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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 21, 2999 @ 11:14am
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Set in the near future and with the world plunged into another cold war, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is on the verge of developing a robotic soldier. This soldier, called The Machine (Lotz), looks and sounds human, but has the strength, speed, and ruthlessness beyond that of any living person. The project is near completion when a bug in the programming, a side effect of it being too close to human coding, causes the prototype to destroy the lab and everyone in its path in spectacularly violent fashion. Undeterred by this setback, lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Stephens) obsessively continues his work on The Machine in secret, away from the prying eyes of those who seek to destroy him.

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[Tribeca '13] First Clip From ‘The Machine’ Sliced Open!

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 19, 2013 @ 11:05am
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The Machine will be world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday. The film, directed and written by Caradog James (Little White Lies), looks like an intriguing dystopian riff on Frankenstein. We shared some stills the other day and now we have a clip (via Yahoo) that unveils the Machine itself with a surgical razor.

“With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain’s 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 unrivalled 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 full potential of a truly conscious fighting machine.” Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Sam Hazeldine and Pooneh Hajimohammadi all star.

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[Tribeca '13] Welcome To ‘The Machine’ With These Exclusive Images!

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Posted by EvanDickson on April 17, 2013 @ 6:00am
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The Machine will be world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, which is just now getting underway. If these photos are any indication the film, directed and written by Caradog James (Little White Lies), looks like an intriguing dystopian riff on Frankenstein.

“With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain’s 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 unrivalled 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 full potential of a truly conscious fighting machine.” Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Sam Hazeldine and Pooneh Hajimohammadi all star.

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[Interview] Casper Van Dien On Working With Nicholas McCarthy To Bring ‘The Pact’ To Life

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Posted by EvanDickson on July 04, 2012 @ 12:36pm
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Nicholas McCarthy’s Sundance hit, The Pact (review), is a supernatural horror pic that stars Caity Lotz (“Mad Men”), Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers, Sleepy Hollow) and Agnes Bruckner (The Woods).

While the film is currently available on VOD, it hits limited theaters this Friday, July 6th if you want to see it on the big screen. I recently hopped on the phone with Van Dien to talk about his character, working with Nicholas McCarthy and utilizing the house in the film as if it were a character.

In the film, “Following her mother’s funeral, Annie reluctantly returns to her childhood home – a place that she’d rather forget. Now her sister Nicole and cousin have inexplicably disappeared, she is forced to unlock the doors to the past to discover the hidden secrets of the house and in doing so finds a room that she has no memory of. Things take a sinister turn and Annie soon realises that she isn’t alone in the house.”

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‘Terminator’/'Hardware’-esque Genre Thriller ‘The Machine’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on June 21, 2012 @ 11:17am
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Content has tapped Caity Lotz (pictured; The Pact) and Toby Stephens (Severance) to play the lead roles in the sci-fi action thriller The Machine, reports Variety.

“Set in the near future and with the world plunged into another cold war, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is on the verge of developing a robotic soldier. This soldier, called The Machine (Lotz), looks and sounds human, but has the strength, speed, and ruthlessness beyond that of any living person. The project is near completion when a bug in the programming, a side effect of it being too close to human coding, causes the prototype to destroy the lab and everyone in its path in spectacularly violent fashion. Undeterred by this setback, lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Stephens) obsessively continues his work on The Machine in secret, away from the prying eyes of those who seek to destroy him.” The plot sounds like The Terminator meets Hardware.

The pic is directed by Caradog James (“Little White Lies”) and produced by John Giwa-Amu from Red and Black Films while Content’s Jamie Carmichael is exec producer.

Shooting will start July 23 in Cardiff in the United Kingdom.

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The Pact

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Posted by Ryan Daley on May 25, 2012 @ 12:00am
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After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams – visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother’s past that is finally revealing itself.

