Film is written by Nathwani and Screen Star of Tomorrow Helen Simmons.
UK-based filmmaker Sasha Nathwani has wrapped his debut feature Last Swim, a day-in-a-life drama featuring a host of rising stars, co-written by Screen 2018 producer Star of Tomorrow Helen Simmons,
The film stars newcomer Deba Hekmat alongside Under The Shadow actress Narges Rashidi, Screen 2022 Star of Tomorrow Solly McLeod, The Batman’s Jay Lycurgo and Denzel Baidoo. Shooting took place from mid-May to early June at locations across London.
Last Swim follows an ambitious Iranian teenager in London who has been diagnosed with a life-changing condition. On A-level results day,...
UK-based filmmaker Sasha Nathwani has wrapped his debut feature Last Swim, a day-in-a-life drama featuring a host of rising stars, co-written by Screen 2018 producer Star of Tomorrow Helen Simmons,
The film stars newcomer Deba Hekmat alongside Under The Shadow actress Narges Rashidi, Screen 2022 Star of Tomorrow Solly McLeod, The Batman’s Jay Lycurgo and Denzel Baidoo. Shooting took place from mid-May to early June at locations across London.
Last Swim follows an ambitious Iranian teenager in London who has been diagnosed with a life-changing condition. On A-level results day,...
- 6/23/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Awards
TripleC, a gateway organization that helps deaf, disabled, and neurodiverse people access the arts and media, will receive a BAFTA TV Craft Special Award during the British Academy Television Craft Awards. Actor Cherylee Houston (“Coronation Street”) founded TripleC and with a group of friends including Melissa Johns (“Grantchester”), they have built a platform for making the creative screen industry more inclusive.
Johns and Houston said: “When we set up this organization five years ago, we were just a group of disabled and non-disabled creatives coming together to see if we could make a change. I don’t think we ever knew the size of impact that that seed of an organization would have on the lives of so many deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent creatives. The recognition from BAFTA will support our drive for change and help ensure accessibility and inclusivity is high up on every agenda.”
Sara Putt,...
TripleC, a gateway organization that helps deaf, disabled, and neurodiverse people access the arts and media, will receive a BAFTA TV Craft Special Award during the British Academy Television Craft Awards. Actor Cherylee Houston (“Coronation Street”) founded TripleC and with a group of friends including Melissa Johns (“Grantchester”), they have built a platform for making the creative screen industry more inclusive.
Johns and Houston said: “When we set up this organization five years ago, we were just a group of disabled and non-disabled creatives coming together to see if we could make a change. I don’t think we ever knew the size of impact that that seed of an organization would have on the lives of so many deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent creatives. The recognition from BAFTA will support our drive for change and help ensure accessibility and inclusivity is high up on every agenda.”
Sara Putt,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Kalu Ikeagwu and Marcy Dolapo Oni have been tapped to star in “It’s the Blackness,” the debut feature from actor turned director Hakeem Kae-Kazim.
Ikeagwu (“30 Days”) and Oni (“Diary of a Lagos Girl”) will play Mr and Mrs Baba-Lola in the film.
They are joined by Daniel Davids (“Meet the Adebanjos”), Matthew J. Morrison (“Inexplicables”), Kierath Jandoo (“Dimension Slip”), Scott Haran (“Wizards vs. Aliens”), Philip Kay (“No Place Like Holmes”) and newcomers Isis Clunie and Varun Raj.
“It’s the Blackness” is a comedy-drama-romance written by newcomer Dapo Oshiyemi. It tells the story of two ambitious graduates from an elite university who must navigate institutional and structural racism as they look to build their careers in modern Britain while at the same time still making space in their lives for love and family.
The film, which is currently in pre-production, is set in South London. Shooting is set to start in...
Ikeagwu (“30 Days”) and Oni (“Diary of a Lagos Girl”) will play Mr and Mrs Baba-Lola in the film.
They are joined by Daniel Davids (“Meet the Adebanjos”), Matthew J. Morrison (“Inexplicables”), Kierath Jandoo (“Dimension Slip”), Scott Haran (“Wizards vs. Aliens”), Philip Kay (“No Place Like Holmes”) and newcomers Isis Clunie and Varun Raj.
“It’s the Blackness” is a comedy-drama-romance written by newcomer Dapo Oshiyemi. It tells the story of two ambitious graduates from an elite university who must navigate institutional and structural racism as they look to build their careers in modern Britain while at the same time still making space in their lives for love and family.
The film, which is currently in pre-production, is set in South London. Shooting is set to start in...
- 3/16/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Candis Nergaard, Jayne Wisener, David Schaal, Jonny Phillip, David Wayman, Flip Webster, Mark Arden, Denise Stephenson, Chris Bell | Written by Chris Bell, Danny Prescott, Kelly Prescott, Jezz Vernon | Directed by Chris Bell
The thing I noticed most about The Heiress while watching it, is that it is very, very, British for a variety of reasons that I will go into later… The story followss two sisters who live together, Clare and Anna. Clare has seizures and soon starts to see ghosts or at least what she thinks are ghosts, while her sister just thinks she is going crazy. This being a horror movie, the ghosts are real.
So why is it a very British movie? It’s kinda hard to say if you’re not from Great Britain or have never visited here but the locations, the fashion, the dialogue and the characters and the actors they play are all just so…...
The thing I noticed most about The Heiress while watching it, is that it is very, very, British for a variety of reasons that I will go into later… The story followss two sisters who live together, Clare and Anna. Clare has seizures and soon starts to see ghosts or at least what she thinks are ghosts, while her sister just thinks she is going crazy. This being a horror movie, the ghosts are real.
So why is it a very British movie? It’s kinda hard to say if you’re not from Great Britain or have never visited here but the locations, the fashion, the dialogue and the characters and the actors they play are all just so…...
- 4/14/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
Ahead of the UK Digital release of The Heiress on March 15th 2021, director Chris Bell talks about familial horror influences, his South London ‘hooligangster’ phase and learning new lockdown skills.
How did you get the idea for The Heiress?
I was in my local library when I came across a painting. The artist was a local lady. I was drawn to this eerie artwork and I knew I had to meet her. When we did meet I told her that I was going to write a film inspired by this painting. Not only that but I promised to feature her in the movie – and I did just that.
Myself, alongside Danny and Kelly Prescott, created the script for what became The Heiress. I’d arranged a meeting with producer Jezz Vernon, whom I had recently worked with on another movie. We pitched the script to him and from there he came on board.
How did you get the idea for The Heiress?
I was in my local library when I came across a painting. The artist was a local lady. I was drawn to this eerie artwork and I knew I had to meet her. When we did meet I told her that I was going to write a film inspired by this painting. Not only that but I promised to feature her in the movie – and I did just that.
Myself, alongside Danny and Kelly Prescott, created the script for what became The Heiress. I’d arranged a meeting with producer Jezz Vernon, whom I had recently worked with on another movie. We pitched the script to him and from there he came on board.
