Exclusive: Blonde To Black Pictures to produce UK drama about mental illness and young carers.
Samantha Morton and Billie Piper are attached to star in drama Two For Joy from Sadie Frost’s UK production outfit Blonde To Black Pictures.
The feature, which will chart the challenging relationship between a teenage daughter, her bed-ridden mother (Morton) and her wayward younger brother, will touch on themes of mental illness, young carers and child abuse.
Sadie Frost, Emma Comley and Andrew Green will produce for Blonde To Black Pictures, whose 2015 feature Set The Thames On Fire starred Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips. Also producing are Mat Wakeham and Michael Wiggs.
The film, currently in development, will mark the debut of photographer turned writer-director Tom Beard, who has previously directed music videos for Fka Twigs, Jamie T and Klaxons.
Des Hamilton is casting the drama, which was developed with Creative England and will be funded through an Eis scheme arranged...
Samantha Morton and Billie Piper are attached to star in drama Two For Joy from Sadie Frost’s UK production outfit Blonde To Black Pictures.
The feature, which will chart the challenging relationship between a teenage daughter, her bed-ridden mother (Morton) and her wayward younger brother, will touch on themes of mental illness, young carers and child abuse.
Sadie Frost, Emma Comley and Andrew Green will produce for Blonde To Black Pictures, whose 2015 feature Set The Thames On Fire starred Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips. Also producing are Mat Wakeham and Michael Wiggs.
The film, currently in development, will mark the debut of photographer turned writer-director Tom Beard, who has previously directed music videos for Fka Twigs, Jamie T and Klaxons.
Des Hamilton is casting the drama, which was developed with Creative England and will be funded through an Eis scheme arranged...
- 2/1/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Former Catalyst and Matador exec joins as company secures Us deal.
Former Catalyst Global Media and Matador Pictures executive Mat Wakeham has joined Sadie Frost and Emma Comley’s production outfit Blonde To Black Pictures as a producer.
Wakeham’s credits as a development executive include recent Netflix series Residue and Cannes 2014 thriller Snow In Paradise.
Wakeham wrote 2008 BAFTA Scotland-winning TV special Phoo Action and produced 2012 feature The Facility starring Aneurin Barnard.
He will work across Blonde To Black’s film and TV slate and will bring a number of his own projects to the company.
On the appointment,...
Former Catalyst Global Media and Matador Pictures executive Mat Wakeham has joined Sadie Frost and Emma Comley’s production outfit Blonde To Black Pictures as a producer.
Wakeham’s credits as a development executive include recent Netflix series Residue and Cannes 2014 thriller Snow In Paradise.
Wakeham wrote 2008 BAFTA Scotland-winning TV special Phoo Action and produced 2012 feature The Facility starring Aneurin Barnard.
He will work across Blonde To Black’s film and TV slate and will bring a number of his own projects to the company.
On the appointment,...
- 6/16/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Tiger Aspect teams on on cannibal horror from Ripper Street writer.
Newly minted UK production outfit Catalyst, run by former Matador producer Charlotte Walls (The Numbers Station), is teaming with Ripper Street producers Tiger Aspect and Sadie Frost’s Blonde to Black Pictures (Set the Thames on Fire) on horror Eaten.
BAFTA-nominated director Caradog James (The Machine) will direct the film from Rob Green’s (Ripper Street) script about a notorious celebrity chef who belongs to an exclusive and upscale New York cannibal ring.
Eaten, which is aiming to shoot in the next 12 months, will be produced by Walls and Mat Wakeham for Catalyst; Frost and Emma Comley for Blonde to Black Pictures; and executive produced by Tigest Aspect head of drama Will Gould for the Endemol-owned company’s feature label Tiger Aspect Pictures, and Matthew Read.
Walls said: “Our lead character Giles Bonham-Hess is a terrific character, charismatic and repulsive in equal measure and the...
Newly minted UK production outfit Catalyst, run by former Matador producer Charlotte Walls (The Numbers Station), is teaming with Ripper Street producers Tiger Aspect and Sadie Frost’s Blonde to Black Pictures (Set the Thames on Fire) on horror Eaten.
BAFTA-nominated director Caradog James (The Machine) will direct the film from Rob Green’s (Ripper Street) script about a notorious celebrity chef who belongs to an exclusive and upscale New York cannibal ring.
Eaten, which is aiming to shoot in the next 12 months, will be produced by Walls and Mat Wakeham for Catalyst; Frost and Emma Comley for Blonde to Black Pictures; and executive produced by Tigest Aspect head of drama Will Gould for the Endemol-owned company’s feature label Tiger Aspect Pictures, and Matthew Read.
Walls said: “Our lead character Giles Bonham-Hess is a terrific character, charismatic and repulsive in equal measure and the...
- 5/16/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
We knew it all along! So this is what Hollywood puts its budding filmmakers through! Experiments! Tests! Lobotomies! Someone needs to put a stop to this kind of ... what? Oh, Guinea Pigs is the title of a film made by a trio on indie filmmakers. Well. That changes everything.
According to Screen Daily Vertigo Films and the National Film and Television School (Nfts) have started principal photography on Guinea Pigs.
The project, which started shooting today, is the first film from Vertigo and Nfts’ Schools Project slate. Protagonist Pictures will handle international sales and Vertigo will release in the UK in 2011.
Ian Clark writes and directs. Megan Stuart and Mat Wakeham are producing. The trio are all Nfts alumni. The micro-budget film is an atmospheric horror about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. The cast features Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Amit Shah and Steve Evets.
According to Screen Daily Vertigo Films and the National Film and Television School (Nfts) have started principal photography on Guinea Pigs.
The project, which started shooting today, is the first film from Vertigo and Nfts’ Schools Project slate. Protagonist Pictures will handle international sales and Vertigo will release in the UK in 2011.
Ian Clark writes and directs. Megan Stuart and Mat Wakeham are producing. The trio are all Nfts alumni. The micro-budget film is an atmospheric horror about volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. The cast features Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Amit Shah and Steve Evets.
- 6/1/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Vertigo Films and the National Film and TV School in the UK is now shooting Guinea Pigs under the direction of Ian Clark. Megan Stuart Wallace produces this tale of volunteers fighting for their lives after a drug trial goes wrong. Aneurin Barnard, Alex Reid, Amit Shah and Steve Evets star. Also on board as producer is Mat Wakeham, who worked alongside Jamie Hewlett in the creation and launch of the animated music group Gorillaz. Vertigo is hoping to release the film in 2011.
- 6/1/2010
- shocktillyoudrop.com
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