Movie News Archive

The Continuing & Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers

July 28th
The Suicide Brothers will be released on iTunes on September 21st via Shorts International, according to this press release. The company owns ShortsTV in both the US and UK, so it should appear on those channels eventually. It's currently showing Keira in New Year's Eve.
Thanks Danielle

April 30th
I came across this article recently, from an Autumn 2008 film techniques magazine. It's about The Suicide Brothers. Just shows what's out there if you look hard enough... We only got to hear about this film when Lula magazine featured it in March 2009!

April 6th
The Suicide Brothers will be showing at the Aspen (Colorado) ShortsFest from today until the 11th, and the Athens (Ohio) Film and Video Festival, April 23-29th. At this rate the whole world will have seen this film by about the year 3535.

February 21st
The Suicide Brothers has been confirmed for the Nashville Film Festival, taking place April 15th to 22nd.

January 3rd
The Suicide Brothers screening at the London Short Film Festival has now been scheduled. It can be seen at 11pm (!) on January 9th. Details here

November 16th
The Suicide Brothers has been selected for The London Short Film Festival (January 8th-17th). Don't forget it's also showing at Northern Ireland's Foyle Film Festival this weekend if you're anywhere near Derry.

November 2nd
The Suicide Brothers will be shown on November 21st at the Foyle Film Festival in Derry, Northern Ireland. A win in its category Best International Short will make it eligible for Academy Award entry. Article

October 20th
The Suicide Brothers has won its first award. It won Best Short Comedy at the New Hampshire Film Festival.

October 8th
The official Suicide Brothers site has some new stills featuring Keira.

October 6th
The Suicide Brothers will show at the Foyle Film Festival in Derry, Northern Ireland between November 20th-28th.

October 2nd
The Autumn issue of Faeries And Enchantment magazine has Keira as their cover, er... faery. It features photos from The Suicide Brothers as well as Keira's artwork and an exclusive interview with directors The Brownlee Brothers.

September 22nd
The Suicide Brothers gets a US premiere of sorts next month as it will be shown at the New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth.

September 10th
The Suicide Brothers will show at the London Film Festival on October 15th and 18th in a collection of seven shorts entitled People Are Strange.

July 29th
The Suicide Brothers is now complete and will be shown at the London Film Festival between October 14th and 29th. The exact screening dates, venues and times will be announced on September 9th. This is the UK's equivalent of Cannes, with massive media interest and big movie premieres. Last year's LFF saw the prems of both Frost/Nixon and Slumdog Millionaire.

July 20th
Suicide Brothers' co-director Arran Brownlee has posted another pic of Keira in costume on Twitter.

July 9th
An extended version of The Suicide Brothers behind-the-scenes video has appeared, and there's some screencaps here.

June 30th
Keira and Rupert attended a screening of The Suicide Brothers at The Soho Hotel in London last night. Articles here and here.
Thanks Douglas

June 8th
A behind-the-scenes video of The Suicide Brothers short film has appeared online. Check out March 5th in the News Archive for more details.
UPDATE: Had an email from co-director Corran Brownlee today, who said it's looking like an early summer finish for the project. More details, including (hopefully) a release/broadcast date, in July.
Thanks Corran, Harriet

March 5th
Yet another short film starring Keira has come to light. It's a short story with a long title: The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers. Some details gathered from t'Internet...
- Filmed: March and April 2008
- Written by (and starring): Rupert Friend and Tom Mison.
- Keira's role: The Fairy Godmother
- Directed by: The Brownlee Brothers (storyboard artists on The Libertine, and directors of short on-set film 'Capturing The Libertine').
- Producers: Beat Pictures; Black Forest Pictures; Working Title.
- Synopsis: Everyday at two o'clock the two brothers named Bourbon and Barath (played by Rupert and Tom) go out to the shed to kill themselves. They try a different method everyday but each day they fail. They are forever overlooking the presence of their frustrated fairy godmother as they carry on with their clockwork routine.
- Media: There are some pics in the new edition of Lula magazine, together with some sketches of the fairy drawn by Keira. It was photographed by Kate Friend and there is a gallery of images on her web site (go to Galleries > Film). The film featured soundscapes by Keira's brother Caleb and costumes by non other than Oscar-winning Duchess designer Michael O'Connor. More pics on the Brownlees' Facebook page.
- Status: The film is currently in post-production.
Thanks Beata for the Lula info