- 2/9/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Here is the full official trailer for The Heiress, Chris Bell’s supernatural chiller, available to download and rent in the UK from Monday 15th March 2021 on all major digital platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office, Sony and Google.
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress is also being released on Tuesday March 16th 2021 in...
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress is also being released on Tuesday March 16th 2021 in...
- 1/26/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
The Movie Partnership, in association with Old Way Film & Television, will be releasing the powerful and haunting supernatural thriller The Heiress, both in the UK and across the world, excluding US and Canada.
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress will be available to download from all major platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office,...
The female-driven story, blending the occult with contemporary familial issues, stars Candis Hergaard as Claire and Jayne Wisener as Anna, cousins who share a mysterious connection to a dark family secret. Following the death of Clare’s grandmother, ancient spirits are unleashed and the women must do battle with ‘Lilith’, a malevolent female spirit who has returned to claim possession of Anna’s unborn child.
Directed by Chris Bell and written by Danny Prescott, Jezz Vernon, Chris Bell and Kelly Prescott, The Heiress stars Candis Nergaard , Jayne Wisener, Jonny Phillips, David Schaal, Denise Stephenson, Mark Arden and Flip Webster.
The Heiress will be available to download from all major platforms including iTunes, Amazon, Sky Box Office,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Four new members appointed to the UK screen industries agency’s board.
UK screen industries agency Film London has appointed four new members of its board of directors.
They include:
Nicola Pearcey, president, UK and Emea strategy and operations, Lionsgate; Saurabh Kakkar, executive producer, Big Talk Productions; Lila Rawlings, executive producer, drama and film, Left Bank Pictures; and Helen Burnhill, vice president of business development and marketing, Mediatonic.
The new board members, whose roles include responsibility as charity trustees, will replace outgoing members Ian George, Anna Higgs, Angela Jain and Andy Payne who have all completed their tenures on the board.
UK screen industries agency Film London has appointed four new members of its board of directors.
They include:
Nicola Pearcey, president, UK and Emea strategy and operations, Lionsgate; Saurabh Kakkar, executive producer, Big Talk Productions; Lila Rawlings, executive producer, drama and film, Left Bank Pictures; and Helen Burnhill, vice president of business development and marketing, Mediatonic.
The new board members, whose roles include responsibility as charity trustees, will replace outgoing members Ian George, Anna Higgs, Angela Jain and Andy Payne who have all completed their tenures on the board.
- 1/22/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
The film aims to start shooting in January 2020.
The UK’s Marsha Thomason has signed to star in Gary Young’s action thriller Stolen which is set to start shooting in the UK and South Africa in January 2020.
Thomason, who has appeared in Us TV series including Fox’s White Collar, FX’s Better Things and ABC’s The Good Doctor, will play an ex-military officer and single mother who runs a private security business and is drawn into the investigation in to her daughter’s involvement in a fatal shooting while on holiday in South Africa.
Us actor Michael Landes will co-star,...
The UK’s Marsha Thomason has signed to star in Gary Young’s action thriller Stolen which is set to start shooting in the UK and South Africa in January 2020.
Thomason, who has appeared in Us TV series including Fox’s White Collar, FX’s Better Things and ABC’s The Good Doctor, will play an ex-military officer and single mother who runs a private security business and is drawn into the investigation in to her daughter’s involvement in a fatal shooting while on holiday in South Africa.
Us actor Michael Landes will co-star,...
- 11/12/2019
- by ¬0¦Lisa Wehrstedt¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: In Absentia, a feature doc from the six-time Oscar-nominated director of My Left Foot and In America Jim Sheridan, has locked a sales deal with UK outfit Studio Soho.
The project digs into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, just days before Christmas in 1996.
Sheridan has been researching the story for five years. The case has caused scandal and controversy in Ireland and France. In May this year, the French courts convicted Cork resident Ian Bailey in absentia of the murder and sentenced him to 25 years’ imprisonment. Bailey has protested his innocence for the past two decades and is living as a free man in Ireland, though remains under threat of extradition to France.
Since 2015, Sheridan has filmed with Sophie’s family and supporters at their homes in West Cork and Paris.
The project digs into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, Ireland, just days before Christmas in 1996.
Sheridan has been researching the story for five years. The case has caused scandal and controversy in Ireland and France. In May this year, the French courts convicted Cork resident Ian Bailey in absentia of the murder and sentenced him to 25 years’ imprisonment. Bailey has protested his innocence for the past two decades and is living as a free man in Ireland, though remains under threat of extradition to France.
Since 2015, Sheridan has filmed with Sophie’s family and supporters at their homes in West Cork and Paris.
- 10/31/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
New board members include execs from BBC Fims, Coutts & Co and Saffery Champness.
Five new members have been appointed to Film London’s board of directors.
They are:
Geraldine Atlee, Head of Legal and Business Affairs at BBC Films Judith Chan, Executive Director of private bank Coutts & Co John Graydon, Head of Film and TV at chartered accountants Saffery Champness Jeff Jacobs, former Chief Officer of the Gla (Greater London Authority) Frances Trought, Deputy Vice Principal at Pearson College, London
Trought will take up a new board position focusing on Education following the launch of Film London’s Equal...
Five new members have been appointed to Film London’s board of directors.
They are:
Geraldine Atlee, Head of Legal and Business Affairs at BBC Films Judith Chan, Executive Director of private bank Coutts & Co John Graydon, Head of Film and TV at chartered accountants Saffery Champness Jeff Jacobs, former Chief Officer of the Gla (Greater London Authority) Frances Trought, Deputy Vice Principal at Pearson College, London
Trought will take up a new board position focusing on Education following the launch of Film London’s Equal...
- 11/23/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Two productions from Redeeming Features on sales company’s Cannes slate.
Caroline Couret-Delègue’s UK sales outfit Truffle Pictures is launching two films at Cannes from production outfit Redeeming Features, the new venture from ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon and Nate Wiseman.
Documentary Ten Count, which is in post-production, is a feature about the stigma of mental health issues among sports stars.
The film follows ex-Premier League footballer and now professional boxer Leon McKenzie [pictured] as he challenges the sports industry to let athletes open up about their psychological struggles in an industry that is fixated on physical performance.
The doc features interviews with ex-pro sports stars including former boxer Frank Bruno. Junior Foster directed, Wiseman and Vernon produced.
Supernatural horror The Heiress focuses on the centuries old conflict between religion and science. The story follows two cousins who are haunted by a female entity. Chris Bell directs with Vernon and Wiseman producing alongside Danny Prescott. The film is...
Caroline Couret-Delègue’s UK sales outfit Truffle Pictures is launching two films at Cannes from production outfit Redeeming Features, the new venture from ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon and Nate Wiseman.
Documentary Ten Count, which is in post-production, is a feature about the stigma of mental health issues among sports stars.
The film follows ex-Premier League footballer and now professional boxer Leon McKenzie [pictured] as he challenges the sports industry to let athletes open up about their psychological struggles in an industry that is fixated on physical performance.
