The Mortuary Assistant in cinemas February 13th

Epic Pictures and Creativity Capital co-financed horror film “The Mortuary Assistant”, the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game, will be released in US cinemas on February 13th.

Directed by Jeremiah Kipp (Slapface) and starring Willa Holland (Arrow) and Paul Sparks (Boardwalk Empire), the film will stream on Shudder from March 27. We can share the film’s first trailer above.

The Mortuary Assistant follows newly certified mortician Rebecca Owens (Holland), who accepts a night shift at a mortuary, embalming bodies alone after hours. As disturbing events escalate, Rebecca uncovers demonic rituals, the dark secrets of her enigmatic mentor (Sparks), and her own buried trauma—racing to survive the night before her body becomes a vessel for possession.

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Queens of the Dead – US release October 24th

Watch out America! They’re dead … and they’re eating. Don’t miss Tina Romero’s QUEENS OF THE DEAD, in theaters October 24!

Epic Pictures partners with Creativity Capital on “The Mortuary Assistant”

Willa Holland (Arrow) and Paul Sparks (House of Cards) will lead The Mortuary Assistant, a feature adaptation of the bestselling horror video game created by Brian Clarke, which is currently in production in Missouri.

Hailing from Epic Games and its specialty horror label Dread, The Mortuary Assistant centers on Rebecca Owens, a recent mortuary science graduate who takes a night shift job at River Fields Mortuary. Initially, the job seems straightforward — embalming bodies, completing paperwork, and keeping things tidy. But once Rebecca starts working the night shift, things take a dark turn.

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Oliver Garboe joins Creativity Capital

UK financier Creativity Capital has appointed Oliver Garboe as its new Senior Associate. The company has said Garboe will focus on Creativity Capital’s strategic and transactional growth, identifying new partnership and project opportunities with producers, sales agents, and distributors across the industry, using his past experience working in the UK, the Nordics, and the rest of Europe. Garboe previously worked at Media Finance Capital.

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THE BAYOU drops trailer and gets US and UK release date



Vacation turns to disaster when Houston graduate Kyle (Athena Strates) and her friends survive a plane crash in the desolate Louisiana bayou, only to discover there’s something infinitely more dangerous lurking in the shallows…a pack of primordial, highly-evolved American alligators.

Apex predators and perfectly adapted to their native habitat, the gators have zeroed in on the survivors – pure killing machines 150 million years in the making. And these gators are living in an environment contaminated by illegal chemicals pumped into their ecosystem. They’re bigger, smarter, faster, meaner, and hell-bent on devouring anything that stumbles into their territory…

Vertigo plans to release the survival flick from the producers of FALL and 47 METERS DOWN on digital platforms in the UK and Ireland on March 24th.

Vertical is releasing the film in cinemas and on digital platforms in the United States on February 21st.

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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