Film Bridge Sets ‘Helloween’ As First Film On Genre Slate With Shogun Films
EXCLUSIVE: Film Bridge and Shogun have set British horror pic Helloween as the first title on their joint slate of genre pics. The film is written and directed by Phil Claydon (Lesbian Vampire Killers) and stars Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Renegades), Michael Paré (Streets of Fire), and Ronan Summers (Code Of Silence) It’s currently in post-production. Film Bridge will be selling the movie worldwide at Cannes. Set during the sinister “killer clown” craze of 2016, Doctor Ellen Marks (Sothcott), aided by investigative journalist John Parker (Paré), traces the source of the phenomena to one of her patients – incarcerated, charismatic serial killer Carl Cane (Summers) who is using the insidious clown symbolism to recruit an army of the disenfranchised and launched a murderous anarchist movement from London across the globe.
European Film Academy Adds Record 709 New Members
The European Film Academy has added 709 new members, an academy record. New members include Cate Blanchett (Australia/UK), Jovan Marjanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maria Bakalova (Bulgaria), Juraj Lerotić (Croatia), Anna Hints (Estonia), and Ariane Toscan du Plantier (France). Among the new members, 49% are women and 50% are men. Most new members stem from Germany (114), Italy (58), Greece (50), the UK (50), Switzerland (37), France (36) and Poland (36), but also numerous members have joined from Spain (26), Czech Republic (26), Ukraine (24), Romania (23), and Turkey (20). In total, members from 44 countries joined the European Film Academy. The European Film Academy has over 5,000 members in 52 countries.
Good Deed Entertainment Partners With TARF Media’s Eoghan Burke
EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment (GDE) announced today that Eoghan Burke, Managing Director of the Dublin-based sales agency TARF Media, has partnered with GDE’s international sales team ahead of Cannes 2024. Burke joins Erik Donley, GDE’s Executive Vice President of Acquisitions, in leading efforts to expand the company’s growing library of original titles for the international market.