Alessandro Camon is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter ( The Messenger), playwright (Time Alone) and former Head of Production at Pressman Films. His production credits with Pressman include American Psycho, Thank You For Smoking, The Cooler, Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. He recently wrote the Steve Buscemi-directed Tessa Thompson-starrer The Listener, and the play Scintilla, which opens in Los Angeles in April.
Ed Pressman was sui generis.
He was a rebel with a bowtie. He was a shy, soft-spoken man with a bold vision and relentless drive.
He was an original thinker, even an eccentric, sometimes a contrarian, always a dreamer.
He was always unafraid to embrace a new idea, a difficult project, an untested filmmaker with great ambition and little experience.
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Ed Pressman was sui generis.
He was a rebel with a bowtie. He was a shy, soft-spoken man with a bold vision and relentless drive.
He was an original thinker, even an eccentric, sometimes a contrarian, always a dreamer.
He was always unafraid to embrace a new idea, a difficult project, an untested filmmaker with great ambition and little experience.
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- 1/23/2023
- by Alessandro Camon
- Deadline Film + TV
Nick Aldwinckle Dec 21, 2016
The Bottom Shelf returns, with more DVDs and Blu-rays of a horror persuasion...
Anyone who had the pleasure of catching veteran horror director, cinematic musical hero and all-round (if we subtly forget to mention Escape From L.A) legend John Carpenter on his recent debut live concert tour will be more than familiar with his skilled craftsmanship in the field of synth earworms. With the Blu-ray release of Assault On Precinct 13 in November comes perhaps the best of said themes, as we delve into a Santa’s sack of cinematic treats.
Carpenter’s 1976 budget siege thriller, inspired by classic western Rio Bravo and George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, follows the skeleton staff of a police station about to close for the last time as they and the few remaining prisoners fend off a marauding band of, erm, marauders. Only Carpenter’s...
The Bottom Shelf returns, with more DVDs and Blu-rays of a horror persuasion...
Anyone who had the pleasure of catching veteran horror director, cinematic musical hero and all-round (if we subtly forget to mention Escape From L.A) legend John Carpenter on his recent debut live concert tour will be more than familiar with his skilled craftsmanship in the field of synth earworms. With the Blu-ray release of Assault On Precinct 13 in November comes perhaps the best of said themes, as we delve into a Santa’s sack of cinematic treats.
Carpenter’s 1976 budget siege thriller, inspired by classic western Rio Bravo and George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, follows the skeleton staff of a police station about to close for the last time as they and the few remaining prisoners fend off a marauding band of, erm, marauders. Only Carpenter’s...
- 12/19/2016
- Den of Geek
Nick wades into another stack of DVD releases, including 80s action epic Remo: Unarmed And Dangerous, and lots more besides...
"Whatever happened to Fred Ward?" is a line surely on the tip of most people’s tongues. Apparently, the star of Tremors and The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult has mostly been doing TV work over the last few years, though you’ll almost certainly remember him as the charismatic star of 1985’s Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. No? Well, shame on you, because Remo, making a welcome Blu-Ray debut, leads this month’s action-packed, erm, action special.
If you weren’t one of the lucky few that grew up with the preposterous movie otherwise known as Remo: Unarmed And Dangerous punctuating their childhood, we’ll fill you in. Riding on the success of the Rambo films (essentially, the only tenuous link being the vaguely similar name), Bond director...
"Whatever happened to Fred Ward?" is a line surely on the tip of most people’s tongues. Apparently, the star of Tremors and The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult has mostly been doing TV work over the last few years, though you’ll almost certainly remember him as the charismatic star of 1985’s Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. No? Well, shame on you, because Remo, making a welcome Blu-Ray debut, leads this month’s action-packed, erm, action special.
If you weren’t one of the lucky few that grew up with the preposterous movie otherwise known as Remo: Unarmed And Dangerous punctuating their childhood, we’ll fill you in. Riding on the success of the Rambo films (essentially, the only tenuous link being the vaguely similar name), Bond director...
- 9/9/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
A low budget, low concept British science fiction film should accept that it is what it is and have a little fun. Scintilla is exactly this, a cheap, dark project about a team of hired mercenaries who must break into a heavily guarded, out of use war camp to retrieve an unnamed object. Set in an ambiguous post war era which could be either the present or future, the band of misfits, lead by a weary ex soldier type (John Lynch) deceive the Eastern European dwellers of the camp into letting them in, before burrowing through a maze of thick underground tunnels.
