com
Status:   in development
Record last updated:   Apr 15, 2008

ANGEL OF MONS, THE
Synopsis:   An angelic apparition above the trenches at Mons wins the battle for the British and compels a young woman to risk all at the front line to discover the truth
Director:  
Producer:   Frances Cook
Screenwriter:   Alice D Cooper
Enquiries:   Chocolate Chilli Films, +44 (0)20 7292 0656, info@chocolatechillifilms.com, www.chocolatechillifilms.com
Status:   in development
Record last updated:   Jul 5, 2007

ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING
Synopsis:  

Adaptation of the first in UK author Louise Rennison's best-selling Confessions Of Georgia Nicolson series about adolescent angst.

BARBARIAN PRINCESS
Synopsis:   Set in Hawaii in the late 19th century, the true story of an unlikely heroine Princess Ka'iulai who defends her people's independence against annexation by the USA
Director:   Marc Forby
Producer:   Nigel Thomas, Lauri Apelian, Ric Galindez, Ron Tijoe
Cast:   Q'orianka Kilcher, Shaun Evans, Barry pepper, Will Patton
Sales agent:   ContentFilm International
Enquiries:   ContentFilm plc
19 Heddon St
London
W1B 4BG
tel: ++ 44 (0) 207 851 4500
fax: ++ 44 (0) 207 851 6506
london@contentfilm.com
Status:   shooting
Record last updated:   Apr 4, 2008

BOBBY FISCHER GOES TO WAR
Synopsis:   Drama about the American chess whiz's victory over Boris Spassky in the 1972 World Chess Championships
Director:   Kevin Macdonald
Producer:   Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner
Screenwriter:   Shawn Slovo based on the book by David Edmonds and
Sales agent:   Universal
Enquiries:   Working Title
Status:   in pre-production
Record last updated:   Apr 3, 2008

BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS, THE
Synopsis:   Bruno's life is changed forever after he and his family move to a remote new home, and he strikes up a friendship with the only boy who appears to be around
Director:   Mark Herman
Producer:   David Heyman
Screenwriter:   Mark Herman, John Boyne (novel)
Cast:   Vera farmiga, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Richard Johnson, Sheila Hancock
Enquiries:   Heyday Films
tel: ++ 44 90) 207 836 6333
Status:   completed
Record last updated:   Apr 15, 2008
(completed)

BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN, THE (AUST/UK)
Director:   Scott Hicks
Producer:   Peter Bennett-Jones, Gerg Brenman, Tim White
Screenwriter:   Allan Cubitt
Cast:   Clive Owen
Sales agent:   Capitol Films (films@capitolfilms.com)
Status:   in pre-production
Record last updated:   Apr 15, 2008

BRAN MAK MORN
Director:   Peter Berg
Producer:   John Cameron; Tim Bevan, Paul Berrow, Eric Fellner
Screenwriter:   Robert E Howard, John Romano
Enquiries:   Working Title
Status:   in development - release scheduled for 2010
Record last updated:   Mar 31, 2008

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (US/UK)
Synopsis:   Big-screen adaptation of the novel by Evelyn Waugh: the memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII.
Director:   Julian Jarrold
Producer:   Kevin Loader; Ecosse Films (Robert Nernstein, Douglas Rae); BBC Films; 2entertain; Miramax
Screenwriter:   Andrew Davies, Jeremy Brock
Cast:   Ben Whishaw, Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Ed Stoppard, Felicity Jones, Jonathan Cake, Greta Scacchi
Sales agent:   Dreamachine
Enquiries:   info@hanwayfilms.com
Tel +44 20 7290 0750
Status:   in post-production
Record last updated:   Apr 16, 2008

BRIGHT STAR
Synopsis:   Drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25
Director:   Jane Campion
Producer:  
Screenwriter:   Jane Campion
Cast:   Abbie Cornish, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ben Whishaw, Jonathan Aris
Status:   in production
Record last updated:   Apr 4, 2008

BRONSON
Synopsis:   based on the life of the notorious UK criminal Charles Bronson
Director:   Nicolas Winding Refn
Producer:   Rupert Preston, Daniel Hansford
Screenwriter:   Brock Norman Brock, Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast:   Tom Hardy
Sales agent:   Protagonist Pictures
Enquiries:   Protagonist Pictures
15 Golden Square
London
W1F 9JG
Tel: ++ 44 90) 207 428 9264
Fax: ++ 44 (0) 207 485 9713
info@protagonistpictures.com
www.protagonistpictures.com
Status:   in post-production
Record last updated:   Apr 15, 2008

