New sales company takes world rights to romantic Christmas comedy.
New sales company Mrs Smith has acquired worldwide sales rights to Perfect Strangers, an upcoming romantic comedy from Bafta-nominated filmmaker Ryan Hendrick.
It marks one of the first acquisitions for LA-based Mrs Smith, which has been established by Priscilla Ross Smith, a former international sales and acquisitions executive for Clear Horizon and Archstone Distribution.
Mrs Smith will introduce Perfect Strangers to buyers during the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
The film centres on two strangers who become stranded in the remote Scottish Highlands after both suffering heartbreak and team up...
New sales company Mrs Smith has acquired worldwide sales rights to Perfect Strangers, an upcoming romantic comedy from Bafta-nominated filmmaker Ryan Hendrick.
It marks one of the first acquisitions for LA-based Mrs Smith, which has been established by Priscilla Ross Smith, a former international sales and acquisitions executive for Clear Horizon and Archstone Distribution.
Mrs Smith will introduce Perfect Strangers to buyers during the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
The film centres on two strangers who become stranded in the remote Scottish Highlands after both suffering heartbreak and team up...
- 9/8/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles and London-based management and production company which has credits including Ozark, has extended the scope of its UK operations by expanding to take on acting talent and authors.
The company’s first actor signing is Selina Giles, whose credits include Netflix series Greenhouse Academy, which recently wrapped its fourth season, and V For Vendetta. Giles will now be managed for film and TV by Zero Gravity’s UK head Leon Clarance.
Zero Gravity has also signed British financial journalist and author Martin Baker to represent him for his books, including film and TV adaptations of his published work. The move comes ahead of the publishing of A Dark Coronation, the third book in his Spendlove corporate espionage trilogy, which will be released in 2020.
Baker is an established finance journalist and has worked for The Independent and The Times. His latest novel explores cryptocurrencies...
The company’s first actor signing is Selina Giles, whose credits include Netflix series Greenhouse Academy, which recently wrapped its fourth season, and V For Vendetta. Giles will now be managed for film and TV by Zero Gravity’s UK head Leon Clarance.
Zero Gravity has also signed British financial journalist and author Martin Baker to represent him for his books, including film and TV adaptations of his published work. The move comes ahead of the publishing of A Dark Coronation, the third book in his Spendlove corporate espionage trilogy, which will be released in 2020.
Baker is an established finance journalist and has worked for The Independent and The Times. His latest novel explores cryptocurrencies...
- 12/19/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Zero Gravity Management, the La-based management and production company, is ramping up activities in the UK and has brought in two new clients on that site of the pond.
Chris Foggin, the director of 2019 UK box office hit Fisherman’s Friends, the low-budget indie project from Fred Films that took an impressive $9.7m after opening at number two behind Captain Marvel, has signed with the company for management in the U.S.. He is represented by United Agents in the UK.
Foggin has directed award-winning short films starring the likes of James Corden, Judi Dench and Tom Hiddleston. Fisherman’s was his second feature after 2016 picture Kids In Love, which starred Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky and Cara Delevingne. His upcoming work includes the first two episodes of the next season of UK series Cold Feet for ITV.
Zero Gravity opened its London office in August, hiring producer Leon Clarance...
Chris Foggin, the director of 2019 UK box office hit Fisherman’s Friends, the low-budget indie project from Fred Films that took an impressive $9.7m after opening at number two behind Captain Marvel, has signed with the company for management in the U.S.. He is represented by United Agents in the UK.
Foggin has directed award-winning short films starring the likes of James Corden, Judi Dench and Tom Hiddleston. Fisherman’s was his second feature after 2016 picture Kids In Love, which starred Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky and Cara Delevingne. His upcoming work includes the first two episodes of the next season of UK series Cold Feet for ITV.
Zero Gravity opened its London office in August, hiring producer Leon Clarance...
- 10/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
La management and production firm Zero Gravity has opened a UK office, appointing Brit producer Leon Clarance to head operations.
The company, whose credits include Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant and hit Netflix series Ozark, previously partnered with Clarance on Andrew Scott thriller A Dark Place (known in UK as Steel Country).
Clarance recently produced Jason Sudeikis-starring movie Kodachrome and was an executive producer on Netflix series Sense8. His remit at Zero Gravity will be to attract acting, writing, directing and below-the-line talent to the company with a view to producing and financing material which has international appeal whilst building a team from scratch.
Clarance, A Dark Place director Simon Fellows and Zero Gravity partner Mark Williams are currently in pre-production on The Department, a sci-fi-thriller created by Fellows and co-written by Luke Garrett which examines current themes of civil liberties and state intervention. Zero Gravity and Clarance have...
The company, whose credits include Ben Affleck starrer The Accountant and hit Netflix series Ozark, previously partnered with Clarance on Andrew Scott thriller A Dark Place (known in UK as Steel Country).
Clarance recently produced Jason Sudeikis-starring movie Kodachrome and was an executive producer on Netflix series Sense8. His remit at Zero Gravity will be to attract acting, writing, directing and below-the-line talent to the company with a view to producing and financing material which has international appeal whilst building a team from scratch.
Clarance, A Dark Place director Simon Fellows and Zero Gravity partner Mark Williams are currently in pre-production on The Department, a sci-fi-thriller created by Fellows and co-written by Luke Garrett which examines current themes of civil liberties and state intervention. Zero Gravity and Clarance have...
- 8/16/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Company hires Sense8 producer to lead UK office.
Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles based management and production company that has credits including Netflix series Ozark, has opened a London office and has hired UK producer Leon Clarance to head up its UK operation.
Alongside its production activities, Zero Gravity has a roster of clients including screenwriters, directors and actors. They include Katherine Heigl, Dolph Lundgren, and Michael Jai White.
Clarance, whose credits include Netflix series Sense8 and 2017 feature Kodachrome, will be tasked with developing film and TV projects, targeting both theatrical and streaming audiences, and also bringing talent into the company’s management stable.
Zero Gravity Management, the Los Angeles based management and production company that has credits including Netflix series Ozark, has opened a London office and has hired UK producer Leon Clarance to head up its UK operation.
Alongside its production activities, Zero Gravity has a roster of clients including screenwriters, directors and actors. They include Katherine Heigl, Dolph Lundgren, and Michael Jai White.
Clarance, whose credits include Netflix series Sense8 and 2017 feature Kodachrome, will be tasked with developing film and TV projects, targeting both theatrical and streaming audiences, and also bringing talent into the company’s management stable.
- 8/16/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Here’s a first trailer for thriller A Dark Place, starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock), Bronagh Waugh (The Fall), and Denise Gough (Colette). Shout! Studios is releasing stateside on April 12 after the film played at Edinburgh, Galway and Busan.