The doc features interviews with ex-pro sports stars including former boxer Frank Bruno. Junior Foster directed, Wiseman and Vernon produced.
Supernatural horror The Heiress focuses on the centuries old conflict between religion and science. The story follows two cousins who are haunted by a female entity. Chris Bell directs with Vernon and Wiseman producing alongside Danny Prescott. The film is...
- 5/18/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Fantasy feature goes to North America, UK and Japan in flurry of deals.
UK sales company Truffle Pictures has closed deals on fantasy action adventure The Gaelic King to North America and the UK (4Digital Media), the Middle East (Italia Film), Japan (Interfilm) and Italy (Draka Distribution). 4Digital Media is planning to release the film in the UK this July. All deals were negotiated by Caroline Couret-Delègue, managing director at Truffle Pictures.
Directed by Philip Todd from a script by Philip and Matthew Todd, the film’s ensemble cast includes Jake McGarry, Shona Melrose, Kerry Browne, Noah Irvine and Peter Cosgrove.
Set in 800Ad Scotland, the story follows warrior-king Alpin mac Eachdach and his young brother Finn, forced into exile after their family is brutally murdered by a rival Pictish king.
The film is produced by Nathan Todd with Jezz Vernon and Couret-Delègue executive producing. Todd said, “We’re delighted to have closed deals in five...
UK sales company Truffle Pictures has closed deals on fantasy action adventure The Gaelic King to North America and the UK (4Digital Media), the Middle East (Italia Film), Japan (Interfilm) and Italy (Draka Distribution). 4Digital Media is planning to release the film in the UK this July. All deals were negotiated by Caroline Couret-Delègue, managing director at Truffle Pictures.
Directed by Philip Todd from a script by Philip and Matthew Todd, the film’s ensemble cast includes Jake McGarry, Shona Melrose, Kerry Browne, Noah Irvine and Peter Cosgrove.
Set in 800Ad Scotland, the story follows warrior-king Alpin mac Eachdach and his young brother Finn, forced into exile after their family is brutally murdered by a rival Pictish king.
The film is produced by Nathan Todd with Jezz Vernon and Couret-Delègue executive producing. Todd said, “We’re delighted to have closed deals in five...
- 3/13/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Former Prescience exec [pictured left] will head up Redeeming Features Capital.
UK company Redeeming Features has hired Lee Vandermolen to head up its financing arm Redeeming Features Capital.
Former Prescience exec Vandermolen has deployed more than $75m in financing across feature and TV projects including Sin City 2, Chef and Kilo 2 Bravo. He will work alongside Redeeming Features principals Nathanael Wiseman and Jezz Vernon, who are attending this week’s Efm.
The company launched in 2016 and has been bolstering its team over the last twelve months. It also operates a Scandinavian branch based in Oslo.
In December 2016, Wiseman bought an 80% stake in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Vernon, who joined Redeeming as co-ceo.
UK company Redeeming Features has hired Lee Vandermolen to head up its financing arm Redeeming Features Capital.
Former Prescience exec Vandermolen has deployed more than $75m in financing across feature and TV projects including Sin City 2, Chef and Kilo 2 Bravo. He will work alongside Redeeming Features principals Nathanael Wiseman and Jezz Vernon, who are attending this week’s Efm.
The company launched in 2016 and has been bolstering its team over the last twelve months. It also operates a Scandinavian branch based in Oslo.
In December 2016, Wiseman bought an 80% stake in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Vernon, who joined Redeeming as co-ceo.
- 2/13/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK production outfit buys 80% of shares in production and consultancy venture Port Royal.
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Former actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Former actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK production outfit buys 80% of shares in production and consultancy venture Port Royal.
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
UK production company Redeeming Features has acquired a majority share in Port Royal, the production and consultancy venture set up by ex-Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon.
Nathanael Wiseman, CEO of Redeeming, has bought 80% of shares in Port Royal with Vernon retaining the other 20%. Vernon will join the company as co-ceo and partner.
Redeeming Features expanded its team earlier this year with hires in development and production. The company is currently developing film, TV and Vr alongside a debt finance division. It also launched a Scandinavian subsidiary company.
Wiseman’s debut feature as a director, Hard Tide, was released by Metrodome in the UK. His biopic of cricketer Douglas Jardine, A Gentleman’s War, is in development with Gareth Ellis Unwin (The King’s Speech) and Arclight Films.
Actor-director Wiseman said: “We’re really pleased that we could bring Jezz and Port Royal into the...
- 12/19/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Catherine Linstrum and Keri Collins movies shortlisted for development and production scheme.
Ten movie projects have been shortlisted for the Ffilm Cymru Wales/Film Wales’ Cinematic development and production scheme.
This year, nominated features include Nuclear by Cannes award-winning director Catherine Linstrum (California Dreamin’) and Sorted by former Raindance entrant Keri Collins (Convenience).
The programme, for films with budgets up to £300k, is financed in partnership with the BFI and S4C with additional support from Fields Park Entertainment and Warner Music Supervision.
Shortlisted film teams will now receive input from industry professionals including producers Julie Baines (Creep) and Emily Leo (Under the Shadow) as well as director Ben Parker (The Chamber), alongside sales and distribution representatives such as Jezz Vernon, formerly of Metrodome, and Deborah Rowland.
Three selected films will then be made over the next 18 months.
FfCW will invest approximately £180,000 production finance into each of the final three films. As part of...
Ten movie projects have been shortlisted for the Ffilm Cymru Wales/Film Wales’ Cinematic development and production scheme.
This year, nominated features include Nuclear by Cannes award-winning director Catherine Linstrum (California Dreamin’) and Sorted by former Raindance entrant Keri Collins (Convenience).
The programme, for films with budgets up to £300k, is financed in partnership with the BFI and S4C with additional support from Fields Park Entertainment and Warner Music Supervision.
Shortlisted film teams will now receive input from industry professionals including producers Julie Baines (Creep) and Emily Leo (Under the Shadow) as well as director Ben Parker (The Chamber), alongside sales and distribution representatives such as Jezz Vernon, formerly of Metrodome, and Deborah Rowland.
Three selected films will then be made over the next 18 months.
FfCW will invest approximately £180,000 production finance into each of the final three films. As part of...
- 12/6/2016
- ScreenDaily
Sales and production outfit’s inaugural sales slate to include John Jencks’ The Hippopotamus.
Elie Mechoulam and Caroline Couret-Delègue have teamed to launch Truffle Pictures, a new London-based film sales and production company.
Mechoulam was the former director of sales and marketing at La-based The Little Film Company, working on releases including Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul and Klaus Härö’s Golden Globe nominated The Fencer.
Couret-Delègue was head of sales and acquisitions at Metrodome International, the sales arm (launched in 2014) of the UK distribution outfit that was placed in administration last month. She was previously head of international sales at Av Pictures.
Truffle Pictures will unveil its inaugural slate at the forthcoming American Film Market (Nov 2-9). That line-up will include John Jencks’ The Hippopotamus, based on Stephen Fry’s novel, which the company has taken on from Metrodome, and Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s supernatural thriller We Go On.
