Anchor Bay Entertainment is one of the leading distributors of independent feature films and home entertainment product and the home entertainment division of Starz Media, LLC. It includes the Anchor Bay Entertainment, Anchor Bay Films and Manga Entertainment brands.
Clout Communications are hired to promote theatrical and DVD releases in the UK.
From headlining in Brit horror comedy flick SEVERANCE & Frank Oz's Hollywood hit DEATH AT A FUNERAL, to directing Derren Brown and starring in E4's hit horror comedy DEAD SET. actor, writer Andy Nyman continues his steady rise to prominence. He will next be seen starring in Christopher Smith's new movie BLACK DEATH. He has also written GHOST STORIES with Jeremy Dyson - a stage play set for The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, March 2010. Clout Communications is retained to manage all press and public relations.
After four critically acclaimed movies, CREEP, SEVERANCE,TRIANGLE and now BLACK DEATH, the award-winning horror director Chris Smith has elevated his position from a talent to watch to one of the leading lights of the British cinema scene. Clout Communications are retained to handle all press & public relations.
Author of 33 books and recipient of 12 awards, Christopher Fowler, the acclaimed master of dark urban fiction has written his first memoir. PAPERBOY brilliantly captures the inner world of a 10-year-old struggling to free his imagination and pursue his love of words. Clout Communications is retained to handle all press and pubic relations.
"The best pulp fiction writer this side of Stephen King - i-D
Join Derren Brown on a whimsical journey where his endlessly engaging narrative will take you from the history of magic, to speculations on the manufacturing of Monster Munch and the correct way to poach an egg, via discussions about psychology, what he hums whilst cleaning his teeth and the social niceties surrounding Parmesan cheese.
"A deeply funny and eccentric triumph" Heat Magazine
Derren Brown is a consummate showman who has pushed the boundaries of magic entertainment to a new level and gained a global reputation for his originality, versatility and daring.
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"We know that he's really a warlord" Heat.
Derren Brown's latest smash-hit live show, SVENGALI, will be back on the road in 2012. manipulating the masses from February 2012.
Jaime Winstone stars alongside her father, Ray Winstone, in ELFIE HOPKINS, a twisted tale of cannibalism set in a British rural hunting village, which is currently shooting in Wales. Jaime plays the title role, a quirky “wanna-be” detective whose appetite for a real-life case is matched by the appetites of an enigmatic new family (The Gammons) who move into the village. The film also stars Aneurin Barnard, (Ironclad), Rupert Evans (Hellboy), Kate Magowan (Primeval) and Kimberley Nixon (Cherrybomb).
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Described as "one of the iconic women of horror", actress, presenter and all-round movie buff Emily Booth has been scaring the hell out of her fans since she burst onto the screen in the title role of the demonic PERVIRELLA. Roles in CRADLE OF FEAR, EVIL ALIENS, GRINDHOUSE & the more recent DOGHOUSE mark her out as "the queen of screams". She is also a TV presenter of some note, credits including four series of BITS, THE BIG BREAKFAST, EUROTRASH, outTHERE & SHOCK MOVIE MASSACRE. Clout Communications is retained to manage all press & publicity relations.
Rock singer turned film director Federico Zampaglione takes terror to new heights with his debut horror film SHADOW, which is being defined as "the renaissance of Italian horror". Screened at Film4 FrightFest to huge critical and audiance acclaim, the film tells the tale of a young soldier returning from a tour of duty in Iraq: a dark and unnerving shock to the system. Clout is retained as press representative for UK and International.
"Blends survivalist horror, torture porn and surreal fairytales into a mad, malevolent mix...which will leave audiences shuddering in fear" - Total Film
FrightFest, currently headline-sponsored by Film 4, is the UK's premiere horror and fantasy film festival with an annual, talent packed, five day event at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Sq., attracting over 25,000 people. The 2011 event runs from Thurs Aug 25 to Mon Aug 29 and will premiere 37 films. in two screens. There are eleven countries represented, with seven world premieres and twenty UK or European premieres.Greg Day is a co-director and Clout Communications supports the publicity, marketing and sponsorship activity.
