UK producers Damian Keogh and Simon Vaughan, previously at TV drama juggernaut Lookout Point, have launched their own film and TV studios The Story Works in Richmond, southwest London.
The 22-acre site, a former brewery dating as far back as the 11th century, was originally intended as a temporary base for production on Steven Knight’s upcoming Disney+ series A Thousand Blows which Keogh and Vaughan produced via The Story Collective with Matriarch Productions and Water & Power Productions.
Through their production company, founded in 2021 alongside Helen Jackson, the pair recently signed a lease with the developers to continue operating...
The 22-acre site, a former brewery dating as far back as the 11th century, was originally intended as a temporary base for production on Steven Knight’s upcoming Disney+ series A Thousand Blows which Keogh and Vaughan produced via The Story Collective with Matriarch Productions and Water & Power Productions.
Through their production company, founded in 2021 alongside Helen Jackson, the pair recently signed a lease with the developers to continue operating...
- 4/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
UK producers Damian Keogh and Simon Vaughan, previously at TV drama juggernaut Lookout Point, have launched their own film and TV studios The Story Works in Richmond, southwest London.
The 22-acre site, a former brewery dating as far back as the 11th century, was originally intended as a temporary base for production on Steven Knight’s upcoming Disney+ series A Thousand Blows which Keogh and Vaughan produced via The Story Collective with Matriarch Productions and Water & Power Productions.
Through their production company, founded in 2021 alongside Helen Jackson, the pair recently signed a lease with the developers to continue operating...
The 22-acre site, a former brewery dating as far back as the 11th century, was originally intended as a temporary base for production on Steven Knight’s upcoming Disney+ series A Thousand Blows which Keogh and Vaughan produced via The Story Collective with Matriarch Productions and Water & Power Productions.
Through their production company, founded in 2021 alongside Helen Jackson, the pair recently signed a lease with the developers to continue operating...
- 4/25/2024
- ScreenDaily
Anyone with more than a passing interest in the weird and wonderful will have seen, if not heard of, the Patterson-Gimlin footage, the cryptoozological equivalent of the Zapruder film.
Shot in 1967 in the forests of Northern California, it purports to show a large, ape-like creature with an elongated forehead striding purposefully into the trees. Unlike an ape, the creature walks upright, and unlike the furtive behavior of any other forest creature, it has the casual air of the average human being popping over to the 7-Eleven to pick up a gallon of milk.
Most people who see the footage wonder what the hell this damn thing is. But the sibling directors of Sasquatch Sunset have a couple more questions that they’d like answered. Like, where is it going? And what does it do all day?
If, like David and Nathan Zellner, you have ever pondered the quotidian life of the Sasquatch,...
Shot in 1967 in the forests of Northern California, it purports to show a large, ape-like creature with an elongated forehead striding purposefully into the trees. Unlike an ape, the creature walks upright, and unlike the furtive behavior of any other forest creature, it has the casual air of the average human being popping over to the 7-Eleven to pick up a gallon of milk.
Most people who see the footage wonder what the hell this damn thing is. But the sibling directors of Sasquatch Sunset have a couple more questions that they’d like answered. Like, where is it going? And what does it do all day?
If, like David and Nathan Zellner, you have ever pondered the quotidian life of the Sasquatch,...
- 1/20/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor, director and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah has joined the board of Fifth Season-backed production company The Story Collective.
In the role, Kwei-Armah will bring expertise and mentorship to various projects in development as well as nurturing new ideas to bring to screen.
Kwei-Armah is currently the artistic director for the Young Vic theater in London. Previously he served as artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage in Maryland, where he directed Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” and “One Night in Miami,” which was later adapted into a film starring Kingsley Ben-Adir.
He is set to make his directorial feature debut with upcoming film “The Collaboration,” starring Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat. He directed both the London and Broadway versions of the play. He also co-wrote John Boyega starrer “Breaking” and an episode of “Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle,” on which he was also an exec producer.
In the role, Kwei-Armah will bring expertise and mentorship to various projects in development as well as nurturing new ideas to bring to screen.
Kwei-Armah is currently the artistic director for the Young Vic theater in London. Previously he served as artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage in Maryland, where he directed Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” and “One Night in Miami,” which was later adapted into a film starring Kingsley Ben-Adir.
He is set to make his directorial feature debut with upcoming film “The Collaboration,” starring Paul Bettany as Andy Warhol and Jeremy Pope as Jean-Michel Basquiat. He directed both the London and Broadway versions of the play. He also co-wrote John Boyega starrer “Breaking” and an episode of “Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle,” on which he was also an exec producer.
- 1/11/2024
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
’The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ on course to be biggest animated film in the territory.
Australia’s gross box office for the first quarter of 2023 reached A$217.8m (US$145m), 26% down for the same period in 2019 according to Comscore.
But the industry is hopeful that as the pipeline of US titles speeds up, audiences will respond well.