Scott plays a local sanitation truck driver in a sleepy backwoods town who plays detective when a local boy goes missing.
Simon Fellows (Malice in Wonderland) directs from a script by Brendan Higgins. DoP was Marcel Zyskind (The Killer Inside Me). Producers are Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech), Leon Clarance (Sense8), Tai Duncan (Proud Mary), and Mark Williams (The Accountant). Pic is a Zero Gravity Management, Bedlam Film, Motion Picture Capital, and Cuckoo Lane production.
Scott plays a local sanitation truck driver in a sleepy backwoods town who plays detective when a local boy goes missing.
Simon Fellows (Malice in Wonderland) directs from a script by Brendan Higgins. DoP was Marcel Zyskind (The Killer Inside Me). Producers are Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech), Leon Clarance (Sense8), Tai Duncan (Proud Mary), and Mark Williams (The Accountant). Pic is a Zero Gravity Management, Bedlam Film, Motion Picture Capital, and Cuckoo Lane production.
- 3/1/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Gareth Ellis-Unwin among producers on Pennsylvania-set drama.
Shout! Studios has acquired North American Rights from Bankside Films to the thriller A Dark Place by Malice In Wonderland director Simon Fellows.
Shout! Studios plans to release the film across numerous entertainment platforms in 2019. Spectre and Sherlock actor Andrew Scott stars with Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough in the story of a garbage truck driver in Pennsylvania who takes it upon himself to find out why a young boy has been found dead in his small town.
Newcomer Brendan Higgins wrote the screenplay and Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Leon Clarance, Mark Williams, and Tai Duncan produced the Bedlam Film,...
Shout! Studios has acquired North American Rights from Bankside Films to the thriller A Dark Place by Malice In Wonderland director Simon Fellows.
Shout! Studios plans to release the film across numerous entertainment platforms in 2019. Spectre and Sherlock actor Andrew Scott stars with Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough in the story of a garbage truck driver in Pennsylvania who takes it upon himself to find out why a young boy has been found dead in his small town.
Newcomer Brendan Higgins wrote the screenplay and Gareth Ellis-Unwin, Leon Clarance, Mark Williams, and Tai Duncan produced the Bedlam Film,...
- 12/4/2018
- by Mark A. Silba
- ScreenDaily
You might have heard the old Paul Simon song “Kodachrome,” a lyric inspired by the Kodak film, but now in the new similarly titled film that Netflix unleashes on Friday, it is a wholly different story altogether.
Kodachrome, which had its world premiere at last year’s Toronto Film Festival where the streamer won distribution rights, comes from writer Jonathan Tropper and director Mark Raso and finds itself at the crossroads of a world moving from analog to digital. But it transfers that notion to a very human and recognizable road-trip movie that becomes the final journey of an estranged father and son as they travel deep into Kansas to get the final rolls of Kodachrome film developed just as the last lab is ceasing that business.
That aspect of this fictional story is true. Tropper got the inspiration from a New York Times story detailing Kodak’s decision to...
Kodachrome, which had its world premiere at last year’s Toronto Film Festival where the streamer won distribution rights, comes from writer Jonathan Tropper and director Mark Raso and finds itself at the crossroads of a world moving from analog to digital. But it transfers that notion to a very human and recognizable road-trip movie that becomes the final journey of an estranged father and son as they travel deep into Kansas to get the final rolls of Kodachrome film developed just as the last lab is ceasing that business.
That aspect of this fictional story is true. Tropper got the inspiration from a New York Times story detailing Kodak’s decision to...
- 4/19/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has acquired road movie Kodachrome, which stars Elizabeth Olsen, for $4 million.
Kodachrome tells the story of a record label boss who embarks on a road trip across the U.S. in order to fulfill his father's dying wish and have a roll of Kodachrome film developed, only to find there's just one remaining shop accepting them.
Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris also stars in the movie from director Mark Raso.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, Jonathan Tropper and Leon Clarance produced, along with 21 Laps' Shawn Levy and Dan Levine. Dan Cohen, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk executive produced.
The film is...
Kodachrome tells the story of a record label boss who embarks on a road trip across the U.S. in order to fulfill his father's dying wish and have a roll of Kodachrome film developed, only to find there's just one remaining shop accepting them.
Jason Sudeikis and Ed Harris also stars in the movie from director Mark Raso.
Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Eric Robinson, Jonathan Tropper and Leon Clarance produced, along with 21 Laps' Shawn Levy and Dan Levine. Dan Cohen, Mary Anne Waterhouse, Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk executive produced.
The film is...
- 9/8/2017
- by Mia Galuppo ,Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
- 6/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Shoot underway for Ross Clarke-directed feature.
Voltage Pictures has launched international sales in Cannes on Motion Picture Capital’s Second World War drama The Bird Catcher.
The story centres on a Jewish girl who struggles to survive in Nazi-occupied Norway by masquerading as a male farmhand in Sweden.
Ross Clarke is currently shooting the drama from a screenplay by Trond Morten Kristensen that is due to wrap soon on location near Trondheim in Norway.
Scanbox pre-bought Scandinavian rights at script stage.
Laura Birn [pictured], Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, August Diehl, Arthur Hakalahti, Johannes Kuhnke and Jakob Cedergren star
Sense8 executive producer Leon Clarance serves as producer alongside Lisa G. Black and Clarke.
“We are pleased to continue our excellent working relationship with our friends at Mpc and excited to share this film which is as visually stunning as it is powerful and moving with our international partners,” Nicolas Chartier and Jonathan Deckter of Voltage Pictures said. “The reaction...
Voltage Pictures has launched international sales in Cannes on Motion Picture Capital’s Second World War drama The Bird Catcher.
The story centres on a Jewish girl who struggles to survive in Nazi-occupied Norway by masquerading as a male farmhand in Sweden.
Ross Clarke is currently shooting the drama from a screenplay by Trond Morten Kristensen that is due to wrap soon on location near Trondheim in Norway.
Scanbox pre-bought Scandinavian rights at script stage.
Laura Birn [pictured], Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, August Diehl, Arthur Hakalahti, Johannes Kuhnke and Jakob Cedergren star
Sense8 executive producer Leon Clarance serves as producer alongside Lisa G. Black and Clarke.
“We are pleased to continue our excellent working relationship with our friends at Mpc and excited to share this film which is as visually stunning as it is powerful and moving with our international partners,” Nicolas Chartier and Jonathan Deckter of Voltage Pictures said. “The reaction...
