Beaumanor Hall was the venue for our third day of shooting for the movie ‘43 pounds’. A grand, red-brick stately home set in beautiful countryside, it was the perfect location for one of our winter scenes. The other winter scene – shot in thick snow, (more…)

Rehearsals, filming, administration and even interior decoration have kept the ‘43 Pounds’ team busy for the last 4 weeks. It has seemed hectic at times, but rewarding also as we witness real progress on many fronts. (more…)

We’re pleased to announce that ‘43 pounds’ is now listed on the wonderful IMDB website. If you’d like to see the IMDB page, it is here

Like most film makers, the team behind ’43 pounds’ is driven by a desire to communicate. In years gone this would have been a one-way process. We’d have made the movie, sent it out and an audience would have (hopefully) turned up to enjoy it.

Happily, with the Internet and social networking we’re able to (more…)

’43 pounds’ is the story of a director and his struggles to make a movie out of nothing but hope and one great idea.

In the movie ‘Cloverfield’ the camera through which we saw events unfolding was a camcorder in the hands of a person fleeing disaster. (more…)

Friday 15th January marked two landmark events for Hive Films: the long-awaited premier of the movie ‘Zombie Undead’, and the beginning of filming the movie ‘43 pounds’. The full story of how and why the two came on the same evening will be unravelled through this blog over the coming months.
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