X Files star attached to Our Robot Overlords as UK sales outfit Embankment Films builds on prestige slate ahead of the EFM. UK sales outfit Embankment Films continues to attract high level projects to its year-old slate, with new additions including Rupert Wyatt’s adaptation of Sebastian...
Embankment Films closes US deal for drama starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum. Music Box has secured the US rights from Embankment Films to Roger Michell’s drama Le Weekend, starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum. Embankment has sold the film, about a married...
DDA’s Sharon Lee joins sales outfit as licensing and marketing exec. Former DDA account manager Sharon Lee has joined Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films. Lee will be responsible for sales to Asian markets; existing licensing and marketing executive Maite Villarino is responsible for sales and...
Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s fledgling Embankment Films will commence international pre-sales on the Saddam Hussein thriller in Cannes. Preferred Content produced and co-represents North American rights with WME Global. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire will direct from a screenplay that Band Of Brothers writer Erik Jendresen adapted with...
Agnieszka Lukasiak to direct. Kris Thykier’s Peapie Films is partnering with US-based Anonymous Content to produce Repent, a serial killer story to be sold worldwide by Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s new Embankment Films. The film is based on the true story of Sweden’s Thomas Quick [pictured],...
Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum star in the Free Range Films production backed by Film4, Curzon, and the BFI. Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s new Embankment Films has boarded sales for Roger Michell’s follow-up to Hyde Park On Hudson. Le Weekend will mark another collaboration...
LONDON — Brit industry stalwarts Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar have joined forces to launch Embankment Films, an international sales and financing company. Embankment, which has already locked more than 40 pre-sales on its first title, Naomi Watts starrer “Caught in Flight,” aims to provide a...