- 5/18/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Oceanside Media has optioned “The Claim,” a mystery thriller penned by Academy Award-winning “La La Land” writer and director Damien Chazelle. The screenplay, a 2010 Black List script, follows a single father trying to figure out what happened to his kidnapped daughter while fighting another couple who insist the child is rightfully theirs. Chazelle is not attached to direct the project. Oceanside Founder and Executive Chairman Scott Clayton will produce the movie alongside Route One Entertainment’s Russell Levine and Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital. Motion Picture Capital will fully finance the film, which is slated to begin production this year.
- 3/13/2017
- by Matt Pressberg
- The Wrap
Oscar-winning La La Land director Damien Chazelle’s mystery thriller script titled The Claim has been optioned by Oceanside Media. Oceanside’s Scott Clayton will produce the pic with Route One Entertainment's Russell Levine and Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance. Motion Picture Capital will fully finance the film, which is slated to begin production this year. The producers say they are in talks with a U.S. distributor with an eye on a 2018 release. Chazelle, who was…...
- 3/13/2017
- Deadline
Australia’s Oceanside Media partners on thriller with Route One, Motion Picture Capital.
Scott Clayton’s Oceanside Media has optioned the rights to the mystery thriller and will produce alongside Route One Entertainment’s Russell Levine and Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital.
Clarance’s Motion Picture Capital will fully finance the feature written by La La Land writer and Oscar-winning director Chazelle. A director is expected to be hired shortly in advance of a production start later in the year.
According to a press release a major Us distributor is in talks to release The Claim in 2018.
The Claim centres on a single father with a criminal background who must uncover the whereabouts of his kidnapped daughter while fighting the mysterious claims of another couple who insist the child is theirs.
Jay Stern and Chip Diggins also serve as producers on the project, which Diggins first brought into Route One.
Chris Lytton and [link...
Scott Clayton’s Oceanside Media has optioned the rights to the mystery thriller and will produce alongside Route One Entertainment’s Russell Levine and Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital.
Clarance’s Motion Picture Capital will fully finance the feature written by La La Land writer and Oscar-winning director Chazelle. A director is expected to be hired shortly in advance of a production start later in the year.
According to a press release a major Us distributor is in talks to release The Claim in 2018.
The Claim centres on a single father with a criminal background who must uncover the whereabouts of his kidnapped daughter while fighting the mysterious claims of another couple who insist the child is theirs.
Jay Stern and Chip Diggins also serve as producers on the project, which Diggins first brought into Route One.
Chris Lytton and [link...
- 3/13/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Hammer Films Eis Fund will back film and TV projects.
UK financier Motion Picture Capital, the Reliance Entertainment Group subsidiary, has formed a partnership with iconic UK production company Hammer Films.
The two companies are teaming on a new film fund called The Hammer Films Eis Fund which will offer private investors the opportunity to invest in a slate of Hammer branded film and TV productions.
The new fund will sit alongside Motion Picture Capital’s existing Eis fund and will only be accessible through a financial adviser.
Iconic horror label Hammer, best known for gothic horror films of the 1950’s including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and Christopher Lee’s Dracula, made a splash in 2012 with UK horror The Woman In Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which became the highest-grossing British horror film on record, taking £21.3m in its home territory and going on to gross over $130m worldwide.
2014 productions included...
UK financier Motion Picture Capital, the Reliance Entertainment Group subsidiary, has formed a partnership with iconic UK production company Hammer Films.
The two companies are teaming on a new film fund called The Hammer Films Eis Fund which will offer private investors the opportunity to invest in a slate of Hammer branded film and TV productions.
The new fund will sit alongside Motion Picture Capital’s existing Eis fund and will only be accessible through a financial adviser.
Iconic horror label Hammer, best known for gothic horror films of the 1950’s including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy and Christopher Lee’s Dracula, made a splash in 2012 with UK horror The Woman In Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which became the highest-grossing British horror film on record, taking £21.3m in its home territory and going on to gross over $130m worldwide.
2014 productions included...
- 1/12/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Motion Picture Capital acquires movie rights to new account of WWII raid.
UK financier Motion Picture Capital has acquired the screen rights to historical novel Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid.
The story, based on real events, is written by military historian Dr Robert Lyman and depicts the daring raid of a German shipping base in Bordeaux by 12 British royal marines in 1942.
Retrospectively dubbed by historians as Operation: Suicide, it will retell the ambitious raid of the dockyards and the British sabotaging of six German ships in the dead of night.
The raid, officially known as Operation Frankton, was previously dramatised in 1955 British war film The Cockleshell Heroes.
Leon Clarance will be developing and producing the movie.
Motion Picture Capital’s credits include Wachowski series Sense8, 2017 Sam Worthington sci-fi Titan, drama Hampstead and the upcoming American road-trip movie, Kodachrome, which stars Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed Harris.
The movie will...
UK financier Motion Picture Capital has acquired the screen rights to historical novel Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid.
The story, based on real events, is written by military historian Dr Robert Lyman and depicts the daring raid of a German shipping base in Bordeaux by 12 British royal marines in 1942.
Retrospectively dubbed by historians as Operation: Suicide, it will retell the ambitious raid of the dockyards and the British sabotaging of six German ships in the dead of night.
The raid, officially known as Operation Frankton, was previously dramatised in 1955 British war film The Cockleshell Heroes.
Leon Clarance will be developing and producing the movie.
Motion Picture Capital’s credits include Wachowski series Sense8, 2017 Sam Worthington sci-fi Titan, drama Hampstead and the upcoming American road-trip movie, Kodachrome, which stars Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed Harris.
The movie will...
- 12/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
UK financier Motion Picture Capital to tackle story of UK rugby player.
Motion Picture Capital is to develop biopic Code Of Honour, a sports story based on the life of rugby player Ady Spencer.
The production company has hired upcoming screenwriter David Raymond to write the treatment for the film. Raymond most recently wrote the mini-series In Harm’s Way about Un peacekeepers, which is set to be produced by Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment.
This new script will be based on the controversial events that saw Spencer banned from rugby union after he appeared for Cambridge University in the Varsity Match against Oxford University, despite having previously already played rugby league at professional level with the London Crusaders.
The film will be developed and produced by the CEO of Motion Picture Capital, Leon Clarance, whose credits include Come and Find Me (starring Aaron Paul) and Netflix series Sense8 which was co-created by the Wachowskis (The Matrix...
Motion Picture Capital is to develop biopic Code Of Honour, a sports story based on the life of rugby player Ady Spencer.
The production company has hired upcoming screenwriter David Raymond to write the treatment for the film. Raymond most recently wrote the mini-series In Harm’s Way about Un peacekeepers, which is set to be produced by Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment.