BRONTE (IE/UK)
Synopsis:   On the wet and wuthering moors of 19th century Yorkshire, the Bronte sisters emerge from the haven of their hidden fantasy worlds
Director:   Charles Sturridge
Producer:   Alistair Maclean-Clark, Basil Stephens (Random Harvest Pictures)
Screenwriter:   Angela Workman
Cast:   Michelle Williams, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Brian Cox, Imelda Staunton, Ben Chaplin
Sales agent:   Becker Films International
Enquiries:   AMC (Pinewood) +44 (0)1753 785 843
Status:   in pre-production
Record last updated:   Apr 1, 2008

CAITLIN
Synopsis:   The tempestuous relationship of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin
Director:   Marc Evans
Producer:   Salem Films
Screenwriter:   Jeff Murphy
Cast:   Miranda Richardson, Michael Sheen, Pierce Brosnan
Enquiries:   info@merlin.ie
Status:   in development
Record last updated:   Apr 7, 2008

CARMEN'S KISS
Synopsis:   A contemporary adaptation of Bizet's world famous opera, Carmen. Carmen's Kiss is a romantic thriller set in the East European underworld in London.
Director:   David Fairman
Producer:   David Fairman, Jon Morrey, Niall Stewart, Francoise Gouliardon
Screenwriter:   David Fairman & Niall Stewart
Cast:   Hugo Speer, Vivienne Harvey, Bruce Payne, Martin Kove
Enquiries:   Albion Films
27A Cobble Lane
London N1 1SF
T: +44 (0)207 288 2464
F: +44 (0) 207 159 1525
Status:   in post-production
Record last updated:   Apr 16, 2008

CARRY ON LONDON
Synopsis:  

A comedy based around the misadventures of a London limousine company hired to take celebrities to The Herberts, a new awards ceremony to rival the Oscars and Baftas. A continuation of the long-running Carry On.... series.

CASS
Synopsis:   Story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. Cass grew up in a  time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent-up anger came out in a violent burst, Cass found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times at point blank range. His inner strength somehow managed to keep him alive but he was left with the dilemma, whether to seek vengeance as the street had taught him, or renounce his violent past.
Director:   Jon S. Baird
Producer:   Stefan Heller; exectuvie producers Jon S. Baird, Will Clarke, John Quested, Pierre Weisbein
Screenwriter:   Jon S. Baird
Cast:   Leo Gregory, Tamer Hassan, Nathalie Press, Philip Davis, Nonso Anozie
Enquiries:   Optimum Releasing
Status:   in post-production
Record last updated:   Apr 7, 2008

CATHERINE AND PETER
Synopsis:  

A peasant maid falls in love with Peter the Great and goes on to rule the largest Empire in the world

CHARLIE PEPPER
Synopsis:   Time travel adventure
Director:   Abner and Kamma Pasroll
Producer:   Junyoung Jang, Ildiko Kemeny
Screenwriter:   Abner and Kamma Pasroll
Enquiries:   February Films
147 Kings Road
London
SW3 5TX
tel: ++ 44 780747 8245
flora8@februaryfilms.com
Status:   in development
Record last updated:   Apr 3, 2008

CHEMICAL WEDDING
Synopsis:   Simon Callow stars as Professor Oliver Haddo, a modern Cambridge scholar who becomes a re-incarnation of Aleister Crowley, the infamous occultist and self--proclaimed Satanist. Follows the Professor's invocation of Crowley, who then becomes the Professor himself. Having done so, he creates havoc on the university campus
Director:   Julian Doyle
Producer:   Malcolm Kohll, Justin Peyton, Benjamin Timlett, Brian Herlihy
Screenwriter:   Bruce Dickinson, Julian Doyle
Cast:   Simon Callow, John Shrapnel, Kal Weber,
Sales agent:   Cinema Management Group
Enquiries:   Creative Management Group
9056 Santa Monica Blvd
Suite 204
West Hollywood
CA 90066
USA
Tel: ++ 1 310 300 9959
Fax: ++ 1 310 300 9960
Contact:
Stephaine Boltjes
Operations Director
sb@creativemanagementgroup.com


Focus Films +44 20 7435 9004 focus@focusfilms.co.uk www.focusfilms.co.uk
Status:   completed to be released May 2008
Record last updated:   Apr 7, 2008
(completed)

CHERI
Synopsis:   Adapatation of the 1920s novel by French author, Colette about the lingering effects of a romance between a middle-aged woman and a wealthy young man 
Director:   Stephen Frears
Producer:   Bill Kenwright, Thom Mount
Screenwriter:   Christopher Hampton
Cast:   Michelle Pfeiffer
Sales agent:   Pathe International
Status:   in production
Record last updated:   Apr 3, 2008