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10.07.2023 - 08:17 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Over the past six months, Banijay UK boss Patrick Holland has set about overseeing the spend of a “substantial” amount of the super-indie’s £50M ($63.6M) Growth Fund, striking deals with the likes of James Norton, Kitty Kaletsky, Oscar-winner Kevin Macdonald and experienced execs Tommy Bulfin, Kim Varvell and Chris Sussman, amongst others.
At a time of macroeconomic strife and ad slumps, the former BBC Two chief has been on something of a charm offensive to prove that the SAS Rogue Heroes, Masterchef and Big Brother maker can grow in line with the Fund’s three pillars: investing in start-up labels, striking flexible talent deals and recruiting for existing labels.
And Holland isn’t done yet, with the Fund having not quite run dry and there still being plenty of potential to extend it or invest in companies using non-Fund money, such as last year’s majority stake in Chloe producer Mam Tor.
Deadline can reveal that Banijay UK is on the verge of unveiling another scripted deal and, in the unscripted space, a development deal with a well-known entertainment talent. These moves are relatively imminent.
“If you go to other Banijay territories such as Germany, France and Italy we are seen as the most entrepreneurial and ‘investing’ company but when I first started here I wouldn’t have said that [about the UK division],” Holland told Deadline.
“I don’t think we were seen as necessarily being active in terms of investing in smaller entities. Myself and Marco [Bassetti – Banijay CEO] were keen to go to market and persuade people that we were enterpreneurial, not just because we want to get bigger but because we want to bring more talent and inspire people by saying ‘James Norton is joining’ or ‘we have these great
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who recently announced a year-long break after filming “difficult” TV series The Crowded Room, said in a new interview that questioned why he was “enslaved” to drinking.He told the On Purpose With Jay Shetty podcast that his journey to sobriety began with “a very, very boozy” Christmas last year.The star decided to do Dry January earlier this year but was “scared” to learn that “all I could think about was having a drink”. “I just was like, ‘Wow, maybe I have a little bit of an alcohol thing,” he said.What followed was an extension of Dry January for another month until the end of February, which in turn led to him challenging himself to go without booze for six months in total.He opened up about the pros and cons of the move, though ultimately feels the pros outweigh them.“I felt like I couldn’t be social,” Holland said of his relationships without alcohol. “I felt like I couldn’t go to the pub and have a lime soda. I couldn’t go out for dinner.
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British actor James Norton, who starred as arch-villain Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley and McMafia, has revealed how he has managed his diabetes during a recent theatre run of the gruelling play, A Little Life, adapted from the 2015 novel by Hanya Yanagihara.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Timothée Chalamet’s Bob Dylan movie, “A Complete Unknown,” is supposed to kick off filming in August, but don’t call it a Bob Dylan biopic. During a recent appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast (via IndieWire), the film’s director, James Mangold, said “A Complete Unknown” is “not really a Bob Dylan biopic” but a movie about “a very specific moment” in the 1960s folk scene of New York City. The film’s specificity is one reason the real Bob Dylan “has been so supportive of us making it,” the filmmaker reasoned. “The best true-life movies are never cradle to grave but they’re about a very specific moment,” Mangold said. “In this case, it might be presumptuous to call it Altman-esque, but it’s a kind of ensemble piece about this moment in time, the early ’60s in New York, and this 17-year-old kid with $16 in his pockets hitchhikes his way to New York to meet Woody Guthrie who is in the hospital and is dying of a nerve disease. He sings Woody a song that he wrote for him and befriends Pete Seeger, who is like a son to Woody, and Pete sets him up with gigs at local clubs and there you meet Joan Baez and all these other people who are part of this world.”
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