Sparky Pictures, in association with Templeheart Films and Kenmore Films, are delighted to reveal British Sci-Fi thriller Blank is out now on UK Digital Download including Sky Cinema, Virgin, YouTube, Rakuten, Google Play, ITunes and to rent/buy on Amazon Prime Video. Directed by Natalie Kennedy, the film stars Rachel Shelley (The L Word), and Heida Reed, and Wayne Brady (The Wayne Brady Show). Blank is written by Stephen Herman and produced by Rebecca-Clare Evans (In Another Life). Synopsis: After checking in at an AI-operated writer’s retreat, Claire finds herself trapped in her unit with a malfunctioning android. As her captor becomes increasingly unstable, she has to outsmart the technology to make it out alive…
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- 1/15/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Stars: Rachel Shelley, Wayne Brady, Heida Reed, Annie Cusselle, Rebecca-Clare Evans | Written by Stephen Herman | Directed by Natalie Kennedy
Combining two popular themes, an author struggling with writer’s block and AI run amuck, Blank is the story of Claire Rivers who can’t seem to put words on paper even as the bills pile up and the calls from her agent become more frantic. Finally, facing a one month deadline to either produce a book or lose her publishing deal she decides to spend that time at The Retreat, a high tech facility for the creatively blocked.
Her room comes complete with a holographic concierge named Henry and Rita an android assistant. There’s also a weird little device for Claire to attach to her head in order to stimulate her creativity. It doesn’t seem to help though as we mostly see her drinking wine and falling asleep in front of the TV.
Combining two popular themes, an author struggling with writer’s block and AI run amuck, Blank is the story of Claire Rivers who can’t seem to put words on paper even as the bills pile up and the calls from her agent become more frantic. Finally, facing a one month deadline to either produce a book or lose her publishing deal she decides to spend that time at The Retreat, a high tech facility for the creatively blocked.
Her room comes complete with a holographic concierge named Henry and Rita an android assistant. There’s also a weird little device for Claire to attach to her head in order to stimulate her creativity. It doesn’t seem to help though as we mostly see her drinking wine and falling asleep in front of the TV.
- 12/22/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
A new British sci-fi thriller is coming to screens in January – and we’ve got the trailer for Blank right here.
It’s tough being an independent in the current marketplace, especially so if you’re trying to cut through with a science fiction project. We’ve seen Gareth Edwards’ The Creator – off the back of strong reviews – fall short of Disney’s box office hopes, and thus put science fiction back under the microscope.
Lots of bonus points therefore to director Natalie Kennedy, who has put the finishing touches to her science fiction thriller, Blank. This is a British production, starring Rachel Shelley, Heida Reed and Wayne Brady.
The script has come from Stephen Herman, whilst Rebecca Clare-Evans has produced. And now we hear that the film will arrive on January 8th 2024. It’s going to digital download services, and we’ve got a trailer and a synopsis.
It...
It’s tough being an independent in the current marketplace, especially so if you’re trying to cut through with a science fiction project. We’ve seen Gareth Edwards’ The Creator – off the back of strong reviews – fall short of Disney’s box office hopes, and thus put science fiction back under the microscope.
Lots of bonus points therefore to director Natalie Kennedy, who has put the finishing touches to her science fiction thriller, Blank. This is a British production, starring Rachel Shelley, Heida Reed and Wayne Brady.
The script has come from Stephen Herman, whilst Rebecca Clare-Evans has produced. And now we hear that the film will arrive on January 8th 2024. It’s going to digital download services, and we’ve got a trailer and a synopsis.
It...
- 11/22/2023
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Stewart Sparke is no newbie when it comes to giant rubber monsters and bucketfuls of goo. With two big silly indie creature features already under his belt in past FrightFest favourites The Creature Below and Book of Monsters, you’d think he’d be tiring of this sort of thing by now. Ready to shift gears into a much cleaner romantic comedy, or something that doesn’t involve having to scoop coagulated brain juice out of your work shoes every evening. But with this third effort, he confirms what we probably already knew; not only is Sparke the king of this very specific brand of lovingly batshit micro budget crowd-pleasers, neither he nor his team are going anywhere either. They’re simply having too much fun.
