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11.05.2023 - 14:33 / deadline.com
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to UK indie veteran Vertigo Films, producer of hit TV shows Britannia, Bulletproof and James Corden and Sally Hawkins starrer Mammals and feature films Monsters, Bronson and Streetdance 3D. Last year, Federation Entertainment acquired a majority stake in the company and we talk about that deal, Vertigo’s pivot from UK indie film to television and why they’re turning their heads back to the indie film space again.
James Richardson and Allan Niblo remember the exact moment they decided to make the jump from the indie film space into the television sphere. It was at the 2014 American Film Market – one of their busiest markets – when the Vertigo Films co-founders walked into the Loews in Santa Monica and immediately felt that something had changed.
“It was a weird feeling,” recalls Richardson. “But there was a definite sense in the air that something was shifting in the film business so we decided to cancel our meetings and head to Joshua Tree and work out what we were going to do.”
After an eight-hour walk in the desert, the duo and their CEO Jane Moore decided to “stop making movies for a while” and turn their efforts to the television sector.
It would be a bold step for Vertigo, which had spent more than a decade successfully producing and distributing lower-budget films in the UK, ranging from its first cult project to The Football Factory (written and directed by Vertigo partner Nick Love) to its European dance phenomenon Streetdance 3D, which was the first 3D film to release out of the U.S. in 2010 and spawned a
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