Sundance award-winner Kneecap, The Outrun and Layla are among nine titles to receive the latest round of UK Global Screen Fund awards (Ukgsf), totalling £129,498 through its international distribution strand.
Administered by the British Film Institute (BFI), 66 awards totalling more than £2m have now been given out by this strand, financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).
Financial support for international distribution provides sales agents and producers with funding via three tracks – film sales, prints & advertising (P&a) and festival launch.
Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language hip-hop drama Kneecap won the Next audience award at Sundance after...
Administered by the British Film Institute (BFI), 66 awards totalling more than £2m have now been given out by this strand, financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms).
Financial support for international distribution provides sales agents and producers with funding via three tracks – film sales, prints & advertising (P&a) and festival launch.
Rich Peppiatt’s Irish-language hip-hop drama Kneecap won the Next audience award at Sundance after...
- 2/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Audience members disliked Saffron Burrows’ character in the 1999 shark thriller Deep Blue Sea so much, last minute reshoots were done specifically to kill her off in the climactic sequence. Here’s hoping things go better for her character in the upcoming Irish horror film The Morrigan, which Deadline reports has secured financing and is set to start filming on November 6th.
A feature expansion of a 16 minute short film writer/director Colum Eastwood (Black Medicine) made back in 2015, The Morrigan will follow a successful archaeologist but absentee mother who travels to Ireland to excavate a centuries old tomb. However, within the site lurks a danger hidden from mankind for centuries. Once it is unleashed she must battle to save her rebellious teenage daughter from possession by a vengeful ‘Pagan War Goddess’, known as The Morrigan.
Burrows is joined in the cast by James Cosmo (Game Of Thrones) and Toby Stephens...
A feature expansion of a 16 minute short film writer/director Colum Eastwood (Black Medicine) made back in 2015, The Morrigan will follow a successful archaeologist but absentee mother who travels to Ireland to excavate a centuries old tomb. However, within the site lurks a danger hidden from mankind for centuries. Once it is unleashed she must battle to save her rebellious teenage daughter from possession by a vengeful ‘Pagan War Goddess’, known as The Morrigan.
Burrows is joined in the cast by James Cosmo (Game Of Thrones) and Toby Stephens...
- 10/10/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Finance has closed on Irish horror The Morrigan, which starts shooting November 6th in Northern Ireland.
Starring Saffron Burrows (Mozart In The Jungle), the film follows a successful archaeologist but absentee mother who travels to Ireland to excavate a centuries old tomb. However, within the site lurks a danger hidden from mankind for centuries. Once it is unleashed she must battle to save her rebellious teenage daughter from possession by a vengeful ‘Pagan War Goddess’, known as The Morrigan.
Cast is rounded out by James Cosmo (Game Of Thrones) and Toby Stephens (Black Sails). Amp is handling worldwide sales and will be selling this month ahead of the AFM. The project has a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
Written and directed by Colum Eastwood (Black Medicine) and based on the short film of the same name, The Morrigan is produced by Ashley Holberry and Gavin Cosmo Mehrtens of Cowboy Cosmonaut Films.
Starring Saffron Burrows (Mozart In The Jungle), the film follows a successful archaeologist but absentee mother who travels to Ireland to excavate a centuries old tomb. However, within the site lurks a danger hidden from mankind for centuries. Once it is unleashed she must battle to save her rebellious teenage daughter from possession by a vengeful ‘Pagan War Goddess’, known as The Morrigan.
Cast is rounded out by James Cosmo (Game Of Thrones) and Toby Stephens (Black Sails). Amp is handling worldwide sales and will be selling this month ahead of the AFM. The project has a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement.
Written and directed by Colum Eastwood (Black Medicine) and based on the short film of the same name, The Morrigan is produced by Ashley Holberry and Gavin Cosmo Mehrtens of Cowboy Cosmonaut Films.
- 10/10/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Having freaked out movie-goers with the shark thrillers 47 Meters Down and 47 Meters Down: Uncaged, as well as the survival thriller Fall (with a sequel now in the works), producers Mark Lane and James Harris of Tea Shop Productions are teaming up with Gavin Mehrtens and Ashley Holberry of Cowboy Cosmonaut for a new “nature run amok thriller”, a killer alligator movie called The Bayou!
Deadline reports that Megan Best (Seance) has signed on to star in the film, which will be directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley). Production is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of this year.
Mehrtens has written the screenplay for The Bayou, working from a story by Holberry. That story crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator. Best’s character leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are...