The company...
Elie Mechoulam and Caroline Couret-Delègue have teamed to launch Truffle Pictures, a new London-based film sales and production company.
Mechoulam was the former director of sales and marketing at La-based The Little Film Company, working on releases including Elaine Constantine’s Northern Soul and Klaus Härö’s Golden Globe nominated The Fencer.
Couret-Delègue was head of sales and acquisitions at Metrodome International, the sales arm (launched in 2014) of the UK distribution outfit that was placed in administration last month. She was previously head of international sales at Av Pictures.
Truffle Pictures will unveil its inaugural slate at the forthcoming American Film Market (Nov 2-9). That line-up will include John Jencks’ The Hippopotamus, based on Stephen Fry’s novel, which the company has taken on from Metrodome, and Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s supernatural thriller We Go On.
The company...
- 9/28/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former distribution executive also takes stake in Cass Pennant company.
Former Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon is launching UK film production and consultancy outfit Port Royal London.
The company will take a minority stake in Urban Edge Films, the outfit owned by football hooligan-turned-actor/writer Cass Pennant (The Hooligan Factory).
Vernon will become a director of both companies.
The duo previously worked together on various marketing campaigns during Vernon’s tenure at Metrodome and they co-produced 2014 feature film The Guv’nors with Fulwell 73.
Vernon said: “As well as a production company Port Royal London is a network of film professionals from all parts of the process from financiers through to distributors, the aim is to consult on or board viable projects at any stage from cradle to screen. We are speaking to a lot of indie producers that have realised they can’t make films in a commercial vacuum anymore, the market...
Former Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon is launching UK film production and consultancy outfit Port Royal London.
The company will take a minority stake in Urban Edge Films, the outfit owned by football hooligan-turned-actor/writer Cass Pennant (The Hooligan Factory).
Vernon will become a director of both companies.
The duo previously worked together on various marketing campaigns during Vernon’s tenure at Metrodome and they co-produced 2014 feature film The Guv’nors with Fulwell 73.
Vernon said: “As well as a production company Port Royal London is a network of film professionals from all parts of the process from financiers through to distributors, the aim is to consult on or board viable projects at any stage from cradle to screen. We are speaking to a lot of indie producers that have realised they can’t make films in a commercial vacuum anymore, the market...
- 9/2/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Most staff made redundant, Screen understands.
UK distributor Metrodome Group has been placed into administration with most staff made redundant, Screen understands.
Multiple sources at the company, founded in 1995, have confirmed the news but Metrodome has yet to release an official statement.
UK accountancy firm Cowgill Holloway is understood to be handling the administration but are unavailable for comment.
Staff were informed of the insolvency and redundancies today. The swiftness of the move is understood to have taken employees by surprise with one staff member telling Screen that colleagues “are in shock”.
The company had been seeking a buyer in recent months but recently told Screen it had expected to attend upcoming markets as usual. In the same interview, the company confirmed that it had 32 staff.
UK distributor 101 Films is understood to have taken some of the company’s assets. However, the Brighton-based firm was unavailable for comment.
Long-time Metrodome managing director Jezz Vernon stepped down from...
UK distributor Metrodome Group has been placed into administration with most staff made redundant, Screen understands.
Multiple sources at the company, founded in 1995, have confirmed the news but Metrodome has yet to release an official statement.
UK accountancy firm Cowgill Holloway is understood to be handling the administration but are unavailable for comment.
Staff were informed of the insolvency and redundancies today. The swiftness of the move is understood to have taken employees by surprise with one staff member telling Screen that colleagues “are in shock”.
The company had been seeking a buyer in recent months but recently told Screen it had expected to attend upcoming markets as usual. In the same interview, the company confirmed that it had 32 staff.
UK distributor 101 Films is understood to have taken some of the company’s assets. However, the Brighton-based firm was unavailable for comment.
Long-time Metrodome managing director Jezz Vernon stepped down from...
- 8/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Vernon to depart after 11 years at UK distributor; John Ramchandani to assume “broader role”.
Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon (above) is to leave the company at the end of next month after 11 years at the distribution firm, three in the role of MD.
John Ramchandani (right), currently MD of subsidiary label Hollywood Classics, will assume a “broader role” within the Metrodome Group, which has said it will take Vernon’s departure as an “opportunity to streamline the organisation structure at the higher levels.”
“We are taking the opportunity to streamline the organisation structure at the higher levels going forward,” the company said in a statement to Screen.
“John Ramchandani, currently responsible for Hollywood Classics (representing the international rights on behalf of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Universal amongst others) and who has extensive experience within Metrodome Distribution from his previous roles will, in addition to maintaining his pre-eminent role in Hc, take a broader...
Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon (above) is to leave the company at the end of next month after 11 years at the distribution firm, three in the role of MD.
John Ramchandani (right), currently MD of subsidiary label Hollywood Classics, will assume a “broader role” within the Metrodome Group, which has said it will take Vernon’s departure as an “opportunity to streamline the organisation structure at the higher levels.”
“We are taking the opportunity to streamline the organisation structure at the higher levels going forward,” the company said in a statement to Screen.
“John Ramchandani, currently responsible for Hollywood Classics (representing the international rights on behalf of 20th Century Fox, MGM, Universal amongst others) and who has extensive experience within Metrodome Distribution from his previous roles will, in addition to maintaining his pre-eminent role in Hc, take a broader...
- 7/21/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Class Of 92 producers Fulwell 73 join Metrodome’s crime story.
Class of 92 and I Am Bolt director Gabe Turner is to direct The Hatton Garden Heist with Leo Pearlman of UK production outfit Fulwell 73 on board to produce alongside distributor-producer Metrodome.
Metrodome’s version of the $20m (£14m) London heist is due to enter pre-production in early June.
The raid, which took place over Easter Weekend 2015 on a safe deposit vault in central London, was one of the biggest heists in British criminal history, carried out by a semi-retired group of men ranging in age between 58-75.
Fulwell 73 produced hit docs Class of 92 – about Manchester United - and One Direction 3D: This is Us.
The collaboration marks the second partnership between Metrodome and Fulwell after The Guvnors.
Jezz Vernon, Metrodome managing director, said: “It’s an incredible story and we needed a fantastic director and production company to deliver it. We had no...
Class of 92 and I Am Bolt director Gabe Turner is to direct The Hatton Garden Heist with Leo Pearlman of UK production outfit Fulwell 73 on board to produce alongside distributor-producer Metrodome.
Metrodome’s version of the $20m (£14m) London heist is due to enter pre-production in early June.
The raid, which took place over Easter Weekend 2015 on a safe deposit vault in central London, was one of the biggest heists in British criminal history, carried out by a semi-retired group of men ranging in age between 58-75.
Fulwell 73 produced hit docs Class of 92 – about Manchester United - and One Direction 3D: This is Us.
The collaboration marks the second partnership between Metrodome and Fulwell after The Guvnors.
