American-European Media Fund Apx Group has completed the acquisition of a 50% stake in the UK’s Twickenham Film Studios.
The 120-year-old facility in South West London has hosted a slew of classic titles across its history including The Italian Job and A Hard Day’s Night, as well as big-budget productions such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Top Gun: Maverick more recently.
The acquisition is the latest major addition to Apx Group’s global network of studios ahead of its planned public listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Under the operation, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name.
The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the US, all under the branding of Twickenham Studios.
The equity structure of this transaction was made together with Apx...
The 120-year-old facility in South West London has hosted a slew of classic titles across its history including The Italian Job and A Hard Day’s Night, as well as big-budget productions such as Bohemian Rhapsody and Top Gun: Maverick more recently.
The acquisition is the latest major addition to Apx Group’s global network of studios ahead of its planned public listing on the New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Under the operation, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name.
The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the US, all under the branding of Twickenham Studios.
The equity structure of this transaction was made together with Apx...
- 3/13/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
U.S.-Europe media fund Apx Group has acquired a 50% stake in London’s Twickenham Film Studios.
The move comes weeks after Twickenham Studios chair Sunny Vohra acquired a 6.95% stake in the Apx Group for more than $70 million, reflecting a market cap of $1.1 billion for Apx, which is planning a public listing on New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Apx and Twickenham did not disclose the financial value of the deal.
As part of the acquisition, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name. The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the U.S., all under the Twickenham Studios brand.
The equity structure of the transaction is made together with Apx Group’s and U.K. partner and production arm Herd International Productions and the partners Shelley Hammond,...
The move comes weeks after Twickenham Studios chair Sunny Vohra acquired a 6.95% stake in the Apx Group for more than $70 million, reflecting a market cap of $1.1 billion for Apx, which is planning a public listing on New York Stock Exchange later this year.
Apx and Twickenham did not disclose the financial value of the deal.
As part of the acquisition, Apx Group will rebrand its global network of studios with the Twickenham Studios name. The parties have also agreed on an accelerated expansion plan to acquire additional studios and land suited for studio construction in Europe and the U.S., all under the Twickenham Studios brand.
The equity structure of the transaction is made together with Apx Group’s and U.K. partner and production arm Herd International Productions and the partners Shelley Hammond,...
- 3/13/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Pastor Mick Fleming – a former drug dealer who found God and set up a church that would one day be visited by Prince William and his wife Catherine – is set to be the subject of a new drama series called “The Pastor,” Variety can exclusively reveal.
Herd have optioned Fleming’s life rights.
“Top Boy” director Brady Hood is already in talks to helm the project, which is set to shoot in the U.K. and Portugal, while Andrew Knott and William Ash (“Twisting My Melon”) have signed on to write the screenplay.
Herd will oversee the shoot in the U.K. while their production partner Moviebox will oversee Portugal.
Fleming shot to fame in December 2020 when he became the subject of a BBC News report that was watched by 50 million people. In the throes of the pandemic Fleming, a former drug dealer, set up a church and project that included delivering food,...
Herd have optioned Fleming’s life rights.
“Top Boy” director Brady Hood is already in talks to helm the project, which is set to shoot in the U.K. and Portugal, while Andrew Knott and William Ash (“Twisting My Melon”) have signed on to write the screenplay.
Herd will oversee the shoot in the U.K. while their production partner Moviebox will oversee Portugal.
Fleming shot to fame in December 2020 when he became the subject of a BBC News report that was watched by 50 million people. In the throes of the pandemic Fleming, a former drug dealer, set up a church and project that included delivering food,...
- 9/7/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
New York and London-based American-European entertainment fund Apx Group has appointed Andy Capper as chief operating officer and head of North American operations.
He will oversee strategic and financial coordination of Apx’s North America activity as well as business activities across the European divisions. He will also oversee North American-originating financing activity, integrating Blockchain technology and new opportunities, especially those related to Apxcoin, which Apx launched in July.
Capper will also work closely with London production company Herd, which was formed earlier this year by Shelley Hammond, Ben Dillon, Hollie Richmond and Iggy Ellis, who merged Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room.
Herd is currently developing its slate of film and TV content, with the first production due to start shooting this winter.
Capper was previously at Vice Media, where he was chief editor and senior director, helping shape the Vice Media business philosophy. He helped start Vice’s U.
He will oversee strategic and financial coordination of Apx’s North America activity as well as business activities across the European divisions. He will also oversee North American-originating financing activity, integrating Blockchain technology and new opportunities, especially those related to Apxcoin, which Apx launched in July.
Capper will also work closely with London production company Herd, which was formed earlier this year by Shelley Hammond, Ben Dillon, Hollie Richmond and Iggy Ellis, who merged Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room.
Herd is currently developing its slate of film and TV content, with the first production due to start shooting this winter.
Capper was previously at Vice Media, where he was chief editor and senior director, helping shape the Vice Media business philosophy. He helped start Vice’s U.
