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Warp is delighted to announce that Shane Meadows has signed up to develop three films over the next two years. The first film will commence at the end of 2004, and is currently in development with Film Four.

Chris Cunningham becomes part of the Warp Films family.

Variety Magazine 10 Producer’s to Watch in 2004: Mark Herbert

“Dead Man’s Shoes” to premiere at 58th Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival

My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 wins BAFTA

Chris Morris interview

'Dare enter the mind of Mr. Cunningham'!

Order Rubber Johnny through Warp Mart now!

Rubber Johnny and Paradise Lost theatrical dates

Release date change for Rubber Johnny

The release date for Rubber Johnny & the book of artwork is now JUNE 20TH.

Warp Films apologises for this confusion.

Because the Italian printers employed by Warp Films have deemed Rubber Johnny too offensive, we've had to put our release date back from the 23rd May 2005 to:

* 20th June 2005 in the UK and in Europe

The printers protested that the artwork was too indecent to subject their workers to seeing it at the mill, and they have flatly refused to print it on moral grounds. If Chris Cunningham can cause a storm in Italy during the throws of celebrating a new Pope then you know Rubber Johnny is worth the delay! As a result Warp have had to search out a more liberal-minded printing firm in England at the last minute, causing the release date to be pushed back two weeks.

Rubber Johnny scheduled for release in June 2005

Rubber Johnny is the latest creation from the UK's most imaginative filmmaker, Chris Cunningham. Featuring music by legendary electronic composer, Aphex Twin, this nightmarish and hallucinatory experimental short film is accompanied by 42 pages of drawings and photographs - Cunningham's first published book of original artwork.

The Book/DVD will be available on both NTSC and PAL formats in all good stores on 20th June 2005. Check back for pre-orders through Warp Mart!

Get your Dead Man's Shoes DVD here!!

This item is currently on preorder and will be sent to reach you on the release date, Monday March 21st. Please note that this is a PAL Region 2 DVD.

WARPMART IS OFFERING FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE ON THIS TITLE!

A unique British thriller and horror story, Shane Meadows' film comes to DVD on a wave of acclaim that has recently included a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding British Film of the Year and a Best Actor award for Paddy Considine at The Evening Standard Film Awards.

The DVD comes complete with a host of extras including an exclusive audio commentary with Meadows, Considine and producer Mark Herbert, a short film directed by Shane Meadows and an alternative ending.

Dead Man's Shoes is the result of a five-year working relationship and long-term friendship between Shane Meadows (24/7, A Room for Romeo Brass) and Paddy Considine, who is soon to be seen alongside Russell Crowe and Renee Zellwegger in Ron Howard's forthcoming feature Cinderella Man. Working within the framework of a loose script, Dead Man's Shoes developed with the actors' talent using mainly non-professional actors and naturalistic situations. Introducing Toby Kebbell, in his first feature film role, the cast is rounded out by Gary Stretch (A Good Night to Die, Dead Dogs Lie), Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill and Stuart Wolfenden.

Special Features

* Audio Commentary with Shane Meadows, Paddy Considine and Producer Mark Herbert
* Deleted Scenes & Extended Takes
* Alternate Ending
* 'In Shane's Shoes' Documentary
* Danger Mouse Music Video
* Graphic novel animated sequences
* Hidden Extra - Commentary Out takes
* 'Northern Soul' - a short film by Shane Meadows

Dead Man's Shoes racks up more indie nominations

Dead Man's Shoes won the South Bank Award for Best Film in January 2005, and was nominated in the Best Brtish Film category at the 2005 BAFTAs. The film is also vying for Best Film at the Director's Guild Award on 20 March. Good luck, Shane!

Dead Man's Shoes heads BIFA shortlist

Dead Man's Shoes walked away with a record eight nominations for the 2004 British Independent Film Awards. DMS edged out Golden Lion winner Vera Drake which received seven nominations and My Summer of Love which received five. Shane Meadows was nominated for Best Director and in the Best Screenplay category jointly with Paddy Considine, who also received a Best Actor nod. The film also received nominations for Best British Independent Film, Best Technical Achievement and Best Achievement in Production. Toby Kebbell received a nod for Most Promising Newcomer and Gary Stretch for Best Supporting Actor. The winners will be announced on 30 November.

Dead Man's Shoes graphic novel coming soon

Using his dark and haunting Dead Man's Shoes storyboards, comic book artist and graphic designer Anjan Sarkar has created a 90-page graphic novel based on the film by Shane Meadows. The graphic novel will be available on warpmart and in all good store in November.

Dead Man's Shoes wins Dinard Film Festival

Shane Meadows wins Golden Hitchcock

Shane Meadows took top prize, The Golden Hitchcock Award, at the Dinard Film Festival. The jury unanimously voted Dead Man's Shoes as this year's top British film. Meadows takes 1600 euros for his direction, while 3000 euros goes toward distribution. Congrats, Shane!

