TRIBECA FILM TO RELEASE UBERTO PASOLINI’S ‘STILL LIFE’ IN JANUARY 2015

Eddie Marsan (Mission Impossible) and Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey) star in this award-winning drama that we supplied the supporting artists to.

Am pleased to announce that Tribeca Film has acquired the North American rights for Uberto Pasolini’s sophomore feature Still Life from Beta Cinema. Written and directed by Pasolini, the film had its world premiere at the 2013 Venice Film Festival where it won four awards: the Orizzonti Award for Best Director; the Pasinetti Award for Best Film; the Cinema D’Arte e d’Essai award; and the Civitas Vitae prossima for Best Film.

The film focuses on the unassuming John May (Eddie Marsan) whose life has always revolved around his work—finding the next of kin of those who have died alone for the local council in South London. He believes that everyone deserves a dignified exit and writes eulogies and organizes funerals for those who wouldn’t have them otherwise. When a new case—the death of an elderly alcoholic in a flat directly opposite his own—hits him harder than usual, he journeys outside London to track down the man’s long-abandoned daughter (Emmy® Award nominee Joanne Froggatt). Against the odds, the two lonely souls are drawn to each other—and John starts to appreciate life’s possibilities.

Tribeca Film will release the film on VOD and digital platforms on January 13, 2015 and in select theaters on January 16, 2015

The Puppet Master from Director Heather Thompson.

A few stills from the film 'The Puppet Master' which was filmed in September. 

This thriller from directors Heather Thompson & Sean Cronin, produced by Simon Collins can be described as a supernatural macabre thriller which blurs the lines between the shadow world and what is real. 

Lead actress Zoe Solanki was joined by Sean Cronin who is also the DoP and one of the main protagonists, Cronin had many hats on with this production and for me is one of the most respected men in UK commercial and independent film, high budget or low budget he always gives you his all. 

I tip my hat to you sir and all the cast and crew. 

Was a pleasure to be a part of.
More on this coming soon.

Cockneys vs Zombies is on your TV - Air date Tuesday 28th October

Back in 2009 we was first approached to supply the supporting artists for a film and thus embarked on an ambitious production which was originally called 'Undead in London' After two years, 3 script writers and numerous rewrites 'Cockneys vs Zombies' was born.

'Cockneys vs Zombies' went into production in the spring of 2011 and was filmed in Wandsworth, Canary Wharf and Sutton, Surrey.

The film premiered at the 2012 London FrightFest Film Festival. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 3, 2013 and on Tuesday 87th October you will be able to see our film 'Cockneys vs Zombies' on your television at home.

The 2012 British zombie comedy film is directed by Matthias Hoene and written by James Moran and Lucas Roche. The plot centres on a group of Cockneys who arm themselves to rescue their grandfather and his friends from their retirement home as a zombie apocalypse takes place in the East End of London.

On set at Wandsworth Ram Brewery 

Plot
In a building site being developed by Hartman Construction in the East End of London, two construction workers discover a 17th-century graveyard ordered sealed by Charles II and are bitten by zombies, setting off a zombie outbreak in the area.

Terry MacGuire and his younger brother Andy are planning a bank robbery so they can save their ex-gangster grandfather Ray's retirement home from being demolished by property developers, along with the assistance of their cousin Katy, hopeless Davey Tuppence, and "Mental" Mickey, an unstable war veteran who has a large supply of weapons. During the robbery, the group finds they've crashed an embezzlement deal between the bank manager and the head of Hartman Construction. Expecting to find a few hundred grand, they find themselves staring at 2.5 million in cash. The bank manager had thought they were from Hartman due to their costumes but realizes otherwise and presses an emergency button to the police. The gang take Emma and Clive hostage. Upon leaving the bank, however, the group finds that the police have been killed by a growing horde of zombies. They escape in a van.

Meanwhile, at the retirement home, the zombies attack the residence. Ray and residents Peggy, Daryl, Doreen and Eric take refuge in the kitchen; Ray also rescues a resident named Hamish and gets him inside.