The UK’s favourite horror fantasy festival returns to its second home at the Glasgow Film Festival for the 7th year with its biggest line-up ever. From Friday Feb 24 to Saturday Feb 25, Film4 FrightFest will be screening eleven new must-see genre titles. ten of which are UK premieres. So expect to be taken of the roller-coaster ride from hell with this ghoulish global celluloid feast, featuring Argentinean demons, flesh-hungry Russian zombies, mutant cannibals, a Chinese-speaking alien, Asia’s deadliest killers, a Croatian hit-man, Pinocchio obsessed psychos and Jack Nicholson like you’ve never seen him before.
With their feature film THE DEAD, director Howard J Ford, alongside his DOP and co-writer brother Jon Ford, have taken the zombie movie genre to a new level. Set in the endlessly scorching heart of West Africa and evoking comparisons tp George Romero with its edgy, socio-political pulse and apocolyptic tone, the film earmarks Ford as a future talent to behold.
"The Dead is a beautifully shot horror film...with an epic quality" - Screen International
Award-winning writer and broadcaster Jaci Stephen has written for all Britain’s quality newspapers, reviewing TV, film and books and writing general features and columns – all delivered with her unique brand of humour that has earned her a loyal readership.
She currently writes a weekly television column for the Daily Mail and has just completed the first volume of her brutally frank, yet warmly embracing memoirs – CRUSHED! - which chronicles her obsession with a US scriptwriter. She is writing VOLUME 2, SPLOTT TO HOLLYWOOD VIA HAPPY HOUR,
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Jake West has cheekily hacked, slashed and gored his way into recognition as a highly talented writer & director of horror/comedy films. With the imminent release of his fourth film, DOGHOUSE (nationwide from June 12), his currency is set to rise and further establish him as one of a crop of emerging Brit filmmakers injecting new blood into the genre.
DOGHOUSE, released in the UK by Vertigo Films in assocation with Carnaby International, stars Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke, Stephen Graham & Emily Booth as 'The Snipper'.
Jonathan Glendening is an emerging, award winning film director and screenwriterwhose two latest feature films are 13HRS, starring Tom Felton, Gemma Atkinson and Simon MacCorkindale and STRIPPERS Vs WEREWOLVES, a horror comedy, which will be released in April 2012. 13HRS will be released in the US in April 2012, under the title NIGHT WOLF and receives its UK TV première on the Horror Channel in March 2012.
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May I Kill U? is a UK feature film produced by Cyclops Vision and written/directed by the award-winning Stuart Urban (Our Friends In The North, Preaching To the Perverted, Revelation).
Set against the backdrop of the recent riots in London, Kevin Bishop plays a policeman with his own ‘riotous’ thoughts. With a helmet cam for company, he pedals forth in search of fame and retribution - with hilarious and devastating consequences. Also starring are Frances Barber, Jack Doolan and Hayley-Marie Axe,
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Established in 2007, Movie Mogul Films Ltd is a forward-thinking film production company dedicated to the development and production of innovative feature films. Headed up by MD and producer/director John Shackleton and Director of Operations, Gareth I. Davies the company has always had an eye on the changing digital landscape and the potential for producer empowerment through emerging platforms and direct to fan sales and marketing. Not adverse to taking chances in the ‘new world’, MM is constantly searching for the business model that works and makes sense to audiences and filmmakers alike. Their first film feature PANIC BUTTON was released in Nov 2011.
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Nucleus Films, a DVD label, was sent up in 2005 by filmmaker JAKE WEST & writer/film researcher MARC MORRIS. They are devoted to bringing rare cult films to the UK as well as producing documentaries and featurettes for DVD.
Their most recent success was VIDEO NASTIES: A DEFINITIVE GUIDE, which included Jake’s critically-acclaimed documentary VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP & VIDEOTAPE, which received its world premiere screening at FrightFest 2010 and was the flagship programme in Horror Channel’s ‘Season of the Banned’ in Nov 2011.
Clout Communications is retained to handle all press and public relations and to promote their theatrical and DVD releases in the UK.
Clout Communications is hired by Objective Productions to handle the press & publicity for Derren Brown's live shows, including sell-out national tours of DERREN BROWN MIND READER MIND READER - AN EVENING OF WONDERS, which enjoyed a critically acclaimed West End season at the Garrick Theatre, and Derren Brown:Enigma.