A sort of spiritual sequel to 2018’s Book of Monsters, How To Kill Monsters is another naturally funny, adoringly made stab at the old-school genre nuts-and-bolts.
A sort of spiritual sequel to 2018’s Book of Monsters, How To Kill Monsters is another naturally funny, adoringly made stab at the old-school genre nuts-and-bolts.
- 8/29/2023
- by Ben Robins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The title has sold across Europe and the Middle East.
UK sales outfit Film Seekers has brought in a raft of deals for Blank, selling to the UK (Sparky Pictures), Scandinavia (Njuta), Portugal (Vendetta), Middle East (Teleprog) and airlines (Encore).
Natalie Kennedy’s feature stars Heida Reed, Rachel Shelley and US TV host Wayne Brady. A writer signs up for an AI-operated retreat to cure her writer’s block, where she finds herself stuck after a glitch occurs in the system. Rebecca-Clare Evans produces.
Previous deals include North America (Brainstorm), where the film first released in September 2022, along with China...
UK sales outfit Film Seekers has brought in a raft of deals for Blank, selling to the UK (Sparky Pictures), Scandinavia (Njuta), Portugal (Vendetta), Middle East (Teleprog) and airlines (Encore).
Natalie Kennedy’s feature stars Heida Reed, Rachel Shelley and US TV host Wayne Brady. A writer signs up for an AI-operated retreat to cure her writer’s block, where she finds herself stuck after a glitch occurs in the system. Rebecca-Clare Evans produces.
Previous deals include North America (Brainstorm), where the film first released in September 2022, along with China...
- 2/18/2023
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
"I cannot open the door until your work is completed." Brainstorm Media has debuted an official trailer for an indie sci-fi thriller titled Blank, yet another Artificial Intelligence goes rogue and turns violent horror film. There's so many of these A.I. horror films these days I don't know why they keep making them when it's pretty much always the same story. The big difference with this one is that it also involves an android woman. After checking in for an A.I. operated writer's retreat, Claire finds herself trapped in her unit with a malfunctioning android. As her captor becomes increasingly unstable she has to outsmart the technology in order to make it out alive. Rachel Shelley stars as Claire, with Heida Reed, Wayne Brady, Rebecca-Clare Evans, and Annie Cusselle. This doesn't look as bad as so many other A.I. films, but it doesn't look that good either.
- 8/17/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Thriller is the debut feature of UK director Natalie Kennedy.
UK-based sales agent Film Seekers has scored theatrical deals on sci-fi thriller Blank, the debut feature of UK director Natalie Kennedy.
It has sold to Brainstorm Media for North America, Jetsen Huashi for China, M-Net for South Africa and Fabula for Turkey.
The title is produced by Rebecca-Clare Evans of KenMor Films, for Caged Film. It follows a desperate writer who signs up for an AI-operated retreat to cure her writer’s block. Heida Reed and Rachel Shelley star alongside US TV host Wayne Brady.
Browse Screen’s Cannes 2022 digital...
UK-based sales agent Film Seekers has scored theatrical deals on sci-fi thriller Blank, the debut feature of UK director Natalie Kennedy.
It has sold to Brainstorm Media for North America, Jetsen Huashi for China, M-Net for South Africa and Fabula for Turkey.
The title is produced by Rebecca-Clare Evans of KenMor Films, for Caged Film. It follows a desperate writer who signs up for an AI-operated retreat to cure her writer’s block. Heida Reed and Rachel Shelley star alongside US TV host Wayne Brady.
Browse Screen’s Cannes 2022 digital...
- 5/19/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Film Seekers Adds Sci-Fi To AFM Slate
Exclusive: UK sales agency Film Seekers has added sci-fi feature Blank to its slate ahead of the American Film Market. Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of a desperate writer wrestling with her buried past, who signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer’s block. But when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world. It is the feature debut of director Natalie Kennedy and stars Heida Reed (Poldark), Rachel Shelley (The L Word) and Wayne Brady (Black Lightning). Pic was produced by Rebecca-Clare Evans of KenMor Films for Caged Film and Executive Produced by Lyndon Baldock of Templeheart Films in association with Marcia Do Vales of Enmar Productions.
