Get Away UK release 10th of January on Sky Movies
Sky Original Film, has set its release date for Get Away – the upcoming horror comedy starring, written and produced by Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and directed by Steffen Haars (New Kids Turbo) in the UK. XYZ Films financed and handled worldwide sales on Get Away, which it produced with Wayward Entertainment. Sky Original Film will launch the title on Sky Cinema on 10th January 2025.
Set in Sweden, Get Away follows a family’s holiday to a remote getaway – but the trip takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they’re on is inhabited by a serial killer. Frost stars alongside Aisling Bea (“This Way Up”), Sebastian Croft (“Heartstopper”), and newcomer Maisie Ayres (“Criminal Record”). Nick Spicer, Aram Tertzakian, and Maxime Cottray of XYZ Films produced alongside John Hegeman of Wayward Entertainment, Lee Kim of Resolute Films and Frost. The co-producer is Richard Kondal for Big Safari, with executive producers Vince Totino of Wayward Entertainment, Patrick Fischer of Creativity Capital, Nate Bolotin and Pip Ngo of XYZ Films, alongside Julia Stuart and Laura Grange of Sky Original Film.
Tianna Roberts joins Creativity Capital
Creativity Capital have appointed former Odin’s Eye Entertainment exec Tianna Roberts as Acquisitions Manager.
Roberts worked for almost five years at Odin’s Eye, latterly as Head Of Development and Co-Director of Acquisitions. In her new role she will leverage her background in international development, distribution, and acquisitions to boost global co-production and financing opportunities.
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Creativity’s Patrick Fischer calls on Netflix to increase licensing at Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event
Say goodbye to the old ways of doing TV business and hello to new ones.
“We need to rethink everything. The business model we used to have, that’s gone,” said Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber, a panelist at this year’s TV Beats Forum at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
“We’re going to see fewer shows. The costs have skyrocketed, we have inflation, and if you’re looking to attach a meaningful cast, there’s huge competition with streamers. At the moment, our industry is driven by fear. We need to overcome the fear of failure.”
And find new solutions. According to Meg Thomson, an executive at Globalgate Entertainment, there needs to be more cross-continental collaboration in the near future, as well as more focus on YouTube and TikTok, “where advertising is more targeted,” added James Copp, co-head of content at Night Train Media.
Patrick Fischer, co-founder and Managing Director of Creativity Capital, “would like to see more licensing from streamers.” He argued during the State of Play in Series Financing panel that broadcasters, like their platform counterparts, have significantly cut back on what they used to commission.
“We knew it was a bubble, and we knew it was going to burst,” he went one. “I would love for Netflix and other streamers not to look at themselves as an old-style Hollywood studio where they need to tell certain stories. Let’s face it: They are cable. You can watch unscripted content while you are doing the dishes, and you can watch an Oscar-winning movie from an auteur. I would love them to embrace it, saying: ‘Why don’t we pre-buy? Why don’t we act like cable used to?’”
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Creativity Capital boards Irish Vampire feature “Feed”
Marco van Belle’s Irish female vampire origin feature Feed has begun shooting in Ireland’s coastal region of County Wexford. The film follows a group of twenty something social media influencers who spend a weekend at a remote contemporary house in an Irish forest, and must fight for their lives when they awaken the world’s original vampire from her slumber. Van Belle previously wrote sci-fi Mercy starring Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Annabelle Wallis, which is currently in post-production.
Producers are Ripple World’s Jac Kerrin and Dominic Wright (The Last Rifleman, Never Grow Old), with Big Safari’s Richard Kondal and Tianna Roberts (Get Away, Giant) as UK co-producers.
Niamh Fagan is Executive Producer for Screen Ireland/Fís Éireann, who are providing production finance and financed development. Creativity Capital is providing production finance, with Patrick Fischer executive producing.
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Charades and Creativity Capital join forces on Tina Romero’s Drag Zombie Comedy ‘Queens Of The Dead’
Charades has acquired international sales rights to glam gore zombie comedy Queens of the Dead by Tina Romero, daughter of legendary director George A. Romero, ahead of the AFM.
The cast features Jaquel Spivey (Mean Girls), Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw The TV Glow) and Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story).
The film is co-written by Erin Judge and Romero, the movie follows a group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies who must put aside their personal dramas and use their unique skills to fight the brain-thirsty undead when a zombie apocalypse breaks out on the night of a giant warehouse party.
Queens Of The Dead is produced by award-winning director, writer, and producer, Natalie Metzger (Greener Grass, Thunder Road) and Matthew Lee Miller (The Beta Test, A Bread Factor) for Vanishing Angle (Werewolves Within, It Ain’t Over), in association with IFC Films & Shudder, Creativity Capital and Flexibon Films.
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Patrick Fischer speaks at Iberseries on future of content financing
A TV crowd tuned into a conversation that was in large part about indie film finance models at Iberseries & Platino Industria, Thursday. “TV finance plans are looking more like independent film finance plans,” Creativity Capital co-founder Patrick Fischer, told a packed room. “And that’s not necessarily a bad thing because there’s opportunity.”
A sell-out crowd at the Madrid confab for a session on the future of financing demonstrated that TV folk need to find different ways of getting their projects financed. That is becoming a necessity given the TV drama biz has cooled. A commissioning broadcaster plus distributor advance, or even backing from a streamer, will no longer guarantee the budget is covered in TV drama.
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“Get Away” trailer drops
Nothing beats a slay-cation for all the family! Starring Nick Frost and Aisling Bea, directed by Steffen Haars and written by Nick Frost.
IFC Films and Shudder Buy ‘Get Away,’ Comedic Slasher Movie With Nick Frost, Aisling Bea
IFC Films and Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural programming, announced today that they have acquired the North American rights to Steffen Haars’ comedic slasher movie, “Get Away.” The film, which was previously titled “Svalta,” was written by Nick Frost(“Paul”), who also stars alongside Aisling Bea (“This Way Up”) Sebastian Croft (“Heartstopper”), and newcomer Maisie Ayres. It will have its world premiere at Fantastic Fest 2024 in September. “Get Away” will then be released exclusively in theaters on Dec. 6, 2024, followed by its Shudder debut in 2025. Like Shudder, IFC is a division of AMC Networks. The film is financed by XYZ Films and Creativity Capital. For the full story visit Variety.com.
Creativity Capital finances Tina Romero’s drag queen zombie debut “Queens of the Dead”
Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), Margaret Cho (Fire Island), Brigette Lundy-Paine (I Saw The TV Glow) and Cheyenne Jackson (American Horror Story) are among those set to star in Queens of the Dead, a new horror comedy directed by Tina Romero, daughter of legendary director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead).
Co-written by Erin Judge & Tina Romero, the film pays tribute to the zombies from the elder Romero’s classic zombie films with a fresh, contemporary, and queer twist, promising to offer a genre-smashing, glam-gore thrill ride through the zombie apocalypse. The story follows an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, and frenemies who must put aside their personal dramas and use their unique skills to combat the brain-thirsty undead when a zombie apocalypse breaks out during their drag show in Brooklyn.
Vanishing Angle’s Matthew Lee Miller and Natalie Metzger will serve as the film’s producers. The film is financed by Creativity Capital.
In a statement on the project, Tina Romero said, “This is the cast of my wildest dreams. In a movie about survival, you gotta love and root for the survival crew. Every single person in this ensemble brings such a special and specific flavor -both on and off screen. The result is truly a magic sauce.”
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