Jezz Vernon, Metrodome managing director, said: “It’s an incredible story and we needed a fantastic director and production company to deliver it. We had no...
- 5/16/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metrodome inks UK deal with Carnaby for Spain-set thriller.
Metrodome Distribution has acquired UK rights to thriller Blood Orange, starring iconic singer-songwriter Iggy Pop (Coffee And Cigarettes), Kacey Barnfield (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Ben Lamb (Divergent) and Antonio Magro (Titanic).
The deal was struck between Carnaby International’s CEO Andrew Loveday together with Metrodome’s managing director Jezz Vernon.
Coinciding with Iggy Pop’s 2016 world tour, Blood Orange is due to be released in April or May.
The UK pact follows deals in Us (Invincible), Scandinavia (Sandrew Metronome), Korea (Entermode) and Australia/Nz (Eagle).
Produced by Chris Bunyan and Gary Sangha Blood Orange is directed and written by first-timer Toby Tobias. Colin Vaines (Gangs of New York) is an executive producer.
Set in the hills of southern Spain, Blood Orange follows the life of an ageing rock star and his younger, beautiful wife. However, beneath the perfect surface of their lives, dark secrets...
Metrodome Distribution has acquired UK rights to thriller Blood Orange, starring iconic singer-songwriter Iggy Pop (Coffee And Cigarettes), Kacey Barnfield (Resident Evil: Afterlife), Ben Lamb (Divergent) and Antonio Magro (Titanic).
The deal was struck between Carnaby International’s CEO Andrew Loveday together with Metrodome’s managing director Jezz Vernon.
Coinciding with Iggy Pop’s 2016 world tour, Blood Orange is due to be released in April or May.
The UK pact follows deals in Us (Invincible), Scandinavia (Sandrew Metronome), Korea (Entermode) and Australia/Nz (Eagle).
Produced by Chris Bunyan and Gary Sangha Blood Orange is directed and written by first-timer Toby Tobias. Colin Vaines (Gangs of New York) is an executive producer.
Set in the hills of southern Spain, Blood Orange follows the life of an ageing rock star and his younger, beautiful wife. However, beneath the perfect surface of their lives, dark secrets...
- 2/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK and Ireland deal for bare knuckle fighter doc The Guv’nor.
Metrodome has scored UK rights to documentary Lenny Mclean – The Guv’nor for all UK and Ireland.
The origins story explores the champion bare knuckle fighter’s relationship with his son Jamie and his crippling obsessive compulsive disorders.
Mclean appeared in Guy Ritchie’s iconic gangster film Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
The film is directed by Paul van Carter (Gascoigne) and produced by Nick Taussig (Anuvahood) of Salon Pictures and Jamie Mclean.
Christopher Reynolds is executive producer (Gascoigne). The film is currently in production and Metrodome intends to release in autumn 2016.
The deal was negotiated between Nick Taussig and Paul van Carter for Salon and Jezz Vernon, managing director of Metrodome.
A feature film is also in the works, with Ron Scalpello (Offender) set to direct...
Metrodome has scored UK rights to documentary Lenny Mclean – The Guv’nor for all UK and Ireland.
The origins story explores the champion bare knuckle fighter’s relationship with his son Jamie and his crippling obsessive compulsive disorders.
Mclean appeared in Guy Ritchie’s iconic gangster film Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
The film is directed by Paul van Carter (Gascoigne) and produced by Nick Taussig (Anuvahood) of Salon Pictures and Jamie Mclean.
Christopher Reynolds is executive producer (Gascoigne). The film is currently in production and Metrodome intends to release in autumn 2016.
The deal was negotiated between Nick Taussig and Paul van Carter for Salon and Jezz Vernon, managing director of Metrodome.
A feature film is also in the works, with Ron Scalpello (Offender) set to direct...
- 2/12/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metrodome tools up for feature version of $20m (£14m) heist.
The Enfield Expendables could become a reality in the near future as UK distribution and sales outfit Metrodome moves into development on a feature film based on last year’s Hatton Garden raid - a heist that saw thieves make off with $20m (£14m) in jewels.
Metrodome is among backers of The Hatton Garden Job (working title), which is due to be produced by Mark Harris (Abducted) and Ben Jacques (London Heist) from Simon Cluett’s (Age Of Kill) original script.
Producers are currently in talks with lawyers about gaining life rights and on screen representation rights to those involved in the heist.
Cast and a director have yet to be attached but the production is hoping to shoot in spring. Metrodome will handle UK distribution.
The raid, which took place over the Easter weekend in 2015 on a safe deposit vault in central London, was one of...
The Enfield Expendables could become a reality in the near future as UK distribution and sales outfit Metrodome moves into development on a feature film based on last year’s Hatton Garden raid - a heist that saw thieves make off with $20m (£14m) in jewels.
Metrodome is among backers of The Hatton Garden Job (working title), which is due to be produced by Mark Harris (Abducted) and Ben Jacques (London Heist) from Simon Cluett’s (Age Of Kill) original script.
Producers are currently in talks with lawyers about gaining life rights and on screen representation rights to those involved in the heist.
Cast and a director have yet to be attached but the production is hoping to shoot in spring. Metrodome will handle UK distribution.
The raid, which took place over the Easter weekend in 2015 on a safe deposit vault in central London, was one of...
- 1/18/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metrodome International inks deal on gangster doc.
Us home entertainment distributor Revolver Us has picked up all rights to completed Kray brothers documentary The Krays: Kill Order from Metrodome International.
The documentary about the infamous British gangland twins includes contributions from Kray contemporaries including Freddie Foreman, Frankie Fraser, Eddie Richardson, Albert Donoghue, Lenny Hamilton, Billy Frost, Jimmy Tippett Snr., Albert Chapman, Toby Von Judge, Maureen Flanagan and Bernard O’Mahoney as well as some never heard before audio recordings of Reggie Kray.
Christopher Matthews directs, Revelation Films produces.
Jezz Vernon, Metrodome International MD, said: “With the Krays biopic Legend approaching £18m at the UK box office, interest in the twins has never been greater than now. We’re looking forward to working with Revolver to bring this powerful documentary to the Us market.”
Seb Marciano, president of Revolver Entertainment, added: “With Legend getting a significant stateside release here on November 20 through Universal Pictures, Revolver Entertainment is now...
Us home entertainment distributor Revolver Us has picked up all rights to completed Kray brothers documentary The Krays: Kill Order from Metrodome International.
The documentary about the infamous British gangland twins includes contributions from Kray contemporaries including Freddie Foreman, Frankie Fraser, Eddie Richardson, Albert Donoghue, Lenny Hamilton, Billy Frost, Jimmy Tippett Snr., Albert Chapman, Toby Von Judge, Maureen Flanagan and Bernard O’Mahoney as well as some never heard before audio recordings of Reggie Kray.
Christopher Matthews directs, Revelation Films produces.
Jezz Vernon, Metrodome International MD, said: “With the Krays biopic Legend approaching £18m at the UK box office, interest in the twins has never been greater than now. We’re looking forward to working with Revolver to bring this powerful documentary to the Us market.”