Canada’s The Impact Series Adds 2 Features
Exclusive: Season 2 of The Impact Series,...
Exclusive: UK sales agency Film Seekers has added sci-fi feature Blank to its slate ahead of the American Film Market. Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of a desperate writer wrestling with her buried past, who signs up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer’s block. But when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world. It is the feature debut of director Natalie Kennedy and stars Heida Reed (Poldark), Rachel Shelley (The L Word) and Wayne Brady (Black Lightning). Pic was produced by Rebecca-Clare Evans of KenMor Films for Caged Film and Executive Produced by Lyndon Baldock of Templeheart Films in association with Marcia Do Vales of Enmar Productions.
Canada’s The Impact Series Adds 2 Features
Exclusive: Season 2 of The Impact Series,...
- 10/29/2021
- by Tom Grater and Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Sci-fi drama “Blank” has wrapped filming and is now in post-production, with a first-look image released of the lead actresses. The movie stars “L Word” and “Deep State” actress Rachel Shelley, and “Poldark’s” Heida Reed. The cast also features U.S. star Wayne Brady, whose credits include “The Bold and the Beautiful,” “Let’s Make a Deal” and “How I Met Your Mother.”
“Blank” sees a desperate writer sign up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer’s block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.
Shelley plays the writer, Claire Rivers, with Reed as ‘the A.I.,’ and Brady as the “host.” Jamie Lomas, Bhasker Patel, Rebecca-Clare Evans and Annie Cusselle (“The Silent Child”) round out the cast.
“Blank” marks the feature debuts of director Natalie Kennedy and writer Stephen Herman.
“Blank” sees a desperate writer sign up for a fully A.I. operated retreat to cure her writer’s block, but when an unforeseen software glitch occurs, she gets trapped inside her unit with an unstable android and no communication with the outside world.
Shelley plays the writer, Claire Rivers, with Reed as ‘the A.I.,’ and Brady as the “host.” Jamie Lomas, Bhasker Patel, Rebecca-Clare Evans and Annie Cusselle (“The Silent Child”) round out the cast.
“Blank” marks the feature debuts of director Natalie Kennedy and writer Stephen Herman.
- 7/26/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Fortune Teller
Stars: Michele Simms, Patty Bender, Stephen DeWoody, Chris Dinger, Ana Eligio, Sallie Glaner | Directed by Jon Binkowski
Samantha (Michelle Simms) plays the role of “fortune teller” for all those gullible folks willing to pay for the privilege, but she is a thorough skeptic about paranormal activities and all things supernatural – she certainly doesn’t believe in ghosts. But one night alone in her house, she is about to learn that there are dark forces that don’t care whether she believes or not; they are Real. Or are they..?
Sometimes it can be incredibly frustrating being a horror fan in the UK. Besides all the cover redesigns, making horror titles supermarket-friendly; we also have to contend with all the goddamn re-titles. Case in point: The Fortune Teller. Originally titled The Visitant, the film was due to be released – if online pre-orders are to be believed – this month...
Stars: Michele Simms, Patty Bender, Stephen DeWoody, Chris Dinger, Ana Eligio, Sallie Glaner | Directed by Jon Binkowski
Samantha (Michelle Simms) plays the role of “fortune teller” for all those gullible folks willing to pay for the privilege, but she is a thorough skeptic about paranormal activities and all things supernatural – she certainly doesn’t believe in ghosts. But one night alone in her house, she is about to learn that there are dark forces that don’t care whether she believes or not; they are Real. Or are they..?
Sometimes it can be incredibly frustrating being a horror fan in the UK. Besides all the cover redesigns, making horror titles supermarket-friendly; we also have to contend with all the goddamn re-titles. Case in point: The Fortune Teller. Originally titled The Visitant, the film was due to be released – if online pre-orders are to be believed – this month...
