Posts Tagged ‘Unthinkable’

Stuck for ideas on what to buy your loved ones this Christmas?Why not share the Michael Sheen love, and buy them something Sheen-related and improve the family’s viewing this festive season!

For Dad:

	A hilarious look at the most entertaining football bosses of all time. Fresh from his critically acclaimed portrayal of the legendary Brian Clough in The Damned United, Michael Sheen presents this highly entertaining guide to that most thankless of jobs – the football manager.  On DVD
	Based on the best-selling book of the same name, The Damned United is the story of one of Britain’s finest ever football managers, Brian Clough, and his curtailed 44-day reign at the helm of Leeds United.  On DVD Also available on BluRay

For Mum:

Nice guy Colin is everybody’s pal. By day, he runs a corner store. At night, he heads to the pub to play darts and that’s pretty much his life. His wife, Sandra has never been very faithful, but when she runs off with local policeman and fellow darts enthusiast Geoff, Colin realizes that he needs her and takes off to Blackpool on a moped in order to win her back.  On DVD

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit down for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans.  On DVD Also available on BluRay

For Sister:

	Bella Swan is left devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of werewolves, the ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.  On BluRay Also available on DVD
	An imaginative new twist on one of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny. This Wonderland is a world beyond your imagination and unlike anything you’ve seen before.  On DVD Also available on BluRay

For Brother:

	A powerful new look at the human side of iconic world leaders. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Three years later he ran for Prime Minister and began a “special relationship” with U.S. President Bill Clinton that endured through triumph, conflict and personal scandal.  On DVD Also available on BluRay
	Somewhere in the United States, three nuclear weapons are about to detonate. There are only 2 days to find them and only one man knows where they are. To FBI agent Brody’s surprise, the terrorist is already in their hands and a mysterious interrogator named H, is charged with getting the crucial information by all means necessary.  On DVD Also available on BluRay

The Kids:

What would you do if you met a fairy? Witness the historic moment when Tinker Bell first meets a human being, and it’s not who you think. Years before meeting Wendy and the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell met Lizzy, a little girl with a steadfast belief in the power of pixie dust and the magic land of fairies.  On BluRay Also available on DVD

And for yourself?

	Born of a captive Lycan, Viktor keeps Lucian as a pet. Lucian grows up with the ability to change between human and wolf.  Viktor learns of a forbidden romance between Lucian and his daughter and takes drastic steps to prevent the union. Lucian, in retaliation, leads a Lycan slave revolt.  On BluRay Also available on DVD
	Michael Sheen stars as one of two brothers on a stag night in Donegal where they last spent a holiday 16 years ago. Here old passions and love are reignited amidst the unlikely mix of an ex-local gun runner, a suspicious Garda and the British Army. This begins a sequence of misunderstandings and mishaps with hilarious consequences.  On DVD

The small amount of commission this site earns through the sales made from these links, those on the project pages  and our Amazon store, goes towards the total being saved up which will be donated to the NSPCC after all the year’s sales have been calculated. Between us, we have collected over £66 pounds worth this year – so let’s see if we can get it to £100 this year.

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Our two competitions have now come to a close, and I am happy to announce the following winners:-

Unthinkable Competition
I had two BluRays of Unthinkable to give away to 2 winning entries of a small questionnaire. For those that may be interested, here are the correct answers.
Question 1
Which World renowned performing arts academy did Michael Sheen attend?
Correct Answer: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Question 2
Name Carrie Anne Moss’s character in The Matrix
Correct Answer: Trinity

Question 3
What colour lightsaber did Samuel Jackson’s Star Wars character, Windu, have in Episodes I,II, & III
Correct Answer: Purple

Question 4
Which TV show features Brandon Routh as a CIA agent, working below the Buy More
Correct Answer: Chuck

The two winning entries picked by our Randomiser were

Melanie Alexandra, and Gradkat. Congratulations ladies!

Dead Long Enough Competition
I had 3 DVDs of this brilliant and often overlooked gem, Dead Long Enough, to giveaway and decided to make Twitter the focus of this competition. The aim was to do a #Follow Friday tweet, urging your friends to follow our twitter account @SheenFanSite, and once again all those that did were entered into our Randomiser.

The lucky winners were:

@aqualice, @mariamuser, and @gizzygotty – congratulations all!

Commiserations to all those who didnt win but don’t forget – both films are released on DVD & Bluray on September 15th and you can order from this site. See the project pages for links.

Thank you all who took part. It was wonderful to get such an unexpected large response to these competitions. As soon as I snag more freebies – I will be running more so watch this space!

A huge extra big thank you has to go to Paul at Bluebell Films, Stephanie at E1 Entertainment, and Louisa at Abundant.