This new script will be based on the controversial events that saw Spencer banned from rugby union after he appeared for Cambridge University in the Varsity Match against Oxford University, despite having previously already played rugby league at professional level with the London Crusaders.
The film will be developed and produced by the CEO of Motion Picture Capital, Leon Clarance, whose credits include Come and Find Me (starring Aaron Paul) and Netflix series Sense8 which was co-created by the Wachowskis (The Matrix...
- 12/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Mark Raso is directing the story of an ailing photographer.
Screen can reveal the first-look image of Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses), Elizabeth Olsen (Captain America: Civil War) and Ed Harris (Pollock) in Mark Raso’s drama Kodachrome, produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner), Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum), Dan Levine (Arrival), Eric Ian Robinson, Jonathan Tropper and Leon Clarance.
Jonathan Tropper’s (This Is Where I Leave You) script, currently in post-production, follows an ailing photographer (Harris) and his estranged son (Sudeikis) who embark on an adventure halfway across America to reach the very last photo lab still able to process Kodachrome film before it closes its doors for good.
The Solution Entertainment Group represents international sales on the project, which is financed by Motion Picture Capital. CAA and Wme co-rep Us rights.
Screen can reveal the first-look image of Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses), Elizabeth Olsen (Captain America: Civil War) and Ed Harris (Pollock) in Mark Raso’s drama Kodachrome, produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner), Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum), Dan Levine (Arrival), Eric Ian Robinson, Jonathan Tropper and Leon Clarance.
Jonathan Tropper’s (This Is Where I Leave You) script, currently in post-production, follows an ailing photographer (Harris) and his estranged son (Sudeikis) who embark on an adventure halfway across America to reach the very last photo lab still able to process Kodachrome film before it closes its doors for good.
The Solution Entertainment Group represents international sales on the project, which is financed by Motion Picture Capital. CAA and Wme co-rep Us rights.
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Mark Raso is directing the story of an ailing photographer.
Screen can reveal the first-look image of Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses), Elizabeth Olsen (Captain America: Civil War) and Ed Harris (Pollock) in Mark Raso’s drama Kodachrome, produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner), Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum), Dan Levine (Arrival), Eric Ian Robinson, Jonathan Tropper and Leon Clarance.
Jonathan Tropper’s (This Is Where I Leave You) script, currently in post-production, follows an ailing photographer (Harris) and his estranged son (Sudeikis) who embark on an adventure halfway across America to reach the very last photo lab still able to process Kodachrome film before it closes its doors for good.
The Solution Entertainment Group represents international sales on the project, which is financed by Motion Picture Capital.
Screen can reveal the first-look image of Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses), Elizabeth Olsen (Captain America: Civil War) and Ed Harris (Pollock) in Mark Raso’s drama Kodachrome, produced by Ellen Goldsmith-Vein (The Maze Runner), Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum), Dan Levine (Arrival), Eric Ian Robinson, Jonathan Tropper and Leon Clarance.
Jonathan Tropper’s (This Is Where I Leave You) script, currently in post-production, follows an ailing photographer (Harris) and his estranged son (Sudeikis) who embark on an adventure halfway across America to reach the very last photo lab still able to process Kodachrome film before it closes its doors for good.
The Solution Entertainment Group represents international sales on the project, which is financed by Motion Picture Capital.
- 11/5/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: First look at Sherlock and Pride star in Afm-bound thriller from The King’s Speech producer.
Screen can reveal the first look at Afm-bound crime-thriller Steel Country, starring Andrew Scott.
Scott, known for his villainous roles in Sherlock and Spectre, leads cast in the movie, which shot in the Us last month.
Written by Brendan Higgins and directed by Simon Fellows (Malice In Wonderland), the film is produced by The King’s Speech producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin. Editor is Oscar-winner Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire), DoP is Michael Winterbottom regular Marcel Zyskind (The Killer Inside).
Bankside Films will be touting the project on promo at the Afm.
In Steel County, Scott plays a small town truck driver who turns detective when a young boy is found dead in a sleepy part of Western Pennsylvania. His investigations turn into an obsession to prove the boy has been murdered, leading to harrowing consequences.
The BAFTA-winner...
Screen can reveal the first look at Afm-bound crime-thriller Steel Country, starring Andrew Scott.
Scott, known for his villainous roles in Sherlock and Spectre, leads cast in the movie, which shot in the Us last month.
Written by Brendan Higgins and directed by Simon Fellows (Malice In Wonderland), the film is produced by The King’s Speech producer Gareth Ellis-Unwin. Editor is Oscar-winner Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire), DoP is Michael Winterbottom regular Marcel Zyskind (The Killer Inside).
Bankside Films will be touting the project on promo at the Afm.
In Steel County, Scott plays a small town truck driver who turns detective when a young boy is found dead in a sleepy part of Western Pennsylvania. His investigations turn into an obsession to prove the boy has been murdered, leading to harrowing consequences.
The BAFTA-winner...
- 10/25/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
With the Halloween season around the corner, this year's Screamfest Horror Film Festival is almost upon us, and the first wave of films for the fest have now been announced, including Fear, Inc., Trash Fire, and The Master Cleanse (starring Johnny Galecki).
Press Release: "Hollywood – Sept. 7, 2016 – America’s largest and longest running horror film festival, Screamfest Horror Film Festival, announces the first wave of its official 2016 film line up. The festival, which will run from Oct. 18-27, 2016 at the TLC Chinese in Hollywood, has launched careers - providing a platform for filmmakers and actors to showcase their latest work to enthusiasts and general audiences. Actress Lydia Hearst (Condemned, #Horror) will serve as ambassador for the festival.
“We’re so thrilled to announce such a diverse group of films this year,” said Rachel Belofsky, Screamfest Founder and Festival Director. “Even in our 16th year, filmmakers continue to push the envelope and...
Press Release: "Hollywood – Sept. 7, 2016 – America’s largest and longest running horror film festival, Screamfest Horror Film Festival, announces the first wave of its official 2016 film line up. The festival, which will run from Oct. 18-27, 2016 at the TLC Chinese in Hollywood, has launched careers - providing a platform for filmmakers and actors to showcase their latest work to enthusiasts and general audiences. Actress Lydia Hearst (Condemned, #Horror) will serve as ambassador for the festival.
“We’re so thrilled to announce such a diverse group of films this year,” said Rachel Belofsky, Screamfest Founder and Festival Director. “Even in our 16th year, filmmakers continue to push the envelope and...
