Exclusive: Alliance Media Partners teams with Salt executives to launch new company; Matt Bomer thriller on slate.
Production and finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is joining with former Salt sales boss James Norrie to launch London-based sales outfit Amp International, which will take on the Salt slate and some of its staff.
Norrie (below), previously of Icon and Capitol Films, will spearhead sales at Amp International. Joining from Salt will be Nina Kolokouri and Timo Suomi, sales and acquisitions executive.
The current Salt slate includes Walking Out - launching at Sundance in the Us Dramatic Competition later this month - produced by Brunson Green, Laura Ivey and starring Matt Bomer and Bill Pullman; and Malicious, a supernatural horror thriller starring Delroy Lindo, Josh Stewart[/link], Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona and Yvette Yates, directed by Michael Winnick, and produced/financed by Lost Hills Films.
The new Amp group (Alliance Media Partners and Amp International) will work across film sales...
Production and finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is joining with former Salt sales boss James Norrie to launch London-based sales outfit Amp International, which will take on the Salt slate and some of its staff.
Norrie (below), previously of Icon and Capitol Films, will spearhead sales at Amp International. Joining from Salt will be Nina Kolokouri and Timo Suomi, sales and acquisitions executive.
The current Salt slate includes Walking Out - launching at Sundance in the Us Dramatic Competition later this month - produced by Brunson Green, Laura Ivey and starring Matt Bomer and Bill Pullman; and Malicious, a supernatural horror thriller starring Delroy Lindo, Josh Stewart[/link], Bojana Novakovic, Melissa Bolona and Yvette Yates, directed by Michael Winnick, and produced/financed by Lost Hills Films.
The new Amp group (Alliance Media Partners and Amp International) will work across film sales...
- 1/11/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Team behind Trent Haaga and Simon Rumley movies launches North American arm to be fronted by Raven Banner sales executive.
London-based producer-financier Alliance Media Partners (Amp) has opened Alliance Media Partners Canada in Toronto, with a view to sourcing, producing and financing projects with Canadian and North American talent.
Amp Canada will be fronted by Sonia Lowe (right), director of international sales for Toronto-based sales and distribution company Raven Banner.
Amp, part of the Dubai-based Alliance Capital Group, was founded in late 2015 by producer Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh to focus on low-budget genre movies with international appeal.
The company has completed principal photography on four films due for release in 2016/2017: Trent Haaga’s pulp thriller 68 Kill (a co-production with Travis Stevens’ Snowfort Pictures); Simon Rumley’s thriller Fashionista; Greg Carter’s urban teen comedy My B.F.F. and Matt Winn’s horror-thriller The Hoarder (pictured above), starring Mischa Barton and Robert Knepper.
The company...
London-based producer-financier Alliance Media Partners (Amp) has opened Alliance Media Partners Canada in Toronto, with a view to sourcing, producing and financing projects with Canadian and North American talent.
Amp Canada will be fronted by Sonia Lowe (right), director of international sales for Toronto-based sales and distribution company Raven Banner.
Amp, part of the Dubai-based Alliance Capital Group, was founded in late 2015 by producer Bob Portal and Inderpal Singh to focus on low-budget genre movies with international appeal.
The company has completed principal photography on four films due for release in 2016/2017: Trent Haaga’s pulp thriller 68 Kill (a co-production with Travis Stevens’ Snowfort Pictures); Simon Rumley’s thriller Fashionista; Greg Carter’s urban teen comedy My B.F.F. and Matt Winn’s horror-thriller The Hoarder (pictured above), starring Mischa Barton and Robert Knepper.
The company...
- 7/22/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Producers join Marko Mäkilaakso’s pulpy monster movie based on the 80’s video game; Raven Banner sells.
Fledgling UK production/finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is collaborating with Finland’s Roger! Pictures to produce the action-comedy-sci-fi It Came From The Desert.
The film is the first feature from Roger! Pictures, run by producer Teemu Virta and director Marko Mäkilaakso, whose aim is to produce genre films with budgets of under $1m for the international market.
Iron Sky producer Tero Kaukomaa, a shareholder in Roger!, is an executive producer on the film, which is described as “a smart, pulpy, action monster movie, inspired by Cinemaware’s cult 1980s video game of the same name. Its tall tale involves rival motocross heroes (and heroines), kegger parties in the desert, secret underground military bases, romantic insecurities…and giant ants!”
Kaukomaa said: “This deal with Amp gives us an extra power boost to produce this great script into a...
Fledgling UK production/finance company Alliance Media Partners (Amp) is collaborating with Finland’s Roger! Pictures to produce the action-comedy-sci-fi It Came From The Desert.
The film is the first feature from Roger! Pictures, run by producer Teemu Virta and director Marko Mäkilaakso, whose aim is to produce genre films with budgets of under $1m for the international market.
Iron Sky producer Tero Kaukomaa, a shareholder in Roger!, is an executive producer on the film, which is described as “a smart, pulpy, action monster movie, inspired by Cinemaware’s cult 1980s video game of the same name. Its tall tale involves rival motocross heroes (and heroines), kegger parties in the desert, secret underground military bases, romantic insecurities…and giant ants!”
Kaukomaa said: “This deal with Amp gives us an extra power boost to produce this great script into a...
- 7/8/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
First project will be Trent Haaga’s 68 Kill, based on the crime novel by Bryan Smith.
Snowfort Pictures and the UK’s Alliance Media Partners (Amp) have announced a co-production slate of commercial genre films.
The three projects will see Snowfort handling Us production and Amp fully financing.
First on the slate is 68 Kill from writer/director Trent Haaga, who previously wrote Deadgirl and genre festival hit Cheap Thrills.
Based on the crime novel by Bryan Smith, the film centres on a hard-working guy who can’t say no to beautiful women which lands him in trouble when he agrees to steal $68,000.
Shooting is set to begin in March 2016, with casting currently taking place. CAA will handle domestic sales.
All three films will be developed and produced by Snowfort CEO Travis Stevens [pictured] and Bob Portal on behalf of Amp. The two previously worked together on Simon Rumley’s Red White & Blue.
Executive producers...
Snowfort Pictures and the UK’s Alliance Media Partners (Amp) have announced a co-production slate of commercial genre films.
The three projects will see Snowfort handling Us production and Amp fully financing.
First on the slate is 68 Kill from writer/director Trent Haaga, who previously wrote Deadgirl and genre festival hit Cheap Thrills.
Based on the crime novel by Bryan Smith, the film centres on a hard-working guy who can’t say no to beautiful women which lands him in trouble when he agrees to steal $68,000.
Shooting is set to begin in March 2016, with casting currently taking place. CAA will handle domestic sales.
All three films will be developed and produced by Snowfort CEO Travis Stevens [pictured] and Bob Portal on behalf of Amp. The two previously worked together on Simon Rumley’s Red White & Blue.
Executive producers...
- 11/9/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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