Lola Arabia and Dubai’s Charisma Group are readying Agustí Villaronga’s “Arabian Aroma” and Pau Miró’s “Lost Symphony,” the first two titles in a 12-pic production alliance unveiled during the Berlin. Festival
Both movies are in pre-production, budgeted around 6 million and feature women “who passionately set themselves on a mission,” the partners announced. The films will be in English and Arabic, and are scheduled to roll around fall 2022. They target both international audiences and, as their local market, the Gulf states.
Reteaming Lola Arabia head Andrés Vicente Gómez and the two main creatives behind “Born a King,” a big period drama which scored heavily at Saudi Arabian cinema theaters, “Arabian Aroma” is penned by British scriptwriter Henry Fitzherbert.
It turns on Virginia, a British perfumer in her 70s who has lost her sense of smell. She sets out with her assistant, Basmah, a twentysomething Saudi, on a quest...
Both movies are in pre-production, budgeted around 6 million and feature women “who passionately set themselves on a mission,” the partners announced. The films will be in English and Arabic, and are scheduled to roll around fall 2022. They target both international audiences and, as their local market, the Gulf states.
Reteaming Lola Arabia head Andrés Vicente Gómez and the two main creatives behind “Born a King,” a big period drama which scored heavily at Saudi Arabian cinema theaters, “Arabian Aroma” is penned by British scriptwriter Henry Fitzherbert.
It turns on Virginia, a British perfumer in her 70s who has lost her sense of smell. She sets out with her assistant, Basmah, a twentysomething Saudi, on a quest...
- 5/22/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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.
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.
- 4/2/2020
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Madrid — Four years in the making, Agustí Villaronga’s “Born a King,” starring Ed Skrein (“Deadpool”) and Hermione Cornfield (“Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation”) and produced by Andrés Vicente Gómez, has caught box office fire in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Released wide on Sept. 26, the true events-based historical drama – framing the coming of age of Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, against the background of a diplomatic mission he led to London in 1919 at the tender age of 13 – has earned an exceptional first-four-day $972, 962 in UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, according to figures from its distributor, Dubai’s-based Vox Film Distribution.
The lion’s share of that was made in UAE, where it grossed $547,725.
However execrating for an independent film, the results are not totally surprising. “Born a King” is a Spain-u.K. production, whose producers, director and crew pack huge experience: Gómez, producer of Fernando Trueba’s...
Released wide on Sept. 26, the true events-based historical drama – framing the coming of age of Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia, against the background of a diplomatic mission he led to London in 1919 at the tender age of 13 – has earned an exceptional first-four-day $972, 962 in UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, according to figures from its distributor, Dubai’s-based Vox Film Distribution.
The lion’s share of that was made in UAE, where it grossed $547,725.
However execrating for an independent film, the results are not totally surprising. “Born a King” is a Spain-u.K. production, whose producers, director and crew pack huge experience: Gómez, producer of Fernando Trueba’s...
- 10/4/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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.
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.
- 3/12/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
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.
Also in trailers – Steve Carell searches for his missing son in trailer for Beautiful Boy
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...
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.
Also in trailers – Steve Carell searches for his missing son in trailer for Beautiful Boy
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...
- 8/10/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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.
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.
- 8/9/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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.
“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.
- 8/9/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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…...
- 8/7/2017
- Deadline
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