It’s a dull, rehearsed story that takes itself too seriously; the cat and mouse games can be pre-empted way before they happen, and the characters are devoid of any dimension, serving only as fodder. Any vaguely interesting cast members are culled quickly and early on, leaving a...
It’s a dull, rehearsed story that takes itself too seriously; the cat and mouse games can be pre-empted way before they happen, and the characters are devoid of any dimension, serving only as fodder. Any vaguely interesting cast members are culled quickly and early on, leaving a...
- 8/18/2014
- by Beth Webb
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: John Lynch, Craig Conway, Antonia Thomas, Jumayan Hunter, Morjana Alaoui, Beth Winslet | Written by Steve Clark, Josh Golga, Rob Green, Billy O’Brien, G.P. Taylor | Directed by Billy O’Brien
Review by Andrew McArthur
British horror is not particularly good at hitting the middle ground – it normally finds itself at either extreme end of the quality spectrum: from painfully awful to groundbreakingly brilliant. Sitting comfortably at the low-end of this spectrum is sci-fi horror Scintilla.
Scintilla follows a group of mercenaries tasked with infiltrating a subterranean military research facility. However, there they uncover far more gruesome horrors than they were expecting.
Three ingredients which normally make a good sci-fi or horror film are tension, scares or disturbing imagery, and at the very least a self-aware humour. If one of these factors is missing, proceedings are usually redeemable thanks to either of the other two. I can’t count the...
Review by Andrew McArthur
British horror is not particularly good at hitting the middle ground – it normally finds itself at either extreme end of the quality spectrum: from painfully awful to groundbreakingly brilliant. Sitting comfortably at the low-end of this spectrum is sci-fi horror Scintilla.
Scintilla follows a group of mercenaries tasked with infiltrating a subterranean military research facility. However, there they uncover far more gruesome horrors than they were expecting.
Three ingredients which normally make a good sci-fi or horror film are tension, scares or disturbing imagery, and at the very least a self-aware humour. If one of these factors is missing, proceedings are usually redeemable thanks to either of the other two. I can’t count the...
- 7/4/2014
- by Guest
- Nerdly
The Hybrid Trailer. Billy O’Brien‘s The Hybrid / Scintilla (2014) movie trailer stars John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Craig Conway, Antonia Thomas, and Beth Winslet. The Hybrid‘s plot synopsis: “From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for [...]
Continue reading: The Hybrid (2014) Movie Trailer: Alien & Human DNA Spliced Together...
Continue reading: The Hybrid (2014) Movie Trailer: Alien & Human DNA Spliced Together...
- 6/22/2014
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Scintilla takes a well worn premise and adds nothing particularly new to it. Following a group of hard-bitten mercenaries as they escort an Important Scientist through war-torn Eastern Europe some time in the near future, it starts strong but sags in the middle and soon becomes a cliche ridden mess, let down by cardboard characters and endless expository dialogue. It sounds strange, but I was enjoying this film right up until I realised that I really wasn't enjoying it.
The film starts in true Escape From New York style, as battle-scarred war veteran 'Jim' (John Lynch) is offered a pardon from prison in exchange for his services as a guide and bodyguard. He recruits a team of ultimate bad-asses and proceeds with the mission: To infiltrate a former Soviet army barracks whic [Continued ...]...
The film starts in true Escape From New York style, as battle-scarred war veteran 'Jim' (John Lynch) is offered a pardon from prison in exchange for his services as a guide and bodyguard. He recruits a team of ultimate bad-asses and proceeds with the mission: To infiltrate a former Soviet army barracks whic [Continued ...]...
- 6/20/2014
- QuietEarth.us
English-language thriller set on French Riviera in the 1950s due to shoot July 2015.
Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s upcoming thriller The Beauty of Sharks was one of the hot projects at the inaugural edition of the Paris Coproduction Village, which unfolded off the French capital’s Champs Elysees last week.
Two French buyers were rumoured to be circling the thriller about a group of Us expatriate hustlers living on the French Riviera, who are trying to get a piece of an elderly socialite’s millions.
It is based on an original screenplay by UK writer Rob Green who recently worked on Billy O’Brien’s horror romance Scintilla.
