CORIN HARDY BIOGRAPHY Corin Hardy, Director Corin Hardy is an award- winning filmmaker, whose live action and animated work mixes the macabre, the beautiful and the epic to visually dazzling results. His early career as a special fx monster-maker began in his bedroom and bike-shed, aged 12; he made a number of animations and super 8 films with school-friends who regularly stood in for his cast of zombies, werewolves and slasher victims. Throughout his teenage years Corin gained valuable film set experience in art and costume departments on a variety of film, tv & theatre productions including The Royal National Ballet’s ‘Dracula’ and Columbia Pictures ‘First Knight’. A keen sculptor, illustrator & film-maker obsessed by a mixture of 1970’s storybooks, horror films and & 80’s ‘Spielberg era’ cinema. Corin studied Special Effects at Wimbledon School of Art before making his award- winning stop-motion short film Butterfly in 2003. This led into directing music videos, beginning with Keane’s ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ and ‘Bedshaped’ and continuing with films for a mix of mainstream acts including The Prodigy, Biffy Clyro, Olly Murs, Paolo Nutini and The Rizzle Kicks as well as underground indies The Horrors, Dry The River, The Horrible Crowes – and the 9 minute crime epic for Devlin and Ed Sheeran’s Watchtower, all produced with Academy Films. His music videos have accrued over 150 million views and won numerous awards around the world. Corin was selected as a ‘Star Of Tomorrow’ in 2011 by Screen International. In 2012 he filmed an urban legends based horror short ‘In The Back’ and directed a pair of teasers for his features FEST and Frogz Legz. For the past 10 years Corin has been writing and developing four of his own horror-based feature film projects with production companies in UK & US these include: The Hallow with Occupant Films, Refuge with Big Talk Films, Frogz Legz with Brilliant Films and F E S T with Pari Passu. Corin is also attached to direct Element Pictures teen thriller Where There’s Darkness. His debut feature THE HALLOW premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. Hardy will next direct the remake of THE CROW. Ed Pressman, Kevin Misher and Harvey and Bob Weinstein are producing with Relativity financing. www.corinhardy.com Contact: Jenny Wood – Elevate Entertainment – 323-634-0748 Rich Cook – WME – 310-248-2000 Hugo Young – Independent Talent Group - +44 20 7636 6565 PRESS RELEASES ‘The Crow’ Flies With Director Corin Hardy by Mike Fleming Jr December 3, 2014 11:56am EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Studios has set Corin Hardy to direct its remake of The Crow. Hardy made his live action feature directing debut on the Occupant Entertainment thriller The Hallow, a film that will be released next year and before that he drew acclaim for helming the animated short Butterfly and for directing music videos for the likes of Ed Sheeran, Biffy Clyro, Keane, Paolo Nutini and The Prodigy. The Crow remake has been watched closely by the fanboy set that loves the James O’Barr graphic novel about a murdered man who comes back for revenge, which was first brought to the screen by director Alex Proyas and the late actor Brandon Lee. Hardy has gotten a bit of cred in that fanboy favorite helmer Edgar Wright was the one who recommended him to Edward R. Pressman, who produced the original 1994 film and is producing the reboot. Hardy replaces F. Javier Gutiérrez, who was attached but signed on to the direct the next installment of The Ring franchise. That made him unavailable to helm The Crow, which is slated for a spring production start with a script by Cliff Dorfman. Gutierrez will be exec producer and O’Barr a consultant. Joining Pressman as producers are Kevin Misher, Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh, Jeff Most (who produced the original with Pressman), and Jeff Waxman. Tucker Tooley, Bob and Harvey Weinstein and Dan Farah are exec producers. Hardy is repped by Hugo Young at Independent Talent Group, Elevate Entertainment’s Jenny Wood and attorney Fred Tozcek. Dorfman is repped by ICM and Apostle’s George Heller. Sundance Horror Title ‘The Hallow’ Scares Up 7-Figure IFC Midnight US Rights Deal by Mike Fleming Jr February 3, 2015 4:10pm EXCLUSIVE: IFC Midnight has closed a low-seven-figure deal for U.S. rights to the horror film The Hallow. The film came to Park City with a lot of buzz because of the director, Corin Hardy. He’s the guy who caught Hollywood’s attention with his animated short Butterfly and vids for Ed Sheeran and others, parlaying that into the directing job on The Crow for Relativity. The Hallow stars Joseph Mawle, Bojana Novakovic, Michael