Seb Marciano, president of Revolver Entertainment, added: “With Legend getting a significant stateside release here on November 20 through Universal Pictures, Revolver Entertainment is now...
- 10/29/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The Screen Awards has unveiled its 2015 winners, recognising excellence in UK marketing, distribution and exhibition.Scroll down for full list of winnersBrowse the Screen Awards book Heregallery: Click here for pictures from the nightVIDEO: Screen Awards 2015
The awards were handed out at a glamorous ceremony at The Brewery in London last night (Oct 22), before 500 assembled guests. Broadcaster Edith Bowman hosted the event for the fourth year.
Universal Pictures UK took home the hotly contested studio distributor of the year award, having broken the record for the biggest annual box office of all time with releases including Fast & Furious 7, Jurassic World and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Curzon Artificial Eye was highly commended in the category after an “exceptional year” that included the release of Still Alice, its highest grossing title to date at £2.6m, and growing audiences through innovative approaches to releases.
Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, won a hat-trick of awards for poster design of the year...
The awards were handed out at a glamorous ceremony at The Brewery in London last night (Oct 22), before 500 assembled guests. Broadcaster Edith Bowman hosted the event for the fourth year.
Universal Pictures UK took home the hotly contested studio distributor of the year award, having broken the record for the biggest annual box office of all time with releases including Fast & Furious 7, Jurassic World and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Curzon Artificial Eye was highly commended in the category after an “exceptional year” that included the release of Still Alice, its highest grossing title to date at £2.6m, and growing audiences through innovative approaches to releases.
Amy Winehouse documentary, Amy, won a hat-trick of awards for poster design of the year...
- 10/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metrodome haul includes Toronto doc, Partisan and 2000Ad.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on a collection of festival titles including Toronto documentary The Hard Stop, comic book documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000Ad and Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan.
UK documentary The Hard Stop, directed by George Amponsah, charts the story and background of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, who in 2011 was shot and killed whilst being arrested by armed police in Tottenham.
The incident ignited riots that escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest across the country in recent history.
Metrodome will release the Toronto and Lff title, produced by Dionne Walker, next summer, which will be the fifth anniversary of the 2011 riots.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon and Cinephil.
From Protagonist, Metrodome has picked up UK rights to Ariel Kleiman’s Sundance thriller Partisan and Berlin thriller One & Two.
Vincent Cassel stars in the former, about an 11 year-old...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised deals on a collection of festival titles including Toronto documentary The Hard Stop, comic book documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000Ad and Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan.
UK documentary The Hard Stop, directed by George Amponsah, charts the story and background of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, who in 2011 was shot and killed whilst being arrested by armed police in Tottenham.
The incident ignited riots that escalated into a week of the worst civil unrest across the country in recent history.
Metrodome will release the Toronto and Lff title, produced by Dionne Walker, next summer, which will be the fifth anniversary of the 2011 riots.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon and Cinephil.
From Protagonist, Metrodome has picked up UK rights to Ariel Kleiman’s Sundance thriller Partisan and Berlin thriller One & Two.
Vincent Cassel stars in the former, about an 11 year-old...
- 10/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Fortissimo locks UK deal with Metrodome for Toronto title; BBC boards TV rights.
Fortissimo has secured a deal with Metrodome for UK and Irish rights to Terence Davies’ anticipated drama, Sunset Song, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Metrodome has all rights excluding TV – which belong to BBC – and will release in Q4, 2015.
Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend of Barney Thomson), star in the early 1900s coming-of-age story in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer draws strength from the land in order to cope with her harsh reality.
Based on the novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film will also feature in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo Films’ Nicole Mackey, evp of international sales, and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and MD Jezz Vernon.
Sunset Song marks the...
Fortissimo has secured a deal with Metrodome for UK and Irish rights to Terence Davies’ anticipated drama, Sunset Song, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Metrodome has all rights excluding TV – which belong to BBC – and will release in Q4, 2015.
Agyness Deyn (Pusher), Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur) and Kevin Guthrie (The Legend of Barney Thomson), star in the early 1900s coming-of-age story in which the daughter of a Scottish farmer draws strength from the land in order to cope with her harsh reality.
Based on the novel by Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the film will also feature in competition at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The deal was negotiated between Fortissimo Films’ Nicole Mackey, evp of international sales, and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and MD Jezz Vernon.
Sunset Song marks the...
- 8/17/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Metrodome’s Jezz Vernon and Genesis Cinema’s Tyrone Walker-Hebborn on Board.
Film London has made two new additions to its Board of Directors: Tyrone Walker-Hebborn, owner of the Genesis Cinema; and Jezz Vernon, managing director of Metrodome Distribution.
Vernon and Walker-Hebbon replace outgoing board members Ed Fletcher, MD of Soda Pictures and Dr Emily Caston, senior lecturer film and TV at the London College of Communication who had both completed their six-year tenure on Film London’s Board.
David Parfitt, chairman of Film London said of the new Board members: “Their skills, knowledge and experience are a perfect match for Film London’s wide-ranging remit, and the talent, energy and insight they bring to the Board will help us continue to go from strength to strength and ensure London remains a world-class production hub across the screen industries.”
Film London’s Board Members are:
David Parfitt (Chairman), producer, Trademark FilmsIsabel Begg, Head of Commercial...
Film London has made two new additions to its Board of Directors: Tyrone Walker-Hebborn, owner of the Genesis Cinema; and Jezz Vernon, managing director of Metrodome Distribution.
Vernon and Walker-Hebbon replace outgoing board members Ed Fletcher, MD of Soda Pictures and Dr Emily Caston, senior lecturer film and TV at the London College of Communication who had both completed their six-year tenure on Film London’s Board.
David Parfitt, chairman of Film London said of the new Board members: “Their skills, knowledge and experience are a perfect match for Film London’s wide-ranging remit, and the talent, energy and insight they bring to the Board will help us continue to go from strength to strength and ensure London remains a world-class production hub across the screen industries.”
Film London’s Board Members are:
David Parfitt (Chairman), producer, Trademark FilmsIsabel Begg, Head of Commercial...
- 6/16/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rhys Ifans and singer Charlotte Church star in Edinburgh-bound drama.
Metrodome Distribution has acquired UK and Ireland rights to the feature version of Dylan Thomas classic Under Milk Wood from Metro International.
Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man) and singer Charlotte Church star in the drama, which will debut at this month’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Kevin Allen (Twin Town) directs the surreal story in which Blind Captain Cat (Rhys Ifans) is tormented in his dreams by his drowned shipmates, and the innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing village Llareggub.
The deal was negotiated by Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon and Metro International’s head of sales Natalie Brenner.
The film adaptation, from wrtiers Murray Lachlan Young, Michael Breen and Allen, is the first of Thomas’ classic 1954 radio drama since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s 1972 feature.
Under Milk Wood is presented by fFatti fFilms and Metro International, in association...
