Kung Fu has recruited a pair of familiar CW faces: Kim Rhodes (Supernatural) and Ben Levin (Legacies) will recur during the show’s third season, our sister site Deadline reports.
Rhodes — who portrayed Sheriff Jody Mills on Supernatural — will play Carrie, the representative of a restaurant investment group that takes an interest in Harmony Dumplings. Levin (aka Legacies‘ Jed), meanwhile, will take on the role of Bo, a barista/vigilante whose extracurricular crime fighting leads to a collision with Nicky and her siblings.
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Rhodes — who portrayed Sheriff Jody Mills on Supernatural — will play Carrie, the representative of a restaurant investment group that takes an interest in Harmony Dumplings. Levin (aka Legacies‘ Jed), meanwhile, will take on the role of Bo, a barista/vigilante whose extracurricular crime fighting leads to a collision with Nicky and her siblings.
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- 7/27/2022
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Jess Gabor is set to join Bert Kreischer and Mark Hamill in the upcoming feature film The Machine, based on Kreischer’s hit viral story. The film will be directed by Peter Atencio and written by Kevin Biegel and Scotty Landes. Kreischer will also produce along with Legendary’s Cale Boyter and Levity’s Judi Marmel.
Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, the film is a genre-bending comedy inspired by Kreischer’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine The Machine, which has been viewed more than 85 million times. In it, his past catches up with him when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.
Philip Waley will executive produce, Jay Ashenfelter will associate produce, and Jonathan English will co-produce alongside Serbian production company Balkanic Media.
Gabor is recognized for her performance on Season...
Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, the film is a genre-bending comedy inspired by Kreischer’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine The Machine, which has been viewed more than 85 million times. In it, his past catches up with him when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.
Philip Waley will executive produce, Jay Ashenfelter will associate produce, and Jonathan English will co-produce alongside Serbian production company Balkanic Media.
Gabor is recognized for her performance on Season...
- 4/27/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Legendary has set filmmaker Peter Atencio to direct The Machine with Comedian Bert Kreischer and Mark Hamill set to co-star in the film inspired by Kreischer’s hit viral story. Atencio, Kreischer and Judi Marmel are producing the project.
Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, The Machine is a genre-bending comedy inspired by Bert’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine “The Machine,” which has been viewed more than 85 million times. Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.
Atencio directed all 55 episodes of Key & Peele “Key & Peele. He earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series along with multiple other Emmy nominations, a Peabody Award and an American Comedy Award. He is repped by UTA and managed...
Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, The Machine is a genre-bending comedy inspired by Bert’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine “The Machine,” which has been viewed more than 85 million times. Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.
Atencio directed all 55 episodes of Key & Peele “Key & Peele. He earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series along with multiple other Emmy nominations, a Peabody Award and an American Comedy Award. He is repped by UTA and managed...
- 4/14/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Comedian Bert Kreischer has found the force for his feature film The Machine as Mark Hamill has closed a deal to co-star in the Legendary film opposite Kreischer in the film inspired by his hit story. Kreischer and Judi Marmel are producing the project.
Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, the film is a genre-bending comedy inspired by Bert’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine “The Machine”, which has been viewed over 85 million times. Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.
Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies and reprised his role in both the sequels and the second season of The Mandalorian He also starred and co-starred in the films Corvette Summer,...
Described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run, the film is a genre-bending comedy inspired by Bert’s real-life adventures and subsequent breakout stand-up routine “The Machine”, which has been viewed over 85 million times. Bert’s drunken past catches up with him 20 years down the road when he and his father are kidnapped by those Bert wronged 20 years ago while drunk on a college semester abroad in Russia.
Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars movies and reprised his role in both the sequels and the second season of The Mandalorian He also starred and co-starred in the films Corvette Summer,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Mark Hamill is helping bring a viral hit to the screen.
The Star Wars actor will star opposite comedian Bert Kreischer in The Machine, Legendary’s adaptation of the popular story Kreischer told onstage about getting involved with the Russian mob while studying abroad in college. Peter Atencio, known for Key & Peele and Keanu, is directing.
Kreischer’s 2016 story has been viewed more than 85 million times, according to Legendary. The film is inspired by the stand-up routine and sees the events of the story catch up with the comedian 20 years later when he and his father (Hamill) get kidnapped by ...