McElhatton and Michael Smiley. Joe Neurauter and Felipe Marino produced. The logline: A London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland to survey for construction an area of ancient forest believed by the superstitious locals to be hallowed ground. The locals aren’t wrong; a horde of demonic forces are unleashed, and horror ensues. The film premiered in the Midnight Section last Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre. WME Global brokered this deal with ICM Partners. Just as the festival was getting underway, WME signed Hardy after all the agencies flew to Dublin to court him while he was posting the film. Hardy is a protégé of Edgar Wright, who was the one who recommended him to Relativity for the job of reviving The Crow. WME Signs ‘The Hallow’ Helmer Corin Hardy – Sundance by Mike Fleming Jr January 21, 2015 4:06pm EXCLUSIVE: Just before he flies in from Europe for the Sundance debut of his thriller The Hallow this weekend, Corin Hardy has signed with WME. This comes after a hotly contested signing battle for a filmmaker who makes his feature debut at the festival but who got Hollywood’s attention with the animated short Butterfly and for directing music videos for the likes of Ed Sheeran, Biffy Clyro, Keane, Paolo Nutini and The Prodigy. Off his highly visual work, Hardy was set direct The Crow for Relativity, with production to begin in April. After Hardy came in play recently, all of the agencies flew to Dublin to court the filmmaker as he worked on postproduction on The Hallow. Getting him in the WME fold pre-festival — with ICM Partners, WME Global is repping his Sundance movie, which premieres Sunday at midnight — alleviates the rep scrum that would have spread to the Park City slopes. The agency sees in him similarities to Guillermo del Toro when he was making his bones. Hardy is a storyboard conceptualist whose exquisite preparation won him The Crow job following the exit of F. Javier Gutierrez. Edgar Wright recommended Hardy to Relativity. Hardy has several horror films of his own invention he hopes to make, so he could make a name for himself quickly. The Hallow is set deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland. Feared by the superstitious nearby villagers as a haven for cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, the forest has been hidden from civilization and remains on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he now must ensure his family’s survival from their relentless attacks Meet the 2015 Sundance Filmmakers #34: Corin Hardy Explores the Perils of Parenting in 'The Hallow' By Rosie Narasaki | Indiewire January 27, 2015 at 4:10PM Want to watch woodland creatures go wild? Shot in picturesque West Ireland, Corin Hardy's "The Hallow" carefully navigates the fine line between fairy tales, horror, and reality. The film features the story of a young couple (with a baby, of course) that moves to the countryside -- only to accidentally incur the wrath of the seemingly innocent woodland creatures. What's your film about, in 140 characters or less? I wanted to tell a story based on an idea of what might be the truth behind fairytales and folk-lore and suggest a link with science & nature. We've read fairy tales all of our lives, but what truth might they be based on in a modern, grounded, non-gothic reality? Essentially it's about those two things; folk-lore and nature and what happens when you mess with either of them. Now, what's it REALLY about? The perils of parenting. Tell us briefly about yourself. I grew up on fairy tales. I love being consumed by stories. I love monsters and horror and I love emotional rides that move me. When I was younger I wanted to be a monster-maker and made horror movies with my friends each summer with as many home-made gore effects as possible. I eventually studied theatre design before making my debut stop-motion short "Butterfly" and directing music videos. "The Hallow" took 8 years from initial inception through writing, to production & completion. It's been an emotional ride, with monsters at every turn. What was the biggest challenge in completing this film? Completing the film......................................... Yeah. (Writing this whilst mixing final sound design & score, in Ireland. It's January 7th 2015.) What do you want audiences at Sundance to take away from your film? IFC Midnight" The Hallow" I hope they will be scared, thrilled & moved, in equal measure... When I see a film I want to be lost in it for an hour and a half and escape life itself. I would like it to be an exhilarating & sometimes primal experience that is one best accompanied by a bucket of popcorn & a beer and a partner to cling to.