ICON PRODUCTIONS


  • THE MAGIC PUDDING (2000)
  • THE MARTINS (2001)
  • THE BLIND ASSASIN (2002)
  • THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY (2003)
  • BLACKBALL (2003)



2000

THE MAGIC PUDDING

  • Directed by Karl Zwicky
  • Writing credits: Harry Cripps and Greg Haddrick
  • Producers: Gerry Travers and Ed Trost
  • Genre: Animation / Family
  • Cast: Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush, Dave Gibson, John Laws, Greg Carroll, Peter Gwynnet, Michael Veitch, Robyn Moore, Jack Thompson, Mary Coustas, Sandy Gore, Toni Collette, Roy Billing
  • Runtime: 80 min / Spain:81 min
  • Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • Color: Color
  • Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Plot: THE MAGIC PUDDING is a truly unique animated film about a pudding or rather puddin - that talks, enjoys being eaten but never runs out and can turn itself into just about anything. Pretty much. Oh and everyone is trying to steal it.
The very grumpy JOHN CLEESE (MONTY PYTHON?S LIFE OF BRIAN, A FISH CALLED WANDA) stars as Albert the Magic Pudding. As brilliant and as barking mad as ever, Cleese?s Albert is a highly vocal puddin?, blessed with a passion to be eaten hungrily at every sitting. The puddin? is the star of the show and he knows it.



2001

THE MARTINS

  • Directed by Tony Grounds
  • Writing credits: Tony Grounds
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Producers: Greg Brenman, Dixie Linder and Bruce Davey
  • Cast: Lee Evans, Kathy Burker, Linda Bassett, Eric Byrne, Terri Dumont, Frank Finlay, Lennie James, Jack Shepherd, Mark Strong, Lloyd Harvey, Tameka Empson, Paddy Considine, Ronnie Fox, Alison Egan, Owen Brenman
  • Also Known As: The Tosspots (UK) (working title) and Tosspot (USA) (working title)
  • Runtime: 87 min
  • Country: UK
  • Language: English
  • Color: Color (Technicolor)
  • Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Plot Summary: The Martins are the family from Hell. Robert Martin (LEE EVANS) is an unemployed dreamer. He spends his life hoping to win competitions in order to give his wife and children all the things they deserve. Angie (KATHY BURKE), Robert's adoring and long-suffering wife, just wants Robert to face reality. She doesn't want them to be the family people cross the street to avoid. Their two children are Katie (TERRI DUMONT), their heavily pregnant fourteen-year-old, and angelic Little Bob (ERIC BYRNE), their nine-year-old son who worships his Dad. And then there's Angie's mum (LINDA BASSETT) who never tires of telling her unusual son-in-law exactly what she thinks of him.
One day, when Robert discovers that he has NOT won yet another dream family holiday of a lifetime, he decides to take matters into his own hands and steal one!



2001

THE BLIND ASSASIN

  • Writing credits: Margaret Atwood (novel)
  • Plot Outline: The haunting story of two sisters and the secrets that bind them throughout several decades, both in life and death, as revealed through a cult novel titled "The Blind Assassin".
  • Country: Canada



2003

THE NIGHT WE CALLED IT A DAY

  • Directed by Paul Goldman
  • Writing credits: Peter Clifton and Michael Thomas
  • Genre: Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Music
  • Tagline: This nobody is about to catch a big somebody.
  • Plot Outline: Based on the true events surrounding Frank Sinatra's tour of Australia. When Sinatra calls a local reporter a "two-bit hooker", every union in the country black-bans the star until he issues an apology.
  • Cast: Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, David Hemmings, David Field, Victoria Thaine, Stephen O'Rourke, Nicholas Hope, George Vidalis, Peter Demlakian, Tony Barry, Vincent Ball, Jennifer Hagan
  • Runtime: Argentina:97 min / Germany:97 min (Filmfest Hamburg)
  • Country: Australia / USA
  • Language: English
  • Color: Color
  • Sound Mix: Dolby Digital



2003

BLACKBALL

  • Directed by Mel Smith
  • Writing credits: Tim Firth
  • Producers: James Gay-Rees
  • Genre: Comedy / Drama / Sport
  • Tagline: At last, a sportsman the British can be proud of
  • Credited cast: Paul Kaye, Terry Alderton, Emma Amos, Paul Bentall, Neil Conrich, Kenneth Cranham, Bernard Cribbins, James Cromwell, Pamela Cundell, Josie D'Arby, Robert Duncan, Mark Dymond, Rosie Ede, Alice Evans, James Fleet, Christopher Godwin, Howard Goorney, Beau Holmes, Ian Lindsay, Nigel Lindsay, Mark Little, Angus Loughran, Meredith MacNeill, Geoffrey McGivern, Ian McNeice, Felicity Montagu, Martin Moore, Ian O'Hara, Vicki Pepperdine, Jeff Rawle, Vic Reeves, Julian Rivett, David Ryall, David Schneider, Marlene Sidaway, Tony Slattery, Jon Snow, Imelda Staunton, Vince Vaughn, Johnny Vegas, Barry Woolgar
  • MPAA: Rated R for language.
  • Runtime: 96 min
  • Country: UK
  • Language: English
  • Color: Color (DeLuxe)
  • Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Plot Outline: In the sleepy seaside town of Torquay, on The English Riviera, the game reserved for geriatrics and pensioners is taken VERY seriously. None more so than by the reigning champion Ray Speight (JAMES CROMWELL), conservative and stuffy he has been Torquay´s home grown hero for over 20 years but now his title is threatened.
Cliff Starkey (PAUL KAYE) a young pretender from the wrong side of town, is daring to go up against him. Armed with his sexy bad-boy persona, a flashy American agent Rick (VINCE VAUGHN) and an army of screaming female fans, Cliff is a fresh and exciting new sex symbol in the game. In fact, he is fast turning Lawn Bowls into the biggest spectator sport in England - possibly the World!!! To add insult to injury, Cliff´s biggest fan is his new girlfriend Kerry (ALICE EVANS)... Ray's Daughter!.
On the eve of the World Championships, Cliff´s life long dream, things take a turn for the unexpected when Rick betrays him for a lucrative sponsorship deal. In a huge sell out stadium with millions more fans watching on television, Cliff must join forces with his arch nemesis Ray, and put their differences behind them for the greater good. If they can´t do it for each other, then they are going to have to do it for England?