- 9/7/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
After being in development for many years, one of James Cameron‘s passion projects is seemingly coming together. THR reports Christoph Waltz is in the early stages of discussion to star in the Robert Rodriguez-directed, Cameron-scripted adaptation of the manga series Alita: Battle Angel. If it goes through, Waltz would star alongside Rosa Salazar (The Maze Runner), who plays a cyborg unearthed by a scientist (Waltz) in a junk yard. She grows up to become a bounty hunter after being taken under the wing of Waltz’s scientist. Cameron is also producing with Jon Landau and co-writing with Laeta Kalogridis. Fox is currently looking at a July 2018 release.
After seeing to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the Mark Walhberg-led The Gambler, director Rupert Wyatt is returning to the former’s roots with a sci-fi project titled Captive State that he will helm, Variety reports. While...
After seeing to the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the Mark Walhberg-led The Gambler, director Rupert Wyatt is returning to the former’s roots with a sci-fi project titled Captive State that he will helm, Variety reports. While...
- 8/25/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech) to produce; Mpc to produce and fully finance.
Andrew Scott, known for his villainous roles in Sherlock and Spectre, is to lead the cast of Steel Country, a crime thriller that begins shooting in the Us later this week.
Bankside Films has come on board to sell the Us-set thriller, written by Brendan Higgins and directed by Simon Fellows (Malice In Wonderland), ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Scott will play a small town truck driver who turns detective when a young boy is found dead in a sleepy part of Western Pennsylvania. His investigations turn into an obsession to prove the boy has been murdered, leading to harrowing consequences.
The BAFTA-winner will co-star alongside Bronagh Waugh, who starred in TV crime series The Fall, and Denise Gough (’71, Jimmy’s Hall), who recently won an Olivier Best Actress award for her performance in stage play People, Places And Things...
Andrew Scott, known for his villainous roles in Sherlock and Spectre, is to lead the cast of Steel Country, a crime thriller that begins shooting in the Us later this week.
Bankside Films has come on board to sell the Us-set thriller, written by Brendan Higgins and directed by Simon Fellows (Malice In Wonderland), ahead of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Scott will play a small town truck driver who turns detective when a young boy is found dead in a sleepy part of Western Pennsylvania. His investigations turn into an obsession to prove the boy has been murdered, leading to harrowing consequences.
The BAFTA-winner will co-star alongside Bronagh Waugh, who starred in TV crime series The Fall, and Denise Gough (’71, Jimmy’s Hall), who recently won an Olivier Best Actress award for her performance in stage play People, Places And Things...
- 8/24/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Plus: Mpi acquires If There’s A Hell Below; Saban buys Come And Find Me; Shout! Factory, Legacy Classics in production-distribution pact; and more
Abramorama will release Luke Meyer’s music documentary Breaking A Monster theatrically across the Us, kicking off with a June 24 launch in New York.
The film charts the birth of the heavy metal band Unlocking The Truth as 7th grade schoolchildren who sign with an industry veteran manager and land a major record deal.
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Aaron Paul starrer Come And Find Me, which marks the feature debut of Zack Whedon. Annabelle Wallis also stars in the thriller about a mysterious girlfriend. Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Oddfellows Entertainment’s Chris Ferguson produced the film and the executive producers are Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk.Broad Green Pictures has cast Megalyn Echikunwoke, Eden SherLyndon Smith, Gage Golightly, [link...
Abramorama will release Luke Meyer’s music documentary Breaking A Monster theatrically across the Us, kicking off with a June 24 launch in New York.
The film charts the birth of the heavy metal band Unlocking The Truth as 7th grade schoolchildren who sign with an industry veteran manager and land a major record deal.
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Aaron Paul starrer Come And Find Me, which marks the feature debut of Zack Whedon. Annabelle Wallis also stars in the thriller about a mysterious girlfriend. Automatik’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Oddfellows Entertainment’s Chris Ferguson produced the film and the executive producers are Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk.Broad Green Pictures has cast Megalyn Echikunwoke, Eden SherLyndon Smith, Gage Golightly, [link...
- 5/26/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jason Watkins and Simon Callow have also joined Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson in the Joel Hopkins drama.
Lesley Manville (Another Years), James Norton (Rush), Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) and Simon Callow (Amadeus) have all signed up for Hampstead.
Inspired by a true story, the plot follows an American widow (Keaton) who becomes involved with an unkempt man (Gleeson) after she sees him attacked by a group of thugs, employed by property developers looking to evict him.
Joel Hopkins (Last Chance Harvey) will direct from a screenplay by Robert Festinger (in The Bedroom). Producers are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae for Ecosse Films.
Executive producers are Leon Clarance, Mark Woolley, Laure Vaysse, Jo Monk, Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder.
Cornerstone Films is handling international sales. Motion Picture Capital will fully finance the production.
Lesley Manville (Another Years), James Norton (Rush), Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) and Simon Callow (Amadeus) have all signed up for Hampstead.
Inspired by a true story, the plot follows an American widow (Keaton) who becomes involved with an unkempt man (Gleeson) after she sees him attacked by a group of thugs, employed by property developers looking to evict him.
Joel Hopkins (Last Chance Harvey) will direct from a screenplay by Robert Festinger (in The Bedroom). Producers are Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae for Ecosse Films.
Executive producers are Leon Clarance, Mark Woolley, Laure Vaysse, Jo Monk, Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder.
Cornerstone Films is handling international sales. Motion Picture Capital will fully finance the production.
- 5/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Noomi Rapace is set to star in the science-fiction thriller "Boy" for Lotus Entertainment with Danish helmer Jonas Arnby slated to direct.
Mattson Tomlin penned the script for the project which made it to the 2015 Black List. The story centers on a teen boy who is born with special abilities and spends his childhood switching names and cities to keep his identity hidden.
When his conservative, suburban neighborhood blames him for a mass, tragic event, he and his mother must flee from the authorities who are looking to destroy him and seek the support of an underground rebellion group.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh and Leon Clarance are producing with filming to begin in August.
Source: Variety...
Mattson Tomlin penned the script for the project which made it to the 2015 Black List. The story centers on a teen boy who is born with special abilities and spends his childhood switching names and cities to keep his identity hidden.
When his conservative, suburban neighborhood blames him for a mass, tragic event, he and his mother must flee from the authorities who are looking to destroy him and seek the support of an underground rebellion group.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Ben Pugh and Leon Clarance are producing with filming to begin in August.
Source: Variety...
- 5/12/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The 2014 Screen International UK Star of Tomorrow has joined the supernatural thriller from genre master Xavier Gens that commenced shooting in Romania on Monday.
Motion Picture Capital will fully finance and produce The Crucifixion alongside Peter Safran and Lotus Entertainment, which also handles international sales.
Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring) wrote the screenplay about an investigation into whether a priest murdered a mentally ill nun or lost the battle with a demonic presence.