The feature is produced by Filip Jan Rymsza of Royal Road Entertainment, which is based out of Los Angeles with satellite offices in New York and Luxembourg. Rymsza, who has a dual Us and Polish nationality, also takes a co-writing credit.
“The plan is to raise finance both out...
Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz’s upcoming thriller The Beauty of Sharks was one of the hot projects at the inaugural edition of the Paris Coproduction Village, which unfolded off the French capital’s Champs Elysees last week.
Two French buyers were rumoured to be circling the thriller about a group of Us expatriate hustlers living on the French Riviera, who are trying to get a piece of an elderly socialite’s millions.
It is based on an original screenplay by UK writer Rob Green who recently worked on Billy O’Brien’s horror romance Scintilla.
The feature is produced by Filip Jan Rymsza of Royal Road Entertainment, which is based out of Los Angeles with satellite offices in New York and Luxembourg. Rymsza, who has a dual Us and Polish nationality, also takes a co-writing credit.
“The plan is to raise finance both out...
- 6/16/2014
- ScreenDaily
Your heart can cause you to do a lot of things should you think with it. Love. Hate. Murder. Mayhem. Yep it can be a tricky and evil little thing should you let it. Thankfully most people do and that makes for great entertainment!
Screen Daily is reporting that Signature Entertainment has inked a UK deal for UK horror-romance In A Heartbeat, starring Danny Dyer. Keith Allen and Zoe Grisedale co-star in the completed feature about a young man who falls in love with a strange but beautiful model newly arrived from America.
Writer-director-producer Raoul Girard is currently in Cannes discussing the project with sellers. The Lovelight Ltd Production feature is executive produced by Doug Abbott of ScreenProjex Ltd (Scintilla).
SFX supervisor is Cliff Wallace (28 Weeks Later). Co-producers are Arnaud Vaissie and Marc Mourre.
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Screen Daily is reporting that Signature Entertainment has inked a UK deal for UK horror-romance In A Heartbeat, starring Danny Dyer. Keith Allen and Zoe Grisedale co-star in the completed feature about a young man who falls in love with a strange but beautiful model newly arrived from America.
Writer-director-producer Raoul Girard is currently in Cannes discussing the project with sellers. The Lovelight Ltd Production feature is executive produced by Doug Abbott of ScreenProjex Ltd (Scintilla).
SFX supervisor is Cliff Wallace (28 Weeks Later). Co-producers are Arnaud Vaissie and Marc Mourre.
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- 5/21/2014
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Horror-romance starring Danny Dyer sells to UK distributor.
Signature Entertainment has inked a UK deal for UK horror-romance In A Heartbeat, starring Danny Dyer.
Keith Allen and Zoe Grisedale co-star in the completed feature about a young man who falls in love with a strange but beautiful model newly arrived from America.
Writer-director-producer Raoul Girard is currently in Cannes discussing the project with sellers.
The Lovelight Ltd Production feature is executive produced by Doug Abbott of ScreenProjex Ltd (Scintilla).
SFX supervisor is Cliff Wallace (28 Weeks Later). Co-producers are Arnaud Vaissie and Marc Mourre.
Signature Entertainment has inked a UK deal for UK horror-romance In A Heartbeat, starring Danny Dyer.
Keith Allen and Zoe Grisedale co-star in the completed feature about a young man who falls in love with a strange but beautiful model newly arrived from America.
Writer-director-producer Raoul Girard is currently in Cannes discussing the project with sellers.
The Lovelight Ltd Production feature is executive produced by Doug Abbott of ScreenProjex Ltd (Scintilla).
SFX supervisor is Cliff Wallace (28 Weeks Later). Co-producers are Arnaud Vaissie and Marc Mourre.
- 5/21/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
All sorts of goodies have emerged in promotion of Scintilla now that the flick has found both UK and Us distribution. Mongrel Media has acquired all rights for North America, and Metrodome will be bringing the flick to the UK.
eOne had previously acquired rights for France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Directed by Billy O’Brien, Scintilla stars John Lynch, Craig Conway, Antonia Thomas, Jumayan Hunter, Morjana Alaoui, and Beth Winslet.
Synopsis
An elite team of mercenaries is chosen to carry out a covert operation deep in a former Soviet state. They must first battle the ferocious armed militia at ground level before descending through a maze of tunnels inhabited by dark, menacing creatures. When the team members arrive at an underground laboratory, they discover the purpose of their mission: A genius scientist has been genetically splicing alien DNA with human, and the results of this revolutionary work must be secured.
eOne had previously acquired rights for France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Directed by Billy O’Brien, Scintilla stars John Lynch, Craig Conway, Antonia Thomas, Jumayan Hunter, Morjana Alaoui, and Beth Winslet.
