Lockdown (2022)
- Original title
- The Audition
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- 15
- Rating
- 4.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An actor goes to an audition where a casting director forces him to complete a series of tests or someone close to him will die. The film was shot in multiple countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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What happens
Lockdown is a 2022 global pandemic thriller film written and directed by Bizhan Tong. The film stars Xander Berkeley and Kevin Leslie, with an international cast including Anita Chui, John Savage, Alix Wilton Regan, Pamela Nomvete, and Mike Leeder in supporting roles. Lockdown tells the story of an actor who enters an audition and is forced by the casting director to pass a series of tests or else someone around him will die. Despite challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic the movie was written, financed, and filmed around the world including Hong Kong, the UK, USA, Italy, and Japan entirely during that period. In September 2021, Lockdown made history as the world's 1st hybrid NFT feature and Asia's 1st NFT feature film with 5 copies minted as NFTs in advance of a traditional release. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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