Terry's group arrive at an abandoned site, where Mickey is bitten by a zombie. Emma pleads with Mickey and Davey to let her and Clive go, saying she does not care about their 'selfish' plans, and Katy tells her that they are not robbing the bank for themselves, but to save the retirement home. Mickey decides to leave and takes Emma and Clive with him and ties them up. After Mickey dies and turns into a zombie, he is promptly destroyed by Terry, who rescues Emma and Clive. Clive picks up Mickey's gun and threatens the group, but is promptly eaten by zombies, shooting Davey dead in the process. The rest of the group escape, on the way stopping to look for Emma's younger sister, whom Terry and Emma find as a zombie, but Emma decides not to kill her in case a cure is found.

Having heavily armed themselves at Mickey's gun cache, Terry, Andy, Katy and Emma arrive in a double-decker bus at the retirement home. There, they manage to break the zombie siege and rescue Ray and the other surviving residents. They all then go into the bus, but it breaks down on the way and the group are forced to abandon it. They eventually find a boat which Peggy steals, but it is still chained up. Ray decides to sacrifice himself to save the others, but he still manages to survive and joins the others on the boat as they make their final escape. On the river, the group wonder what will happen next; Ray tells them that they can take East London back for themselves.

On set at the Sutton Care Home demolished after filming

Cast
Rasmus Hardiker as Terry
Harry Treadaway as Andy
Michelle Ryan as Katy
Georgia King as Emma
Jack Doolan as Davey Tuppence
Ashley Thomas as Mental Mickey
Tony Gardner as Clive
Tony Selby as Daryl
Georgina Hale as Doreen
Dudley Sutton as Eric
Richard Briers as Hamish
Honor Blackman as Peggy
Alan Ford as Ray

'Cockneys vs Zombies' would prove to be the final film credit for Briers, who died the following year.

Green Street 3 is out on Netflix today

GREEN STREET 3: NEVER BACK DOWN a film we supplied the supporting artist to is out on Netflix from today

Starring Scott Atkins GS3 comes from award winning ‘TowerBlock’ director James Nunn’s with ‘Green Street 3 Underground’ the second film he’s directed since making the transition from 1st Assistant Director.

SYNOPSIS:
Danny Harvey (Scott Adkins) has spent all of his life fighting – in the playground, on the football pitch and then heading up the West Ham firm the Green Street Elite (GSE).

Fourteen years ago, Danny turned his back on football violence, but Danny’s younger brother Joey (Billy Cook),
also a skilled fighter, couldn’t turn his back on the GSE.

When Joey is killed in an organised fight against a rival firm, Danny is desperate to seek revenge and avenge his brother’s death. Danny returns to his old manor and knows the only way of finding out who killed Joey is to return to his past and get back into the firm.

The football film also stars Jack Doolan from ‘Cockneys vs Zombies’ and Josh Myers from the prison drama ‘Screwed’ with James Nunn as first assistant director on the zom/com and prison drama written by James Moran and Ronnie Thompson respectively

Head over to Netflix and check out the Green Street 3 Trailer from the Cockneys vs Zombies crew this looks like a right tear up.

Mike Bassett – Interim Manager requires extras.

Mike Bassett - Interim Manager

England’s most notorious football manager Mike Bassett played by Ricky Tomlinson (Royal Family, In the Flesh) is heading back to the big screens with a sequel to the cult classic comedy ‘Mike Bassett – England Manager’ also starring Amanda Redman and am looking forward to this one.

Steve Barron, who directed the first film, will return to oversee the sequel alongside screenwriters Rob Sprackling and John R Smith. Steve is probably best known for directing 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' but comes from a docudrama background having directed a host of musicians such as David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Madonna Steve also directed one of my little known guilty pleasures, a film called 'Electric Dreams' in 1984 of which i know at the very mention of the name can have me humming the title track.

We have been asked to supply the extras for this and are filming a scene for the production of the 'KIckstarter' crowd funding campaign of which the first one is the 7th October 2014 in London. We also need people of Thursday 8th, Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th October.