- 8/22/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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Film and TV investment fund Apx Group, alongside its newly formed U.K. division Herd International Productions, has unveiled a major deal with Portugal’s Moviebox Group to create a joint-venture subsidiary it claims will have an overall budget of 1 billion euros (1.018 billion) to invest in productions over seven years.
Held in equal partnership between Apx and Moviebox, the division will focus on content from Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula, with all projects to be completed as co-productions with the ability to also utilize the network of facilities held under the Apx Group banner across Europe, United States and the U.K. The structure of the financing will be streamlined through the newly-formed company and, due to the close business ties between the U.K. and Portugal, will be managed day-to-day by Herd International Productions, set up by founders of Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room,...
Film and TV investment fund Apx Group, alongside its newly formed U.K. division Herd International Productions, has unveiled a major deal with Portugal’s Moviebox Group to create a joint-venture subsidiary it claims will have an overall budget of 1 billion euros (1.018 billion) to invest in productions over seven years.
Held in equal partnership between Apx and Moviebox, the division will focus on content from Portugal and the Iberian Peninsula, with all projects to be completed as co-productions with the ability to also utilize the network of facilities held under the Apx Group banner across Europe, United States and the U.K. The structure of the financing will be streamlined through the newly-formed company and, due to the close business ties between the U.K. and Portugal, will be managed day-to-day by Herd International Productions, set up by founders of Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room,...
- 8/3/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Highland Park mass shooting suspect Robert “Bobby” Crimo III was indicted on 117 counts stemming from the tragic July 4th shooting, including 21 counts of first degree murder.
On Thursday, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office revealed that a grand jury indicted Crimo on all 117 counts, ranging from the 21 first degree murder charges (three for each of the seven people killed during the 4th of July attack) to 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm for each victim who was struck by a bullet, bullet fragment,...
On Thursday, the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office revealed that a grand jury indicted Crimo on all 117 counts, ranging from the 21 first degree murder charges (three for each of the seven people killed during the 4th of July attack) to 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm for each victim who was struck by a bullet, bullet fragment,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Jon Blistein and Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
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Film and TV investment fund Apx Capital Group has teamed with the production companies behind the Danny Boyle-produced music biopic Creation Stories to form a new U.K. and European arm.
As part of the deal, Herd Productions, which was set up by the founders of Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room, will merge into a subsidiary of Apx in the U.K. and become an internal division of the company. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Herd will be managed by Shelley Hammond (Creation Stories), Hollie Richmond (Creation Stories), Ben Dillon (Angel has Fallen, X-Men: First Class) and Iggy Ellis (Notes on a Scandal). According to the company, a starting budget of 100 million euros (105 million) has been allocated for film and TV projects to be completed as co-productions between Apx’s network in Europe and the U.K.
Film and TV investment fund Apx Capital Group has teamed with the production companies behind the Danny Boyle-produced music biopic Creation Stories to form a new U.K. and European arm.
As part of the deal, Herd Productions, which was set up by the founders of Burning Wheel Productions and The Engine Room, will merge into a subsidiary of Apx in the U.K. and become an internal division of the company. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Herd will be managed by Shelley Hammond (Creation Stories), Hollie Richmond (Creation Stories), Ben Dillon (Angel has Fallen, X-Men: First Class) and Iggy Ellis (Notes on a Scandal). According to the company, a starting budget of 100 million euros (105 million) has been allocated for film and TV projects to be completed as co-productions between Apx’s network in Europe and the U.K.
- 6/20/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Rlje Films has acquired U.S. rights to Creation Stories, the rock biopic of Creation Records creator and founder Alan McGee that is directed by Nick Moran and stars Trainspotting alum Ewen Bremner. That’s one of several connections to the that 1996 film; Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh co-wrote the Creation Stories script with Dean Cavanagh, and Trainspotting director Danny Boyle is among the executive producers.
The deal comes ahead of the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Kirsty Mitchell, Suki Waterhouse, Thomas Turgoose, Leo Flanagan and Jason Isaacs also star in the Metro International Entertainment pic, which charts the true story of the rise and fall of McGee, credited as responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the 1990s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. It follows McGee through a drug-fueled haze of music and mayhem, with his dream bringing the world the...
The deal comes ahead of the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Kirsty Mitchell, Suki Waterhouse, Thomas Turgoose, Leo Flanagan and Jason Isaacs also star in the Metro International Entertainment pic, which charts the true story of the rise and fall of McGee, credited as responsible for supplying the “Brit Pop” soundtrack to the 1990s, a decade of cultural renaissance known as Cool Britannia. It follows McGee through a drug-fueled haze of music and mayhem, with his dream bringing the world the...
- 6/1/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
In addition to UK-Ireland deal with Sky.
Metro International Entertainment has secured additional deals on Nick Moran’s rock ‘n’ roll biopic Creation Stories.