The Star Wars actor will star opposite comedian Bert Kreischer in The Machine, Legendary’s adaptation of the popular story Kreischer told onstage about getting involved with the Russian mob while studying abroad in college. Peter Atencio, known for Key & Peele and Keanu, is directing.
Kreischer’s 2016 story has been viewed more than 85 million times, according to Legendary. The film is inspired by the stand-up routine and sees the events of the story catch up with the comedian 20 years later when he and his father (Hamill) get kidnapped by ...
- 4/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Mark Hamill is helping bring a viral hit to the screen.
The Star Wars actor will star opposite comedian Bert Kreischer in The Machine, Legendary’s adaptation of the popular story Kreischer told onstage about getting involved with the Russian mob while studying abroad in college.
Kreischer’s 2016 story has been viewed more than 85 million times. The film is inspired by the stand-up routine and sees the events of the story catch up with the comedian 20 years later when he and his father (Hamill) get kidnapped by the people Kreischer wronged. The film is described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run ...
The Star Wars actor will star opposite comedian Bert Kreischer in The Machine, Legendary’s adaptation of the popular story Kreischer told onstage about getting involved with the Russian mob while studying abroad in college.
Kreischer’s 2016 story has been viewed more than 85 million times. The film is inspired by the stand-up routine and sees the events of the story catch up with the comedian 20 years later when he and his father (Hamill) get kidnapped by the people Kreischer wronged. The film is described as The Hangover meets Midnight Run ...
- 4/13/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber, is a series on Production Design.
This week we mark the centennial of actress Giulietta Masina, which I consider an opportunity to do something a little different. The Furniture, as you might expect, is rarely a column about performance. I spend a lot of time trying to get screenshots without any actors present at all. Production design often works in support of performance, or in parallel, but rarely are they what you might call intertwined.
In the films of Federico Fellini, Masina’s husband and collaborator, design often threatens to overwhelm or absorb performance. Actors become moving props in his most extravagant productions, rotating like carousel horses around a central figure or two. And these protagonists are often ciphers of style themselves, particularly when they’re played by Marcello Mastroianni.
Not so with 1965's Juliet of the Spirits. Masina is the well from which the entire production springs.
This week we mark the centennial of actress Giulietta Masina, which I consider an opportunity to do something a little different. The Furniture, as you might expect, is rarely a column about performance. I spend a lot of time trying to get screenshots without any actors present at all. Production design often works in support of performance, or in parallel, but rarely are they what you might call intertwined.
In the films of Federico Fellini, Masina’s husband and collaborator, design often threatens to overwhelm or absorb performance. Actors become moving props in his most extravagant productions, rotating like carousel horses around a central figure or two. And these protagonists are often ciphers of style themselves, particularly when they’re played by Marcello Mastroianni.
Not so with 1965's Juliet of the Spirits. Masina is the well from which the entire production springs.
- 2/24/2021
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
It took ample trial and error for composers Mark Isham and Isabella Summers to get to the heart of Little Fires Everywhere.
Created by Liz Tigelaar, the Hulu miniseries centers on a Shaker Heights matriarch and her family whose lives are upended, when a mysterious mother and daughter come into town. The drama called for a score that would “capture the essence of these women,” Summers says, who had become completely entangled with one another. “We had an intellectual description in mind. We wanted to embrace big rock drums, chamber strings. Burning piano had become a sound,” Isham adds. “I literally have a sample of a piano that’s been set on fire, which seemed apocryphal and cool.”
But to translate intellectual understanding into an emotional, sonic experience, the pair first had to learn how to work as collaborators. One of the driving forces behind English indie rock band Florence and the Machine,...
Created by Liz Tigelaar, the Hulu miniseries centers on a Shaker Heights matriarch and her family whose lives are upended, when a mysterious mother and daughter come into town. The drama called for a score that would “capture the essence of these women,” Summers says, who had become completely entangled with one another. “We had an intellectual description in mind. We wanted to embrace big rock drums, chamber strings. Burning piano had become a sound,” Isham adds. “I literally have a sample of a piano that’s been set on fire, which seemed apocryphal and cool.”
But to translate intellectual understanding into an emotional, sonic experience, the pair first had to learn how to work as collaborators. One of the driving forces behind English indie rock band Florence and the Machine,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Deadline reports Syfy is developing a TV series adaptation of The Machine -- Caradog W. James' 2013 indie film. The artificial intelligence (AI) drama hails from Universal Cable Productions.The Machine, "...explores the epic conflict between man and technology through the lives and motivations of six interwoven characters – each of whom holds the key to humanity’s victory or its destruction." James will executive produce with Red & Black Films. John Giwa-Amu, who produced the feature, will also executive produce the pilot. Read More…...