To give you a heads up here are the details of our first day.

Date: Tuesday 7th October, Call time: 3pm, Location: Wembley Stadium.

This is paid for the right applicants.

Filming is taking place in Germany, South Africa and London and have a feeling with our football mad extras this is going to be popular so let us know ASAP if you want to be part of this and the dates you are available next month.

Check out the first 'Kickstarter' campaign trailer below and be sure to check back to see our extras in the next one.

Harley from the RIzzle Kicks is looking to ‘The Lynch Mob Agency’ for his next project.

So we all know Harley from the RIzzle Kicks and our feature film ‘The Guvnors’ but what you don’t know is he is looking for next his next project.

Am looking for a girl and a boy around 22-28 years of age who are would be comfortable in a music video been quite intimate together.

Payment is £250,00 each for the right applicants.

Get in touch at the usual address please.

‘The Lynch Mob Agency’ anti-bullying viral video is in pre-production.

We are shooting an anti-bullying viral video called ‘Love Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ on Tuesday 7th October.

Its a very potent tale for a lot of us and with our director’s family connections we will hopefully be able to get our efforts into schools, spread awareness and help those in need of support.

We have support from www.beatbullying.org a charitable organisation side but need your help as well.We’re looking for 6 to 8 – 15-16 year olds (who will be playing school kids outside a school, a short walk from Bromley by Bow from the tube) for about an hour, 2 maximum for Tuesday 7th October,

The call time will be approx 9am – 11am. We know its school time so ideally would like boys or girls who have left school but still look young enough to be at school.Would you like to be involved in a ‘Anti Bullying’ Campaign and can spare a couple of hours next Tuesday 7th October then please get in touch and I look forward getting in contact with you.

BAFTA is to screen ‘All about Janet’

A short film we supplied the extras to ‘All about Janet’ directed by Phil Howard will be having its premiere in November, The film shot in London and Birmingham is a short starring the extremely talented Valarie Monk and whom we have known and first came aware of about 3 years ago.

We would like to wish the film the success it deserves and my best wishes to the cast and crew and can’t wait to catch up with you at the premiere of the 22nd November.

Also am pleased to say that the sequel to the film is in preproduction and our very own Johnny Lynch’s  landed a role playing Gary, Similar to his character in ‘Terror Nation’ he’s brutal but not as psychotic as Paul Milland where violence was never far from his mind. When asked Johnny Lynch said that “I remember well what it took to get into the mind of that character, Gary whose violence comes from his necessity to feed his drug habit and is hell bent on destruction for short term gains. I will be giving the character all I can muster to give a performance I can look back and be proud off”

‘All about Janet’ will be released in November.

The Lynch Mob sister company Zombie Extras is looking for you for its next high value production.

Delighted to have had another enquiry through our Zombie extras website which I set up after supplying zombie extras to few productions now on Sky, BBC, commercials and independent film.

On Friday last week ‘tigeraspect’ who are making a programme for the BBC got in touch with me to supply zombies for a forthcoming production. TG part of ‘Endemol’ have had 21 years experience in making programmes for TV such as the recent ‘Ripper Street’ ‘Peekyblinders’ to favourites such as Teachers’ ‘Stella Street’ and ‘Mr Bean’ This is another fantastic opportunity for our zombie loving extras now we have wrapped on the BBC 'Atlantis' which used our Zombie Extras UK website to get in touch. Never let it be said the power of having a online presence has and the opportunities it brings.

Over the weekend and today I have been contacting those of you I feel are suitable so please get back to me ASAP with your availability so I can put you through. Thank you

Registration ended last month at ‘Zombie Extras’ but you can still apply and when I open registration again we will contact you for future productions.

http://www.zombieextras.co.uk

The Guvnors is out on DVD and BluRay 29th December 2014.

The Guvnors’ starring Harley Sylvester, Doug Allen, Charley Palmer Merkell, Lorraine Stanley, Martin Hancock, Richard Blackwood and David Essex was released at cinemas around the UK on 29th August following its World Premiere at The Edinburgh International Film Festival.