DEAD MAN'S SHOES: film and sound track release

"Dead Man’s Shoes", the first full-length feature from Warp Films is out now. A genre-defying film pitching horror and the supernatural against comedy and social realism, Dead Man’s Shoes is the brainchild of writer/director Shane Meadows (24/7, A Room for Romeo Brass) and actor/screenwriter Paddy Considine (Last Resort, 24 Hour Party People, Room For Romeo Brass, In America) who collaborated on this semi-improvised, axe-wielding revenge thriller.

The film has recieved nothing less that rave reviews across the board, and is being hailed by some as a landmark in British cinema. Dead Man's shoes just won the top prize at the British Film Festival, see the info on the BBC Site here.

review from Channel 4 Site

ARTICLE by Mark Kermode on Dead Man's Shoes and the 'revenge movie' genre.

Set in a Midlands village, in a community where crime is unchecked and drugs, intimidation and power games are accepted as the fabric of daily life, Dead Man’s Shoes explores the decayed underbelly of contemporary rural Britain. Already selected for screenings at the Edinburgh (World Premiere British Gala slot), Toronto and Venice (Director’s Fortnight) film festivals, Dead Man’s Shoes is poised to become a cult hit, and follows the BAFTA award winning success of Chris Morris’ debut short for Warp Films in 2002, My Wrongs #8245-8249 and 117

Review from Edinburgh Festival:

"The spotlight (was) on British actor Paddy Considine, who delivered stand-out performances in two very different films: Shane Meadows's Dead Man's Shoes and Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love. These films were the crowning glories of a very strong British line-up, an area where Edinburgh has a proud tradition.

Meadows gave Considine his debut in A Room for Romeo Brass five years ago and the actor almost reprises his role as a dark, brooding ex-army presence in Dead Man's Shoes, a sort of 21st-century Jacobean revenge drama. Blending Rambo with Charles Bronson in Death Wish, Considine returns to an unspecified Midlands town to hunt down the drug dealers who wronged his younger brother, picking them off like a sadistic child toying with an insect's legs.

Both Considine and Meadows excel at subtle modulations of tone, juggling breezy comedy with moments of menace and outbreaks of wince-inducing violence. Considine specialises in playing the kind of bloke you never want to laugh at because you never know how he'll take it. He brings an animalistic physical fluidity to his role here, popping up everywhere like a surprise and a secret.

For Meadows, Dead Man's Shoes is a return to the form of Romeo Brass after the uncertainties of Once Upon a Time in the Midlands. He has a gift for harnessing the modern vernacular and a wonderful eye for comic detail - the drug dealer's flat is a masterpiece of grunge, stuffed with dodgy electrical goods, porn mags, bongs and filthy tie-dye throws." (Jason Solomons in The OBSERVER)

Original Soundtrack Release on Warp:

As you would expect the soundtrack is central to the film: Personally selected by director Shane Meadows, the music provides counterpoints between the great pastures of the Peak District, and the deranged scenes of bloody retribution. The twisted folk of (Smog) and The Earlies is interspersed with the eerie Spaghetti Western feel of Calexico’s instrumental tracks and unsettled calm of Aphex Twin’s ‘Nannou 2’, while heartfelt singer/songwriter narrative songs from Adem, Gravenhurst and Clayhill lend an emotional gravity. Laurent Garnier’s fantastically fucked-up, rhythmic-drone centrepiece ‘Forgotten Thoughts’ accompanies the film’s ‘acid scene’ as the vigilante lead character, Richard, spikes his nemeses’ tea kettle with a lethal psychotropic cocktail... carnage ensues. M. Ward’s cracked and haunting ‘Dead Man’ could not be more fitting.

Like the acclaimed Morvern Callar OST soundtrack released on Warp in 2002, the Dead Man’s Shoes soundtrack stands apart from the film as a thoroughly enjoyable and beautifully sequenced collection of songs that hang together with unusual resonance.

Dead Man’s Shoes OST, WarpCD126, released 4th October 2004.

1. (Smog) 'Vessel In Vain'
2. Calexico 'Untitled II'
3. Calexico 'Untitled III'
4. Adem 'Statued'
5. Calexico 'Ritual Road Map'
6. Laurent Garnier 'Forgotten Thoughts'
7. The Earlies 'Morning Wonder'
8. Richard Hawley 'Steel 2'
9. Clayhill 'Afterlight'
10. Calexico 'Crooked Road'
11. Lucky Dragons 'Heartbreaker'
12. Gravenhurst 'The Diver'
13. Cul De Sac 'I Remember Nothing More'
14. P.G. Six 'Fallen Leaves'
15. ABBC 'Pluis Sans Nuages'
16. Aphex Twin 'Nannou 2'
17. M. Ward 'Dead Man'
18. DM & Jemini 'The Only One