Metrodome Distribution has acquired UK and Ireland rights to the feature version of Dylan Thomas classic Under Milk Wood from Metro International.
Rhys Ifans (The Amazing Spider-Man) and singer Charlotte Church star in the drama, which will debut at this month’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Kevin Allen (Twin Town) directs the surreal story in which Blind Captain Cat (Rhys Ifans) is tormented in his dreams by his drowned shipmates, and the innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of a fictional small Welsh fishing village Llareggub.
The deal was negotiated by Metrodome MD Jezz Vernon and Metro International’s head of sales Natalie Brenner.
The film adaptation, from wrtiers Murray Lachlan Young, Michael Breen and Allen, is the first of Thomas’ classic 1954 radio drama since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s 1972 feature.
Under Milk Wood is presented by fFatti fFilms and Metro International, in association...
- 6/11/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Sam Neill and Roger Allam to star in the British comedy based on a Stephen Fry bestseller.
Metrodome Distribution has picked up The Hippopotamus for UK and Irish distribution from sales agent Highland Film Group.
The film is based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Fry and stars Roger Allam (Tamara Drew, The Angels’ Share).
Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) has confirmed he will join the film with further cast to be announced over coming weeks ahead of shooting in August.
The film centres on disgraced poet Ted Wallace (Allam) who is summoned to his friend’s country manor, Swafford Hall, to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings.
Ted tracks down the perpetrator of the phenomena, horny teenager David Logan who is in the midst of becoming a self-styled sexual healer.
Unaware of David’s unorthodox methods, David’s father, Michael (Neill) is set on sharing this gift with the world. Ted hurries...
Metrodome Distribution has picked up The Hippopotamus for UK and Irish distribution from sales agent Highland Film Group.
The film is based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Fry and stars Roger Allam (Tamara Drew, The Angels’ Share).
Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) has confirmed he will join the film with further cast to be announced over coming weeks ahead of shooting in August.
The film centres on disgraced poet Ted Wallace (Allam) who is summoned to his friend’s country manor, Swafford Hall, to investigate a series of unexplained miracle healings.
Ted tracks down the perpetrator of the phenomena, horny teenager David Logan who is in the midst of becoming a self-styled sexual healer.
Unaware of David’s unorthodox methods, David’s father, Michael (Neill) is set on sharing this gift with the world. Ted hurries...
- 5/28/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Antonia Thomas is to star a new supernatural thriller Thea which has just started filming in London. She stars alongside Luke Norris (recently seen in Poldark) as a young couple in London whose lives are turned upside down when the birth of their first child is accompanied by terrifying entities that threaten their newly formed family.
Antonia (represented by Curtis Brown) graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2009 and immediately landed the role of Alisha in E4's Misfits, a role she played for three series. She was nominated for the Best Female Newcomer Empire Award for her role in hit musical-feature Sunshine on Leith. She recently played the lead role of Evie in new comedy series Scrotal Recall for Channel 4 as well as the love interest in last summer's hit Northern Soul on the big screen.
Directed by Nirpal Bhogal (Sket, Misfits) and produced by Uzma Hasan...
Antonia (represented by Curtis Brown) graduated from Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2009 and immediately landed the role of Alisha in E4's Misfits, a role she played for three series. She was nominated for the Best Female Newcomer Empire Award for her role in hit musical-feature Sunshine on Leith. She recently played the lead role of Evie in new comedy series Scrotal Recall for Channel 4 as well as the love interest in last summer's hit Northern Soul on the big screen.
Directed by Nirpal Bhogal (Sket, Misfits) and produced by Uzma Hasan...
- 4/18/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
"Misfits" star Antonia Thomas has booked a lead role alongside Luke Norris and Eileen Davies in the London-set supernatural thriller "Thea," to be directed by Nirpal Bhogal ("Sket") and produced by Uzma Hasan. The film follows young couple, played by Antonia Thomas and Luke Norris, whose lives are turned upside down when they experience supernatural evils while struggling with the birth of their first child. Co-produced by Gareth Roberts and Jezz Vernon, expect some beastly scares in this one, as Paul Hyett ("The Woman in Black") has signed up to be the film's creature designer. The film is a co-production between...
- 4/17/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: Misfits and Northern Soul star leads cast on London thriller.
Misfits and Northern Soul star Antonia Thomas is leading cast alongside Luke Norris (Poldark) and Eileen Davies (Sightseers) on London-set thriller Thea, which is now underway in the capital.
Directed by Nirpal Bhogal (Sket, Misfits) and produced by Uzma Hasan (The Infidel), the film is co-produced by Gareth Roberts and Jezz Vernon.
Thomas and Norris play a young couple whose lives are turned upside down when the birth of their first child is accompanied by terrifying entities that threaten their newly formed family.
Paul Hyett (The Woman in Black) is the creature designer while the team behind electro outfit Gazelle Twin will be comprising an original score under the moniker Newt and Benge.
The film is a co-production between Little House Productions and Moli Films and is the first of a slate announced by Screen earlier this year for which Metrodome is selling internationally and releasing...
Misfits and Northern Soul star Antonia Thomas is leading cast alongside Luke Norris (Poldark) and Eileen Davies (Sightseers) on London-set thriller Thea, which is now underway in the capital.
Directed by Nirpal Bhogal (Sket, Misfits) and produced by Uzma Hasan (The Infidel), the film is co-produced by Gareth Roberts and Jezz Vernon.
Thomas and Norris play a young couple whose lives are turned upside down when the birth of their first child is accompanied by terrifying entities that threaten their newly formed family.
Paul Hyett (The Woman in Black) is the creature designer while the team behind electro outfit Gazelle Twin will be comprising an original score under the moniker Newt and Benge.
The film is a co-production between Little House Productions and Moli Films and is the first of a slate announced by Screen earlier this year for which Metrodome is selling internationally and releasing...
- 4/17/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Thanks to DVD sales, cheap-and-cheerful crime movies have become a force to be reckoned with. How are they staying on top? The genre’s movers and shakers explain
Darren, sales manager at a plastics firm in Milton Keynes, is a force to be reckoned with in the British film industry. In part, he’s the reason why British crime cinema – low-budget, morally dubious and about as disreputable as it’s ever been – is the genre that refuses to die. At least, Darren would if he actually existed. Darren, it turns out, is a theoretical construct; an audience archetype identified by Jezz Vernon, managing director of distribution outfit Metrodome, the people who released recent examples of the form such as The Guvnors, St George’s Day and The Fall of the Essex Boys.
“We always talk about the buyer of a film,” says Vernon. “For someone like Darren, there’s a certain boredom about his existence,...
Darren, sales manager at a plastics firm in Milton Keynes, is a force to be reckoned with in the British film industry. In part, he’s the reason why British crime cinema – low-budget, morally dubious and about as disreputable as it’s ever been – is the genre that refuses to die. At least, Darren would if he actually existed. Darren, it turns out, is a theoretical construct; an audience archetype identified by Jezz Vernon, managing director of distribution outfit Metrodome, the people who released recent examples of the form such as The Guvnors, St George’s Day and The Fall of the Essex Boys.
