The trademark late cascade of US deals emerged on Thursday [23] as Cannes neared the finish line, led by eOne’s acquisition of US rights to hot market title Diana. eOne concluded the Diana deal with Embankment Films and Ecosse Films and has earmarked a release later...
EXCLUSIVE: UK sci-fi Our Robot Overlords nabs closing finance from Pinewood Pictures, new financier Umbra Telegraph. Ambitious UK sci-fi Our Robot Overlords, which will star Sir Ben Kingsley, Gillian Anderson [pictured], Callan McAuliffe (The Great Gatsby) and Ella Hunt (Les Miserables), has corralled closing finance from a...
Embankment Films is handling international sales and co-represent the U.S. with CAA. The company will commence sales to international distributors at Cannes. Winslet plays Tilly, an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused...
Filming underway on UK sci-fi starring Gillian Anderson, Sir Ben Kingsley and Callan McAuliffe. Filming has begun in Northern Ireland and Isle of Man on UK sci-fi Our Robot Overlords, starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Gillian Anderson. The sci-fi thriller, about a gang of children battling an...
EXCLUSIVE: Winslet to lead Jocelyn Moorhouse’s period romance set to shoot in autumn, Embankment to launch sales in Cannes. Kate Winslet has signed on to star in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s 1950’s-set revenge-romance The Dressmaker. Winslet will play Tilly, an avenging angel who returns home to the remote Australian...
EXCLUSIVE: Informant Media’s thriller adds cast, director ahead of Cannes. Embankment to sell. Informant Media’s heist-thriller about the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken is set to star Anthony Hopkins as the kidnapped brewing magnate and will be directed by Millennium series director Daniel Alfredson. Tim Haslam and Hugo...
EXCLUSIVE: Warm Bodies star signs on for Rupert Wyatt’s adaptation of best-selling First World War love-story; Embankment handles sales. In-demand UK actor Nicholas Hoult hassigned on to play the lead in writer-director Rupert Wyatt’s adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’ best-selling First World War novel Birdsong. Warm Bodies star Hoult...
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],...