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Knife Edge, the 2020 thriller novel and Sunday Times bestseller by veteran U.K. broadcaster and former BBC radio host Simon Mayo, has been optioned for TV by U.K. production company iGeneration Studios. Síofra Campbell has been attached to adapt the book to series and will also serve as lead writer and executive producer, alongside iGeneration principals Edward Glauser and Michael Shyjka.
Mayo’s fourth novel, Knife Edge follows disenchanted journalist Famie Madden as she investigates the brutal murder of four of her press agency colleagues in coordinated rush-hour stabbings in the space of minutes.
“I loved writing Knife Edge because I love writing about Famie,” said Mayo, who is perhaps best known as the co-host of the popular Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on BBC Radio 1 alongside film critic Mark Kermode, which ran from 2001 until early 2022, when the two announced...
Knife Edge, the 2020 thriller novel and Sunday Times bestseller by veteran U.K. broadcaster and former BBC radio host Simon Mayo, has been optioned for TV by U.K. production company iGeneration Studios. Síofra Campbell has been attached to adapt the book to series and will also serve as lead writer and executive producer, alongside iGeneration principals Edward Glauser and Michael Shyjka.
Mayo’s fourth novel, Knife Edge follows disenchanted journalist Famie Madden as she investigates the brutal murder of four of her press agency colleagues in coordinated rush-hour stabbings in the space of minutes.
“I loved writing Knife Edge because I love writing about Famie,” said Mayo, who is perhaps best known as the co-host of the popular Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review on BBC Radio 1 alongside film critic Mark Kermode, which ran from 2001 until early 2022, when the two announced...
- 11/15/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The Handmaid’s Tale EP Matthew Hastings is to showrun a medical drama set in the Spanish Civil War from Netflix’s Kissing Booth producer iGeneration Studios, which is being shopped at Mipcom Cannes.
Hastings is also directing Villa Paz, which is inspired by real life events and follows a team of idealistic medics who convert a royal palace into a field hospital. Set in Spain in 1937, an international team of volunteers toil tirelessly at the hospital, as rivalries and relationships imperil their battle to save lives.
iGeneration’s Max Benitz – who starred opposite Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – is lead writer, while iGeneration Studios’ CEO Ed Glauser and UK Managing Director Michael Shyjka will executive produce with Hastings and Benitz.
“Having been fortunate enough to build my career in this ‘New Adult’ space, Max’s fresh and deeply authentic perspective rings true...
Hastings is also directing Villa Paz, which is inspired by real life events and follows a team of idealistic medics who convert a royal palace into a field hospital. Set in Spain in 1937, an international team of volunteers toil tirelessly at the hospital, as rivalries and relationships imperil their battle to save lives.
iGeneration’s Max Benitz – who starred opposite Russell Crowe in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World – is lead writer, while iGeneration Studios’ CEO Ed Glauser and UK Managing Director Michael Shyjka will executive produce with Hastings and Benitz.
“Having been fortunate enough to build my career in this ‘New Adult’ space, Max’s fresh and deeply authentic perspective rings true...
- 10/18/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Vince Marcello (The Kissing Booth trilogy) is set to showrun and executive produce Diva, a new drama series inspired by the exploits of real-life French heroine Julie d’Aubigny, from iGeneration Studios. Marcello co-created the series with Max Benitz — who will serve as its head writer — and will also direct a portion of its episodes.
Billed as a period adventure-drama told through a very contemporary lens, Diva chronicles D’Aubigny’s rise from an impoverished servant in 1680s France to battle rogues and royalty alike, in her quest to conquer the stage as the opera singer otherwise known as La Maupin. The show set amidst some of Europe’s most iconic settings, including Louis Xiv’s Palace of Versailles, the backstreets of Paris and Marseille, and the lavender-filled hillsides of Provence, will then watch as La Maupin finds fame, fortune and love – with both men and women – along the way.
Billed as a period adventure-drama told through a very contemporary lens, Diva chronicles D’Aubigny’s rise from an impoverished servant in 1680s France to battle rogues and royalty alike, in her quest to conquer the stage as the opera singer otherwise known as La Maupin. The show set amidst some of Europe’s most iconic settings, including Louis Xiv’s Palace of Versailles, the backstreets of Paris and Marseille, and the lavender-filled hillsides of Provence, will then watch as La Maupin finds fame, fortune and love – with both men and women – along the way.
- 9/20/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The production company behind Netflix’s The Kissing Booth franchise is developing a TV drama series inspired by the real life exploits of notorious French opera singer Julie Maupin.
Master and Commander and Mara actor Max Benitz is attached to write Diva from London indie iGeneration Studios. iGeneration has started conversations with potential showrunners and Ed Glauser and Michael Shyjka will executive produce through iGeneration. No broadcaster is yet attached.
Set around Louis Xiv’s Palace of Versailles, Diva tells of an impoverished servant in 1680s France who battles rogues and royalty in her quest to conquer the stage, finding fame, fortune and love along the way.
Maupin, who was known as Mademoiselle Maupin, was a mysterious real-life figure who has had numerous works of fiction written about her.