Synopsis
An elite team of mercenaries is chosen to carry out a covert operation deep in a former Soviet state. They must first battle the ferocious armed militia at ground level before descending through a maze of tunnels inhabited by dark, menacing creatures. When the team members arrive at an underground laboratory, they discover the purpose of their mission: A genius scientist has been genetically splicing alien DNA with human, and the results of this revolutionary work must be secured.
- 2/6/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Trailer for an upcoming thriller co-starring Brit actress Antonia Thomas, titled Scintilla, directed by Billy O'Brien, from his own script. Scintilla follows a mercenary who's released from prison and is assigned to a mission to lead a team into a former Soviet state and infiltrate an illegal militia uprising. Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job. A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found! Starring alongside Thomas in the ensemble cast are...
- 11/5/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
UK horror/sci-fi film Scintilla has some new artwork and a pretty effective trailer to share. Look for more soon on this tale of mercenaries who discover a radical scientist's shocking creations and must save future generations from a human race genetically spliced with alien DNA.
Scintilla is directed by Billy O’Brien (Isolation). Producers include Lionel Hicks and Craig Conway for Forefront Features and Liquid Noise Films with co-producers Doug Abbott and John Wolstenholme.
The film’s ensemble cast is comprised of John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Dennehy, Craig Conway, Beth Winslet, Antonia Thomas, and more.
Related Story: First Details, Images, and Behind-the-Scenes Videos from New UK Horror/Sci-Fi Project Scintilla
Scintilla - Trailer - The best home videos are here
Synopsis:
A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only so...
Scintilla is directed by Billy O’Brien (Isolation). Producers include Lionel Hicks and Craig Conway for Forefront Features and Liquid Noise Films with co-producers Doug Abbott and John Wolstenholme.
The film’s ensemble cast is comprised of John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Dennehy, Craig Conway, Beth Winslet, Antonia Thomas, and more.
Related Story: First Details, Images, and Behind-the-Scenes Videos from New UK Horror/Sci-Fi Project Scintilla
Scintilla - Trailer - The best home videos are here
Synopsis:
A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only so...
- 11/4/2013
- by Debi Moore
- DreadCentral.com
It was all the back in 2005 that Irish director Billy O'Brien turned heads at the Toronto International Film Festival with mutant cow film Isolation - a film which managed to turn its very odd premise into one of the more effective and atmospheric horror films of its year. A lot of that was due to O'Brien, of course, and a great deal also with the solid performance from leading man John Lynch and the duo are back together now with Scintilla.A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (John Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only to be given a new, even more dangerous job. Powell is hired to lead a team deep...
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- 11/4/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Just in time for the upcoming American Film Market comes the sales art for the latest UK import Scintilla from Billy O'Brien. Check it out right here and look for more from Afm all week and then some.
The film’s ensemble cast stars John Lynch, Antonia Thomas, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Dennehy, Craig Conway and Jumayn Hunter.
Synopsis
A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only to be given a new, even more dangerous job. Powell is hired to lead a team deep into a former Soviet state, now in the grip of an illegal uprising. Here they must infiltrate an armed militia base and get into the secret tunnels which lies underneath. Half a mile underground in this former Soviet nuclear bunker there is a secret bio-tech laboratory. Paid for by...
The film’s ensemble cast stars John Lynch, Antonia Thomas, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Dennehy, Craig Conway and Jumayn Hunter.
Synopsis
A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only to be given a new, even more dangerous job. Powell is hired to lead a team deep into a former Soviet state, now in the grip of an illegal uprising. Here they must infiltrate an armed militia base and get into the secret tunnels which lies underneath. Half a mile underground in this former Soviet nuclear bunker there is a secret bio-tech laboratory. Paid for by...
- 11/4/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Shock has released a first look at the poster for the UK horror/sci-fi film Scintilla. Billy O'Brien directs, John Lynch, Antonia Thomas, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Dennehy, Craig Conway and Jumayn Hunter star.