- 4/2/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Edward Furlong, Corey Feldman, George McCluskey, David McClelland, Michael Gamarano, Seb Castang, Rebecca-Clare Evans, Jennifer Chippindale, Jon Campling, Timothy Owen, Anabel Barnston, Jane Foufas, Leo Horsfield, Sebastian Street, Tanya Katarina | Written by Rebecca-Clare Evans, Jennifer Chippindal, George McCluskey | Directed by Aidan Belizaire
With an ever growing horde of zombies completely wiping out a countryside town, the Government sets a perimeter around the town area and employs a shoot on sight policy. Trapped within the town, the locals and unlikely bunch of misfits fight for their lives, realising they must unite to survive. Can our heroes unravel the clues in time and survive or will The Zombie King and his horde of zombies rise on the night of the dark moon?
I am not going to lie; King of the Dead starts off strong. Sure, zombie films are done to death (pun intended), but The Zombie King isn’t afraid...
With an ever growing horde of zombies completely wiping out a countryside town, the Government sets a perimeter around the town area and employs a shoot on sight policy. Trapped within the town, the locals and unlikely bunch of misfits fight for their lives, realising they must unite to survive. Can our heroes unravel the clues in time and survive or will The Zombie King and his horde of zombies rise on the night of the dark moon?
I am not going to lie; King of the Dead starts off strong. Sure, zombie films are done to death (pun intended), but The Zombie King isn’t afraid...
- 2/18/2016
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
Stars: Edward Furlong, Corey Feldman, George McCluskey, David McClelland, Michael Gamarano, Seb Castang, Rebecca-Clare Evans, Jennifer Chippindale, Jon Campling, Timothy Owen, Anabel Barnston, Jane Foufas, Leo Horsfield, Sebastian Street, Tanya Katarina | Written by Rebecca-Clare Evans, Jennifer Chippindal, George McCluskey | Directed by Aidan Belizaire
With an ever growing horde of zombies completely wiping out a countryside town, the Government sets a perimeter around the town area and employs a shoot on sight policy. Trapped within the town, the locals and unlikely bunch of misfits fight for their lives, realising they must unite to survive. Can our heroes unravel the clues in time and survive or will The Zombie King and his horde of zombies rise on the night of the dark moon?
I am not going to lie; The Zombie King starts off strong. Sure, zombie films are done to death (pun intended), but The Zombie King isn’t afraid to...
With an ever growing horde of zombies completely wiping out a countryside town, the Government sets a perimeter around the town area and employs a shoot on sight policy. Trapped within the town, the locals and unlikely bunch of misfits fight for their lives, realising they must unite to survive. Can our heroes unravel the clues in time and survive or will The Zombie King and his horde of zombies rise on the night of the dark moon?
I am not going to lie; The Zombie King starts off strong. Sure, zombie films are done to death (pun intended), but The Zombie King isn’t afraid to...
- 7/17/2015
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
It’s been announced that Edward Furlong and Corey Feldman to star alongside each other in British horror film The Zombie King. Furlong will be taking on the role of Samuel Peters (The Zombie King) and Feldman will be taking the role of Kalfu the God of Malevolence. These characters have an interesting twist to a zombie film. A film with a blend of comedy, action, nails biting tension, which will appeal to horror fans and zombie lovers alike….
Samuel Peters (Furlong) once an ordinary man, dabbles within the laws of voodoo to bring his wife back from the grave, he soon encounters the God of malevolence ‘Kalfu’ (Feldman), where he makes a pact with him to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to earth; in return he will become ‘The Zombie King’ and walk the earth for eternity with his belated wife. Seven days before the rise of the Dark Moon,...
Samuel Peters (Furlong) once an ordinary man, dabbles within the laws of voodoo to bring his wife back from the grave, he soon encounters the God of malevolence ‘Kalfu’ (Feldman), where he makes a pact with him to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to earth; in return he will become ‘The Zombie King’ and walk the earth for eternity with his belated wife. Seven days before the rise of the Dark Moon,...
- 11/8/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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