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[Sundance '12] Interview: ‘The Pact’ Director Nicholas McCarthy & Star Caity Lotz

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Posted by Fred-Topel on February 06, 2012 @ 4:13pm
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The Pact (review) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, starring “Death Valley“‘s Caity Lotz as a woman who returns to her family home after her mother’s death and her sister’s disappearance. Reluctant to even face the family history, Annie (Lotz) finds there are even more forces in the house than just her bad family memories.

Bloody Disgusting stringer Fred Topel caught up with Lotz, along with the film’s director, Nicholas McCarthy, to talk about the supernatural haunter that was acquired by IFC Films. READ MORE

[Sundance '12]: IFC Midnight Makes A ‘Pact’ To Distribute!

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 26, 2012 @ 10:37pm
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[Sundance 12]: IFC Midnight Makes A Pact To Distribute!

Nicolas McCarthy’s The Pact, which debuted at Sundance as a short some time ago, had its feature length premiere at Sundance last week and was just acquired by IFC Midnight.

According to IFC’s Press Release, “IFC Midnight announced today from the 2012 SundanceFilm Festival that the company is acquiring North American rights, to writer-director Nicholas McCarthy’s THE PACT. The film, which premiered in the festival’s Midnight section on January 20, stars Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Sam Ball, and Agnes Bruckner. The film was produced by Preferred Content’s Ross M. Dinerstein, and executive produced by Jamie Carmichael at Content, as part of a new multi-film financing deal between Preferred Content and Content Film.”

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Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) and Casper Van Dien also star in the ghost story said to be in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, “as a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.”

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[Sundance '12]: Blink And You’ll Miss This Clip From ‘The Pact!’

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 21, 2012 @ 11:01pm
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[Sundance 12]: Blink And Youll Miss This Clip From The Pact!

Nicolas McCarthy’s The Pact, which debuted at Sundance as a short some time ago, had its feature length premiere at Sundance just the other night.

Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) and Casper Van Dien also star in the ghost story said to be in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, “as a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.”

While word of mouth on the film is lukewarm, the clip below actually provides a fairly legit, if obvious scare. Hit the jump to check it out!

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[Sundance '12]: ‘The Pact’ Helps Spark Multi-Year Production Deal

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Posted by EvanDickson on January 20, 2012 @ 5:49pm
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[Sundance 12]: The Pact Helps Spark Multi Year Production Deal

Nicolas McCarthy’s The Pact, which debuted at Sundance as a short some time ago, will have its feature length premiere at this year’s Sundance tonight.

The film, along with movies like The Divide has helped spark a new production deal between Content and Preferred Content. The two companies already have basically the same name, so it should be easy for them to decide upon a shingle banner.

Per Deadline, “Content Film has made a multi-year production deal with Preferred Content partners Ross Dinerstein and Kevin Iwashina. Essentially, Content will finance as many as six elevated genre films over the next two years. The latest collaboration between Content and Preferred Content is ‘The Pact’, the genre film that premieres tonight at midnight… Dinerstein would raise the under $2 million budgets, Content would sell international and Iwashina would sell North American rights. The new deal allows Dinerstein to focus on producing and not have to raise the funds.”

Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) and Casper Van Dien also star in the ghost story said to be in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, “as a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.”

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[Sundance 2012] ‘The Pact’ To Deliver Wide-Eyed Terror?

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Posted by MrDisgusting on December 04, 2011 @ 1:34am
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[Sundance 2012] The Pact To Deliver Wide Eyed Terror?

Nicolas McCarthy’s The Pact, which debuted at Sundance as a short, will have its feature length premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival in January.

Gearing up for the big debut, Bloody Disgusting was provided with the first ever still from the film featuring a tight shot of star Caity Lotz (“Death Valley,” “Mad Men”).

Agnes Bruckner (Venom, Vacancy 2, The Woods, Kill Theory), Sam Ball (“The Event”), Haley Hudson (“Ghost Whisperer”, Killer Pad) and Kathleen Rose Perkins (“Lie to Me,” “Trust Me”) and Casper Van Dien also star.

In the ghost story said to be in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Hideo Nakata’s Ringu, “as a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.”

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