- 9/16/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Syfy has ordered three new pilots, a remake of 2013 film “The Machine,” an adaptation of Grant Morrison graphic novel “Happy!” and “Haunted,” a supernatural horror drama. “The Machine,” based on the 2013 film of the same name starring Caity Lotz, will be executive produced and written by original filmmaker Caradog James with Red & Black Films. The film’s producer, John Giwa-Amu, will also executive produce the Syfy pilot. Set in a world that is being transformed by the emergence of artificial intelligence, the series explores the epic conflict between man and technology through the lives and motivations of six...
- 9/15/2016
- by Linda Ge
- The Wrap
Android sci-fi flick The Machine is becoming a TV show at Universal, as are two more comics - El Pantera and Kill Shakespeare...
Universal Cable Productions' push into geeky genres was already massive (see: their alliance with Dark Horse Comics, for a start), and now it’s got even bigger. Reports yesterday from Comic-Con enlightened us about three new geek-friendly properties on Universal’s TV slate.
First up – The Machine. The low-budget British sci-fi film from writer-director Caradog James, which starred Caity Lotz, will be adapted into a television series for Syfy. As The Hollywood Reporter puts it, The Machine ‘follows a brilliant computer programmer, desperate to save his terminally ill daughter, who creates the first-ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence. But things go terribly wrong with the technology.’
(If you haven't seen The Machine yet, it's extremely good and well worth tracking down.)
Secondly, popular 1970s Mexican comic...
Universal Cable Productions' push into geeky genres was already massive (see: their alliance with Dark Horse Comics, for a start), and now it’s got even bigger. Reports yesterday from Comic-Con enlightened us about three new geek-friendly properties on Universal’s TV slate.
First up – The Machine. The low-budget British sci-fi film from writer-director Caradog James, which starred Caity Lotz, will be adapted into a television series for Syfy. As The Hollywood Reporter puts it, The Machine ‘follows a brilliant computer programmer, desperate to save his terminally ill daughter, who creates the first-ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence. But things go terribly wrong with the technology.’
(If you haven't seen The Machine yet, it's extremely good and well worth tracking down.)
Secondly, popular 1970s Mexican comic...
- 7/10/2015
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
With Comic-Con happening this week, there are naturally even more genre projects being touted than normal – and that’s saying something, given how comic books and sci-fi are so dominant at the moment. There are a couple of new ones to report on: 2014’s techno-thriller The Machine is being developed as a TV series and award-wining graphic novel scribe Warren Ellis is adapting Mexican comic El Pantera for Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd.It’s all part of a big announcement from Universal Cable Productions, which has been rounding up more titles to turn into TV series. The Machine will find the movie’s writer/director Caradog W. James working on turning the film’s concept about a scientist working on artificial intelligence to help injured soldiers and his own daughter that is co-opted by the military in the search for a new type of killing machine into a show that can span seasons.
- 7/8/2015
- EmpireOnline
United Talent Agency’s Bec Smith and director Caradog James were among the speakers discussing how post-first feature directors can make the leap to an international career.
Chaired by Ben Roberts (director, BFI Film Fund), the discussion was held in association with Screen International, and featured Matthew Bates (Sayle Screen), Bec Smith (United Talent Agency), Paul Federbush (International Director, Feature Film Program at Sundance Institute), Caradog James (Little White Lies, The Machine), Glenn Leyburn (Cherrybomb, Good Vibrations)
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Chaired by Ben Roberts (director, BFI Film Fund), the discussion was held in association with Screen International, and featured Matthew Bates (Sayle Screen), Bec Smith (United Talent Agency), Paul Federbush (International Director, Feature Film Program at Sundance Institute), Caradog James (Little White Lies, The Machine), Glenn Leyburn (Cherrybomb, Good Vibrations)
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- 5/18/2015
- ScreenDaily
With the Blu-ray/DVD release just around the corner (June 17th) it is time to whet your appetite for Caradog James' sci-fi flick The Machine. We have an exclusive clip to share with you.Set in the near-future Britain, two computer programmers fall in love as they create the first-ever piece of self-aware artificial intelligence, designed to help humanity. But things go terribly wrong when the British Government steals their breakthrough and teaches it to become a robotic weapon. The film is written and directed by new filmmaker Caradog W. James and stars Caity Lotz (Arrow) in a breakthrough role as "Ava" the machine alongside Toby Stephens (Black Sails) as the other computer programmer. This clip is at the opening of the film so there is no...
