Paramount+ Acquires Drama ‘Compulsion’ From Eccho Rights: Paramount+ has added a drama from its Paramount Global stablemate Channel 5 to its collection in several territories around the world. The streamer has tapped distributor Eccho Rights for Compulsion, which recently aired in the UK, for exclusive rights in Australia, Latin America and the Nordics. Moving On producer LA Productions made the show in association with Sweden-based Eccho. The family drama, from writer Sarah Deane, follows a woman on the edge of losing everything who meets a stranger who seems to have the answers to her problems. Leanne Best (Cold Feet) stars alongside Anna Chancellor (The Watch) and Hayley Mills (Pollyanna).
Australia’s ABC Welcomes ‘Long Lost Family’: Australian public broadcaster ABC has wrapped a deal for the first eight seasons of ITV family reunion series Long Lost Family with Amsterdam’s Lineup Industries. In the UK, the human interest...
Australia’s ABC Welcomes ‘Long Lost Family’: Australian public broadcaster ABC has wrapped a deal for the first eight seasons of ITV family reunion series Long Lost Family with Amsterdam’s Lineup Industries. In the UK, the human interest...
- 5/9/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
As part of our coverage of Hard Boiled Sweets, the feature debut of writer-director David Hughes (you can read our review here), we had the chance to speak with him at some length about getting the film made, his aspirations and influences and where he might go from here.
HeyUGuys: The Special Features on the DVD say a lot about getting the project going. It seems to have all started with Ian Hart?
David Hughes: Ian Hart, [co-star] Paul Freeman, [producer] Margaret Matheson – these are people with incredible careers and they’ve shown incredible generosity to me. I was working in film advertising and I wrote a script [short film A Girl & A Gun]. A guy I knew who worked on film scoring had kids at school with Ian Hart’s kids and said he seemed like an approachable guy in the playground and asked if he could try to give the script to him. He took...
HeyUGuys: The Special Features on the DVD say a lot about getting the project going. It seems to have all started with Ian Hart?
David Hughes: Ian Hart, [co-star] Paul Freeman, [producer] Margaret Matheson – these are people with incredible careers and they’ve shown incredible generosity to me. I was working in film advertising and I wrote a script [short film A Girl & A Gun]. A guy I knew who worked on film scoring had kids at school with Ian Hart’s kids and said he seemed like an approachable guy in the playground and asked if he could try to give the script to him. He took...
- 5/10/2012
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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