“Julie was a rock star and a celebrity before those terms existed,” said Benitz. “A young woman determined to escape...
Master and Commander and Mara actor Max Benitz is attached to write Diva from London indie iGeneration Studios. iGeneration has started conversations with potential showrunners and Ed Glauser and Michael Shyjka will executive produce through iGeneration. No broadcaster is yet attached.
Set around Louis Xiv’s Palace of Versailles, Diva tells of an impoverished servant in 1680s France who battles rogues and royalty in her quest to conquer the stage, finding fame, fortune and love along the way.
Maupin, who was known as Mademoiselle Maupin, was a mysterious real-life figure who has had numerous works of fiction written about her.
“Julie was a rock star and a celebrity before those terms existed,” said Benitz. “A young woman determined to escape...
- 2/3/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ingenious Investments CEO James Clayton joins Simon Fuller’s Xix Entertainment.
Media financier Ingenious has seen three senior members of its film and media team depart in recent weeks.
Former Ingenious Media Investments chief executive James Clayton has left the company to become president of Simon Fuller’s production and management powerhouse Xix Entertainment, which handles the likes of David Beckham and The Spice Girls.
Clayton will report directly to Fuller, creator of the Idol franchise, and be based in La and London.
During his tenure at Avatar-backers Ingenious Clayton was key to securing the private equity firm’s lucrative production and finance relationship with Fox Searchlight from 2011 and ensuring its successful investment relationship with Pathe through the Ingenious Pathe Eis Film Fund.
He was executive producer on Matthew Warchus’ well-received Cannes debut Pride as well as films including Happy-Go-Lucky, Amazing Grace and Hannibal Rising.
Also to recently depart Ingenious are former managing director of the...
Media financier Ingenious has seen three senior members of its film and media team depart in recent weeks.
Former Ingenious Media Investments chief executive James Clayton has left the company to become president of Simon Fuller’s production and management powerhouse Xix Entertainment, which handles the likes of David Beckham and The Spice Girls.
Clayton will report directly to Fuller, creator of the Idol franchise, and be based in La and London.
During his tenure at Avatar-backers Ingenious Clayton was key to securing the private equity firm’s lucrative production and finance relationship with Fox Searchlight from 2011 and ensuring its successful investment relationship with Pathe through the Ingenious Pathe Eis Film Fund.
He was executive producer on Matthew Warchus’ well-received Cannes debut Pride as well as films including Happy-Go-Lucky, Amazing Grace and Hannibal Rising.
Also to recently depart Ingenious are former managing director of the...
- 11/14/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ingenious Investments CEO James Clayton joins Simon Fuller’s Xix Entertainment.
Media financier Ingenious has seen three senior members of its film and media team depart in recent weeks.
Former Ingenious Media Investments chief executive James Clayton has left the company to become president of Simon Fuller’s production and management powerhouse Xix Entertainment, which handles the likes of David Beckham and The Spice Girls.
Clayton will report directly to Fuller, creator of the Idol franchise, and be based in La and London.
During his tenure at Ingenious Clayton was key to securing the private equity firm’s lucrative production and finance relationship with Fox Searchlight from 2011 and ensuring its successful investment relationship with Pathe through the Ingenious Pathe Eis Film Fund.
He was executive producer on Matthew Warchus’ well-received Cannes debut Pride as well as films including Happy-Go-Lucky, Amazing Grace and Hannibal Rising.
Also to recently depart Ingenious are former managing director of the media...
Media financier Ingenious has seen three senior members of its film and media team depart in recent weeks.
Former Ingenious Media Investments chief executive James Clayton has left the company to become president of Simon Fuller’s production and management powerhouse Xix Entertainment, which handles the likes of David Beckham and The Spice Girls.
Clayton will report directly to Fuller, creator of the Idol franchise, and be based in La and London.
During his tenure at Ingenious Clayton was key to securing the private equity firm’s lucrative production and finance relationship with Fox Searchlight from 2011 and ensuring its successful investment relationship with Pathe through the Ingenious Pathe Eis Film Fund.
He was executive producer on Matthew Warchus’ well-received Cannes debut Pride as well as films including Happy-Go-Lucky, Amazing Grace and Hannibal Rising.
Also to recently depart Ingenious are former managing director of the media...
- 11/14/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki also board drama readying for October shoot.
The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes.
Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps Us rights with CAA.
Winslet will play an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder, to make amends with her eccentric mother.
Although ostracised, as an exponent of the most stunning 1950’s haute couture inspired by Madame Vionnet and Balenciaga, she liberates and empowers the town’s women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing. She unexpectedly finds love and ultimately exacts sweet revenge on those who wronged her.
Jocelyn Moorhouse ([link...
The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes.
Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps Us rights with CAA.
Winslet will play an avenging angel who returns home to the remote country town from which she fled as a child after being accused of murder, to make amends with her eccentric mother.
Although ostracised, as an exponent of the most stunning 1950’s haute couture inspired by Madame Vionnet and Balenciaga, she liberates and empowers the town’s women with her quick wit and beautiful clothing. She unexpectedly finds love and ultimately exacts sweet revenge on those who wronged her.
Jocelyn Moorhouse ([link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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