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- 6/6/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The official Blu-ray and DVD release of Caradog James' The Machine is heading our way, and we have a look at the home video artwork. Press the power button, sit back, and hope that this automated terror delivers the horror goodies!
The Machine will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on June 17, 2014.
Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), Caity Lotz (The Pact, "Mad Men"), and Denis Lawson (Star Wars, Local Hero) star. Look for more on this one soon!
Synopsis
Britain is in a Cold War with a new enemy, and the Ministry of Defense is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) provides the answer with his creation, ‘The Machine’ - an android with unrivaled physical and processing skills. When a programming glitch causes an early prototype to destroy his lab, McCarthy enlists artificial intelligence expert Ava (Caity Lotz) to help him harness...
The Machine will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on June 17, 2014.
Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), Caity Lotz (The Pact, "Mad Men"), and Denis Lawson (Star Wars, Local Hero) star. Look for more on this one soon!
Synopsis
Britain is in a Cold War with a new enemy, and the Ministry of Defense is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) provides the answer with his creation, ‘The Machine’ - an android with unrivaled physical and processing skills. When a programming glitch causes an early prototype to destroy his lab, McCarthy enlists artificial intelligence expert Ava (Caity Lotz) to help him harness...
- 5/12/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Caradog W. James's The Machine (review) is not only a really great bit of sci-fi, it comes from a director who is very intelligent, has a sense of humor and really understands the importance of storytelling which is quite likely why the movie is as successful as it is.
I recently had a chance to speak with James regarding the production including the year of research before he even began writing the script, his secret meeting with an MoD employee and how setting a man on fire isn't as easy as it sounds.
Congratulations on the movie. I really enjoyed it.
Fantastic. That's great to hear.
I was looking at the other movies you worked on previously to t [Continued ...]...
I recently had a chance to speak with James regarding the production including the year of research before he even began writing the script, his secret meeting with an MoD employee and how setting a man on fire isn't as easy as it sounds.
Congratulations on the movie. I really enjoyed it.
Fantastic. That's great to hear.
I was looking at the other movies you worked on previously to t [Continued ...]...
- 4/30/2014
- QuietEarth.us
Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens star in The Machine, a sci-fi drama that continues a lengthy tradition of films pondering the ethics of AI research and the possibility of AI taking over society. The Machine successfully pays homage to all those dimly lit sci-fi films that were popping up in the early eighties, complete with a very eighties soundtrack comprised entirely of luscious synth sounds that make a man want to pull his Casio keyboard from the closet. In particular, the vibe of The Machine conjures up images and sounds of films like The Hunger, Looker, The Thing, Blade Runner, and Escape from New York.
- 4/24/2014
- by Dirk Sonniksen
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
The perils of creating artificial intelligence have long been a sci-fi preoccupation, and The Machine brings little new to the subject save for an ominously ambiguous conclusion about the consequences of making computers more advanced than their human masters.
In a future marked by a cold war between China and the West, "genius" scientist Vincent (Toby Stephens) searches for a way to cure his brain-damaged daughter via his government research injecting implants into injured soldiers. When his colleague Ava (Caity Lotz) is murdered, he resurrects her as an android whose dawning consciousness offers hope for Vincent's little girl but strikes villainous bigwig Thomson (Denis Lawson) as a pesky obstacle to turning robo-Ava into a servile killing machine.
What follow...
In a future marked by a cold war between China and the West, "genius" scientist Vincent (Toby Stephens) searches for a way to cure his brain-damaged daughter via his government research injecting implants into injured soldiers. When his colleague Ava (Caity Lotz) is murdered, he resurrects her as an android whose dawning consciousness offers hope for Vincent's little girl but strikes villainous bigwig Thomson (Denis Lawson) as a pesky obstacle to turning robo-Ava into a servile killing machine.
What follow...
- 4/23/2014
- Village Voice
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The Turing test, created by and named for famed WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, is designed to test a computer’s level of artificial intelligence by having someone engage it in conversation with the intention of determining if they’re talking with a computer or another person. The machine is considered to have passed the test if it’s able to convince people (or leave them uncertain) at least thirty percent of the time. It’s a real-world challenge that’s been...
