Ho ho ho!
The Directors and staff of Hotspur & Argyle wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please click Santa for a salutary salutation. (Play loud). Read more »
David C Kerr nominated at British Comedy Awards – UPDATE: HE WON!
UPDATE: 'FRESH MEAT' HAS WON THE BEST NEW BRITISH TV COMEDY PRIZE IN THE BRITISH COMEDY AWARDS 2011. CONGRATULATIONS DAVID! The brilliant 'Fresh Meat' has been nominated as "Best New British ... Read more »
Samsung Galaxy Note lands in Greenwich
As more gadget-obsessed readers will know, the long awaited launch of Samsung’s Galaxy Note - a game-changing cross between a smart phone and an iPad - is upon us. And, ... Read more »
Murray Immortalised In Wool By Richard Swarbrick
Richard Swarbrick's latest Wimbledon Restring film is a tribute and good luck message to Andy Murray. Once again meticulously recreated with nothing more than wool, felt and a small button, ... Read more »
Les Freres Moustache’s Lacoste Pop-Up
Les Freres Moustache have just completed this beautiful film for Lacoste’s iconic L12.12 polo shirt web site. The boys filmed all the models against green screen before selecting the frames ... Read more »
Gareth Bale Animator Richard Swarbrick Signs
We are delighted to welcome director Richard Swarbrick to Hotspur and Argyle. Richard’s stunning animation of Gareth Bale’s performance for Tottenham Hotspur against European Champions Inter Milan has ... Read more »
Oscar for Kirk Baxter
Kirk Baxter arrived in London from Sydney in the late nineties as a a young film editor trying to make his way in the world. His first job was a ... Read more »
Happy Christmas!
Life As A Sex Object By Martin Aamund
Martin Aamund has just finished this stylish sixty second film for clothing label Jack and Jones. It tells the heart-rending tale of a man treated as little more than ... Read more »
Les Freres Moustache and the U.S. military budget
Softwar is the latest film from the brilliant Les Freres Moustaches. Made as part of their 'Lab' series of experimental work, it’s an entirely computer generated data visualization on the ... Read more »
Les Freres Moustache make mobile tariffs beautiful
Fiendishly clever Hotspur & Argyle directing team Les Freres Moustache have just finished this stylish commercial for O2 in Germany. It's a lovely piece of work and equally compelling is ... Read more »
Stellar 90 Minutes From England Stars
Theo Delaney has directed two new sketches for The FA's Get Into Football Campaign that he wrote with writer/actor Rufus Jones. They feature the remarkable acting skills of England stars ... Read more »
Bootiful – The Musical
Hotspur & Argyle's new musical extravaganza for Bernard Matthews has been unleashed. Directed by Theo Delaney for agency Isobel, the commercial was shot over two intensive days in the Manchester ... Read more »
Theo Delaney interrogated
Hotspur & Argyle director Theo Delaney has been interviewed for the website creativepool.co.uk. The site, which has over 60,000 members, caters for the needs of Britain's freelance creative community. ... Read more »
Les Freres Moustache Interview
Recent H&A signings Les Freres Moustache are up for the Young Director Award at Cannes 2010 and they've been interviewed by legendary Shots journo Lindy Stout for the YDA blog. ... Read more »
Martin Aamund kicks off with Virgin
Hotspur & Argyle’s recent signing Martin Aamund has made his UK directorial debut with a new Virgin Media film for start up agency The Game Changer. It tells the tale ... Read more »
The Theo Delaney Football Reel
To mark World Cup year, Hotspur and Argyle present the Theo Delaney Football reel. This limited edition reel, which features award-winning work for The FA and Coca Cola, showcases ... Read more »
Songs of 2009 (Official)
Every year we issue our official songs of the year collection. This year's is really good. Here it is. And here is the link through to Spotify. Hope you like ... Read more »
Mother, $10,000 and Theo Delaney
A couple of weeks ago Hotspur and Argyle director Theo Delaney received what at first glance looked like one of those Nigerian scam emails aiming to empty your bank account. ... Read more »
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
'nuff said x Read more »
February in the Bahamas anyone?