The film has sold to Australia-New Zealand (Kismet Movies), Japan (Pony Canyon), Canada (Level Films), Cis (Planeta), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Middle East (Front Row), Eastern Europe (HBO), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and airlines (Aardwolf Films), while a US deal is in the works and expected post-efm.
In a previously announced deal, UK broadcaster Sky will release the film as an Original title on its Sky Cinema channel on March 20, following the film’s world premiere as the...
Metro International Entertainment has secured additional deals on Nick Moran’s rock ‘n’ roll biopic Creation Stories.
The film has sold to Australia-New Zealand (Kismet Movies), Japan (Pony Canyon), Canada (Level Films), Cis (Planeta), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Middle East (Front Row), Eastern Europe (HBO), Spain (Twelve Oaks) and airlines (Aardwolf Films), while a US deal is in the works and expected post-efm.
In a previously announced deal, UK broadcaster Sky will release the film as an Original title on its Sky Cinema channel on March 20, following the film’s world premiere as the...
- 3/2/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Here’s fun first footage of Alan McGee biopic Creation Stories, starring Ewen Bremner (Trainspotting) as legendary music executive McGee.
Executive-produced by Danny Boyle, the Brit comedy is based on McGee’s autobiography, The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves And Running A Label, about the highs and lows of running label Creation Records, famous for putting out hits by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis.
Also starring are Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation), Leo Flanagan (Hanna), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), Jason Flemyng (Pennyworth), comedian Ed Byrne, Paul Kaye (It’s All Gone Pete Tong), Perry Benson (You Rang M’Lord?), Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Steven Berkoff (Octopussy), Rufus Jones (W1A) and Mel Raido (Legend).
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star and Telstar: The Story of Joe Meek director Nick Moran is directing. Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh, who is close friends with McGee, has written...
Executive-produced by Danny Boyle, the Brit comedy is based on McGee’s autobiography, The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves And Running A Label, about the highs and lows of running label Creation Records, famous for putting out hits by the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Oasis.
Also starring are Suki Waterhouse (Assassination Nation), Leo Flanagan (Hanna), Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter), Jason Flemyng (Pennyworth), comedian Ed Byrne, Paul Kaye (It’s All Gone Pete Tong), Perry Benson (You Rang M’Lord?), Thomas Turgoose (This is England), Steven Berkoff (Octopussy), Rufus Jones (W1A) and Mel Raido (Legend).
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels star and Telstar: The Story of Joe Meek director Nick Moran is directing. Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh, who is close friends with McGee, has written...
- 9/29/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Cumberbatch and fellow producers at SunnyMarch talk to Screen about their first film and upcoming slate.
UK-based production outfit SunnyMarch, run by Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Ackland, Ben Dillon and Adam Selves, is launching with short Little Favour (view trailer here), a £87,000 action-thriller starring Cumberbatch, Colin Salmon and Nick Moran.
ScreenDaily yesterday sat down with white-hot Star Trek and Sherlock star Cumberbatch and his fellow-producers.
“We’re at an exciting juncture,” Cumberbatch told Screen. “We’ve made our first effort as a team and we’re aiming to make a concrete statement in the next few months about what we’re going to do next. We want a varied slate. There will be a feature to announce in the next few months.”
“We have scripts in development and books that we’re looking to option,” he continued. “We have links through my agency here and in the Us to facilitate that. It’s about...
UK-based production outfit SunnyMarch, run by Benedict Cumberbatch, Adam Ackland, Ben Dillon and Adam Selves, is launching with short Little Favour (view trailer here), a £87,000 action-thriller starring Cumberbatch, Colin Salmon and Nick Moran.
ScreenDaily yesterday sat down with white-hot Star Trek and Sherlock star Cumberbatch and his fellow-producers.
“We’re at an exciting juncture,” Cumberbatch told Screen. “We’ve made our first effort as a team and we’re aiming to make a concrete statement in the next few months about what we’re going to do next. We want a varied slate. There will be a feature to announce in the next few months.”
“We have scripts in development and books that we’re looking to option,” he continued. “We have links through my agency here and in the Us to facilitate that. It’s about...
- 10/29/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
It’s a great week for Benedict Cumberbatch. Moviegoers around the world (though not yet in the U.S.) are currently flocking to see Star Trek Into Darkness, in which he plays the villain. And another film he’s set to star in has already become a humongous success thanks to a quick crowdfunding drive at Indiegogo. The newer project is a short titled Little Favour and will feature the Sherlock Holmes star as a Ptsd-suffering man enlisted by an old friend (Harry Potter actor Nick Moran) to “help with a deal gone wrong.” With six days still remaining in the effort, Little Favour has already greatly surpassed its goal of £25,000 ($38,385) and looks to possibly triple that amount. This is a pretty remarkable achievement for a campaign that has nothing illustrating its potential, not a video nor storyboards nor any other sort of proof of concept. We don’t even know how long it’ll be. And...
- 5/11/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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