The British Film Institute (BFI) has unveiled the line-up of speakers and events taking place at the Cannes UK Pavilion, including talent talks with Santosh filmmaker Sandhya Suri and Birds and Kinds Of Kindness director of photography Robbie Ryan, as well as panel discussions on the historic UK independent tax credit and a conversation with representatives from UK film funders from across the nations and regions.
Suri will be joined by UK producer Mike Goodridge from Good Chaos and Eva Yates, director of BBC Film, to share the journey behind Suri’s narrative director debut, which plays in Un Certain Regard.
Suri will be joined by UK producer Mike Goodridge from Good Chaos and Eva Yates, director of BBC Film, to share the journey behind Suri’s narrative director debut, which plays in Un Certain Regard.
- 5/8/2024
- ScreenDaily
Normal People producer Element Pictures has acquired film and TV rights to Bellies, the highly anticipated debut from Nicola Dinan.
Rights to the queer love story were won following a “hotly contested auction,” according to Element owner Fremantle, with the book still a year away from publication.
Element will develop Bellies into an 8 x 30-minute series, taking a similar approach to its BBC/Hulu Sally Rooney adaptations Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Dinan’s debut is a coming-of-age novel about two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
“We were immediately absorbed and transported by the love story between Tom and Ming – and by Nicola’s writing, which is in equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking,” said Element’s Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney and Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann, who will executive produce alongside Dinan.
Rights to the queer love story were won following a “hotly contested auction,” according to Element owner Fremantle, with the book still a year away from publication.
Element will develop Bellies into an 8 x 30-minute series, taking a similar approach to its BBC/Hulu Sally Rooney adaptations Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Dinan’s debut is a coming-of-age novel about two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
“We were immediately absorbed and transported by the love story between Tom and Ming – and by Nicola’s writing, which is in equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking,” said Element’s Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney and Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann, who will executive produce alongside Dinan.
- 12/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“Normal People” producer Element Pictures is set to adapt “Bellies,” the debut novel from Nicola Dinan.
Dinan will work with the Fremantle-owned company to adapt the novel into an eight-episode series. The book will be released in the U.K. and U.S. next summer.
According to the logline, “Bellies” tells the story of “two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.”
Fremantle will rep international sales on the project alongside De Maio Entertainment, while Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe and Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann will executive produce alongside Dinan.
“We were immediately absorbed and transported by the love story between Tom and Ming – and by Nicola’s writing, which is in equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking,” said Guiney, Lowe and Hoffmann. “We think the world is hungry for...
Dinan will work with the Fremantle-owned company to adapt the novel into an eight-episode series. The book will be released in the U.K. and U.S. next summer.
According to the logline, “Bellies” tells the story of “two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.”
Fremantle will rep international sales on the project alongside De Maio Entertainment, while Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe and Chelsea Morgan Hoffmann will executive produce alongside Dinan.
“We were immediately absorbed and transported by the love story between Tom and Ming – and by Nicola’s writing, which is in equal parts hilarious and heart-breaking,” said Guiney, Lowe and Hoffmann. “We think the world is hungry for...
- 12/13/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
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Element Pictures, the Irish banner behind the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning hit adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, has landed another buzzy coming-of-age novel from a fast-rising young author.
Following what has been described as a hotly-contested auction, the production company — in which Fremantle took a majority stake earlier in the year — has acquired the film and TV rights to Nicola Dinan’s debut novel Bellies ahead of its publication in the U.S. and U.K. next summer. Element, which also produced the adaptations of Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Nancy Harris’ The Dry, is working with Dinan to turn the novel into an eight-part series.
Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, Bellies follows two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
Element Pictures, the Irish banner behind the Emmy-nominated and BAFTA-winning hit adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, has landed another buzzy coming-of-age novel from a fast-rising young author.
Following what has been described as a hotly-contested auction, the production company — in which Fremantle took a majority stake earlier in the year — has acquired the film and TV rights to Nicola Dinan’s debut novel Bellies ahead of its publication in the U.S. and U.K. next summer. Element, which also produced the adaptations of Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Nancy Harris’ The Dry, is working with Dinan to turn the novel into an eight-part series.
Moving from London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, Bellies follows two queer students, Tom and Ming, who fall in love at university and find their relationship dramatically upended when Ming comes out as trans and decides to transition.
- 12/13/2022
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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