Matt Dillon To Receive Locarno Award
09.06.2022 - 19:47 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Salvage Hunters producer Curve Media is gearing up for new investment after appointing specialist advisory firm GothamStreet to explore its strategic options, we’ve learned. It’s understood the UK indie is expecting to double its revenues this year and wants to capitalize on its position in the factual market.
Dane Phillips of London-based advisory GothamStreet is overseeing the process and Deadline understands that he has spoken to several potential partners, as Curve considers a range of options. These could result in a strategic partnership, private equity investment, bank debt raise or a company sale, though the latter option isn’t thought to be favored.
The process is in the early stages but whatever path is agreed, Curve wants to ensure it can capitalize on its position in the burgeoning UK unscripted market, and that continued growth will be at the forefront of any agreement.
Curve’s turnover for 2021 was £12.4m ($15.6m), according to Companies House documents and Deadline understands revenues are expected to double to around £25M in 2022. Curve’s management team currently owns a majority stake in the business, with BBC Studios holding a 25% shareholding.
Factual-focused Curve is best known globally for Discovery’s long-running Salvage Hunters franchise and lauded BBC doc series Our Dementia Choir, which featured Line of Duty star Vicky McClure. It recently scored a significant order for The Greatest Auction through the Channel 4 Global Format Fund and produces a range of returning shows that also includes Smithsonian’s How Did They Build That? and Channel 5’s Ambulance: Code Red. The indie has made shows for all UK terrestrial broadcasters and several international streamers, having launched in 2014 after
Matt Dillon To Receive Locarno Award
One of the more redeeming qualities of The Offer, Paramount+’s much-talked series that chronicles the making of The Godfather, is the performance by Matthew Goode as Robert Evans. Here, the English actor best known for his work in The Crown and The Good Wife talks about stepping into the shoes of the iconic studio executive, along with what it was like to see the 10-parter scrutinized over its authenticity.
The One Show viewers amazed when he appeared on the show on Thursday night. Matt appeared with his mother as he discussed his appearance on the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are, which revealed his family's unexpected connection to Anne Frank. The Little Britain and Great British Bake Off star previously revealed how he had to "do something about his weight" after piling on the pounds during lockdown.
BBC series Who Do You Think You Are tonight, which will reveal his family's unexpected connection to Anne Frank. The Little Britain and Great British Bake Off star previously revealed how he had to "do something about his weight" after piling on the pounds during lockdown. He told ITV's Lorraine that he "had to do something about it".
Netflix released a first-look teaser for its upcoming holiday season special Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, with Alisha Weir as the title character, a little girl with an extraordinarily vivid imagination. The film adaptation, written by Dennis Kelly, adapted from the Tony and Olivier award-winning Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of the stage’s Matilda The Musical, also stars Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull), and Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Sindhu Vee.
EXCLUSIVE: The UK representation scene was all abuzz about the next steps of respected former Troika co-founders Michael Duff and Conor McCaughan after they left their long-time agency back in 2020. We’re now getting more clarity on their next steps.
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight), ABM Sumon (Dhoka) and Matt Passmore (Jigsaw) are among cast joining Frank Grillo (Captain America) in Asif Akbar’s spy thriller MR-9, which is now underway.
Netflix’s cutbacks have worried some in the industry that the content gold rush is ending. Producers at the “IP IQ” panel, sponsored by Deadline, at the Produced By conference, said there’s no need to worry. Girl From Plainville and The Dropout Executive Producer Liz Hannah, A&E Studios Head Barry Jossen, and UTA partner and Co-head of Media Rights Jason Richman said they don’t anticipate any slowdown in streamers needing content.
With her UK debut, every Royal Family fan has this question on their mind. Did Lilibet meet Prince William and Kate Middleton’s kids?
This story about Matthew Goode first appeared in The Limited Series/Movies issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.In the sixth episode of the Paramount+ limited series “The Offer,” “The Godfather” movie is finally in preproduction, the formerly outraged mafia has been pacified by some script changes, and Marlon Brando has signed on to star in the film for scale. But the rug is about to be pulled from beneath Paramount’s feet with parent company Gulf and Western seconds away from voting to sell the studio to a young oil tycoon. Before they can count the ayes, Bob Evans, played by English actor Matthew Goode, bursts into the room resplendent in a chic, late ’70s polyester business suit, oversized glasses and a trademark California bronze, and delivers the speech of his life, successfully persuading financially motivated execs to hold off on the deal and believe in the power of movies.“Obviously, it’s the beginning of his downfall, to a point,” Goode said.
EXCLUSIVE: In an eye-catching acquisition, 42 has bought respected UK talent and literary agency Dalzell and Beresford, we can reveal.
This Morning viewers have taken to Twitter to voice their opinions on Matthew Wright's outburst in which he labelled the Queen's Platinum Jubilee as a "disgrace". The former host of The Wright Stuff, 56, has sparked outrage among many royal fans as he broadcast his controversial opinions during Thursday's episode of the ITV breakfast show.
Matthew Morrison‘s wife is speaking out in his defense following the actor’s dramatic dismissal days ago from So You Think You Can Dance.
EXCLUSIVE: Erin Young’s recently published crime thriller The Fields is in the works for the small screen. Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories (Big Little Lies), Jennifer Todd Pictures and Endeavor Content have acquired the rights to the book to adapt into a television series, with Kate Brooke (A Discovery of Witches, Bancroft) attached as writer/showrunner.
Maisie Peters and Matt Maltese have teamed up for a new version of the former’s recent single ‘Cate’s Brother’, which you can check out below.‘Cate’s Brother’ came out last month and follows Peters’ 2021 debut album ‘You Signed Up For This’. It lands as the singer-songwriter is midway through a UK and European stadium tour in support of Ed Sheeran.“Matt became Cate’s brother and I can think of no one better suited to the job we are excited for u to hear it,” Peters wrote on Instagram.Listen to the Taylor Swift-referencing ‘Cate’s Brother (Matt’s Version)’ below.Maisie Peters signed to Ed Sheeran‘s label Gingerbread Man Records for her debut album.“Signing to Gingerbread is a dream come true,” Peters said in a statement.