The anticipated US thriller ‘Unthinkable’ starring Michael Sheen, Samuel L Jackson and Carrie-Anne Moss is being released in the UK on DVD and Bluray on 13th September.

Michael-Sheen.co.uk is offering you a chance to win a copy on Bluray. If you would like to be in with a chance of winning then please click on the competition link below and answer a few very simple questions!

Being the impatient soul that I am, I ordered a copy sometime ago from the US. If you were in any doubt about whether to purchase a copy or not, then dont hesitate – buy one! It is a brilliant edge-of-the-seat drama and the main cast all put in truly amazing performances.

You can pre-order it NOW from Amazon. Links are available on the project page, which also includes a comprehensive synopsis (contains spoilers). Don’t forget to visit and ‘like’ the official Facebook page. You may also want to look at the Gallery which includes approximately 200 screencaps.

My copy of Unthinkable arrived for the US last week, and the screencaps have now been added to the Gallery.

You all know that the subject matter of this film is quite dark. It is a film about a terrorist who announces that he has placed several nuclear devices around the US, and it is left to a black ops interrogator, and the FBI, to get him to reveal the location of the bombs. Please be aware that the screencaps obviously reflect the nature of the film, and while I have made the decision not to post some of the extremely graffic shots, there are still one or two that imply scenes of torture, so if you are easily offended then please do not view them.

Please click on the thumbnails below.

This is a question posed by the LA Times in a recent article.

‘Unthinkable‘ is ranking in the top 5 hottest films on IMDB and on its message boards, has a lively and intellectual discussion on the subject matter of the film. You would think that the producer, Cotty Chubb, would be delighted at the attention, however, this film did not get a general release and the DVD only became available in the US today.

All the people discussing this film on the forums have watched it for free, by downloading from illegal torrent websites. So how did a film that has so much public interest end up as a ‘straight to dvd’ film?

Back in 2006, an agent gave Chubb the original script. Fascinated by the script’s compelling storyline, Chubb got the movie set up at Sidney Kimmel’s production company, where it attracted a director, Tarsem Singh, and a star, Forest Whitaker. But Kimmel ended up getting out of the business, and by the time Chubb had a new draft of the script, Singh and Whitaker had moved on.

Chubb finally secured financing from Senator Films, which believed the film could attract strong interest overseas, especially when Jackson agreed to play the leading role, supported by Michael Sheen and Carrie Anne Moss. The film ended up being directed by Gregor Jordan. Jordan shot the picture in fall 2008 with a budget of roughly $11 million. But Senator collapsed before the film could be released. With the foreign rights already sold and Sony already on board to release the film on home video, Chubb was unable to attract a domestic distributor who’d put up the kind of marketing money needed to support a theatrical release.

But either because of the subject matter or the money needed to mount a campaign, Chubb couldn’t find a distributor, so he resigned himself to a direct-to-video release. But even that release is now under a cloud after the film found its way onto the ‘Net. Chubb says he has no idea how the film leaked out. “There are no fingerprints on it. It certainly didn’t come from the editing room, since we’d already been shut down. So your guess is as good as mine.”

Meanwhile, Chubb has engaged the people who’ve been buzzing about the movie by steering the discussion to a vital economic issue, or at least a vital one for anyone who thinks there has to be a new economic model for film releases. Here’s a condensed version of what he wrote on the IMDB message board:

“I’ve heard a lot of reasons why streaming or downloading movies is a good idea, why everyone concerned should be happy with the attention (and in fact I am grateful for it), and how it’s the new real world, but I haven’t heard how the folks that paid for the picture are supposed to make their money back. So here’s one question, expressed a couple of different ways: Is there a fair price, fair in YOUR eyes, that you would pay for a download? ‘Hey, take a chance, it’s only a buck?’ ‘People tell me it’s great, I’ll drop two bucks?’ ‘Here’s three bucks, I can afford it and it’s only fair?’ What number seems right to you? ‘Or is it zero, screw it I don’t care?’ “

While all this excited discussion proves one thing – that the film is one people would have gone to the cinema to see – it has highlighted the fact that movie companies need to change the old fashioned model of a theatrical release, and then a home release months later.

If, like me, you have not seen the movie and would like to – as mentioned earlier – it is out on DVD in the US today and on 27th September in the UK.  Please visit the Project’s page for all product links.

Thanks once again to the guys at Sony Pictures, and Mammoth NYC, we have 4 new clips of the US thriller UNTHINKABLE which features Michael Sheen as a US Muslim terrorist, and Samuel L Jackson as a black ops interrorgator.

Please click on the thumbnails below.