This is Kevin Curtis's micro documentary on British Olympic high jumper Dorothy Tyler. The teenage Curtis used to deliver Dorothy's newspapers. Now his film tells her amazing story and it's ... Read more »
Men at work
It's done, Betfair's very own behind the scenes 'making of' film for the new Front Room campaign which, following a liberal smattering of ten second teasers, is about to launch ... Read more »
One Shot Film Festival
We love this idea from by Clive Pickering and Albion creative director Andre Moreira. A film festival for films with only one shot. (This is possibly because, looking through Hotspur ... Read more »
Betfair Teasers
Our teasers for the new Betfair Front Room campaign are on air (and YouTube). We can't say much more about the campaign proper except that we're working on it with ... Read more »
Booze Culture
The latest Contentment Worldwide contribution to Current TV is 'The Fear', a stylish and pithy look at how and why alcohol makes you wake up in the middle of ... Read more »
We've won a Shark. Not a man eating fish that we'd have to find an enormous tank for, but an award from the venerable Kinsale Sharks advertising festival. ... Read more »
Absence…
Click on the image to watch the video. ...is the enigmatic title of Kevin Curtis’s heartfelt homage to the celebrated Mercedes ad 'Presence' which features Josh Brolin. This film - ... Read more »
…Awards News…Awards News…Awards News…
Our Nokia NGage films we made with Work Club have received a D&AD nomination. The six films shot by Theo Delaney on the London Underground record the reactions of the ... Read more »
Perrington Stud
Perrington Stud is Big Red Button's brilliant short film made for the Getty Images Short & Sweet Film Challenge. With a brief to illustrate uses for Getty's 65million-image archive, the ... Read more »
007 assignment for Contentment
That's right, Hotspur and Argyle's shadowy sister organisation Contentment Worldwide is responsible for all the live action footage on Sony's lavish new Quantum of Solace website. The site invites would-be ... Read more »
Coming to a Cinema near you…
Slash, a brazen celebration of outdoor urination, is Hotspur and Argyle’s newly completed spot for MTV Switch. Encouraging people to save water by flushing less, the film was shot over ... Read more »
New Nokia Virals Go Live
Our brand new set of Nokia virals for the wondrous N-Gage gaming system have just gone live. Conceived by our friends at Work Club and directed by Theo Delaney in ... Read more »
Celebrity Football Anarchy…
...reigns in the launch film for The Football Association's Respect programme from Hotspur and Argyle's sister company Contentment Worldwide . Featuring the likes of Ben Shephard, Les Ferdinand, Gethin Jones, ... Read more »
Nokia virals with Work Club
Dressing up opportunities are limited when you're a director but the other week Theo got to disguise himself as an accountant before descending into the London Underground to shoot ... Read more »
New artworks from Jake Polonsky
Hotspur and Argyle's friend and collaborator Jake Polonsky is well known for applying his magical cinematography to pop promos and commercials and he's also directed a couple of highly ... Read more »
The Bootiful Game
Latest in a medium-length line of lascivious virals from H&A is this Burger King offering designed to attract fans to the 'football your way' web site. Commissioned by our friends ... Read more »
We demand a re-count
Hyper-active genius and Hotspur and Argyle director Kevin Curtis wrote, directed and post produced this commercial in his lunch hour and entered it into the Doritos ad competition under the ... Read more »
Stupid Telly
Check out Contentment Worldwide partner Sam Delaney’s new podcast ‘Stupid Telly with Sam Delaney and Tom’. It’s funny, clever and sexy. And it's got explosions and dogs. Download from iTunes ... Read more »
The Deported Dandy
Dandy, artist, author, and friend of Hotspur and Argyle Sebastian Horsley was recently refused admission to the United States. Turning up at Newark airport in his trademark long coat, top ... Read more »
Al Gore gets to meet Sam Delaney
We like Current TV. The global cable and satellite TV network commissions 'pods' from a select list of production houses including Contentment Worldwide, Hotspur and Argyle's sister company. Which ... Read more »