Paramount Global and Skydance may have agreed in principle to an $8bn merger deal, however the former is allowed to pursue a better offer during a “go-shop” period that can be extended beyond August 21.
In a filing with the United States Securities And Exchange Commission on Thursday, days after the deal was announced, Paramount Global said the go-shop period can be rolled out to September 5 should it be engaged in talks with another entity that it believes would yield a “superior proposal”.
The filing confirmed Paramount Global would pay David Ellison’s Skydance and his bid partners a $400m termination...
In a filing with the United States Securities And Exchange Commission on Thursday, days after the deal was announced, Paramount Global said the go-shop period can be rolled out to September 5 should it be engaged in talks with another entity that it believes would yield a “superior proposal”.
The filing confirmed Paramount Global would pay David Ellison’s Skydance and his bid partners a $400m termination...
- 7/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
Morad Mostafa’s Aisha Can’t Fly Away is among seven projects selected for the Final Cut in Venice lab for work-in-progress titles from Africa and the Middle East.
The film, which is gearing up to shoot this summer, tells the story of a Somali woman who cares for her elderly parents while witnessing the tensions between the different groups who make up her city’s African society.
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It will be a feature debut for Egyptian filmmaker Mostafa, who was selected as a Screen Arab Star of Tomorrow last year.
Aisha Can...
The film, which is gearing up to shoot this summer, tells the story of a Somali woman who cares for her elderly parents while witnessing the tensions between the different groups who make up her city’s African society.
Scroll down for the full list of projects
It will be a feature debut for Egyptian filmmaker Mostafa, who was selected as a Screen Arab Star of Tomorrow last year.
Aisha Can...
- 7/11/2024
- ScreenDaily
Bradley Quirk, who has had previous stints with Brightstar and Altitude, is joining the Netflix U.K. film team, Variety has confirmed.
Quirk joins as manager, U.K. He is part of director, U.K. Mona Qureshi’s team. Anne Mensah serves as Netflix’s U.K. content vice president.
Quirk was previously with Brightstar Film and TV, the U.K. production outfit founded by producers Tanya Seghatchian (“The Crown”) and John Woodward (“Cold War”). Earlier, Quirk was with Altitude as head of development where he worked on the films “Calm With Horses,” “Rocks” and “The Girl With All the Gifts.”
In a previous stint with Pathe, he worked on “Philomena” and in a role with the BFI Film Fund, on “Welcome to the Punch” and “Broken.”
In 2019, Quirk served as executive producer on “Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans.”
Quirk joins after Netflix’s director of U.K.
Quirk joins as manager, U.K. He is part of director, U.K. Mona Qureshi’s team. Anne Mensah serves as Netflix’s U.K. content vice president.
Quirk was previously with Brightstar Film and TV, the U.K. production outfit founded by producers Tanya Seghatchian (“The Crown”) and John Woodward (“Cold War”). Earlier, Quirk was with Altitude as head of development where he worked on the films “Calm With Horses,” “Rocks” and “The Girl With All the Gifts.”
In a previous stint with Pathe, he worked on “Philomena” and in a role with the BFI Film Fund, on “Welcome to the Punch” and “Broken.”
In 2019, Quirk served as executive producer on “Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans.”
Quirk joins after Netflix’s director of U.K.
- 8/17/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
New role takes over many of the duties formerly held by Fiona Lamptey.
Netflix has hired former Brightstar, Altitude and UK Film Council executive Bradley Quirk to oversee its UK film slate, the streamer has confirmed today.
His job title is manager, Netflix UK, and he will work as part of the team led by Mona Qureshi, who oversees UK independent productions across both film and TV.
Qureshi reports to Anne Mensah, Netflix’s UK-based vice president of content. Qureshi joined in March 2022 from BBC Film.
Quirk was most recently development producer at Tanya Segatchian and John Woodward’s Brightstar...
Netflix has hired former Brightstar, Altitude and UK Film Council executive Bradley Quirk to oversee its UK film slate, the streamer has confirmed today.
His job title is manager, Netflix UK, and he will work as part of the team led by Mona Qureshi, who oversees UK independent productions across both film and TV.
Qureshi reports to Anne Mensah, Netflix’s UK-based vice president of content. Qureshi joined in March 2022 from BBC Film.
Quirk was most recently development producer at Tanya Segatchian and John Woodward’s Brightstar...
- 8/17/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Multi-faceted UK outfit Altitude, which is on the Croisette this year with Asif Kapadia’s anticipated documentary Diego Maradona, is in development on a movie about the lives and careers of dance siblings Fred and Adele Astaire, and World War II thriller The Zero Hour about one man’s personal quest to track down Nazi Rudolf Hoss.
Altitude spans international sales, UK distribution and production. The latest prospect in development for the company is a portrait of iconic American dancer Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. Partnering with producers Ben Holden (The Woman In Black 2) of Lightbulb Pictures and Josh Hyams (The Trip To Spain), Altitude have set writers Glenn Patterson and Colin Carberry (Good Vibrations) to write The Astaires, the true story of how the twenty-something siblings overcame huge challenges to become the world’s most famous dancers during their time in London and New York.
Based on...
