Animus has also announced the hire of Janice Lloyd as its new operations director.
UK producer Animus Pictures has secured a £100,000 investment from a private investor to fund a development slate of genre film projects.
Producer Sarah Pemberton (Pub Crawl) helped to set up the deal through her creative consultancy Synergie16. Pemberton has also now taken up a role as Animus’ marketing manager.
The first film under the deal is The Retreat, a social-horror film set in the political context of a post-Brexit world. Production is scheduled to get underway this year. Animus’ managing director Ben Richards is producing the project and Surya K.
UK producer Animus Pictures has secured a £100,000 investment from a private investor to fund a development slate of genre film projects.
Producer Sarah Pemberton (Pub Crawl) helped to set up the deal through her creative consultancy Synergie16. Pemberton has also now taken up a role as Animus’ marketing manager.
The first film under the deal is The Retreat, a social-horror film set in the political context of a post-Brexit world. Production is scheduled to get underway this year. Animus’ managing director Ben Richards is producing the project and Surya K.
- 5/14/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Cinemax continues its rebrand as a destination for fun, mostly action-packed, original programming, setting a premiere date for its miniseries C.B. Strike. The actioner based on Harry Potter author J.K. Rowlings’ crime novels — who wrote them under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith — will attack at 10 Pm Friday, June 1, on the premium cabler.
It stars Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike, a war veteran-turned-private detective, who operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike’s unique insight and his background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving three complex cases that have baffled the police. Holliday Grainger also stars.
The series originally was pegged for sister outlet HBO, but Kary Antholis, president of HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, and HBO programming chief decided last year that the show “would have a greater impact” on Cinemax, Antholis said at the time.
It stars Tom Burke as Cormoran Strike, a war veteran-turned-private detective, who operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street. Although wounded both physically and psychologically, Strike’s unique insight and his background as a military police investigator prove crucial in solving three complex cases that have baffled the police. Holliday Grainger also stars.
The series originally was pegged for sister outlet HBO, but Kary Antholis, president of HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, and HBO programming chief decided last year that the show “would have a greater impact” on Cinemax, Antholis said at the time.
- 4/6/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
There were some very big differences between The Running Man book and the movie. In fact you could say that the movie was almost entirely different from the book aside from the name. Where to start? There are more than a few since in the book Ben Richards is not a cop, he’s just a guy trying to make ends meet while attempting to take care of his family. In the movie Richards starts out as a cop that refuses to fire on innocents that are rioting over not having enough food or resources and is detained by his fellow
The Difference Between The Running Man Book and Movie...
The Difference Between The Running Man Book and Movie...
- 2/22/2018
- by Wake
- TVovermind.com
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