The Turing test, created by and named for famed WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, is designed to test a computer’s level of artificial intelligence by having someone engage it in conversation with the intention of determining if they’re talking with a computer or another person. The machine is considered to have passed the test if it’s able to convince people (or leave them uncertain) at least thirty percent of the time. It’s a real-world challenge that’s been...
- 4/22/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Imitation of Life: James’ Sci-Fi Thriller Plumbs Dark Recesses of A.I.
While its ingenious ideas are sometimes marred by obvious budgetary limitations, director Caradog W. James’ second feature, The Machine is a highly enjoyable and brooding sci-fi flick in the philosophical vein of Blade Runner, with a smattering of other similarly minded or styled classics, such as Lang’s Metropolis heavy on its mind. Even though it sometimes looks like a film that seems tailor made for the Syfy Channel, James still manages to create an appropriate atmosphere with its cavernous, dimly lit underground bunkers. An arresting and ambient score reminiscent of Vangelis and early John Carpenter is complimentary to its simple yet hypnotic spell.
In the not too distant future, the UK seems to be languishing in the throes of the preapocalypse as the Western world is heavily engaged in a Cold War with China. The government...
While its ingenious ideas are sometimes marred by obvious budgetary limitations, director Caradog W. James’ second feature, The Machine is a highly enjoyable and brooding sci-fi flick in the philosophical vein of Blade Runner, with a smattering of other similarly minded or styled classics, such as Lang’s Metropolis heavy on its mind. Even though it sometimes looks like a film that seems tailor made for the Syfy Channel, James still manages to create an appropriate atmosphere with its cavernous, dimly lit underground bunkers. An arresting and ambient score reminiscent of Vangelis and early John Carpenter is complimentary to its simple yet hypnotic spell.
In the not too distant future, the UK seems to be languishing in the throes of the preapocalypse as the Western world is heavily engaged in a Cold War with China. The government...
- 4/21/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Title: The Machine Director: Caradog W. James Starring: Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson Running time: 91 Minutes, Rate R, In theaters 04.25.14 Vincent (Toby Stephens), a reclusive computer programmer is running a sham competition, promising a huge grant to any programmer that can come up with a form of artificial intelligence after his own program to rehabilitate soldiers with brain injuries fails with horrific results. A woman named Ava (Caity Lotz) comes to him with her own design, a program that is self aware. After being told the grant is actually a job interview, she decides to take it anyway. Together they form a bond and he popes they [ Read More ]
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- 4/17/2014
- by juliana
- ShockYa
I was once told that the amount of data you could fit on a microchip doubles every 2 years. It’s referred to as Moore’s law, and the more I think about it, the scarier it gets. When you boil down human beings to their most fundamental brain activity, we essentially get a gigantic, almost infinite list of yes/no decisions – the key word there being “almost.” There will be a point, maybe far off, maybe closer than we’d like to think, where an entire person’s thought process will be able to fit on a hard drive.
It’s a slightly creepy prospect, more than matched by the proposition of artificial intelligence as a now genuinely possible scientific breakthrough. Humanity’s capacity to learn is limited by their mortal bounds – our brains can only think so fast and hold so much information – but this theoretic super computer has no such restraints.
It’s a slightly creepy prospect, more than matched by the proposition of artificial intelligence as a now genuinely possible scientific breakthrough. Humanity’s capacity to learn is limited by their mortal bounds – our brains can only think so fast and hold so much information – but this theoretic super computer has no such restraints.
- 4/3/2014
- by Dominic Mill
- We Got This Covered
Stars: Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Sam Hazeldine, Denis Lawson, Lee Nicholas Harris, Pooneh Hajimohammadi, John Stylianou, Sule Rimi | Written and Directed by Caradog W. James
Robots fascinate us, just think of a movie or book that looks at the nature of robotics and you’ll be able to come up with at least one. The Machine is a film that appears to focus on robots, and one of the main characters is in fact just that. Underneath this though is an interesting look at Artificial Intelligence and the question of when does a machine become classed as a living being?
With the UK and China stuck in a cold war where the race for technological supremacy is the key to gaining advantage two doctors are given the task to build an artificial intelligence capable of being self-aware. Vincent (Stephens) and Ava (Lotz) attempt to create this for the good of humanity,...