“We always talk about the buyer of a film,” says Vernon. “For someone like Darren, there’s a certain boredom about his existence,...
- 4/2/2015
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Exclusive: 33 screenings for vampire mockumentary, starring Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement, on audience-led screening platform.
Vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows has become the most booked film on audience-led screening platform ourscreen.
Metrodome released the film in cinemas on November 21 and accumulated box office of $525,000 (£341,838).
The distributor then booked a further 33 screenings of the film, on a revenue share basis, through platform ourscreen, which allows consumers to programme films at certain cinemas providing enough tickets are sold.
Sites to show the film to date include Hackney Picturehouse, City Screen York, Phoenix Oxford, Little Theatre Bath and Cambridge Picturehouse, with additional screenings likely.
What We Do In The Shadows stars Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs Shark). The pair also co-directed the comedy, which is filmed in a documentary-style and centres on a group of vampire housemates in New Zealand whose happy home is disrupted by a new member...
Vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows has become the most booked film on audience-led screening platform ourscreen.
Metrodome released the film in cinemas on November 21 and accumulated box office of $525,000 (£341,838).
The distributor then booked a further 33 screenings of the film, on a revenue share basis, through platform ourscreen, which allows consumers to programme films at certain cinemas providing enough tickets are sold.
Sites to show the film to date include Hackney Picturehouse, City Screen York, Phoenix Oxford, Little Theatre Bath and Cambridge Picturehouse, with additional screenings likely.
What We Do In The Shadows stars Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords) and Taika Waititi (Boy, Eagle vs Shark). The pair also co-directed the comedy, which is filmed in a documentary-style and centres on a group of vampire housemates in New Zealand whose happy home is disrupted by a new member...
- 2/17/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Nirpal Bhogal thriller first film on slate.
UK distributor-producer Metrodome has joined forces with Montana and Best Laid Plans producers MoliFilms to launch a new production fund.
The companies will fundraise under a series of Eis and non Eis schemes with Metrodome Group selling international rights and distributing the majority of the films in the UK.
Metrodome International’s Caroline Couret-Delègue will oversee international sales. The Infidel producer Uzma Hasan of Little House Productions will supervise key productions on the slate on behalf of Metrodome whilst Gareth Maxwell Roberts will supervise on behalf of MoliFilms.
Thea, a supernatural thriller directed by Nirpal Bhogal (Misfits, Sket) is the first film on the slate and is slated to shoot in Q1 2015.
The film will be produced by Hasan (who is expected to bring further projects to the venture) and co-produced by MoliFilms’ Gareth Maxwell Roberts and Metrodome Group’s Jezz Vernon. MoliFilms’ [link...
UK distributor-producer Metrodome has joined forces with Montana and Best Laid Plans producers MoliFilms to launch a new production fund.
The companies will fundraise under a series of Eis and non Eis schemes with Metrodome Group selling international rights and distributing the majority of the films in the UK.
Metrodome International’s Caroline Couret-Delègue will oversee international sales. The Infidel producer Uzma Hasan of Little House Productions will supervise key productions on the slate on behalf of Metrodome whilst Gareth Maxwell Roberts will supervise on behalf of MoliFilms.
Thea, a supernatural thriller directed by Nirpal Bhogal (Misfits, Sket) is the first film on the slate and is slated to shoot in Q1 2015.
The film will be produced by Hasan (who is expected to bring further projects to the venture) and co-produced by MoliFilms’ Gareth Maxwell Roberts and Metrodome Group’s Jezz Vernon. MoliFilms’ [link...
- 1/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: New head of home entertainment among changes at UK distributor.
Metrodome Distribution has appointed Alistair Olley as head of home entertainment sales.
Olley, who joins from Anchor Bay and previously worked for HMV, begins in mid-January.
In other staff moves, Ella Field has taken on the new role of acquisitions, TV and new media manager; and Chris Lawrance will take on the new role of head of publicity and theatrical marketing, effective immediately.
Olley and Lawrance will report directly in to company MD Jezz Vernon.
Metrodome’s end of year results for 2013, which have just been made available, show a net profit for the year of £438,000 ($665,000) and a 15% increase in turnover from £6.8m ($10.34m) in 2012 to £7.8m ($11.86m).
The company’s 2015 slate includes Cannes titles White God and Mommy, Mia Hansen Love’s Eden, Francois Ozon’s The New Girlfriend and Carol Morley’s The Falling.
Metrodome Distribution has appointed Alistair Olley as head of home entertainment sales.
Olley, who joins from Anchor Bay and previously worked for HMV, begins in mid-January.
In other staff moves, Ella Field has taken on the new role of acquisitions, TV and new media manager; and Chris Lawrance will take on the new role of head of publicity and theatrical marketing, effective immediately.
Olley and Lawrance will report directly in to company MD Jezz Vernon.
Metrodome’s end of year results for 2013, which have just been made available, show a net profit for the year of £438,000 ($665,000) and a 15% increase in turnover from £6.8m ($10.34m) in 2012 to £7.8m ($11.86m).
The company’s 2015 slate includes Cannes titles White God and Mommy, Mia Hansen Love’s Eden, Francois Ozon’s The New Girlfriend and Carol Morley’s The Falling.
- 1/6/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shoot underway in London on thriller from Metrodome production slate; Salt handles sales.
Shoot is underway on Meet the Guvnors, the latest film on the Metrodome production slate, financed and co-produced by London outfit Fulwell 73.
For production details visit
Meet the Guvnors
The thriller, set amongst the clans and gangs of South East London, marks the feature debut of Rizzle Kicks front-man Harley Alexander Sule, who stars alongside Doug Allen, David Essex, Barrington Patterson, aka One Eyed-Baz, and Vas Blackwood.
Written and directed by Gabe Turner, the film will be produced by Leo Pearlman, Danny Potts and Cass Pennant. The Salt Company are handling worldwide sales.
Jezz Vernon exec produces for Metrodome, which will release in the film in the UK in 2014.
Metrodome’s recent production, horror film The Borderlands, played at Film 4’s Fright Fest.
Sule makes up one half of UK hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, which has sold...
Shoot is underway on Meet the Guvnors, the latest film on the Metrodome production slate, financed and co-produced by London outfit Fulwell 73.
For production details visit
Meet the Guvnors
The thriller, set amongst the clans and gangs of South East London, marks the feature debut of Rizzle Kicks front-man Harley Alexander Sule, who stars alongside Doug Allen, David Essex, Barrington Patterson, aka One Eyed-Baz, and Vas Blackwood.
Written and directed by Gabe Turner, the film will be produced by Leo Pearlman, Danny Potts and Cass Pennant. The Salt Company are handling worldwide sales.
Jezz Vernon exec produces for Metrodome, which will release in the film in the UK in 2014.
Metrodome’s recent production, horror film The Borderlands, played at Film 4’s Fright Fest.
Sule makes up one half of UK hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks, which has sold...
- 9/23/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.