Exclusive: Ddi to launch sales on feature from The Railway Man screen-writer Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Double Dutch International has boarded worldwide sales rights to UK comedy Triple World Score starring Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy (Love Actually).
Carl Hunter’s directorial debut is being produced by Sunset Song and A Quiet Passion duo Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter under their Hurricane Films banners along with Sarada McDermott.
Andrea Gibson and Mary McLeod from Gibson & MacLeod serve as executive producers.
The original screenplay, which comes from The Railway Man and Millions screen-writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, follows Alan (Nighy), a tailor who closes up shop to move in with his surly son Peter and grandson Jack. There is distance between Alan and Peter as he blames his father for the disappearance of his brother Michael.
Meanwhile, Alan and Jack begin to bond over their favourite game. Conflict builds to a tipping point when Alan is convinced that an online...
Double Dutch International has boarded worldwide sales rights to UK comedy Triple World Score starring Golden Globe winner Bill Nighy (Love Actually).
Carl Hunter’s directorial debut is being produced by Sunset Song and A Quiet Passion duo Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter under their Hurricane Films banners along with Sarada McDermott.
Andrea Gibson and Mary McLeod from Gibson & MacLeod serve as executive producers.
The original screenplay, which comes from The Railway Man and Millions screen-writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, follows Alan (Nighy), a tailor who closes up shop to move in with his surly son Peter and grandson Jack. There is distance between Alan and Peter as he blames his father for the disappearance of his brother Michael.
Meanwhile, Alan and Jack begin to bond over their favourite game. Conflict builds to a tipping point when Alan is convinced that an online...
- 11/1/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Terence Davies’s drama has sold to France and Japan, while Soda has taken over the UK release from Metrodome.
Double Dutch International has closed further deals on Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival this year and had its international premiere last week at Toronto International Film Festival.
Paname Distribution has taken for France, Mimosa Films will distribute in Japan, and Soda Pictures has taken over UK from Metrodome, which went into administration in August.
Telling the story of American poet Emily Dickinson, the film stars Cynthia Nixon (Stockholm) and Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty).
Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter produced for UK outfit Hurricane Films with Belgium-based Potemkino co-producing. Executive producers include Andrea Gibson of Gibson & MacLeod, as well as Jason Moring of Ddi.
The latest round of deals means that Ddi is now closing to selling out on the film.
Double Dutch International has closed further deals on Terence Davies’s A Quiet Passion, which debuted at the Berlin Film Festival this year and had its international premiere last week at Toronto International Film Festival.
Paname Distribution has taken for France, Mimosa Films will distribute in Japan, and Soda Pictures has taken over UK from Metrodome, which went into administration in August.
Telling the story of American poet Emily Dickinson, the film stars Cynthia Nixon (Stockholm) and Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty).
Sol Papadopoulos and Roy Boulter produced for UK outfit Hurricane Films with Belgium-based Potemkino co-producing. Executive producers include Andrea Gibson of Gibson & MacLeod, as well as Jason Moring of Ddi.
The latest round of deals means that Ddi is now closing to selling out on the film.
- 9/11/2016
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Comedy-drama scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce.
Bill Nighy, one of Britain’s best loved character actors, is to star in Hurricane Films’ Triple Word Score, a new feature scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Hilary and Jackie, 24 Hour Party People).
The film is in the growing slate of features to be executive produced by Gibson & MacLeod - the outfit behind Hurricane Films’ Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion.
Triple Word Score will mark the directorial debut of Carl Hunter who has collaborated extensively with Cottrell Boyce on various other ventures including an award winning children’s book and an online narrative project.
The supernatural comedy-drama follows the story of a father (Nighy) searching for his missing son, with whom he shared a passion for the board game Scrabble. The film is a journey of mystery, self-discovery and hope.
Shooting will take place this summer in the UK - in Liverpool and West Lancashire.
Liverpool-based [link=co...
Bill Nighy, one of Britain’s best loved character actors, is to star in Hurricane Films’ Triple Word Score, a new feature scripted by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Hilary and Jackie, 24 Hour Party People).
The film is in the growing slate of features to be executive produced by Gibson & MacLeod - the outfit behind Hurricane Films’ Emily Dickinson biopic, A Quiet Passion.
Triple Word Score will mark the directorial debut of Carl Hunter who has collaborated extensively with Cottrell Boyce on various other ventures including an award winning children’s book and an online narrative project.
The supernatural comedy-drama follows the story of a father (Nighy) searching for his missing son, with whom he shared a passion for the board game Scrabble. The film is a journey of mystery, self-discovery and hope.
Shooting will take place this summer in the UK - in Liverpool and West Lancashire.
Liverpool-based [link=co...
- 5/25/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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