Robots fascinate us, just think of a movie or book that looks at the nature of robotics and you’ll be able to come up with at least one. The Machine is a film that appears to focus on robots, and one of the main characters is in fact just that. Underneath this though is an interesting look at Artificial Intelligence and the question of when does a machine become classed as a living being?
With the UK and China stuck in a cold war where the race for technological supremacy is the key to gaining advantage two doctors are given the task to build an artificial intelligence capable of being self-aware. Vincent (Stephens) and Ava (Lotz) attempt to create this for the good of humanity,...
- 3/24/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Toby Stephens has heavily criticised the UK film industry.
The 44-year-old actor - and son of Dame Maggie Smith - has described the disappointment he feels when receiving British scripts.
"Generally, when I get sent British scripts - and this isn't a generalisation - nine times out of ten my heart sinks after about three pages," the Vexed star told BBC News.
"We need to stop trying to imitate America. We need to stop trying to do the same movies over and over: the gangsters and football violence."
He added: "We do these intelligentsia movies about married couples in Hampstead or whatever. I think there's a place for all those things but we can't keep on repeating ourselves."
Stephens explained that his latest project, British sci-fi thriller The Machine, was an exception to the rule.
"This script came through and it blew me away. It's not about football violence, it's not about gangsters,...
The 44-year-old actor - and son of Dame Maggie Smith - has described the disappointment he feels when receiving British scripts.
"Generally, when I get sent British scripts - and this isn't a generalisation - nine times out of ten my heart sinks after about three pages," the Vexed star told BBC News.
"We need to stop trying to imitate America. We need to stop trying to do the same movies over and over: the gangsters and football violence."
He added: "We do these intelligentsia movies about married couples in Hampstead or whatever. I think there's a place for all those things but we can't keep on repeating ourselves."
Stephens explained that his latest project, British sci-fi thriller The Machine, was an exception to the rule.
"This script came through and it blew me away. It's not about football violence, it's not about gangsters,...
- 3/21/2014
- Digital Spy
Bit of a treat for you this Friday: below, you can see the first five minutes (plus some credits) from new British sci-fi thriller The Machine, which will seriously wake you up from any end-of-the-week stupour into which you might have fallen. Be warned, however, that this footage is not for the faint of heart, and that there's a certain amount of blood splatter. brightcove.createExperiences();The film is set in a world gripped by a new Cold War, where Britain is a poor shadow even of its current self. Scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) is working on helping injured soldiers as we see in this clip, but soon switches to work, alongside artificial intelligence expert Ava (Caity Lotz), on the titular Machine, an android with thinking as well as fighting skills that could negotiate peace as well as fight. Of course, with pressure from his bosses to produce a simple,...
- 3/7/2014
- EmpireOnline
Don’t expect to see any ass-kicking, super intelligent robots that look like Caity Lotz to hit the market anytime soon, but, until the real scientists move beyond mapping slug brains, you can catch the ultimate cybernetic super soldier in action in Caradog James’ Tribeca Film Festival entry, “The Machine.” Neck deep in the second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is desperate to develop the ultimate weapon to give them the edge so they hire expert programmer Dr. Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens). Vincent does manage to develop an implant to restore a degree of life to veterans suffering from brain damage, but in order to prefect the design and avoid [ Read More ]
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- 4/22/2013
- by Perri Nemiroff
- ShockYa
The Tribeca Film Festival announced the second half of its movie slate today with a lineup that includes Emma Roberts in Adult World, Zac Efron in racing-cum-farming drama At Any Price, and Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight. The releases are in the following categories, which make up the second half of the festival’s feature list: Spotlight, Midnight, Special Screenings, and Storyscapes, a new category this year to recognize work in transmedia — films the incorporate web-based and cross-platform elements.
The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison,...
The Spotlight selection — 33 films: 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — stands out for its range of titles, including premieres from indie darlings (Junebug director Phil Morrison,...
- 3/6/2013
- by Adam Carlson
- EW - Inside Movies
Casting has begun on The Machine, a film described as a sci-fi/thriller mixed with a love story wrapped up in a "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"-like package. Unveiled at Cannes, the project is to be directed by Caradog James and is produced by John Giwa-Amu and, this morning, we have a lengthy plot synopsis to share which reveals the filmmakers are definitely thinking "big" with this one.
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