Safran, the Hayes brothers, Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Lotus Entertainment’s Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, Ara Keshishian serve as producers.
Motion Picture Capital’s Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk and DJ Gugenheim of Andrew Lauren Productions serve as executive producers.
Wme and Curtis Brown Group represent Cookson.
Lotus Entertainment’s current slate includes November Criminals, Replicas, Kidnap, A Hologram For A King, Fallen and Tiger’s Curse.
Motion Picture Capital produced and financed Sense8 for Netflix and is in production...
Motion Picture Capital will fully finance and produce The Crucifixion alongside Peter Safran and Lotus Entertainment, which also handles international sales.
Chad and Carey Hayes (The Conjuring) wrote the screenplay about an investigation into whether a priest murdered a mentally ill nun or lost the battle with a demonic presence.
Safran, the Hayes brothers, Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Lotus Entertainment’s Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, Ara Keshishian serve as producers.
Motion Picture Capital’s Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk and DJ Gugenheim of Andrew Lauren Productions serve as executive producers.
Wme and Curtis Brown Group represent Cookson.
Lotus Entertainment’s current slate includes November Criminals, Replicas, Kidnap, A Hologram For A King, Fallen and Tiger’s Curse.
Motion Picture Capital produced and financed Sense8 for Netflix and is in production...
- 9/21/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK sales outfit boards international rights to directorial debut of Zack Whedon.
Goldcrest Films has boarded international sales rights to the feature debut of writer-director Zack Whedon (Deadwood), Come And Find Me, starring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle).
Currently shooting in Vancouver, Come and Find Me, which appeared on the 2012 Black List, follows the character of David (Paul) who must track down his missing girlfriend after he realizes she is not who she claimed to be.
Producers are Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister) for Automatik Entertainment, Leon Clarance (Sense8) for Motion Picture Capital and Chris Ferguson for Oddfellows Entertainment.
Executive producers are Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk.
Goldcrest Films MD Pascal Degove will launch sales at Toronto. Wme will handle domestic sales.
Degove said: “Come and Find Me is a truly compelling script – a real edge-of-your-seat thriller, which, in the hands of such established and emerging talent, both in front of and behind the camera...
Goldcrest Films has boarded international sales rights to the feature debut of writer-director Zack Whedon (Deadwood), Come And Find Me, starring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Annabelle Wallis (Annabelle).
Currently shooting in Vancouver, Come and Find Me, which appeared on the 2012 Black List, follows the character of David (Paul) who must track down his missing girlfriend after he realizes she is not who she claimed to be.
Producers are Brian Kavanaugh-Jones (Sinister) for Automatik Entertainment, Leon Clarance (Sense8) for Motion Picture Capital and Chris Ferguson for Oddfellows Entertainment.
Executive producers are Laure Vaysse and Jo Monk.
Goldcrest Films MD Pascal Degove will launch sales at Toronto. Wme will handle domestic sales.
Degove said: “Come and Find Me is a truly compelling script – a real edge-of-your-seat thriller, which, in the hands of such established and emerging talent, both in front of and behind the camera...
- 9/1/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Theis sci-fi feature scheduled to commence production in Europe on January 18.
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones’ Automatik produces with Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken’s 42 and Arash Amel, with Lennart Ruff set to make his feature directorial debut.
Voltage Pictures will introduce the project to buyers in Canada next month and CAA represents Us rights. Leon Clarance and Motion Picture Capital will produce and fully finance.
Sofia Boutella will also star alongside Worthington and Wilson. The project is based on Max Hurwitz’s screenplay from an original story by Grace Of Monaco screenwriter Amel about a military family who are relocated in space as part of a genetic evolution experiment.
Worthington just wrapped Lionsgate’s The Shack and will next be seen in Venice opener Everest. He is preparing to shoot Hacksaw Ridge for Mel Gibson this autumn before he starts on The Titan and then returns to duty for James Cameron on the Avatar sequels later in 2016.
Wilson won a Golden...
Brian Kavanaugh-Jones’ Automatik produces with Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken’s 42 and Arash Amel, with Lennart Ruff set to make his feature directorial debut.
Voltage Pictures will introduce the project to buyers in Canada next month and CAA represents Us rights. Leon Clarance and Motion Picture Capital will produce and fully finance.
Sofia Boutella will also star alongside Worthington and Wilson. The project is based on Max Hurwitz’s screenplay from an original story by Grace Of Monaco screenwriter Amel about a military family who are relocated in space as part of a genetic evolution experiment.
Worthington just wrapped Lionsgate’s The Shack and will next be seen in Venice opener Everest. He is preparing to shoot Hacksaw Ridge for Mel Gibson this autumn before he starts on The Titan and then returns to duty for James Cameron on the Avatar sequels later in 2016.
Wilson won a Golden...
- 8/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
It's been announced that director Robert Rodriguez is going to develop a TV series based on his crazy vampire film From Dusk Till Dawn. Rodriguez will write, produce, and direct the series, which "will explore and expand on the characters and story from the original film, providing a wider scope and richer Aztec mythology."
The announcement comes from Univision Communications Inc. Rodriguez will also help them create a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, music and sports programming. He's already got Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci's K/O Paper Products involved, and they're doing an action adventure series. Check out the full press release below with all of the details.
What do you think about Rodriguez making a From Dusk Till Dawn series?
Univision Communications Inc. announced today plans for the El Rey Network, a new general entertainment, English-language cable network geared towards young-adult audiences and created...
The announcement comes from Univision Communications Inc. Rodriguez will also help them create a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, music and sports programming. He's already got Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci's K/O Paper Products involved, and they're doing an action adventure series. Check out the full press release below with all of the details.
What do you think about Rodriguez making a From Dusk Till Dawn series?
Univision Communications Inc. announced today plans for the El Rey Network, a new general entertainment, English-language cable network geared towards young-adult audiences and created...
- 5/15/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, today announced it has made a strategic investment in El Rey Network, the new general entertainment, English-language cable network geared towards young-adult audiences and created by renowned American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures. The network will launch in December 2013 and have nation-wide distribution with initial carriage via Comcast.
Chairman Robert Rodriguez — who has been named one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Hispanics and has directed films such as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Machete and Sin City – unveiled the plans for the new network and showcased one of its slated programs today at Univision’s 2013 Upfront presentation in New York.
As the lead curators of content for El Rey Network, Rodriguez and FactoryMade will cultivate a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, music and sports programming. El Rey Network will provide English-language...
Chairman Robert Rodriguez — who has been named one of Time magazine’s 25 most influential Hispanics and has directed films such as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Machete and Sin City – unveiled the plans for the new network and showcased one of its slated programs today at Univision’s 2013 Upfront presentation in New York.