UK filmmakers, Fulwell 73  assembled a host of British talent in this gritty, stylish thriller/gangster flick. ‘The Guvnors’ written and directed by Gabe Turner (In the Hands of The Gods, The Class of ’92) directs as hip hop star Harley Sylvester (Rizzle Kicks) makes his impressive big screen debut as a troubled gang leader seeking respect on a London estate. Doug Allen (The Firm, Gangster No.1) leads a notorious, old skool unit known as ‘The Guvnors’ seeking revenge for the brutal murder of their mentor. 

As two generations steeped in violence collide, both men are forced to reconcile their past and face the future.

Johnny Lynch would like to thank all the supporting artists for making this another memorable one for me, another highlight for me personally and in my career.

Take a look at the trailer.

If you didn’t get a chance to see it at the cinema then go preorder your copy now.

Robbie Williams Live at the Palladium with The Lynch Mob supporting artists.

The new album from Robbie Williams is out today, ‘Swings Both Ways Live’ starring our supporting artist,

To our supporting artists that I placed in the performances at the London Palladium I want again to say a huge thank you for all the hard work that took part in the memorable night and performance filmed in November and aired on BBC1. 2013 was a fantastic year for us all.

Its now available to buy.

One Direction – Midnight Memories gets 28 million views on its first day.

Boy band One Direction and The Lynch Mob Extras met up to film the title track of the new album at the end of last year,

With it been a time of year when its cold and wet outside the guys and girls from the agency on a suggestion from Johnny to give all the money they got for the job to the homeless charity that we at The Lynch Mob represent.

The band released the chart topping hit to its global audience and got an amazing 28 million YouTube hits on its first day. The production from Fullwell 73 was one of the last filmed at Merton Studios which is due to close.
Want to thank Fulwell 73 for the job and to all the extras that turned up that wet and cold night that gave the money for the job to the homeless.

Another Zombie job comes to The Lynch Mob

Jopia Productions, Great Dayne Entertainment and Full Motion Entertainment are in production of a zombie action movie.

We’re looking for 40 extras for the title sequence

This is going to be 4 scenes shot over the 4th and 5th of August. .

So we need ZOMBIES!! Lots of ZOMBIES!! 

So please add this day to your diary and be involved in this totally safe and FULLY controlled ZOMBIE DAY.

Get in touch for more details.

Zombies Assemble for the Open University.

Posted  Johnny Lynch Saturday, August 9, 2014

Extras Job tomorrow for tomorrow Sunday 10th August

LOOKING FOR EXTRAS TO BE DINERS IN A RESTAURANT AND ZOMBIES WHERE WE SURPRISE A COUPLE OUT FOR A MEAL.

Call time 2pm.
Location: Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.
Paying: Few hours work – £50 cash,

You can drive up or production can pick you up from Wellingborough Station and take you to the film set.

This is for a corporate for the ‘Open University’ and expected to finish quite quickly and then you are required to pose for photographs, etc.

Get in touch if you want this.

First come first serve and only need 4 people to be extras.

Maybe a couple want to do this or our regulars want to get a car together and drive up as a 2 or 4.

Get in touch at the usual email address to be considered.

Thank you.

BUSINESS and PLEASURE

So we have 3 films we have had a hand in supplying the extras to showing at the Edinburgh Film Festival, 

'The Anomaly' starting Noel Clarke, Brian Cox, 'Still Life' starring Eddie Marsan and the World wide premiere of 'The Guvnors' aka Meet the Guvnors starring Harley Rizzle Kicks Sylvester, David Essex, Charley Palmer Merkell and Lorraine Stanley. I have just booked my train and got my tickets online today. 

Also thanks to Universal Studios for my ticket to 'The Hooligan Factory' in Leicester Square starring Nick Nevern, Jason Maza Joe Altin and again Lorraine Stanley.


Time to combine some work with a bit of fun. 

Have an awesome week everyone.