Altitude spans international sales, UK distribution and production. The latest prospect in development for the company is a portrait of iconic American dancer Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. Partnering with producers Ben Holden (The Woman In Black 2) of Lightbulb Pictures and Josh Hyams (The Trip To Spain), Altitude have set writers Glenn Patterson and Colin Carberry (Good Vibrations) to write The Astaires, the true story of how the twenty-something siblings overcame huge challenges to become the world’s most famous dancers during their time in London and New York.
Based on...
- 5/14/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Production is under way on Altitude Film Entertainment and Citrus Films’ family movie Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans, based on the popular children’s book series by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin Brown.
Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.
Shooting now on location in the UK and Bulgaria, the film will cast the antics of the Roman Empire in a comedic light. It will follow Atti, a Roman teenager with brains but very little brawn. When one of his clever schemes falls foul of Emperor Nero, he is forced to join the army and is sent to miserable, cold, wet Britain where the natives are revolting – quite literally. Things go from bad to worse when Atti is captured by Orla, a feisty teenage Celt desperate to prove herself as a warrior.
Dominic Brigstocke, director of the TV version of the series, will make his feature directorial debut. Script comes from Jessica Swale together with Giles Pilbrow and Caroline Norris.
- 10/3/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Len Rowles joins Pathe UK development team.
Pathe UK has appointed BAFTA-nominated short film producer Len Rowles as creative executive in their development team.
Rowles, who assumes the role recently vacated by Bradley Quirk, will report to Colleen Woodcock, head of creative affairs.
Rowles has produced well-received shorts including Skyborn and Orbit Ever After.
Cameron McCracken, managing director of Pathe UK, said: “It’s great to welcome Len on board. Despite being sickeningly young, she impressed us with the depth of her film knowledge and her ability to analyze a script with an eye to the audience. I’m sure she’ll prove to be a great asset.”...
Pathe UK has appointed BAFTA-nominated short film producer Len Rowles as creative executive in their development team.
Rowles, who assumes the role recently vacated by Bradley Quirk, will report to Colleen Woodcock, head of creative affairs.
Rowles has produced well-received shorts including Skyborn and Orbit Ever After.
Cameron McCracken, managing director of Pathe UK, said: “It’s great to welcome Len on board. Despite being sickeningly young, she impressed us with the depth of her film knowledge and her ability to analyze a script with an eye to the audience. I’m sure she’ll prove to be a great asset.”...
- 3/24/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Pathe executive to join Altitude as head of development.
Pathe creative executive Bradley Quirk is to join Will Clarke’s Altitude as head of development.
Quirk will join Altitude in April. Pathe is expected to fill the role vacated by Quirk in the coming months.
The executive worked on a number of prestige titles at Pathe including Stephen Frears’ Oscar-nominated Philomena, Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Matthew Warchus’s Pride and Sarah Gavron’s upcoming Carey Mulligan drama Sufragette.
Quirk joined Pathé as creative executive in January 2012. Prior to that, he spent four years as story editor and talent tracker for the UKFC Film Fund and subsequently the BFI.
Whilst at the Film Fund, he worked across titles including Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, James Marsh’s Shadowdancer, Rufus Norris’s Broken and Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch.
Cameron McCracken, managing director at Pathe UK, told ScreenDaily:...
Pathe creative executive Bradley Quirk is to join Will Clarke’s Altitude as head of development.
Quirk will join Altitude in April. Pathe is expected to fill the role vacated by Quirk in the coming months.
The executive worked on a number of prestige titles at Pathe including Stephen Frears’ Oscar-nominated Philomena, Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Matthew Warchus’s Pride and Sarah Gavron’s upcoming Carey Mulligan drama Sufragette.
Quirk joined Pathé as creative executive in January 2012. Prior to that, he spent four years as story editor and talent tracker for the UKFC Film Fund and subsequently the BFI.
Whilst at the Film Fund, he worked across titles including Clio Barnard’s The Arbor, James Marsh’s Shadowdancer, Rufus Norris’s Broken and Eran Creevy’s Welcome to the Punch.
Cameron McCracken, managing director at Pathe UK, told ScreenDaily:...
- 3/4/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
The government's decision to axe the UK Film Council came out of the blue yesterday. But what does it mean for the professionals who keep our film industry going?
I was on my way home from a meeting with David Thompson at Origin Films about a project called Granny Made Me an Anarchist when I got news of the government's intention to abolish the Film Council. My first thought was for the people at the Film Council who were going to lose their jobs – never a pleasant prospect and at this time a lot more unpleasant. My second thought – and it will be one shared by just about every writer, director and producer I know in the UK – was: what does this mean for my project? Because, put simply, if it hadn't been for the Film Council, the project wouldn't exist.
About 18 months ago, my friend, the journalist Duncan Campbell,...
I was on my way home from a meeting with David Thompson at Origin Films about a project called Granny Made Me an Anarchist when I got news of the government's intention to abolish the Film Council. My first thought was for the people at the Film Council who were going to lose their jobs – never a pleasant prospect and at this time a lot more unpleasant. My second thought – and it will be one shared by just about every writer, director and producer I know in the UK – was: what does this mean for my project? Because, put simply, if it hadn't been for the Film Council, the project wouldn't exist.
About 18 months ago, my friend, the journalist Duncan Campbell,...
- 7/26/2010
- by Ronan Bennett
- The Guardian - Film News
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