As the lead curators of content for El Rey Network, Rodriguez and FactoryMade will cultivate a mix of reality, scripted and animated series, movies, music and sports programming. El Rey Network will provide English-language...
- 5/14/2013
- by Kellvin Chavez
- LRMonline.com
News Louisa Mellor 9 Apr 2013 - 06:42
Syfy is pressing ahead with a thirteen-episode first season of the long-gestating Blake's 7 remake.
Syfy's Blake's 7 reboot has passed the next stage in the winding path from notion to actual telly programme, with a series of thirteen one-hour episodes ordered by the channel. Produced by Georgeville TV, the remake will be written by Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) and directed by Casino Royale and Goldeneye's Martin Campbell.
In a press release statement that - unironically, we assume - includes the word "amazeballs", Leon Clarance, the co-founder of Georgeville praises the tireless work of Pokaski and Campbell in rebooting the space opera, calling the show a "reimagined classic for a new generation of science fiction fans". FreeMantleMedia's David Ellender echoed Clarance's words, calling Blake's 7, "such a forward-thinking concept that the show continues to have resonance with audiences today," and promising that the...
Syfy is pressing ahead with a thirteen-episode first season of the long-gestating Blake's 7 remake.
Syfy's Blake's 7 reboot has passed the next stage in the winding path from notion to actual telly programme, with a series of thirteen one-hour episodes ordered by the channel. Produced by Georgeville TV, the remake will be written by Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) and directed by Casino Royale and Goldeneye's Martin Campbell.
In a press release statement that - unironically, we assume - includes the word "amazeballs", Leon Clarance, the co-founder of Georgeville praises the tireless work of Pokaski and Campbell in rebooting the space opera, calling the show a "reimagined classic for a new generation of science fiction fans". FreeMantleMedia's David Ellender echoed Clarance's words, calling Blake's 7, "such a forward-thinking concept that the show continues to have resonance with audiences today," and promising that the...
- 4/9/2013
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The Wachowskis (The Matrix, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5, Thor, Underworld Awakening) are teaming up with Netflix to develop a new TV series called Sense8. This would be the first TV series that the Wachowskis have been a part of, and it will be released in late 2014. Knowing the talent involved with this project, it's sure to turn out really good.
There's no information on what the series will be about other than the fact the idea was born from a conversation about "the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us." Here's the press release where everyone involved talks about how excited they are about making the 10 episode series...
"Andy and Lana Wachowski and Joe Straczynski are among the most imaginative writers and gifted visual storytellers of our time," said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. "Their incredible creations are favorites of Netflix members globally...
There's no information on what the series will be about other than the fact the idea was born from a conversation about "the ways technology simultaneously unites and divides us." Here's the press release where everyone involved talks about how excited they are about making the 10 episode series...
"Andy and Lana Wachowski and Joe Straczynski are among the most imaginative writers and gifted visual storytellers of our time," said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. "Their incredible creations are favorites of Netflix members globally...
- 3/27/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Some more original genre programming is making its way to Netflix, this time from the duo who brought us The Matrix trilogy, Andy and Lana Wachowski. Read on to find out what horrors are in store for those of you with "Sense8."
Netflix will bring Georgeville Television’s “Sense8,” a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted, exclusively to its members to watch instantly in late 2014.
The 10-episode Season One of “Sense8” marks the first foray into television by the Wachowskis, the creative geniuses behind Bound, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, and is the latest project from veteran showrunner J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the Hugo Award-winning “Babylon 5″ TV series whose film credits include Changeling, Thor and Underworld: Awakening.
"Sense8" is being produced by Georgeville Television, in association with Studio Jms. Georgeville Television is a Reliance...
Netflix will bring Georgeville Television’s “Sense8,” a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted, exclusively to its members to watch instantly in late 2014.
The 10-episode Season One of “Sense8” marks the first foray into television by the Wachowskis, the creative geniuses behind Bound, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, and is the latest project from veteran showrunner J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the Hugo Award-winning “Babylon 5″ TV series whose film credits include Changeling, Thor and Underworld: Awakening.
"Sense8" is being produced by Georgeville Television, in association with Studio Jms. Georgeville Television is a Reliance...
- 3/27/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Netflix continues it big push into original content production and announced that it has teamed up with The Wachowskis and J. Michael Straczynski for a new series:
Coming in 2014 from Georgeville Television, a new science-fiction thriller from the acclaimed directors of Cloud Atlas and The Matrix Trilogy and the creator of Babylon 5
Beverly Hills, CA., March 27 2013 – Netflix will bring Georgeville Television’s Sense8, a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted, exclusively to its members to watch instantly in late 2014.
The 10 episode season one of Sense8 marks the first foray into television by the Wachowskis, the creative geniuses behind Bound, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, and is the latest project from veteran show runner J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the Hugo Award-winning Babylon 5 TV series and whose film credits include Changeling, Thor and Underworld Awakening,...
Coming in 2014 from Georgeville Television, a new science-fiction thriller from the acclaimed directors of Cloud Atlas and The Matrix Trilogy and the creator of Babylon 5
Beverly Hills, CA., March 27 2013 – Netflix will bring Georgeville Television’s Sense8, a gripping global tale of minds linked and souls hunted, exclusively to its members to watch instantly in late 2014.
The 10 episode season one of Sense8 marks the first foray into television by the Wachowskis, the creative geniuses behind Bound, The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas, and is the latest project from veteran show runner J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the Hugo Award-winning Babylon 5 TV series and whose film credits include Changeling, Thor and Underworld Awakening,...
- 3/27/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Ross Clarke has closed a deal to direct Dermaphoria, an adaptation of a cult Craig Clevenger novel being made by Motion Picture Capital. Clarke, who also wrote the script for the adaptation, is producing with his Keep the Car Running partner Teryn Fogel along with Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance. Aperture Entertainment’s Adam Goldworm will executive produce. Described as Memento meets Breaking Bad, the story centers on a brilliant chemist who wakes up in jail after a drug lab explosion and is suffering from amnesia. Trapped between cops who want to arrest him and heavies who will stop at
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- 3/7/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: El Rey, the upcoming Comcast cable network from filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and John Fogelman and Cristina Patwa’s FactoryMade, is looking to make a splash with original scripted series. I have learned that Tres Pistoleros Studios, Rodriguez and FactoryMade’s production company, has signed a mega three-year deal with Reliance’s Georgeville Television that could be worth a quarter of a billion dollars. Under the pact, Georgeville, the independent TV studio formed by Marc Rosen and Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Deepak Nayar, will produce a minimum of six 13-episode series for the new network at budgets rumored to be at least $3 million an episode. (Update 14:45 Pm: The El Rey-Georgeville TV deal has now been officially announced. You can read the press release under the story.) With the deal, El Rey hints at its future identity as a scripted player when it launches in January 2014. That...