Dead Man's Shoes Press:

"Raw, Searing, Magnetic, Disturbing, uncompromising and completely gripping, this could do for slasher movies what 28 Days Later did for zombie flicks. Paddy Considine, meanwhile, is quietly but steadily building a case to be acclaimed as Britain’s answer to Robert De Niro"
Colin Kennedy HHHH

"Throw in a pinch of humour, a bucketful of drugs and lashings of brutal violence and you’ve got not just the best Brit film you’ve seen this year, possibly the best film full stop. The bottom line: Dark, gritty, funny and chilling" ZOO 5/5

"moving, honest, inspired, brutal, extraordinary. Thought-provoking, poignant and immensely powerful, - Highly recommended."
**** TOTAL FILM Mark Salisbury

"Dead Man's Shoes' is a gripping revenge thriller that walks where other films fear to tread." XFM Tony Scudders

"An outright masterpiece. As powerful as Taxi Driver, and Considine has created a character as memorable as that film’s anti-hero Travis Bickle. Around this extraordinary performance, Meadows builds a story that is by turns comic, touching and drop-dead terrifying. Every scene is compelling, taking unexpected twists and turns that reveal a formidable command of narrative structure and a pitch-perfect control of tone. As it builds to its spine-tingling denouement, Dead Man’s Shoes confirms Meadows and Considine as world class film-makers, up there with the best." SF Said DAILY TELEGRAPH

"Sophisticated, daring and impressive. This harsh, heartrending, beautifully judged film left me speechless. It establishes Meadows as one of the most exciting young directors in Europe."
Hannah McGill THE HERALD

Chris Cunningham becomes part of the Warp Films family.

Image of Chris Cunningham It’s official: Maverick music video director, Chris Cunningham (Windowlicker, Come to Daddy, All Is Full of Love) has committed to Warp Films for all future full-length film projects. Cunningham is currently developing a feature-length script with Warp. The long-awaited short film, “Rubber Johnny” is scheduled for released in late 2004. “Spectral Musicians” another short form film will also be released later this year. Watch this space!

Variety Magazine 10 Producer’s to Watch in 2004: Mark Herbert

Image of Mark Herbert Warp Films producer Mark Herbert was chosen as one of 10 producers to watch in 2004 by Variety Magazine. On 16 May 2004, Mark was honoured in Cannes in the Variety Village for his work on “My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117” and “Dead Man’s Shoes”.
Excerpt from May 10-16 2004 issue of Variety Magazine:
“There was no script, not even a clear idea what the film would be about, and maverick auteur Shane Meadows was coming off a couple of commercial flops.

But it took rookie producer Mark Herbert just two days to raise the $1.4 million Meadows needed to make his next movie.
Starring Paddy Considine, this turned out to be “Dead Man’s Shoes”, a pitch-black tale of revenge and brotherly love that was created through workshops and only settled on its final storyline during shooting. “We knew where we were going to be and who was going to be in each scene. We just didn’t have the dialogue,” Herbert says.
If being a producer is about hooking up with extraordinary talent and making difficult things happen for them, then Herbert, managing director of Sheffield-based Warp Films, has what it takes.

“Mark Herbert has got more energy for filmmaking than a Tasmanian devil,” testifies Meadows. “He is the first producer I worked with that has given his creative input without ever treading on my very small feet. He is a wonderful producer and a great friend.”
Warp Films is an offshoot of the achingly hip music label Warp Records. Its cultish, experimental slate includes superstar musicvid helmer Chris Cunningham and subversive satirist Chris Morris, plus more from Meadows and his co-writer Paul Fraser.
“The ambition isn’t to make conventional projects,” Herbert says. “I’m interested in more authored pieces of work. It’s not commercially driven. If you start to make things you thing will pull people in, I think you’re losing people from day one.”

Warp’s base in northern England gives it access to regional funding and helps maintain a certain clarity of vision. “You’re seeing things on their merits, not influenced by what other people like, what’s fashionable,” Herbert says.
His regular visits to London are dedicated to getting things done. “He does nothing by the book,” says Jodi Shields, who reps Meadows. “At first we thought he was off the wall, but in 48 hours he had a film financed for Shane.
“He’s so personable, you just completely trust him to deliver, and he’s very well connected,” Shields adds.
(By Adam Dawtrey)

“Dead Man’s Shoes” to premiere at 58th Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival

Warp Films’ first feature “Dead Man’s Shoes” directed by Shane Meadows will be honoured with a gala slot at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival. For updates and more information: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk

WARP FILMS was delighted to its debut short film, "My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117" nominated for Best Short by the British Academy Of Film and Television Arts and is now happily stunned to have actually won.

"My Wrongs.." + extras is available on DVD.
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Producer Mark Herbert and Director Chris Morris picked up an award each.