Nathan
Head plays Officer Heinrich Berger in
the third film in the Robert The Doll
franchise, set in Nazi Germany during
the 1940s. The Toymaker was shot in
Cardiff in Autumn 2016 and was signed to
4Digital for an August 21st 2017 release
in the UK and a September 5th to October
31st 'Walmart Exclusive' release
in North America with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
under the new title Robert And The
Toymaker. In its opening week, The
Toymaker entered the Tesco DVD Film
Chart at number 20 and the HMV DVD
Premiere Chart at number 3, later moving
to number 6 at HMV for the second week
of release. The film was also in the
Morrisons DVD Chart for its second week
of release, at position 25 and from
September 11th The Toymaker was included
on the Morrisons Best Sellers list. On
September 28th footage from The Toymaker
was featured on Lisa Cannon's show Box
Office, which wass broadcast on TV3e in
Ireland to Virgin Media subscribers, and
the film was available in the Sky Store
on Sky Cinema. The
Toymaker was released digitally in
Brazil on November 15th 2017, dubbed in Portugese,
with Frighten Entertainment, as well a
German release on November 23rd 2018 with
DareDo. A rather rare limited edition
boxset of the first three Robert The
Doll films was released in America on
June 5th 2018 via Sony Pictures and there are currently five entries in the
Robert The Doll film franchise; Robert The Doll
/ Robert (2015), The
Curse Of Robert The Doll / Robert 2 (2016), The
Toymaker / Robert And The Toymaker
(2017), The Revenge Of Robert / Legend Of Robert The Doll (2018) and Robert Reborn
/ Robert Returns (2019). Footage of
Nathan's character's demise was also
reused in the fourth film, The Revenge Of Robert, which
was released in the UK on March 19th
2018 with Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment and in Germany on February
22nd 2019 with DareDo. In April 2022 all
five Robert films were made available to
watch on UK Netflix, with The Toymaker
streaming from April 30th. |