“The biggest difference (between 2023 and 2019) was the number of tentpole studio films,” says Comscore’s vice president of movies for the Asia Pacific and Australia, Frank Perikleous. “Ten films passed A$10m in 2019. This year there’s only been four. The Hollywood studios are ramping up,...
Australia’s gross box office for the first quarter of 2023 reached A$217.8m (US$145m), 26% down for the same period in 2019 according to Comscore.
But the industry is hopeful that as the pipeline of US titles speeds up, audiences will respond well.
“The biggest difference (between 2023 and 2019) was the number of tentpole studio films,” says Comscore’s vice president of movies for the Asia Pacific and Australia, Frank Perikleous. “Ten films passed A$10m in 2019. This year there’s only been four. The Hollywood studios are ramping up,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Sandy George
- ScreenDaily
Executive will be based in London and has worked at Electric Entertainment, Umbrella Entertainment.
With the EFM around the corner, Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer has appointed Hannah Keogh international sales executive, effective immediately.
Keogh will report directly to Steinbauer and joins fellow Radiant Sales executive Karis Aldridge in the company’s London office.
She previously worked alongside the international sales team at Electric Entertainment and acquired titles such as Bad Samaritan starring David Tennant and Kerry Condon and sci-fi thriller The Deal.
Prior to that she spent two years in theatrical marketing at Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment,...
With the EFM around the corner, Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer has appointed Hannah Keogh international sales executive, effective immediately.
Keogh will report directly to Steinbauer and joins fellow Radiant Sales executive Karis Aldridge in the company’s London office.
She previously worked alongside the international sales team at Electric Entertainment and acquired titles such as Bad Samaritan starring David Tennant and Kerry Condon and sci-fi thriller The Deal.
Prior to that she spent two years in theatrical marketing at Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment,...
- 1/30/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Filmmaker Joanelle Romero has one huge regret about a moment she shared with Elvis Presley‘s daughter Lisa Marie Presley before her death.
“I have 41 years sober and I didn’t say anything to her [about it],” Romero told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “Even before she passed, I didn’t say anything to her.” Romero viewed Elvis alongside Presley, writer/director Baz Luhrmann and others.
“There were too many people there and it could have scared her off,” she reflected. But added, “It wasn’t the right environment. But I learned a lesson. I will never do that again.”
Joanelle Romero’s regret after Lisa Marie Presley’s death
Romero, who is the founder of the Red Nation Celebration Institute (Rnci) grew up in the industry. Her mother Rita Roger, performed in multiple Elvis Presley films. But Romero never met Lisa Marie Presley until a month before her death.
Joanelle Romero and Lisa...
“I have 41 years sober and I didn’t say anything to her [about it],” Romero told Showbiz Cheat Sheet. “Even before she passed, I didn’t say anything to her.” Romero viewed Elvis alongside Presley, writer/director Baz Luhrmann and others.
“There were too many people there and it could have scared her off,” she reflected. But added, “It wasn’t the right environment. But I learned a lesson. I will never do that again.”
Joanelle Romero’s regret after Lisa Marie Presley’s death
Romero, who is the founder of the Red Nation Celebration Institute (Rnci) grew up in the industry. Her mother Rita Roger, performed in multiple Elvis Presley films. But Romero never met Lisa Marie Presley until a month before her death.
Joanelle Romero and Lisa...
- 1/30/2023
- by Gina Ragusa
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. Momentum Pictures releases the film in theaters on Friday, July 28.
In the summer of 2015, Riley Keough met a pair of remarkable young men, cast as extras in Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey,” at a motel in South Dakota. Both members of the Lakota nation and residents of the nearby Pine Ridge reservation, Bill Reddy and Franklin Sioux Bob took quickly to the actress. The trio — later joined by Keough’s producing partner Gina Gammell — formed a fast friendship that eventually spawned Keough and Gammell’s directorial debut, “War Pony.”
Franklin Sioux Bob and Reddy are credited as co-writers on the project, alongside Keogh and Gammell (who also produced it), while Franklin Sioux Bob also appears in a small, but pivotal role in the film. Steeped in their own stories, “War Pony” follows two young Oglala Lakota men...
In the summer of 2015, Riley Keough met a pair of remarkable young men, cast as extras in Andrea Arnold’s “American Honey,” at a motel in South Dakota. Both members of the Lakota nation and residents of the nearby Pine Ridge reservation, Bill Reddy and Franklin Sioux Bob took quickly to the actress. The trio — later joined by Keough’s producing partner Gina Gammell — formed a fast friendship that eventually spawned Keough and Gammell’s directorial debut, “War Pony.”
Franklin Sioux Bob and Reddy are credited as co-writers on the project, alongside Keogh and Gammell (who also produced it), while Franklin Sioux Bob also appears in a small, but pivotal role in the film. Steeped in their own stories, “War Pony” follows two young Oglala Lakota men...
- 5/21/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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