- 2/28/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Feature director Brett Ratner and Law & Order veteran Barry Schindel have teamed for Tomorrow, a drama project at ABC financed by Reliance’s Georgeville Television, the independent TV studio formed last spring by Motion Picture Capital’s Leon Clarance and Deepak Nayar and producer Marc Rosen. Like all Georgeville projects, Tomorrow, now in development, has a script-to-series commitment, meaning that if ABC likes the script it would trigger a 13-episode series order. Created and written by Katherine Lindberg and Ted Cyr, Tomorrow is a high-concept law enforcement procedural about an FBI agent who gets trapped in a time travel scenario. Ratner, who is set to direct, and Schindel, who serves as showrunner, executive produce with Lindberg, Cyr and Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar and Nicole Romano. At ABC, Tomorrow joins another Georgeville project in development with a script-to-series commitment, a pandemic drama from Overbrook and Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski.
- 1/7/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Cannes - Indie film group Sierra Affinity has made a bold move into the small screen space, launching a new television distribution and production venture with Chris Philip's TV venture Engine Entertainment and a deal with Marc Rosen and Leon Clarance's fast-growing Georgeville Television. Sierra/Engine Television, the 50-50 joint venture between Sierra and Engine Entertainment, arrives for its market debut at Mipcom with two straight-to-network-series orders courtesy of Georgeville: the pirate-themed Crossbones, which British writer Neil Cross (Luther) is creating together with producer Parkes MacDonald and which has a 10 episode order from NBC; and
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- 10/8/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What is it about unexplained events that fascinate us so much? Sadly, projects centered around these themes usually end up falling kind of flat... Yeah, we're looking at You "The Event." So who better to possibly get one right than "The X-Files"' Chris Carter?
According to Deadline, Independent TV studio, Georgeville Television has teamed up with Carter to finance a new drama series. Entitled "The After," the series will debut at next week’s Mipcom TV market where it will be shopped by newly formed Sierra/Engine Television.
Written by Carter, "The After" is a thriller which revolves around a mysterious, unexplained event. In the vein of "The X Files," "The After" incorporates elements of science fiction, suspense, and real-world fear and paranoia. “Chris has woven his mythology magic within a very human, grounded story about the moment when we realize all of our worst fears about the world and its future,...
According to Deadline, Independent TV studio, Georgeville Television has teamed up with Carter to finance a new drama series. Entitled "The After," the series will debut at next week’s Mipcom TV market where it will be shopped by newly formed Sierra/Engine Television.
Written by Carter, "The After" is a thriller which revolves around a mysterious, unexplained event. In the vein of "The X Files," "The After" incorporates elements of science fiction, suspense, and real-world fear and paranoia. “Chris has woven his mythology magic within a very human, grounded story about the moment when we realize all of our worst fears about the world and its future,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Sierra/Affinity is expanding its international feature film sales organization to include international television distribution in a partnership with Georgeville Television. Sierra/Affinity will launch the business and introduce programming to buyers at next month’s Mipcom gathering in Cannes, France. Sierra/Affinity’s President and CEO Nick Meyer, along with the company’s COO, Marc Schaberg will oversee the international television distribution operations. Georgeville Television was co-founded by film and television producer Marc Rosen and Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital. Georgeville announced its arrival at the May upfronts with NBC’s confirmation that it had closed a deal with the independent studio to produce Crossbones together with Parkes MacDonald and British writer Neil Cross (Luther). Georgeville also recently announced a 13-episode script to series order with a reboot of the classic British sci-fi series Blake’s 7 on Syfy. ABC also confirmed last week that it had ordered a...
- 9/5/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
ABC has put in development a pandemic thriller drama from Overbrook Entertainment, the company co-founded by Will Smith and James Lassiter. Lassiter and Overbrook partner Jada Pinkett Smith are executive producing the project, written/executive produced by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski and financed by Georgeville Television, the independent TV studio co-founded earlier this year by producer Marc Rosen and Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment. The untitled project is described as a high-octane pandemic thriller that combines closed-ended procedural and serialized elements Like with all Georgeville projects, the ABC drama has a script-to-series commitment, meaning that if ABC likes the script, that will trigger a 13-episode series order. Georgeville employed the same model with its first series, Neil Cross’s Crossbones, which will premiere on NBC in midseason, and with its reboot of the classic British sci-fi series Blake’s 7, which just landed at Syfy.
- 8/24/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Blake’s 7, the Georgeville Television-produced reboot of the cult British adventure/sci-fi series, has landed at Syfy. The cable network will develop the remake, which will be written by Joe Pokaski (Heroes) and directed by feature helmer Martin Campbell (Casino Royale). The project was taken out to Us networks last month by Georgeville, the independent TV studio co-founded earlier this year by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen. Blake’s 7 has a script-to-series commitment, meaning that if Syfy likes the script, it will greenlight the project as a 13-episode series. Georgeville employed the same model with its first series, Neil Cross’s Crossbones, which will premiere on NBC in midseason. Originally created by prolific British TV writer Terry Nation (Dr. Who), Blake’s 7 premiered on the BBC in 1978, running for four seasons. Referred to as “The Dirty Dozen in space,...
- 8/21/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Referred to as “the Dirty Dozen in space,” UK classic sci-fi series Blakes 7 has a doggedly loyal international following who may or may not be pleased about the news that a “reimagining” of the 1978-81 series originally written by Terry Nation (he created the Daleks!) is being shopped to U.S. networks.
Deadline broke the news that Georgeville Television (Gvtv), an independent TV studio co-founded recently by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen, has teamed with feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royal) and writer Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) on the project.
IMDb summarizes the original series as “a group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.” Gvtv has secured the rights to the Blakes 7 franchise from rightsholder Andrew Sewell and his company B7 Media with funding provided by Mpc.
Deadline broke the news that Georgeville Television (Gvtv), an independent TV studio co-founded recently by Leon Clarance of Motion Picture Capital, the financing arm of Reliance Entertainment, and producer Marc Rosen, has teamed with feature director Martin Campbell (Casino Royal) and writer Joe Pokaski (Heroes, CSI) on the project.
IMDb summarizes the original series as “a group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.” Gvtv has secured the rights to the Blakes 7 franchise from rightsholder Andrew Sewell and his company B7 Media with funding provided by Mpc.
- 7/26/2012
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
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