The synopsis: A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only to be given a new, even more dangerous job. Powell is hired to lead a team deep into a former Soviet state, now in the grip of an illegal uprising. Here they must infiltrate an armed militia base and get into the secret tunnels which lies underneath. Half a mile underground in this former Soviet nuclear bunker there is a secret bio-tech laboratory. Paid for by unlimited Oligarch dollars it houses one very special scientist: Dr. Mathesis Irvine.
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The synopsis: A double cross left mercenary Jim Powell (Lynch) in a hellhole African prison. Now his release has been paid for by a corporate sponsor, but only to be given a new, even more dangerous job. Powell is hired to lead a team deep into a former Soviet state, now in the grip of an illegal uprising. Here they must infiltrate an armed militia base and get into the secret tunnels which lies underneath. Half a mile underground in this former Soviet nuclear bunker there is a secret bio-tech laboratory. Paid for by unlimited Oligarch dollars it houses one very special scientist: Dr. Mathesis Irvine.
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- 11/3/2013
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Tagline: "Half a mile underground, they will find the unthinkable." Director Billy O'Brien ("Ferocious Planet") is returning to science fiction with his thriller Scintilla. This title recently completed through production house Liquid Noise. And, the film is expected to release in the United Kingdom later this year (2013). Scintilla is set in Russia. Here, several scientists and military personnel venture deep below ground to retrieve a mysterious item. A horde of creatures stand in their way and their goal might be more deadly than the denizens who guard it. Horror or sci-fi fans can preview two film posters for the film here. The first is provided by the Av Pictures website and the graphic shows the mercenaries, venturing underground. The second poster, below, shows one of the creatures that waits deep down. A trailer for Scintilla is sure to release soon. Release Date: 2013 (United Kingdom). Director: Billy O'Brien. Writers: Steve Clark,...
- 5/22/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Who knows what horrors are contained within the Earth. Unless you have one of those nifty Total Recall remake elevators, there's just no way to know. Luckily for us monster movie fans, some poor souls are about to find out for themselves.
Screen Daily reports that Av Pictures’ Cannes slate includes in-demand sci-fi thriller Scintilla, which eOne has picked up for multiple territories. Billy O’Brien directs the story of a disparate group of mercenaries hired to a lead a special unit deep into a former Soviet state to retrieve data from an underground militia base. John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Denehey, Beth Winslet, and Antonia Thomas star in the thriller, now in post-producution.
The production designer is Skyfall and Prometheus art director Paul Inglis. Av has a promo in Cannes.
Also new to Av’s slate is horror Let Us Prey (previous story here), currently in pre-production. Liam Cunningham...
Screen Daily reports that Av Pictures’ Cannes slate includes in-demand sci-fi thriller Scintilla, which eOne has picked up for multiple territories. Billy O’Brien directs the story of a disparate group of mercenaries hired to a lead a special unit deep into a former Soviet state to retrieve data from an underground militia base. John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Denehey, Beth Winslet, and Antonia Thomas star in the thriller, now in post-producution.
The production designer is Skyfall and Prometheus art director Paul Inglis. Av has a promo in Cannes.
Also new to Av’s slate is horror Let Us Prey (previous story here), currently in pre-production. Liam Cunningham...
- 5/17/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Art Director Melanie Light dropped us a line today with the first details of a new project she's working on entitled Scintilla from Av Pictures. Read on to learn more and to see some stills and behind-the-scenes videos of the filming taking place now in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.
From the Press Release:
Av Pictures and producers Lionel Hicks and Craig Conway have concluded a multi-territory deal with eOne for sci-fi thriller Scintilla. The distributor has acquired the film for France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Scintilla follows a disparate group of mercenaries hired to a lead a special unit deep into a former Soviet state to infiltrate and retrieve data from an underground militia base. All is far from what it seems when a top-secret biotech lab and its unearthly creations are discovered.
The film’s ensemble cast stars John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Denehey, Beth Winslet,...
From the Press Release:
Av Pictures and producers Lionel Hicks and Craig Conway have concluded a multi-territory deal with eOne for sci-fi thriller Scintilla. The distributor has acquired the film for France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
Scintilla follows a disparate group of mercenaries hired to a lead a special unit deep into a former Soviet state to infiltrate and retrieve data from an underground militia base. All is far from what it seems when a top-secret biotech lab and its unearthly creations are discovered.
The film’s ensemble cast stars John Lynch, Morjana Alaoui, Ned Denehey, Beth Winslet,...
- 3/30/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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