Mike is involved in the pre-production phases of a new feature length movie by Hanlau Films entitled ‘Stag Night of the Dead’. A comedy horror in the same vein as ‘Shaun of the Dead’, principle photography starts in April of next year.

Mike spent the day filming an Internet viral video for Soupercan today.

A Christmas themed ad, it features a rather unwelcome house guest (Mike) who has a spot of post-Christmas dinner flatulence…

Look out for it on YouTube and in your inbox soon!

Mike continued work on ‘The Cuckoo Dare’ this weekend. A feature length film by Mark Sanger, the film has been in production for some time due to Mark being involved in a number of high profile projects including the new version of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.

It’s hoped that the film will be completed by early next year and will be entered onto the film festival circuit.

Here are a couple more production photos taken behind the scenes of ‘Reco Men’.

To recap, ‘Reco Men’ was shot in May of this year and features Big Brother’s Kemal Shahin, Jeff Rudom from Gladiator and Beth Winslet from the famous Winslet family.

View previous shots from Reco Men

Here are a collection of stills taken behind the scenes during the filming of ‘Reco Men’ featuring Mike, Beth Winslet, Kemal Shahin and Jeff Rudom.

Many thanks to Raymond Brown for supplying the photos.

Reco Men was screened at The Rex in Soho this week and was very well received by the audience although many of them were shocked by the ending of the film. Obviously they’d not seen a Hanlau film before!

It’s been a while since the last update so there’s quite a bit to catch up on.

Firstly the ‘Reco Men’ shoot for Hanlau Films went really well. Mike recently saw an early edit of the film and was very pleased with how it’s coming together. To recap the film was shot on HD in May and also features Beth Winslet, Kemal Shahin and Jeff Rudom. It has been entered into the Raindance and London Film Festivals. More news to follow.

‘Hardcore’ was screened at Cannes back in May and the feedback has been promising. The screening was sold out and was standing room only and there may be some exciting news about the project soon. In the meanwhile the trailer is now online on the Big Brush Films website and you’ll certainly see Mike in a different role to anything he’s played before!

In June Mike worked on an ITN Factual production for the Discovery Channel. The programme ‘Nearly History’ deals with the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, and Mike played Dr John Webster who was the registrar at Louise’s birth back in 1978. The programme is due to be aired in America later this year.

An audio book narrated by Mike, ‘Little Boy Lost‘, is currently adorning the front cover of this months PC Advisor magazine. Written by W H Hudson it follows one small boys adventure through a magical kingdom.

Talking of audio books, Mike’s current project for the AudioBooksForFree.com website is ‘The Golden Fleece’ by Julian Hawthorne.

Finally, at the beginning of this month, Mike played a detective in the British comedy ‘In Your Dreams‘ which is due for cinematic release next year. The film stars Dexter Fletcher, Elize du Toit, Parminder Nagra, Linda Hamilton and Susan George.

‘Hardcore’, the comedy Mike shot last year, is being screened at this years Cannes Film Festival. The date for the screening is May 26th at Palais D. Mike is shooting ‘Reco Men’ so, sadly, won’t be able to attend but hopes to catch up with the cast and crew for a post Cannes party.

Mike finished work today on his latest audio book ‘Taras Bulba’ by Nikolai Gogol. This should be available to download for free shortly from the AudioBooksForFree.com website. Having finished narrating the book he’s trying to source a copy of the 1962 film version starring Yul Bryner and Tony Curtis!

The website will be having a couple of changes made over the next week or so with more links added to the site as well as Mike’s 2006 showreel. Please check back regularly.

A couple of people have emailed the site and asked about the location for the AA advert and whether it was as cold as it looked! The first answer is that it was shot on the banks of Wastwater in the Lake District. According to some of the locals it was the worst weather they had seen in ages so yes - it was that cold! The Wasdale Web has a few pictures taken by a local journalist.