Deadline reports that Megan Best (Seance) has signed on to star in the film, which will be directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley). Production is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of this year.
Mehrtens has written the screenplay for The Bayou, working from a story by Holberry. That story crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator. Best’s character leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are...
- 5/15/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
In addition to upcoming horror movie The Flood, man-eating alligators will also return to the screen in The Bayou, a horror movie from the producers of 47 Meters Down and Fall.
Deadline reports today that Tea Shop Productions is behind The Bayou, being directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley). Architect is launching the project for sales in Cannes.
The movie “crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator.”
“Megan Best (Seance) leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are picked off one-by-one by a relentless pack of gators, led by a ferocious alpha female.”
The Bayou is written by Gavin Mehrtens from a story by Ashley Holberry.
Calum Gray from Architect said in a statement, “The Bayou is a thrilling, no-holds barred, white knuckle ride that will keep today’s audiences wholly immersed and on the edge of their seats.
Deadline reports today that Tea Shop Productions is behind The Bayou, being directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley). Architect is launching the project for sales in Cannes.
The movie “crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator.”
“Megan Best (Seance) leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are picked off one-by-one by a relentless pack of gators, led by a ferocious alpha female.”
The Bayou is written by Gavin Mehrtens from a story by Ashley Holberry.
Calum Gray from Architect said in a statement, “The Bayou is a thrilling, no-holds barred, white knuckle ride that will keep today’s audiences wholly immersed and on the edge of their seats.
- 5/15/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: British genre specialist Tea Shop, known for 47 Meters Down and coming off breakout thriller Fall, is lining up its next survival pic in the shape of The Bayou, which Architect is launching for sales in Cannes.
The movie, also produced by fledgling UK outfit Cowboy Cosmonaut, crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator.
Megan Best (Seance) leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are picked off one-by-one by a relentless pack of gators, led by a ferocious alpha female. Filming is being lined up for Q4, 2023.
The Bayou, written by Gavin Mehrtens from a story by Ashley Holberry, will be directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley) and is produced by Mehrtens and Holberry for Cowboy Cosmonaut and by Mark Lane and James Harris for Tea Shop Productions. Architect will executive-produce.
Following their work on Fall,...
The movie, also produced by fledgling UK outfit Cowboy Cosmonaut, crash-lands a group of friends in the water-logged, inhospitable Louisiana swamplands where they’re hunted by a fearsome, primordial apex predator.
Megan Best (Seance) leads the unfortunate survivors, out of their depth, who are picked off one-by-one by a relentless pack of gators, led by a ferocious alpha female. Filming is being lined up for Q4, 2023.
The Bayou, written by Gavin Mehrtens from a story by Ashley Holberry, will be directed by Matthew Ninaber (Death Valley) and is produced by Mehrtens and Holberry for Cowboy Cosmonaut and by Mark Lane and James Harris for Tea Shop Productions. Architect will executive-produce.
Following their work on Fall,...
- 5/15/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Goldfinch Studios has inked deals with U.K. indie producer Cowboy Cosmonaut Films and with British writer, director, and producer Tom Paton. Goldfinch has a cluster of operations spanning finance, production, facilities, post-production, and VFX, and will provide Cowboy Cosmonaut and Paton with development and production support.
Cowboy Cosmonaut is run by producers Ashley Holberry and Gavin C. Mehrtens, who were previously at Working Title Films. The initial slate of projects that Goldfinch will support includes Stephen Johnson’s “The Fire Within,” starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin (“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”), Sophie Kennedy Clark (“Philomena”) and James Cosmo (“Highlander”).
“Our partnership allows us to tell the sort of stories that we ourselves want to see on the screen – inspiring, diverse and commercial,” Mehrtens and Holberry said in a statement. “As young and hungry producers, we hope to bring a unique perspective to the U.K. and international production landscapes.
Cowboy Cosmonaut is run by producers Ashley Holberry and Gavin C. Mehrtens, who were previously at Working Title Films. The initial slate of projects that Goldfinch will support includes Stephen Johnson’s “The Fire Within,” starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin (“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”), Sophie Kennedy Clark (“Philomena”) and James Cosmo (“Highlander”).
“Our partnership allows us to tell the sort of stories that we ourselves want to see on the screen – inspiring, diverse and commercial,” Mehrtens and Holberry said in a statement. “As young and hungry producers, we hope to bring a unique perspective to the U.K. and international production landscapes.
- 5/1/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
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